A COMPILATION OF THE MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS [The following was transmitted with the message of January 4, 1796 (see Vol. I, pp. 189-190).] [From American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. I, pp. 527-528.] PARIS, 30th Vendémiaire, Third Year of the French Republic, One and Indivisible (October 21, 1794) . The Representatives of the French People composing the Committee of Public Safety of the National Convention, charged by the law of the 7th Fructidor with the direction of foreign relations, to the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled . CITIZENS REPRESENTATIVES: The connections which nature, reciprocal wants, and a happy concurrence of circumstances have formed between two free nations can not but be indissoluble. You have strengthened those sacred ties by the declarations which the minister plenipotentiary of the United States has made in your name to the National Convention and to the French people. They have been received with rapture by a nation who know how to appreciate every testimony which the United States have given to them of their affection. The colors of both nations, united in the center of the National Convention, will be an everlasting evidence of the part which the United States have taken in the success of the French Republic. You were the first defenders of the rights of man in another hemisphere. Strengthened by your example and endowed with an invincible energy, the French people have vanquished that tyranny which during so many centuries of ignorance, superstition, and baseness had enchained a generous nation. Soon did the people of the United States perceive that every victory of ours strengthened their independence and happiness. They were deeply affected at our momentary misfortunes, occasioned by treasons purchased by English gold. They have celebrated with rapture the successes of our brave armies. None of these sympathetic emotions have escaped the sensibility of the French nation. They have all served to cement the most intimate and solid union that has ever existed between two nations. The citizen Adet, who will reside near your Government in quality of minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic, is especially instructed to tighten these bands of fraternity and mutual benevolence. We hope that he may fulfill this principal object of his mission by a conduct worthy of the confidence of both nations and of the reputation which his patriotism and virtues have acquired him. An analogy of political principles; the natural relations of commerce and industry; the efforts and immense sacrifices of both nations in the defense of liberty and equality; the blood which they have spilled together; their avowed hatred for despots; the moderation of their political views; the disinterestedness of their counsels, and especially the success of the vows which they have made, in presence of the Supreme Being, to be free or die, all combine to render indestructible the connections which they have formed. Doubt it not, citizens, we shall finally destroy the combination of tyrants—you by the picture of prosperity which in your vast country has succeeded to a bloody struggle of eight years; we by that enthusiasm which glows in the breast of every Frenchman. Astonished nations, too long the dupes of perfidious kings, nobles, and priests, will eventually recover their rights, and the human race will owe to the American and French nations their regeneration and a lasting peace. The members of the Committee of Public Safety, J.S.B. DELMAS, MERLIN (OF DOUAI), ETC., ETC. The minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the President of the United States . Mr. PRESIDENT: I come to acquit myself of a duty very dear to my heart. I come to deposit in your hands and in the midst of a people justly renowned for their courage and their love of liberty the symbol of the triumphs and of the enfranchisement of my nation. When she broke her chains; when she proclaimed the imprescriptible rights of man; when in a terrible war she sealed with her blood the covenant she had made with liberty, her own happiness was not alone the object of her glorious efforts; her views extended also to all free people. She saw their interest blended with her own, and doubly rejoiced in her victories, which in assuring to her the enjoyment of her rights became to them new guaranties of their independence. These sentiments, which animated the French nation from the dawn of their revolution, have acquired new strength since the foundation of the Republic. France at that time, by the form of its Government, assimilated to, or rather identified with, free people, saw in them only friends and brothers. Long accustomed to regard the American people as her most faithful allies, she has sought to draw closer the ties already formed in the fields of America, under the auspices of victory, over the ruins of tyranny. The National Convention, the organ of the will of the French nation, have more than once expressed their sentiments to the American people, but above all these burst forth on that august day when the minister of the United States presented to the National Representation the colors of his country. Desiring never to lose recollections as dear to Frenchmen as they must be to Americans, the Convention ordered that these colors should be placed in the hall of their sittings. They had experienced sensations too agreeable not to cause them to be partaken of by their allies, and decreed that to them the national colors should be presented. Mr. President, I do not doubt their expectation will be fulfilled, and I am convinced that every citizen will receive with a pleasing emotion this flag, elsewhere the terror of the enemies of liberty, here the certain pledge of faithful friendship, especially when they recollect that it guides to combat men who have shared their toils and who were prepared for liberty by aiding them to acquire their own. P.A. ADET. Answer of the President of the United States . UNITED STATES, January 1, 1796 . Born, sir, in a land of liberty; having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom. But above all, the events of the French Revolution have produced the deepest solicitude as well as the highest admiration. To call your nation brave were to pronounce but common praise. Wonderful people! Ages to come will read with astonishment the history of your brilliant exploits! I rejoice that the period of your toils and of your immense sacrifices is approaching. I rejoice that the interesting revolutionary movements of so many years have issued in the formation of a constitution designed to give permanency to the great object for which you have contended. I rejoice that liberty, which you have so long embraced with enthusiasm—liberty, of which you have been the invincible defenders—now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized Government, a Government which, being formed to secure the happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States by its resemblance to their own. On these glorious events accept, sir, my sincere congratulations. In delivering to you these sentiments I express not my own feelings only, but those of my fellow-citizens, in relation to the commencement, the progress, and the issue of the French Revolution, and they will cordially join with me in purest wishes to the Supreme Being that the citizens of our sister Republic, our magnanimous allies, may soon enjoy in peace that liberty which they have purchased at so great a price, and all the happiness which liberty can bestow. I receive, sir, with lively sensibility the symbol of the triumphs and of the enfranchisement of your nation, the colors of France, which you have now presented to the United States. The transaction will be announced to Congress, and the colors will be deposited with those archives of the United States which are at once the evidences and the memorials of their freedom and independence. May these be perpetual, and may the friendship of the two Republics be commensurate with their existence. Go. WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, January 13, 1796 . Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives : I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure to the end of the year 1795 from the sums heretofore granted to defray the contingent expenses of the Government. Go. WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, February 29, 1796 . Gentlemen of the Senate : I send herewith the papers relating to the negotiation of the treaty with Spain, to which I referred in my message of the 26th instant. 17 Go. WASHINGTON. Gentlemen of the Senate : I send herewith a copy of the treaty of friendship, limits, and navigation between the United States and His Catholic Majesty, which has been ratified by me with your advice and consent. A copy of the treaty will be immediately communicated to the House of Representatives, it being necessary to make provision in the present session for carrying into execution the third and twenty-first articles, particularly the former, seeing that execution must commence before the next meeting of Congress. Estimates of the moneys necessary to be provided for the purposes of this and several other treaties with foreign nations and the Indian tribes will be laid before you by the proper Department. Go. WASHINGTON. MARCH 29, 1796. UNITED STATES, February 15, 1707 . Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives : I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure to the end of the year 1796 from the sums heretofore granted to defray the contingent charges of the Government. Go. WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, June 22, 1797 . Gentlemen of the Senate : Having sent the report and documents which accompany this message to the House of Representatives, 18 in compliance with their desire expressed in their resolution of the 10th of this month, I think it proper to send duplicates to the Senate for their information. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, May 4, 1798 . Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I now transmit to Congress copies of all the communications 19 from our envoys extraordinary received since their arrival in Paris, excepting those before presented by me to both Houses. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, May 29, 1798 . Gentlemen of the Senate : An article explanatory of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between the United States and His Britannic Majesty has been signed by the plenipotentiaries of the two powers, which I now submit to the Senate for their consideration. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, June 5, 1798 . Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I now transmit to both Houses the communications 20 from our envoys at Paris received since the last which have been presented by me to Congress. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, June 18, 1798 . Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I now transmit to Congress the dispatch No. 8 from our envoys extraordinary to the French Republic, 21 which was received at the Secretary of State's office on Thursday, the 14th day of this month. JOHN ADAMS. DECEMBER 31, 1798. Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : A report of the Secretary of War made to me on the 24th of this month, relative to the military establishment, 22 I think it my duty to transmit to Congress and recommend to their consideration. JOHN ADAMS. JANUARY 8, 1799. Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : In obedience to the law, I now lay before you my annual account of the application of the grant made by Congress for the contingent charges of Government from the 1st of January to the 31st of December, 1798. JOHN ADAMS. JANUARY 21, 1799. Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : According to an intimation in my message of Friday last, 23 I now lay before Congress a report of the Secretary of State, containing his observations on some of the documents which attended it. JOHN ADAMS. JANUARY 30, 1799. Gentlemen of the Senate : I send you, for your consideration, a treaty with the Oneida Nation of Indians, made on the 1st day of June, 1798, at their village. JOHN ADAMS. JANUARY 31, 1799. Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I have received a report from the Director of the Mint on the state of the business committed to his superintendence, and a statement of the coinage of the Mint of the United States for the year 1798, which it is proper to lay before Congress. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, December 13, 1799 . Gentlemen of the Senate : In conformity with your recommendation expressed in your resolution of March 6, 1798, I have entered into a friendly negotiation with the Bey and Government of Tunis on the subject 24 of the fourteenth article of the treaty of peace and friendship between the United States and that power. The result of that negotiation I now lay before the Senate for their consideration. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, January 8, 1800 . Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : A report made to me on the 1st day of this month by the Director of the Mint, through the office of the Secretary of State, with the documents attending it, I transmit to both Houses of Congress for their consideration. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, January 20, 1800 . Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : In obedience to law, I transmit to Congress my annual account of the contingent fund. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, February 7, 1800 . Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : In consequence of your request to me conveyed in your resolution of the 4th of this month, I directed the Secretary of State to lay before me copies of the papers intended. 25 These copies, together with his report, I now transmit to the House of Representatives, for the consideration of the members. