f March next, at 12 o'clock, I propose
to attend again in the Chamber of the House of Representatives, in order
to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to
be taken by the President, to be administered by the Chief Justice or
such other judge of the Supreme Court of the United States as can most
conveniently attend, and, in case none of those judges can attend, by
the judge of the district of Pennsylvania, before such Senators and
Representatives of the United States as may find it convenient to honor
the transaction with their presence.

(JOHN ADAMS.)

FEBRUARY 9, 1797.

PROCLAMATION.

(From Annals of Congress, Fifth Congress, Vol. I, 620.)

UNITED STATES, _July 16, 1798_.

_The President of the United States to_ -----, _Senator for the State
of_ ----;

Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the session of
the Senate for executive business should be continued, and that the
members thereof should convene on Tuesday, the 17th day of July instant,
you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber, in Philadelphia, on
that day, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to receive and
deliberate on such communications as shall be made to you on my part.

JOHN ADAMS.

PROCLAMATION.

(From Miscellaneous Letters, Department of State, vol. 24.)

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

In pursuance of the act of Congress passed on the 16th July, 1798,
entitled "An act for erecting a light-house at Gayhead, on Marthas
Vineyard, and for other purposes," and an act which passed the
legislature of Massachusetts on the 22d February, 1799, entitled "An act
to cede to the United States a tract of land at Gayhead for a
lighthouse," the following tract of land, situate at Gayhead, on the
western part of Marthas Vineyard, in Dukes County, State of
Massachusetts, is designated as the land ceded to the United States by
the aforesaid act of the legislature of Massachusetts for the purpose of
erecting a lighthouse, to wit: Beginning at a stake and heap of stones
(1 rod from the edge of the cliff of said head), thence east 11 degrees
south 18 rods to a stake and heap of stones; thence south 11 degrees
west 18 rods to a stake and heap of stones; thence west 11 degrees north
18 rods to a stake and heap of stones; thence north 11 degrees east to
the first-mentioned bound, containing 2 acres and 4 rods.

(SEAL.)

In witness whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of