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, inclosing dispatches from the general and extraordinary commission of Guadaloupe.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
UNITED STATES, February 19, 1794.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
I lay before you the copy of a letter which I have received from the Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and, at their desire, the representation mentioned in the said letter, pointing out certain defects in the judiciary system.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
UNITED STATES, February 24, 1794.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
The extracts which I now lay before you, from a letter of our minister at London, are supplementary to some of my past communications, and will appear to be of a confidential nature.