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, February 17, 1800 . Gentlemen of the Senate : I now lay before you the instructions given to our minister at the Court of Berlin, with the correspondence, respecting the negotiation of the treaty with Prussia, according to your request of the 12th of this month. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, April 17, 1800 . Gentlemen of the Senate : In conformity with your request, I transmit you a return from the War Office of those officers who have been appointed under the act entitled "An act to augment the Army of the United States, and for other purposes," designating such officers who have accepted their appointments and those who have declined accepting, resigned their commissions, died, etc. A report from the Secretary of War, which accompanied this return, as it contains observations which may throw some light upon the subject, I transmit with it. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, December 22, 1800 . Gentlemen of the Senate : In conformity with your request in your resolution of the 19th of this month, I transmit you the instructions given to our late envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the French Republic. It is my request to the Senate that these instructions may be considered in strict confidence and returned to me as soon as the Senate shall have made all the use of them they may judge necessary. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, January 16, 1801 . Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I now transmit to both Houses of Congress, in conformity to law, my annual account of the application of grants for the contingent charges of Government for the year 1800. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, February 20, 1801 . Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : The inclosed report 26 to me, made by the Acting Secretary of War on the 14th of this month, appears to be so well founded in all respects that I recommend it to the consideration of Congress. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, February 20, 1801 . Gentlemen of the Senate : I request of the Senate that the letter and journal of our late envoys to France and the copy of their instructions and other documents relative to that negotiation may be returned to me or to the Office of State. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, February 27, 1801 . Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I transmit you a report of the Secretary of State, with sundry documents, relative to the subject of your resolution of the 24th instant. 27 JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, February 27, 1801 . Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I transmit to you, in conformity with your request of the 17th instant, two reports, one from the Acting Secretary of War, the other from the Secretary of the Treasury, of the 26th, 28 with details of the expenditure of the moneys appropriated by the acts of the 20th [4th] of May and 6th of July, 1798, and of the 10th of May, 1800. JOHN ADAMS. JANUARY 12, 1802. Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : According to the request in your resolution of the 8th instant, I now lay before you a letter from the Secretary of State, containing an estimate of the expenses necessary for carrying into effect the convention between the United States of America and the French Republic. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 8, 1802. Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : In compliance with your resolution of the 2d instant, I have to inform you that early in the preceding summer I took measures for carrying into effect the act passed on the 19th of February, 1799, and that of the 13th of May, 1800, mentioned in your resolution. The objects of these acts were understood to be to purchase from the Indians south of the Ohio some portions of land peculiarly interesting to the Union or to particular States and the establishment of certain roads to facilitate communication with our distant settlements. Commissioners were accordingly appointed to treat with the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks. As these nations are known to be very jealous on the subject of their lands, the commissioners were instructed, as will be seen by the inclosed extract, to enlarge, restrain, or even to suppress propositions as appearances should indicate to be expedient. Their first meeting was with the Cherokees. The extract from the speech of our commissioners and the answers of the Cherokee chiefs will show the caution of the former and the temper of the latter, and that though our overtures to them were moderate and respectful of their rights, their determination was to yield no accommodation. The commissioners proceeded then to the Chickasaws, who discovered at first considerable alarm and anxiety lest land should be asked of them. A just regard for this very friendly nation, whose attachment to us has been invariable, forbade the pressure of anything disagreeable on them, and they yielded with alacrity the road through their country which was asked and was essential to our communication with the Mississippi Territory. The conferences with the Choctaws are probably ended, but as yet we are not informed of their result. Those with the Creeks are not expected to be held till the ensuing spring. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 17, 1802. Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives : I lay before both Houses of Congress, for their information, the report from the Director of the Mint, now inclosed. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 25, 1802. Gentlemen of the Senate : The act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States rendering it necessary that the officers retained in service should in most cases be transferred into regiments different from those to which their commissions attach them, new commissions are deemed necessary for them, as well as for those entitled to promotion and for the ensigns newly nominated. The inclosed report from the Secretary of War exhibits the transfers, promotions, and new appointments proposed in conformity with the law, and I accordingly nominate the several persons named in the report for commissions according to its tenor. TH: JEFFERSON. APRIL 3, 1802. Gentlemen of the Senate : According to the request expressed in your resolution of yesterday, I now transmit to the Senate the proceedings of the court-martial lately held for the trial of Captain Cornelius Lyman, asking the favor of their return at the convenience of the Senate, as they are the originals. TH: JEFFERSON. APRIL 17, 1802. Gentlemen of the Senate : I now transmit you a report of the Secretary of State, with the document accompanying it, on the subject of your resolution of the 12th instant, concerning the seventh article 29 of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain. TH: JEFFERSON. APRIL 20, 1802. Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives : The object of the inclosed letter from the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia being within legislative competence only, I transmit it to both Houses of Congress. