Meriwether Lewis delivered this nomination to the Senate on 14 Feb. and the next day it was read and ordered to lie for consideration. A week later it was referred to Uriah Tracy, Robert Wright, and Dwight Foster, the same committee considering eight of TJ’s nominations of 2 Feb. The Senate approved the appointment of Vail (vale) on 1 Mch. (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States…to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 1:442–3, 445, 446).