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Resolution of the Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Washington, 18 July 1814

Resolution of the Aldermen and Common
Council of the City of Washington

July 18th. 1814.

Resolved unanimously by the board of Aldermen and board of Common Council of the City of Washington in joint meeting met—That the Mayor of the City—Elias B. Caldwell, Daniel Carroll of Dudn. Buller Cocke, Walter Jones Jr. & Thomas Monroe, be a Committee to carry to the President of the U.S. the expression of the Citizens of this City of their unprotected & defenceless state from menaced invasion and to solicit respectfully of the President to take such means for their early & effectual relief as in his judgement shall seem best.

R. C. Weightman
Prest. of the joint meeting.

Ms (DLC: Rives Collection, Madison Papers).

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    “Resolution of the Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Washington, 18 July 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0049. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 8, July 1814–18 February 1815 and supplement December 1779–18 April 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, pp. 45–46.]