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 11, 1803. Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives : I transmit you a report received from the Director of the Mint on the subject of that institution. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 1, 1803. Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : According to the request stated in your resolution of December 20, I communicated to you such returns of the militia of the different States as had then been received. 30 Since that date returns have been received from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky, which are now transmitted to you. TH: JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 7, 1803. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : Since the last communication made to Congress of the laws of the Indiana Territory I have received those of which a copy is now inclosed for the information of both Houses. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 13, 1804. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : The Director of the Mint having made to me his report of the transactions of the Mint for the year 1803, I now lay the same before you for your information. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 7, 1804. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate to Congress an extract of a letter from Governor Claiborne to the Secretary of State, with one which it covered, for their information as to the present state of the subject to which they relate. 31 TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 15, 1804. To the House of Representatives of the United States : Agreeably to the request of the Senate and House of Representatives, delivered me by their Joint Committee of Enrolled Bills, I now return the enrolled bill entitled "An act for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda and Mirboha " to the House of Representatives, in which it originated. TH: JEFFERSON. [The same message was sent to the Senate.] DECEMBER 6, 1804. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate, for the information of Congress, a report of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings at Washington on the subject of those buildings and the application of the moneys appropriated for them. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 25, 1805. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate, for the information of Congress, the report of the Director of the Mint of the operations of that institution during the last year. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 31, 1805. To the Senate of the United States : According to the desire expressed in your resolution of the 28th instant, I now communicate a report of the Secretary of State, with documents, relative to complaints 32 against arming the merchant ships and vessels of the United States and the conduct of the captains and crews of such as have been armed. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 23, 1805. To the House of Representatives of the United States : In further compliance with the desire of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of December 31, I now transmit the report and map of Isaac Briggs referred to in my message of the 1st instant, 33 and received by the last post from New Orleans. TH: JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 6, 1805. The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. SIR: In order to give to Congress the details necessary for their full information of the state of things between Spain and the United States, I send them the communication and documents now inclosed. Although stated to be confidential, that term is not meant to be extended to all the documents, the greater part of which are proper for the public eye. It is applied only to the message itself and to the letters from our own and foreign ministers, which if disclosed might throw additional difficulties in the way of accommodation. These alone, therefore, are delivered to the Legislature in confidence that they will be kept secret. TH: JEFFERSON. [The same message was addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.] DECEMBER 10, 1805. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : The inclosed documents, 34 relating to my message of the 6th instant, not being ready at that date, I thought it better not to detain the message, but to communicate these papers afterwards, as supplementary to those then sent. They are not of a nature to be deemed confidential. TH: JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 27, 1805. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I lay before Congress a report of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings, stating the progress made on them during the last season and what may be expected to be accomplished in the ensuing one. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 15, 1806. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate, for the information of Congress, the report of the Director of the Mint of the operations of that institution during the last year. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 24, 1806. To the Senate of the United States : According to the request of your resolution of yesterday, I again communicate the letter of the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at London to the secretary of that Government for foreign affairs dated October 18, 1805, with a postscript of October 25, but still in confidence that the matter of it shall not be made public. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 4, 1806. To the Senate of the United States : I now transmit the letters desired by the resolution of the Senate of January 20 so far as they exist in the offices, to wit: Extract of a letter from the Department of State to Mr. Eaton, May 20, 1801. The letter from Mr. Cathcart to Mr. Eaton dated Leghorn, June 15, 1801, is not in the offices, but the substance of it is supposed to be recited in those of Mr. Cathcart to the Secretary of State of August 15, 1802, and July 2, 1801, extracts of both of which are transmitted. The letter of Mr. Eaton of September 5, 1801, supposed to be that intended by the Senate, as it answers their description. There is no letter of his of September 15. Extract of a letter from William Eaton to the Secretary of State, December 13, 1801. Extract from Captain Murray's letter of August 18, 1802. Extract of a letter from Mr. Cathcart to the Secretary of State, August 25, 1802. Extract of a letter from Mr. Morris to the Secretary of the Navy, March 30, 1803. The letter from the Swedish admiral to Hamet Bashaw designated in the resolution of the Senate is not in possession of the Executive. The extracts above mentioned give the whole matter contained in the respective letters relating to Hamet B. Caramalli. The parts omitted are on subjects entirely foreign to what concerns him. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 4, 1806. To the House of Representatives of the United States : Sundry letters relative to Hamet Caramalli, in addition to the documents which accompanied my message of January 13, 35 having been sent to the Senate on their particular request, the same are now transmitted to the House of Representatives also, as the same subject is before them. