According to the request stated in your resolution of December 20, I communicated to you such returns of the militia of the different States as had then been received.[30] Since that date returns have been received from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky, which are now transmitted to you. TH: JEFFERSON. [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. TH: JEFFERSON. [Footnote 32: By Great Britain and France.] FEBRUARY 23, 1805. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: