James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Samuel W. Dana, 14 January 1805 (Abstract)

§ From Samuel W. Dana

14 January 1805, “Committee Room.” Requests information on the following inquiry: “What are the several descriptions of claims, the evidences of which have been exhibited and recorded in the Office of State, under the eighth section of the act of Congress, of 3d. March 1803, relative to the lands ‘south of the State of Tennessee?[‘]”1

RC (DNA: RG 59, ML); Tr (DNA: RG 233, Transcribed Reports of the Committee on Claims, 8C-A1). RC 2 pp. Printed in ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1832–61). description ends , Public Lands (1832 ed.), 1:218.

1. For section 8 of the act dealing with Spanish and British land grants in the territory acquired by the United States in the Mississippi Territory, see 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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    To James Madison from Samuel W. Dana, 14 January 1805 (Abstract)
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    Dana, Samuel W.
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    Madison, James
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    14 January 1805

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    “To James Madison from Samuel W. Dana, 14 January 1805 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0504. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 8, 1 September 1804 – 31 January 1805 and supplement 1776 – 23 June 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, pp. 476–477.]

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