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of the House of Representatives_:
I lay before you an official statement of the expenditures to the end of the year 1791 from the sum of $10,000 granted to defray the contingent expenses of Government by an act passed on the 26th of March, 1790.
Go. WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, _November 7, 1792_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I lay before you copies of certain papers relative to the Spanish interference in the execution of the treaty entered into in the year 1790 between the United States and the Creek Nation of Indians, together with a letter from the Secretary of State to the President of the United States on the same subject.
Go. WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, _December 30, 1793_.
_Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_:
I now transmit you a report by the Secretary of State of such laws, decrees, and ordinances,[5] or their substance, respecting commerce in the countries with which the United States have commercial intercourse as he has received and had not stated in his report of the 16th instant.
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 5: Decree of the National Assembly of France of March 26, 1793, "exempting from all duties the subsistence and other objects of supply in the colonies relatively to the United States," and extract of an ordinance of Spain of June 9, 1793, "for regulating provisionally the commerce of Louisiana and the Floridas."]

UNITED STATES, _December 30, 1793_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I communicate to you the translation of a letter[6] received from the representatives of Spain here in reply to that of the Secretary of State to them of the 21st instant, which had before been communicated to you.
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 6: Relating to affairs with Indians on the southern frontier.]

UNITED STATES, _December 31, 1793_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I now lay before you a letter from the Secretary of State, with his account of the expenditure of the moneys appropriated for our intercourse with foreign nations from the 1st of July, 1792, to the 1st of July, 1793, and other papers relating thereto.
Go. WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, _January 6, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate_:
I herewith transmit the copy of a letter from the Secretary of War, stating the circumstances which have hitherto prevented any explanation of the fourth article of the treaty with the Wabash Indians.
Go. WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, _January 7, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure to the end of the year 1793 from the sum of $10,000 granted to defray the contingent expenses of Government by an act passed on the 26th of March, 1790.
Go. WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, _January 15, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I lay before you, as being connected with the correspondence already in your possession between the Secretary of State and the minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic, the copy of a letter from that minister of the 25th of December, 1793, and a copy of the proceedings of the legislature of the State of South Carolina.[7]
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 7: Relating to enlistments in South Carolina for the service of the French Republic.]

UNITED STATES, _January 16, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I transmit for your information certain intelligence[8] lately received from Europe, as it relates to the subject of my past communications.
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 8: Respecting relations between the United States and France.]

UNITED STATES, _January 22, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I forward to you extracts from the last advices from our minister in London[9], as being connected with communications already made.
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 9: Relating to commercial restrictions.]

UNITED STATES, _January 30, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_:
I lay before you the copy of a letter from the governor of the State of North Carolina, together with two petitions,[10] to which it refers, and which I am requested by the legislature of that State and himself to transmit to Congress.
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 10: Relating to lands ceded to the United States by North Carolina.]

UNITED STATES, _March 12, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I transmit to you the translation of two letters from the commissioners of His Catholic Majesty to the Secretary of State, and of their inclosures.[11]
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 11: Relating to the declaration of war of March 23, 1793, against France by Spain and to expeditions of United States citizens against East Florida.]

UNITED STATES, _March 25, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
The two letters[12] which I now forward to Congress were written by a consul of the United States, and contain information which will probably be thought to require some pecuniary provision.
Go. WASHINGTON.
[Footnote 12: Relating to the capture of American vessels by British ships of war.]

UNITED STATES, _May 23, 1794_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
I lay before you the