SATURDAY, March 4.
_Installation of Thomas Jefferson as Vice President of the United States
and President of the Senate, and inauguration of John Adams as President
of the United States._
_To the Vice President and Senators of the United States
respectively_:
SIR: It appearing to be proper that the Senate of the
United States should be convened on Saturday, the fourth of
March instant, you are desired to attend in the Chamber of
the Senate, on that day at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to
receive any communications which the President of the
United States may then lay before you touching their
interests.
G. WASHINGTON.
March 1, 1797.
In conformity with the summons from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
above recited, the Senate accordingly assembled in their Chamber.