From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 26 January 1791
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives
United States January 26th 1791.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives
I lay before you the copy of a letter from the President of the National Assembly of France to the President of the United States, and of a decree of that Assembly which was transmitted with the above mentioned letter.1
Go: Washington
LS, DNA: RG 46, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; copy, DNA: RG 233, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Journals; LB, DLC:GW.
1. See the National Assembly of France to GW, 20 June 1790, and notes; see also Thomas Jefferson to GW, 9 Dec. 1790 and notes.