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From James Madison to Robert Smith, 3 June 1806

To Robert Smith

Department of State June 3rd. 1806.

Sir.

It being understood, that the President has directed the Brig Franklin to be prepared as a present to the Bay of Tunis,1 I have the honor to request that your Agents may be ordered to put her in a complete state for the voyage, by providing her with officers, crew, stores &c. I am &c.

James Madison.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15).

1. For the discussion preceding this decision, see Thomas Jefferson to JM, 19 May 1806, PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (12 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends 11:597 and n. 1.

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    From James Madison to Robert Smith, 3 June 1806
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    “From James Madison to Robert Smith, 3 June 1806,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-12-02-0015. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 12, 1 June 1806–31 October 1806, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, pp. 9–10.]

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