James Madison Papers

From James Madison to William Payne, 11 January 1804 (Abstract)

§ To William Payne

11 January 1804, Department of State. “As the laws of the last session requiring that deeds for Georgia lands of a description to be recorded in this Department should have been presented for that purpose previously to the 1st. inst.1 allows of no descretion to admit them afterwards, I have the honor to return the one you enclosed to me a few days ago, and to inform you that it is excluded by the limitation.”

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). 1 p.

1. Section 8 of the 3 Mar. 1803 “Act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee” allotted lands for unconfirmed claims in the disputed Georgia Yazoo territory provided they “shall have, on or before the first day of January next, been exhibited by the claimants to the Secretary of State, and recorded in books to be kept in his office” (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends , 2:232–33).

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    From James Madison to William Payne, 11 January 1804 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    Payne, William
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    11 January 1804

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    “From James Madison to William Payne, 11 January 1804 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0292. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, p. 334.]