Footnotes
1 ([return])
See message of August 21, 1789, Vol. I, p. 61.
2 ([return])
Omitted.
3 ([return])
Relating to land claimants in the Northwest Territory.
4 ([return])
Respecting the relation between district attorneys and the Attorney-General.
5 ([return])
Decree of the National Assembly of France of March 26, 1793, "exempting from all duties the subsistence and other objects of supply in the colonies relatively to the United States," and extract of an ordinance of Spain of June 9, 1793, "for regulating provisionally the commerce of Louisiana and the Floridas."
6 ([return])
Relating to affairs with Indians on the southern frontier.
7 ([return])
Relating to enlistments in South Carolina for the service of the French Republic.
8 ([return])
Respecting relations between the United States and France.
9 ([return])
Relating to commercial restrictions.
10 ([return])
Relating to lands ceded to the United States by North Carolina.
11 ([return])
Relating to the declaration of war of March 23, 1793, against France by Spain and to expeditions of United States citizens against East Florida.
12 ([return])
Relating to the capture of American vessels by British ships of war.
13 ([return])
Relating to a speech of Lord Dorchester, Governor-General of Canada, tending to an incitement of the Indians to hostilities against the United States, to complaints against alleged acts of violence by citizens of Vermont, etc.
14 ([return])
Relating to a speech of Lord Dorchester, Governor-General of Canada, tending to an incitement of the Indians to hostilities against the United States; justifying the measures pursued by the United States to enforce their neutrality, and rebutting the accusation of partiality to France.
15 ([return])
For the Army and Navy.
16 ([return])
Relating to the justice of compensating owners of negroes taken by the Creek Indians from the conclusion of the Revolutionary War to 1790. [!--Note--]
17 ([return])
See Vol. I, p. 192.
18 ([return])
See message of June 22, 1797, Vol. I, p. 247.
19 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and France.
20 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and France.
21 ([return])
Inclosing correspondence with the French minister of foreign relations relative to affairs between the United States and France.
22 ([return])
Reorganization of the Army.
23 ([return])
See message of January 18, 1799, Vol. I, p.281.
24 ([return])
Commerce.
25 ([return])
Relating to the surrender by the United States to Great Britain of Thomas Nash, charged with murder and piracy on the British frigate Hermione.
26 ([return])
Relating to the inconveniences arising from the want of a competent general staff of the Army.
27 ([return])
Relating to depredations on American commerce by British ships of war; lists of captured American vessels, etc.
28 ([return])
Estimates of the necessary expenditures for the purchase and fabrication of arms and cannon and establishment of foundries and armories, 1798-1801, and statement of appropriations for above purposes and of warrants drawn on same to December 31, 1800.
29 ([return])
Relating to claims of American citizens against Great Britain and of British subjects against the United States for illegal captures of vessels, etc.
30 ([return])
See message of January 5, 1803, Vol. I, p. 350.
31 ([return])
Importation of slaves into Louisiana.
32 ([return])
By Great Britain and France.
33 ([return])
See Vol. I, pp. 376-377.
34 ([return])
Relating to depredations on American commerce by Spanish privateers, etc.
35 ([return])
See Vol. I, pp. 392-394.
36 ([return])
See Vol. I, pp. 395-396.
37 ([return])
Relating to paying United States troops in the Territory of Michigan in bills issued by the Bank of Detroit after Congress had rejected the law of that Territory for establishing said bank, etc.
38 ([return])
Concerning the relations of the United States with England and France.
39 ([return])
Of certain letters from the French ministry to the United States minister at Paris, and the date of the receipt of said letters by said minister.
40 ([return])
See Vol. I, pp. 450-451.
41 ([return])
Showing the condition of the Navy and the application of appropriations made for the Navy and Marine Corps.
42 ([return])
Transmitting translations of a ukase of Russia relating to neutral commerce and regulations of Denmark for vessels commissioned as privateers.
43 ([return])
Relating to seizures, captures, and condemnations of ships and merchandise of citizens of the United States under authority of Denmark, Great Britain, and France.
44 ([return])
Transmitting copies of instructions issued relative to foreign armed ships within the waters of the United States.
45 ([return])
Relating to the military force and its disposition in 1810.
46 ([return])
Relating to the free navigation of the Mobile River to its confluence with the ocean.
47 ([return])
Transmitting communications relative to certain orders and decrees of France and Great Britain violating the lawful commerce and neutral rights of the United States, etc.
48 ([return])
Transmitting statement showing value and amount of duties which accrued in consequence of the duty of 2-1/2 per cent laid on all goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States paying a duty ad valorem from July 1, 1804, to December 31, 1808, and statement showing amount of duties which accrued on merchandise imported into the United States from Mediterranean ports for years ending September 30, 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1808.
49 ([return])
Transmitting copy of instructions to collectors under the act to interdict commercial intercourse with Great Britain and France.
50 ([return])
Relating to the treaty with the Great and Little Osage Indians.
51 ([return])
Relating to the capture of Danish vessels by United States war ships.
52 ([return])
Relating to the impressment of American seamen by British ships of war.
53 ([return])
Transmitting list of United States consuls and commercial agents, etc.
54 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and France.
55 ([return])
Transmitting a decree of the Emperor of France of July 15, 1810, and correspondence relative to affairs between the United States and France.
56 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and France.
57 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and Great Britain.
58 ([return])
Washington.
59 ([return])
Proclamation of November 2, 1810 (see Vol. I, pp. 481-482), and circular letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the collectors of the customs in pursuance of said proclamation.
60 ([return])
Stating that there are no documents in his Department showing the amount of property of citizens or subjects of Great Britain or France confiscated under the acts of March 1, 1809, and May 1, 1810; that inquiry of the several district attorneys for such information has been made, and that the result will be communicated as soon as received; that an account of the goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States during the last three quarters of 1809 will be immediately prepared, but that such account for the year 1810 can not be prepared during the present session.
61 ([return])
Washington.
62 ([return])
Transmitting a general return of the Army.
63 ([return])
Transmitting correspondence relative to the execution of the act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States.
64 ([return])
Transmitting copies of the latest census of the Territory of Orleans and of the latest militia returns of said Territory.
65 ([return])
Transmitting a statement of importations in American and foreign vessels from April 1 to December 31, 1809.
66 ([return])
Transmitting account of George W. Erving relative to awards under the seventh article of the treaty with Great Britain of November 19, 1794.
67 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and Great Britain.
68 ([return])
Washington.
69 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and France.
70 ([return])
See Third Annual Message, Vol. I, pp. 491-493.
71 ([return])
Relating to the impressment of American seamen by foreign powers.
72 ([return])
Relating to the commercial regulations of France applying to the trade of the United States.
73 ([return])
Relating to the agency of the British Government in the hostile measures of the Indian tribes toward the United States.
74 ([return])
Expressing confidence in the wisdom and integrity of the President and Congress and pledging the support of New Jersey should the United States determine to resist by force the lawless aggressions by Great Britain.
75 ([return])
Transmitting rules and regulations for training and disciplining the regular troops and militia of the United States.
76 ([return])
Stating that his Department is not in possession of any names of persons in the United States who entered into or countenanced the project for the fomentation of sectional divisions in the United States and the dissolution of the Union for the execution of which John Henry was in the year 1809 employed by Sir James Craig, then Governor-General of the British Provinces in North America.
77 ([return])
Disclaiming any knowledge of the employment of a secret agent by Great Britain to foment disaffection to the constituted authorities of the United States, etc. (See message of March 9, 1812, Vol. I, p. 498.)
78 ([return])
Washington.
79 ([return])
Relating to captures by belligerent European Governments of American vessels bound to or from the Baltic or within that sea.
80 ([return])
Relating to the revocation of the Berlin and Milan decrees by France, to the British orders in council, etc.
81 ([return])
Relating to impressment of American seamen in British ships of war, detention of British seamen in American ships of war, British orders in council, aid given by American citizens to deserters from British ships, etc.
82 ([return])
Relating to the alleged agency of British authorities in Canada in atrocities committed on the frontiers of the United States by Indians.
83 ([return])
Relating to the revocation of the Berlin and Milan decrees by France, to the British orders in council, etc.
84 ([return])
Relating to the British declaration and order in council of April 21, 1812, to the hostile attitude of Great Britain toward American commerce, etc.
85 ([return])
Inclosing copy of a declaration accompanying the British order in council of April 21, 1812.
86 ([return])
Transmitting extracts from letters of governors of Territories and other agents respecting the hostile and friendly movements and intentions of the Indians toward the United States.
87 ([return])
Transmitting lists of captures, seizures, and condemnations of the ships and merchandise of citizens of the United States under authority of Governments of Europe.
88 ([return])
Relating to the refusal of the governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut to furnish their quotas of militia.
89 ([return])
See Vol. I, p. 521.
90 ([return])
Relating to the conduct of British officers toward persons taken in American armed ships.
