Adams Papers

From George Washington to John Adams, 3 March 1795

From George Washington

United States March 3. 1795.

The President of the United States to the Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate.

Certain matters touching the public good, requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Monday the 8th. of June next; you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber in Philadelphia on that day, then and there to receive and deliberate on such communications as shall be made to you on my part1

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RC (Adams Papers); endorsed: “recd 12 March 1795 / ansd The Secretary of / State 16th. 1795.”; docketed by JA: “Summons. 3. March / ansd 16. 1795.”

1. The president convened a special session of the Senate to debate ratification of the newly arrived Jay Treaty, for which see JA’s 5 Feb. letter to Thomas Jefferson, and note 2, above.

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    Adams Papers
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    From George Washington to John Adams, 3 March 1795
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    Washington, George
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    Adams, John
    Date
    3 March 1795

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    “From George Washington to John Adams, 3 March 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0279. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, pp. 382–383.]

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