JOHN ADAMS, _President of the United States_.
The Message and letter were read, and five hundred copies thereof
ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate.
The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES:
_Gentlemen of the Senate_:
I nominate Alexander Hamilton, of New York, to be Inspector
General of the Army, with the rank of Major General.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South Carolina, to be a
Major General.
Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, to be a Major General.
Henry Lee, of Virginia, to be a Major General of the
Provisional Army.
Edward Hand, of Pennsylvania, to be a Major General of the
Provisional Army.
John Brooks, of Massachusetts, to be a Brigadier General.
William Washington, of South Carolina, to be a Brigadier
General.
Jonathan Dayton, of New Jersey, to be a Brigadier General.
William Stevens Smith, of New York, to be Adjutant General,
with the rank of Brigadier General.
Ebenezer Huntington, of Connecticut, to be a Brigadier
General of the Provisional Army.
Anthony Walton White, to be a Brigadier General of the
Provisional Army.
William Richardson Davie, of North Carolina, to be a
Brigadier General of the Provisional Army.
John Sevier, of Tennessee, to be a Brigadier General of the
Provisional Army.
James Craik, of Virginia, to be Physician General of the
Army.