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To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 4 January 1804

From John Page

Richmond January 4th. 1804

Sir,

I have this moment received the inclosed ratification of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and with pleasure hasten to transmit it to you.

I am Sir, with high respect and esteem, your obedt. servant

John Page

FC (ViW: Virginia Governor’s Papers); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Page; at foot of text: “The President of the United States.” FC (Vi: Executive Letterbook). Enclosure not found, but see below.

The Virginia House of Delegates overwhelmingly approved the resolution ratifying the Twelth Amendment to the United States Constitution by a vote of 128 to 8. In the senate, the resolution passed by a proportionately large margin, 17 to 1 (Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Richmond, on Monday the Fifth Day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three [Richmond, Va., 1804], 49; Richmond Virginia Argus, 4 Jan. 1804).

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 4 January 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0212. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 42, 16 November 1803–10 March 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, p. 233.]

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