To James Madison from Robert Smith, 3 July 1805 (Abstract)

From Robert Smith, 3 July 1805 (Abstract)

§ From Robert Smith. 3 July 1805, Navy Department. “Will you be pleased to send me an order on the director of the mint, to permit George Harrison esquire navy agent at Philadelphia, or an artist under his direction to use the machine for striking coins in the case of the medal for commre. Preble—& to furnish the necessary aid in preparing the steel to sink the die on.”1

RC (DNA: RG 59, ML); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, Letters to Secretary of State). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith.

1. On 3 Mar. 1805 Congress passed a resolution that the president be asked to present Commodore Edward Preble with a gold medal in recognition of his actions in the U.S. attack on Tripoli. Smith sent the medal to Preble on 17 May 1806 (Annals of Congress, description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States… (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). description ends 8th Cong., 2d sess., 1703; PJM-PS, description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (7 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984–). description ends 5:519 and n. 1, 520 n. 2).

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Title: To James Madison from Robert Smith, 3 July 1805 (Abstract)
Author: Smith, Robert
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 3 July 1805

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Robert Smith, 3 July 1805 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-10-02-0011. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 10, 1 July 1805–31 December 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014, pp. 10–11.]

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