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Collection Reference Number GLC00043.05
From Archive Folder Documents relating to Presidential Pardons 
Title James Monroe to Thomas Rutter about a possible pardon
Date 12 March 1813
Author Monroe, James (1758-1831)  
Document Type Correspondence; Government document; Legal document
Content Description Secretary of State Monroe elaborates on what course of action is to be taken involving "peculiar and extraordinary cases of hardship, and where the character and deportment of the parties entitle them to peculiar consideration..." Rutter was marshal of Maryland from 1804 to 1817.
Subjects Law  President  Immigration and Migration  
People Monroe, James (1758-1831)  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme The Presidency; Law
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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