WASHINGTON, _October 13, 1814_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I now transmit to Congress copies of the instructions to the plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiating a peace with Great Britain, as referred to in my message of the 10th instant.[123] JAMES MADISON. [Footnote 123: See Vol. I, p. 551.] OCTOBER 28, 1814. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[124] from the Department of State, complying with their resolution of the 15th instant. JAMES MADISON. [Footnote 124: Relating to retaliation upon prisoners of war.] NOVEMBER 18, 1814. _To the Senate of the United States_: I lay before the Senate, for their consideration whether they will advise and consent to the ratification thereof, a treaty concluded on the 22d day of July last with the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanese, Senecas, and Miamies. I lay before the Senate also, for the like purpose, an instrument entitled "Articles of agreement and capitulation made and concluded on the 9th day of August last between Major-General Jackson and the chiefs, deputies, and warriors of the Creek Nation of Indians." These communications are accompanied by documents having relation to them. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 2, 1815. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I lay before Congress a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, containing a statement of proceedings under the "act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio." JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 10, 1815. _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. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 10, 1815. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit to Congress an account of the contingent expenses of the Government for the year 1814. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 14, 1815. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit to the Senate a report of the Secretary of War, complying with their resolution of the 19th December.[125] JAMES MADISON. [Footnote 125: Relating to measures authorized by the President in pursuance of the "act to enable the President of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the country lying east of the river Perdido and south of the State of Georgia and the Mississippi Territory, and for other purposes," for the purpose of possessing and occupying any part of the country mentioned in said act.] FEBRUARY 16, 1815. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit to the Senate a report[126] of the Acting Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of yesterday. JAMES MADISON.