COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, June 28, 1794  

* President George Washington

The front page begins with a half column Act of Congress signed by the President in script type: Go. Washington.
Inside includes: "Rule as to the Sailing of the Vessels of War of the Belligerent Nations from the United States". Also an article concerning the border of Vermont as it relates to Canada, as Vermont was not one of the original 13 colonies.
There is also: "A Proclamation" signed by the Mass. governor, Samuel Adams.
Four pages, bit of light dirtiness to the top quadrant of the front page, nice condition.

Background: The contents of this June 1794 issue underscore the fragile sovereignty and intense geopolitical pressures facing the young American republic just a decade after winning independence. The convergence of George Washington’s federal mandate on "Belligerent Nations" and Samuel Adams’s state proclamation highlights the unified push across local and national levels to enforce the Neutrality Act of 1794, a desperate effort to prevent the country from being dragged into the explosive war between revolutionary France and Great Britain. Meanwhile, the report on the Vermont-Canada border captures the precariousness of America's northern frontier, where lingering British military occupation of northwestern forts and territorial friction with British-controlled Canada threatened to ignite a secondary conflict. Together, these front-page and inner-column entries document a critical inflection point where the nascent United States was forced to rapidly codify its foreign policy, define its physical borders, and assert federal authority to survive the volatile currents of transatlantic politics.