Executive Memorandum, 1 September 1809 (Abstract)

§ Executive Memorandum

1 September 1809. Under the authority of the 3 Mar. 1809 act entitled “An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments,”1 directs that “out of the monies appropriated by an act passed March 3. 18092 … ‘for provisions,’ there be applied seventy five thousand dollars, to [‘]the repairs of Vessels’ and twenty five thousand dollars to ‘contingent expences’ in the Navy Department.”3

Ms (owned by Myron Kaller & Associates, Inc., Asbury Park, N.J., 1989). 1 p. In the hand of JM and 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 , 2:535–37.

2. Ibid., 2:545–46.

3. Charles W. Goldsborough, chief clerk of the Navy Department, had requested on 19 Aug. 1809 that JM reallocate department funds along these lines (see PJM-PS description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984–). description ends , 1:332–34).

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Title: Executive Memorandum, 1 September 1809 (Abstract)
Author: Madison, James
Date: 1 September 1809

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Cite as: “Executive Memorandum, 1 September 1809 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0654. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 5 November 1811–9 July 1812 and Supplement 5 March 1809 – 19 October 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Jewel L. Spangler, Ellen J. Barber, Martha J. King, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 604–605.]