Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress, 5 February 1806 (Abstract)

§ Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress. 5 February 1806, Washington. “The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, respectfully report to Congress, as follows—

“That the measures which have been authorized by the Board, subsequent to their Report of 5th of February 1805,1 so far as the same have been completed, are fully detailed in the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury to this Board, dated the fourth day of the present month, and in the statements therein referred to, which are herewith transmitted & prayed to be received as part of this Report.”2

RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 46, Report from the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, 9A–F6). RC 1 p.; signed by George Clinton, John Marshall, JM, Albert Gallatin, and John Breckinridge. RC and enclosures printed in ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Finance, 2:172–84. For enclosures, see n. 2.

1. ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Finance, 2:120.

2. The enclosures (36 pp.) are Albert Gallatin to the commissioners, 4 Feb. 1806, with its enclosures. Gallatin reported that $9,762,621.73 remained in the fund at the end of 1805, listed expenses and income, and included supporting reports from various members of his department.

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Title: Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress, 5 February 1806 (Abstract)
Author: Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
Recipient: Congress
Date: 5 February 1806

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Cite as: “Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress, 5 February 1806 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0155. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 11, 1 January 1806–31 May 1806, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 273.]