$990 were paid to the order of Governor Williams on the same account.

I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.

The balance of $17,010 remains in the Treasury unexpended.

The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.

To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.

The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress.

The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress.

The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.

I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce themselves to fixed habitations whenever they are so disposed.

Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate should be convened on Saturday, the 4th day of March next, you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber, in the city of Washington, on that day, then and there to…

The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and friendly conduct.

It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fellow-citizens will press forward in support of their country in proportion as it is threatened by the disorganizing…

According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of November 14, I now transmit a report of the Secretary of the Treasury and statement showing, as far as returns have been received from the collectors, the number of…

According to the request of the Senate in their resolution of November 14, that copies should be laid before them of all the orders and decrees of the belligerent powers of Europe, passed since 1791, affecting the commercial rights of the…

I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, concerning a road from Cumberland to Ohio, being a statement of the proceedings under the said act since their last report…

On mature consideration and advice I approved of the proceeding of the governor.

Our ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there our disposition to exercise the authority in such manner as would withdraw the pretext on which the aggressions were originally founded and…

I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for publication, yet necessary to convey to Congress full information on a subject of their deliberations so interesting to our…