21From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 9 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 November 1802, Department of State. “In answer to your letter of the 3d. instant on the subject of Mr. Shorts accounts, the enclosed extracts will shew it to have been already decided by the opinion of this Department, that the United States were responsible to Mr. Short, in the case which you state; notwithstanding the credit claimed by Mr. Randolph in the suit of the United States...
22From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 13 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 November 1802, Department of State. Encloses an estimate of expenses for 1803. Letterbook copy and copy of enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). Letterbook copy 1 p. For enclosure, see n. 1. Estimates included in the three-page enclosure were $51,050 for salaries, contingent nonpersonal expenses, and ministerial outfits for London, Paris, and Madrid; $11,500 for salaries and contingent...
23From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 17 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1803, Department of State. Asks that Gallatin cause a certified statement to be made under the Treasury Department seal “comprehending all such sums of money as have been paid by the United States for the contingent expences of the Board of Commissioners which sat at Philadelphia under the 6th. Article of the British Treaty, together with what was paid as salary to the fifth...
24From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 8 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 February 1803, Department of State. Asks that a $200 warrant be issued in the name of Peleg Wadsworth and charged to Richard O’Brien’s salary account. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. This was presumably O’Brien’s annuity to his mother ( PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va.,...
25From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 3 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 March 1803, Department of State. Requests a warrant for $150 in favor of Meeker, Denman, and Company of Philadelphia to satisfy a draft of William Henry Harrison for seals for the Indiana Territory, to be issued and paid out of the appropriation for contingent expenses of the State Department. RC ( InHi ); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM.
26From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 5 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 March 1803, Department of State. Requests a warrant for $2,000 in favor of John Davidson, who is holding a bill drawn on JM by Simpson at Tangier. The warrant is to be charged to the appropriation for Simpson’s salary. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
27From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 25 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 March 1803, Department of State, Washington. Asks that a warrant for $2,520 be issued on the appropriation for the relief of seamen in favor of James Davidson, Jr., assignee of George W. Erving. Davidson holds a bill of exchange drawn by Erving, who is to be charged on the treasury books. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
28From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 6 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose estimates of the sums necessary to be remitted to London and Amsterdam respectively, for nine month’s service, commencing from the beginning of the present year: you will be pleased therefore to cause the remittances to be made; that destined for London to be placed in the hands of the Depository of the Treasury funds, and the other in the hands of Messrs:...
29From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 18 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 April 1803, Department of State. “In answer to your letter of the 12th. inst.… I approve of the House of Sir F. Baring & Co. as Bankers of the monies to be remitted to London for objects connected with the Department of State, so long as they remain the bankers of the Treasury Department in their general transactions. The accounts of former reimbursements for the expense of prize-causes, in...
30From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 28 May 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 May 1803, Department of State . Requests that a warrant for $600 be issued “on the appropriation for the contingent expences of the Department of State … in favor of Christopher S. Thom he to be charged and held accountable for the same.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. JM requested that Gallatin issue additional warrants, in amounts ranging from $190 to $43,000, for...