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From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816

To the Senate

29th April 1816.

I nominate

William Rector of Missouri to be Surveyor of public lands for the Territories of Illinois and Missouri.

Benjamen Stephenson of Illinois Territory to be Receiver of public monies, at Edwardsville in Madison County in the said Territory

Louis Blanc of Louisiana, to be Surveyor of the port of delivery at the town of Bayou St John.

Alfred Lorraine of Louisiana to be Receiver of public Monies for the Eastern District of the same State in the place of Lloyd Posey resigned.

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 on the same day (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 3:50, 51–52).

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0437. [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. 435.]

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