161From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 25 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure, to the end of the year 1792, from the sum of ten thousand dollars, granted to defray the contingent expenses of government, by an Act passed, on the twenty sixth of March 1790. Also an abstract of a supplementary arrangement made in the district of North Carolina, in regard to certain surveys, to facilitate the execution of the law...
162Executive Order, 22 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the President, of the United States of America. An Act making alterations in the arrangements for the security & collection of the Revenue, in the District of No. Carolina. Whereas the arrangement of Surveys of Inspection in the District of North Carolina made by the Act of the President of the United States of the fifteenth day of March 1791 has been found on experience to require revision...
163From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Nothing occurs to me as necessary to be added to the enclosed project. If the Subscription is not confined to the members of the Philosophical Society I would readily add my mite to the means for encouraging Mr Michaud’s undertaking—and do authorize you to place me among, & upon a footing with the respectable sums which may be Subscribed. I am always Yours. ALS , DLC : Jefferson Papers; ADfS ,...
164From George Washington to Uriah Forrest, 20 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Previous to the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst. enclosing a copy of Mr Elli[c]ott’s answer to the attempt wh. you made to dissuade him from quitting the business in wh. he is engaged, I had learnt, with concern, that there had been some altercation between him & the Commissioners of the federal District, relative to the time & money which had been expended in running & marking the...
165From George Washington to Henry Lee, 20 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of the 6th instant, congratulatory on my re-election to the Chair of Government. A mind must be insensible indeed, not to be gratefully impressed by so distinguished, & honorable a testimony of public approbation & confidence: and, as I suffered my name to be contemplated on this occasion, it is more than probable that I should, for a moment, have...
166From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 20 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter dated the 16th instant, enclosing the Reports of the preceeding week, came duly to hand. and the parts requiring it, will be duly noticed. Enclosed you have a list of Paints Oil &ca which left this yesterday morning; and may, possibly, be at Alexandria (if the Vessel is not detained at Norfolk where she is to call) nearly as soon as this letter may reach Mount Vernon. It might be...