91To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 28 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Some days ago a letter from Mr Briscoe Collector at Nottingham (Patuxent Riv.) was communicated to you. It related to the arrival of a vessel without captain or papers, which under those circumstances was directed to be seized & dismantled and the cargos landed. The Captain is now here, and I enclose his papers which are so far regular and the Collector’s letter enclosing the amount of the...
92From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 28 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your own opinion & that of the Atty Genl. are sufficient authorities to me to approve of prosecuting in the case of the Schooner Sally. and I will candidly add that my judgment also concurs. the handcuffs & bolts are palpable testimonials of the intention of the voyage, & the concealment of them, & their omission in the statement of the cargo, strengthens the proof. the traffic too is so...
93To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclosed yesterday papers relative to a vessel suspected of having been fitted out for slave trade. The presumptive evidence is strong as she had on board, (& several of the same not inserted in her manifest,) handcuffs & bolts, scantling & boards fit to make partitions, 35 shaken hogsheads which would be necessary for water for the number of slaves she might bring back, a quantity of bread...
94To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 7 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not been at the office these three days, having found that I would be less interrupted here than there in finishing & correcting statements &a.—Mr. Jones writes me that you had requested by your Secretary to be furnished this forenoon with copies of the papers preparing to be submitted to Congress. Exclusively of five distinct reports on tonnage, exports, and importations which by...
95From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 8 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of my message to the offices yesterday, was in general for such documents as were to accompany the message. those mentioned in your letter of yesterday I knew were to go afterwards, & had made the expressions future. but I did not know whether the list of offices of every kind might not be ready. however I shall express that in the future also. Your’s affectionately RC ( NHi :...
96To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, [13 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
I send the statements which are to accompany the report , (one excepted which is not yet transcribed, but a rough & incorrect draught of which I enclose in this letter) The object of the report is to show the probable revenues & expenditures on an average of eight years 1802–1809 The permanent revenues are stated to be impost, int. revenues, lands, & postage, (besides incidental vizt fines...
97From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 14 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Before your papers of to-day came, I had read the report & inclosed it with a word of answer . I have gone through those last sent , rapidly as the time required. your former explanations had already prepared me for them. they are entirely satisfactory. I believe I should have taken ranker ground, by assuming a higher amount of impost to proceed on. but your’s is safest and answers all our...
98To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, [15 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed requires but little comment. Why Mr Beckley did not divide the printing between Mr Duane & Mr Smith I do not know; but I am sure that most of our friends are so chagrined at it, that they speak of altering the rules of the house, so as to have the printer appointed by the House & not by the clerk. Mr Smith came here before the fate of the election was ascertained & at a risk. He...
99To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Reply, 21 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Did you read the long report in A. M’Clene’s case , which I had sent to you & which you returned? It appears to me that the whole amounts to this—that the Bargemen have repeatedly been employed in levelling the wharf of the Collector—but, that it does not appear, that they were ever so employed to the detriment of the public business—If so, it should seem that there is not sufficient cause of...
100To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose Mr Gerry’s letter—There was, in my opinion, but one way in which he might have saved his brother , and that was to have at once paid the deficiency for which he is, at all events, ultimately responsible as security. I had seen the attack as to over drawing Heth , & had ascribed it to himself. His vanity is such that he cannot believe that it was his own fault in not making his return...
101Memorandum to Albert Gallatin, with Gallatin’s Reply, [on or before 26 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State has sent me the list of officers named during the recess of Senate, and now to be nominated to them, among these are Josiah Hook Inspector for Penobscot as well as Collector Jonas Clark Inspector for Kennebunk M. E. Chisman Inspector for Hampton as well as Collector. Thos. Worthington Inspector of N.W. district John Oakley. Inspector as well as Collector of George town...
102To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 26 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
No letter directed to me is opened by the Clerks , unless they are endorsed with the words “Custom house,” which designates the species of letters called public , meaning thereby the weekly or monthly returns— All the persons nominated as inspectors are, Thomas Worthington excepted, officers of the external revenues appointed in relation to certificates for spirits, teas & wines. His...
103To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 26 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Is it not necessary that you should communicate to Congress the “Order” abolishing the offices of inspectors & erecting the Country North of the Ohio into a separate district? and suggest the necessity of providing by law for the compensation of the Supervisor of that district? The law authorized the erection of new districts , but has made no provision for the compensation of new Supervisors....
104To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 27 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the general outlines of the list of public officers. The paper which wraps up the others is the general sketch of the whole under its proper heads. The three Schedules B. C. D are the sketches of the returns which should be filled by the three departments of State, War & Navy—The Schedule A. which relates to the civil department, being very long to transcribe & to be filled by...
105Enclosure: Outline of Government Offices, 27 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
General Sketch of officers of Government First class— Paid out of monies which have come in the Treasury Second class— Collectors of public monies paid out of collection money First Class — Second Class The Secretary of the Treasury will furnish the whole of the Second class— Postage excepted, and the Civil department of first class The IId Item of First Class vizt. Int. with for. nations to...
