Letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosures (DNA: RG 45, LSP); enclosures (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 13B–A3). Letterbook copy 1 p. The enclosures were prepared in the Navy Department for JM’s signature: enclosure A (1 p.) nominated U.S. Navy captains John Rodgers, Isaac Hull, and David Porter to form the Board of Navy Commissioners; enclosure B (1 p.) listed nine promotions in the navy; and enclosure C (2 pp.) listed twenty persons to be second lieutenants in the Marine Corps, including William Garrand, whose name JM corrected to William C. Garrard in a 3 Mar. 1815 message to the Senate (ibid.). Enclosure C also proposed that “John Todd of Pennsylvania” be appointed a navy purser; Todd was the nephew of Dolley Madison’s first husband, John Todd Jr. JM signed and dated the enclosures and forwarded them to the Senate on 27 Feb. 1815, with the added note on enclosure A in Edward Coles’s hand: “as authorized and provided for by an act entitled “An Act to alter and amend the several acts for establishing a Navy Department, by adding thereto a board of Commissioners” (ibid.; printed in Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 2:623).