To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 7 April 1796
From Timothy Pickering
Department of State April 7. 1796.
The Secretary of State has the honour to lay before the President of the U. States, copies of the estimates relative to the treaties with Great Britain, Spain, Algiers & the Indian Tribes northwest of the river Ohio, and a copy of the letter from the Secretary to the President of the Senate & to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, which accompanied those estimates, when he laid the same before Congress, agreeably to the Message of the President of the United States with which he communicated to each House the Treaty with his Catholic Majesty.1
Timothy Pickering.
ALS, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB, DNA: RG 59, Domestic Letters; LB, DNA: RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State.
1. Copies of the estimated costs to implement the terms of the indicated treaties, along with Pickering’s cover letter dated 31 March, are filed with this letter in DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. For a summary of the estimates, see GW to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 29 March, n.3. The copy filed with this letter has clerical errors in the estimates for the Barbary States, understating the Algiers deficiency by $1,000 and the total funds needed by $100,000. The cover letter warned that the estimates were sent “confidentially, as part of them respect affairs and pending negociations which in their nature and situation appear to require secrecy.”