RC (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “Pratte”). Signed by Scott and twenty-two other members of the Missouri Territory legislature. Undated; conjectural date assigned based on the conclusion of the Missouri Territory legislative session in January 1815 and JM’s nomination of Pratte for the position on 3 Mar. 1815, with Senate approval on the same day (Acts Passed by the General Assembly, of the Territory of Missouri; in December and January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen and Fifteen [St. Louis, 1815; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 35293], 164; Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 2:627–28). Bears James Monroe’s note: “The President.”