301Enclosure: Outline of Government Offices, 27 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
General Sketch of officers of Government First class— Paid out of monies which have come in the Treasury Second class— Collectors of public monies paid out of collection money First Class — Second Class The Secretary of the Treasury will furnish the whole of the Second class— Postage excepted, and the Civil department of first class The IId Item of First Class vizt. Int. with for. nations to...
302To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 31 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know whom to select for the Indiana investigation. The public officers, and I know no one else there, are as follows Governor— Harrison Secretary— Gibson incapable Register L.O. Badollet—honest but friend of Ewing
303To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 10 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Israel Ludlow the Regr. Land office is dead The applicants are — Kilgore who has for 18 months done the duties of the office with great correctness. — Symmes , the judge’s son, recommended by Smith & Morrow. As the office is kept shut, & the sales & paymts. stopt, an early appointmt. is necessary RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR ); undated, but written on verso of Enclosure No. 2. Enclosures: (1) Charles...
304To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 14 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of 2d & 5th I received only on the 12th instt.—I intend leaving this on the 21st & expect to reach Washington about the 27th. Any letter therefore written subsequent to the receipt of this should be directed to Washington. If, in the mean while I hear of the arrival of the St. Michael, I will hasten my departure & travel faster, so as to be ready to receive any communication...
305To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
We have no collector at Vienna, Eastern shore of Maryland, Mr. Stanford having positively resigned. The embargo will certainly be evaded there unless one is appointed. You have recommendations for a successor, which you suspended on account of his politics & in expectation of some other from Judge Polk. None have come. Would it not be better to appoint the person recommended? His commissions...
306To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 19 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Before I shall make a formal report on Gen. Dearborn’s application , I enclose the papers for your information. The facts he had stated & on which his claim is grounded, vizt. that Shell castle Island was not a real Island, but a shoal left bare only at low water; and that he was detained both there & at Cape Hatteras, by the non attendance of the Superintendent, Collector Treadwell, appear to...
307To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 30 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
[In Gallatin’s hand:] To the Secretary of the Treasury Pay to out of the fund appropriated to defray the contingent charges of Government the sum of (to be applied by him in conformity with my instructions ) and for which he is to be charged on the Treasury Books. The object may be expressed instead of using the words “in conformity with my instructions”—But it is not necessary in the...
308To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 2 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Since closing my letter of this day, I have received the two enclosed from Mr Penniman. I have immediately answered, approving his conduct & the expense. But I presume that some notice of his conduct, that of the militia, &c. communicated by you or in your name, may be expected, & would produce a favorable affect. Deeply as the murder is to be lamented, such excesses will, I hope, bring all...
309To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 11 January 1805 (Madison Papers)
In conformity with your request, I have examined the papers relative to the case of the Brig “Aurora,” George Bowers Master; and without pretending to discuss the principles on which, it seems, that the decision will rest, will only state the general outlines of our revenue system, so far as they may affect the question of the continuity of a voyage. A vessel may arrive in a port of the United...
310To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 25 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The papers required by the resolution of the house are not those which might have been exhibited to the Commissioners , but those deposited in the office of the Secretary of State for the purpose of being recorded under the 8th. Sect. of the Act “regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tenessee” passed 3d March 1803....
311To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Annexed is a sketch of the Receipts & Expenditures for the year ending 30th Septer. last. It cannot be perfectly correct; & several alterations will Certainly be made on the official examination of the accounts. But the variations will not be such as to affect any general result. The most imperfect part is the estimate of that part of the customs which arise from the Mediterranean fund, and...
312To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 10 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Of the letters which accompany this, I request your attention to that which relates to the mint. I presume that those endorsed “no answer” and generally those on which it is not necessary to act need not be sent to you, unless they contain useful information. There is another description on which the decisions are uniform vizt. applications for monies due & for which an appropriation does...
313To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 25 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Observations Wm. Kettletas sd. to be an inmate of Gen. Wilkinson & appd. atty. General by him. This last particular is a mistake Mr. Emmert was removed for delinquency in the spring 1805; and as soon as his accts were adjusted no suit was instituted at Detroit by the Comptroller; but before the suit had been issued there, (or probably on his hearing of its being in the hands of the territorial...
