George Washington Papers

From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 21 November 1794

To the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States November the 21st 1794.

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

I lay before Congress copies of a letter from the Governor of the State of New York, and of the exemplification of an act of the Legislature thereof, ratifying the amendment of the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the Senate and House of Representatives, at their last Session, respecting the judicial power.1

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LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 33; LB, DLC:GW.

1For the enclosures, see George Clinton to GW, 5 July, and n.1.

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