1Notes on Debates, 25–26 April 1783 (Madison Papers)
MS ( LC : Madison Papers). For a description of the manuscript of Notes on Debates, see Papers of Madison William T. Hutchinson, William M. E. Rachal, et al ., eds., The Papers of James Madison (6 vols. to date; Chicago, 1962——). , V, 231–34 . Added to appendix from Chap. 3. laws U. S. 1815. Address to States passed nem: con: It was drawn up by Mr. Madison: The address to Rd. Isd. referred to...
2Report on Address to the States by Congress, [25 April] 1783 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 24, fols. 335–46). Entirely in JM’s hand except for insertions, mentioned in footnotes, 5, 23, 25, and 41, by George Bond, deputy secretary of Congress. On 18 April, after adopting the plan for restoring public credit, Congress appointed a committee, JM chairman, Oliver Ellsworth, and Alexander Hamilton, to prepare an address to the states (NA: PCC , No. 186, fol. 95)....