1From James Madison to George W. Erving, 19 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 April 1804, Department of State. “The instructions under which you act requiring that no partial payments upon recoverey [ sic ] should be made to claimants, and that they should draw for the whole sum in one set of exchange, may produce inconveniences, and in some instances be impracticable, if taken in their strictest construction. In future therefore you will be pleased to answer the...