4301To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 30 November 1810 (Madison Papers)
I enclose the substance of a financial paragraph, also a statement of the receipts & expenditures of the year ending 30th Septer. last and an estimate of those of this quarter. These will supply you with all the facts on which the paragraph is founded. In the paragraph for military schools, I would place in the most conspicuous point of view (when speaking of revision of existing law) the...
4302To James Madison from John Drayton, 30 November 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 November 1810, Columbia. “I have the honor to enclose you, a copy of my first communication to the Legislature of this State, now in Session.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Enclosure not found, but a print impression on the verso of the RC suggests that it was a broadside.
4303Memorandum from Paul Hamilton, ca. 30 November 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Ca. 30 November 1810. Describes the instruction and students at French military academies, including those at Saint-Cyr-l’Ecole and La Flèche , the Imperial Polytechnical School, the Imperial School of Bridges and Causeways, the School of Mines, the School of Marine Engineers, the Imperial corps du génie , various artillery schools attached to garrisons or regiments, schools of navigation, and...
4304To James Madison from Zebulon Pike and Others, 2 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 December 1810, Washington Cantonment. The undersigned officers have found Lt. Joel Lyon of the Third Infantry Regiment guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman and have sentenced him to be dismissed from the service. But they beg the indulgence of the president and recommend mercy in the belief that the prisoner “erred more from extreme youth, inexperience of mankind & want of...
4305To James Madison from James Fenner, 3 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of addressing your Excellency on a subject of some importance to the Citizens of this State, as well as to others, and on which some diversity of opinion seems to exist. A few, very few, of the Republicans here, have recommended Mr. Robbins, of Newport, in this State, as Successor to the late Judge Cushing of the Supreme Court of the United States. I am told that he is...
4306To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 4 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
The situation of the arrears due on the Direct Tax and Internal Revenues, in the districts in which the Office of Supervisor has been continued, is exhibited in the enclosed Statement. The following arrangements are respectfully submitted, to take effect from and after the end of the present year, viz: 1. That the Offices of Acting Supervisor be abolished in the States of Massachusetts,...
4307To James Madison from John G. Jackson, 4 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have for some weeks designed to write you that I may ascertain the practicability of procuring a pair of Merinos, or a Ram only, & the price; and as I know that you delight even in the midst of political engagements to turn your mind from their perplexities, to the more pleasant ones of domestic economy and have the information of all the Gentlemen now at W of that kind: I presume to make...
4308To James Madison from Paul Hamilton, 5 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
With much regret I perform the duty of laying before you for your consideration the sentence of a General Court martial on the case of Dennis Mahoney a private in the Marine Corps of the United States. I have taken the liberty of adding to the papers a memorandum of the Laws, which embrace the case of this unfortunate man. Most respectfully I am Sir yr. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, LSP )....
4309To James Madison from James Taylor, 5 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
I think it my duty to inform you that a man by the name of Benja. W. Lad from Virginia and Genl. Duncan McArthur of this state has lately made a number of entrys & surveys on lands that have been sold out by the U:States West of the line run by Ludlow from what he supposed the head branch of the Little Miami to the head of the Sciota. It is beleived and I have no doubt but that Ludlow struck...
4310Annual Message to Congress, 5 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives. The embarassments which have prevailed in our foreign relations, and so much employed the deliberations of Congress, make it a primary duty, in meeting you, to communicate whatever may have occurred, in that branch of our national affairs. The Act of the last Session of Congress “concerning the commercial intercourse between...