James Madison Papers

Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress, 5 February 1807 (Abstract)

Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress, 5 February 1807 (Abstract)

§ Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress. 5 February 1807, Washington. “The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund respectfully report to Congress as follows—

“That the measures which have been authorized by the Board subsequent to their Report of the 5th. of February 1806,1 are fully detailed in the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury to this Board, dated the fourth day of the present month, and in the statements therein referred to, which are herewith transmitted and prayed to be received as part of this Report.”2

RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 46, Report from the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, 9A-F6). RC 1 p.; signed by George Clinton, John Marshall, JM, Albert Gallatin, and Caesar A. Rodney. RC and enclosures 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 , Finance, 2:227–37. For enclosures, see n. 2.

1PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 11:273.

2The enclosures (26 pp.) comprised a copy of Gallatin to the commissioners, 4 Feb. 1807, and its enclosures. In the letter Gallatin reported a year-end balance for 1806 of $10,631,618.52, listed expenses and statements of accounts, and provided the minutes of a 28 April 1806 meeting of the commissioners, which JM attended. For the minutes of the meeting, see PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 11:514–15.

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