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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 ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Miscellaneous, 2:262–63).

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