61From James Madison to the Senate, 10 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Peter B. Porter, of New York to be commissioner on the part of the United States for carrying into effect the 4th Article of the Treaty of Peace and Amity, concluded on the 24th Decr: 1814, between the United States and His Brittannic Majesty. John Holmes, of Massachusetts to be commissioner on the part of the United States for carrying into effect the 6th Article of said Treaty....
62From James Madison to the Senate, 15 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate Joseph Bartholemew, of Indiana Territory, to be Major General in the Militia of the same Territory. James Dill, of Indiana Territory to be a Brigadier General of Militia of the said Territory. Walter Wilson, of Indiana Territory, to be a Brigadier General of Militia in the same Territory. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed...
63From James Madison to the Senate, 15 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
An Error having taken place in the nominations, confirmed by the Senate, of commissioners on the part of the United States for carrying into effect certain Articles of the Treaty, concluded with Great Britain, on the twenty fourth day of December one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, I now nominate, Peter B. Porter, of Newyork, to be Commissioner on the part of the United States for...
64From James Madison to the Senate, 17 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, John M. Forbes of Newyork, to be Consul General for Denmark, his consulate to embrace also Meacklenburg and Schwerin, and the Prussian Ports of Stettin and Stralsund. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . The Senate approved the nomination on 22 Jan. 1816 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive...
65From James Madison to the Senate, 22 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate John Taylor, of Mississippi Territory, to be a member of the Legislative Council of the same Territory, in the place of Thomas Barnes, resigned. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . The Senate approved the nomination on 23 Jan. 1816 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of...
66From James Madison to the Senate, 25 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Commissions having been issued during the recess of Congress to the following persons as Collectors of direct taxes and internal duties, I now nominate them to the Collectorships respectively annexed to their names. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand. Of the appended list of fifteen names in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM , the Senate...
67From James Madison to the Senate, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Commissions having issued during the recess of the Senate to the following persons, I now nominate them to the Offices respectively annexed to their names. … RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, followed by a list, in a clerk’s hand, of nineteen nominees to be principal assessors of the revenue throughout the nation, signed by JM . The...
68From James Madison to the Senate, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Josiah Simpson, of the Mississippi territory, to be one of judges of the same territory. Herman Visger, of New York, to be consul at Bristol in Great Britain. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . The Senate confirmed the nominations on 9 and 28 Feb. 1816 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive...
69From James Madison to the Senate, 2 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, John Page Junr, of New Hampshire to be principal assessor of the 5th Collection District of the same state in the place of Abel Merrile, resigned. William Tolley, of New York to be principal assessor of the 27th Collection district of the same state in the place of Andrew Backus, removed out of the District. William Roberts, of Maryland, to be principal assessor of the 2d...
70From James Madison to the Senate, 9 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Washington Boyd, of the District of Columbia, whose commission as Marshal has expired, to be Marshal of the said District for the term of four years. Thomas Morris, of Newyork to be a Commissioner for carrying into effect the fifth Article of the treaty of Peace and Amity between the United States and His Britannic Majesty concluded on the twenty fourth day of December one thousand...