19621Circular Letter from the Governor of Virginia, 28 March 1800 (Madison Papers)
You will receive herewith pamphlets, the proportion allotted to the County of containing the report of a select Committee of the House of Delegates, made at the last Session of the General Assembly, on the answers of Several States, with copies of those Answers, to certain resolutions of the General Assembly of the 21st. December, 1798. on the Alien and sedition laws of the United States,...
19622Circular Letter from John Dawson, 19 July 1798 (Madison Papers)
After a session of somewhat more than eight months, congress adjourned on Monday last, to meet on the first Monday in December. The senate was detained on Executive business; and have adjourned to day. Many laws have been past, a list of which I enclose to you, and send a copy of those which are printed to your court for the use of the county—Some of these are highly important, and claim your...
19623Circular Letter from the American Board of Agriculture, 30 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1803, Washington. Articles 7 and 8 of the board’s constitution state that each member of the committee of correspondence shall “consider it his duty to collect information and transmit it to the Secretary (of State)” and that any agricultural society in the U.S. “having the same objects as this Board” shall be entitled to membership. Recommends opening “a subscription towards a fund...
19624Memorandum [from Albert Gallatin?], 13 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
The difficulties suggested by Col. Taylor in his letter to the President of the 26h. of May last, are not of a recent date, but have been a source of much inquietude to those who are particularly interested, for many years past. By the cession of the state of Virginia made to the United States in the year 1784, of the Territory North West of the River Ohio, all that tract of land lying between...
19625Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 1 April] 1802 (Madison Papers)
The original vouchers to J. Swan’s account (my office being so weak at this moment that I cannot have them immediately transcribed) are sent herewith. Mr Wagner will be pleased to give a receipt to the Register for the papers. It appears thereby that Van Staphorst & Cie. credited the United States for the sale of the bullion on the 5th May 1796—that it was only 30th Septer 1796 that Mr Swan...
19626Memorandum from Thomas Leiper, ca. 29 December 1794 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Ca. 29 December 1794. Opposes the provisions of the 1794 statute that imposed duties on snuff. “The Excise is excessively high.” Philadelphia tobacconists “are of the opinion it will introduce Smuggling from Great Britain,” where drawbacks encourage reexport of snuff manufactured there from American tobacco. Urges that the tax be “laid direct upon our Mills”—instead of on the product—“which of...
19627Enclosure: Notes on Bonds, [before 13 May 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
It is certainly unnecessary here to shew that there is no distinction to be taken between debt due on bond with a condition expressed to pay principal and interest, and debts due on simple account or otherwise, whereon it was the usage to pay an interest, because there exists not in reason any difference between the two cases: for obligation results from the act of contracting , not from the...
19628Enclosure: Circular from Hezekiah Niles to Prominent Subscribers, 31 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
After revolving upon some suitable apology for intruding myself with the following statement and request, I have thought it most respectful to decline offering any, except to observe that if ought appears to your better judgement improper in either, that you will attribute it to any thing else than a willingness on my part to act so, in any respect towards you. For six years ending with the...
19629Circular Letter from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
Coming all of us into Executive office new, and unfamiliar with the course of business previously practised, it was not to be expected we should in the first outset adopt, in every part a line of proceeding so perfect as to admit no amendment. The mode & degrees of communication particularly between the President & heads of departments have not been practised exactly on the same scale in all...
19630Memorandum from Edmund Randolph, [ca. December] 1799 (Madison Papers)
These “hasty notes” were most probably replies to queries (not found) that JM had posed to Edmund Randolph sometime during the early days of the Virginia General Assembly session in 1799. In his research for that part of the Report of 1800 that dealt with the common law, JM no doubt surveyed the handful of important court decisions that supported the doctrine that the English common law was...