To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 29 January 1794
From Edmund Randolph
Wednesday [29 Jan. 1794]
E. Randolph has the honor of inclosing to the President a memorandum from Mr Taylor, accounting for the delay in the commissions, sent to him this morning.1
AL, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB, DLC:GW; LB, DNA: RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State.
1. The enclosed memorandum of this date from George Taylor, Jr., the chief clerk at the State Department, reads: “The Commissions sent to the President to day have been delayed in consequence of the urgent Business of the office, and upon a presumption that no injury would result to the public, the whole of the persons having been commissioned in the recess—except one” (DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters). For a list of the commissions, dated 28 Jan., which GW subsequently signed on 30 Jan., see , 280–81. For GW’s nomination and the Senate’s approval of these individuals, see GW to U.S. Senate, 27 Dec. 1793 and 2 Jan. 1794, and , 143–44.