2451Circular Letter to American Consuls and Commercial Agents, 9 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Since the commencement of the year 1802, I have received your letter of the date of June 28 and I now transmit you a copy of the laws of the session of Congress preceding the last. Of those of the last session, a copy of the ’Act supplementary to the “Act concerning Consuls and Vice-Consuls,” and for the further protection of American seamen,[’] is annexed; the remainder will be forwarded as...
2452Notes on John Randolph’s Assertion as to Florida, [post–5 April 1806] (Madison Papers)
(In reference to J R’s assertion, as to Florida & the alledged expression [“]that France wanted Money & must have it”) It may be due to the ⟨N⟩ation &c. to state that without undertaking to recollect the particular expressions made by me on the occasion, or remarking on the facility of misconceptions incident to transient conversations, my consciousness assures me that on no occasion, nor with...
2453JM Treaty privileges of ships of war in foreign ports, October 1807 (Madison Papers)
1. P 34. no right to visit for municipal objects See Resoln. of H. of Comms & H of L in 1739. Approvd. by the King. Resd. that ye subjects of G B. have an evident right to navigate in the Amn. Seas, as well in going to as in returning from any part of the dominions of H. Majesty, & that it is a manifest violation of this right to visit such vessels at open sea, under pretext that they are...
2454JM Estimate for the service of the year, 1 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
Estimate for the service of the year 1808 Foreign Intercourse. Salaries of three Ministers viz, To London, Paris & Madrid, a 9.000 } 27,000 } Ditto for their 3 Secretaries a 1350. 4,050 Contingent expenses of those Missions 2,000 Contingencies of foreign Intercourse 20,000 53,050. Barbary Intercourse.
2455An Examination of the British Doctrine, Which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade, Not Open in Time of Peace, [ante–8 … (Madison Papers)
JM spent several months in the summer and fall of 1805 preparing his pamphlet An Examination of the British Doctrine, Which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade, Not Open in Time of Peace (Shaw and Shoemaker 10777). It was placed on the desks of members of Congress on 16 January 1806 (Brown, William Plumer’s Memorandum of Proceedings in the U.S. Senate , 388), and between 22 January and 1...
2456Circular Letter to Federal District Attorneys, 2 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I am directed by the President to obtain thro’ you information of the Causes which have been decided, as well as of those now depending in the Circuit Court for the district of Rhode Island —prior to the fifteenth day of June 1801. You will therefore please to procure and transmit as soon as convenient extracts of the Docket of such causes, classing them according to the nature of the suits,...
2457Estimate for the Service of the Year 1806, 10 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
Foreign Intercourse. Salaries of three Ministers viz: to London, Paris and Madrid @ $9000 is $27.000 } Ditto for their three Secretaries @ 1350 ea. 4.050 Their Contingent expences other than personal 2.000 Extra expense of the Mission to Madrid. 6.000 Contingencies 26.950 $66.000 Deficiency of former appropriation to carry into effect the Convention with France of April } 6.000 Barbary...
2458Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson, [15 October] 1804 (Madison Papers)
Perhaps the language may be a little more effectually guarded agst. the idea of making a sort of Stipulation the title to the appointment. All that can be effected is to strengthen his good dispositions, by his knowing that they were calculated on as a proof of his general merit, & by his committing himself for a perseverence in those dispositions, by conversations and declarations on the...
2459Circular Letter to the Justices of the Supreme Court, 30 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1804, Department of State. “By the direction of the President of the United States I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of an instrument whereby he has allotted the Circuits in consequence of the appointment of the Honble William Johnson to fill the Vacancy on the Bench of the Supreme Court occasioned by the resignation of the Honble Alfred Moore.” RC ( MHi : Robert Treat Paine...
2460Standing Instructions to American Consuls and Vice-Consuls, 10 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
In addition to the special duties pointed out in the act of Congress relative to Consuls, passed on the 14th of April, 1792, which you will find in the 2nd Volume of the Laws of the United States, I must beg the favor of you to communicate to me, every six months, a report of the vessels of the United States, which enter at the ports of your district, specifying the name and burthen of each...
2461Account of David Gelston, 14 October 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Account of David Gelston. 14 October 1806. States Gelston’s charges against the State Department totaling $845.62. Includes vouchers indicating that $600 of this sum was spent “for Passages for three Tunissians from the Port of New York to London to find them all necessaries during the Voyage”; $22 for three sets of mattresses, pillows, and blankets; and $223.62 for board, washing and...
