From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 13 April 1792

To the United States Senate and House of Representatives

[Philadelphia] April 13. 1792.

Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:

I have thought it proper to lay before you a communication of the 11th instant from the Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain, to the Secretary of State relative to the commerce of the two Countries, together with their explanatory correspondence, and the Secretary of State’s letter to me on the subject.1

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DS, DNA: RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB, DLC:GW.

1. For the enclosures, see Jefferson to GW, 13 April, nn.1–2. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives received GW’s message this day and ordered it to lie on the table (Annals of Congress description begins Joseph Gales, Sr., comp. The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature. 42 vols. Washington, D.C., 1834–56. description ends , 2d Cong., 1st sess., 122, 556).

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Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 13 April 1792
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: United States Senate and House of Representatives
Date: 13 April 1792

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 13 April 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-10-02-0156. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 1 March 1792 – 15 August 1792, ed. Robert F. Haggard and Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, p. 261.]

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