111To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 15 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the Charter-party of the ship Osage chartered for the United States by the collector of New York, in conformity with the directions of the President of the United States. I have the honor to be with the highest respect Sir Your obedient Servant DNA : RG 59—ML—Miscellaneous Letters.
112To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 26 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have read Mr de Foronda’s letter of the 20th. inst., and the bill of Congress to which it refers. So far from the title, or body of the bill containing any expressions liable to misconstruction, the whole is predicated on the actual state of things without any reference to any claims which the United States may have on territories not in their actual possession. The town of Mobile as well as...
113To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 10 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr Rittenhouse arrived yesterday from Amsterdam, which he left 24 March, with Mr. Armstrong’s dispatches. He could give me no political information, but gave me a letter from the Bankers to him, by which it appears that there has been an order, subsequent to Mr. A.’s dispatches, to suspend for 2 months any decision on American vessels. Is this a preliminary to an exception in our favour? or a...
114To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 15 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
The collector of New London has been authorised to charter on account of Government a vessel for the purpose of bringing from a desert island in the Southern Atlantic Ocean six American seamen unavoidably left there by the Ship Leonidas lately returned from a whaling voyage on the coast of Patagonia. This voyage being undertaken on account of Government, solely from motives of humanity, &...
115To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 9 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your’s of 31st. ulto. is just receive’d. Permission had been given for the Batavian to sail from Baltimore with French sailors. Gen. Turreau shifted the application to New York & applied for two more vessels from Baltimore. I waited, before I would instruct the collector of New York, until the general decision of the President on those vessels for Sailors was ascertained. The permission has...
116To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 21 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I receive perpetual complaints respecting the delay in issuing patents for lands. After the people have completed their payments, it is truly injurious to give them just grounds of dissatisfaction. I enclose for your information the list of patent-certificates lodged by the Treasury in the State Department & for which patents have not issued. They amount to 610; of which more than 130 have...
117Enclosure II: Albert Gallatin to James Madison, 30 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your request, I have the Honor to enclose an account of the monies drawn out of the Treasury under the several Appropriations made for defraying the expences incident to the Intercourse with the Mediterranean Powers; transcripts of the accounts of persons to whom the said monies were respectively advanc’d so far as the same have been settled at the Treasury, and statements...