Jenks's Portland Gazette

MONDAY, NOV. 24.

The following letter was this day read in the House, and ordered to lie on the table.

Treasury Department,
Washington, Nov. 22d, 1800.

SIR,

I deem it proper through you to inform the House of Representatives, that I have obtained the permission of the President of the United States, to resign the office of Secretary of the Treasury, at the close of the present year.

I indulge a hope, that I may without presumption declare, that the different offices with which I have been entrusted since the establishment of this Department, have been executed according to my best faith and judgment, with a conscientious regard to the rights of the public and of individuals, and under an impressive sense of responsibility to the government.

In conformity with these professions, I now freely submit the whole of my conduct to any investigation which the House of Representatives may be pleased to institute.

I cannot omit this only opportunity which may ever be afforded, of expressing the sincere sentiments of gratitude, which I now feel and shall ever cultivate for the many proofs of confidence and indulgence which I have experienced in the course of my official communications with the Legislature; at the same time I request, that if the liberty I have now taken, to invite their attention to a matter of personal concern, should be deemed in any degree unsuitable, the error may be attributed to a just and reasonable desire, that my conduct may, on proper evidence, appear to have deserved their approbation.

I have the honor to be,
With perfect esteem and deference,
Sir, your most obedient servant,

(Signed)
OLIVER WOLCOTT

The Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, Esq.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.