Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 8 October 1804
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting
1804. Oct. 8. Present the 4. Secretaries. Yrujo’s and C. Pinckney’s communicns submitted.
Cevallos’s 1st. condn as to giving time for commencement of Commissn. all agree we may fix a day with Yrujo not exceeding 6. months hence. say nothing which shall weaken our claims under the 6th. article, and repeat the explanation of the 4th. & 11th. article of the act of Congress already given him, and communicate the act of the President defining the district.
a letter to be written to Yrujo on the impropriety of his publishing his letter to the Secy. of state.
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 131:22677); entirely in TJ’s hand; follows, on same sheet, Notes on a Cabinet Meeting of 26 May.
Yrujo’s and C. Pinckney’s communicns: see Madison to TJ, 28 Aug., and List of Letters Received from Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 25 Sep.
act of the President: see Proclamation Establishing the District of Mobile, 30 May.
No letter from either TJ or the State Department to Irujo regarding the impropriety of his publishing his 3 Oct. letter to Madison has been found. See Madison to TJ, 2 Oct.