PrC (DLC); in a clerk’s hand except for signature and postscript. FC (Lb in DNA: RG 360, DL). Recorded in SJPL.

TJ prepared this table at the request of the Register of the Treasury (Joseph Nourse to TJ, 12 Oct. 1792), but it is not known when he transmitted it to Nourse. The act of the last congress was the March 1792 law relating to the election of the President and the Vice-President, the fourth section of which required the Secretary of State to dispatch special messengers to any state whose electoral votes had not reached the national capital by the first Wednesday in January after the election (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834–56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title-page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , iii, 1342).