George Washington Papers

From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 11 December 1794

To the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States Decem: 11. 1794.

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

I transmit to you, for consideration, a Representation made to me by The Secretary of the Treasury, on the subject of constituting an Officer to be specially charged with the business of procuring certain public supplies.1

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LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 33; copy, DNA: RG 233, Records of the House of Representatives, entry 19; copy, DLC:GW.

1. See Alexander Hamilton’s third letter to GW of 2 December.

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    From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 11 December 1794
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    Washington, George
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    United States Senate and House of Representatives
    Date
    11 December 1794

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    “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 11 December 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-17-02-0180. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 17, 1 October 1794–31 March 1795, ed. David R. Hoth and Carol S. Ebel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, p. 262.]

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