From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 21 November 1803
To the Senate
To the Senate of the United States
I nominate Nicholas Fitzhugh of the county of Fairfax in Virginia to be an Assistant judge of the Circuit court of the district of Columbia, vice James Marshall resigned.
William S. Pennington of New Jersey to be Attorney for the US. in the district of New Jersey vice George Maxwell resigned.
George Hay of Virginia to be Attorney for the US. in the district of Virginia vice Thomas Nelson deceased.
Th: Jefferson
Nov. 21. 1803.
RC (DNA: RG 46, EPEN, 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PrC (DLC). Recorded in SJL with notation “nomns. Fitzhugh. Pennington. Hay.”
Lewis Harvie delivered these nominations to the Senate on 21 Nov. The next day, the Senate read the message and ordered it to lie for consideration. The senators considered and consented to the nominations on 25 Nov., the same date entered on the three commissions issued by the State Department (FCs in Lb in DNA: RG 59, MPTPC; , 1:458, 459).