/ payments, 
682 
lars, which, with not quite five mil- 
lions in the treasury at the begin- 
ning of the year, have enabled us, 
after meeting other demands, to pay 
nearly two millions of the debt con- 
tracted under the Gritish treaty and 
convention, upwards of four millions 
of principal of the public debt, and 
four millions of interest: ‘These 
with those which had 
been made in three years and a-half 
preceding, have extinguished of the 
funded debt nearly eighteen mil- 
lions of principal. 
Congress, by their act of Nov. 
10, 1803, authorized us to borrow 
- 1,750,000 dollars, towards meeting 
posal. 
the claims of our citizens assumed 
By the convention with France. 
We have not, however, made use of 
this authority ; because the sum of 
four millions and a half, which re- 
mained in the treasury” on the same 
3oth day of September last, with 
the receipts which we may calculate 
on for the ensuing year, besides 
paying the annual sum of eight mil- 
lions of dollars, appropriated to the 
funded debt, and meeting all the 
current demands which may be ex. 
pected, will enable us to pay the 
whole sum of three’ millions seven 
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 
assumed by the French convention, 
and still leave us a surplus of nearly 
a million of dollars at our free dis- 
Should you concur in the 
provisions of arms and armed ves- 
sels recommended by the circum- 
stances of the times, this surplus 
will furnish the means of doing’so. 
On this first occasion of address- 
ing congress since, by the choice of 
‘ my constituents, I have entered on 
a second term of administration, I 
embrace the opportunity to give this 
public assurance, that I will exert 
wy best endeavours to administer 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
faithfully the executive department, — 
1806. 
and will zealously co-operate with 
you in any measure which may tend 
to secure the’ liberty, property, and 
personal safety, of our fellow-citi- 
zens, and to conselidate the repub= 
lican forms and principles of our 
government. 
Jn the course of your session, © 
you shall receive all the aid which I 
can give for the dispatch of the — 
public business, and all the informa- 
tion necessary for your delibera- 
tions, of which the interest of our 
own country, and the confidence 
reposed in us by others, will admit 
a communication, 
Dec. 3, 1905. 
Message from the President of the 
United States, respecting the Vio- 
lation of Neutral Rights; the 
Depredations on the Colonial 
Trade, and Impressments of Ame- 
rican Scamen. 
To the Senate and House of Re- 
presentatives of the United States. 
‘ In my message to both houses 
of congress, at the opening of the 
present session, I submitted to 
their attention amung othersubjects, 
the oppression of our commerce and 
navigation, by the irregular prac- 
tices of armed vessels, public and 
private, and by the introduction of 
new principles, derogatory of tlre - 
rights of neutrals, and unacknow- 
ledged by the usage of nations. 
The memorials of several bo- 
dies of merchants of the United 
States are now Communicated, ‘and 
will develope these principles and 
practices, which are producing the 
most ruinous effects on our lawful 
commerce and navigation. 
The right of a neutral to carry 
oR 
T. Jefferson. - 
