[Draft] Mount Vernon April 4th 1791 Gentlemen. As the public Service may require that communications Should be made to me, during my absence from the Seat of government, by the most direct conveyances-and, as in the event of any very, extraordinary occurrence, it will be necessary to know at what time. I may be found in any particular place, I have to inform you that, unless the progress of my journey to Savannah is retarded by [2] unforeseen interruptions, it will be regulated (including days of halt) in the following manner. I shall be on the 8th of April at Fredericksburg. 11th …//...Richmond 14th …//...Petersburg 16th …//…Halifax 18th …//...Tarborough 20th …//...Newbern 24th …//...Wilmington 29th …//...Georgetown, South Carolina 2d of May…Charleston, halting five days 11th …//...Savannah, halting two days Thence, learning the line of the mail, I Shall proceed to Augusta, and, according to the information which I may receive there, my return, by an upper road, will be regulated_ The route of my return is at present uncertain, but, in all probability, it will be through Columbia, Camden, Charlotte, Salisbury, Salem, Guilford, Hillsborough, [3] Harrisburg, Williamsburg to Taylor's ferry on the Roanoke, and thence to Fredericksburg by the nearest and best road. After thus explaining to you, as far as I am able at present, the direction and probably Progress of my wish, if any Serious and important cases Should arise during my absence (of which the probability is but too strong) that the Secretaries for the Departments of State, Treasury and war may hold consultations thereon to determine whether they are of such a nature as to demand my personal attendance at the Seat of government_ and, if they should be so considered, I will return immediately from any place at which the information may reach me_ Or should they determine that, measures, relevant to the café, may be legally and [4] properly pursued without the immediate agency of the President I will approve and ratify the measures which may be conformed to such determination- Presuming that the Vice President will have left the Seat of government for Boston, I have not requested his opinion to be taken on the Supposed emergency- should it be otherwise I wish him also to be consulted- I am Gentlemen, Your most Obedient Servant (signed) Go// Washington Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox Esquires Secretaries of the United States for the Departments of State, Treasury, and War [address leaf] Washingtons Circular to his Ministry