51From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 15 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you, as being connected with the correspondence, already in your possession, between the Secretary of State and the Minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic, the copy of a Letter from that Minister of the 25th of December 1793; and a copy of the proceedings of the Legislature of the State of South Carolina. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of...
52From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 7 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you an Official statement of the expenditure to the end of the year 1793, from the sum of Ten thousand dollars, granted to defray the contingent expences of Government, by an Act passed on the 26th of March 1790. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DNA : RG 233, Third Congress, 1793–95, House Records of...
53From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 7 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Experience has shewn that it would be useful to have an Officer particularly charged, under the direction of the Department of War, with the duties of receiving, safe keeping and distributing the public supplies, in all cases in which the Laws and the course of service do not devolve them upon other officers; and also with that of superintending in all cases, the issues in detail of supplies,...
54From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 31 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I now lay before you a letter from the Secretary of State with his account of the expenditure of the monies appropriated for our intercourse with foreign nations from the 1st of July 1792. to the 1st of July 1793. and other papers relating thereto. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; Df (letterpress copy), in the writing...
55From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 30 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I communicate to you the translation of a letter received from the Representatives of Spain here, in reply to that of the Secretary of State to them of the 21st inst: which had before been communicated to you. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; Df , in Thomas Jefferson’s writing, DLC : Jefferson Papers; Copy, DNA : RG...
56From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 30 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you for your consideration a letter from the Secretary of State, informing me of certain impediments, which have arisen to the coinage of the precious metals at the mint. As also a letter from the same Officer relative to certain advances of money, which have been made on public account. Should you think proper to sanction what has been done, or be of opinion that any thing more...
57From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 23 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Since the communications which were made to you on the affairs of the United States with Spain and on the Truce between Portugal and Algiers, some other papers have been received which making a part of the same subjects are now communicated for your information. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; Copy, DNA : RG 233, Third...
58From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
The situation of affairs in Europe, in the course of the Year 1790. having rendered it possible that a moment might arrive favorable for the arrangement of our unsettled matters with Spain, it was thought proper to prepare our representative at that Court to avail us of it. A confidential person was therefore dispatched to be the bearer of instructions to him, and to supply by verbal...
59From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a Report of the Secretary of State on the measures which have been taken on behalf of the United States for the purpose of obtaining a recognition of our Treaty with Morocco, and for the ransom of our Citizens and establishment of peace with Algiers. While it is proper our Citizens should know that Subjects which so much concern their interests and their feelings have duly...
60From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 5 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
As the present situation of the several Nations of Europe, and especially of those with which the U.S. have important relations, cannot but render the state of things between them and us matter of interesting inquiry to the legislature, & may indeed give rise to deliberations to which they alone are competent, I have thought it my duty to communicate to them certain correspondences which have...
61From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 3 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Since the commencement of the term, for which I have been again called into office, no fit occasion has arisen for expressing to my fellow Citizens at large, the deep and respectful sense, which I feel, of the renewed testimony of public approbation. While on the one hand, it awakened my gratitude for all those instances of affectionate partiality, with which I have been honored by my Country;...
62From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 18 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I now lay before you a Report, and Plat of the Territory of the United States, on the Potomac, as given in by the Commissioners of that Territory, together with a letter from the Secretary of State which accompanied them. These papers being original, are to be again deposited with the Records of the Department of State, after having answered the purpose of your information. Df (letterpress...
63From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 25 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure, to the end of the year 1792, from the sum of ten thousand dollars, granted to defray the contingent expenses of government, by an Act passed, on the twenty sixth of March 1790. Also an abstract of a supplementary arrangement made in the district of North Carolina, in regard to certain surveys, to facilitate the execution of the law...
64From 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...
65From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 6 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
The several measures which have been pursued to induce the hostile Indian Tribes, North of the Ohio, to enter into a conference or treaty with the United States, at which all causes of difference might be fully understood, and justly and amicably arranged, have already been submitted to both Houses of Congress. The Papers herewith sent will inform you of the result. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second...
66From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 22 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
I send you herewith the abstract of a supplementary arrangement which has been made by me pursuant to the Acts of the third day of March 1791 and the eighth day of May 1792 for raising a Revenue upon foreign and domestic distilled Spirits, in respect to the subdivisions and officers which have appeared to me necessary, and to the allowances for their respective services to the Supervisors,...
