6501Presidential Proclamation, 16 March 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 March 1811, Washington. “Whereas by an Act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the second day of March 1811, it has among other things been declared, ‘That the Office of the Collector of the Customs for the District of Buffaloe Creek, shall be kept at such place or places in the Town of Buffaloe as the President of the United States shall designate.’ “Now Know ye, that I James...
6502Authorization for Peter Hagner, Ca. 6 July 1814 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Authorization for Peter Hagner. Ca. 6 July 1814. “The office of Acct. to the Dept. of War, being in a state which requires that a person or persons be authorized to perform the duties thereof, I do hereby authorize—— Hagner to perform the duties of the said office, untill a successor be appointed.” Draft (owned by Frank Amari Jr., Elmer, N.J., 2007). Left blank in draft.
6503Annual Message to Congress, 7 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. In meeting you at the present interesting conjuncture, it would have been highly satisfactory, if I could have communicated a favorable result to the Mission, charged with negociations for restoring peace. It was a just expectation from the respect due to the distinguished Sovereign, who had invited them by his offer of...
6504Remission for Augustus Johnson, 24 September 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that at a District Court of the United States for the District of Vermont, holden at Windsor in said District in the month of May last, Judgment was rendered against Augustus Johnson, of the said District, for a violation of the Revenue laws of the United States, in selling spirituous liquors without a license for so doing, whereupon a fine was imposed...
6505Pardon for Joseph Blandford, 11 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been made to appear to me that a Judgment has been obtained against Joseph Blandford in the Circuit Court of the United States for the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, by default, in a suit instituted against the said Joseph Blandford in the said Court for a misdemeanor, in an assault and Battery, whereupon a pecuniary fine was imposed upon the said Blandford...
6506Notes on Correspondence regarding U.S. Armed Forces, [ca. 5 January 1814] (Madison Papers)
Enemy wd. most readily agree to suspension of hostilities. Occupancy of Fr. Mills, as anticipated, embarrassd. the Enemy, to weaken these upper posts With 3 posts, he forms a cordon of 64 ms. vs 150 ms. of Enemy In abt. a month will bid defiance to Eny. from Chataguay to St. Johns Spirits of troops who are gettg well invincible, notwithstandg Evils delusive promises to protect his rear,...
6507Presidential Proclamation, 5 April 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 April 1809, Washington. Offers lands ceded to the U.S. by the Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes, lying within the Mississippi Territory, for public sale. The sale will begin on 7 Aug. at Nashville, Tennessee, and continue for three weeks. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Proclamations of Public Sales). 2 pp. Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Mississippi , 5:724–25.
6508Remission for George French, Charles French, and Richard Montgomery Boyer, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that George and Charles French and Richard Montgomery Boyer, all of George Town, in the District of Columbia, have been severally fined by a Court of Enquiry of the Militia of the said District for non-attendance in the Companies to which they respectively belonged, at and before the late attack of a British force on the City of Washington: and whereas it...
6509Pardon for John Overton and Jacob Smith, [10 May 1816] (Madison Papers)
Whereas at a General Court Martial begun and holden at Fort Hawkins on the eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & sixteen of which Major Cutler was President; John Overton & Jacob Smith privates soldiers of the Fourth Infantry were severally tried for desertion and were severally sentenced, two thirds of the Court concurring therein, the said John Overton “to be...
6510Presidential Proclamation, 8 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
Whereas great and weighty matters, claiming the consideration of the Congress of the United States, form an extraordinary occasion for convening them, I do, by these presents, appoint Monday, the ninteenth day of September next, for their meeting in the City of Washington; hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive...