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THE

MADISON PAPERS.

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HIS CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORTS OF DEBATES DURING
THE CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDERATION

AND

HIS REPORTS OF DEBATES

IN THE

FEDERAL CONVENTION;

NOW PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, DEPOS.
ITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, BY DIRECTION OF
THE JOINT LIBRARY COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS,
UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE

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NOTICE.

JAMES MADISON died, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, at his residence, Montpelier, in Orange county, Virginia, on the 28th of June, 1836.

On the 30th of the same month, the President of the United States transmitted, by Mr. Donelson his Secretary, the following message to the Senate and House of Representatives :

"WASHINGTON, June 30, 1836.

"To the Senate and House of Representatives:

"It becomes my painful duty to announce to you the melancholy intelligence of the death of JAMES MADISON, Ex-President of the United States. He departed this life, at half past six o'clock on the morning of the twenty-eighth instant, full of years and full of honours.

"I hasten this communication, in order that Congress may adopt such measures as may be proper, to testify their sense of the respect which is due to the memory of one whose life has contributed so essentially to the happiness and glory of his country, and to the good of mankind.

"ANDREW JACKSON."

In the Senate, after the message from the President had been read, Mr. RIVES of Virginia made the following remarks:

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