42051From James Madison to Louis F. Delesdernier, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Louis F. Delesdernier. 4 March 1806, Department of State. “I enclose an extract from the Gazette, stating under the head of St. John’s, 20 Jany. the condemnation at the Court of Vice Admiralty there of the Sloop Falmouth, which had been seized, in October last, by the Union Cutter, under the direction of a British officer of the Customs, for receiving plaster of Paris out of a British...
42052From James Madison to Thomas Dobson, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Thomas Dobson. 4 March 1806, Department of State. “I request the favor of you to state at what rate pr. half sheet, a reputable printer would undertake to print the laws of the present Session of Congress at Philadelphia, in the usual octavo form in which other Sessions appear; the number of copies to be 10,000. The object of this request is to test the price demanded for the printing...
42053To James Madison from William Lee, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Lee. 4 March 1806, Bordeaux. “By two Imperial Decrees dated the twenty second, and twenty fifth of last month, the importation into this country of White and printed Cottons, and muslins is prohibited: Cotton wool is henceforth to pay a duty of sixty francs, per decimal quintal, equal to thirty francs, on one hundred pounds, and Tobacco is hereafter to pay a duty, of two hundred...
42054To James Madison from James Maury, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 4 March 1806, Liverpool. “I had the honor of writing to you on the 31st: January. I have, in part, executed a bond agreeable to your instructions of 1st: July, which is sent to Mr. Christopher Johnston of Baltimore, who, after having the execution compleated by the insertion of the sureties, will forward it to you.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a...
42055To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Josef Yznardy. 4 March 1806, Cádiz. “I am just returned from Madrid to reside here, I have left Mr. Erving in good health, who has been received with the highest attention and politeness by the Prince of Peace, and Minister of State, with whom I have had various conferences respecting the pending affairs with the United States, and to the best of my believe their wishes are to establish...
42056To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with the receipt of your Letter of the 16. of January; and its enclosure has been delivered to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I have also received from the department of State, Commissions for four members of the Council; the fifth member is not yet notified to me—but I trust his Commission will arrive previous to the meeting of the Legislature, which will be on the...
42057To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Survey; 20 Townships of six miles square each, lay out one half of each Township into 100. acre lots, say 115 lots, in each Township—and in 20 Townships 2300 lots, of which, probably 2000 would be fit for settling.—give one lot to each able bodied white man of not more than thirty years of age, who shall within a reasonable time actually become a settler and shall continue to reside on said...
42058From Thomas Jefferson to Jay Marsh, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1st. instant informing me of your discovery of a method of converting iron into steel, is recieved. however desirable & useful improvements in the arts are to every nation, yet ours, by their constitution, has allowed no particular encouragement to be given but a patent securing for 14. years the exclusive benefit of his invention to the inventor. To this I must add that,...
42059To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Philip DePeyster writes me that John Lyle Esqr. is dead; that two Vessels, one in 24 days and the other in 28, have arrived at New York, with that News and that Captn. Jones of the Schooner Franklin was at his funeral. It is therefore that Mr. DePeyster requests me to write again to you, he says that he has wrote to the Secretary of State, Doctr Mitchel and Mr. Rumford. I am not acquainted...
42060To Thomas Jefferson from John Preston, 4 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty, to adress you on a subject which after making all possible inquiry, have not been able to obtain any information. Trusting, that, as you have it in your power, you will give yourself the trouble to satisfy anxious Freinds, and a disconsolate Mother, respecting James Gickie a young Lad, who went from this place October 1801—A John White of Albemarle Countie who went from...