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To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel A. Otis, 25 October 1804

From Samuel A. Otis

Office of the Secretary of Senate U States 25th Octr 1804

Sir

Agreeably to the order of Senate I lay before you a transcript of their record when acting in their executive capacity, inclusive of the last Session.1

I have the honor to be With the highest respect Your most obedient humble Servant

Sam A Otis

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 27 Oct. and so recorded in SJL.

order of Senate: on 27 Jan. 1792, the Senate ordered that the president “be furnished with an authenticated transcript of the Executive records of the Senate, from time to time” (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 1:99).

1. MS: “Sesssion.”

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel A. Otis, 25 October 1804
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    25 October 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel A. Otis, 25 October 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-44-02-0532. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 44, 1 July to 10 November 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 602.]

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