261To James Madison from John Hopkins, 3 January 1797 (Madison Papers)
By direction of General Jonathan Clarke I enclose you a draft for Two Hundred Dollars, the receipt of which you will be pleased to acknowledge to him to me. I am with great respect Sir Your Most Obt Servant RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. Jonathan Clark (1750–1811), brother of George Rogers Clark, attended Donald Robertson’s school in King and Queen County and served as lieutenant colonel in the...
262Address of the House of Representatives to the President, [6 December] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The Representatives of the people of the United States, in meeting you for the first time since you have been again called by an unanimous suffrage to your present station, find an occasion which they embrace, with no less sincerity than promptitude, for expressing to you their congratulations on so distinguished a testimony of public approbation; and their entire confidence in the purity &...
263Report on the Financial Administration of Robert Morris, [16 February] 1791 (Madison Papers)
That it being evidently impossible for the Committee to examine in detail, the public accounts under the administration, and unnecessary, as the same have been examined and passed in the proper offices, they have thought their duty would be best discharged by obtaining from the Register, the statements of the receipts and expenditures, and other extracts from the public records, herewith...
264Address of the House of Representatives to the President, [21 November] 1794 (Madison Papers)
The House of Representatives calling to mind the blessings enjoyed by the people of the United States, and especially the happiness of living under Constitutions and laws which rest on their Authority alone, could not learn with other emotions than those you have expressed, that any part of our fellow Citizens should have shewn themselves capable of an insurrection. We feel with you the...
265Address of the House of Representatives to the President, [10 December] 1790 (Madison Papers)
The Representatives of the People of the United States have taken into consideration your Address to the two houses at the opening of the present Session of Congress. We share in the satisfaction inspired by the prospects which continue to be so auspicious to our public affairs. The blessings resulting from the smiles of Heaven on our Agriculture, the rise of public Credit, with the farther...
266Address of the House of Representatives to the President, [27 October] 1791 (Madison Papers)
In receiving your address at the opening of the present Session, the House of Representatives have taken an ample share in the feelings inspired by the actual prosperity and flattering prospects of our Country: And whilst, with becoming gratitude to Heaven, we ascribe this happiness to the true source from which it flows, we behold with an animating pleasure, the degree in which the...
267Address of the House of Representatives to the President, [5 May] 1789 (Madison Papers)
The Representatives of the People of the United States present their congratulations on the event by which your fellow-citizens have attested the pre-eminence of your merit. You have long held the first place in their esteem: you have often received tokens of their affection. You now possess the only proof that remained of their gratitude for your services, of their reverence for your wisdom,...
268Address of the House of Representatives to the President, [ca. 14 December] 1795 (Madison Papers)
As the Reps. of the people of the U. S. we can not but participate in the strongest sensibility to every blessing which they enjoy; and cheerfully join in the gratitude which is due to the great Source from which every national as well as personal good proceeds. A final & formal termination of the distressing war which has ravaged our N. Western Frontier, will be an event which must afford a...
269Report on John Churchman’s Petition, [6 January] 1791 (Madison Papers)
That the said memorialist has for his principal objects—First, to be enabled to perform, at the expense of the United States (estimated at about three thousand dollars) a voyage with two vessels, of about 130 tons each to Baffin’s bay, where he supposes he will be able to verify his theory concerning the magnetic variation laid before Congress, by exploring more precisely the principles and...
270To James Madison from Joseph Howell, 21 November 1792 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed papers left with me, I have examined and made the necessary Notes thereon. I am Sir Your obedt. servt. RC ( DLC ). Addressed by Howell and docketed by JM. Enclosures not found.