Monday, March 4.
In conformity to the summons from the President of the United States, the Senate assembled in the Senate Chamber.
The Hon. John Langdon, President pro tempore, read the summons of the President of the United States, as follows:
The President of the United States to the President of the Senate:
Certain matters, touching the public good, requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Monday the 4th instant, I have desired their attendance, as I do yours, by these presents, at the Senate Chamber, in Philadelphia, on that day; then and there to receive and deliberate on such communications as shall be made to you on my part.
G. WASHINGTON.
March 1, 1793.
The following Senators were present:
John Langdon, from New Hampshire.
George Cabot, from Massachusetts.
Theodore Foster, from Rhode Island.
Oliver Ellsworth and Roger Sherman, from Connecticut.
Rufus King, from New York.
John Rutherford, from New Jersey.
Robert Morris, from Pennsylvania.
George Read, from Delaware.
John Henry and Richard Potts, from Maryland.
James Monroe, from Virginia.
John Brown and John Edwards, from Kentucky.
Benjamin Hawkins, from North Carolina.
Ralph Izard, from South Carolina.
James Gunn, from Georgia.
Samuel Livermore, from the State of New Hampshire, produced his credentials, and took his seat in the Senate; and the oath was administered to him by the President of the Senate, as the law provides.