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Circular Letter to Federal District Attorneys, 2 June 1801

Circular Letter to Federal District Attorneys

Department of State, Washington
June 2d. 1801.

Sir,

I am directed by the President to obtain thro’ you information of the Causes which have been decided, as well as of those now depending in the Circuit Court for the district of Rhode Island1—prior to the fifteenth day of June 1801.2 You will therefore please to procure and transmit as soon as convenient extracts of the Docket of such causes, classing them according to the nature of the suits, and distinguishing them according to the terms of the Court. You will also please to certify the expense, if any, which may be incurred in so doing, that it may be defrayed. I am, very respectfully Sir Your Most Obedt. servant

James Madison

RC (RPJCB). Addressed to David Howell; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Howell’s commission was enclosed in this letter or one of the same date (see Howell to JM, 15 June 1801).

1. “Rhode Island” added by Wagner.

2. JM sent similar letters to all district attorneys (see DNA: RG 59, ML, and ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Misc., 1:319–25, for their returns).

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    “Circular Letter to Federal District Attorneys, 2 June 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0334. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 1, 4 March–31 July 1801, ed. Robert J. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes Crout, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Dru Dowdy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986, pp. 256–257.]