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To James Madison from Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., 4 July 1805 (Abstract)

From Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., 4 July 1805 (Abstract)

§ From Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. 4 July 1805, Saint Charles. “I had the honour of receiving yours of the 27th. of March [not found] enclosing a Commission to me as one of the Judges of the Territory of Louisiana.1 Having accepted the Commission—and taken the necessary Oaths before the Governour I shall endeavour to discharge the Duties of the Office.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, TP, Louisiana, vol. 1). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 31 Aug.

1. Meigs’s commission is printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Louisiana-Missouri, description begins Clarence Carter et al., eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States (28 vols.; Washington, 1934–75). description ends description begins Clarence Carter et al., eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States (28 vols.; Washington, 1934–75). description ends 13:100.

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    To James Madison from Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., 4 July 1805 (Abstract)
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    Meigs, Return Jonathan Jr.
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    Madison, James
    Date
    4 July 1805

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    “To James Madison from Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., 4 July 1805 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-10-02-0013. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 10, 1 July 1805–31 December 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014, p. 12.]

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