Friday, February 7.
The following Message was received from the President of the United States:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:
I transmit to you an Act and three Ordinances, passed by the Government of the territory of the United States south of the river Ohio, on the 13th and 21st of March, and the 7th of May, 1793; and also certain letters from the Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic, to the Secretary of State, enclosing despatches from the General and Extraordinary Commission of Guadaloupe.
G. WASHINGTON.
United States, February 7, 1794.
The Message and papers therein referred to were read.
Ordered, That the act and three ordinances, mentioned in the Message, be referred to the committee appointed 21st of January last, to whom were referred the laws passed in the territory north-west of the Ohio, to consider and report thereon to the Senate.
Ordered, That the other papers referred to in the Message lie for consideration.
The Senate proceeded to the third reading of the bill, sent from the House of Representatives for concurrence, entitled "An act providing for the relief of such of the inhabitants of Saint Domingo, resident within the United States, as may be found in want of support." Whereupon,
Resolved, That this bill pass as amended.