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United States SenateJournal of the Second Session of the Senate … begun and held at the City of New-York, January 4TH1790 [– February 16th, 1790]. New-York: John Fenno, 1790. — Journal of the Third Session of the Senate … begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, December 6th, 1790 [–3 March 1791]. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791. — Journal of the Senate … Being the First Session of the Third Congress, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, December 2d, 1793 [–June 9th, 1794]. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1793 [1794] – Journal of the Senate … Being the Second Session of the Third Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia November 3d, 1794 [–March 3d, 1795]. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1794 [1795] Together 4 volumes bound in 3, folio (each approximately 314 x 191 mm). Uniformly bound in antique quarter calf over brown marbled boards (First and Second Sessions of the Third Congress bound together), smooth spines ruled gilt, black lettering pieces. The second session of the first Congress includes the first State of the Union message, notices of ratification of the Bill of Rights, discussions regarding the seat of government and Hamilton's fiscal proposals. In December of 1790, the Senate convened for the first time in Philadelphia. The Residence Act of 1790 settled Congress in that city until 1800, when the entire government would move to the District of Columbia. The journal of the third session of the first Congress included its response to Washington's State of the Union address, detailed issues with public credit (including the final approval of the establishment of the Bank of the United States) and the northwest frontier, and contains "An Act Declaring the Consent of Congress, that a New State be Formed within the Jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Admitted into this Union by the name of the State of Kentucky." The first session of the Third Congress includes Washington's December 1793 address in which he cautions: "The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion, that, contrary to the order of human events, they will, for ever, keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms, with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness." In his message of 17 February 1795 concerning the Cherokee Indians, ashington urges fairness in dealing with Native Americans: "It ought to be conductd without fraud, without extortion, with constant and plentiful supplies." Washington also expresses his displeasure with Citizen Genet who has sought "to involve us in a war abroad, and discord and anarchy at home." Also recorded is the Federalists' successful challenge to Albert Gallatin's election as Senator from Pennsylvania, on the grounds that he had not satisfied the Constitution's nine-year citizenship requirement. Amendment XI, Suits Against States, was passed on 4 March 1794 (ratified 7 February 1795) in which a portion of Article III, Section 2 was changed: "The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State." The second session focuses on the Whiskey Rebellion in which the national government had the will and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws by means of calling out the militia. Ultimately there was no confrontation, and those arrested were later pardoned by Washington. Also included was the passage of fundamental laws such as the first Patent Law, the creation of the U.S. Coast Guard, and admittance of North Carolina and Rhode Island to the Union. REFERENCE:First Congress, Second Session: ESTC W20579; Evans 22982. First Congress, Third Session: ESTC W20589; Evans 23901. Third Congress, First Session: ESTC W20584; Evans 27911. Third Congress, Second Session: ESTC W20587; Ev