67From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 9 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
I now lay before you, a letter from the Secretary of State, covering the copy of one from the Governor of Virginia, with the several papers therein referred to, on the subject of the boundary between that State, and the territory of the United States, south of the river Ohio. It will remain with the Legislature to take such measures, as it shall think best, for settling the said boundary with...
68From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 7 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you copies of certain papers relative to the Spanish interference, in the execution of the Treaty entered into, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, between the United States and the Creek nation of Indians together with a letter from the Secretary of State to the President of the United States, on the same subject. Copy, DNA : RG 233, Second Congress, 1791–93, House...
69From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 7 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
In pursuance of the law, I now lay before you a statement of the administration of the funds appropriated to certain foreign purposes, together with a letter from the Secretary of State, explaining the same. I also lay before you A Copy of a letter and representation from the Chief Justice and Associate Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, stating the difficulties and...
70Address to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 6 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate, and House of Representatives. It is some abatement of the satisfaction, with which I meet you on the present occasion, that in felicitating you on a continuance of the National prosperity generally, I am not able to add to it information that the Indian hostilities, which have, for some time past, distressed our North Western frontier, have terminated. You will,...
71From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 21 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you the Copy of a Letter which I have received from the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States held for the Pennsylvania District, relatively to the “Act to provide for the settlement of the Claims of Widows and Orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to Invalid Pensions. ” DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records...
72From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of a letter from the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States held for the New York District; and of their opinion and agreement respecting the “Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of Widows and Orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to Invalid Pensions.” D[S] , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793,...
73From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 13 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have thought it proper to lay before you a communication of the 11th instant from the Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain, to the Secretary of State relative to the commerce of the two Countries, together with their explanatory correspondence, and the Secretary of State’s letter to me on the subject. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings,...
74From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 20 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The several Acts which have been passed relatively to the military establishment of the United States, and the protection of the Frontiers, do not appear to have made provision for more than one Brigadier General. It is incumbent upon me to observe, that with a view merely to the organization of the troops designated by those Acts, a greater number of Officers of that grade would in my opinion...
75From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 9 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I now lay before you a General Account rendered by the Bankers of the United States at Amsterdam of the payments they had made between the 1st of July 1790 and 1791 from the fund deposited in their hands for the purposes of the Act providing the means of intercourse between the United States, and foreign Nations, and of the balance remaining in their hands; together with a letter from the...
76From 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,...
77From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 3 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of the return of the number of Inhabitants in the District of South Carolina, as made to me by the Marshal thereof; and the copy of a letter which accompanied said return. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW . For GW’s personal interest in the results of the U.S. census of 1790, see GW to...
78From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 8 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
An article of expence having occurred in the department of foreign affairs for which no provision has been made by law, I lay before you a letter from the Secretary of State explaining the same, in order that you may do thereon what you shall find to be right. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA : RG...
79From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 23 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
Having received from the Governor of Virginia a letter, enclosing a Resolution of the General Assembly of that State, and a Report of a Committee of the House of Delegates, respecting certain lands located by the Officers and Soldiers, of the Virginia line under the laws of that State, and since ceded to the Chickasaw Indians, I lay copies of the same before you; together with a Report of the...
80From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 18 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of an exemplified copy of an Act of the Legislature of Vermont, ratifying, on behalf of that State, the Articles of amendment proposed by Congress to the Constitution of the United States; together with a copy of a letter which accompanied said ratification. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB ,...
81From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 11 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you, in confidence, two Reports made to me by the Secretary for the department of War, relatively to the present state of affairs on the western frontiers of the United States. In these Reports the causes of the present war with the Indians; the measures taken by the Executive to terminate it amicably; and the military preparations for the late Campaign are stated and explained;...
82From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 2 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you an official statement of the expenditures, to the end of the year 1791, from the sum of ten thousand dollars granted to defray the contingent expences of Government, by an Act passed on the 26th of March 1790. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA : RG 233, Second Congress, 1791–1793,...
83From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 30 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of the ratification, by the Commonwealth of Virginia, of the Articles of amendment proposed by Congress to the Constitution of the United States; and a copy of a letter which accompanied said ratification from the Governor of Virginia. LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG 233, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Journals. GW enclosed a copy of Gov....
