821To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 20 August 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 August 1801, Treasury Department. Encloses copy of letter from collector at Boston in response to inquiries made at JM’s request concerning French armed schooner Beguine . RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). RC 1 p. Enclosures (3 pp.) are copies of Benjamin Lincoln to Gallatin, 12 Aug. 1801, and appended lists (see n. 1). RC and first enclosure reproduced in Papers of Gallatin (microfilm...
822To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 6 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
I do not perceive any appropriation from which Mr. Young’s account can be paid. The appropriation laws of 1802 & 1803 are in the following words “For salaries of the agents of the United States in London and Paris , expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain relative to captures of the vessels of the United States, and of defending American causes...
823To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [7 February 1805] (Madison Papers)
I enclose the copy of a note which I sent yesterday to General Turreau, and a letter I have this day received from him. No money can be paid to Buisson on advance without your permission, as your last letter on that subject, written in 1802 & enclosing Mr Lincoln’s opinion, which forbad any payment remains on the files of the office. If a payment is made, the two hundred dollars which you...
824To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [21 June] 1812 (Madison Papers)
I believe the weekly arrivals from foreign ports will for the ensuing four weeks average from one to one and a half million dollars a week. To protect these & our coasting vessels whilst the British have still an inferior force on our coast appears to me of primary importance. I think that orders to that effect ordering them to cruize accordingly ought to have been sent yesterday, & that at...
825To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 19 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with your letter of the 9th instt., I have taken measures to remit Drs. 13,616 to Amsterdam for the service of the six ensuing months. But as it is expected that a considerable sum has been repaid in July last by the parties concerned on account of the advances heretofore made by the United States for the prosecution of claims, it is presumed that it will not be necessary to make...
826To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 7 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Albert Gallatin. 7 May 1806, Treasury Department. “I have the honor to transmit a draft [not found] of the island of Great Menan enclosed to me for that purpose by the Collector of Passamaquody together with some remarks on the possession taken by the British. That island is not within the Bay of Passamaquody, but in the open sea, & South of the southern extremity of the bay. It lies...
827To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [5 March] 1812 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a copy of the recommendation to which I alluded. You will perceive that I was not mistaken respecting the rank stated in it. It is signed by 13 members of the N. York delegation, which includes all present Mitchill excepted. They have 17 members: the three others, Paulding, Cook, and Avery are absent. It is also signed by Senator Germain, which was done subsequent to my seeing it....
828To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 7 January 1813 (Madison Papers)
Since, from this morning’s conversation, it appears that the choice of a Secy. of War must fall on Govr. Tompkins or on Gen. Armstrong, permit me to state the reasons which, after fixing my thoughts on those two gentlemen alone, incline me in favour of the last. Personally acquaintted with both, I feel no hesitation in saying that as respects talents & military knowledge, Gen. Armstrong is...
829To James Madison from Albert Gallatin (Abstract), 12 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
12 March 1805 , Treasury Department . “The delays, which have taken place in adjusting the claims of american citizens on the French Government which have been assumed by the Convention of 30th April 1803, make the Secretary of the <US> apprehensive that, the whole being liquidated at once, the Minister of the United States at Paris will draw for the whole at the same time. This would be...
830To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 19 November] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Is it proper to enlist volunteers, under the existing act, for local & special services? Is not this a distinct organisation such as was contemplated when thinking of a local force? And would it not be better to have a general law for that object, reserving the volunteers for more active service? If Gen. A. is not controlled, he will draw for the defence of New York a much larger permanent...