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From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 28 February 1805

To the Senate and
the House of Representatives

To the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States

I now lay before Congress a statement of the Militia of the United States, according to the returns last recieved from the several states. it will be percieved that some of these are not of recent dates, and that from the states of Maryland, Delaware & Tennissee no returns are stated. as far as appears from our records none were ever rendered from either of these states.

Th: Jefferson

Feb. 28. 1805.

RC (DNA: RG 233, PM, 8th Cong., 2d sess.). PoC (DNA: RG 46, LPPM, 8th Cong., 2d sess.). Dft (DLC). Recorded in SJL with notation “militia.” Enclosure: Return of the Militia of the United States, 23 Feb. (see Dearborn to TJ, 23 Feb.).

On 28 Feb., Isaac A. Coles delivered this message to the Senate and the House of Representatives, and in both chambers it was read and tabled (JS description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1820-21, 5 vols. description ends , 3:462; JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1826, 9 vols. description ends , 5:152).

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    From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 28 February 1805
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    “From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 28 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0604. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 591.]

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