RC (DLC); undated; at foot of text: “The Secretaries of State Treasury & War”; addressed: “The Secretary of State &c.”; endorsed by TJ as received 12 June 1793. Dft (PWacD: Feinstone Collection, on deposit PPAmP); dated 12 June 1793; contains one significant variation; at foot of text: “To the Secretaries of State Treasury & War”; docketed by Washington. FC (Lb in DNA: RG 59, SDC); dated 12 June 1793; wording follows Dft. Recorded in SJPL.

The enclosed application was a letter from John Cleves Symmes to Alexander Hamilton of 8 June 1793. No text of the letter has been found, but the journal of the President, to whom Hamilton sent it on 10 June 1793, described it as a communication “on the subject of the land granted to him & his associates” which “mentions his readiness to have the Acts of Congress relative to the land carried into effect and suggests the proper situation for land for an Academy” (Washington, Journal description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed., The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797, Charlottesville, 1981 description ends , 166). The laws in question modified Symmes’s 1788 contract with the Board of Treasury to buy land in the Northwest Territory (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, 1357, 1373–4).