A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 10.
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 10.
Presidents -- United States; United States -- History -- Sources; United States -- Politics and government
I lay before you, as being connected with the correspondence already in
your possession between the Secretary of State and the minister
plenipotentiary of the French Republic, the copy of a letter from that
minister of the 25th of December, 1793, and a copy of the proceedings of
the legislature of the State of South Carolina.[7]
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 7: Relating to enlistments in South Carolina for the service
of the French Republic.]
UNITED STATES, _January 16, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I transmit for your information certain intelligence[8] lately received
from Europe, as it relates to the subject of my past communications.
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 8: Respecting relations between the United States and France.]
UNITED STATES, _January 22, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I forward to you extracts from the last advices from our minister in
London[9], as being connected with communications already made.
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 9: Relating to commercial restrictions.]
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.]
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