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From James Madison to the Senate, 2 February 1816

To the Senate

Feby 2d. 1816.

I nominate,

John Page Junr, of New Hampshire to be principal assessor of the 5th Collection District of the same state in the place of Abel Merrile, resigned.

William Tolley, of New York to be principal assessor of the 27th Collection district of the same state in the place of Andrew Backus, removed out of the District.

William Roberts, of Maryland, to be principal assessor of the 2d Collection district of the same state in the place of William Dickinson, resigned.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate confirmed the nominations of Page and Roberts on 15 Feb. 1816 and postponed the nomination of Tolley (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 3:30–31, 37).

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 2 February 1816
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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 2 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0208. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 203–204.]

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