The inclosed documents furnish all the information of the steps that have been taken and plans procured for the erection of a radiating marine railway for the repair of sloops of war at the navy-yard at Pensacola.

The inclosed documents will present to Congress the necessity of some legislative provision by which to prevent the offenses to which they refer.

I have the honor, in compliance with a resolution of your House of the 10th ultimo, to transmit the inclosed documents.

I suggest, therefore, for your consideration the propriety of adopting some provision, with adequate penalties, to meet the case.

The amount of money which may be secured to be paid should, in my judgment, be viewed as of minor importance.

In settling the terms of such an agreement I am disposed to exercise the utmost liberality, and to concur in any which are consistent with the Constitution and not incompatible with the interests of the United States and their duties to…

I flatter myself that it will not meet the disapprobation of the Senate.

I am fully aware that in thus resorting to the early practice of the Government, by asking the previous advice of the Senate in the discharge of this portion of my duties, I am departing from a long and for many years an unbroken usage in…

The Indians have requested that their propositions should be submitted to the Senate.

These measures are the voluntary acts of the Indians themselves.

Finding from the inclosed letter from the Secretary of the Treasury that James C. Dickson, lately nominated to be receiver of public moneys at Mount Salus, Miss., is a defaulter, I beg leave to withdraw his nomination, and to nominate in…

I transmit herewith a report from the Department of War of the survey made of Sandy Bay, Massachusetts, in conformity to the act of 2d March, 1829.

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War.

As that individual has been recently nominated to the Senate to be charge' d'affaires of the United States to the Government of Central America, I take advantage of the occasion to request the Senate to postpone a final decision on his…

That information, though not official, has just been received at the Department of State of a change having been lately effected in the Government of Central America, which, if confirmed, may make a correspondent change in the appointment…

GENTLEMEN: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, requesting the President of the United States to transmit to the Senate any record or other information in the Department of War or before the President…

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