A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 163 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 163 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 69:  Relating to affairs between the United States and France.]

[Footnote 70:  See Third Annual Message, Vol.  I, pp. 491-493.]

NOVEMBER 13, 1811.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

I lay before Congress the result of the census lately taken of the inhabitants of the United States, with a letter from the Secretary of State relative thereto.

JAMES MADISON.

JANUARY 7, 1812.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

I lay before Congress, for their information, a report of the Director of the Mint.

JAMES MADISON.

WASHINGTON, January 15, 1812.

To the House of Representatives of the United States

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[71] of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 29th of November.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 71:  Relating to the impressment of American seamen by foreign powers.]

JANUARY 16, 1812.

To the Senate of the United States

I transmit to the Senate a report[72] of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 18th of November.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 72:  Relating to the commercial regulations of France applying to the trade of the United States.]

WASHINGTON, January 22, 1812.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

I lay before Congress a letter from the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain to the Secretary of State, with the answer of the latter.[73]

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 73:  Relating to the agency of the British Government in the hostile measures of the Indian tribes toward the United States.]

WASHINGTON, January 22, 1812.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

At the request of the legislature of New Jersey, I communicate to Congress copies of its resolutions[74] transmitted by the governor of that State.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 74:  Expressing confidence in the wisdom and integrity of the President and Congress and pledging the support of New Jersey should the United States determine to resist by force the lawless aggressions by Great Britain.]

FEBRUARY 1, 1812.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

I lay before Congress a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, containing a statement of proceedings under the “act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio.”

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