James Madison Papers
Documents filtered by: Period="Jefferson Presidency"
sorted by: relevance
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-07-02-0135

To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 30 April 1804 (Abstract)

§ From Albert Gallatin

30 April 1804, Treasury Department. “I have the honor to transmit for your information a letter received from Governor Claiborne, together with his accounts therein enclosed.1 If he has mistaken the intention of the four hundred dollars monthly allowance, his error may induce him to incur a higher rate of personal expences than he will find convenient to discharge from his compensation. The purchase of furniture for the Government House might however be allowed and paid from the 20,000 dollars fund; the furniture, in that case, to become public Property. I will thank you to return the letter and accounts, when you shall have no longer use for them.”

RC (DLC: Gallatin Papers). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Gallatin; docketed by Wagner, with his notation: “Govr. Claiborne’s accounts.”

1For Claiborne to Gallatin, 25 Mar. 1804, see Rowland, Claiborne Letter Books, 2:63–65.

Index Entries