I herewith submit the same to your consideration, and will present the reports from the other Departments so soon as they are completed.

I transmit herewith for your consideration and action a communication from the Secretary of War.

That body will, I am confident, give to it a careful and favorable consideration and adopt such measures in the premises within their competency as will be just to the State of Maryland and to all the other interests involved.

Having no authority to enter into the proposed negotiation, I can only submit the subject to the consideration of Congress.

It is requested that the dispatches may be returned when the convention shall have been disposed of by the Senate.

I transmit to Congress copies of a communication from Governor Lucas, and of additional documents, in relation to the disputed boundary line between the Territory of Iowa and the State of Missouri.

I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the employment of steam vessels in the Revenue-Cutter Service.

The disagreement as to the extent of their respective jurisdictions has produced a state of such great excitement that I think it necessary to invite your early attention to the report of the commissioner appointed to run the line in…

I herewith communicate to Congress copies of a letter from the governor of Iowa to the Secretary of State and of the documents transmitted with it, on the subject of a dispute respecting the boundary line between that Territory and the…

and would respectfully invite the consideration of Congress to some new legislation on a subject of so much interest and difficulty.

I transmit herewith a report made to me by the Secretary of the Treasury, with accompanying documents, in regard to some difficulties which have occurred concerning the kind of papers deemed necessary to be provided by law for the use and…

I nominate the persons named in the accompanying list for promotion and appointment in the Army to the several grades annexed to their names, as proposed by the Secretary of War.

In cases where commissions of the same grade and date interfere a retrospect is to be had to former commissions in actual service at the time of appointment.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, which exhibits certain transfers of appropriations made in the War Department under the authority conferred upon the President of the United States by the acts of Congress of March 3…

I regret to state the appearance of a different spirit among Her Majesty's subjects in the Canadas.

The weight which presses upon a large portion of the people and the States is an enormous debt, foreign and domestic.

I can not think that a serious objection would anywhere be raised to the receipt and payment of gold and silver in all public transactions were it not from an apprehension that a surplus in the Treasury might withdraw a large portion of it…

The financial operations of the Government during the present year have, I am happy to say, been very successful.