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To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 December 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Albert Gallatin

16 December 1802, Treasury Department. Encloses a copy of a letter from the district attorney of Massachusetts regarding the Windsor.1

RC and enclosure (DLC: Gallatin Papers). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Gallatin. Docketed by Wagner. For enclosure, see n. 1.

1. Gallatin enclosed a copy of George Blake’s 1 Dec. 1802 letter (4 pp.) suggesting that, in this “novel and singular” case, the government might possibly have been in violation of articles 24 and 25 of the Jay treaty, and the British claimant might even be able to sue Higginson & Company on the grounds that the sale was illegal and void.

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    To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 December 1802 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
    Date
    16 December 1802

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    “To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 December 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0211. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 194.]

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