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To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 12 December 1814

From Josiah Meigs

Treasury Department
General Land Office 12th. Decr. 1814

Sir,

I have the honor to enclose herein, for your approbation, leases of two lead mines in the Territory of Missouri, executed by the Recorder of Land titles at St. Louis, to Saml. Hammond and to Hammond & Connor.1 I have the honor &c.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 49, Division C, Misc. Letters Sent).

1. On 13 Dec. 1814 Meigs informed Frederick Bates, recorder of land titles at St. Louis, that JM had approved the leases; on 14 Dec. he sent copies of the leases to Nathan Lufborough, acting comptroller of the Treasury (DNA: RG 49, Division C, Misc. Letters Sent).

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    To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 12 December 1814
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    Madison, James
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    12 December 1814

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    “To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 12 December 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0367. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 8, July 1814–18 February 1815 and supplement December 1779–18 April 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 435.]

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