To Thomas Jefferson from Ninian Pinkney, 29 March 1804
From Ninian Pinkney
Annapolis March 29. 1804
Sir,
The Governor did himself the honor of transmitting to your Excellency some Months since, a Copy of a law respecting the manner of choosing a President and Vice President of the United States. As it received its authenticity under my direction, I will thank you to inform me whether form has been sufficiently attended to, in case that it has not an opportunity may be afforded of transmitting another.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Excellency’s Most Obed: Servant
Ninian Pinkney
Clerk of the Executive Council of Maryland
RC (ViW: Tucker-Coleman Collection); endorsed by TJ as received 6 Apr. and so recorded in SJL.
Ninian Pinkney (1771-1824) was the younger brother of American claims commissioner William Pinkney. He served as clerk of the Maryland Executive Council from the mid-1790s until his death (O. Hutton, Life of the Right Reverend William Pinkney, D.D., LL.D., Fifth Bishop of Maryland [Washington, D.C., 1890], 1-3; Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser, 30 June 1796; Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser, 27 Sep. 1824).
For Governor Robert Bowie’s letter to TJ transmitting Maryland’s ratification of the Twelfth Amendment, see Vol. 42:183-4.