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Washington made repeated petitions to the Continental Congress for provisions He received a congressional delegation to check the Army's conditions and expressed the urgency of the situation proclaiming: "Something must be done Important alterations must be made." He recommended that Congress expedite supplies and Congress agreed to strengthen and fund the army's supply lines by reorganizing the commissary department by late February supplies began arriving. . .

Lincoln's body was displayed in the Capitol rotunda and thousands of Washington residents as well as throngs of visitors stood in long queues for hours to glimpse the fallen president Hotels and restaurants were filled to capacity bringing an unexpected windfall to their owners Following the identification and eventual arrest of the actual conspirators the city was the site of the trial and execution of several of the assassins and again Washington was the center of the nation's media attention. The Albany Congress of 1754 was a conference attended by seven colonies which presaged later efforts at cooperation the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 included representatives from nine colonies, Congress created executive departments in 1789 including the State Department in July the Department of War in August and the Treasury Department in September Washington appointed fellow Virginian Edmund Randolph as Attorney General Samuel Osgood as Postmaster General Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State and Henry Knox as Secretary of War Finally he appointed Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury Washington's cabinet became a consulting and advisory body not mandated by the Constitution. The acquired lands west of the Rio Grande are traditionally called the Mexican Cession in the U.S. as opposed to the Texas Annexation two years earlier though division of New Mexico down the middle at the Rio Grande never had any basis either in control or Mexican boundaries Mexico never recognized the independence of Texas before the war and did not cede its claim to territory north of the Rio Grande or Gila River until this treaty.