41From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 2 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 December 1803, Department of State . Requests a warrant for $22,222.22 against the appropriation for Barbary negotiations in favor of James Davidson, holder of the enclosed bill drawn upon JM by James Leander Cathcart to the order of Degen, Purviance, and Company of Leghorn. The sum is to be charged to Cathcart’s account. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
42From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 15 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 December 1803, Department of State. “Be pleased to issue your Warrant on the appropriation for the Contingent expences of the Department of State, for two hundred dollars, in favor of Christopher S. Thom: he to be charged and held accountable for the same.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. JM made a similar request for four hundred dollars on 7 Feb. 1804 (ibid.).
43From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 15 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
The Convention with Spain of the 11th. August 1802, being ratified by the President, I have the honor to enclose an estimate, for a year, of the expense necessary for carrying it into effect, as far as relates to the Board of Commissioners to be organized in virtue thereof, at Madrid, including the compensation of a Secretary, Clerks and an Agent for the United States &c. Should any...
44From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 11 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 March 1804, Department of State. Asks that a warrant for $200 “be issued in favor of Peleg Wadsworth … to satisfy a Bill for that sum drawn by Mrs. Rebecca Arundel, mother of Richard OBrien…, to be paid out of the fund applicable to the salaries of the Consuls of the U. States with the Barbary Powers, and to be charged to Richard OBrien.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
45From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 24 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 March 1804. “I inclose a communication from Mr Merry, which the P. wishes to go to you, & from you to such member & with such suggestions as may be proper; rather than make it the subject of a Message under present circumstances.” RC ( DLC : Joseph H. Nicholson Papers). 1 p.; marked “ private ”; misdated 1803 by JM. Addressee not indicated; identified as Gallatin on the basis of Gallatin to...
46From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 26 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 March 1804, Department of State. “I have the honor to enclose, for your information, a copy of a letter, which I am about to transmit to Mr. Livingston at Paris; and to request that the remittance therein mentioned of eighteen thousand five hundred and fifty five dollars and fifty four Cents, may be made out of the appropriation for carrying the Treaty and Conventions with France into...
47From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 30 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1804, Department of State. Asks that a warrant be issued for $2,100 to cover two bills drawn by W. C. C. Claiborne on JM, one of 24 Jan. and the other of 14 Feb. 1804. The warrant is to be paid out of funds “for the expences of the civil Government of Louisiana” and charged to Claiborne. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.; printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Orleans...
48From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 11 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter I propose to write to Mr. Erving, Agent of Claims in London, and the draft of a notification to be published in the Newspapers, as therein expressed. The transfer of the monies received on account of the adventures of Masters and Seamen of captured Vessels, for which restitution has been decreed, from London to this City, in the manner explained,...
49From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 12 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 April 1804, Department of State. “I have the honor to inform you, that on the 23d. February last, by direction of the Board of Commissioners under the 7th. Art. of the British Treaty, who were then about to terminate their functions, the sum of £526.4.9, being the balance due the U:States for monies advanced on account of that board, was paid over to Mr. Monroe our Minister at London.”...
50From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 22 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 April 1804, Department of State. “Finding myself without information respecting the conclusion or progress of the reimbursements claimed from the British Government for advances made on account of the Commissioners under the 6th. article of the British Treaty, I have requested Mr. Monroe to prosecute it to a close and deposit what may be received with Sir Francis Baring & Co. subject to...