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From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 31 March 1796

To the United States Senate

United States March 31st 1796

Gentlemen of the Senate

The Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between the United States and Great Britain, requiring that Commissioners should be appointed to fix certain boundaries between the Territories of the contracting parties, and to ascertain the losses and damages represented to have been sustained by their respective Citizens and Subjects, as set forth in the fifth, Sixth and Seventh Articles of the Treaty; In order to carry those Articles into execution, I nominate as Commissioners on the part of the United States,

For the purpose mentioned in the fifth Article, Henry Knox of Massachusetts:

For the purpose mentioned in the Sixth Article, Thomas Fitzsimons of Pennsylvania, and James Innes of Virginia: and

For the purpose mentioned in the Seventh Article, Christopher Gore of Massachusetts and William Pinckney of Maryland.1

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1. After an effort to postpone consideration failed, the Senate approved these nominations on 1 April, but “not however without the negative of the old minority” (Senate Executive Journal, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America: From the commencement of the First, to the termination of the Nineteenth Congress. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., 1828. description ends 204–5; Henry Tazewell to John Ambler, 4 April, DLC: Tazewell Papers).

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    “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 31 March 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-19-02-0519. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 19, 1 October 1795–31 March 1796, ed. David R. Hoth. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, pp. 643–644.]

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