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.

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.