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To James Madison from Samuel Dexter, 20 April 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Samuel Dexter

20 April 1801, Treasury Department. Encloses letter [not found] from John Hall, recent U.S. marshal for Pennsylvania. Notes that by law, census is under secretary of state’s direction. Seeks to know whether Hall must pay former assistants or whether successor will pay. “An advance to him is proper or otherwise as you shall settle this Question.” Requests an early reply.

RC (DNA: RG 59, ML). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Dexter; docketed by Wagner. On 28 Mar. Jefferson had replaced Hall on the grounds that he was “packing juries” (Jefferson’s list of appointments, 1801–3 [DLC: Jefferson Papers]).

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    To James Madison from Samuel Dexter, 20 April 1801 (Abstract)
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    20 April 1801

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    “To James Madison from Samuel Dexter, 20 April 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0146. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 1, 4 March–31 July 1801, ed. Robert J. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes Crout, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Dru Dowdy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986, p. 106.]

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