TH: JEFFERSON. [Footnote 37: Relating to paying United States troops in the Territory of Michigan in bills issued by the Bank of Detroit after Congress had rejected the law of that Territory for establishing said bank, etc.] MARCH 31, 1808. _To the Senate of the United States_: The confidential papers[38] desired by the resolution of yesterday are now again sent to the Senate. TH: JEFFERSON. [Footnote 38: Concerning the relations of the United States with England and France.] APRIL 1, 1808. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: In answer to the inquiries of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 30th of March, relative to certain dates,[39] I transmit a report of the Secretary of State to me on that subject. TH: JEFFERSON. [Footnote 39: Of certain letters from the French ministry to the United States minister at Paris, and the date of the receipt of said letters by said minister.] NOVEMBER 30, 1808. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: According to the request of the House of Representatives expressed in their resolution of the 25th instant, I now lay before them a copy of my proclamation of the 19th of April last.[40] TH: JEFFERSON. [Footnote 40: See Vol. I, pp. 450-451.] DECEMBER 1, 1808. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit to Congress a report from the Surveyor of the Public Buildings of the progress made on them during the last season, of their present state, and the expenditures incurred and of those that may be requisite for their further prosecution. TH: JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 23, 1808. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: According to the request of the House of Representatives in their resolution of November 11 that copies should be laid before them of all acts, decrees, orders, and proclamations affecting the commercial rights of neutral nations issued or enacted by Great Britain and France or any other belligerent power since the year 1791, and also of an act placing the commerce of America in English ports upon the footing of the most favored nation, I now transmit them a report of the Secretary of State of such of them as have been attainable in the Department of State and are supposed to have entered into the views of the House of Representatives. TH: JEFFERSON. JANUARY 5, 1809. _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. DECEMBER 4, 1809. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I now transmit a report of the Secretary of the Navy, containing statements[41] from that Department referred to in my message of the 29th ultimo. JAMES MADISON. [Footnote 41: Showing the condition of the Navy and the application of appropriations made for the Navy and Marine Corps.]