The President to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 18 February 1791

The President to the Senate and the House of Representatives

United States
February 18th, 1791.

Gentlemen of the Senate, and House of Representatives

I have received from the Secretary of State a Report on the Proceedings of the Governor of the Northwestern Territory at Kaskaskia, Kahokia, and Prairie, under the Resolution of Congress of August 29th. 1788, which containing Matter proper for your Consideration, I lay the same before you.

Go: Washington


RC (DNA: RG 46, Senate Records, 1st. Cong., 3rd. sess.); in clerk's hand, signed by Washington; endorsed. Dft (DLC); in clerk's hand; undated and unsigned (enclosed in TJ's memorandum to the President, 17 Feb. 1791).