James Madison to Congress, 9 March 1816

To Congress

March 9th. 1816.

I lay before Congress a statement of the Militia of the United States, according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.1

James Madison

RC, two copies, and enclosure (DNA: RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 14A–E6; and DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 14A–D1). Each RC in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. RC and enclosure 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 , Military Affairs, 1:636–38. For enclosure, see n. 1.

1. The enclosure (1 large folio) forwarded by JM was an account of the “latest returns” of militia from the states and territories, prepared by Daniel Parker on 1 Mar. 1816. The returns ranged in date from 1809 to 1815 and totaled 748,566.

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Title: James Madison to Congress, 9 March 1816
Author: Madison, James
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Date: 9 March 1816

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Cite as: “James Madison to Congress, 9 March 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0307. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 281.]

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