1List of Members of the Eighth Congress, 17 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
N. Hampsh. 5. Verm. 4. ✓ — Betton, Silas ✓ — Chamberlain ✓ — Claggett. Clifton. ✓ — Chittenden Martin ✓ — Hough David ✓ Elliott James ✓
2From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 17 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to enable me this morning to fill up the blank in the following passage of the Message. ‘An account of the reciepts & expenditures of the year ending the 30th. of Sep. last, with the estimates for the ensuing year, will be laid before you by the Secy. of the Treasy. so soon as the reciepts of the last quarter shall be returned from the more distant states. it is already...
3From James Madison to John Graham, 17 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of May 10 was received during the absence of the President as well as myself from the seat of Government; and since our return the preparations for the meeting of Congress, have prevented an earlier acknowledgment of it. In communicating to you the Presidents acceptance of your resignation, I have the pleasure to inform you, that you hold the same place in his favorable opinion, as...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Jackson, 17 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Least misrepresentations and unfavourable reports should be made you, respecting Doctor Vandyke of South West Point relative to a meeting I had with John Sevier esqr present Governor of this State on the morning of the 16th. Instant—That Justice may be done to the Doctor, it becomes my duty to declare and I pledge myself for the truth of the declaration that the Doctor did no one act, but what...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Simon Didama, 17 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
being a Stranger to your Person but not with your Merits, I hope you will excuse the liberty I do take by sending this letter on your address. I beg leave in requesting you to be so kind to deliver the inclosed to the Person to whom I have addressed, on account I am unacquinted with the residence of Thomas Paine, Esqr. Otherwise if this had not been the case, I should not have been so free in...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 17 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of returning the letters respecting the late Mr: Beaumarchais claim. They throw no further light on the subject; and cannot alter the opinion formed by this Department , and communicated at large to the Secretary of State in a letter of the 20th: November ulto. We still conceive it just that the French Government should communicate to us the name of the person to whom the...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Hore Browse Trist, 17 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The period rapidly approaching when we are to take possession of New Orleans, & feeling anxious that the revenue Department should have every thing prepared for immediate operation, I take the liberty to enclose you a rough sketch of a Seal I designed for the Custom House. Should it meet your approbation, Mr Harvey will please to deliver it to Mr Henry Brown, to whom I have given particular...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 17 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
As far as I can ascertain, the balance in Treasury on 30th Septer. last was only 5,850,000 instead of six millions we had estimated it. The receipts in the Treasury during the year ending 30th Septer. last (which is left blank in your message ) have certainly exceeded 11,300,000 dollars. Respectfully yours RC ( DLC ); addressed: “The President of the United States.” balance in treasury : TJ...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 17 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you this morning that the receipts in the treasury have exceeded for the year ending 30th Septer. last 11,300,000 dollars. That was the sum left blank in the message—The balance in the treasury which you state at near six millions was only 5,850,000 dollars— Respectfully yours RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on 17 Oct. and “Treasury rects. for...
10From James Madison to Rufus King, 17 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have recd and communicated to the President your letter of the 11th. instant. Although the policy adopted by the U. States, neutralizes, of course, their relation to such projects as that disclosed in the extracts copied into your letter, information concerning them may often be of use; and in the present case particularly is so interesting, that the President wishes you to know, that your...