To James Madison from George Washington, [ca. March 1791]
From George Washington
[ca. March 1791]
My dear Sir,
If under the existing circumstances of the newly established Bank you can add other & fitter characters than some who are proposed in the enclosed letter,1 you would oblige me by naming them, & returning the enclosed in an hour or two. Yrs sincerely
Go: Washington
Tr (MH: Jared Sparks Collection of American Manuscripts, vol. 24). Undated; conjectural date assigned based on evidence in n. 1.
1. The only appointments the President was authorized to make by virtue of “An Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States,” 25 Feb. 1791, were those of three or more persons to oversee subscriptions. By 23 Mar. 1791, five men had been commissioned to carry out the task: Thomas Willing, David Rittenhouse, Samuel Howell, John Beale Bordley, and Lambert Cadwalader ( 1:191–92; Tobias Lear to Washington, 23 Mar. 1791, Abbot et al., Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, 8:3).