From James Madison to the Senate, 8 January 1816
To the Senate
8th January 1816.
Commissions having issued during the recess of the Senate to the following persons I now nominate them to the offices respectively annexed to their names.
James Madison
RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM, listing forty-six appointments (printed in
3:19–20).