ncil for the
said Territory, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed
according to law.

TH. JEFFERSON.

DECEMBER 13, 1808.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:

I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners
appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, concerning a road from
Cumberland to Ohio, being a statement of the proceedings under the said
act since their last report communicated to Congress, in order that
Congress may be enabled to adopt such further measures as may be proper
under existing circumstances.

TH. JEFFERSON.

DECEMBER 23, 1808.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

According to the request of the Senate in their resolution of November
14, that copies should be laid before them of all the orders and decrees
of the belligerent powers of Europe, passed since 1791, affecting the
commercial rights of the United States, 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 Senate.

TH. JEFFERSON.

DECEMBER 27, 1808.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of
November 14, I now transmit a report of the Secretary of the Treasury
and statement showing, as far as returns have been received from the
collectors, the number of vessels which have departed from the United
States with permission, and specifying the other particulars
contemplated by that resolution.

TH. JEFFERSON.

DECEMBER 30, 1808.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:

At the request of the governor, the senate, and house of representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I communicate certain resolutions
entered into by the said senate and house of representatives, and
approved by the governor, on the 23d instant. It can not but be
encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of
their affairs to see that their fellow-citizens will press forward
in support of their country in proportion as it is threatened by the
disorganizing conflicts of the other hemisphere.

TH. JEFFERSON.

DECEMBER 30, 1808.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:

I lay before the Legislature a letter from Governor Claiborne on the
subject of a small tribe of Alabama Indians on the wes