James Madison Papers

From James Madison to the Senate, 25 January 1816

To the Senate

January 25th 1816

Commissions having been issued during the recess of Congress to the following persons as Collectors of direct taxes and internal duties, I now nominate them to the Collectorships respectively annexed to their names.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand. Of the appended list of fifteen names in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM, the Senate confirmed three on 29 Jan. 1816 and five others on 5 Feb. 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 3:26, 28).

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 25 January 1816
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    Madison, James
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    25 January 1816

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 25 January 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0186. [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. 187.]

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