ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHI- RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. Checked May 1913 IN TEN VOLUMES.-VOL. III. SECOND EDITION. PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF CONGRESS INCLUDING CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. BOSTON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY T. B. WAIT AND SONS. 1817. C.R. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. BE it remembered, that on the twenty-eighth day of October, A. D. 1816 and in the forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas B. Wait and Sons, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the accession of George Washington to the Presidency, exhibiting a complete view of our Foreign Relations since that time. In ten volumes. Second edition. Published under the patronage of Congress. Including Confidential Documents, now first published." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical, and other Prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. . CONTENTS. Report of Secretary of State, relative to French spo- Speech opening Congress, May 16, 1797 Documents referred to in President's Speech, May 16, 1797, relative to France, Spain, &c. Message, June 12, 1797, relative to Spanish opposi- tion to running boundary line between the United Message, June 22, 1797, relative to depredations on the commerce of the United States since Octo- Report of Secretary of State relative to capture of American vessels by Spanish, British and French Documents accompanying President's Message, June 22, 1797, relative to depredations on commerce Abstract of French depredations since October 1, 1796; also Schedule of American vessels cap- tured by the French, commencing July, 1796 Message, June 23, 1797, relative to Algiers Message, July 3, 1797, transmitting Reports of Secre- Page 295 |