101From George Washington to United States Senate and House of Representatives, 30 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a Report of the Secretary of State on the subject of the Citizens of the United States in captivity at Algiers, that you may provide on their behalf what to you shall seem most expedient. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Foreign Relations; copy, DNA : RG 233, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Legislative...
102From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
The governor of the western territory has made a statement to me of the reciprocal hostilities of the wabash Indians, and the people inhabiting the frontiers bordering on the river Ohio, which I herewith lay before Congress. The United States in Congress assembled by their acts of the 21st day of July 1787, and of the 12th of August 1788 made a provisional arrangement for calling forth the...
103From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 8 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I trust I do not deceive myself, while I indulge the persuasion, that I have never met you at any period, when, more than at the present, the situation of our public affairs has afforded just cause for mutual congratulation, and for inviting you to join with me in profound gratitude to the Author of all good, for the numerous and extraordinary blessings we enjoy. The termination of the long,...
104From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 4 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Whenever there shall be a sufficient number of the two Houses of Congress assembled to proceed to business, I request to be informed of it. And also at what time and place it will be convenient for Congress that I should meet them, in order to make some oral communications at the commencement of their session. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most humble servant LS , DNA : RG 46, First...
105From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have directed my Secretary to lay before you the copy of an act and the form of ratification, of certain articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, by the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania; together with the copy of a letter which accompanied the said act, from the Speaker of the House of Assembly of Pennsylvania to the the President of the United States. The...
106From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America by the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, was received by me last night, together with a letter to the President of the United States from the President of the Convention, I have directed my secretary to lay before you a copy of each. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Legislative...
107From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 7 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you two letters with their enclosures, from the Governor of the south western territory, and an extract of a letter to him from the department of War. These, and a letter of the ninth of October last, which has been already communicated to you from the same department, to the Governor, will shew, in what manner, the first section of the Act of the last Session, which provides for...
108From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 9 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have received from the Governor of Vermont authentic documents expressing the consent of the Legislatures of New York and of the Territory of Vermont, that the said territory shall be admitted to be a distinct member of our union; and a Memorial of Nathaniel Chipman and Lewis R. Morris Commissioners from the said Territory, praying the consent of Congress to that admission by the name and...
109From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 13 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
Gentlemen of the Senate, and House of Representatives. I lay before you an official Statement of the Expenditure to the end of the year 1795, from the sums heretofore granted to defray the Contingent charges of the Government. LS , DNA : RG 46, entry 47; copy, DNA : RG 233, entry 28, Journals; copy, DLC:GW . The enclosed statement of 1 Jan. 1796 accounted for $22,931.05, consisting of an...
110From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 5 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Knowing the friendly interest you take in whatever may promote the happiness and prosperity of the French Nation, it is with pleasure that I lay before you the translation of a letter which I have received from His most Christian Majesty, announcing to the United States of America his acceptance of the Constitution presented to him in the name of his nation. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress,...