1Message to the New York State Assembly, 15 January 1796 (Jay Papers)
You have already been apprized that the Sum granted by the Act respecting infectious Distempers, proved incompetent to the Expences (of which an Account is preparing) occasioned by the late calamitous Sickness in this City. And also that the precautions taken in Albany against the introduction of it into that City caused Expenditures which yet remain to be provided for. To the end that the...