Herewith will be laid before you a number of communications made by Congress and particular States since your last meeting. These we recommend to your consideration, and especially the requisition of Congress for our quota of the Feoderal supply for the year 1786. It is to the honor of Pennsylvania that she has hitherto been behind none of the States in ready compliance with such requisitions, and we have no doubt but you will take care to provide that this part of our character shall continue undiminished, the due support of our General Government, and the punctual discharge of our foreign obligations, being of essential importance to the welfare and security of the whole Union.

Some farther progress has been made in the negociation with the States of Delaware and Maryland since your last session: Commissioners have been appointed, an interview propsed, and every inclination to meet this Commonwealth on the ground of reciprocal advantage discovered.

Having observed that the act passed on the twenty-second day of September, 1785, entituled “An Act for the relief of officers, soldiers, and seamen, who, in the course of the late war, have been wounded or otherwise disabled in the service of this State or of the United States,” is liable to many and great abuses. That it has, in some instances falling within our own knowledge, been made to operate on very improper subjects. We are of opinion that a revisal thereof should take place as early as possible, and such alteration made as will effectually prevent any misapplication of the benevolence of Government.

Among the papers sent you are some which relate to the people of Wyoming.

We expect that these settlers will send agents hither to represent to your Honorable House their present situation.