I transmit to you an official statement of the expenditure to the 30th of September last from the sums heretofore granted to defray the contingent expenses of Government by acts passed the 26th day of March, 1790, and the 9th of June, 1794.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, December 11, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I transmit to you, for consideration, a representation made to me by the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of constituting an officer to be specially charged with the business of procuring certain public supplies.[15]

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 15:  For the Army and Navy.]

UNITED STATES, December 16, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I transmit to Congress the copy of a letter from the Secretary of State, with his account, as adjusted with the Treasury Department, of the expenditure of moneys appropriated for our intercourse with foreign nations up to the 1st of July, 1794.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, December 30, 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

I lay before you, for your consideration, certain additional articles of the treaty with the Cherokees, stipulated the 28th of June last, together with the conferences which occasioned the formation of the said articles.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, January 12, 1795.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I lay before Congress, for their consideration, the copy of a letter from the Secretary of War, accompanied by an extract from a memorandum of James Seagrove, agent of Indian affairs.[16]

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 16:  Relating to the justice of compensating owners of negroes taken by the Creek Indians from the conclusion of the Revolutionary War to 1790.]

[The following was transmitted with the message of January 4, 1796 (see Vol.  I, pp. 189-190).]

[From American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol.  I, pp. 527-528.]

PARIS, 30th Vendémiaire, Third Year of the French Republic, One and Indivisible (October 21, 1794).

The Representatives of the French People composing the Committee of Public Safety of the National Convention, charged by the law of the 7th Fructidor with the direction of foreign relations, to the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

CITIZENS REPRESENTATIVES:  The connections which nature, reciprocal wants, and a happy concurrence of circumstances have formed between two free nations can not but be indissoluble.  You have strengthened those sacred ties by the declarations which the minister plenipotentiary of the United States has made in your name to the National Convention and to the French people.  They have been received with rapture by a nation who know how to appreciate every testimony which the United States have given to them of their affection.  The colors of both nations, united in the center of the National Convention, will be an everlasting evidence of the part which the United States have taken in the success of the French Republic.