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From James Madison to the Senate, 9 January 1816

To the Senate

January 9th 1816.

I nominate

Richard Been, of Pennsylvania, to be Collector for the 23d district of Pennsylvania in the place of P. Ferrally resigned.

John S. Moffit, of Maryland, to be Collector for the 3d District of Maryland in the place of George W Thomas resigned.

Thomas Binns Ellis, of Virginia, to be collector for the 15th District of Virginia in the place of John Stith, resigned.

Isaac Johnson, of Virginia, principal assessor for the 26th District of Virginia in the place of Samuel Waples resigned.

Quin Morton, of Tennessee, principal assessor for the 8th District of Tennessee in the place of John A. Wilson.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate approved the nominations on 10 Jan. 1816 (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:21–22).

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 9 January 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0142. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 150.]

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