158021From James Madison to Paul Hamilton, 17 March 1812 (Madison Papers)
In order to fix the extent of the authorized loan, the time of opening it, & the dates of its several instalments, it is requisite that the monthly expenditures in the War & Navy Depts. should be known as far as may be practicable. Will the Secretary of the Navy be so good as to have the estimates to the end of the present year, made out in his Department and furnished to the Secretary of the...
158022To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 17 March 1812 (Madison Papers)
Understanding that the law authorising a loan has passed, I beg leave to submit the propriety of requesting the Secretaries of the War and Navy departments to prepare estimates of the probable monthly expenditures of each of the said departments to the end of the present year. The extent of the loan, the time of opening it, and the dates at which its several instalments should be made payable,...
158023To James Madison from William Eustis, 17 March 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 March 1812, War Department. Lists proposed appointments in the U.S. Army. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, 12B-A1); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). RC 1 p. Forwarded by JM to the Senate in a 19 Mar. 1812 message ( Senate Exec. Proceedings Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). , 2:238).
158024To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 17 March 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 March 1812, Treasury Department. Encloses a letter from Winslow Lewis [not found] “proposing to sell his patent right for lighting the Light-Houses in the United States, and also to fit up all the said houses with the proper apparatus, for 24,000 Dollars.” That sum would include “his compensation and personal expenses; the purchase of the apparatus and expenses, other than his own, to be...
158025From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
Two of your Letters, viz No 24. Dup: & 25. Origl came to hand on the 16th: inst: These are the latest dates of any received from you, although the vessel that brought them had an uncommonly long passage from Gottenburg. We are happy to hear of your health and that of your family, as we have done more frequently than we could reasonably have expected. My Letters to you, thought not much behind...
158026From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 18 March 1812 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letters of the 6 th . and 13 th . Inst: — The woman procured by W m . appears to be desirous to give Satisfaction, but is in some Respects deficient in Qualifications for her place— I am glad however that she was sent— the other went to Sinsing last Saturday, not a little mortified and disappointed. As W m . has rec d . Bismuth from Albany, Nancy will not want a further...
158027To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 18 March 1812 (Madison Papers)
Colonel Lehré a gentleman of this place & one of the Representatives for our City in the Legislature informs me he has some idea of going to the northward & has requested a line of introduction to you which I give to him with great pleasure as he is a decided Republican & friend to your administration & no man can give a better or more correct view of the state of parties or politics in this...
158028To James Madison from William Eustis, 18 March 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 March 1812, War Department. Proposes additions and alterations to the lists of appointments that have been laid before the Senate under the 11 Jan. 1812 act to raise an additional military force. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, 12B-A1); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). RC 2 pp. JM forwarded the RC , making additions and alterations to the nominations from Tennessee, Kentucky,...
158029To James Madison from Thomas Wilson, 18 March 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 March 1812. Wishes to make a proposal “of considerable magnitude and importance but feels unwilling to hazard the chagrin of an unsuccessful overture unless it could be confidential.” Requests to be informed whether the proposal “would be held strictly confidential and returned to the undersigned in case it should be deemed in no wise to contain or imply anything improper but inexpedient to...
158030Thomas Jefferson to George Divers, 18 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised to stock you with the Alpine Strawberry as soon as soon as my beds would permit. I now send you a basket of plants & can spare you 10. baskets more if you desire it. their value, you know, is the giving strawberries 8. months in the year. but they require a large piece of ground and therefore I am moving them into the truck patch, as I cannot afford them room enough in the garden. I...