The marshal of the District of Columbia has, as directed by law, caused a jail to be built in the city of Washington.  I inclose his statements of the expenses already incurred and of what remains to be finished.  The portion actually completed has rendered the situation of the persons confined much more comfortable and secure than it has been heretofore.

TH.  JEFFERSON.

FEBRUARY 3, 1803.

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: 

The inclosed letter and affidavits exhibiting matter of complaint against John Pickering, district judge of New Hampshire, which is not within Executive cognizance, I transmit them to the House of Representatives, to whom the Constitution has confided a power of instituting proceedings of redress, if they shall be of opinion that the case calls for them.

TH.  JEFFERSON.

FEBRUARY 14, 1803.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

In obedience to the ordinance for the government of the Territories of the United States requiring that the laws adopted by the governor and judges thereof shall be reported to Congress from time to time, I now transmit those which have been adopted in the Indiana Territory from January, 1801, to February, 1802, as forwarded to the office of the Secretary of State.

TH.  JEFFERSON.

FEBRUARY 21, 1803.

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

The Tuscarora Indians, having an interest in some lands within the State of North Carolina, asked the superintendence of the Government of the United States over a treaty to be held between them and the State of North Carolina respecting these lands.  William Richardson Davie was appointed a commissioner for this purpose, and a treaty was concluded under his superintendence.  This, with his letter on the subject, is now laid before the Senate for their advice and consent whether it shall be ratified.

TH.  JEFFERSON.

FEBRUARY 23, 1803.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I lay before you a report of the Secretary of State on the case of the Danish brigantine Henrick, taken by a French privateer in 1799, retaken by an armed vessel of the United States, carried into a British island, and there adjudged to be neutral, but under allowance of such salvage and costs as absorbed nearly the whole amount of sales of the vessel and cargo.  Indemnification for these losses occasioned by our officers is now claimed by the sufferers, supported by the representations of their Government.  I have no doubt the legislature will give to the subject that just attention and consideration which it is useful as well as honorable to practice in our transactions with other nations, and particularly with one which has observed toward us the most friendly treatment and regard.