I communicate to Congress a letter recently received from the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at London, stating some circumstances which bear relation to the subject of my messages of January 17.[36] This paper being original and to be communicated to both Houses, the return of it is requested. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 24, 1806. [Footnote 36: See Vol. I, pp. 395-396.] DECEMBER 15, 1806. _To the Senate of the United States_: I lay before Congress a report of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings, stating the progress made on them during the last season and what is proposed for the ensuing one. TH: JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 23, 1806. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: I now lay before you accounts of the sums which have been expended by the United States on the Capitol, the President's house, the public offices, the navy-yard, and the marine barracks, respectively, and the amount expended on other objects of public expense within the city of Washington, as requested by your resolution of the 15th instant. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 5, 1807. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives communicated in their resolution of the 26th of December, I now lay before them a report of the Secretary of the Navy on the state of the frigates, supplementary to his former report of January 28 of the last year, communicated to the House of Representatives. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 27, 1807. _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 establishment during the last year. TH: JEFFERSON. FEBRUARY 11, 1807. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit to both Houses of Congress the laws adopted by the government and judges of the Territory of Michigan from the 1st day of July, 1806, to the 1st day of the present year. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 8, 1808. _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. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 30, 1808. _To the Senate of the United States_: The Senate having advised and consented to the ratification of the treaty with the Ottaways, Chippeways, Wyandots, and Pottawattamies concluded at Detroit on the 17th day of November last, and also to the treaty concluded with the Choctaws at Pooshapukanuck on the 16th of November, 1805, I now lay them before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling them. TH: JEFFERSON. MARCH 30, 1808. _To the Senate of the United States_: I now transmit to the Senate the information requested in their resolutions of the 28th instant,[37] from the Secretaries of the Treasury and War.