From James Madison to Congress, 28 February 1810 (Abstract)
§ To Congress
28 February 1810. Transmits copies of the treaties concluded with the Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, Eel River, and Wea Indians “for the extinguishment of their title to the lands therein described.” Recommends implementing legislation.
RC and enclosures, two copies (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages; and DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, 11B-C1). Each RC 1 p., in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Received, read, and tabled by the House on 1 Mar. and by the Senate on 2 Mar. House copy referred to the Ways and Means Committee 3 Mar. JM signed the appropriations act for executing the Indian treaties on 1 May (16 Jan. and one of 25 Jan. 1810.
, 11th Cong., 2d sess., 589, 1469, 1479; , 2:607–8). For enclosures, see JM’s two presidential proclamations of