From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 30 March 1802

To the Senate and the House of Representatives

Gentlemen of the Senate and
of the House of Representatives

The Secretary at War has prepared an estimate of expenditures for the army of the US. during the year 1802. conformably to the act fixing the military peace establishment; which estimate, with his letter accompanying and explaining it, I now transmit to both houses of Congress.

Th: Jefferson

Mar. 30. 1802.

RC (DNA: RG 233, PM, 7th Cong., 1st sess.). PrC (DLC). RC (DNA: RG 46, LPPM, 7th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. Recorded in SJL with notation “Army estimates.” Enclosures: Dearborn to TJ, 27 Mch., and enclosure.

Meriwether Lewis delivered the message and ESTIMATE to the House and the Senate on 30 Mch. The House referred the papers to the Committee of Ways and Means. The Senate ordered the message and estimate to lie on the table for consideration (JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1826, 9 vols. description ends , 4:168; JS description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1820–21, 5 vols. description ends , 3:200).

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Title: From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 30 March 1802
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: the Senate and the House of Representatives
Date: 30 March 1802

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Cite as: “From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 30 March 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-37-02-0122. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 37, 4 March–30 June 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 149.]

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