Thomas Jefferson actually said...

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...

I now communicate a digest of the information I have received relative to Louisiana, which may be useful to the Legislature in providing for...

A translation of the most important laws in force in that province, now in press, shall be the subject of a supplementary communication.

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...