106To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 27 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The late Doctor Jackson of Philadelphia had formerly supplied the army with medicines. The business was very suddenly taken from him, on account solely of his politics, not by Mr Hamilton as his widow believes, but by Tench Francis purv. of supplies & by order of Mr McHenry—He had on hand, & received immediately after a large quantity of medicines imported for that sole purpose, a great part...
107From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 29 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter I recieved yesterday from mr Stone on the subject of the Wilmington collectorship. you will percieve he is in favor of Bloodworth, and counting on a personal opposition from mr Steele, confides another in the judgment you will form on your own knolege of mr Bloodworth . his letter of course must not be seen by mr Steele. if you have an opportunity of seeing mr Franklin ,...
108To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 3 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
If you wish to avoid the formality of a message in relation to the Supervisor North West of the Ohio, I may write the enclosed letter to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means . Please to return it, if you approve that mode. But if you think it better to make the communication by message, you may make one out of the letter, as this contains all the necessary facts. Respectfully Your...
109To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 9 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you look at the enclosed letters & remarks of the Comptroller in E. Randolph’s case. I think it is best to take no steps in relation to the commissions for testimony abroad. But the conduct of the Court, through the whole of this business has been very extraordinary. Respectfully Your obt. Servt. RC ( DLC ); address clipped: “President [of] the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received...
110To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 10 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissrs. of the City, without consulting any person on the subject, have offered, to the Legislature of the State of Maryland , six per cent stock in payment of the loan guaranteed by Congress, upon a presumption that that arrangement would be convenient to the U. States. As the first instalment of that loan becomes due only on the 1st Jany. 1804, there was no necessity of bringing the...
111From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 12 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The proceedings of the Commissioners of Washington with Maryland seem not to be accurately understood. Maryland lent them 250,000 D. of stock at par, on which they lost 15. percent. they proposed therefore that Maryland should leave Congress free to repay in stock. they did not propose, nor ever thought of, shortening the terms of paiment. Maryland agrees to recieve stock on condition it is...
112To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 13 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
From a view of your message , it seems to me that I ought neither to apply to the Commissers. for information, nor give any opinion on the propriety of suspending the sale of the lots; but that my report to the H. of R. should be confined to a short recapitulation of the acts now in force, & to an opinion on the question whether it will be most eligible, in case Congress shall suspend the sale...
113From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson incloses to mr Gallatin another anonymous letter from Charleston, doubtless from the same hand.—he asks his attention to so much of the letter of mr Esch as respects the seisure of his watches, and to have done on it whatever is right. the young man is recommended by Professor Pictet.—is the object of the inclosed petition within our competence, or must it go to Congress? if the...
114To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, [25 January 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The within is written by the republican Senator & Members of Assembly in Pennsylvania from that County which includes Presquile & Allegheny. Foster is one of the two only officers of customs who has not rendered his accounts for 1800 & is not removed. RC ( DNA : RG 59 , LAR ); undated; address sheet torn; addressed: “The Presi[dent]”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on...
115To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 27 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmitted to you two days ago, under same cover correspondence in case of E. Randolph, and a letter to the Chairman of the Commee. of Ways & Means in relation to certain appropriations with some papers relative thereto. The last is wanted, and neither has been returned Respectfully Your obt. Servt. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as...
116To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The papers which accompany this contain all the documents & the whole information which I can obtain in this department on the subject of the Barbary powers. The rough draft of the letter to the Secretary of State, & the general sketch marked (AA) exhibit the substance of the whole. As soon as the papers are returned they may be transmitted officially to the Depart. of State, as the letter to...
117To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 4 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose E. Burroughs’s proposals for two of the Chesapeak light houses. From every information, it is not probable that any other person will offer, and it is very desirable that we should, by availing ourselves of his proposals, secure the work being done next summer. The only objection in the way is want of cession on the part of Virginia , but there is no doubt of its having been, or...
118To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 9 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
From the present situation of Mr Duane’s account, as stated in the enclosed, and considering that the stamp act will most probably be repealed, leaving on our hands a large quantity of Surplus useless paper; it seems that it would be unjustifiable to extend the contract beyond the 400 thd. sheets already engaged, and that the advance which he may claim in relation to his existing contract does...
119To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 12 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the list of the several officers of Government with their salaries or emoluments as compiled in this or received from the other Departments, and arranged in the following manner. They may be considered as forming two general classes: One consists of all those who are employed in the collection of the public revenue and receive their compensations by deducting the...
120To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose two Statements in relation to the marine Hospitals .— The Statement A exhibits the balances remaining unexpended in the hands of the several Collectors and Agents on the 30th. September last, or on the last day to which Returns have been receiv’d.— The Statement B exhibits the total Amount receiv’d in each State, and expended by each Hospital from the Commencement...