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The memorial of the subscribers, on behalf of themselves and their fellow citizens of Albany, respectfully showeth:
That since the completion of the northern and western canals of this State, such facilities are given to transportation, that the qualities of county produce brought to this market from the interior of the State are increased to an immense amount, and when to this is added the... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: U.S. Bank Directors
At the instance of a highly respectable portion of the good people of this city, I have signed, and now transmit, the enclosed. Personally, I neither have, nor desire, any connexion with banks; and the sole object of my agency is to gratify the wishes of our citizens, and to promote the interests of the city.
Of the fitness of the proposed measure, it would be idle for me, who know nothing, to... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: Nicholas Biddle
By accordance with a previous notice, a large and respectable meeting was held in the borough of Claysville, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday the 10th of December, A. D. 1834, to take into consideration the propriety of an immediate application to Congress for a further appropriation to complete the Cumberland road, Mr. Robert McNeal was called to the Chair, and Daniel Rider appointed secretary.
After... Continue Reading
Enclosed you will receive a copy of the resolutions adopted by a meeting of the citizens of Shenandoah county, relative to the removal of the deposites from the United States' Bank, to be laid before the Senate of the United States.
Recipient: MVB
In answer to the resolution of the Senate, passed on the 24th December, 1834, directing “the Postmaster General to inform the Senate whether so much of the act of Congress, approved the 25th June, 1832, as establishes a mail route from Burnt Corn, in the State of Alabama, by Claibourn, Clarksville, Coffeeville, Washington court-house, Winchester, Ellisville, Williamsburg, Monticello, and... Continue Reading
Recipient: MVB
We have been authorized to forward you the foregoing proceedings, with a request that you will lay them before the respective Houses of Congress, and oblige, your obedient servants,
Recipient: MVB
The Senate of the United States, on the 26th day of June last, “Resolved, That the petition of Mary O’Sullivan, widow and executrix of John O’Sullivan, deceased, with the documents accompanying the same, be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, and that he be directed to make a detailed report, together with his opinion thereon, to the next session of Congress.” In compliance therewith, the... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: Levi Woodbury
Recipient: MVB
In the Senate of the United States, May the 8th, 1832, it was
“Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be prepared and laid before the Senate, at the commencement of the next session of Congress, a plan for the re-organization of the Treasury Department, with a view to simplify the forms of settling and keeping the accounts, and of rendering them more... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: Levi Woodbury
Recipient: MVB
For the mutual accommodation of the public officers and creditors in your neighborhood, and of yourself and the Treasury Department, I propose hereafter to direct warrants in their favor to yourself, for payment, when desired by them.
It will be in your power, also, before a warrant is obtained by them, and whenever you have confidence in their honesty and solvency, to take an assignment or draft... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: Levi Woodbury
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