91 ([return])
Relating to the presentation to Commodore Edward Preble of a gold medal emblematical of the attacks on the town, batteries, and naval force of Tripoli by the squadron under his command, pursuant to a resolution of Congress of March 3, 1805.
92 ([return])
Transmitting correspondence relative to murders committed by Indians in Tennessee and vicinity.
93 ([return])
Relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.
94 ([return])
Relating to capture of the British brigs Detroit and Caledonia on Lake Erie October 8, 1812.
95 ([return])
Relating to East Florida.
96 ([return])
Transmitting statements of purchases of Treasury notes by banks.
97 ([return])
Transmitting correspondence, etc., relative to the revocation by France of the Berlin and Milan decrees in so far as they affected American vessels.
98 ([return])
Relating to enlistments under the "act authorizing the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps," etc.
99 ([return])
Approving of the declaration of war against Great Britain, etc.
100 ([return])
Transmitting correspondence relative to affairs between the United States and Spain, etc.
101 ([return])
Transmitting correspondence relative to and text of decree of repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees.
102 ([return])
"A supplement to an act to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting and making a canal between the river Delaware and the Chesapeake Bay" and extracts from the act mentioned.
103 ([return])
Transmitting correspondence relative to an interchange of ministers with the Swedish Government.
104 ([return])
Relating to the British declaration and order in council of April 21, 1812.
105 ([return])
Relating to the French decree of April 28, 1811, purporting to be a definitive repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees, etc.
106 ([return])
Relating to the loan of $16,000,000 authorized by act of February 8, 1813.
107 ([return])
Transmitting statement of amount of duties accruing on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States from July 1 to December 31, 1812, etc.
108 ([return])
Transmitting a statement of the quantity and estimated value of spirits distilled from materials other than grain imported into the United States from the West Indies and American colonies from October 1, 1804, to September 30, 1812.
109 ([return])
Transmitting a digest of the number, nature, extent, situation, and value of the arts and manufactures of the United States.
110 ([return])
Relating to the mediation of Russia in the war between the United States and Great Britain.
111 ([return])
Relating to the reception by the French Government of the United States minister to that court.
112 ([return])
Stating that no communication from the French minister prescribing the conditions on which his sovereign would treat of amity and commerce with the United States is on file in the Department of State.
113 ([return])
Relating to the cause of the failure of the army on the northern frontier.
114 ([return])
Transmitting statements of foreign and domestic articles consumed in clothing the Army and Navy of the United States in 1813, and estimates for 1814.
115 ([return])
Transmitting accounts of United States ministers, consuls, etc., from commencement of present Government expenses incurred in and payments made under treaty with Algiers, and accounts of all other expenditures in relation to the Barbary Powers, including those occasioned by war with Tripoli and making of peace with that Regency.
116 ([return])
Commending the "decisive spirit and firmness which the national authorities have manifested in securing hostages for the safety of those defenders of the Republic who are threatened with the penalties of treason against Great Britain," and pledging under all circumstances to support the Government in every measure of just retaliation.
117 ([return])
Expressing disapprobation of the action of the governor of a sister State in issuing a proclamation ordering a detachment of militia of that State then in the United States service to desert and return to their respective homes, and also expressing disapprobation of the threatened resistance of another State to any action of Congress directing an inquiry by the President into the constitutionality of the act of said governor, and pledging to support the General Government in all lawful and constitutional measures to bring to justice all infractors of the Constitution and laws of the United States and all abettors and aiders of the enemies thereof.
118 ([return])
Transmitting copies of certain commissions granted by Presidents Washington and Madison during the recess of the Senate.
119 ([return])
Transmitting lists of ministers, their secretaries, and consuls appointed by the several Presidents during the recess of the Senate.
120 ([return])
Transmitting list of American prisoners sent to England for trial by the British commander in Canada; statement of the grounds on which the British Government refused to deliver up American seamen impressed into the British service, and statement of the conduct of the British Government toward American seamen on board British ships of war.
121 ([return])
Transmitting extract of a letter from the United States minister at Paris touching relations with France.
122 ([return])
Stating that the relations of the United States with the continental powers of Europe continue to be those of peace and amity; that measures have been taken to continue diplomatic relations with France under the existing Government and to renew those with Spain and the United provinces of the Low Countries.
123 ([return])
See Vol. I, p. 551.
124 ([return])
Relating to retaliation upon prisoners of war.
125 ([return])
Relating to measures authorized by the President in pursuance of the "act to enable the President of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the country lying east of the river Perdido and south of the State of Georgia and the Mississippi Territory, and for other purposes," for the purpose of possessing and occupying any part of the country mentioned in said act.
126 ([return])
Transmitting correspondence and protocols of conferences between United States envoys at Ghent and ministers of Great Britain.
127 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and the Barbary Powers.
128 ([return])
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.
129 ([return])
Relating to the sale of negroes taken from the United States by British forces.
130 ([return])
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.
131 ([return])
Relating to the massacre of American prisoners at Dartmoor prison, England.
132 ([return])
Relating to the reduction of the late Army to a peace establishment.
133 ([return])
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.
134 ([return])
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.
135 ([return])
Relating to the survey of the coasts of the United States.
136 ([return])
Relating to obstructions to American commerce in the provincial and colonial possessions of Great Britain.
137 ([return])
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.
138 ([return])
Transmitting statement of claims of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina for militia services during the late war.
139 ([return])
Relating to the deportation of slaves by Great Britain in contravention of the treaty of Ghent, etc.
140 ([return])
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.
141 ([return])
"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.
142 ([return])
Relating to a blockade of the Spanish coast in South America by Spanish forces.
143 ([return])
Relative to the claims of the heirs of Caron de Beaumarchais.
144 ([return])
Relating to the navy pension fund.
145 ([return])
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.
146 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and Spain, the prosecution of Captain Obed Wright for the murder of friendly Indians, etc.
147 ([return])
Relating to affairs between the United States and Spain.
148 ([return])
Relating to the case of Captain Obed Wright, charged with the murder of friendly Indians.
149 ([return])
Relating to the Florida treaty.
150 ([return])
Relating to the construction of the first article of the treaty of Ghent, relative to slaves.
151 ([return])
Relating to the marine-hospital fund.
152 ([return])
Relating to the seizure, sequestration, or confiscation of the ships or other property of citizens of the United States by authority of Sweden.
153 ([return])
See Vol. II, pp. 70-72.
154 ([return])
Relating to his claim against Spain for imprisonment.
155 ([return])
Relating to relief of sick, disabled, and destitute American seamen in foreign ports in 1818, 1819, and 1820.
156 ([return])
Relating to Indian affairs.
157 ([return])
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."
158 ([return])
Statements of ordnance and ordnance stores in fortifications, arsenals, etc., and estimates of amounts required, contracted for, etc.
159 ([return])
Relating to the appointment of William B. Irish as marshal of the western district of Pennsylvania.
160 ([return])
Relating to the lease of a building on Capitol Hill for the temporary use and accommodation of Congress.
161 ([return])
Correspondence leading up to and protocol of treaty of Ghent, etc.
162 ([return])
List of the navy yards and stations, number and grade of officers attached to each, etc.
163 ([return])
Relating to lands granted to officers and soldiers of Virginia who served in the Revolutionary War.
164 ([return])
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.
165 ([return])
See Vol. II, p. 136.
166 ([return])
Relating to French spoliations.
167 ([return])
Relating to sites for fortifications at St. Marys and Patuxent rivers, plans for same, and estimates of cost of each fortification.
168 ([return])
Relating to the suppression of the African slave trade.
169 ([return])
Addition to digest of foreign commercial law.
170 ([return])
Relating to foreign spoliations on American commerce.
171 ([return])
Stating that the correspondence relative to French spoliations and to the claims of France upon the United States for noncompliance with the treaties of alliance and commerce of February 6, 1778, would be communicated at the next session of Congress.
172 ([return])
Relating to the use of canvas, cables, and cordage made of hemp grown in the United States in the equipment vessels of the American Navy.
173 ([return])
Relating to commercial intercourse with the British colonies of the West Indies and Canada; to the boundary under the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, and the navigation of the St. Lawrence River; to admission of United States consuls into British colonial ports; to the Newfoundland fishery; to maritime questions; to the northwest coast of America.
174 ([return])
Concerning the boundary line between the United States and Mexico and the return of slaves escaping from the former country into the latter.
175 ([return])
Of December 24, 1827 (see Vol. II, p. 393), relative to the negotiation of the convention of November 13, 1826, with Great Britain.
176 ([return])
Transmitting correspondence which passed between the Governments of the United States and Spain in the negotiation of the treaty of February 17, 1834, instructions given to the minister of the United States during the course of the negotiation, etc.
177 ([return])
Addressed to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, the Secretary of War, the Board of the Treasury, and the Postmaster-General.
178 ([return])
With certain tribes of Indians northwest of the Ohio.
179 ([return])
Sent to the United States attorney at Rockingham, Vt., and to the district attorneys for the northern district of New York and the Michigan district.
180 ([return])
See Vol. VI, pp. 310-312.