RC (DNA: RG 59, MLR); addressed: “The Pr[…]”; endorsed by Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr. PrC (DLC). Tr (Lb in DNA: RG 59, SDC). Recorded in SJPL: “Report on proceedgs. S.W. of Ohio.” Enclosures: (1) Journal of the Proceedings of Governor William Blount of the Southwest Territory, 13 Mch.-15 June 1793 (Tr in DNA: RG 59, SWT, in the hand of Daniel Smith; Tr in Lb in DNA: RG 76, Yazoo Land Claims; printed in Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934–, 28 vols. description ends , iv, 453–7). (2) Act of the Governor and Judges of the Southwest Territory, 13 Mch. 1793, requiring that persons holding fines, fees, and taxes from court cases, the probate of deeds, the registration of land grants, and the issuing of licenses pay them to territorial secretary Daniel Smith, and that the secretary, court clerks, and county registers give bond for payment of the same (Tr in DNA: RG 59, SWT, in Smith’s hand; printed in Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934–, 28 vols. description ends , iv, 242–3). (3) Daniel Smith to TJ, Knoxville, 1 Sep. 1793, enclosing Nos. 1–2, the latter “on a separate paper, it being, as is conceived, to be laid before Congress” (RC in DNA: RG 59, SWT, at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire Secretary of State”; Tr in Lb in DNA: RG 76, Yazoo Land Claims; recorded in SJL as received 7 Nov. 1793; printed in Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934–, 28 vols. description ends , iv, 305).

The President received this report on 8 Nov. 1793 (Washington, Journal description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed., The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797, Charlottesville, 1981 description ends , 249). See also TJ to George Washington, [7 Nov. 1793].