20 February 1811, Washington. Encloses a resolution of the General Assembly of Kentucky “respecting the extinguishment of the Indian claim to the Territory lying South of River Tennessee, & within the limits of the Southern boundary of Kentucky.” Expresses confidence that the executive will make “reasonable exertions” to extinguish the claim. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , L-147:5)....
2From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 21 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill, entitled “An Act incorporating the protestant Episcopal Church in the Town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia,” I now return the Bill to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections: Because the Bill exceeds the rightful authority, to which Governments are limited by the essential distinction between Civil...