George Washington Papers

From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 18 January 1792

To the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States [Philadelphia] January the 18th 1792.

Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives.

I lay before you a copy of an exemplified copy of an Act of the Legislature of Vermont, ratifying, on behalf of that State, the Articles of amendment proposed by Congress to the Constitution of the United States; together with a copy of a letter which accompanied said ratification.1

Go: Washington

DS, DNA: RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB, DLC:GW; LB, DNA: RG 233, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Journals.

1GW enclosed a letter from Joseph Fray, secretary to the governor and council of Vermont, dated 7 Jan. 1792, transmitting a copy of the act of the Vermont legislature of 4 Nov. 1791 ratifying all of the proposed amendments to the Constitution, along with the instrument of ratification (both enclosures, DNA: RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages). Tobias Lear transmitted the exemplified copy of Vermont’s ratification to Thomas Jefferson on this day (DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters).

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