211From John Adams to United States Senate, 4 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the Gentlemen in the following List to fill the Offices to which they are designated in it— Cavalry. Alexander Macomb, junr: New York— Second Lieutenant First Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers. Cadet Jared Brooks Lieutenant Robert Gray Pennsylvania Ditto Cadet Lewis Landais Ditto Cadet William Murray Ditto Cadet Joseph Cross Ditto Peter Lampkin Virginia Ditto
212From John Adams to United States Senate, 16 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the following Persons to be Commissioners under an Act of Congress passed in the present session to provide for the valuation of Lands and Houses and for the Enumeration of Slaves. Those Gentlemen whose Names have Asterisks before them are intended for first Commissioners New Hampshire* 1st Division. Nathaniel Gilman... Exeter 2d Do. Joseph Badger Junr... Gilmantown 3d Do. Joshua...
213From John Adams to United States Senate, 1 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
Message of the President with Military Nominations Benjamin Easely Georgia Captain Benjamin F. Trapier South Carolina ditto Noah Kelsey Georgia. ditto Zachariah Nettles South Carolina ditto John Mitchell ditto ditto John Brown ditto First Lieutenant Charles Boyle
214Memorial of Charleston Merchants to the Senate, 2 November 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Charleston, 2 Nov. 1797. They represent that by the laws of South Carolina and by practice of long standing, the wharves onto which imported goods are unladen in the city of Charleston are privately owned and the proprietors of the wharves have collected fees for the weighing of merchandise. The present collector of the port refuses to recognize the wharfholders’ agents as weighers. He...
215Address from Samuel Sitgreaves to the Senate, [7 February 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
The House of Representatives having agreed upon Articles in Maintenance of their Impeachment against William Blount for High Crimes & Misdemeanors, and having appointed on their Part Managers of the said Impeachment, the Managers have now the Honor to attend the Senate for the Purpose of exhibiting the said Articles MS ( DNA : RG 46, Senate Records, 5th Cong., 2d sess.); in an unknown hand;...
216Memorial of Charleston Wharfholders to the Senate, 10 November 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Charleston, 10 Nov. 1797. The owners and lessees of wharves in the city of Charleston represent that a compact among planters, merchants, and wharfholders to regulate the docking of vessels and the landing, weighing, and storage of goods in the city was codified by an act passed by the assembly of South Carolina on 12 Apr. 1768. That law specified rates for weighing merchandise, established...
217Address to the Senate, [4 March 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
Entering on the duties of the office to which I am called, I feel it incumbent on me to apologize to this honourable house for the insufficient manner in which I fear they may be discharged. At an earlier period of my life, and through some considerable portion of it, I have been a member of legislative bodies, and not altogether inattentive to the forms of their proceedings; but much time has...
218John Adams to the Senate, [24 May 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
It would be an affectation in me, to dissemble, the pleasure I feel, on receiving this Kind Address. My long experience of the Wisdom, Fortitude, and Patriotism of the Senate of the United States, enhances in my estimation, the Value of those obliging expressions of your approbation of my conduct, which are a generous reward for the past, and an affecting encouragement to constancy and...