From John Adams to United States Congress, 21 January 1799
January 21. 1799.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives
According to an intimation in my Message of fryday last, I now lay before Congress, a report of the Secretary of State, containing his Observations on some of the Documents which Attended it.
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.