1Message to the New York State Assembly, 15 January 1796 (Jay Papers)
You have already been apprized that the Sum granted by the Act respecting infectious Distempers, proved incompetent to the Expences (of which an Account is preparing) occasioned by the late calamitous Sickness in this City. And also that the precautions taken in Albany against the introduction of it into that City caused Expenditures which yet remain to be provided for. To the end that the...
2Message to the New York State Assembly, 21 March 1798 (Jay Papers)
IN pursuance of your resolution of the 19 th instant, I have taken measures to be informed of the present intentions of the government of the United States, relative to putting the city and port of New-York in a respectable state of defence—, on receiving that information, it shall be immediately communicated to you. As the constitution of the United States has committed to our national...
3Message to the New York State Assembly, 14 August 1798 (Jay Papers)
It gives me pleasure to find that you concur with me in opinion, as to the situation of our public affairs, and the expediency of convening the Legislature at this alarming crisis. The utility of this measure will depend on the result of your deliberations; which will I am persuaded be such, as clearly to evince that the fear of France has not fallen upon us, but on the contrary, that we have...
4Message to the New York State Assembly, 26 February 1801 (Jay Papers)
IT has generally and justly been considered as highly important to the security and duration of free States, that the different Departments and Officers of Government should exercise those powers only, which are constitutionally vested in them; and that all controversies between them, respecting the limits of their respective jurisdictions and authorities, be circumspectly and speedily...
5Message to the New York State Assembly, 28 March 1801 (Jay Papers)
FOR the reasons mentioned in it, I wrote the following letter to the Chancellor, and to the Chief Justice and other Judge of the Supreme Court, viz. [ Here Jay embedded a copy of his letter to the New York State Chancellor (Robert R. Livingston), Chief Justice (John Lansing Jr.), and Associate Justices of the New York State Supreme Court (Egbert Benson, James Kent, Morgan Lewis, and Jacob...