1To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of sending to the President a letter from Colo. Humphries the material part of which is his memorial to the Portuguese minister; in which he says, that he has provisional instructions, in case Portugal considers herself at war with France. The Portuguese paper is translated. the French papers are nothing more, than a request from the French sailors for the...
2To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of sending to the President the Virginia Act concerning the shares, in page 12. of the session of October 1785 . There does not appear to be the smallest obstacle from the words of the act, to the giving of the Potowmac shares to the fœderal City. The President will therefore be pleased to say at the foot of the letter to the governor of Virginia, what he intends to...