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 7, 1806. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate, a treaty entered into on behalf of the United States with the Piankeshaw Indians, whereby our possessions on the north bank of the Ohio are entirely consolidated; and I ask the advice and consent of the Senate as to its ratification. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 18, 1806. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I now communicate to the House of Representatives the information desired by their resolutions of January 24, relative to the fortifications erected at the several ports and harbors of the United States and their Territories and to the Navy and navy-yards of the United States. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 18, 1806. To the House of Representatives of the United States : On the 13th instant I approved and signed the act entitled "An act making provision for defraying any extraordinary expenses attending the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations," which originated in the House of Representatives, and I shall in due season deposit it among the rolls in the office of the Secretary of State. TH: JEFFERSON. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate to Congress a letter recently received from the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at London, stating some circumstances which bear relation to the subject of my messages of January 17. 36 This paper being original and to be communicated to both Houses, the return of it is requested. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 24, 1806. DECEMBER 15, 1806. To the Senate of the United States : I lay before Congress a report of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings, stating the progress made on them during the last season and what is proposed for the ensuing one. TH: JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 23, 1806. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I now lay before you accounts of the sums which have been expended by the United States on the Capitol, the President's house, the public offices, the navy-yard, and the marine barracks, respectively, and the amount expended on other objects of public expense within the city of Washington, as requested by your resolution of the 15th instant. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 5, 1807. To the House of Representatives of the United States : In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives communicated in their resolution of the 26th of December, I now lay before them a report of the Secretary of the Navy on the state of the frigates, supplementary to his former report of January 28 of the last year, communicated to the House of Representatives. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 27, 1807. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate, for the information of Congress, the report of the Director of the Mint of the operations of that establishment during the last year. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 11, 1807. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to both Houses of Congress the laws adopted by the government and judges of the Territory of Michigan from the 1st day of July, 1806, to the 1st day of the present year. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 8, 1808. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate, for the information of Congress, the report of the Director of the Mint of the operation of that establishment during the last year. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 30, 1808. To the Senate of the United States : The Senate having advised and consented to the ratification of the treaty with the Ottaways, Chippeways, Wyandots, and Pottawattamies concluded at Detroit on the 17th day of November last, and also to the treaty concluded with the Choctaws at Pooshapukanuck on the 16th of November, 1805, I now lay them before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling them. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 30, 1808. To the Senate of the United States : I now transmit to the Senate the information requested in their resolutions of the 28th instant, 37 from the Secretaries of the Treasury and War. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 31, 1808. To the Senate of the United States : The confidential papers 38 desired by the resolution of yesterday are now again sent to the Senate. TH: JEFFERSON. APRIL 1, 1808. To the House of Representatives of the United States : In answer to the inquiries of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 30th of March, relative to certain dates, 39 I transmit a report of the Secretary of State to me on that subject. TH: JEFFERSON. NOVEMBER 30, 1808. To the House of Representatives of the United States : According to the request of the House of Representatives expressed in their resolution of the 25th instant, I now lay before them a copy of my proclamation of the 19th of April last. 40 TH: JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 1, 1808. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to Congress a report from the Surveyor of the Public Buildings of the progress made on them during the last season, of their present state, and the expenditures incurred and of those that may be requisite for their further prosecution. TH: JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 23, 1808. To the House of Representatives of the United States : According to the request of the House of Representatives in their resolution of November 11 that copies should be laid before them of all acts, decrees, orders, and proclamations affecting the commercial rights of neutral nations issued or enacted by Great Britain and France or any other belligerent power since the year 1791, and also of an act placing the commerce of America in English ports upon the footing of the most favored nation, I now transmit them a report of the Secretary of State of such of them as have been attainable in the Department of State and are supposed to have entered into the views of the House of Representatives. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 5, 1809. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate, for the information of Congress, the report of the Director of the Mint of the operations of that establishment during the last year. TH: JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 4, 1809. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I now transmit a report of the Secretary of the Navy, containing statements 41 from that Department referred to in my message of the 29th ultimo. JAMES MADISON. DECEMBER 16, 1809. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to both Houses of Congress a report from the Surveyor of the Public Buildings of the progress made on them during the last season and of other explanations relative thereto. