I respectfully submit to your consideration the accompanying report from the War Department, exhibiting the state of the fortifications at Pea Patch Island and the necessity of further appropriations for the security of that site.

I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a letter of the Secretary of the Navy, accompanying the reports of Lieutenants Tattnall and Gedney, who were detailed to make a survey of the Dry Tortugas.

I also respectfully recommend that the appropriation necessary to make a scientific examination of its capacities for defense may be granted.

I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a report from the War Department of a survey authorized by the act of the 2d of March, 1829.

send a copy of the bond entered into and executed by Israel T. Canfield as receiver of public moneys in the now Crawfordsville district, Indiana, together with the names of his securities, to the Senate

I submit to the consideration of Congress a letter of the governor of Virginia, transmitting two acts of the general assembly of that State, respecting the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.

To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.

I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State

upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy

I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the 10th of December, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same…

The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States relating to militia services.

It belongs to Congress alone to terminate this distressing incident on just principles, with a view to the highest interests of our Union.

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.

That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of the Government, its protection against such diseases must form one of its principal objects.

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information called for by their resolution of the 1st of this month, touching the capture and detention of American fishermen during the last…

Of the right in Congress to promote these great results by the appropriation of the public money, in harmony with the States to be affected by them, having already communicated my sentiments fully and on mature consideration, I deem it…

From the view which I have taken of these reports I contemplate results of incalculable advantage to our Union