A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 163 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

UNITED STATES, January 30, 1794.

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives

I lay before you the copy of a letter from the governor of the State of North Carolina, together with two petitions,[10] to which it refers, and which I am requested by the legislature of that State and himself to transmit to Congress.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 10:  Relating to lands ceded to the United States by North Carolina.]

UNITED STATES, March 12, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives

I transmit to you the translation of two letters from the commissioners of His Catholic Majesty to the Secretary of State, and of their inclosures.[11]

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 11:  Relating to the declaration of war of March 23, 1793, against France by Spain and to expeditions of United States citizens against East Florida.]

UNITED STATES, March 25, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives

The two letters[12] which I now forward to Congress were written by a consul of the United States, and contain information which will probably be thought to require some pecuniary provision.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 12:  Relating to the capture of American vessels by British ships of war.]

UNITED STATES, May 23, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives

I lay before you the copy of a letter from the minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty, in answer to a letter from the Secretary of State communicated to Congress yesterday, and also the copy of a letter from the Secretary which is referred to in the above-mentioned letter of the minister.[13]

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 13:  Relating to a speech of Lord Dorchester, Governor-General of Canada, tending to an incitement of the Indians to hostilities against the United States, to complaints against alleged acts of violence by citizens of Vermont, etc.]

UNITED STATES, June 4, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives

I lay before Congress the copy of a letter, with its inclosures, from the Secretary of State to the minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty, it being an answer to a letter from the minister to him bearing date the 22d ultimo and already communicated.[14]

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 14:  Relating to a speech of Lord Dorchester, Governor-General of Canada, tending to an incitement of the Indians to hostilities against the United States; justifying the measures pursued by the United States to enforce their neutrality, and rebutting the accusation of partiality to France.]

UNITED STATES, December 3, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives

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