1Address to the Senate, [4 March 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
Entering on the duties of the office to which I am called, I feel it incumbent on me to apologize to this honourable house for the insufficient manner in which I fear they may be discharged. At an earlier period of my life, and through some considerable portion of it, I have been a member of legislative bodies, and not altogether inattentive to the forms of their proceedings; but much time has...
2John Adams to the Senate, [24 May 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
It would be an affectation in me, to dissemble, the pleasure I feel, on receiving this Kind Address. My long experience of the Wisdom, Fortitude, and Patriotism of the Senate of the United States, enhances in my estimation, the Value of those obliging expressions of your approbation of my conduct, which are a generous reward for the past, and an affecting encouragement to constancy and...
3Memorial of Charleston Merchants to the Senate, 2 November 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Charleston, 2 Nov. 1797. They represent that by the laws of South Carolina and by practice of long standing, the wharves onto which imported goods are unladen in the city of Charleston are privately owned and the proprietors of the wharves have collected fees for the weighing of merchandise. The present collector of the port refuses to recognize the wharfholders’ agents as weighers. He...
4Memorial of Charleston Wharfholders to the Senate, 10 November 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Charleston, 10 Nov. 1797. The owners and lessees of wharves in the city of Charleston represent that a compact among planters, merchants, and wharfholders to regulate the docking of vessels and the landing, weighing, and storage of goods in the city was codified by an act passed by the assembly of South Carolina on 12 Apr. 1768. That law specified rates for weighing merchandise, established...
5Address from Samuel Sitgreaves to the Senate, [7 February 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
The House of Representatives having agreed upon Articles in Maintenance of their Impeachment against William Blount for High Crimes & Misdemeanors, and having appointed on their Part Managers of the said Impeachment, the Managers have now the Honor to attend the Senate for the Purpose of exhibiting the said Articles MS ( DNA : RG 46, Senate Records, 5th Cong., 2d sess.); in an unknown hand;...
6From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 31 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I now lay before you the treaty mentioned in my general message at the opening of the session, as having been concluded with the Kaskaskia Indians, for the transfer of their country to us, under certain reservations & conditions. Progress having been made in the demarcation of Indian boundaries, I am now able to communicate to you a Treaty with the Delawares, Shawanese, Poutewatamies, Miamis,...
7Enclosure: Report of the Committee of Finance to the United States Senate on the Memorial of the Trustees of … (Jefferson Papers)
IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES , january 8, 1822. —●— The Committee of Finance , to whom was referred the memorial of the Trustees of the Transylvania University , praying for a repeal of the duties on books imported into the United States — REPORT: That the act of Congress of the 27th April, 1816
8From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 11 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I now lay before the Senate the several treaties & conventions following which have been entered into on the part of the US. since their last Session. 1. A treaty of peace & amity between the US. of America & the Basha-Bey & subjects of Tripoli in Barbary. 2. A treaty between the US. & the Wiandot, Ottawa, Chippawa, Munsee & Delaware, Shawanee & Putawatamy nations of Indians. 3. A treaty...
9From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 16 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Joseph Willcox, whose commission as Marshall of the district of Connecticut will expire on the 20th. inst. to be Marshall of the same district for four years next ensuing that date. Benjamin Wall, whose commission as Marshall of the district of Georgia will expire on the 26th. of January next, to be marshall of the same district for four years next ensuing that date. Joseph...
10From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 20 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Vacancies having happened during the last recess of the Senate in the following offices, I granted commissions to the persons herein respectively named, which commissions will expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. I now therefore nominate the same persons to the same offices respectively for appointment. John Breckenridge of Kentucky to be Attorney General of the US. Robert...