I transmit to you copies of a letter from the governor of the State of Delaware and of an act inclosed "declaring the assent of that State to an amendment therein mentioned to the Constitution of the United States." GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _June 8, 1795_.[2] [Footnote 2: For proclamation convening Senate in extraordinary session see p. 587.] _Gentlemen of the Senate_: In pursuance of my nomination of John Jay as envoy extraordinary to His Britannic Majesty on the 16th day of April, 1794, and of the advice and consent of the Senate thereto on the 19th, a negotiation was opened in London. On the 7th of March, 1795, the treaty resulting therefrom was delivered to the Secretary of State. I now transmit to the Senate that treaty and other documents connected with it. They will, therefore, in their wisdom decide whether they will advise and consent that the said treaty be made between the United States and His Britannic Majesty. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _June 25, 1795_. _Gentlemen of the Senate_: It has been represented by our minister plenipotentiary near the French Republic that such of our commercial relations with France as may require the support of the United States in _detail_ can not be well executed without a consul-general. Of this I am satisfied when I consider the extent of the mercantile claims now depending before the French Government, the necessity of bringing into the hands of one agent the various applications to the several committees of administration residing at Paris, the attention which must be paid to the conduct of consuls, and vice-consuls, and the nature of the services which are the peculiar objects of a minister's care, and leave no leisure for his intervention in business to which consular functions are competent. I therefore nominate Fulwar Skipwith to be consul-general of the United States in France. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _June 25, 1795_. _Gentlemen of the Senate_: