RC (DNA: RG 59, MLR); endorsed by Lear. Tr (same, SDC).

The enclosed report on the subject of commerce with Spain, consisting of Part III of the longer report TJ had been preparing for the President and had submitted to Hamilton for comments, is fully described in textual notes 18–26 to the Report on Negotiations with Spain, 18 Mch. 1792. See also note 3 at Hamilton’s Notes on Report of Instructions for the Commissioners to Spain, with Jefferson’s Comments, 1–5 Mch. 1792. Washington immediately submitted TJ’s report and covering message to the Senate, which consented on 16 Mch. to the extension of the powers of the commissioners in anticipation of a treaty with Spain (Trs of Senate resolution in DLC: TJ Papers, 72: 12486, and DNA: RG 59, SDC; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, 1828 description ends , i, 106–10, 115).