From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 17 February 1810 (Abstract)
§ To the House of Representatives
17 February 1810. Transmits reports from the secretaries of state and of the treasury in response to a House resolution of 5 Feb.
Printed copy (Foreign Relations, 3:341); enclosures (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages). RC not found. Enclosures are Robert Smith to JM, 14 Feb. 1810, and Gallatin to JM, 16 Feb. 1810, transmitting information requested by the House on French and British commercial restrictions. Besides the correspondence printed in , Foreign Relations, 3:301, 324, 342–43, the enclosures include extracts from David Gelston to Gallatin, 22 Feb. 1808, enclosing Jan H. C. Heineken to Gelston, 19 Feb. 1808; Levett Harris to Sylvanus Bourne, 17 July 1809, enclosing a list of papers belonging to the ship Aurora; George R. Curtis to Bourne, 25 Aug. 1809; and various documents relating to the ships Aurora, Jane, Georgia, and Arno. Received and ordered to be printed on 19 Feb. ( , 11th Cong., 2d sess., 1374, 1423–26).
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