I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing a letter addressed to him from the Solicitor of the Treasury

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

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.

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

The precautions which will be recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury to protect faithfully the public credit under the fluctuations and contingencies to which our receipts and expenditures are exposed, are commended to your early attention.

I withheld my approval from the joint resolution.

I transmit herewith a communication received from the Secretary of the Treasury, on the subject of the balances reported on the books of the Treasury against collecting and disbursing agents of the Government,

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury

I lay before you a communication from the Secretary of War.

I communicate to the House of Representatives, in compliance with its resolution of the 3d instant, reports from the Secretaries of State and War, containing all the information called for by said resolution now in possession of the Executive.

The importance of the subject would seem to render it worthy of the early attention of Congress.

I transmit the accompanying documents, marked from 1 to 5,* in reply to a resolution of yesterday's date, calling for copies of correspondence between the Executive of the General Government and the governor of Pennsylvania.

I would respectfully invite the early attention of Congress to the adoption of the legal provisions therein suggested, or such other measures as may appear more expedient, for increasing the public security against similar defalcations hereafter.

It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exercise of the popular will.

A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated.

I hereby warn all those who have engaged in these criminal enterprises, if persisted in, that, whatever may be the condition to which they may be reduced, they must not expect the interference of this Government in any form on their behalf.

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to their resolution of the 28th instant, relative to the claim.