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 5, 1810. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : The Director of the Mint having made to me his report of the operations of the Mint for the year 1809, I lay the same before you for your information. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 12, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate to the House of Representatives the report 42 of the Secretary of State on the subject of their resolution of the 3d instant. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 12, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate to the House of Representatives the report 43 of the Secretary of State on the subject of their resolution of the 6th of December last. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 22, 1810. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I now transmit to Congress an account of the contingent expenses of the Government for the year 1809. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 1, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I lay before the House a report 44 of the Secretary of the Treasury, conformably to their resolution of 18th January, 1810. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 1, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I lay before the House a report 45 of the Secretary of War, conformably to their resolution of January 22. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 9, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to the House a report 46 of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 22d of January. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 17, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit reports 47 of the Secretaries of State and of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the 5th instant. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 17, 1810. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit a report 48 of the Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the 12th instant. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 22, 1810. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit to the Senate a report 49 of the Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the 16th instant. JAMES MADISON. MARCH 14, 1810. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit a report 50 of the Secretary of War, complying with their resolution of the 22d January last. JAMES MADISON. MARCH 20, 1810. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I lay before Congress a return of the militia of the United States as received by the Department of War from the several States and Territories. JAMES MADISON. MARCH 30, 1810. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit to the Senate a report 51 of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 22d instant. JAMES MADISON. APRIL 4, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to the House a report 52 of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 26th of March. JAMES MADISON. APRIL 27, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to the House a report 53 of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 23d instant. JAMES MADISON. MAY 1, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to the House a report 54 of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 30th of April. JAMES MADISON. DECEMBER 28, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I lay before the House a report 55 from the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 21st instant. JAMES MADISON. DECEMBER 31, 1810. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I lay before the House of Representatives a supplemental report 56 of the Secretary of State, containing information received since the date of my late message on the subject of their resolution of the 21st instant. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 7, 1811. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I communicate, for the information of Congress, the report of the Director of the Mint of the operation of that establishment during the last year. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 12, 1811. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States . I transmit to Congress copies of a letter from the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at London to the Secretary of State, and of another from the same to the British secretary for foreign affairs. 57 JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 14, 1811. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to the House of Representatives reports of the superintendent of the city 58 and of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings on the subject of their resolution of the 28th of December last. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 14, 1811. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to the House of Representatives copies of the documents 59 referred to in their resolution of the 4th instant. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 14, 1811. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to Congress an account of the contingent expenses of the Government for the year 1810. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 14, 1811. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to Congress a report from the Surveyor of the Public Buildings relative to the progress and present state of them. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 25, 1811. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit to the Senate a report 60 from the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of their resolution of the 21st instant. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 25, 1811. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to the House of Representatives a report of the superintendent of the city, 61 stating the expenditures under the act of April 28, 1810, for the better accommodation of the General Post-Office and Patent Office, and for other purposes. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 31, 1811. To the House of Representatives of the United States : I transmit to the House of Representatives a report 62 of the Secretary of War, complying with their resolution of the 21st instant. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 4, 1811. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit to the Senate a report 63 of the Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of December 20, 1810. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 5, 1811. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit to the Senate a report 64 of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 1st instant. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 7, 1811. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit to the Senate a report 65 of the Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the 21st January last. JAMES MADISON. FEBRUARY 11, 1811. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit to the Senate a report 66 of the Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the 7th instant.