From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 31 March 1796
To the United States Senate
United States March 31st 1796
Gentlemen of the Senate
The Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between the United States and Great Britain, requiring that Commissioners should be appointed to fix certain boundaries between the Territories of the contracting parties, and to ascertain the losses and damages represented to have been sustained by their respective Citizens and Subjects, as set forth in the fifth, Sixth and Seventh Articles of the Treaty; In order to carry those Articles into execution, I nominate as Commissioners on the part of the United States,
For the purpose mentioned in the fifth Article, Henry Knox of Massachusetts:
For the purpose mentioned in the Sixth Article, Thomas Fitzsimons of Pennsylvania, and James Innes of Virginia: and
For the purpose mentioned in the Seventh Article, Christopher Gore of Massachusetts and William Pinckney of Maryland.1
Go. Washington
Copy, DLC:GW.
1. After an effort to postpone consideration failed, the Senate approved these nominations on 1 April, but “not however without the negative of the old minority” ( 204–5; Henry Tazewell to John Ambler, 4 April, DLC: Tazewell Papers).