121From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 8 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and House of Representatives. I embrace with great satisfaction the opportunity, which now presents itself, of congratulating you on the present favourable prospects of our public affairs. The recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States (of which official information has been recieved)—the rising credit and...
122From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 17 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I transmit to Congress copies of a Letter from the Governor of the State of New-Hampshire, and of an Act of the Legislature thereof, ratifying “the article proposed in amendment to the Constitution of the United States,” respecting the judicial power. I also lay before Congress copies of a Letter from the Governor of the State of ⟨Nor⟩th Carolina, and of an Act of the Legislature thereof,...
123From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 2 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you an official statement of the expenditures, to the end of the year 1791, from the sum of ten thousand dollars granted to defray the contingent expences of Government, by an Act passed on the 26th of March 1790. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA : RG 233, Second Congress, 1791–1793,...
124From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 29 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives I send herewith, for the information of Congress, 1st. An act of the legislature of the State of Rhode Island, ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to prevent suits in certain Cases against a state. 2. An act of the State of North Carolina making the like ratification. 3. An act of the State of North...
125From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 7 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Experience has shewn that it would be useful to have an Officer particularly charged, under the direction of the Department of War, with the duties of receiving, safe keeping and distributing the public supplies, in all cases in which the Laws and the course of service do not devolve them upon other officers; and also with that of superintending in all cases, the issues in detail of supplies,...
126From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 24 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
The extracts, which I now lay before you, from a letter of our Minister at London, are supplementary to some of my past communications; and will appear to be of a confidential nature. I also transmit to you copies of a letter from the Secretary of State to the Minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty, and of the answer thereto, upon the subject of the treaty between the United States...
127From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 27 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
In order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers, and the prospects of hostility in that quarter; I lay before you the intelligence of some recent depredations, received since my message to you upon this subject, of the 24th instant. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; copy, DNA : RG 233, First...
128From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 3 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Since the commencement of the term, for which I have been again called into office, no fit occasion has arisen for expressing to my fellow Citizens at large, the deep and respectful sense, which I feel, of the renewed testimony of public approbation. While on the one hand, it awakened my gratitude for all those instances of affectionate partiality, with which I have been honored by my Country;...
129From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 18 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I now lay before you a Report, and Plat of the Territory of the United States, on the Potomac, as given in by the Commissioners of that Territory, together with a letter from the Secretary of State which accompanied them. These papers being original, are to be again deposited with the Records of the Department of State, after having answered the purpose of your information. Df (letterpress...
130From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 19 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. At the opening of the present Session of Congress I mentioned that some circumstances of an unwelcome nature had lately occurred in relation to France; that our trade had suffered and was suffering extensive injuries in the West Indies from the Cruisers and Agents of the French Republic; and that communications had been received from...
131From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 29 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
United States Gentlemen of the Senate, September 29th 1789. Having been yesterday informed by a joint-Committee of both Houses of Congress, that they had agreed to a Recess to commence this day, and to continue until the first monday of January next, I take the earliest opportunity of acquainting you that, considering how long and laborious this Session has been, and the Reasons, which, I...
132From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 20 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Having already laid before you a Letter of the 16th of August 1793, from the Secretary of State to our Minister at Paris; stating the conduct and urging the recal, of the Minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of France; I now communicate to you, that his conduct has been unequivocally disapproved; and that the strongest assurances have been given, that his recal should be expedited without...
133From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 30 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
An Act of the Legislature of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for ratifying certain articles as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, was yesterday put into my hands; and I have directed my Secretary to lay a copy of the same before you. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW ; copy,...
134From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 7 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
I transmit to you an act and three ordinances passed, by the Government of the territory of the United States south of the river ohio, on the 13th and 21st of March, and 7th of May 1793. And also certain letters from the minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Secretary of State, enclosing dispatches from the general and extraordinary Commission of Guadeloupe. LS , DNA : RG 46,...
135From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 15 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a Letter from the Minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty to the Secretary of State; a Letter from the Secretary of the territory South of the river Ohio, enclosing an ordinance and proclamation of the Governor thereof; the translation of so much of a petition of the Inhabitants of Post Vincennes, addressed to the President, as relates to Congress; and certain...
136From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 21 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
It is with satisfaction I announce to you, that the alterations which have been made by law in the original plan for raising a duty on spirits distilled within the United States, and on Stills, cooperating with better information, have had a considerable influence in obviating the difficulties, which have embarrassed that branch of the public revenue. But the obstacles, which have been...
137To George Washington from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 10 February 1797 (Washington Papers)
The following communications from the Senate were this day made to the President. LB , DLC:GW . This statement is immediately followed on the LB by multiple extracts of resolutions and motions copied primarily from the U.S. Senate journal for 8, 9, and 10 February. For the printed version of those resolutions, and for the congressional measures made between 8 amd 10 Feb., see Journal of the...