From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 24 February 1804
To the Senate
To the Senate of the United States
I nominate Hore Browse Trist of the Missisipi territory to be collector of the district of Missipi.1
Benjamin Morgan of New Orleans to be Naval officer of the port of New Orleans
William G. Garland of New Orleans to be Surveyor and Inspector of the revenue for the port of New Orleans.
Alexander Bailey of the Missisipi territory to be Collector of the district, and Inspector of the revenue for the port, of Natchez.
Charles Kilgore of the state of Ohio to be register of the land office at Cincinnati.
Charles Collins junior2 of Rhodeisland to be Collector of the district, & Inspector of the revenue for the port of Bristol in Rhode island.
John Willis of Maryland to be Collector of the district, and Inspector of the revenue for the port of Oxford.
Meriwether Jones of Virginia to be Commissioner of loans for the state of Virginia.
Th: Jefferson
Feb. 24. 1804
RC (DNA: RG 46, EPEN, 8th Cong., 1st sess.); with an emendation by Samuel A. Otis (see note 2 below); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC (DLC); TJ placed a check mark alongside each name. Recorded in SJL with notation “nomins. Trist &c.”
When Lewis Harvie delivered this message on Friday, 24 Feb., the Senate dispensed with the rule, immediately considered the nominations, passed a resolution confirming the appointments of Trist, Morgan, and Baillie (bailey), and ordered the clerk of the Senate, Samuel A. Otis, to deliver the resolution to the president. The senators confirmed Garland and Collins on 25 Feb., Killgore and Willis on 29 Feb., and Jones on 9 Mch. (, 1:464-6).
1. TJ originally left a blank for the name of the district, which he filled in the RC but left open in the PoC.
2. Word interlined by Otis (see TJ to Otis, 25 Feb.) and interlined by TJ as “junr” on PoC.