JANUARY 27, 1813.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report[98] of the Secretary of War, complying with their resolution of the 7th instant.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 98:  Relating to enlistments under the “act authorizing the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps,” etc.]

JANUARY 30, 1813.

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

At the request of the legislature of Pennsylvania, conveyed through the governor of that State, I transmit to Congress copies of its resolutions of the 16th December, 1812.[99]

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 99:  Approving of the declaration of war against Great Britain, etc.]

FEBRUARY 13, 1813.

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

I lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.

JAMES MADISON.

FEBRUARY 18, 1813.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report[100] of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 18th of January, 1813.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 100:  Transmitting correspondence relative to affairs between the United States and Spain, etc.]

MARCH 1, 1813.

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.”

JAMES MADISON.

MARCH 3, 1813.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[101] of the
Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 1st instant.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 101:  Transmitting correspondence relative to and text of decree of repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees.]

WASHINGTON, May 29, 1813.

_ To the Senate of the United States_: 

Commissions having been granted during the recess of the Senate to the following persons, I now nominate them to the same offices respectively annexed to their names:  Albert Gallatin, John Quincy Adams, and James A. Bayard to be jointly and severally envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to negotiate and sign a treaty of peace with Great Britain under the mediation of the Emperor of Russia, to negotiate and sign a treaty of commerce with Great Britain; and the said John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin, and James A. Bayard to be jointly and severally envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to negotiate and sign a treaty of commerce with Russia.