NOTE: The appropriate part of the Executive Journal for this session has been extracted from the first edition of JOURNAL OF THE EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE, published by Duff Green in 1828. GUIDE SECOND SESSION Creek Nation; Transactions Relative to Eastern boundary; differences with Great Britain relative to 228 228, 233-4 Collectors, Naval Officers, and Surveyors; Nominations of 229 Creek Nation; Secret Article to treaty regarding trade with 247 NOTE: These page numbers reflect those found at the bottom of the page, not the pages of the original edition which remain at the top. EXECUTIVE JOURNAL. [SECOND SESSION.] MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1790. A message from the President of the United States, by the Secretary at War, was read as followeth: Gentlemen of the Senate: UNITED STATES, January 11th, 1790. Having advised with you upon the terms of a treaty to be offered to the Creek Nation of Indians, I think it proper you should be informed of the result of that business, previous to its coming before you in your legislative capacity. I have therefore directed the Secretary for the Department of War to lay before you my instructions to the Commissioners, and their report in consequence thereof. The apparently critical state of the southern frontier will render it expedient for me to communicate to both Houses of Congress, with other papers, the whole of the transactions relative to the Creeks, in order that they may bo enabled to form a judgment of the measures which the case may requiro. Ordered, That the communication from the President of the United States be deferred for consideration. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1790. The following messages from the President of the United States, were brought to the Senate by his Secretary; Gentlemen of the Senate: UNITED STATES, February 9, 1790 You will perceive, from the papers herewith delivered, and which are enumerated in the annexed list, that a difference subsists between Great Britain and the United States, relative to the boundary line between our Eastern and their territories. A plan for deciding this difference, was laid before the late Congress; and whether that, or some other plan of a like kind, would not now be eligible, is submitted to your consideration. In my opinion it is desirable that all questions between this and other nations, be speedily and amicably settled; and in this instance I think it adviseable to postpone any negotiations on the subject, until I shall be informed of the result of your deliberations, and receive your advice as to the propositions most proper to be offered on the part of the United States. As I am taking measures for learning the intentions of Great Britain respecting the further detention of our posts, &c. I am the more solicitous that the business, now submitted to you, may be prepared for negotiation, as soon as the other important affairs which engage your attention will permit. Gentlemen of the Senate: Go. WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, February 9th, 1790, I nominate, as Collectors, Naval Officers, and Surveyors for the ports of the several districts in the State of North Carolina, the persons whose names are respectively annexed to the offices in the following list: I likewise nominate Samuel Shaw, to fill the office of Consul of the United States of America, at Canton, in China. Go. WASHINGTON. |