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A Convention has been entered into between the United States and the Cherokee nation for the extinguishment of the rights of the latter & of some unsettled claims in the country North of the river Tennessee therein described. this Convention is now laid before the Senate for their advice & consent as to it’s ratification. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
According to the desire of the Senate, expressed in their resolution of the 10th. inst. I now communicate to them a Report of the Secretary of state, with it’s documents, stating certain new principles attempted to be introduced on the subject of neutral rights, injurious to the rights and interests of the US.    these, with my message to both houses of the 17th. inst. and the documents...
I nominate Joel Lewis of Delaware whose commission as Marshal of the District of Delaware expired yesterday, to be Marshal for the same district. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
I nominate George Hoffman of Michigan territory to be Collector of the district & Inspector of revenue for the port of Michillimackinac. Phineas Manning of New Jersey to be Collector of Perth Amboy Joshua Wingate of Massachusetts to be Collector of the district and Inspector of revenue for the port of Bath in Massachusets DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
I now transmit the letters desired by the resolution of Senate of Jan. 20. so far as they exist in the offices. to wit Extract of a letter from the department of State to mr Eaton of May 20. 1801. The letter from mr Cathcart to mr Eaton dated Leghorn June 15. is not in the offices, but the substance of it is supposed to be recited in those of mr Cathcart to the Secy. of state of Aug. 15. 1802....
I transmit for the consideration of the Senate a treaty entered into on behalf of the US. with the Piankeshaw Indians, whereby our possessions on the North bank of the Ohio are entirely consolidated: and I ask the advice and consent of the Senate as to it’s ratification. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
I nominate William Cranch, now an Assistant judge of the circuit court for the district of Columbia, to be Chief judge of the same court in the place of Wm. Kelty resigned. Pierrepoint Edwards late Attorney for the District court of Connecticut to be judge of the same court. Phineas Manning lately appointed Collector of the District of Perth-Amboy to be also Inspector of the revenue for the...
Several vacancies having happened in the army of the United states, during the last recess of the Senate, I granted commissions as stated in the list herein inclosed, marked A. & signed by the Secretary at War, which commissions will expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. I now therefore nominate the same persons for the same appointments. I also nominate the persons, whose...
I nominate Allen Bowie Duckett of Maryland to be an assistant judge of the circuit court of the District of Columbia. John Armstrong, Minister Plenipotentiary of the US. at Paris, & James Bowdoin, Minister Plenipotentiary of the US. at Madrid, to be Commissioners Plenipotentiary and extraordinary for settling all matters of difference between the United States and the government of Spain...
According to the request of the Senate expressed in their resolution of the 3d. inst. I now transmit the extract of a letter from the Secretary of State to the Minister Plenipotentiary of the US. at Paris, the answer to that letter, & two letters from Henry Waddell a citizen of the US. relative to the interference of the sd minister in the case of the ship New Jersey, & to the principles...