314To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 8 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctor Barnwell I have never corresponded with him or any other Hospital Physician. He may have written, but no letter of his is in our files. The enclosed contain all the correspondence with the collector in relation to him. No assistant has been allowed in any other case; but the President is fully authorised to fix or encrease the salary or to allow assistants— DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
315To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I received this morning your letter of the 9th instt. on the subject of Morocco & the Barbary powers. The arrangement of the mail between this & Monticello is not favorable, since this answer to your’s of the 9th cannot leave Washington before to morrow evening 17th. This I regret, as time on such occasion is precious. I will write, on the supposition that you have received the account of the...
316Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, 7 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
[ in Jacob Wagner’s hand :] Mr. Pinckney Mr. Gore made no application respecting the exemption of his furniture or baggage from duty. It is not even known at the Dep. State, that any returning American Minister Plenipotentiary has claimed such exemption. [ in Gallatin’s hand :] I believe that, in the case of Mr Gore a different construction took place than on the arrival of Mr Trumbull MS (...
317To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 12 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 June 1804, Treasury Department. “In answer to your letter of the 9th inst., I have the honour to inform you that I will remit four thousand five hundred pounds Sterling to Sir Francis Baring & Co. in London with instructions to hold the same subject to Mr Lear’s drafts. This sum will be independent of and in addition to the contingent credit of twenty two thousand five hundred Stg. already...
318To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 22 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I Plan proposed by Dorsey; to which add abolishing the troy weight & substituting the division of the avordupoids ounce (or cubic decime of foot) into either 1000 parts. (or into 20 penny weights & each penny wt. into 24 grains.) The avordupoids pound being equal to 7000 troy grains, the ounce is equal to 437 ½ troy grains. Our unit of money or dollar contains 371 ¼ troy grains of pure silver...
319To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 12 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It appears from the enclosed extract of a letter from the collector of Wilmington that we have no Marshal in North Carolina; which stops our business and even prevents serving process on a vessel which had violated the embargo. Respectfully Your obedt. Servt. I enclose the letter itself, which be pleased to return. He has been referred to the district attorney for the proper mode to pursue....
320To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 8 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 November 1802, Treasury Department. Encloses a copy of a letter from the collector at Boston with John Marston’s and Isaiah Doane’s declarations concerning the Windsor . RC and enclosures ( DLC : Gallatin Papers). RC 1 p. Docketed by Wagner. The enclosed copy of Benjamin Lincoln to Gallatin, 27 Oct. 1802 (3 pp.), stated that U.S. laws gave Lincoln no power to expel the Windsor except by...
321To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a Letter from the Auditor in which he expresses his doubts of the legality of the Expenditures incurred for the relief of Seamen subsequent to the year 1799, beyond the allowance of twelve cents ⅌ day, established by the Act of 14th: April 1792. I have had a verbal communication on the subject, with the Comptroller of the Treasury, have carefully examined the Laws,...
322To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 27 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It appears by a letter of the 16th: instant, that the Light house at Smith’s Point is completed: the Contractor has left a young man on the spot to take care of the buildings; and as he will probably make a charge for his attendence, the propriety of appointing a Keeper is respectfully submitted. As a supply of Oil was ordered from Nantucket in November, it has probably already arrived at...
323To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 1 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to enclose two letters recommending Jonathan Delano as keeper of the light house on Seguin island, in the place of Polerizky resigned—also a letter from Sam. Tredwell stating that James Taylor surveyor of Beacon Island will undertake to keep the light at Shell castle island, which Mr Wallace the former keeper and who is the owner and sole inhabitant of Shell castle had with...
324To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
For a succinct account of the naval actions in the Liman of 19th & 28th June 1788—see Annual Register pages 71 & 72 For the official account of the Russians see Leyden Gazette vizt. for 19th June Supplement to No LXII; & for 28th June wh. is the important one Supplement to No LXVIII & No LXIX. This last action is sometime called of 28 June & sometime of 12 July, on acct. I suppose of the two...
325To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 30 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken notes of the situation of the Indian tribes in lower Louisiana as given by Sibley, and having compared them with Humboldt’s and Nolen’s sketches, think that I can locate them all with sufficient correctness for present purposes. But the great desideratum is a map, not good but at least tolerable. The documents we have are not merely imperfect but altogether contradictory...
