GENTLEMEN: The sentiments expressed in your address are entitled to my particular acknowledgment. Having no object but the good of our country, this testimony of approbation and confidence from its immediate Representatives must be among my best rewards, as the support of your enlightened patriotism has been among my greatest encouragements. Being persuaded that you will continue to be actuated by the same auspicious principle, I look forward to the happiest consequences from your deliberations during the present session. GEORGE WASHINGTON. DECEMBER 13, 1790. SPECIAL MESSAGES. UNITED STATES, _December 23, 1790_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives_: It appearing by the report of the secretary of the government northwest of the Ohio that there are certain cases respecting grants of land within that territory which require the interference of the Legislature of the United States, I have directed a copy of said report and the papers therein referred to to be laid before you, together with a copy of the report of the Secretary of State upon the same subject. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _December 30, 1790_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives_: I lay before you a report of the Secretary of State on the subject of the citizens of the United States in captivity at Algiers, that you may provide on their behalf what to you shall seem most expedient. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _January 3, 1791_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives_: I lay before you a copy of an exemplified copy of an act passed by the legislature of the State of New Jersey for vesting in the United States of America the jurisdiction of a lot of land at Sandy Hook, in the county of Monmouth, and a copy of a letter which accompanied said act, from the governor of the State of New Jersey to the President of the United States. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _January 17, 1791_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives_: I lay before you an official statement of the appropriation of $10,000, granted to defray the contingent expenses of Government by an act of the 26th March, 1790. A copy of two resolutions of the legislature of Virginia, and a petition of sundry officers and assignees of officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, on the subject of bounty lands allotted to them on the northwest side of the Ohio; and A copy of an act of the legislature of Maryland to empower the wardens of the port of Baltimore to levy and collect the duty therein mentioned. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _January 17, 1791_. _Gentlemen of the Senate_: I lay before you a letter from His Most Christian Majesty, addressed to the President and Members of Congress of the United States of America. GEORGE WASHINGTON. _To our very dear friends and allies, the President and Members of the General Congress of the United States of North America_.