From James Madison to the Senate, 2 January 1816
To the Senate
Jany 2d. 1816.
I nominate the persons named in the accompanying list for the Offices respectively, as stated in the letter from the Secretary of War.1
James Madison
RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 94, Letters Sent). RC in John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosures, see n. 1.
1. JM enclosed a 28 Dec. 1815 letter from Secretary of War William Harris Crawford (1 p.), forwarding a two-page list of fifty-five names of “the Officers who have been retained in the peace establishment, with reduced ranks, shewing as well, their standing before the reduction, as their present rank in the Army—together with the appointments which have been made in the Ordnance Department” (printed in 3:15–17).