From James Madison to S. Smith and Buchanan, 19 January 1805 (Abstract)

§ To S. Smith and Buchanan

19 January 1805, Department of State. “In answer to your letter of the 9th. inst. [not found] I have the honor to inform you that all the articles of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between the United States, and Great Britain, except the first ten are and since two years from the signature of the preliminaries of the late peace have been expired.”1

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

1. For the expiration of Articles 11 through 28 of the Jay treaty, see Miller, Treaties description begins Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (8 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1930–48). description ends , 2:264. For an earlier inquiry from Smith and Buchanan, see PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (7 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 7:515.

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Title: From James Madison to S. Smith and Buchanan, 19 January 1805 (Abstract)
Author: Madison, James
Recipient: S. Smith and Buchanan
Date: 19 January 1805

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Cite as: “From James Madison to S. Smith and Buchanan, 19 January 1805 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0522. [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, p. 493.]

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