71To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 12 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 June 1804, Treasury Department. “In answer to your letter of the 9th inst., I have the honour to inform you that I will remit four thousand five hundred pounds Sterling to Sir Francis Baring & Co. in London with instructions to hold the same subject to Mr Lear’s drafts. This sum will be independent of and in addition to the contingent credit of twenty two thousand five hundred Stg. already...
72To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 26 September 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 September 1804, Treasury Department. “I have the honour to transmit copies of the correspondence between the collector of New York and his Britannic Majesty’s Consul there—respecting the recapture of the ship Eugenia. Sundry affidavits taken at New London on the same subject were forwarded some time ago to the President of the United States.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). RC 1 p....
73To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 7 December 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 December 1804. “I enclose an extract of a letter from Colo. Allan of Passamaquody, by which it seems that the British Govt. considering the convention for fixing the limits in that bay (and in the vicinity of Lake of the Woods) as rejected, are taking measures to assert their claim to Moose Island by far the largest of those which had fallen to our share by the sd. convention.” RC and...
74To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 27 December 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 December 1804, Treasury Department. “I have the honor to return Mr. Wynn’s letter. It seems to me that the act supplementary to the Consular act embraces all cases of Sales; unless the words ‘and her company discharged’ should be construed as forming an exception when a vessel is stranded; on the ground that, in that case, the crew cannot properly be said to be discharged. “If it is not...
75To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 11 January 1805 (Madison Papers)
In conformity with your request, I have examined the papers relative to the case of the Brig “Aurora,” George Bowers Master; and without pretending to discuss the principles on which, it seems, that the decision will rest, will only state the general outlines of our revenue system, so far as they may affect the question of the continuity of a voyage. A vessel may arrive in a port of the United...
76To 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...
77To 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...
78To 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...
79To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 15 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the copy of a letter written to Mr Merry respecting the proposed payment of the last 200,000 St. due to Great Britain in London, instead of making it at Washington, and also a copy of my correspondence with the Bank of the United States on the same subject. It is as much the interest of Great Britain as our own that the payment should be effected in that manner....
80To James Madison from Albert Gallatin (Abstract), 22 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
22 April 1805, Treasury Department . “It appears by the enclosed abstract, transmitted to this office by the Department of State, that the Vice Consul at Havana is in the habit of receiving the certificates of registry belonging to vessels lost or sold. This practice is repugnant to the several provisions of the registering act. By reference to the 7th, 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th. Sections of the...