Also a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, acting as governor, informing us that Aaron Burr had surrendered him...
From two of the States no returns have ever been received.
The efficacy of gunboats for the defense of harbors and of other smooth and inclosed waters may be estimated in part from that of galleys fo...
It must be superfluous to observe that this species of naval armament is proposed merely for defensive operation; that it can have but littl...
I communicate, for the information of Congress, a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, to the Secretary of War, ...
I lay before Congress the laws for the government of Louisiana, passed by the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory at their session ...
I now lay his memoir thereon before the Legislature, the only authority competent to a final decision on the same.
Some matters suggested in the report belong exclusively to the Legislature.
Until I receive full consent to a free choice of route through the whole distance I have thought it safest neither to accept nor reject fina...
I have received acts of the legislatures of Maryland and Virginia giving the consent desired; that of Pennsylvania has the subject still und...
The progress which they made in the execution of the work during the last season will appear in their report now communicated to Congress.
we may now estimate with tolerable certainty the means derived from the Ohio and its waters toward the accomplishment of the purposes of Mr....
No occasion having arisen for making use. of any part of the balance of $18,012.50, unexpended on the 31st day of December, 1805, that balan...
I immediately delivered to the attorney of the United States in this district the evidence received against them, with instructions to lay t...
Information now recently communicated has brought us nearly to the period contemplated.
I had for some time been in the constant expectation of receiving such further information as would have enabled me to lay before the Legisl...
The mass of what I have received in the course of these transactions is voluminous, but little has been given under the sanction of an oath ...
Great alarm, indeed, was excited at New Orleans by the exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr.
