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From James Madison to the Senate, 13 February 1816

To the Senate

Feby 13th. 1816.

I nominate,

Thomas Posey, whose commission as Governor of the Indiana Territory will expire on the third of March next to be Governor of the same Territory for three years next ensuing that date.

John Peter & Daniel Buzzard [sic] of the District of Columbia to be justices of the peace for the County of Washington in said District.

William Langley, of South Carolina as Collector of direct taxes and internal duties for the 8th Collection district of the same state in the place of John Cantey resigned.

Obadiah Rich, of the District of Columbia, to be consul at the City of Valencia in Spain.

Robert M. Harrison, of Virginia, to be consul at the Island of St Thomas.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate approved the nominations of Langley, Posey, Peter, and Bussard on 15 Feb. 1816; that of Harrison on 26 Feb. 1816; and that of Rich on 6 Mar. 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 3:30, 31, 34).

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 13 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0233. [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. 220.]

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