From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 19 May 1796
To the United States Senate
United States May 19th 1796.
Gentlemen of the Senate,
I nominate
James Simpson, at present Consul of the United States at Gibraltar, to be their consul for the Kingdom of Morocco
John S. M. Matthieu, to be their Consul at the City of Naples.
Francis Coffyn, to be their Consul at Dunkirk
James Holmes, to be their Consul at Belfast in the Kingdom of Ireland.1
George Knox, to be their Consul at Kingston upon Hull in England.2
Go: Washington
LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 52; copy, DLC:GW.
The Senate received these nominations on this date and approved them on 20 May (
209).1. For the consulships at Morocco, Naples, Dunkirk, and Belfast, see Report on Foreign Affairs, 12 May, printed as an enclosure with Timothy Pickering to GW, same date.
2. See Pickering to GW, 18 May, and n.2 to that document.