Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853 to William C. Bradley
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05634.04 Author/Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1818/04/15 Pagination: 3 p. : address : free frank ; 24.3 x 19.5 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses the appointment of a congressional committee to investigate expenditures made in executing the fifth, sixth, and seventh articles of the Treaty of Ghent and their report. The committee was formed in response to reports of waste. Comments on the efforts of a Mr. Allen to have negative parts of the report pertaining to the fifth article removed. Discusses the reading of a confidential letter to the committee by John Holmes that was critical of the expenditures, which Crafts made a copy of (see GLC05634.03). Believes Holmes wants to supplant the man originally appointed to execute the fifth article. Also mentions an attempt to fix the salaries of the agents working on the boundary issues involved with the Treaty of Ghent. Crafts was then a congressman from Vermont. Bradley. Bradley was then an agent of the United States under the treaty of Ghent to fix the boundary line between Maine and Canada.
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