From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 17 December 1794

To the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States, Decem: 17th 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives.

I lay before Congress copies of the Journal of the proceedings in the Executive Department of the Government of the U. States, south of the river ohio, to the 1st of September 1794.1

Go. Washington.

Copy, DLC:GW; copy DNA: RG 233, Entry 19, Journals.

1. GW enclosed the journal of proceedings from 1 March to 1 Sept., for which, see Carter, Territorial Papers description begins Clarence Edwin Carter et al., eds. The Territorial Papers of the United States. 27 vols. Washington, D.C., 1934–69. description ends , 4:459–62.

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Title: From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 17 December 1794
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: United States Senate and House of Representatives
Date: 17 December 1794

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 17 December 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-17-02-0198. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 17, 1 October 1794–31 March 1795, ed. David R. Hoth and Carol S. Ebel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, p. 285.]

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