Message from the president of the United States : accompanying an official statement of the expenditure, to the end of the year 1796, from the sums heretofore granted to defray the contingent charges of the government. : 15th February 1797, ordered to lie on the table. : 16th February 1797, referred to the committee of the whole House, to whom was committed, on the third instant, the bill making appropriations for the support of government, and a partial appropriation for the military establishment, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven. : Published by order of the House of Representatives.