From James Madison to Congress, 4 December 1809 (Abstract)
§ To Congress
4 December 1809. Transmits report of the secretary of the navy referred to in the annual message of 29 Nov.
RC and enclosures, two copies (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages; and DNA: RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 11A-E7). Each RC 1 p., in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. House copy dated by JM; Senate copy undated. Received by both houses on 5 Dec. Senate copy read and tabled; House copy referred to the Ways and Means Committee (Naval Affairs, 1:201–5. For enclosures, see Paul Hamilton to JM, 1 Dec. 1809, and n.
, 11th Cong., 2d sess., 480, 694). Printed in ,