From James Madison to the Senate, 23 January 1817
To the Senate
January 23d. 1817
I transmit to the Senate a report of the Acting Secretary of War, in compliance with their resolution of the 8th instant.1
James Madison
RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 14A–E6). RC in John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM.
1. JM enclosed a report from George Graham (see Graham to JM, 21 Jan. 1817), providing “the amount of money paid by the government of the United States for the services of militia during the late War” (3 pp.), accompanied by a one-page statement marked “A,” from Peter Hagner, dated 13 Jan. 1817, to the effect that the United States had advanced the sum of $1,316,917.67 to the states of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina (printed in , 1:666–67). , Military Affairs