[Footnote 133: Transmitting statements of receipts and expenditures of the city of Washington from 1791 to 1815, inclusive, and of moneys advanced by the United States to said city.] MARCH 12, 1816. _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, with a statement of past appropriations and an estimate of required appropriations. JAMES MADISON. MARCH 22, 1816. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[134] from the Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the 29th of February last. JAMES MADISON. [Footnote 134: Relating to the employment of counsel to assist the Attorney-General in prosecuting cases in the Supreme Court, names of persons so employed, fees paid, etc.] MARCH 26, 1816. _To the Senate of the United States_: I lay before the Senate, for their advice as to a ratification, articles of a treaty and of a convention which have been concluded with the Cherokee Nation, with documents relating to the losses by the Indians, for which indemnity is stipulated. JAMES MADISON. APRIL 4, 1816. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit to the Senate a report[135] from the Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolutions of the 26th March last. JAMES MADISON. [Footnote 135: Relating to the survey of the coasts of the United States.] APRIL 18, 1816. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[136] from the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 17th February last. JAMES MADISON. [Footnote 136: Relating to obstructions to American commerce in the provincial and colonial possessions of Great Britain.] APRIL 29, 1816. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[137] of the Secretary of State on the subject of their resolution of February 28, 1816. JAMES MADISON. [Footnote 137: Transmitting lists of impressed American seamen transferred from British ships of war to Dartmoor and other prisons in England and the West Indies and Nova Scotia, and those discharged in England since the treaty of peace.] JANUARY 6, 1817. _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 17, 1817. _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 1816. JAMES MADISON. JANUARY 23, 1817. _To the Senate of the United States_: