RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Hon Thomas Jefferson Monticello Va”; endorsed by TJ as received 20 June 1818 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Plumer, Message from His Excellency The Governor of New-Hampshire, To The Legislature, June 4, 1818 ([Concord?, 1818]; probably Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 11 [no. 689]), summarizing his recommendations for the new legislative session; calling for reforms in the judicial system, such as allowing the superior court “exclusive jurisdiction of all real actions” and “original concurrent jurisdiction of all personal actions, where the sum demanded in damages shall be fifty dollars or more” (pp. 4–5); encouraging repeal of the law allowing the superior court to review civil cases and adoption of laws to limit “small vexatious suits” (p. 5); suggesting reform of the laws on debtor imprisonment in order to curtail the costs associated with such actions; highlighting the need for an annual court session in “some central and convenient part of the State” (p. 9); proposing the prohibition of lotteries not authorized by the legislature; requesting more stringent laws to insure accurate militia rolls and asking for a requirement that the cloth used in manufacturing uniforms be of “American manufacture” (p. 10); championing prison reform and noting that he will submit to the legislature several pamphlets on the subject sent him by Jeremy Bentham; and reporting that an advance of six thousand dollars from the United States Treasury for “services performed during the late war” has been paid into the state treasury (p. 12).