I. 1st. The families of foreign ministers, arriving at the seat of government, receive the first visit from those of the national ministers, as from all other residents.
2d. Members of the Legislature and of the Judiciary, independent of their offices, have a right as strangers to receive the first visit.
II. 1st. No title being admitted here, those of foreigners give no precedence.
2d. Differences of grade among the diplomatic members, gives no precedence.
3d. At public ceremonies, to which the government invites the presence of foreign ministers and their families, a convenient seat or station will be provided for them, with any other strangers invited and the families of the national ministers, each taking place as they arrive, and without any precedence.
4th. To maintain the principle of equality, or of pêle mêla, and prevent the growth of precedence out of courtesy, the members of the Executive will practice at their own houses, and recommend an adherence to the ancient usage of the country, of gentlemen in mass giving precedence to the ladies in mass, in passing from one apartment where they are assembled into another.
XXXVI.
Charges exhibited to the President of the United States against the Honorable Arthur Sinclair, as Governor of the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio.
1st. He has usurped legislative powers by the erection of counties and location of the seats of justice, by proclamation, on his own sole authority.
2d. He has misused the power of negativing legislative acts, by putting his negative on laws useful and necessary for the territory.
3d. He has refused to perform the duties of his office but on the payment of arbitrary fees not established by any lawful authority.