UNITED STATES, _February 12, 1798_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_:
In obedience to the law, I now present to both Houses of Congress my
annual account of expenditures from the contingent fund during the year
1797, by which it appears that on the 1st day of January last there
remained in the Treasury a balance of $15,494.24 subject to future
dispositions of Government.