Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:

I now transmit to both Houses the communications[20] from our envoys at Paris received since the last which have been presented by me to Congress.

JOHN ADAMS.

UNITED STATES, June 18, 1798.

Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:

I now transmit to Congress the dispatch No. 8 from our envoys extraordinary to the French Republic,[21] which was received at the Secretary of State's office on Thursday, the 14th day of this month.

JOHN ADAMS.

DECEMBER 31, 1798.

Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:

A report of the Secretary of War made to me on the 24th of this month, relative to the military establishment,[22] I think it my duty to transmit to Congress and recommend to their consideration.