I send likewise a list of similar appointments, also furnished by the Secretary of State and of record in his office, from the 3d of March, 1825, to the 13th of April, 1826.

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report of the Secretary of State, with a list of appointments made by the Executive since the 13th of April, 1826, from members of Congress during their term of service and for twelve months thereafter, pursuant to the resolution of the said House of the 26th of December, 1832, which I referred to him, and which appointments are recorded in his office.

As but one copy of these acts was sent to me, I am prevented from communicating them by a joint message to the two Houses of Congress.

such portions as have not heretofore been communicated of the instructions given to our ministers in France on the subject of claims for spoliations since September, 1800, and of the correspondence of said ministers with the French Government and with the Secretary of State of the United States on the same subject.

I have determined to issue my proclamation of the 10th of December last.

It therefore becomes my duty to bring the subject to the serious consideration of Congress.

It is the acknowledged attribute of free institutions that under them the empire of reason and law is substituted for the power of the sword.

I respectfully recommend that in the printing, if deemed necessary, such a discrimination be made as to avoid that inconvenience, preferring this course to withholding from the Senate any part of the correspondence.

I transmit herewith to the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification of the same, treaties that have been concluded by commissioners duly appointed on the part of the United States with the following Indian tribes, viz: With the Kickapoos; with the Shawanoes and Delawares, late of Cape Gerardeau, together with stipulations with Delawares for certain private annuities; with the Pankeshaws and Peorias.

I also transmit the journal of the commissioners who negotiated these treaties.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, containing the information required.

I transmit herewith, for the consideration and advice of the Senate as to their ratification, treaties that have been concluded by commissioners duly appointed on the part of the United States with the following tribes of Indians.

I lay before the Senate, for its consideration and advice, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States of America and the Republic of Chili, concluded at Santiago on the 16th day of May, 1832.

I avail myself of this early opportunity to return to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled 'An act providing for the final settlement of the claims of States for interest on advances to the United States made during the last war,' with the reasons which induced me to withhold my approbation, in consequence of which it has failed to become a law.

It is obvious that such appropriations involve the sanction of a principle that concedes to the General Government an unlimited power over the subject of internal improvements.

With these reasons and considerations I return the bill to the Senate.

In thus employing my best faculties to exercise the power with which I am invested to avoid evils and to effect the greatest attainable good for our common country I feel that I may trust to your cordial cooperation.

I have been compelled to withhold from it my signature, and it has therefore failed to become a law.