2491From James Madison to David Holmes, 9 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th. instant and the papers it inclosed, on the subject of Augustine Serrys claim, and in reply, to observe, that from the great length of time suffered by the claimant to elapse before he presented his claim, for settlement, to this Department, which for the first time was in the beginning of the present year, no appropriation...
2492From James Madison to David Holmes, 9 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I do myself the honor of returning to you the Memorial of John Mullowny, and the papers which were received with it. They are accompanied by an entire copy of a Letter from Mr. Jefferson, to Mr. Hammond, which is referred to by the Memorialist. The Record of this Letter, if it shall be deemed applicable, contains every thing which the Department of State is possessed of in relation to the...
2493James Madison to Thompson & Homans, [10] April 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. the 3 last Vols: of the Encyclopaedia Americana transmitted by you, and inclose a Check in payment for them. The 2d. Vol. which I take for granted was red. has strangely disappeared from my Library, and I am of course anxious to replace it. You will oblige me much by enabling me to do so. I understand that this may be done, if an early application be made. The cost will be...
2494James Madison to Thompson & Homans, 14 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
J Madison presents his respects to Messrs. Thompson & Homanes, & incloses 5$ instead of 2 1/2 charged in the Acct. sent with the 10 Vol. of the Encyclopedia Americana on the supposition that the preceding Vol might not have been pd. for, no acct. having been recd. with it. Should paymt have been recd. half the sum now remitted may be credited, & applied to the 11<th>. Vol— FC (DLC) ; partial...
2495James Madison to Thompson & Homans, 15 March 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison has duly recd. the Copy of the "National Calendar" for which he is indebted to Messrs. Thompson & Homans. And he cannot make his acknowledgments for it, without joining in the Commendations of a work which the Author has made so rich in acceptable information RC (DLC : Dolley P. Madison Papers); FC (DLC) .
2496From James Madison to James H. Hooe, 17 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 17 October 1810. Acknowledged in Hooe to JM, 19 Oct. 1810 . Offers to purchase the merino lamb claimed by Hooe.
2497From James Madison to James H. Hooe, 15 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Eno, the Bearer being authorized to select and receive the two Ewes allotted for J. Madison, by Mr. Jarvis, Mr. Hooe will please to furnish him with the oppy. He will pay also the freight & other charges. RC ( NN : Lee Kohns Memorial Collection). Docketed by Hooe.
2498From James Madison to Joseph Hopkinson, 8 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 February 1811. Offered for sale in Anderson Catalogue No. 1912 (19–21 Jan. 1925), item 406, where it is described as a one-page letter to Hopkinson in Philadelphia thanking him for a copy of a discourse (see Joseph Hopkinson, Annual Discourse, Delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. On the 13th of November 1810 [Philadelphia, 1810; Shaw and Shoemaker R....
2499From James Madison to David Hosack, 23 September 1824 (Madison Papers)
J.M. with his respects to Dr. H returns his thanks for the Inaugural Discourse before the N. Y. Horticultural Society, politely sent to him. The Discourse is not only recommended by the general information it contains, but derives particular value from the model for such Establishts. presented in the sketch for that of N. York. Draft ( DLC ). David Hosack, An Inaugural Discourse, Delivered...
2500From James Madison to David Hosack, 20 December 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your notification of my having been elected an Honorary Member of the New York Horticultural Society. Having derived from the view given of the Institution, in the Inaugural discourse of the President, a full persuasion of the excellence of its plan, and of its promised usefulness, I can not undervalue the honor of such a relation to it. I wish I could add that there was a...
2501James Madison to David Hosack, 28 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your "Memoir of De Witt Clinton" which I owe to your politeness, found me under the influence of an oppressive indisposition, from which I apprehend a slow recovery. In this feeble state of my health, at my advanced Age, and with arrears of pressing claims on my attention, it is uncertain at least when I shall be able to give the memoir such a perusal as would be agreeable to me....
2502From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 31 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 December 1810. Communicates a supplemental report from the secretary of state with information received since his message of 28 Dec. 1810. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure (5 pp.) is Robert Smith to JM, 31 Dec. 1810, forwarding a letter from John Armstrong to Robert Smith, 29 Dec. 1810 (marked D), which...
2503From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 9 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 February 1810. Transmits the secretary of state’s report in response to House resolution of 22 Jan. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Enclosure (4 pp.) is a report of 8 Feb. 1810, signed by Robert Smith, concerning American efforts since 1801 to provide free access to Mobile harbor and to protest Spanish duties of 12 percent exacted on U.S. commerce clearing the...
2504From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 12 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1810. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in response to the House’s resolution of 3 Jan. 1810. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 11 Jan. report (2 pp.) (misdated in Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.; Washington,...
2505From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 25 January 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 January 1811. Transmits a report of the superintendent of the city stating the expenditures under the act of 28 Apr. 1810 for the better accommodation of the Post Office and Patent Office and for other purposes. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive,...
2506From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 July 1812. “In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 26th of June, I transmit the information contained in the documents herein enclosed.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC and enclosures printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61)....
2507From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 19 February 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 February 1811. Transmits a report of the secretary of state in compliance with the resolution of 18 Feb. 1811. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Robert Smith to JM, 19 Feb. 1811 , and n. 1.
2508From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 15 January 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 January 1812. In compliance with their resolution of 29 Nov. 1811, transmits “a report of the Secretary of State … of American seamen impressed into the service of Foreign Powers.” Printed copy ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 12th Cong., 1st sess., 794). Tr of enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, Reports and...
2509From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 27 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 April 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 23 Apr. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 26 Apr. report (2 pp.) on U.S. consular and commercial agents in foreign countries, “together with the Salaries and compensations that have been allowed to...
2510From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 4 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 April 1810. Transmits report of the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 26 Mar. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 4 Apr. report (2 pp.), transmitting an abstract of returns on impressment of 903 American seamen by the British navy between 1 Oct. 1807 and 31 Mar. 1809 (1 p.) and an extract of G. T. Ladico,...
2511From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of the treasury in response to House resolution of 18 Jan. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Received and tabled on 1 Feb. ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.; Washington, 1834-56). , 11th Cong., 2d sess., 1367). Printed in ASP American State Papers:...
2512From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 14 January 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 January 1811. Transmits reports of the superintendent of the city and the surveyor of the public buildings on the subject of the House resolution of 28 Dec. 1810. Printed copy ( Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Reports of the Superintendent of the City, and of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings … [Washington, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H....
2513From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Having considered the bill, this day, presented to me, entitled “An Act to set apart and pledge certain funds for internal improvements” and which sets apart and pledges funds “for constructing roads and canals, and improving the navigation of water courses, in order to facilitate, promote and give Security to internal commerce among the several States, and to render more easy and less...
2514From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 28 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill entitled “An act for the relief of Richard Turvin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, in the Mississippi Territory” I now return the same to the House of Representatives in which it originated, with the following objection: Because the Bill, in reserving a certain parcel of land of the...
2515From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill entitled “An Act providing for the trial of Causes pending in the respective District Courts of the United States in case of the absence or disability of the Judges thereof,” which Bill was presented to me on the twenty fifth of March past, I now return the same to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections:...
2516From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 21 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th. instant, I transmit to them, the proceedings of the Commissioner appointed under the “Act to authorise the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the Enemy while in the military service of the United States and for other purposes” as reported by the Commissioner to the Department of War. RC and enclosure...
2517From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the Resolution of the 24th I transmit two letters from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain to the Secretary of State with his answer. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 14A–D1). RC in John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . For enclosures, see n. 2. The resolution, introduced in the House of Representatives by Thomas B. Robertson...
2518From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 6 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 April 1812. Transmits a report of the superintendent of the city in compliance with the House resolution of 24 Mar. and also “a letter from B. H. Latrobe connected with that subject.” RC ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1). 1 p. In the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Thomas Munroe to JM, 30 Mar. 1812 , and n. 1, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe to JM, 28 Mar. 1812 .
2519From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 31 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom, by a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th. inst., the memorial of Peter Landais was referred, has examined the same, and thereupon makes the following report. That it appears from the documents hereunto annexed, that the Alliance, a Frigate belonging to the United States, whilst she was cruising in concert with several other armed Vessels...
2520From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 12 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1810. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in response to the House’s resolution of 6 Dec. 1809. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 12 Jan. report (3 pp.) enclosing papers concerning Danish restrictions on Baltic shipping (35 pp.). Printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents,...