complying with their resolution of the 15th of December last.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 128: Transmitting statement of number of post-offices and
miles of post-roads in each State, net amount of postages for six months
ending June 30, 1814, etc.]
WASHINGTON, _February 28, 1815_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a report[129] from the Acting Secretary of
State, complying with their resolution of the 24th of October last.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 129: Relating to the sale of negroes taken from the United
States by British forces.]
JANUARY 8, 1816.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I communicate, for the information of Congress, the report of the
Director of the Mint of the operation of that establishment during the
last year.
JAMES MADISON.
JANUARY 26, 1816.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with the resolution of the 24th instant, I transmit two
letters from the envoy extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary of
Spain to the Secretary of State, with his answer.[130]
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 130: Relating to demand of Spain for possession of West
Florida; to unlawful expeditions against Spanish possessions; to the
exclusion from ports of the United States of the flags of revolting
provinces of Spain; to the attitude of the United States toward the
Mexican revolution; to vessels of the United States condemned in ports
of Spain; to the free navigation of the Mississippi; to the boundaries
of Louisiana, etc.]
WASHINGTON, _January 31, 1816_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit a report[131] of the Secretary of State, complying with the
resolution of the 4th instant.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 131: Relating to the massacre of American prisoners at
Dartmoor prison, England.]
FEBRUARY 13, 1816.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of War, complying
with their resolution of the 5th instant.[132]
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 132: Relating to the reduction of the late Army to a peace
establishment.]
MARCH 11, 1816.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[133] of the
Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the
17th of February.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 133: Transmitting statements of receipts and expenditures of
the city of Washington from 1791 to 1815, inclusive, and of moneys
advanced by the United States to said city.]
MARCH 12, 1816.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I lay before Congress a report of the Secretary of the Treasury,
containing a statement of proceedings under the act to regulate the
laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland,
to the State of Ohio, with a statement of past appropriations and an
estimate of required appropriations.
JAMES MADISON.
MARCH 22, 1816.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[134] from the
Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the 29th
of February last.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 134: Relating to the employment of counsel to assist the
Attorney-General in prosecuting cases in the Supreme Court, names of
persons so employed, fees paid, etc.]
MARCH 26, 1816.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I lay before the Senate, for their advice as to a ratification, articles
of a treaty and of a convention which have been concluded with the
Cherokee Nation, with documents relating to the losses by the Indians,
for which indemnity is stipulated.
JAMES MADISON.
APRIL 4, 1816.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a report[135] from the Secretary of the
Treasury, complying with their resolutions of the 26th March last.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 135: Relating to the survey of the coasts of the United
States.]
APRIL 18, 1816.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[136] from the
Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 17th
February last.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 136: Relating to obstructions to American commerce in the
provincial and colonial possessions of Great Britain.]
APRIL 29, 1816.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[137] of the
Secretary of State on the subject of their resolution of February
28, 1816.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 137: Transmitting lists of impressed American seamen
transferred from British ships of war to Dartmoor and other prisons in
England and the West Indies and Nova Scotia, and those discharged in
England since the treaty of peace.]
JANUARY 6, 1817.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I communicate, for the information of Congress, the report of the
Director of the Mint of the operation of that establishment during the
last year.
JAMES MADISON.
JANUARY 17, 1817.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress an account of the contingent expenses of the
Government for the year 1816.
JAMES MADISON.
JANUARY 23, 1817.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a report[138] of the Acting Secretary of War,
in compliance with their resolution of the 8th instant.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 138: Transmitting statement of claims of New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina for militia services
during the late war.]
FEBRUARY 7, 1817.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a report[139] of the Secretary of State,
complying with their resolution of the 28th of last month.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 139: Relating to the deportation of slaves by Great Britain in
contravention of the treaty of Ghent, etc.]
FEBRUARY 22, 1817.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a report[140] of the Secretary of State,
complying with their resolution of the 20th instant.
JAMES MADISON.
[Footnote 140: Transmitting correspondence between the Governments of
the United States and Spain relative to settlement of boundaries, to
cession of East Florida by Spain, to indemnification for injuries to
American commerce by Spanish vessels, etc.]
WASHINGTON, _February 4, 1818_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
Pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 31st of
December last, requesting information of the number of States which had
ratified the thirteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of
the United States,[141] I transmit to the House a detailed report from
the Secretary of State, which contains all the information that has been
received upon that subject.
No time will be lost in communicating to the House the answers of the
governors of the States of South Carolina and Virginia to the inquiries
stated by the Secretary of State to have been recently addressed to them
when they are received at that Department.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 141: "If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim,
receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without
the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office,
or emolument of any kind whatever from any emperor, king, prince, or
foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United
States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of profit or trust
under them, or either of them." This proposed amendment did not become
a part of the Constitution, failing of ratification by three-fourths of
the States.]
WASHINGTON, _February 6, 1818_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th of February,
1817, I now transmit copies of the reports in relation to the surveys and
examinations made by naval officers in cooperation with officers of the
Corps of Engineers.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _February 12, 1818_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
Conformably with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th
of this month, I now lay before that House a report received from the
Secretary of State, with the copy of the correspondence[142] referred to
and requested by that resolution.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 142: Relating to a blockade of the Spanish coast in South
America by Spanish forces.]
