GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, February 7, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I transmit to you an act and three ordinances passed by the government of the territory of the United States south of the river Ohio on the 13th and 21st of March and the 7th of May, 1793, and also certain letters from the minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Secretary of State, inclosing dispatches from the general and extraordinary commission of Guadaloupe.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, February 19, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I lay before you the copy of a letter which I have received from the Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and, at their desire, the representation mentioned in the said letter, pointing out certain defects in the judiciary system.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, February 24, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

The extracts which I now lay before you, from a letter of our minister at London, are supplementary to some of my past communications, and will appear to be of a confidential nature.

I also transmit to you copies of a letter from the Secretary of State to the minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty, and of the answer thereto, upon the subject of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, together with the copy of a letter from Messrs. Carmichael and Short, relative to our affairs with Spain, which letter is connected with a former confidential message,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, February 26, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

I have caused the correspondence which is the subject of your resolution of the 24th day of January last to be laid before me.  After an examination of it I directed copies and translations to be made, except in those particulars which, in my judgment, for public considerations, ought not to be communicated.

These copies and translations are now transmitted to the Senate; but the nature of them manifests the propriety of their being received as confidential.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, March 3, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I transmit to you an extract from a letter of Mr. Short, relative to our affairs with Spain, and copies of two letters from our minister at Lisbon, with their inclosures, containing intelligence from Algiers.  The whole of these communications are made in confidence, except the passage in Mr. Short’s letter which respects the Spanish convoy.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, March 5, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: