For obtaining from the owners or commanders of such vessels adequate securities against the abuse of their armaments, with the exceptions in such provisions proper for the cases of merchant vessels furnished with the defensive armaments…

It is found that the existing laws have not the efficacy necessary to prevent violations of the obligations of the United States as a nation at peace toward belligerent parties and other unlawful acts on the high seas by armed vessels…

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th instant, I transmit to them the proceedings of the commissioner appointed under the act 'to authorize the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the…

To the Senate of the United States: A treaty of commerce between the United States and the King of Sweden and Norway having been concluded and signed on the 4th day of September last by their plenipotentiaries, I lay the same before the…

I lay before the Senate, for their consideration and advice as to a ratification, treaties concluded with the several Indian tribes according to the following statement:

They will have an opportunity at the same time of considering how far other provisions of the act may be rendered more clear and precise in their import.

With that view I now recommend the subject to their consideration.

The wisdom of the Legislature will decide on the course which, under these circumstances, is prescribed by a joint regard to the amicable relations between the two nations and to the just interests of the United States.

Occurrences having taken place which shew that the statutory provisions for the dispensation of criminal justice are deficient.

The operations of the Treasury continued to be obstructed by difficulties arising from the condition of the national currency.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

The United States, having been the first to abolish within the extent of their authority the transportation of the natives of Africa into slavery.

The Constitution has intrusted Congress exclusively with the power of creating and regulating a currency of that description.

the locations of the land warrants of the said volunteers should 'be subject to such regulations as to priority of choice and manner of location as the President of the United States shall direct'

the warrantees may, in person or by their attorneys or other legal representatives, in the presence of the register and receiver of the said land district, draw lots for the priority of location

should any of the warrants not appear for location on that day they may be located afterwards, according to their priority of presentation

the land warrants of the said Canadian volunteers may be located agreeably to the said act at the land offices at Vincennes or Jeffersonville, in the Indiana Territory, on the first Monday in June next

I lay before Congress copies of a convention concluded between the United States and the Cherokee Indians on the 2d day of March last, as the same has been duly ratified and proclaimed; and I recommend that such provision be made by…