Thomas Jefferson: “On mature consideration and advice I approved of the proceeding of the governor.”

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

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 lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.

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