Chapter II: Book III: Part I

REPORTS AND OPINIONS WHILE SECRETARY OF STATE.

1. Report on the method of obtaining fresh water from salt, 455.

2. Opinion on the proposition for establishing a woollen manufactory
in Virginia, 460.

3. Report on copper coinage, 462.

4. Opinion on the question whether the Senate has the right to
negative the _grade_ of persons appointed by the Executive to fill
foreign missions, 465.

5. Opinion on the validity of a grant made by the State of Georgia
to certain companies of individuals, of a tract of country, whereof
the Indian right had never been extinguished, with power to such
individuals to extinguish the Indian right, 467.

6. Opinion in favor of the Resolution of May 21, 1790, directing
that, in all cases where payment had not been already made, the
debts due to the soldiers of Virginia and North Carolina, should
be paid to the original claimants, and not to their assignees, 469.

7. Report on plan for establishing uniformity in the coins, weights
and measures, of the United States, 472.

8. Opinion on the question whether the President should veto the
bill, declaring that the seat of government shall be transferred
to the Potomac in the year 1790, 498.

9. Opinion respecting expenses and salaries of foreign ministers,
501.

10. Opinion in regard to the continuances of the monopoly of the
commerce of the Creek nation enjoyed by Colonel McGillivray, 504.

11. Opinion respecting our foreign debt, 506.

12. Opinion on the question whether Lord Dorchester should be
permitted to march troops through the territories of United States
from Detroit to the Mississippi, 508.

13. Opinion on the question whether the real object of the expedition
of Governor St. Clair, should be notified to Lord Dorchester, 510.

14. Opinion on the proceedings to be had under the Residence Act,
511.

15. Report of the Secretary of State to the President of the United
States on the Report of the Secretary of the Government of the
North-West of the Ohio, 513.

16. Opinion on certain proceedings of the Executive in the
North-Western Territory, 515.

17. Report on certain letters between the President and Governeur
Morris, relative to our difficulties with England, 517.

18. Report on the Mediterranean trade, 519.

19. Report on the Algerine prisoners, 532.

20. Report on the cod and whale fisheries, 538.

21. Opinion against the constitutionality of a National Bank, 555.

22. Opinion relative to the ten mile square for the federal
government, 561.

23. Report on the policy of securing peculiar marks to manufacturers
by law, 563.

24. Opinion relative to the demolition of Mr. Carroll's house by
Major L'Enfant, in laying out the Federal City 564.

25. Opinion relative to certain lands on Lake Erie, sold by the U.
States to Pennsylvania, 567.

26. Report on the negotiations with Spain to secure the navigation
of the Mississippi, and a port on the same, 568.

27. Report on the case of Charles Russell and others, claiming
certain lands, 592.

28. Report relative to negotiations at Madrid, 593.

29. Opinion on bill apportioning representation, 594.

30. Opinion relative to the re-capture of slaves, escaped to Florida,
601.

31. Report on the assays at the mint, 604.

32. Report on the petition of John Rodgers relative to certain
lands on the north-east side of the Tennessee, 605.

33. Report relative to the boundaries of the lands between the Ohio
and the lakes acquired by treaties from the Indians, 608.

34. Report on proceedings of Secretary of State to transfer to
Europe the annual fund of $40,000, appropriated to that department,
610.

35. Opinion on the question whether the United States have the right
to renounce their treaties with France, or hold them suspended,
until the government of that country shall become established, 611.

36. Opinion relative to granting passports to American vessels, 624.

37. Opinion relative to the case of a British vessel captured by
a French vessel, purchased by French citizens, and fitted out as
a privateer in one of our ports, 626.

38. Opinion on the proposition of the Secretary of the Treasury to
open a new loan, 629.

39. Opinion relative to the policy of a new loan, 633.

40. Report on the restrictions and privileges of the commerce of
the United states in foreign countries, 636.

41. Report on the mint, 651.