From George Washington to the United States Senate, 5 December 1793
To the United States Senate
United States,
December the 5th 1793.
Gentlemen of the Senate,
I nominate Stephen Moylan, to be Commissioner of Loans for the State of Pennsylvania; vice Thomas Smith, deceased.1
Go: Washington
LS, DNA: RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB, DLC:GW.
1. On receiving this message, the Senate “Ordered, That it lie for consideration,” but they took up the nomination the next day and approved it ( , 140–41). On that date (6 Dec.) GW’s secretary Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., wrote Thomas Jefferson: “By direction of the President Bw Dandridge has the honor to send to the Secretary of State a resolution of the Senate of yesterday’s date; & to request that a Commission agreeably thereto, may be made ready for Stephen Moylan” (DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters).