1From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 February 1805 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Lecture on Tobacco which I received this morning and have read with much pleasure. Having been a great Offender in the Use of this Weed in some parts of my life, I may not be an unpreju di ced Judge: but I know that may be borne, without any Sensible Inconvenience. I lived many years in France and in England and after my return in America, without any Use of the Pipe or...
2From James Madison to the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Abstract), 13 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
13 February 1805, Department of State . “In pursuance of a Resolution of the House of Representatives on the 5th. inst. I have the honor through you to lay before them, ‘an abstract of all the evidences of title to lands claimed under any act or pretended act of the State of Georgia passed or pretended to be passed in the years 1789 and 1795, recorded in the office of this Department,’ with...
3Opinion of Alexander J. Dallas, 13 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Can a Prohibition issue from a Federal to a State Court? 1. The judicial authority of the United States, can only be exercised in such Courts, upon such subjects, and in such manner, as the Acts of Congress prescribe, under the limitations contained in the Constitution. 2. The judicial authority of the United States is sometimes exclusive of the judicial authority of the individual States,...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 13 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Vos ordres du 9 ne m’etant parvenus, que hier Soir—je m’empresse de Vous en accuser la reception, et de Vous faire parvenir en Consequence: Cents. Romae Ichnographia —4 feuilles in folio 50— et 4 partes Orbis Vet. Polyglottæ in fol 10— aux quelles je prend la Libertè d’ajouter: C. Le plan de Leipsic-Capitale de la Literrature Germanique 10. L’atlas Complet du Ancièn Monde de Cellarius—50...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Nathan Rockhill, 13 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho to you Unknown; as to person, property, or Character—more than what you will find Inclosed in one of these papers; have taken the Liberty; or as may more properly be said, assurance, to lay before you, the present Difficulties I am Overtaken with the Hope, that your Hon escend, to Offer me Some assistance Or if not to point out Something that will in Some Measure Operate to Relieve me;...
6From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 13 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In the message to Congress at the opening of the present Session, I informed them that treaties had been entered into with the Delaware & Piankeshaw Indians for the purchase of their right to certain lands on the Ohio. I have since recieved another entered into with the Sacs & Foxes for a portion of country on both sides of the river Missisipi. these treaties having been advised & consented to...
7IX. From Henry Dearborn, 13 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreably to your request I have perused the enclosed, I am not capable of discovering any imperfection in the manner or matter. Your,s RC ( DLC ); undated; endorsed by TJ as received 13 Feb. 1805 and “Inaugural” and so recorded in SJL .