15781Enclosure: Draft of Message to the Senate, [before 12 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
By a resoln of the Senate of the 14th. of May. 1800. the President was requested to instruct the proper law officer to prosecute William Duane editor of the newspaper called the Aurora for certain publications in that newspaper of the 19th. of Feb. 1800. learning on my accession to the administration that the prosecution had been so instituted as to rest principally, if not solely, on the act...
15782Enclosure: From James Madison, 2 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to a Resolution of the Senate, passed on the 22d of last month, requesting the President of the United States to cause to be laid before them such information as may have been received, relative to the violation of the flag of the United States, or to the Impressment of any seamen in the service of the United States, by the Agents of any foreign Nation, I do myself the Honor to...
15783Instructions for Arkansas River and Red River Expedition, 14 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The government of the US. being desirous of informing itself of the extent of the country lately ceded to them under the name of Louisiana, to have the same, with it’s principal rivers, geographically delineated, to learn the character of it’s soil, climate, productions, & inhabitants, you are appointed to explore , for these purposes, the interesting portion of it which lies on the Arkansa...
15784Notes on Appointments, 5 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Vincennes. Nathanl Ewen of Pensva Reciever ✓ Kaskaskias. Elijah Backus of Ohio Reciever ✓ Detroit. Frederick Bates of Indiana. Reciever ✓ Mi. tery. East of Pearl river Harry Toulman of Kentucky Reciever ✓ Mispi. tery. West of Pearl river Thos. Fitzpatrick Registar v. Turner MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 234:41897); undated (see below); entirely in TJ’s hand; precedes, on same sheet, Notes on...
15785Invoice for Books, 1 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Thos. Jefferson. President of the U. S. To N. Gouin Dufief— Dr. To Philosophie d’Epicure par Gassendi, 6 vol. fol. ⅌ 24. " " Athenaei Dipinosophistarum &c. folio 1.50 " Philostratus concerning the life of Apollonius the Tyanaean, fol. 1. " " Derham’s physico-astro-Theology 2 vol. 8o. 3. " " Sermons de Massillon, 15 vol. 12mo. 15. " " OEuvres d’
15786Statement of William Short’s Tenements, 26 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing the preceding I have settled with Richard Shackleford. his lands have been tended as follows as. ps. 1800 1801 1802 No. 1. 7–49. oats rest corn 2 6–72 corn wheat rest 3 85 new tobo. corn
15787IV. Instructions for Meriwether Lewis, 20 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
To Meriwether Lewis esquire, Captain of the 1st Regiment of infantry of the United States of America. Your situation as Secretary of the President of the United States has made you acquainted with the objects of my confidential message of Jan. 18. 1803. to the legislature: you have seen the act they passed, which, tho’ expressed in general terms, was meant to sanction those objects, and you...
15788Proposed Amendment to the Constitution, 9 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
An Amendment proposed to the Constitution to be added to S. 3. Art. 4. Louisiana being in virtue of the Treaty &c incorporated with the U. States and being thereby a part of the Territory thereof, Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the same as fully and effectually as if the same had been at the time of the establishment of the...
15789III. To Napoleon Bonaparte, 18 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Circumstances rendering it expedient that Robert R. Livingston who has for some time past resided with you as our Minister Plenipotentiary should be in a situation to render other services to his Country, we have authorized him to take his leave of you, embracing that occasion to assure you of our friendship and sincere desire to preserve and strengthen the harmony and good understanding...
15790Notes on Appointments, 20 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Stevens distr. Atty Maryld ^ Nathanl. Smith of R.I. to be Naval officer for the port of Providence ^ Simeon Theus of S.C. to be Collector of the district of Charleston ^ Cowles Mead of Georgia to be Secretary of the territory of Missisipi.