31From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 18 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate the reverend Alexander McFarlan of Virginia to be a chaplain in the Navy. RC ( DNA : RG 46 , EPEN , 7th Cong., 1st sess.); addressed: “The honourable The President of the Senate”; endorsed by a Senate clerk. PrC ( DLC ). Alexander McFarlan of Virginia was recommended to Robert Smith by former Virginia congressman John Nicholas, whose letter to Smith of 7 Feb. 1802 stated that...
32From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 18 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In a message of the 2d. instant, I inclosed a letter from the Secretary at War on the subject of certain lands in the neighborhood of our military posts, on which it might be expedient for the legislature to make some provisions. a letter recently recieved from the Governor of Indiana presents some further views of the extent to which such provision may be needed. I therefore now transmit it...
33From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 24 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicate to both houses of Congress a Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of our Marine hospitals , which appear to require legislative attention . As connected with the same subject, I also inclose information respecting the situation of our seamen and boatmen frequenting the port of New Orleans, and suffering there from sickness & the want of accomodation. there is...
34From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
No occasion having arisen, since the last account rendered by my predecessor, of making use of any part of the monies heretofore granted to defray the contingent charges of the government, I now transmit to Congress an official statement thereof to the 31st. day of December last, when the whole unexpended balance, amounting to 20,911. D 80 c was carried to the credit of the Surplus fund, as...
35From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 26 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Some statements have been lately recieved of the causes decided or depending in the courts of the Union, in certain states, supplementary, or corrective of those, from which was formed the general statement accompanying my message at the opening of the session. I, therefore, communicate them to Congress, with a report of the Secretary of State, noting their effect on the former statement, and...
36From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 1 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmit for the information of Congress letters recently recieved from our Consuls at Gibraltar and Algiers , presenting the latest view of the state of our affairs with the Barbary powers. The sums due to the government of Algiers are now fully paid up: and, of the gratuity which had been promised to that of Tunis , and was in course of preparation, a small portion only remains still to be...
37From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 22 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicate for information a copy of the speech of Arthur St. Clair , governor of the territory N.W. of the Ohio, delivered to the Convention assembled under the act of Congress for enabling that territory to form a constitution & for it’s admission into the union, which copy has been transmitted to me through authentic channels. This outrage on the justice and wisdom of the National...
38From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 15 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Gabriel Duval of Maryland to be Comptroller of the treasury of the US. vice John Steele resigned. William Peck of Rhodeisland whose office of Marshal of Rhode island expired on the 13th. instant to be reappointed Marshal of that district. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN , 7th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk; also endorsed at foot of text: “The Senate advise & Consent to Wm. Peck...
39From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 17 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate John Spence West , whose term as Marshal of North Carolina expired on the 10th. inst. to be reappointed Marshal of North Carolina. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN , 7th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PrC ( DLC ). Recorded in SJL with notation “nomn of West marshl N.C.” Meriwether Lewis brought TJ’s nomination of john spence west to the Senate on Monday, 20 Dec. The Senate...
40From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 27 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I lay before you a treaty which has been concluded between the state of New York and the Oneida Indians , for the purchase of lands within that state: One other between the same state and the Seneca Indians, for the purchase of other lands, within the same state: One other between certain individuals, stiled the Holland company with the Senecas for the exchange of certain lands in the same...