UNITED STATES, _October 25, 1791_.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES having retired, and the two Houses
being separated,
_Ordered_, That Messrs. BURR, CABOT, and JOHNSTON, be a committee to
prepare and report the draft of an Address to the President of the
United States, in answer to his Speech delivered this day to both Houses
of Congress.
_Ordered_, That the Speech of the President of the United States,
delivered this day, be printed for the use of the Senate.
WEDNESDAY, October 26.
RUFUS KING, from the State of New York, and JOHN HENRY, from the State
of Maryland, attended.
THURSDAY, October 27.
The following message was received from the President of the United
States:
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of
Representatives:_
I lay before you a copy of a letter, and of sundry
documents, which I have received from the Governor of
Pennsylvania, respecting certain persons who are said to
have fled from justice out of the State of Pennsylvania,
into that of Virginia; together with a report of the
Attorney General of the United States upon the same
subject.
I have received from the Governor of North Carolina a copy
of an Act of the General Assembly of that State,
authorizing him to convey to the United States the right
and jurisdiction of the said State over one acre of land in
Ocracock Island, and ten acres on the Cape Island, within
the said State, for the purpose of erecting light-houses
thereon, together with the deed of the Governor, in
pursuance thereof, and the original conveyances made to the
State by the individual proprietors, which original
conveyances contain conditions that the light-house on
Ocracock shall be built before the first day of January,
1801, and that on the Cape Island, before the eighth day of
October, 1800. And I have caused these several papers to be
deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.
A statement of the Returns of the Enumeration of the
Inhabitants of the United States, which have been received,
will at this time be laid before you.