326Memorandum from Albert Gallatin on Nominations, [9 March 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Edward Croft of S. Carolina Commissioner of the first division in the State of South Carolina for executing the Act entitled an Act to provide for the valuation of lands & dwelling houses & the enumeration of slaves within the United States Nathaniel Folsom of New Hampshire—Naval officer for the district of Portsmouth Andrew Lyle of New Jersey—Surveyor for the port of New Brunswick in the...
327Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Note, 11 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Officers of the external revenue The sea shore from St. Croix to St. Mary’s, the northern frontier from Lake Champlain to Lake Superior both inclusive, the Mississippi, & the Ohio below the Pennsylvania line are divided into Districts . In each District there is one Port of entry; and in several districts, there are, besides the port of entry, one or more Ports of delivery only. Every port of...
328To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 12 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose at last some observations on the Spanish affairs. The anxiety & occasional absence occasioned by the lingering illness of a child I finally lost had prevented my taking a sufficiently comprehensive view of the subject to commit any thing to writing: and even now I feel that it is very defective. Accept my congratulations on the Tripolan peace, and my wishes that you may terminate as...
329To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 2 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The within letters are enclosed for the President’s information; but will be again wanted (that from Chambers excepted) in order to answer them— RC ( DLC ); undated; endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on 2 Jan. and “Indians” and so recorded in SJL . Enclosures not identified, but see below. One of the letters Gallatin enclosed was probably from Joseph Chambers , register...
330To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 24 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 20th & will attend to its contents. I have not had less business to do since I have been in office, & have nothing to communicate. Your answer to my last , & your determination in respect to Barbary I am waiting for, with some anxiety, as, although I am yet well, the weather is intensely hot & bilious complaints begin to appear. Gen. Dearborn left the city...
331To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 30 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose my intended answer to the Comee. of W. & Means, respecting the intended suppression of the offices of Comrs. of loans. Will you have the goodness to examine it & communicate your remarks? There is but one observation, not inserted in the answer, which may deserve consideration. There are near 5000 Stockholders in Massachussets, and a considerable number in some other States. As the...
332To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 11 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
An inquiry was at the time made respecting this complaint by Ludlow; when it appeared that the refusal, complained of, had originated from a false or erroneous entry in the books by J. Ludlow deceased & Register before Kilgore. It is certain that W: Ludlow accompanied his complaint with an application for the Register’s office. DNA : RG 59—LAR—Letters of Application and Recommendation.
333To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 7 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed is the last letter received from the Surveyor General respecting the two tracts of land to be offered for sale. I think that we might advertise the Jeffersonville district for sale on 1st of April next, & that South of the Connecticut reserve for 1st of May. The proclamation once issued, the officers may be appointed. Respectfully Your obedt. Servt. DLC : Papers of Thomas...
334To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, [15 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed requires but little comment. Why Mr Beckley did not divide the printing between Mr Duane & Mr Smith I do not know; but I am sure that most of our friends are so chagrined at it, that they speak of altering the rules of the house, so as to have the printer appointed by the House & not by the clerk. Mr Smith came here before the fate of the election was ascertained & at a risk. He...
335To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 21 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I receive perpetual complaints respecting the delay in issuing patents for lands. After the people have completed their payments, it is truly injurious to give them just grounds of dissatisfaction. I enclose for your information the list of patent-certificates lodged by the Treasury in the State Department & for which patents have not issued. They amount to 610; of which more than 130 have...
336To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 13 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The information contained in this letter is certainly important. It explains what I heard that General Hovey or Ovey of Genessee was connected with Phelps & went last summer to the westward with an intention of ascending the Mississippi as high as St. Anthony’s fall. He however went no farther than the falls of the Ohio, where he formed a plan to cut a cannal around the same. Powers should be...
337To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the Copy of a representation from New London, requesting an increase of Salary for the Keeper of the Light House on Little Gull Island. The Collector of Sag-harbour who has the Superintendence of that Light House, informs also that the present Keeper will not Stay for the present Salary. As he receives the highest rate of compensation which has been allowed for...
