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I lose no time in communicating this information.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretaries of State and Navy, with the accompanying papers, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 11th of March, 1858.

I respectfully invite the attention of the two Houses to the suggestion in the latter part of the report

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th ultimo, requesting information respecting the seizure and confiscation of the bark Georgiana, of Maine, and brig Susan Loud, of Massachusetts, I transmit a report from…

The Government of the United States is emphatically a government of written laws.

I did not consider the irregularities into which the surveyor-general had fallen as of sufficient magnitude to induce his dismissal from office at the time that the papers reached me

This subject is now submitted for the consideration of the Senate.

I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general good.

My fervent prayer is that it may never come.

For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.

To the House of Representatives:I transmit herewith a report

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, prepared in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 26th ultimo.

In compliance with your resolution of the 26th ultimo, I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy.

I could not forego the favorable opportunity which has presented itself, growing out of the communication from the Secretary of the Navy, to urge upon you the foregoing recommendations.

In compliance with the request contained in the accompanying letter from the governor of the State of Kentucky, I herewith transmit certain resolutions adopted by the legislature of that State, in relation to a digest of the decisions of…

To the Senate of the United States.

That action having since taken place, it is communicated with the papers.

It will be perceived that at the date of the resolution the final action of the Executive was not had upon the case.