45891To Thomas Jefferson from Jesse Franklin and David Stone, 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
We have Received from the Governor of the State of North Carolina the inclosed Act of the Legislature of that State with a Resolution instructing us to endeavor to have a Road joining the one contemplated in the Act established thro’ the Country of the Cherokee Indians. It does not occur to us, there is any mode by which that object may be effected but by Treaty with those Indians, we...
45892To Thomas Jefferson from Anne Cary Randolph, 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter on the 13 of Feb: & am much obliged to you for it & the poetry also I will very gladly undertake to write to you evry post Jefferson is going to a very good latin school in the neighbourhood Mama is now in very good health & her apetite is quite restored she has never been out yet for fear of catching cold all the children send their love to you & Francis & we are all...
45893From Thomas Jefferson to George Read, Jr., 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Read and thanks him for his note on the subject of the Prohibition. he suggests for his consideration at the same time the English process of Habeas corpus cum causâ, which not only stops proceeding below but removes the cause to the superior court. this part of the English law may have been adopted in Delaware. it was so in Virginia, and in daily...
45894From Thomas Jefferson to Philippe Reibelt, 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of yesterday is recieved, as also the maps of Rome, & that of the 4. quarters of the earth which I had desired. Cellarius I have already, & shall therefore return. Lamarck shall be examined. If you have any more copies of Catineau’s Dictionnaire de poche, I shall be glad of 2. more for particular friends. I observe in mr Fleischer’s Annuaire de la librairie pa. 477. les Fables de...
45895From Thomas Jefferson to Abner Ritchie, 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved the night before last only, your letter of the 9th. the subject being entirely new to me, I have referred it to the Superintendant of the city to report facts. were I to hazard a primâ facie thought on the subject, it would be that the United states have no interest in the question & should take no part in it. the question seems to lie between the heirs of Byrne & Beatty, which of...
45896To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. inst. was recieved here on the 11th. inclosing an order on the Bank of U.S. for five hundred dollars, & which I accordingly carry to your credit. Under the desire you formerly communicated to me I am endeavouring to bring up our acct to the present time—I am a bad hand at business of this kind & it therefore costs me more trouble perhaps than it would another—When the...
45897X. To Robert Smith, 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to give the inclosed a strict revisal, and to suggest on a separate paper any alterations which occur to you as for the better. the sooner you can return it the more thankfully will the kindness be acknoleged. RC ( CtY , 1944); on verso of an address sheet with canceled “The President of the U. States” in Jacob Wagner’s hand; addressed: “The Secretary of the Navy.” Not...
45898From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 February 1805 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Lecture on Tobacco which I received this morning and have read with much pleasure. Having been a great Offender in the Use of this Weed in some parts of my life, I may not be an unpreju di ced Judge: but I know that may be borne, without any Sensible Inconvenience. I lived many years in France and in England and after my return in America, without any Use of the Pipe or...
45899From James Madison to the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Abstract), 13 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
13 February 1805, Department of State . “In pursuance of a Resolution of the House of Representatives on the 5th. inst. I have the honor through you to lay before them, ‘an abstract of all the evidences of title to lands claimed under any act or pretended act of the State of Georgia passed or pretended to be passed in the years 1789 and 1795, recorded in the office of this Department,’ with...
45900Opinion of Alexander J. Dallas, 13 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Can a Prohibition issue from a Federal to a State Court? 1. The judicial authority of the United States, can only be exercised in such Courts, upon such subjects, and in such manner, as the Acts of Congress prescribe, under the limitations contained in the Constitution. 2. The judicial authority of the United States is sometimes exclusive of the judicial authority of the individual States,...