1From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 31st of December, delivered to me yesterday, I have the honor to lay before you a list of the several persons employed in my Office, with the Salaries allowed to each, as follows Dollars George Taylor Jr. (of New York) Chief Clerk , his salary fixed by law 800 Jacob Blackwell (of New York) Clerk 500 George Pfeiffer (of...
2From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received information, on the first Wednesday of February, from the Vice-President of the US. that the list of Votes of the state of Kentuckey for President and Vice-President was not then received at the seat of government, I immediately, according to the injunctions of the law, dispatched to the district judge of that state a special messenger, to desire the list of votes lodged in his...
3From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 22 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you copies of the Laws adopted and published by the Governor and Judges of the Territory North-west of the Ohio, according to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 10th. instant. The six last of these only have come to hand since the commencement of the present Government, all those preceding the year 1790 having been received by...
4From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 4 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of the letter of Feb. 22. which I had the honour of writing you, covering the acts of the North-Western government, as called for by the Resolution of the house of representatives of Feb. 10. the acts of the same government passed in the year 1791. have come to the hands of the President and have been deposited among the records in my office. Supposing that these also might come...
5From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 8 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a Report of the assays and experiments made on the gold and silver coins of France, Spain, England and Portugal, in pursuance of the resolution of the House of Representatives of Nov. 29. 1792. and of assuring you of those sentiments of respect & esteem with which I am Sir Your most obedient & most humble servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The Speaker of the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 20 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The House of Representatives, about the close of the Session before the last, referred to me the Report of a Committee on a message from the President of the United States of the 14th. of Feb. 1791, with directions to report to Congress the nature and extent of the privileges and restrictions of the commercial intercourse of the United States with foreign Nations, and measures for it’s...
7From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 21 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honour to inclose you a Report on the petition of Jacob Isaacs, referred to me at the last session of the late Congress, with instruction to report thereon. The reference was made a week only before the rising of Congress, and as a compliance with it required that seawater should be procured, and experiments be made on it, it was not practicable to make the report to that...
8From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 22 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of February 23. 1791, I had prepared to lay before them, at their present meeting, a Report on the commerce and navigation of the United States with foreign nations. A possibility, however, has arisen that the existing state of things to which that Report was adapted, may be changed in several of it’s parts, and may call for a...
9VIII. The Secretary of State to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, [1 February 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor of enclosing you the Report on the subject of the Fisheries of the United States which the House of Representatives had required from me. However long the delay, I can assure you, Sir, with truth that it has not been a moment longer than the difficulty of procuring and digesting the materials necessarily occasioned. I enclose at the same time extracts from a letter of Mr....
10V. Secretary of State to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 29 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honour of submitting to the House of Representatives a Report on the navigation and commerce of the United states in the Mediterranean, which they were pleased to refer to me. I think it my duty to suggest to the consideration of the house whether it may not be proper to forbid any copy of this report, either printed or manuscript, to be taken; and whether the habitual...