SPECIAL SESSION.

WEDNESDAY, March 4, 1801.

_To the Senators of the United States, respectively_:

SIR: It appearing to me proper and necessary for the public

service, that the Senate of the United States should be

convened on Wednesday the 4th of March next, you are

desired to attend in the Chamber of the Senate on that day,

at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to receive and act upon any

communications which the President of the United States may

then lay before you touching their interests, and to do and

consider all other things which may be proper and necessary

for the public service, for the Senate to do and consider.

JOHN ADAMS,

_President of the United States_.

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