George Washington : Message Regarding the Jay Treaty

AUTHOR — George Washington

George Washington : Message Regarding the Jay Treaty

UNITED STATES, March 31, 1796.

Gentlemen of the Senate:

The treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between the United States and Great Britain requiring that commissioners should be appointed to fix certain boundaries between the territories of the contracting parties, and to ascertain the losses and damages represented to have been sustained by their respective citizens and subjects, as set forth in the fifth, sixth, and seventh articles of the treaty, in order to carry those articles into execution I nominate as commissioners on the part of the United States:

For the purpose mentioned in the fifth article, Henry Knox, of Massachusetts;

For the purpose mentioned in the sixth article, Thomas Fitzsimons, of Pennsylvania, and James Innes, of Virginia; and

For the purposes mentioned in the seventh article, Christopher Gore, of Massachusetts, and William Pinckney, of Maryland.

Go WASHINGTON.

Source:<br>A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents<br>Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on printing, of the House and Senate<br>Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress of the United States.<br>New York : Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1897