JOHN ADAMS.

[Footnote 18:  See message of June 22, 1797, Vol.  I, p. 247.]

UNITED STATES, May 4, 1798.

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

I now transmit to Congress copies of all the communications[19] from our envoys extraordinary received since their arrival in Paris, excepting those before presented by me to both Houses.

JOHN ADAMS.

[Footnote 19:  Relating to affairs between the United States and France.]

UNITED STATES, May 29, 1798.

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

An article explanatory of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between the United States and His Britannic Majesty has been signed by the plenipotentiaries of the two powers, which I now submit to the Senate for their consideration.

JOHN ADAMS.

UNITED STATES, June 5, 1798.

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.

[Footnote 20:  Relating to affairs between the United States and France.]

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.

[Footnote 21:  Inclosing correspondence with the French minister of foreign relations relative to affairs between the United States and France.]

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.

JOHN ADAMS.

[Footnote 22:  Reorganization of the Army.]

JANUARY 8, 1799.

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

In obedience to the law, I now lay before you my annual account of the application of the grant made by Congress for the contingent charges of Government from the 1st of January to the 31st of December, 1798.

JOHN ADAMS.

JANUARY 21, 1799.

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

According to an intimation in my message of Friday last,[23] I now lay before Congress a report of the Secretary of State, containing his observations on some of the documents which attended it.