1351Authorization for Gideon Gooch, [23 May] 1809 (Madison Papers)
I hereby authorize Gideon Gooch or such person as he may substitute, to sell whatever Tobacco may have been inspected in my name, and be in the Warehouses at Richmond at any time previous to the tenth day of June next. Given under my hand this 23 day of May 1809. Ms (owned by Charles M. Storey, Boston, Mass., 1961). In JM’s hand. Accompanied by Gooch’s release of the tobacco to Robert H. Rose...
1352Remission for Joseph Butler, [28 June 1816] (Madison Papers)
Whereas at a Circuit Court of the United States for the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, Joseph, alias Joe, Butler, of the said County, was convicted of Theft, whereupon he was sentenced by the said Court to be publickly whipped, to pay a fine of Ten Dollars, and to remain in Jail until the fine, and the costs of Prosecution should be paid: and whereas it is represented to me...
1353Remission for Thomas and Joel Holden, 20 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that Thomas and Joel Holden, of the State of Massachusetts, are imprisoned in the Common Jail of Boston, upon an execution issued against them on a judgment in the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, at the suit of the United States, and it has been made to appear to me that the said Thomas and Joel Holden are entirely...
1354Annual Message to Congress, 4 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives On our present meeting, it is my first duty to invite your attention, to the providential favors which our Country has experienced, in the unusual degree of health dispensed to its inhabitants, and in the rich abundance with which the Earth has rewarded the labours bestowed on it. In the successful cultivation of other branches...
1355Presidential Proclamation, 23 November 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Presidential Proclamation. 23 November 1813, Washington. “Whereas John Armstrong Esquire Secretary of War of the United States is at present absent from the seat of Government; And whereas it is represented to me as a matter of importance that Warrants for the disbursements of monies for the use of the War Department should forthwith issue. Therefore be it known that in pursuance of the...
1356Presidential Proclamation, 1 January 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Presidential Proclamation. 1 January 1816. Revises building terms and conditions for the city of Washington. Suspends the first and third articles of the 17 Oct. 1791 building regulations until 1 Jan. 1817. Adds an exception that “no wooden house covering more than three hundred and twenty square feet, or higher than twelve feet from the sill to the eve [ sic ] shall be erected, nor shall...
1357Annual Message to Congress, 20 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
Notwithstanding the early day which had been fixed for your session of the present year, I was induced to call you together, still sooner, as well that any inadequacy in the existing provisions for the wants of the Treasury might be supplied, as that no delay might happen in providing for the result of the negociations on foot with Great Britain; whether it should require arrangements adapted...
1358Executive Pardon, 29 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 January 1810, Washington. JM grants a general pardon to all army deserters who “shall within four months from the date hereof surrender themselves to the Commanding Officer” of a military post. Tr ( DNA : RG 107, LSMA ). 1 p.
1359Presidential Proclamation, 22 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 June 1811. Declares and makes known under the acts of Congress for the sale and disposal of public lands south of the state of Tennessee that the public lands west of the Pearl River in Mississippi Territory, to which the Indian title has been extinguished and which have not been exposed to public sale under the terms of the presidential proclamation of 22 Oct. 1808, shall be for public...
1360Draft of a Message to Congress, [ca. 31 May] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Ever since the peace of Independence the B. G. instead of regarding the U. S. with the friendly eye which was required by justice magnaminity [ sic ] & true policy, has yielded to an embarassing mortification at their success & an unworthy jealousy of their commerce. Her delay to send an Ambass. Her monopolizing regulations of navigation, among the proofs. It was not however, untill the war in...
1361Presidential Proclamation, 31 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 August 1810, Montpelier, Virginia. Instructs customs collectors, under section 61 of “‘An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,’ passed 2d day of March, 1799,” to establish the value of the ruble at 33⅓ cents in levying duties on imports from Russia and its dominions. Printed circular (reproduced in Papers of Gallatin [microfilm ed.], reel 21). Printed with...
1362Executive Pardon, [6 May] 1809 (Madison Papers)
James Madison , President of the United States of America, To all who shall see these presents, Greeting : Whereas it has been represented to me that Genl Michael Bright , James Atkinson, William Cole, Charles Westfall, Samuel Wilkins, Abraham Ogden, Daniel Phyle, Charles Hong and John Knipe, all of the state of Pennsylvania, were, at a Circuit Court of the United States lately held for the...
1363Memorandum of a Conversation with Augustus J. Foster, 23 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 June 1812, Washington. “Mr. Forrest Clerk in the Foreign Office, having intimated that the President would not be displeased, were Mr. Foster to call to take leave of him, and repeated some civil expressions of his in relation to Mr. Foster, Mr. Foster requested Mr. Forrest to ascertain from Mr. Monroe, whether he might have the honor to wait upon Mr. Madison next day the 23d. Instant. “Mr....
1364Circular Letter to State Governors, 27 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to forward to you a copy of “an act for the appointment of representatives among the several states, according to the third enumeration.” As the subject will necessarily engage the attention of the legislature of your state at an early period, I have thought it proper to hasten the transmission of this document to you, And Am, &c. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL ). U.S....
1365Remission for Jerusha Blackman, 20 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that at a District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, held at Boston in the month of March last, Judgment was rendered against Jerusha Blackman, of the town of Dorchester, in the said District, for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, in selling spirituous liquors without a license for so doing, whereupon a fine...
