[Footnote 134:  Relating to the employment of counsel to assist the Attorney-General in prosecuting cases in the Supreme Court, names of persons so employed, fees paid, etc.]

MARCH 26, 1816.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I lay before the Senate, for their advice as to a ratification, articles of a treaty and of a convention which have been concluded with the Cherokee Nation, with documents relating to the losses by the Indians, for which indemnity is stipulated.

JAMES MADISON.

APRIL 4, 1816.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report[135] from the Secretary of the
Treasury, complying with their resolutions of the 26th March last.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 135:  Relating to the survey of the coasts of the United States.]

APRIL 18, 1816.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[136] from the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 17th February last.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 136:  Relating to obstructions to American commerce in the provincial and colonial possessions of Great Britain.]

APRIL 29, 1816.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[137] of the Secretary of State on the subject of their resolution of February 28, 1816.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 137:  Transmitting lists of impressed American seamen transferred from British ships of war to Dartmoor and other prisons in England and the West Indies and Nova Scotia, and those discharged in England since the treaty of peace.]

JANUARY 6, 1817.

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.

JAMES MADISON.

JANUARY 17, 1817.

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

I transmit to Congress an account of the contingent expenses of the Government for the year 1816.

JAMES MADISON.

JANUARY 23, 1817.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report[138] of the Acting Secretary of War, in compliance with their resolution of the 8th instant.

JAMES MADISON.