reciprocal between them and us.

I am, at the request and in behalf of the general assembly, your most
obedient, humble servant,

JOHN COLLINS, _Governor_.

His Excellency the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.



UNITED STATES, _February 9, 1790_.

_Gentlemen of the Senate_:

Among the persons appointed during the last session to offices under the
National Government there were some who declined serving. Their names
and offices are specified in the first column of the foregoing list.[2]
I supplied these vacancies, agreeably to the Constitution, by temporary
appointments, which you will find mentioned in the second column of the
list. These appointments will expire with your present session, and,
indeed, ought not to endure longer than until others can be regularly
made. For that purpose I now nominate to you the persons named in the
third column of the list as being, in my opinion, qualified to fill the
offices opposite to their names in the first.

Go. WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 2: Omitted.]