1. With protracted debate over the Jay Treaty coming to a close, the British chargé d’affaires Phineas Bond drew attention to a potential conflict between Art. 3 of the Jay Treaty and Art. 8 of the Treaty of Greenville, which would have called for British merchants to seek special licenses from the U.S. government in order to trade with Native peoples. A new explanatory article, introduced by the president and ratified by the Senate on 9 May, mandated that “no stipulations in any treaty subsequently concluded by either of the contracting parties with any other State or Nation, or with any Indian tribe, can be understood to derogate in any manner from the rights of free intercourse & commerce secured” by Art. 3 (Washington, Papers, Presidential Series description begins The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Jack D. Warren, Mark A. Mastromarino, Robert F. Haggard, Christine S. Patrick, John C. Pinheiro, David R. Hoth, Jennifer Stertzer and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1987– . description ends , 20:100–101).

2. The enclosure has not been found. Irish-born James Mathers (1750–1811) served as doorkeeper of the U.S. Senate from 1789 until his death (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 11:151).