1366Transfer of Naval Appropriations, 30 November 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Transfer of Naval Appropriations. 30 November 1815. “In pursuance of the authority of the President of the United States, by the Act of Congress passed on the 3d. day of March 1809, entitled ‘An Act further to amend the several acts for the establishment of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments,’ I do hereby direct, that out of the balance of the appropriation for the building or...
1367Memorandum to the Cabinet, 14 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison requests a consultation with the heads of the Depts. today at 12 O’C. Printed copy (John Heise Autograph Catalogue No. 2457 [1928]).
1368Account with St. Mary’s Seminary, [ca. July 1809] (Madison Papers)
1809 College charges as Specified in the Prospectus. June 7. Washing two Quarters 9. Mending linen and Stockings 3. Doctor’s fees and Medicines 4. Paper, Slates, Quills &ca 3. Postage and Penny post Com” 1 31 Six months Board and Tuition 115. 135 31. Decembr. 16. Ross Grammar
1369Pardon for William Simms Yeatman, [8 February 1817] (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that William Simms Yeatman, at a Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Pennsylvania, lately held in the City of Philadelphia, was convicted of a Criminal offence, in opening a letter with which he was charged, and purloining from it a sum of money, in Bank notes whereupon he was sentenced by the said Court to suffer an Imprisonment in...
1370Remission for Aaron Jones, 15 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that Aaron Jones, of the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, was some time ago, charged with a misdemeanor, committed in the County of Alexandria, and that he has been duly convicted before the Circuit Court of the United States for the County aforesaid, in the District aforesaid, of the offence with which he was so charged, and, thereupon,...
1371Fragment of a Memorandum on Reports of the Battle of Bladensburg, [post–6 September 1814] (Madison Papers)
8. National Advocate (N.Y.) by Mr Wheaton of date, containing an anonymous account of Battle of Bladensbg. &. (by Genl. Armstrng) 9. do. of shortly subsequent date by do. containing a varied account thereof Ms ( NN : Monroe Papers). In JM ’s hand. Undated; filed at 24 Aug. 1814; conjectural date supplied here based on evidence in n. 3. Henry Wheaton (1785–1848) graduated from the College of...
1372Memorandum on William Jones Correspondence, 13 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Jones. Secy Navy in letter to Comr. Chauncey says “Secy. of War had just informed him that Izard with abt. 5000 choice troops was on the march to St. Laurenc[e] viz. Ogdenburg with view to a joint attack with Chauncy on Kingston—or that being invulnerable then a vigorous blow elsewhere—to transport 2000 from Sackets harbr. to Burlington heights—co-operating with Brown agst. army of...
1373Notes on Kentucky Volunteers, 23 August 1813 (Madison Papers)
Letter of Aug. 1. 1813. from Govr. Shelby to the Secy. of War, recd. this day by J.M. In substituting volunteers for a draft of Militia, Govr. S. has judged very properly. The period of their service after reaching Head Quarters, will probably be equivalent to that expected from the militia called for. Altho’ the number of Volrs. is not limited, it may be presumed that it will not materially...
1374Presidential Proclamation, 1 May 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas by the act entitled “An act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian Volunteers,” passed the fifth of March, 1816, it was enacted that the locations of the land warrants of the said volunteers should “be subject to such regulations, as to priority of choice, and the manner of location, as the President of the United States shall direct:” Wherefore, I, James Madison ,...
1375Commission for George W. Campbell, [30 July 1814] (Madison Papers)
Having thought fit to commit to you the charge of borrowing on behalf of the United States, any sum not exceeding twenty-five millions of dollars, pursuant to the act entitled “an act to authorise a loan for a sum not exceeding twenty-five millions of dollars,” passed on the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, I do hereby make known to you that in the execution...
1376Remission for Mendal Churchill, 19 September 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas at a late Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, begun and held at Boston in said District, Mendal Churchill, Mariner, was sentenced to pay a fine to the United States, with the costs of suit, for assisting to land a quantity of foreign merchandize in the said District contrary to law; and whereas it has been made to appear to me that the said Mendal...
1377Remission for William and Charles Nichols and William Boyd Jr., 10 February 1817 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that at a Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, held some time ago, the Ship Octavia belonging to Wm. & Charles Nichols and William Boyd junr, all of the said District, was condemned as forfeited to the United States for violating the law of the said United States interdicting commercial intercourse with Great Britain,...
1378Remission for Jeremiah Clapp, 11 July 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Remission for Jeremiah Clapp. 11 July 1815. “Whereas it has been represented to me that a certain Jeremiah Clapp, of the County of Orange, in the State of Vermont, was duly convicted in the May term of the present year in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Vermont, of a breach of the law of the United States, prohibiting Intercourse with the kingdom of Great Britain...
1379Remission for Alexander T. E. Vidal, 20 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that at a late session of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Michigan, Alexander T. E. Vidal, a Lieutenant in the Navy of Great Britain, was charged with a misdemeanor, in unlawfully, riotously and wantonly combining with others, in the District of Detroit and Territory aforesaid, to seize and carry away a certain Thomas Ramer in and from the said...
1380Pardon for Isaac Newson, 6 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas sentence of death was passed by a General Court Martial, duly convened at the Marine Barracks in the City of Washington, in the month of May last, upon a certain Isaac Newson, a Private in the Marine Corps, who was convicted of desertion from the said corps, which sentence has been regularly approved and ratified; and whereas it has been represented to me that this is the first offence...