338To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 19 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr Steele is anxious to have Mr Marshal’s accounts so far stated as to be enabled to judge whether any further appropriation will be necessary. A statement somewhat similar to that furnished by Mr Kimbal in relation to Mr Pickering’s account would be necessary. The enclosed shows the sums advanced and to whom; but for what purpose &, therefore, under what head of appropriation to be arranged?...
339To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 30 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Newton of Norfolk sent to my care a small box which apparently contains green wax or wax candles. It is at my house & was accompanied with a letter which is enclosed. I have written to Govr. Harrison to take every step authorised by the act of last session for the removal of intruders who injure the timber near the saline; & have requested him to state the expense of conveying the salt...
340To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Bishop Carrol’s letter The Agent “Sibley” has arrived; and the memorial was forwarded to Congress this morning by Mr Dawson. There is no doubt that Congress will secure the old settlers, though their grants may not be perfectly legal. But all that is now necessary is to amend the law so that claimants of every description be allowed to file their claims with the commissioners; on whose report...
341To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 1 July] 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the rough draft of a letter which may be sent from this Departmen⟨t⟩ to the Collectors of the principal sea-ports. It does not seem necessary that it should be made circular to all the Collectors, as I do not believe it would be proper that the certificate to be signed by the Collector should be like an “health bill” a ship-paper. The papers are to be transmitted to...
342To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
N. Orleans As several similar applications may be made during the absence of the President some general rule should be adopted. I would submit that in cases which may be recommended by the collectors, particularly regular packets or traders, the permission to sail should be given provided that provisions & lumber make no part of the cargo; reserving the permissions for flour for the...
343To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 21 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have kept your message longer than usual, because my objections being less to details than to its general spirit, I was at a loss what alterations to submit to your consideration. Instead of being written in the style of the Proclamation, which has been almost universally approved at home & abroad, the message appears to me to be rather in the shape of a manifesto issued against Great Britain...
344To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 2 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I think that Congress might now decide whether they will give to the corporation the right of the United States 1st to the batture 2d to the fortifications & ground contained between them & the houses—3dly to the levy & ground contained between it & the houses. If they give the batture, it may be done without any restrictions; but if they give either of the other portions of ground which are...
345To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, [23 October 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose some recommendations for the appointt. of surveyor at Smithfield near Norfolk. I had, some days ago , transmitted to you two others, but, whether they were for any of the persons now mentioned, I do not recollect— Is it not time to decide what answer shall be given to Mr Steele? I wait to write to him on the subject of closing his official transactions, until I shall have heard in...
346To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 December 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 December 1802, Treasury Department. Encloses a copy of a letter from the district attorney of Massachusetts regarding the Windsor . RC and enclosure ( DLC : Gallatin Papers). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Gallatin. Docketed by Wagner. For enclosure, see n. 1. Gallatin enclosed a copy of George Blake’s 1 Dec. 1802 letter (4 pp.) suggesting that, in this “novel and singular” case, the...
347To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 21 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctor Stevens’s case shall receive a full & candid investigation. But it embraces several important considerations both as to constitution & law and as to facts; and I fear that I may not have time to apply my mind to it, before the numerous congressional subjects with which I am still engaged shall have been disposed of; So far as relates to this department it must go through two stages...
348To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 21 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the rough draft of a circular to the collectors for the execution of the 7th Section of the last embargo act. We are earnestly urged to give instructions; & strong representations are made that all the applications may not be sent here in the first instance for examination. The loss of time, the time of the West India crops, the capitulation of S. Croix, and the fear of some new...
349To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, [6 July 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The within has just been received. I believe that the accounts of Mr Dunham are correct, & the flying report, of which he complains, without founda[tion]. But it is a delicate question, whether when a removal is either political, or, as in this instance, grounded on private immorality , we are bound to give or to advise an approbation of the official conduct of the party, without adding any...
350To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 22 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Similar applications have been made from a variety of quarters. All those who intend to import rum & molasses, and the exportation of other articles in american vessels is forbidden in the british west india islands, state it as absolutely necessary. By taking bond for the re-importation of the casks themselves, the danger of their being sold abroad may be avoided. But the question is whether...