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From James Madison to the Senate, 26 February 1816

To the Senate

February 26th. 1816.

I nominate,

William Little, of Massachusetts, to be principal assessor of the 11th Collection district of the same state.

Richard Douglass, of Ohio, to be principal assessor for the 3d Collection district of the same state in the place of James Denny deceased.

Nicholas Scales, of Tennessee, to be principal assessor of the 5th Collection district of the same state in the place [of] John R Bedford resigned.

George W. Hardwicke, of Georgia, to be Collector for the 3d collection district of Georgia in the place of D.W. Crawford, resigned.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate approved the nominations of Douglass and Scales on 27 Feb. 1816 and those of Little and Hardwicke on 6 Mar. 1816 (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:32–33, 34).

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 26 February 1816
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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 26 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0270. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 248.]

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