From James Madison to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 5 January 1802 (Abstract)

§ To the Speaker of the House of Representatives

5 January 1802, Department of State. In response to the 24 Dec. resolution of the House of Representatives,1 encloses a table of the comparative duties paid in British ports on goods imported there in American, foreign, and British vessels since 5 Jan. 1798.

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 233, Reports and Communications from the Secretary of State, 7A-E1.1); Tr (DNA: RG 233, Transcribed Reports and Communications from the Secretary of State, 5C-B1). RC 1 p.; in Wagner’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure 6 pp. RC and enclosure printed in ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Commerce and Navigation, 1:483–86.

1. John Beckley had sent JM a copy of the resolution extracted from the House journal (DNA: RG 59, ML).

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Title: From James Madison to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 5 January 1802 (Abstract)
Author: Madison, James
Recipient: Speaker of the House of Representatives
Date: 5 January 1802

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Cite as: “From James Madison to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 5 January 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0539. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 369.]

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