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To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 24 April 1804

From Robert Smith

Nav Dep 24 April 1804

Sir

I have the honor to enclose for your signature 30 blank Warrants—they are wanted for midsn—boatswains, gunners, sailmakers & carpenters—When you shall have signed them, I beg the favor of you to have them returned to me.

I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Sir, yr mo ob Sr.

Rt Smith

RC (DLC); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith; at foot of text: “President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 27 Apr. and “warrts for midshipman &c.” and so recorded in SJL. FC (DNA: RG 45, LSP); in a clerk’s hand.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 24 April 1804
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    Smith, Robert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    24 April 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 24 April 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0254. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 306.]

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