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From James Madison to the Senate, 2 January 1816

To the Senate

Jany 2d. 1816.

I nominate the persons named in the accompanying list for the Offices respectively, as stated in the letter from the Secretary of War.1

James Madison

RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 94, Letters Sent). RC in John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosures, see n. 1.

1. JM enclosed a 28 Dec. 1815 letter from Secretary of War William Harris Crawford (1 p.), forwarding a two-page list of fifty-five names of “the Officers who have been retained in the peace establishment, with reduced ranks, shewing as well, their standing before the reduction, as their present rank in the Army—together with the appointments which have been made in the Ordnance Department” (printed in Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:15–17).

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 2 January 1816
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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 2 January 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0124. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 137.]

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