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From James Madison to Congress, 17 January 1817

To Congress

January 17th. 1817.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.

I transmit to Congress an account of the contingent expences of the Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

James Madison

RC and enclosure, two copies (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 14A–D1; and DNA: RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 14A–E2). Both RCs in John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The one-page enclosure is a statement, signed by Treasury Register Joseph Nourse, that the contingent expenses of government from 1 Jan. 1816 to 31 Dec. 1816 amounted to $13,800.

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    From James Madison to Congress, 17 January 1817
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    “From James Madison to Congress, 17 January 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0661. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 616.]

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