On the motion to strike out these words: "a confidence derived from past events," it passed in the negative—yeas 9, nays 19, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Chipman, Hindman, Howard, Livermore, Paine, Read, Ross, Tracy, and Wells.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Bloodworth, Brown, Cocke, Dayton, T. Foster, D. Foster, Franklin, Greene, Gunn, Hillhouse, Marshall, S. T. Mason, J. Mason, Morris, Nicholas, and Pinckney.
And the report was agreed to.
Ordered, That the committee who drafted the answer to the Address, wait on the President elect of the United States, and present it to him.
The President laid before the Senate a letter from the President elect of the United States; which was read, as follows:
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Sir: I beg leave, through you, to inform the honorable the Senate of the United States, that I propose to take the oath which the constitution prescribes to the President of the United States, before he enters on the execution of his office, on Wednesday, the 4th instant, at 12 o'clock, in the Senate Chamber.
I have the honor to be, with the greatest respect, sir, your most obedient and most humble servant,
TH. JEFFERSON.