Edward Hempstead to Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., 15 July 1816

Edward Hempstead to Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.

St. Louis July 15. 1816.

Dr sir,

I wish through you to have it Stated that there has been no person authorized to act as Governor in this Territory for Several Weeks. The term for which Governor Clark was appointed expired Some weeks Since, and if re appointed the Commission has not reached here: or if not re-appointed, I presume it has been over looked: as no one here doubts the disposition of the Government to continue him in Office. With much esteem & respect Dr sir yr ob ser

EHempstead.

RC (DNA: RG 59, Acceptances, 1813–20). Redirected to JM by James Monroe, with his note: “For the President. govr Clarks’s commissn. has expird.” A clerk’s docket reads: “Comn. sent to President 13h Augt. 1816.”

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Title: Edward Hempstead to Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., 15 July 1816
Author: Hempstead, Edward
Recipient: Meigs, Return Jonathan Jr.
Date: 15 July 1816

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Cite as: “Edward Hempstead to Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., 15 July 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0211. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 204.]