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Without running a parallel between the President of the United States and the king of England, it is certain that the honor, dignity and consistency of government is of as much importance to the people in one case as the other. The President must give proclamations, articles of war, articles of the navy and must make appointments in the army, navy revenue & other branches of public service, and there ought all to be announced by authority, in some acknowledged gazette. The laws ought to be published in the same. It is certain that a presidents printer must be restrained from publishing libells & all paragraphs offensive to individuals, public bodies or foreign nations, but need not to forbid advertisements. The gazette need not appear more than once or twice a week. Many other considerations will occur to the minds of the Secretaries. The President requests their opinion.

Whether a printer can be appointed by the President either with