Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 4 October 1803
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting
Oct. 4. | Present Secretaries of State, Treasury, War. |
will it be adviseable for forcible possn of N. Orleans to be taken, if refused. unanimous it will. | |
should we now prepare force, so as to have it ready the moment Congress authorises it? unan. it will. | |
what force? 400. regulars from F. Adams, 100. do. from Chickasaw bluffs & Massac, 500. militia of Mis. tery. boatmen & sailors. |
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 131:22677); entirely in TJ’s hand; follows, on same sheet, Notes on a Cabinet Meeting of 16 July.
present: TJ notified Gallatin of this meeting on 3 Oct., when he referred the draft annual message to the secretary of the Treasury. See Document III of Drafting the Annual Message to Congress, above at [before 1 Oct.].