James Madison Papers

From James Madison to the Senate, 8 April 1816

To the Senate

April 8th. 1816

I nominate

Jacob D. Williamson, of Virginia, to be principal Assessor of the 8th collection district of the same State, in the place of John Stephenson, resigned.

Hasting Jennings, of South Carolina, to be Collector of direct taxes and internal duties, for the 8th collection district of the same State; William Langley having declined the appointment.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14A–B1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate approved the nominations on 11 Apr. 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 3:43).

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 8 April 1816
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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 8 April 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0371. [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. 347.]

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