171From James Madison to Rufus King, 10 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
Notice being just given me that the Mail to be made up this evening will reach New York in time for a British Packet, I avail myself of the opportunity to inclose a Newspaper containing all that is yet published of the proceedings of the present Session of Congress, together with the message of the President. The accounts of peace have, with some interested exceptions, given the most sincere...
172From James Madison to Josef Yznardy, 10 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 10 December 1801. Acknowledged in Yznardy to JM, 18 Dec. 1801 . Discusses the suspension of Patrick Mullony’s consular functions.
173From James Madison to Lewis M. O’Brien, 14 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have received with your Letter of the 23d. May last, the bond which you tender for the faithful performance of your official duties. The usage (founded on an obvious principle of expediency) requires that the sureties should in such cases be either residents of the United States, or holders of property of a permanent nature in them. Hence, altho’ I make no doubt that Messrs. Vial, Son & Co....
174From James Madison to the President of the Senate, 14 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to the “Act to revive and continue in force certain parts of the Act for the Relief and protection of American seamen, and to amend the same,” I have the Honor to lay before Congress an annual Return, ending the 9th Inst, containing an abstract of all the Returns made to the Secretary of State by the Collectors of the Customs for the different ports, pursuant to the “Act for the...
175Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress, 16 December 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 December 1801, Washington. Transmits the secretary of the treasury’s 14 Dec. report and the proceedings of the treasury officers, in which are described the measures authorized by the board and completed since the commissioners’ report of 28 Nov. 1800. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 46, Reports from the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, 7A-F7). RC 1 p.; signed by JM and the other...
176From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 19 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
The Convention with the French Republic as finally exchanged by Mr. Murray arrived here on the 9th day of Octr last in the hands of Mr. Appleton. As the form of ratification by the French Government contained a clause declaratory of the effect given to the meaning of the Treaty by the suppression of the 2d. Article it was thought by the President most safe as a precedent to ask anew the...
177From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 19 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
I avail myself of the present conveyance just made known to me, to inclose you a copy of the Message of the President to Congress and a few newspapers containing such of their proceedings and debates as have been published. You will find that the injury threatened to our navigation by the activity which the peace will give to foreign regulations, particularly to the countervailing Act of Great...
178From James Madison to Elbridge Gerry, 22 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours covering a letter for Mr Skipwith, which I have put in company with some despatches just forwarded to Mr. Livingston. I had long before recd. your favor of the 9th. Ult: on the subject of Mr. N. Fellows jr. whose name & pretensions I have laid before the President. The Consulate of the Havanna is not yet vacant, and it is uncertain what the policy of Spain may be with...
179From James Madison to Rufus King, 22 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
In my last of the 10th. instant, I took occasion to remark to you the extensive injury threatened to our navigation by the countervailing act of Great Britain, the inconsistency of that act, in our judgment, with the true sense of the Treaty of 1794, and the several remedies for the case which occured for consideration; among which, that of a revision of the British act, and an adjustment of...
180From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 23 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 23 December 1801, Washington. Offered for sale in Parke-Bernet Catalogue No. 484, “The Alexander Biddle Papers” (1943), pt. 2, item 200, which notes that the one-page letter “regards Dr. Rush’s son Richard who desired to visit Europe in the capacity of a private secretary to one of the American Ministers. Informs him that he will place the matter before the President.”