Thomas Jefferson: “It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city.”

$2,000 were deposited in the hands of the Attorney-General of the United States to pay expenses incident to the prosecution of Aaron Burr and his accomplices for treason and misdemeanors alleged to have been committed by them.

$990 were paid to the order of Governor Williams on the same account.

When the documents concerning the relations between the United States and Great Britain were laid before Congress at the commencement of the session, the answer of Mr. Pinkney to the letter of Mr. Canning had not been received.

I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.