1Tobias Lear to the Cabinet, 24 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States requests the attendance of the Secretary of State, at nine O’clock tomorrow morning, at the President’s House, on the subject of the note sent to the Secretary from the President, on the 17th Inst. and that the Secretary will bring with him such remarks as he may have committed to writing in pursuance of said note. At the same time the President will lay...
2From George Washington to the Cabinet, 18 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The posture of affairs in Europe, particularly between France and Great Britain, places the United States in a delicate situation; and Requires much consideration of the measures which will be proper for them to observe in the War betwn those Powers. With a view to forming a general plan of conduct for the Executive, I have stated and enclosed sundry questions to be considered preparatory to a...
3From George Washington to the Cabinet, 25 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Resolution moved in the House of Representatives for the Papers relative to the Negociation of the Treaty with Great Britain having passed in the affirmative, I request your opinion Whether that branch of Congress hath—or hath not a right, by the Constitution, to call for those Papers? Whether, if it does not possess the right, it would be expedient, under the circumstances of this...
4From George Washington to the Cabinet, 16 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
Tomorrow I shall commence my journey for Virginia. My absence from the seat of Government will be as short as I can make it, to answer the purposes of my going. In the interim, occurrences may happen, out of the common rotine which might suffer by delay. where this is the case, & the matter is of importance, advise with the other Secretaries, & the Attorney General, and carry any unanimous...
5From George Washington to the Cabinet, 14 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
As I cannot, without peculiar inconvenience to my private concerns, remain in this City beyond sunday next, I desire that all the business in your department which calls for my immediate attention, may be presented to me in the course of this week. LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The next Sunday was 18 September.
6From George Washington to the Cabinet, 12 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
As you are about to meet on other business, it is my desire that you would take the enclosed application into consideration. It is not my wish, on one hand, to throw unnecessary obstacles in the way of gratifying the wishes of the applicants. On the other it is incumbent on me to proceed with regularity. Would not the granting a Patent then, which I believe is always the concluding act, &...
7From George Washington to the Cabinet, 27 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
As the day is near at hand, when the President-elect is to take the oath of qualification, and no mode is pointed out by the constitution or law; I could wish that you, Mr Jef. Gen. K. and Mr R., could meet to-morrow morning, at any place, which you may fix between yourselves; and communicate to me to the result of your opinions as to the time, place and manner of qualification. P.S. Mr...
8From George Washington to the Cabinet, 17 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Sir, United States [Philadelphia] Feby 17th 1793. I transmit you a copy of a Letter from the Secretary of War to me, with the heads of instructions proposed to be given to the Commissioners who may be appointed to hold a Treaty with the Western Indians in the Spring. As I intend in a few days to call for the advice & opinion of the heads of the Departments on the points touched upon...
9From George Washington to the Cabinet, 29 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
It will not be amiss, I conceive, at the meeting you are about to have today—to reconsider the expediency of directing the Custom house Officers to be attentive to the Arming or equipping Vessels—either for offensive or defensive War in the several Ports to which they belong—and make Report thereof to the Governor, or some other proper Officer. Unless this, or some other effectual mode is...
10From George Washington to the Cabinet, 1 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The propriety of sending an agent among the Chicasaws & Choctaws—talk of, but not resolved on the other day —may undergo further consideration at your present meeting; and a decision come to for, or against the measure. ALS , NhD . The Cabinet discussed U.S. relations with the southern Indians during its meetings of 28 and 29 May ( JPP Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the...