RC (DLC); partially dated; at foot of text: “The President of the U. States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on 22 Mch. 1804 and “Recievers & Register of Ohio” and so recorded in SJL. Enclosures: (1) Thomas Worthington to Gallatin, Senate Chamber, 21 Mch., recommending the appointment of Wyllys Silliman as register at Zanesville and Benjamin Tupper as receiver at Marietta, and informing Gallatin that John Smith and Jeremiah Morrow will name a person to fill the office of receiver at Zanesville (RC in DNA: RG 59, LAR; endorsed by TJ: “Tupper Benj. Recievr. public monies Marietta”). (2) Jared Mansfield to Gallatin, Marietta, 13 Feb., stating that his friend Griffin Greene, the postmaster at Marietta, wishes to be considered as a candidate “for some place under the Genl. Government”; Mansfield knows Greene to be “warmly Attached” to TJ’s administration and “very active in the Republican cause” (same; endorsed by TJ: “Greene Griffin to be Reciever or Register, Ohio”). (3) Probably Jeremiah Morrow to Gallatin, 21 Mch., recommending Silliman and Thomas Van Swearingen for appointment as register and receiver, respectively, at Zanesville; Morrow knows both men personally and believes they will discharge the duties of their offices with propriety (same).

law of the last session: Congress authorized the establishment of a land office at Zanesville as part of an omnibus law regulating military land grants enacted on 3 Mch. 1803 (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States … 1789 to March 3, 1845, Boston, 1855-56, 8 vols. description ends , 2:236-7).