TH:  JEFFERSON.

JANUARY 8, 1808.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I communicate, for the information of Congress, the report of the Director of the Mint of the operation of that establishment during the last year.

TH:  JEFFERSON.

JANUARY 30, 1808.

To the Senate of the United States: 

The Senate having advised and consented to the ratification of the treaty with the Ottaways, Chippeways, Wyandots, and Pottawattamies concluded at Detroit on the 17th day of November last, and also to the treaty concluded with the Choctaws at Pooshapukanuck on the 16th of November, 1805, I now lay them before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling them.

TH:  JEFFERSON.

MARCH 30, 1808.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I now transmit to the Senate the information requested in their resolutions of the 28th instant,[37] from the Secretaries of the Treasury and War.

TH:  JEFFERSON.

[Footnote 37:  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.]

MARCH 31, 1808.

To the Senate of the United States: 

The confidential papers[38] desired by the resolution of yesterday are now again sent to the Senate.

TH:  JEFFERSON.

[Footnote 38:  Concerning the relations of the United States with England and France.]

APRIL 1, 1808.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

In answer to the inquiries of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 30th of March, relative to certain dates,[39] I transmit a report of the Secretary of State to me on that subject.

TH:  JEFFERSON.

[Footnote 39:  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.]

NOVEMBER 30, 1808.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

According to the request of the House of Representatives expressed in their resolution of the 25th instant, I now lay before them a copy of my proclamation of the 19th of April last.[40]

TH:  JEFFERSON.

[Footnote 40:  See Vol.  I, pp. 450-451.]

DECEMBER 1, 1808.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: