[18^th July 1794 The Governor to The President — Compared.] Sir I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's answer to my letter of the 13^th instant; communicated in a letter from the Secretary at War, dated yesterday; and it is with peculiar regret that I perceive the embarrassment of my situation, relatively to the Requisition establishment, encreasing with every addition to the correspondence which the subject has produced. I certainly Sir have hitherto proceeded upon the presumption, that, whatever form of words may have been employed, it was your request, that the execution of the Requisition law should, for the present, be suspended; and as you possessed all the information, upon which that request was founded, I have thought, likewise, that you would readily assume the responsibility attached to a prompt and confidential compliance with it. But when the Secretary at War remarks that you never contemplated carrying your opinions upon the subject further than to state them as strongly as they were conceived; he leaves it to be inferred, that, for all the consequences of the suspension, without possessing the information, or perhaps on retaining the sentiments only, that led to the measure, I am deemed to be exclusively responsible. This idea claims and justifies, on my part, the almost circum-spection: and I am persuaded, that, while the Executive of the general government, is solicitous to avoid reproach for inattention, or a neglect to make full representations of any danger which is apprehended to the interests of the Union; a similar solicitude in the Executive of a particular government, to avoid reproach either for transgressing the Constitutional bounds of his authority, or for sacrificing the Interests of the State, will be equally approved and indulged. Hence, Sir I have been induced, in order satisfactorily to compare your opinions on this occasion, with my constitutional and legal powers, to take the advice of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania; and I have the honor to inclose a Copy of the letter in which his sentiments are expressed. From this document you will perceive, that, although any delay, consistent with the performance of the duties enjoined upon me, may be permitted, a delay which will prevent the execution of the law within the time prescribed will not be justifiable. It is of importance, therefore, to know how long the temporary obstacles, which induced you to advise the suspension of the establishment at [undecipherable: probable "Presque Isle"], are expected to continue; for, if they should not be shortly removed, I must either direct the Commissioners to proceed in laying out the Town, or in resorting to the alternative suggested by the Attorney General, convene the Legislature upon the occasion. The latter measure, however, I shall not think it expedient to adopt, unless you explicitly request it. Though