From James Madison to Congress, 2 January 1815 (Abstract)
To Congress, 2 January 1815 (Abstract)
§ To Congress. 2 January 1815. “I lay before Congress a Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, containing a statement of proceedings under the ‘Act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the State of Maryland to the State of Ohio.’”
RC and enclosures, two copies (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 13A–E1; and DNA: RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 13A–E4). Each RC 1 p.; in Edward Coles’s hand, signed by JM. The enclosures were Alexander J. Dallas to JM, 31 Dec. 1814 (1 p.), covering a copy of a 19 Dec. 1814 letter to Dallas (3 pp.) from David Shriver Jr., the superintendent of the Cumberland Road, describing progress made toward its completion during the past year (printed in Miscellaneous, 2:262–63).
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