151From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 17 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I nominate William Keais, of North Carolina, to be Collector for the port of Washington, and Inspector of the Revenue for the same; vice Nathan Keais, deceased. LS , DNA : RG 46, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB , DLC:GW . Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott, Jr., wrote GW’s secretary Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., on 16 Dec., informing him that...
152From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 21 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Herewith I transmit, for your information and consideration, the original letter from the Emperor of Morocco, recognizing the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and his father the late Emperor; accompanied with a translation thereof, and various documents relating to the negotiation by which the recognition was effected. LS , DNA : RG 46, Records of Executive Proceedings,...
153From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 13 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
I nominate William Jackson, of Philadelphia, to be Surveyor for the port of Philadelphia, and Inspector of the Revenue for the same; vice Walter Stewart resigned: Simons Maxwell, to be Collector for the District of Hardwick, in Georgia, and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Hardwick; vice Thomas Collier, resigned. and Stephen Bingham to be Surveyor for the port of West-point in the...
154From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 26 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
I nominate William Cushing, of Massachusetts, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Samuel Chase, of Maryland, to be one of the associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; vice John Blair resigned and James McHenry, of Maryland to be Secretary for the Department of War. Copy, DLC:GW . The Senate approved these nominations on 27 Jan. ( Senate Executive...
155From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 15 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Herewith I transmit, for your consideration and Advice, a Treaty of peace and Amity concluded on the fifth day of last September, by Joseph Donaldson Junior on the part of the United States, with the Dey of Algiers for himself his Divan and subjects. The instructions and other necessary papers relative to this negociation are also sent herewith, for the information of the Senate. LS , DNA : RG...
156From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 26 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
I send herewith the Treaty concluded on the 27th of October last between the United States and Spain, by their respective Plenipotentiaries. The communications to the Senate referred to in my message of the 16th of December 1793, contain the instructions to the Commissioners of the United States, Messrs Carmichael & Short, and various details relative to the negociations with Spain. Herewith I...
157From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 3 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Oliver Elsworth, of Connecticut, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; vice William Cushing, resigned. LS , DNA : RG 46, entry 52; copy, DLC:GW . The Senate approved this nomination on 4 March ( Senate Executive Journal, Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America: From the commencement of the First, to the termination...
158From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 29 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
I send herewith a copy of the Treaty of Friendship, Limits and Navigation, between the United States and his Catholic Majesty, which has been ratified by me with your Advice and Consent. A copy of the Treaty will be immediately communicated to the House of Representatives: it being necessary to make provision, in the present Session, for carrying into execution the Third and Twenty first...
159From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 31 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
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...
160From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 18 April 1796 (Washington Papers)
I nominate John McIntosh to be Collector and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Brunswick, in the State of Georgia, in the room of Christopher Hillary deceased: and Stephen Skinner to be Surveyor and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Hartford in the State of North Carolina, in the room of Josiah Murdaugh resigned. LS , DNA : RG 46, entry 52; LB , DLC:GW . The Senate ordered that...