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To James Madison from John P. Van Ness, Richard Bland Lee, and Tench Ringgold, 8 February 1816

From John P. Van Ness, Richard Bland Lee, and Tench Ringgold

Office of the Commissioners of the Public Buildings
Washington 8th Feby 1816

Sir

Give us leave to inform you that the War office is finished according to Contract, and ready for Occupation, excepting a few inconsiderable particulars which are delayed by the want of some arrangement among the Heads of Departments as to their respective locations. They have before been apprized of this State of the Building, but probably pressing engagements have prevented them from attending to the Subject. You will be so obliging, Sir, as to instruct us to whom we shall direct the Keys of the Building to be delivered, on behalf of the Government. We are with high Consideration and respect, Sir, Your Obt. Servts.

John P. Van Ness
Richard Bland Lee
Tench Ringgold

RC (DNA: RG 59, ML); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 42, Records of the Commissioners Appointed to Supervise the Repair or Rebuilding of the Public Buildings in Washington, Letters Sent). RC in a clerk’s hand, signed by Van Ness, Lee, and Ringgold. The signatories are not represented on the letterbook copy.

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    To James Madison from John P. Van Ness, Richard Bland Lee, and Tench Ringgold, 8 February 1816
    Authors
    Van Ness, John P.
    Lee, Richard Bland
    Ringgold, Tench
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    8 February 1816

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    “To James Madison from John P. Van Ness, Richard Bland Lee, and Tench Ringgold, 8 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0221. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 212.]