JAMES MONROE

With the Weas, Kickapoos, Chippeways, Ottawas, Choctaws, and Mahas; and also a treaty with the Kickapoos amended as proposed by a resolution of the Senate at their last session

I submit to the consideration of the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification, the following treaties, concluded with the several Indian tribes therein mentioned since the last session of Congress, with their documents

To the House of Representatives

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st November last, requesting the President to lay before the House information relating to the progress and expenditures of the commissioners under the fifth, sixth…

Happy as our situation is, it does not exempt us from solicitude and care for the future.

The question depending between the United States and Great Britain respecting the construction of the first article of the treaty of Ghent has been referred by both Governments to the decision of the Emperor of Russia.

Considerable progress has also been made in the construction of ships of war, some of which have been launched in the course of the present year.

In execution of the law of the last session for the suppression of the slave trade some of our public ships have also been employed on the coast of Africa, where several captures have already been made of vessels engaged in that…

I can not regard the pressures to which I have adverted otherwise than in the light of mild and instructive admonitions.

The commercial relations between the United States and the British colonies in the West Indies and on this continent have undergone no change.

An attempt has been made with the Government of France to regulate by treaty the commerce between the two countries on the principle of reciprocity and equality.

The late change in the Government of Spain, by the reestablishment of the constitution of 1812, is an event which promises to be favorable to the revolution.

With the Indians peace has been preserved and a progress made in carrying into effect the act of Congress making an appropriation for their civilization.

It is proper to add that there is now due to the Treasury for the sale of public lands $22,996,545.

A few prominent facts will place this great interest in a just light before you.

Considerable progress has been made during the present season in examining the coast and its various bays and other inlets.

Among these none holds a more important place than the public revenue.