Commission for James Monroe, 1 October 1814

Commission for James Monroe

[1 October 1814]

The office of Secretary of State being now vacant, I do, in pursuance of the act passed on the 13th of February 1795, entitled “An act to amend the act entitled An act making alterations in the Treasury and War Departments,”1 authorize and appoint you to discharge the duties thereof, until a regular appointment be made.

Given under my hand at the City of Washington the first day of October 1814.

James Madison

RC (NN: Monroe Papers). In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM.

1. U.S. Statutes at Large, description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends 1:415.

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Title: Commission for James Monroe, 1 October 1814
Author: Madison, James
Date: 1 October 1814

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Cite as: “Commission for James Monroe, 1 October 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0238. [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. 271.]