WASHINGTON, _February 13, 1818_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the 28th of January last, I now
transmit to the Senate a statement of the expenditures upon the public
buildings and an account of their progress for the year 1818.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _February 18, 1818_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
Conformably with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
12th instant, I lay before that House a report which I have received
from the Department of State, with a copy of the letter communicated
with it.[143]
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 143: Relative to the claims of the heirs of Caron de
Beaumarchais.]
MARCH 5, 1818.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I lay before the Senate, for their consideration and the exercise
of their constitutional power of advice and consent respecting the
ratification thereof, a treaty concluded on the 22d of January last with
the Creek Nation of Indians. This treaty is accompanied by certain
documents having relation to it.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _March 24, 1818_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th
instant, I now transmit the report of the Secretary of State, with a
statement of the expenses incurred under the fourth, fifth, sixth, and
seventh articles of the treaty of Ghent, specifying the items of
expenditure in relation to each.
JAMES MONROE.
NOVEMBER 26, 1818.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I lay before the Senate a report from the Commissioner of the Public
Buildings, made in compliance with a resolution of the 28th of January
last, requiring a statement of the expenditures upon the public
buildings and an account of their progress to be annually exhibited
to Congress.
JAMES MONROE.
[The same message was sent to the House of Representatives.]
NOVEMBER 30, 1818.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with the resolution of the 17th of April, I transmit to
the Senate a report[144] from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, which,
with the documents accompanying it, will be found to contain all the
information required.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 144: Relating to the navy pension fund.]
DECEMBER 15, 1818.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I lay before the House of Representatives copies of the remainder of
the documents[145] referred to in the message of the 17th of last month.
JAMES MONROE.
[The same message was sent to the Senate.]
[Footnote 145: Reports of Theodorick Bland and J.R. Poinsett,
commissioners, on the condition of South America, correspondence between
the Secretary of State and the Spanish minister relative to affairs
between the United States and Spain, etc.]
DECEMBER 18, 1818.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant, I
transmit copies of the instructions to the commissioners who negotiated
the Indian treaties now before it.
JAMES MONROE.
DECEMBER 28, 1818.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, I
transmit to that House a report from the Secretary of State, with the
papers and documents accompanying it.[146]
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 146: Relating to affairs between the United States and Spain,
the prosecution of Captain Obed Wright for the murder of friendly
Indians, etc.]
DECEMBER 28, 1818.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the 15th instant, I lay before the
House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with the
papers and documents accompanying it.[147]
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 147: Relating to affairs between the United States and Spain.]
JANUARY 4, 1819.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I lay before the Senate a report from the Secretary of State,
accompanied with a copy of a letter from Governor Rabun,[148] which was
not communicated on a former occasion from that Department.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 148: Relating to the case of Captain Obed Wright, charged with
the murder of friendly Indians.]
DECEMBER 24, 1819.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress a report from the Commissioner of the Public
Buildings, which, with the accompanying documents, will exhibit the
present state of those buildings and the expenditures thereon during
the year ending the 30th of September last.
JAMES MONROE.
JANUARY 18, 1820.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant,
the inclosed papers are transmitted to them _in confidence_, and
contain all the information in possession of the Executive respecting
the progress of the negotiation with the British Government in relation
to the intercourse between the United States and the British colonies.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _March 8, 1820_.
The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
I transmit to the House of Representatives, in pursuance of their
resolution of the 22d of last month, a report from the Secretary of
State, with the papers containing the information requested by that
resolution.[149]
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 149: Relating to the Florida treaty.]
MARCH 10, 1820.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress a report from the Director of the Mint of the
operations of that institution during the last year.
JAMES MONROE.
MARCH 17, 1820.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress a report from the Secretary of the Treasury,
accompanied with statements of the annual expenditures made in the
construction of the road leading from Cumberland, in the State of
Maryland, to the State of Ohio from the year 1806 to the year 1820.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _March 23, 1820_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, in pursuance of their resolution of the 1st of
February, a report[150] from the Secretary of State, with the information
required by that rotation.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 150: Relating to the construction of the first article of the
treaty of Ghent, relative to slaves.]
WASHINGTON, _March 28, 1820_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives, in pursuance of their
resolution of the 31st of January last, a report[151] from the Secretary
of the Treasury, with the documents which accompanied it.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 151: Relating to the marine-hospital fund.]
MARCH 30, 1820.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress a general abstract of the militia of the United
States, in pursuance of the act of March 2, 1803.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _April 18, 1820_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I lay before the Senate, in pursuance of their resolution of the 21st
of last month, the accompanying report and documents[152] from the
Department of State.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 152: Relating to the seizure, sequestration, or confiscation
of the ships or other property of citizens of the United States by
authority of Sweden.]
WASHINGTON, _May 12, 1820_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I communicate to Congress translations of letters from the minister of
Spain to the Secretary of State, received since my message of the 9th
instant.[153]
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 153: See Vol. II, pp. 70-72.]
