SIEVÈS, President.  GOUDAU, FÉLIX DE PARDIEU, DUMOUCHET, Secretaries.

UNITED STATES, February 18, 1791.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I have received from the Secretary of State a report on the proceedings of the governor of the Northwestern Territory at Kaskaskia, Kahokia, and Prairie under the resolution of Congress of August 29, 1788, which, containing matter proper for your consideration, I lay the same before you.[3]

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 3:  Relating to land claimants in the Northwest Territory.]

UNITED STATES, February 22, 1791.

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

I lay before you a report of the Secretary of War, relative to the appointment of two brigadier-generals of militia in the territory of the United States south of the Ohio, and I nominate John Sevier to be brigadier-general of the militia of Washington district and James Robertson to be brigadier-general of the militia of Miro district, both within the said territory.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, December 28, 1791.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I lay before you, for your consideration, the copy of a letter[4] which
I have received from the Attorney-General of the United States.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 4:  Respecting the relation between district attorneys and the Attorney-General.]

UNITED STATES, January 2, 1792.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I lay before you an official statement of the expenditures to the end of the year 1791 from the sum of $10,000 granted to defray the contingent expenses of Government by an act passed on the 26th of March, 1790.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, November 7, 1792.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I lay before you copies of certain papers relative to the Spanish interference in the execution of the treaty entered into in the year 1790 between the United States and the Creek Nation of Indians, together with a letter from the Secretary of State to the President of the United States on the same subject.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, December 30, 1793.

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: 

I now transmit you a report by the Secretary of State of such laws, decrees, and ordinances,[5] or their substance, respecting commerce in the countries with which the United States have commercial intercourse as he has received and had not stated in his report of the 16th instant.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 5:  Decree of the National Assembly of France of March 26, 1793, “exempting from all duties the subsistence and other objects of supply in the colonies relatively to the United States,” and extract of an ordinance of Spain of June 9, 1793, “for regulating provisionally the commerce of Louisiana and the Floridas.”]