JOHN ADAMS. [Footnote 21: Inclosing correspondence with the French minister of foreign relations relative to affairs between the United States and France.] DECEMBER 31, 1798. _Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_: A report of the Secretary of War made to me on the 24th of this month, relative to the military establishment,[22] I think it my duty to transmit to Congress and recommend to their consideration. JOHN ADAMS. [Footnote 22: Reorganization of the Army.] JANUARY 8, 1799. _Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_: In obedience to the law, I now lay before you my annual account of the application of the grant made by Congress for the contingent charges of Government from the 1st of January to the 31st of December, 1798. JOHN ADAMS. JANUARY 21, 1799. _Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_: According to an intimation in my message of Friday last,[23] I now lay before Congress a report of the Secretary of State, containing his observations on some of the documents which attended it. JOHN ADAMS. [Footnote 23: See message of January 18, 1799, Vol. I, p.281.] JANUARY 30, 1799. _Gentlemen of the Senate_: I send you, for your consideration, a treaty with the Oneida Nation of Indians, made on the 1st day of June, 1798, at their village. JOHN ADAMS. JANUARY 31, 1799. _Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_: I have received a report from the Director of the Mint on the state of the business committed to his superintendence, and a statement of the coinage of the Mint of the United States for the year 1798, which it is proper to lay before Congress. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, _December 13, 1799_. _Gentlemen of the Senate_: In conformity with your recommendation expressed in your resolution of March 6, 1798, I have entered into a friendly negotiation with the Bey and Government of Tunis on the subject[24] of the fourteenth article of the treaty of peace and friendship between the United States and that power. The result of that negotiation I now lay before the Senate for their consideration. JOHN ADAMS. [Footnote 24: Commerce.] UNITED STATES, _January 8, 1800_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_: A report made to me on the 1st day of this month by the Director of the Mint, through the office of the Secretary of State, with the documents attending it, I transmit to both Houses of Congress for their consideration. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, _January 20, 1800_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_: In obedience to law, I transmit to Congress my annual account of the contingent fund. JOHN ADAMS. UNITED STATES, _February 7, 1800_. _Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_: