Message to the Senate Transmitting the Nomination of Elbridge Gerry to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the French Republic

The following written message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Malcom, his Secretary:

Gentlemen of the Senate:

I nominate the honorable Elbridge Gerry, Esq., of Massachusetts, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the French Republic, jointly and severally-—with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and John Marshall, in the place of Francis Dana, who has declined his appointment on account of the precarious state of his health.

JOHN ADAMS.

UNITED STATES, June 20, 1797.