"I communicate, for the information of Congress, a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, to the Secretary of War, by which it will be seen that Mr. Burr had reached that neig..."
"I now lay his memoir thereon before the Legislature, the only authority competent to a final decision on the same."
"I lay before Congress the laws for the government of Louisiana, passed by the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory at their session at Vincennes begun on the 1st of October, 1804."
"The progress which they made in the execution of the work during the last season will appear in their report now communicated to Congress."
"I have received acts of the legislatures of Maryland and Virginia giving the consent desired; that of Pennsylvania has the subject still under consideration, as is supposed."
"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 finally the partial report of the commissioners."
"Some matters suggested in the report belong exclusively to the Legislature."
"we may now estimate with tolerable certainty the means derived from the Ohio and its waters toward the accomplishment of the purposes of Mr. Burr."
"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 balance remains in the Treasury."
"I immediately delivered to the attorney of the United States in this district the evidence received against them, with instructions to lay the same before the judges and apply for their process to bri..."
"Information now recently communicated has brought us nearly to the period contemplated."
"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 so as to constitute formal and legal evidence."