To James Madison from Edward Jones, ca. 4 June 1806 (Abstract)
From Edward Jones, ca. 4 June 1806 (Abstract)
§ From Edward Jones. Ca. 4 June 1806, “Wednesday morning.” “By direction of the Secretary of the Treasury I transmit for the purpose of being deposited in your Office, a Copy of General Armstrongs letter to him, of the 20th. of April 1806.”1
RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, DD, France, vol. 10). RC 1 p.; docketed by Wagner; filed in April 1806. Undated; conjectural date assigned here based on an estimate of the time necessary for John Armstrong’s letter to arrive in the United States from Paris, and the fact that 4 June 1806 was a Wednesday. For enclosure, see n. 1.
1. The enclosure (2 pp.) asserted that owing to the recalcitrance of the Council of Prizes, Fulwar Skipwith’s office as U.S. agent for claims in Paris was useless and should be abolished, and that Skipwith may even have admitted to Gallatin that the work he had been able to do was worth very little of his salary. Armstrong further recommended that if Skipwith did not return to France, efficiency and public relations would be improved by giving Skipwith’s position as consul at Paris to Armstrong’s secretary of legation at a salary of $500 per year with no perquisites.