I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the...
$2,000 were deposited in the hands of the Attorney-General of the United States to pay expenses incident to the prosecut...
The balance of $17,010 remains in the Treasury unexpended.
$990 were paid to the order of Governor Williams on the same account.
The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.
The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress.
To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.
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.
The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and fr...
It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fe...
I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce thems...
Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate should be convened on Saturday, the 4th day of March ...
According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of November 14, I now transmit a report of the Secr...
According to the request of the Senate in their resolution of November 14, that copies should be laid before them of all...
I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, conce...
On mature consideration and advice I approved of the proceeding of the governor.
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fe...
