Legislation

I deem it my duty to lay the proposition before Congress for such disposition as they may think fit to make of it

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.

I withheld my approval from the joint resolution.

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

Such measures may be adopted as are required to carry into effect the benevolent intentions of the Government toward the Cherokee Nation

If the memorialists are entitled to relief, it can be granted by Congress alone.

I communicate to the two Houses of Congress copies of a treaty this day ratified on the part of the United States, concluded and signed at the Indian Springs on the 8th of January last, with the Creek Nation of Indians, in order to such…