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Knoxville 1 November 28 october 1804.

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated
the 24th Sep. ult. wherein in which you notify the Executive, that the
Amendment proposed at the last session of Congress, to the Constitution
of the United States, respecting the manner of Voting for President
And Vice President of the United States, has been ratified by the
legislatures of three fourths of the several states; (to wit, by those of
Vermont, Rhode Island, new york, new Jersey, Pensylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, S.^o Carolina and
Georgia- The Executive being at absent the Indian Treaty
about the time of the Arrival of your letter presented an Earlier
Acknowledgment I hope will be an appology sufficiently, for not doing
myself the honour of [illegible] forwarding a more earlier early ack
=nowledgment- I have the honour &c

Signed
John Sevier

The Honble James Madison
Secretary of State