From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 13 June 1804 (Abstract)
§ To Tobias Lear
13 June 1804, Department of State. “The credit given to you with Sir Francis Baring & Co. for four thousand five hundred pounds Stg., as expressed in the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, of which a copy is enclosed,1 is in lieu of the remittance of 20,000 dollars promised in my general letter by this conveyance.”2