It is indispensable that its finances should be untrammeled and its resources as far as practicable unencumbered.
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I herewith submit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to certain lands falling within the Chickasaw cession which have been sold at Chocchuma and Columbus, in Mississippi, and invite the attention of Congress to the subject of further legislation in relation to them.
I transmit a copy of a convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States upon the Government of-the Mexican Republic.
I herewith submit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, with the documents therein referred to.
To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit the report of the Secretary of War furnishing a statement of the amounts paid to persons concerned in negotiating Indian treaties since 1829, etc., which completes the information called for by the resolution of the House of Representatives dated the 28th January, 1839, upon that subject and the disbursing officers in the War Department.





