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From James Madison to the Senate, 26 January 1816

To the Senate

January the 26th. 1816.

Commissions having issued during the recess of the Senate to the following persons, I now nominate them to the Offices respectively annexed to their names. …

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, followed by a list, in a clerk’s hand, of nineteen nominees to be principal assessors of the revenue throughout the nation, signed by JM. The Senate approved six of the nominations on 5 Feb. 1816 and the remainder on 9 Feb. 1816 (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:28–29, 31).

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