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From John Jay to George Washington, 9 December 1789

To George Washington

[New York 9 December 1789—]

The Chief Justice of the U.S. has recieved, and presents his respectful acknowledgments to the President of the United States, for the elegant Edition of the Laws passed in the first Session of Congress,1 with which the President condescended to honor him this morning—

AL, DNA: PCC, item 78, 13: 427. Endorsed, in clerk’s hand: “From / The Honble. the chief Justice / of the United States / acknowledging the Rec[eip]t. of / a Copy of the Laws— / Dec. 9th. 1789—”.

1United States of America, Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, in the year MDCCLXXXIX. And of the Independence of the United States, the thirteenth. Being the acts passed at the first session of the first Congress of the United States, to wit, New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, South-Carolina, and Georgia; which eleven states respectively ratified the Constitution of government for the United States, proposed by the Federal Convention, held in Philadelphia, on the seventeenth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven (New York: printed by Francis Childs & John Swaine, printers to the United States, 1789; Early Am. Imprints description begins Early American Imprints, series 1: Evans, 1639–1800 [microform; digital collection], edited by American Antiquarian Society, published by Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc. Accessed: Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 2006–16, http://infoweb.newsbank.com/; Early American Imprints, series 2: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801–1819 [microform; digital collection], edited by American Antiquarian Society, published by Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc. Accessed: Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 2006–16, http://infoweb.newsbank.com/ description ends , no. 22189), 105.

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