[Footnote 30:  See message of January 5, 1803, Vol.  I, p. 350.]

DECEMBER 7, 1803.

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

Since the last communication made to Congress of the laws of the Indiana Territory I have received those of which a copy is now inclosed for the information of both Houses.

TH:  JEFFERSON.

JANUARY 13, 1804.

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

The Director of the Mint having made to me his report of the transactions of the Mint for the year 1803, I now lay the same before you for your information.

TH:  JEFFERSON.

MARCH 7, 1804.

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

I communicate to Congress an extract of a letter from Governor Claiborne to the Secretary of State, with one which it covered, for their information as to the present state of the subject to which they relate.[31]

TH:  JEFFERSON.

[Footnote 31:  Importation of slaves into Louisiana.]

MARCH 15, 1804.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

Agreeably to the request of the Senate and House of Representatives, delivered me by their Joint Committee of Enrolled Bills, I now return the enrolled bill entitled “An act for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda and Mirboha” to the House of Representatives, in which it originated.

TH:  JEFFERSON

[The same message was sent to the Senate.]

DECEMBER 6, 1804.

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

I communicate, for the information of Congress, a report of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings at Washington on the subject of those buildings and the application of the moneys appropriated for them.

TH:  JEFFERSON.

JANUARY 25, 1805.

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 operations of that institution during the last year.

TH:  JEFFERSON.

JANUARY 31, 1805.

To the Senate of the United States: 

According to the desire expressed in your resolution of the 28th instant, I now communicate a report of the Secretary of State, with documents, relative to complaints[32] against arming the merchant ships and vessels of the United States and the conduct of the captains and crews of such as have been armed.