James Madison Papers

Willink and Van Staphorst to James Madison, 16 June 1803 (Abstract)

§ From Willink and Van Staphorst

16 June 1803, Amsterdam. Acknowledge JM’s letter of 19 Apr.1 informing them that $17,887.50 is “about to be remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury” and instructing them to apply it “in certain proportions to three distinct accounts of the Diplomatic fund, Captures, and Seamen.” “We shall act accordingly and shall … remit semi-annual accounts of the same.”

RC and duplicate (DNA: RG 59, Letters Received from Bankers). RC 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 31 Aug.

1See JM to Rufus King or Christopher Gore, 19 Apr. 1803 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 4:539 and n.).

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