1. Section 4 of the act authorized collectors at American ports having documentary proof of a seaman’s American citizenship to issue him papers describing his person and certifying his nationality. Section 7 required customs officers to keep records of the certificates they issued and to make quarterly reports of all seamen so registered. JM enclosed an “Abstract from the Returns made to the Secretary of State, by the Collectors of the Customs of Seamen registered under the Act entitled ‘an Act for the relief and protection of American Seamen,’ “ which stated that 5,255 sailors obtained certificates of citizenship by these means in the year ending 30 Sept. 1801 (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends , 1:477–78; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Commerce and Navigation, 1:458–60).

2. JM enclosed extracts of David Lenox’s letters of 15 Jan. and 25 July 1801, Lenox’s reports for the last two quarters of 1800 and the first two of 1801 showing that he had handled 694 cases during the period, extracts from William Savage’s dispatches from Jamaica of 19 May and 6 July 1801, a statement that 56 cases of alleged impressment had been brought to his attention since the last State Department message to Congress, and an abstract of the protests made by American masters of seamen impressed from their ships pursuant to section 5 of the act (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends , 1:477–78; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 2:361–63; see also Lenox to JM, 10 Apr. 1801, PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 1:84–85).