act: According to the House of Representatives journal the joint committee for enrolled bills brought this bill to GW on 22 June 1790. On 23 June “A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Lear his Secretary” in the House assenting to the bill (DE PAUW description begins Linda Grant De Pauw et al., eds. Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791. 20 vols. to date. Baltimore, 1972–. description ends , 3:469, 473; see also 1 STAT. description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends 128 [23 June 1790]).

Gov. George Clinton’s residence was at 10 Queen Street, near the end of Cedar Street. The house, for which Clinton paid £300 a year rent, had been confiscated from Loyalist Henry White and was “a two-story and attic house, five windows wide, with a sloping tiled roof, containing five dormer windows” (SMITH [4] description begins Thomas E. V. Smith. The City of New York in the Year of Washington’s Inauguration, 1789. 1889. Reprint. Riverside, Conn., 1972. description ends , 31; SPAULDING description begins E. Wilder Spaulding. His Excellency George Clinton: Critic of the Constitution. New York, 1938. description ends , 194). It was presumably this residence rather than the Clinton’s farm on the Hudson outside the city which GW visited today. GW and Mrs. Washington had frequent social contacts with Clinton and his wife, Cornelia Tappen Clinton, during the Revolution and after the war a friendly correspondence had been maintained, Clinton sending GW trees and various plants for Mount Vernon. In spite of political differences between Clinton and GW after the new government was established, social relations between the two families remained warm. As a rule, partly because of Mrs. Clinton’s ill health, the Clintons did little entertaining. Abigail Adams Smith found Mrs. Clinton “not a showy, but a kind, friendly woman” (ROOF description begins Katharine Metcalf Roof. Colonel William Smith and Lady: The Romance of Washington’s Aide and Young Abigail Adams. Boston, 1929. description ends , 197; SPAULDING description begins E. Wilder Spaulding. His Excellency George Clinton: Critic of the Constitution. New York, 1938. description ends , 192–94).

medals: See entry for 29 April 1790.

For background to “An Act providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign Nations,” see entries for 23 and 26 Mar., 16 and 27 April 1790, 7 May 1790.

“An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Twining” (6 STAT. description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends 3 [1 July 1790]) remitted a penalty incurred by Twining’s failure to abide by his contract to deliver the mail between Charleston, S.C., and Savannah in 1787. “An Act to satisfy the claims of John McCord against the United States” (6 STAT. description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends 2–3 [1 July 1790]) granted McCord $809.71 for supplies furnished the Continental Army in Canada in 1776.