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To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 22 February 1816

From Josiah Meigs

22nd. Feb. 1816.

Sir,

Permit me to present, with this, a letter from James Turner, Esquire, of North Carolina, Senator in Congress,1 recommending Israel Pickens, Esquire, as receiver of public monies in The Land-office about to be opened in the Mississippi territory for the sale of Lands lately acquired by a treaty with the Indians of the Creek Nation. I have the honor &c.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 49, Division C, Misc. Letters Sent).

1. Letter not found.

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    To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 22 February 1816
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    Meigs, Josiah
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    Madison, James
    Date
    22 February 1816

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    “To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 22 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0264. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 245.]

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