You will be sensible, from the face of these papers, as well as of those to which they are a sequel, that they are not and could not be offi...
It will inform them of the obligations which the United States thereby contract, and particularly that of taking the tribe under their futur...
A translation of the most important laws in force in that province, now in press, shall be the subject of a supplementary communication.
From the nature of the transaction some documents relative to it might have been expected from the War Office.
I now communicate a digest of the information I have received relative to Louisiana, which may be useful to the Legislature in providing for...
I now lay before them copies of such documents as are in possession of the Executive relative to the arrest and confinement of Zachariah Cox...
In the meanwhile it is for Congress to consider the provisional authorities which may be necessary to restrain the depredations of this powe...
Progress having been made in the demarcation of Indian boundaries, I am now able to communicate to you.
This conduct on the part of that power is without cause and without explanation.
I now lay before you the treaty mentioned in my general message at the opening of the session as having been concluded with the Kaskaskia In...
I lay before you the convention signed on the 12th day of May last between the United States and Great Britain for settling their boundaries...
While we regret the miseries in which we see others involved, let us bow with gratitude.
Whereas great and weighty matters claiming the consideration of the Congress of the United States form an extraordinary occasion for conveni...
hereby requiring their respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive such communicatio...
Their services to be compensated are from the 1st day of June last.
The portion actually completed has rendered the situation of the persons confined much more comfortable and secure than it has been heretofo...
A single article of $1,440, paid for bringing home 72 seamen discharged in foreign ports from vessels sold abroad, is the only expenditure f...
I now lay before Congress the annual account of the fund established for defraying the contingent charges of Government.
