Circular Letter to State Governors, 27 December 1811

Circular Letter to State Governors

27 december 1811

Sir

I have the honor to forward to you a copy of “an act for the appointment of representatives among the several states, according to the third enumeration.”1 As the subject will necessarily engage the attention of the legislature of your state at an early period, I have thought it proper to hasten the transmission of this document to you, And Am, &c.

James Madison.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL).

1. U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends , 2:669.

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Title: Circular Letter to State Governors, 27 December 1811
Author: Madison, James
Recipient: State Governors
Date: 27 December 1811

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Cite as: “Circular Letter to State Governors, 27 December 1811,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0104. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 5 November 1811–9 July 1812 and Supplement 5 March 1809 – 19 October 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Jewel L. Spangler, Ellen J. Barber, Martha J. King, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 93.]