From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 31 October 1791
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives
United States [Philadelphia] October 31st 1791.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives.
I send you herewith the arrangement which has been made by me, pursuant to the Act, entitled “An Act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled Spirits imported from abroad, & laying others in their stead, and also upon spirits, distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same,” in respect to the subdivision of the several districts, created by the said Act, into surveys of Inspection, the appointment of Officers for the same, and the assignment of compensations.
Go: Washington
DS, ICHi; LB, DLC:GW; copy, DNA: RG 233, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Journals.
For the Excise Act of 3 Mar. and the arrangements made under it, see GW to the U.S. Senate, 4 Mar. (third letter), Executive Order, 15 Mar., source note, GW to Alexander Hamilton, 15 Mar.; 199–214. The accompanying document, signed by Hamilton on 31 Oct., is printed in 9:426–31. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives received the message on 1 Nov. ( , 2d Cong., 1st sess., 21–24, 150).