OCTOBER 3, 1814.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report[122] from the Department of State, complying with their resolution of the 26th ultimo.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 122:  Stating that the relations of the United States with the continental powers of Europe continue to be those of peace and amity; that measures have been taken to continue diplomatic relations with France under the existing Government and to renew those with Spain and the United provinces of the Low Countries.]

WASHINGTON, October 13, 1814.

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

I now transmit to Congress copies of the instructions to the plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiating a peace with Great Britain, as referred to in my message of the 10th instant.[123]

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 123:  See Vol.  I, p. 551.]

OCTOBER 28, 1814.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[124] from the Department of State, complying with their resolution of the 15th instant.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 124:  Relating to retaliation upon prisoners of war.]

NOVEMBER 18, 1814.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I lay before the Senate, for their consideration whether they will advise and consent to the ratification thereof, a treaty concluded on the 22d day of July last with the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanese, Senecas, and Miamies.

I lay before the Senate also, for the like purpose, an instrument entitled “Articles of agreement and capitulation made and concluded on the 9th day of August last between Major-General Jackson and the chiefs, deputies, and warriors of the Creek Nation of Indians.”

These communications are accompanied by documents having relation to them.

JAMES MADISON.

JANUARY 2, 1815.

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.

JANUARY 10, 1815.

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.