2462Circular Letter to Governors, 5 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to an Act of Congress, entitled “An Act for the more general promulgation of the Laws of the United States,[”] passed 3rd. March 1795, and an Act in addition thereto, passed on the 2d. March 1799, I have transmitted to the Collector of the Customs at Philadelphia, 65 Copies of the Laws of the United States, 2nd. Session, 7th. Congress, being the proportion for the Mississippi...
2463Circular Letter to American Ministers, 16 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
By the mail of last Evening, dispatches were received from New Orleans, announcing the formal delivery of the Province of Louisiana to the Commissioners of the United States on the 20th Ulto. This day Mr Baring will receive the portion to which he is entitled by this event of the Stock created in pursuance of the Treaty. The remaining two thirds will be forwarded under arrangements of the...
2464Circular Letter to Members of Congress, 18 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
The Proclamation by the President, of which a copy is inclosed, will inform you, that in pursuance of his authority to convene Congress on extraordinary occasions, he has appointed Monday the 17th day of October next for the meeting of the Senators and Representatives of the United States. This anticipation of the commencement of the ensuing session is rendered necessary by conventions with...
2465Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson, [14 June] 1804 (Madison Papers)
£50 paid to John Chisholm Extract from Mr. King’s explanatory remarks “It will be recollected that Chisholm was confederated with Blount and others in a project to invade the Floridas from the Territories of the United States —that he went to England with letters from the B. Minister Mr. Liston, introducing him and his project to the English Ministry. Mr. King obtained from Chisholm a full...
2466Pardon of John Mills, 20 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
The President of the United States of America To all who shall see these presents Greeting Whereas at a General Court Martial held at New Orleans on the 20th. day of August 1806 of which Lieut Colonel Constant Freeman was President, Corporal John Mills, of Captain Fergus’ Company, Regiment of Artillerists, was charged with repeated disertion, particularly on or about the 28th. July 1806,...
2467Agreement with Benjamin Grayson Orr, [27 July] 1801 (Madison Papers)
It is agreed by the parties subscribing vizt. James Madison & Benjn G. Orr, that Plato the slave of the said Orr is to serve the said Madison for five years from this date during which time the said Orr nor any other person in his or any other right but his the said Madisons, Shall exercise any Kind of rights ownership or controul over the said Plato, who is to be & remain for the term of...
2468Circular Letter to American Consuls, Mediterranean, 21 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
The proofs which have been received of the hostile purposes of the Bashaw of Tripoli having imposed upon the President the obligation of providing immediately for the safety of our Mediterranean commerce, he has judged proper to send to the coast of Barbary a squadron of three frigates and a sloop of war, under the command of Commodore Dale. The squadron will sail in a very few days from this...
2469Circular Letter to American Consuls and Commercial Agents, 1 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
It is a considerable time since our Consuls originated the practice of providing with certificates foreign vessels purchased abroad by citizens of the United States; and it is even understood that some such vessels have been supplied with Consular Registers and Sea-letters. To secure the bona fide property of our citizens is an important duty of the Government, but to repress or regulate a...
2470Proclamation on the Embargo, 19 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President of the United States. A Proclamation. Whereas information has been received that sundry persons are combined or combining and confederating together on lake Champlain and the Country thereto adjacent for the purposes of forming insurrections against the authority of the laws of the United States, for opposing the same and obstructing their execution, and that such combinations...
2471Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 17 July] 1801 (Madison Papers)
It is objected that the act of Congress Mar. 3. 1800. c. 14. sect. 1. 2. entitles a citizen owner of a vessel to restitution until the vessel has been condemned by competent authority on paying salvage to the captor. Every man, by the law of nature, and every fellow citizen by compact, is bound to assist another against violence to his person or property. Tho’ therefore by the law of nature...
2472Draft of Instructions to Robert R. Livingston, [ca. 17 September] 1801 (Madison Papers)
You will herewith receive your commission as Minister Plenipotentiary from the U. States to the French Republic. You will also be furnished with copies of the instructions given to Mr. Dawson who carried to France the modified ratification of the Convention of the 30th of Sepr. last, and of those to Messrs. Elsworth and Murray charged with negociating a ratification in the same form by the...