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From James Madison to the Senate, 18 March 1816

To the Senate

March 18th [1816]. 1

I nominate,

Cornelius P. Van Ness of Vermont to be a commissioner on the part of the United States to carry into effect the fifth Article of the Treaty of Peace and Amity between the United States and His Britannic Majesty signed on the 24th day of December 1814.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate approved the nomination on 3 Apr. 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 3:39).

1. Todd dated the nomination “1814.”

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 18 March 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0327. [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, p. 304.]

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