NOVEMBER 23, 1820.
The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE:
In conformity with a resolution of the Senate passed the 28th of
January, 1818, I communicate herewith to the Senate the report of
the Commissioner of Public Buildings required by that resolution.
JAMES MONROE.
[The same message was addressed to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.]
JANUARY 26, 1821.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I lay before the Senate, for their consideration and advice as to a
ratification, a treaty concluded between the United States and the Creek
Nation of Indians.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _February 13, 1821_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit herewith to the Senate a copy of a memorial received from
Richard W. Meade,[154] together with a report of the Secretary of State
concerning it.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 154: Relating to his claim against Spain for imprisonment.]
WASHINGTON, _February 14, 1821_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress a report from the Director of the Mint, inclosing
a statement of the Treasurer, submitting the operations of the Mint for
the last year.
JAMES MONROE.
DECEMBER 24, 1821.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a treaty recently concluded with the Indian
tribes at Chicago, with the papers relating thereto, which is submitted
for consideration as to its ratification.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _January 7, 1822_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress a report from the Director of the Mint, with a
statement of the operations for the last year.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _January 15, 1822_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate requesting the President
"to cause a statement of expenditures upon the public buildings and an
account of their progress to be annually laid before Congress at the
commencement of each session," I herewith transmit the annual report
of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings.
JAMES MONROE.
[The same message was sent to the House of Representatives.]
WASHINGTON, _January 28, 1822_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State,
containing the information required by the resolution of the Senate of
the 3d instant, with the documents[155] which accompanied that report.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 155: Relating to relief of sick, disabled, and destitute
American seamen in foreign ports in 1818, 1819, and 1820.]
WASHINGTON, _January 28, 1822_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I transmit a report from the Secretary of War, together with the
documents which accompany it, containing the information requested by
a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d instant.[156]
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 156: Relating to Indian affairs.]
WASHINGTON, _February 6, 1822_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary
of State on the subject required by the resolution of that House of the
22d ultimo,[157] with the documents which accompanied that report.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 157: Relating to that part of the boundary line between the
United States and the British Provinces which extends "from the source
of the river St. Croix to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut
River."]
WASHINGTON, _February 7, 1822_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the 17th ultimo, I transmit a report
from the Secretary of War, which, with the accompanying documents,[158]
contains the information requested.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 158: Statements of ordnance and ordnance stores in
fortifications, arsenals, etc., and estimates of amounts required,
contracted for, etc.]
FEBRUARY 8, 1822.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State,
containing the information required by the resolution of the Senate of
the 1st instant, with the documents which accompanied that report.[159]
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 159: Relating to the appointment of William B. Irish as
marshal of the western district of Pennsylvania.]
WASHINGTON, _February 12, 1822_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, containing
the information[160] required by the resolution of the Senate of the 4th
instant.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 160: Relating to the lease of a building on Capitol Hill for
the temporary use and accommodation of Congress.]
WASHINGTON, _February 15, 1822_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives
"requesting the President of the United States to cause to be laid
before this House any information which he may have of the condition
of the several Indian tribes within the United States and the progress
of the measures hitherto devised and pursued for their civilization,"
I now transmit a report from the Secretary of War.
JAMES MONROE.
FEBRUARY 21, 1822.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant,
requesting the President of the United States to cause to be
communicated to the Senate the instructions to the commissioners who
negotiated the treaty concluded at Chicago with the Ottowa, Chippeway,
and Potawatamie nations of Indians, I herewith transmit a report from
the Secretary of War.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _February 21, 1822_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary
of State, with the documents[161] accompanying it, in pursuance of a
resolution of the House of the 17th January last.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 161: Correspondence leading up to and protocol of treaty of
Ghent, etc.]
WASHINGTON, _March 4, 1822_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating
information in relation to the Navy of the United States[162] requested
by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 14th ultimo.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 162: List of the navy yards and stations, number and grade of
officers attached to each, etc.]
WASHINGTON, _March 15, 1822_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 29th of January,
I herewith transmit reports[163] from the Treasury and War Departments,
containing all the information in the possession of the Executive
embraced by that resolution.
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 163: Relating to lands granted to officers and soldiers of
Virginia who served in the Revolutionary War.]
WASHINGTON, _April 1, 1822_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with two resolutions of the 11th ultimo, requesting that
the President of the United States cause to be furnished to that House
certain detailed information from the Navy Department, I herewith
transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with other
documents.[164]
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 164: Statements showing names and number of officers belonging
to the Navy attached to each navy-yard in the United States, and their
compensation for two years ending January 1, 1822.]
APRIL 19, 1822.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit a letter from the Attorney-General on the subject of the
resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, which I have received this
day, and which in consequence of his absence was not communicated with
the message of the 15th instant.[165]
JAMES MONROE.
[Footnote 165: See Vol. II, p. 136.]
DECEMBER 15, 1822.
_To the Congress of the United States_:
I now transmit to both Houses of Congress the report of the Commissioner
of Public Buildings made in obedience to a resolution of the Senate
passed the 28th day of January, 1818.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, _January 20, 1823_.
_To the House of Representatives_: