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Authorization for Tench Coxe, 20 July 1802

ENCLOSURE
Authorization for Tench Coxe

Should the Secretary of the Treasury find it adviseable The Supervisor of the district of Pensylvania is hereby authorised to act as Collector of the internal revenues for the city and county of Pensylvania. Given under my hand at Washington this 20th. day of July 1802.

Th: Jefferson

MS (DLC); in TJ’s hand; with Gallatin’s instructions to the commissioner of the revenue written below TJ’s signature and forwarded (see below). PrC (DLC).

COUNTY OF PENSYLVANIA: that is, Philadelphia.

On 25 July, Gallatin wrote William Miller requesting that he inform Tench Coxe that the president had authorized him “to continue to exercise the office of collector of the internal revenues” after he commenced his new office on 1 Aug. (RC in DLC; written on same sheet as TJ’s authorization above; addressed by Gallatin: “The Commissioner of the revenue”; endorsed).

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    Authorization for Tench Coxe, 20 July 1802
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    Gallatin, Albert
    Date
    20 July 1802

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    “Authorization for Tench Coxe, 20 July 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-38-02-0098-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 38, 1 July–12 November 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, p. 110.]

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