84From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 28 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you, for your consideration, the copy of a letter which I have received from the Attorney General of the United States. L , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG 233, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Journals. The enclosed copy of Edmund Randolph’s letter to GW...
85From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 20 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you the copy of a letter which I have received from the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and of sundry documents which accompanied it, relative to a contract for the purchase of a certain tract of land bounding on Lake Erie; together with a copy of a report of the Secretary of State on the same subject. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of...
86From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 13 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
I place before you the plan of a City that has been laid out within the District of ten miles square, which was fixed upon for the permanent seat of the Government of the United States. DS , sold by Sotheby’s, Catalog 5759, item 205, 26 Oct. 1988; LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG 233, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Journals. For the background to this letter, see...
87From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 12 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
It is with great concern that I communicate to you the information received from Major General St Clair of the misfortune which has befallen the troops under his command. Although the national loss is considerable according to the scale of the event, yet it may be repaired without great difficulty, excepting as to the brave men who have fallen on the occasion, and who are a subject of public...
88From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 11 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have received from the Governor of Virginia a Resolution of the General Assembly of that Commonwealth, ratifying the first Article of the amendments proposed by Congress to the Constitution of the United States. A Copy of which, and of the letter accompanying it, I now lay before you. Sundry papers relating to the purchase by Judge Symmes of the lands on the Great Miami, having been...
89From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 10 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Resolution passed at the last session of Congress, requesting the President of the United States to cause an estimate to be laid before Congress at their next session, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any of the Citizens of the United States, within the territory ceded to the United States by the State of North Carolina,...
90From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 1 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I received yesterday, from the Judge of the District of South Carolina, a letter, inclosing the presentments of the Grand Jury to him; and stating the causes which have prevented the return of the Census from that District; copies of which are now before you. LS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA : RG 233,...
91From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 31 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I send you herewith the arrangement which has been made by me, pursuant to the Act, entitled “An Act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled Spirits imported from abroad, & laying others in their stead, and also upon spirits, distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same,” in respect to the subdivision of the several districts,...
92From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 27 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have directed the secretary of War to lay before you for your information the reports of Brigadier General Scott, and Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Wilkinson, the officers who commanded the two expeditions against the Wabash indians, in the months of June and August last; together with the instructions by virtue of which the said expeditions were undertaken. When the operations now depending...
93From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 27 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of a letter and of sundry documents which I have received from the Governor of Pennsylvania, respecting certain persons who are said to have fled from Justice out of the State of Pennsylvania into that of Virginia; together with a Report of the Attorney General of the United States upon the same subject. I have received from the Governor of North Carolina a copy of an...
94From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 26 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you copies of the following Acts, which have been transmitted to me during the recess of Congress viz. An Act passed by the Legislature of New Hampshire, for ceding to the United States, the Fort and Light House belonging to said State. An Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, ratifying on behalf of said State, the first article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United...
95From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 25 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I meet you, upon the present occasion, with the feelings which are naturally inspired by a strong impression of the prosperous situation of our common Country, and by a persuasion equally strong, that the labours of the Session, which has just commenced, will, under the guidance of a spirit no less prudent than patriotic, issue in measures, conducive to the stability and increase of national...
96From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 18 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have received from the Secretary of State a report on the proceedings of the Governor of the North Western Territory at Kaskaskia, Kahokia, and Prairie under the Resolution of Congress of August 29th 1788, which containing matter proper for your consideration, I lay before you. LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG 233, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Journals; copy,...
97From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 14 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
Soon after I was called to the administration of the Government, I found it important to come to an understanding with the Court of London, on several points interesting to the United States, and particularly to know whether they were disposed to enter into arrangements, by mutual consent, which might fix the commerce between the two Nations on principles of reciprocal advantage. For this...
98From 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...
99From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 27 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
In order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers, and the prospects of hostility in that quarter; I lay before you the intelligence of some recent depredations, received since my message to you upon this subject, of the 24th instant. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; copy, DNA : RG 233, First...
100From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 26 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you the copy of a letter from the President of the National Assembly of France to the President of the United States, and of a decree of that Assembly which was transmitted with the above mentioned letter. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; copy, DNA : RG 233, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Legislative...