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George Washington: “I lay before Congress copies of the journal of the proceedings of the executive department of the government of the…”

On the recordDecember 16, 1794
I lay before Congress copies of the journal of the proceedings of the executive department of the government of the United States south of the river Ohio to the 1st of September, 1794.
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George Washington
Independent · Virginia

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