61To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 December 1803, Treasury Department. “I have the honour of enclosing for your information and consideration an extract of a letter received from the Collector of Philadelphia.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Gallatin; docketed by Wagner. Enclosures printed in Knox, Naval Documents, Barbary Wars Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the...
62To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 5 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to return Mr. Erving’s letter of the 28th: Ultimo and its enclosures. It appears that, since Messrs. Bird Savage & Bird’s, failure, Mr. Erving has kept with Messrs. Lees & Co: an account of the monies belonging to the fund for the prosecution of Claims. This is contrary to the general principle which had been adopted in relation to the remittances made by this department for...
63To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 25 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The papers required by the resolution of the house are not those which might have been exhibited to the Commissioners , but those deposited in the office of the Secretary of State for the purpose of being recorded under the 8th. Sect. of the Act “regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tenessee” passed 3d March 1803....
64To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [7 February 1804] (Madison Papers)
As Mr Harvie declines going to France, the former arrangement recurs. Lieut. Leonard of the navy will receive orders to go with the stock from New York: Midshipman John B. Nicholson takes the stock to him from this place, and, in order to provide against any possible contingency, receives orders to sail himself with the stock, if, from any unforeseen cause, Lieut. Leonard shall not be able to...
65To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [post 7 March] 1804 (Madison Papers)
… yet there is reason to believe that the authorised district, even as described in the 11th section, Was not understood necessarily to comprehend places not within the acknowledged limits of the U. States, in as much as the words “Bay of Mobile” used in that Section & favoring most that construction have been considered as a ⟨ generic? ⟩ term applicable to the Mobille waters as high up as the...
66To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
The plan of transferring the monies received on account of the adventures of Masters & Seamen of captured vessels, for which restitution has been obtained in London, to this City, as stated in your favour of the 11th. instant, appears perfectly proper; and, it seems to me, that it ought to be extended to all the cases in which the Agent of claims in London has, as such , and not by virtue of...
67To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 April 1804, Treasury Department. “I have the honour to request that you will direct that the sum of £526.4.9, being a balance due to the United States for monies advanced on account of the Board of Commissioners under the 7th. Article of the British Treaty, and which, I am advised in your letter of the 12th. instant, has been paid to Mr. Monroe our Minister at London, should be paid by him...
68To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 26 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to return Mr. Murray’s letters. That gentleman may be informed that suits have been instituted against some of Mr. Campbell’s Vessels, that the Register of one of them was detained at the Custom House, and that the Act of last Session, intituled “An Act to amend the Act intituled An Act concerning the registering and recording of Ships or Vessels,” a copy of which it might be...
69To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 30 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 April 1804, Treasury Department. “I have the honor to transmit for your information a letter received from Governor Claiborne, together with his accounts therein enclosed. If he has mistaken the intention of the four hundred dollars monthly allowance, his error may induce him to incur a higher rate of personal expences than he will find convenient to discharge from his compensation. The...
70To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 30 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 April 1804, Treasury Department. “I had the honor to receive your letter of the 28th. instant; and have directed a remittance of two thousand dollars to be made to Tench Coxe Esquire. If that sum is not sufficient to purchase the four hundred additional copies of the laws of the United States, contemplated by the Act of last session, as ther[e] is no other fund from which the deficiency can...