I have directed a copy of the letter and resolve to be laid before you. The documents which accompanied them being but copies of some of the papers which were delivered to you with my communication of the 9th of this month, I have thought it unnecessary to lay them before you at this time. They will be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, together with the originals of the above-mentioned letters and resolve. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _March 8, 1790_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives_: I have received from His Excellency Joshua Clayton, president of the State of Delaware, the articles proposed by Congress to the legislatures of the several States as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which articles were transmitted to him for the consideration of the legislature of Delaware, and are now returned with the following resolutions annexed to them, viz: The general assembly of Delaware having taken into their consideration the above amendments, proposed by Congress to the respective legislatures of the several States, _Resolved_, That the first article be postponed; _Resolved_, That the general assembly do agree to the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth articles, and we do hereby assent to, ratify, and confirm the same as part of the Constitution of the United States. In testimony whereof we have caused the great seal of the State to be hereunto affixed this 28th day of January, A.D. 1790, and in the fourteenth year of the independence of the Delaware State. Signed by order of council. GEORGE MITCHELL, _Speaker_. Signed by order of the house of assembly. JEHU DAVIS, _Speaker_. I have directed a copy of the letter which accompanied the said articles, from His Excellency Joshua Clayton to the President of the United States, to be laid before you. The before-mentioned articles and the original of the letter will be lodged in the office of the Secretary of State. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _March 16, 1790_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives_: I have directed my secretary to lay before you the copy of an act and the form of ratification of certain articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States by the legislature of the State of Pennsylvania, together with the copy of a letter which accompanied the said act, from the speaker of the house of assembly of Pennsylvania to the President of the United States. The originals of the above will be lodged in the office of the Secretary of State. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _April 1, 1790_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives_: