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...