The commissioners proceeded then to the Chickasaws, who discovered at first considerable alarm and anxiety lest land should be asked of them. A just regard for this very friendly nation, whose attachment to us has been invariable, forbade the pressure of anything disagreeable on them, and they yielded with alacrity the road through their country which was asked and was essential to our communication with the Mississippi Territory. The conferences with the Choctaws are probably ended, but as yet we are not informed of their result. Those with the Creeks are not expected to be held till the ensuing spring. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 17, 1802. _Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_: I lay before both Houses of Congress, for their information, the report from the Director of the Mint, now inclosed. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 25, 1802. _Gentlemen of the Senate_: The act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States rendering it necessary that the officers retained in service should in most cases be transferred into regiments different from those to which their commissions attach them, new commissions are deemed necessary for them, as well as for those entitled to promotion and for the ensigns newly nominated. The inclosed report from the Secretary of War exhibits the transfers, promotions, and new appointments proposed in conformity with the law, and I accordingly nominate the several persons named in the report for commissions according to its tenor. TH: JEFFERSON. APRIL 3, 1802. _Gentlemen of the Senate_: According to the request expressed in your resolution of yesterday, I now transmit to the Senate the proceedings of the court-martial lately held for the trial of Captain Cornelius Lyman, asking the favor of their return at the convenience of the Senate, as they are the originals. TH: JEFFERSON. APRIL 17, 1802. _Gentlemen of the Senate_: I now transmit you a report of the Secretary of State, with the document accompanying it, on the subject of your resolution of the 12th instant, concerning the seventh article[29] of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain. TH: JEFFERSON. [Footnote 29: Relating to claims of American citizens against Great Britain and of British subjects against the United States for illegal captures of vessels, etc.] APRIL 20, 1802. _Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_: The object of the inclosed letter from the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia being within legislative competence only, I transmit it to both Houses of Congress. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 11, 1803. _Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_: I transmit you a report received from the Director of the Mint on the subject of that institution. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 1, 1803. _Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_: