331Execution of Treaties, [14 April] 1796 (Madison Papers)
On 31 March, Washington nominated commissioners for the implementation of articles 5, 6, and 7 of...
332Military and Naval Appropriations, [31 January] 1797 (Madison Papers)
The House went into a Committee of the Whole on a resolution calling for appropriations for the...
333Act respecting the Mint, [21 May] 1796 (Madison Papers)
The Senate bill respecting the Mint was passed on 20 May and received by the House. It was...
334Compensation for Members of Congress, [8 February] 1796 (Madison Papers)
On 16 December 1795 the House appointed a committee to report bills for compensating members of...
335Case of Randall and Whitney, [4 January] 1796 (Madison Papers)
After several members had testified as to the nature of their conversations with Randall and...
336Jay’s Treaty, [15 April] 1796 (Madison Papers)
After agreeing on 14 April to resolutions to implement the treaties with Algiers and the...
337Manumitted Slaves, [30 January] 1797 (Madison Papers)
Swanwick (Pennsylvania) presented the petition of four manumitted slaves from North Carolina,...
338Jay’s Treaty, [7 March] 1796 (Madison Papers)
After Washington proclaimed the Jay treaty to be ratified on 29 February and sent it to Congress...
339Post Offices and Post Roads, [2 February] 1797 (Madison Papers)
The House went into a Committee of the Whole on a bill for discontinuing and establishing various...
340Petition of John Storie, ca. 7 January 1796 (Madison Papers)
Document not found. Ca. 7 January 1796. Presented by JM to the House of Representatives, 7 Jan....
341Domestic Debt of the United States, [9 February] 1796 (Madison Papers)
On 3 February, Smith (South Carolina) reported a bill to extend until the end of the year the...
342Contested Election, [11 February] 1796 (Madison Papers)
On 8 December 1795 Matthew Lyon petitioned the House, protesting the election of Israel Smith...
343Deed of Sale, 29 July 1796 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 July 1796, Orange County, Virginia. Indenture by which Boswell Thornton and his wife Lucy of...
344Petition of Gilbert Dench, [11 January] 1797 (Madison Papers)
The House went into a Committee of the Whole to consider the report of the Committee of Claims on...
345Notes for Speech in Congress, [ca. 23 March–2 April] 1796 (Madison Papers)
These notes present a difficult editorial problem insofar as their contents do not clearly...
346James and Dolley P. Madison v. Edward Heston, 10 January 1797 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 January 1797, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Dolley Madison and JM brought suit against...
347Relations with Algiers, [13 January] 1797 (Madison Papers)
On 10 January the House had considered a motion that a committee be appointed “to select such...
348National University, [12 December] 1796 (Madison Papers)
In his address of 7 December, Washington had called on Congress to establish a national...
349Petition of Anna de Neufville, [7 February] 1797 (Madison Papers)
On 3 February 1797 Anna de Neufville had presented a petition to the House on behalf of herself...
350Petition of Anna de Neufville, [13 February] 1797 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison observed that he should be sorry to interfere with public business, but the...
351Indian Trading Houses, [13 January] 1796 (Madison Papers)
The clerk read for the third time the bill establishing trading houses with the Indians. Salaries...
352Commercial Restrictions, [15 January] 1796 (Madison Papers)
Smith (Maryland) moved that a Committee of the Whole consider his resolution, introduced on 4...
353Appropriations for 1796, [19 January] 1796 (Madison Papers)
In the Committee of the Whole debate on the civil list for 1796, Williams (New York) moved to...
354Assignment of a Share in the Library Company of Philadelphia, 22 February 1796 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 February 1796. JM, having by marriage to the widow of John Todd inherited a share in the...
355Relations with Algiers, [17 January] 1797 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee of the whole, on the...
356Report on Sale of Ohio Company Lands, [3 May] 1796 (Madison Papers)
On 19 April, Henderson (New Jersey) had suggested that revenue be raised by selling lands...
357Impressed American Seamen, [28 March] 1796 (Madison Papers)
After the debate on 1 March, Livingston (New York) reported to the House on 14 March a bill for...
358Indirect Taxes, [23 February] 1797 (Madison Papers)
On 19 January 1797 the Treasury Department had recommended that the ad valorem duty on several...
359Admission of Tennessee, [5 May] 1796 (Madison Papers)
Washington submitted to Congress on 8 April the application of Tennessee to join the Union....
360Northwestern Land Offices, [5 April] 1796 (Madison Papers)
After JM had spoken on 3 March, a Committee of the Whole rejected Williams’s resolution and...