James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Robert Smith, 14 February 1810 (Abstract)

§ From Robert Smith

14 February 1810, Department of State. Relays to JM for transmittal to House of Representatives copies of various documents related to the House resolution of 5 Feb. requesting the orders and decrees of France and Great Britain “violating the lawful Commerce and Neutral Rights of the United States, except such parts, as may, in his Judgment, require secrecy.”

RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 2 pp. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith. For enclosures, see JM’s 17 Feb. message to the House. Printed in ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States ... (38 vols.; Washington, 1832-61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 3:341–43.

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    To James Madison from Robert Smith, 14 February 1810 (Abstract)
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    Smith, Robert
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    Madison, James
    Date
    14 February 1810

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    “To James Madison from Robert Smith, 14 February 1810 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0283. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 230.]

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