ATORY DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. Be it remembered, that on the twelfth day of January, A. D. 1819, and in the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas B. Wait, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the accession of George Washington to the Presidency, exhibiting a complete view of our Foreign Relations since that time. Third edition. Published under the patronage of Congress. Including Confidential Documents, first published in the second edition of this work." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical, and other Prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. 1322.734 CONTENTS. DOCUMENTS accompanying President's Message of Jan. 19, 1797-continued from VOL. II. Report of Secretary of State, relative to French spo- Speech opening Congress, May 16, 1797 Documents referred to in President's Speech, May 16, 1797, relative to France, Spain, &c. Message, June 12, 1797, relative to Spanish opposi- Message, June 22, 1797, relative to depredations on the commerce of the United States since Octo- Report of Secretary of State relative to capture of American vessels by Spanish, British and French Documents accompanying President's Message, June 22, 1797, relative to depredations on commerce Abstract of French depredations since October 1, 1796; tured by the French, commencing July, 1796 Message, June 23, 1797, relative to Algiers Message, July 3, 1797, transmitting Reports of Secre- taries of State and of War relative to posts occu- Page Message, Jan. 23, 1798, transmitting Report of Secre- tary of State and Documents relative to affairs with Spain on Mississippi, and intercourse with Message, Feb. 5, 1798, relative to French captures |