Political Quotes

I herewith transmit to the Senate, with reference to their resolutions of the 17th instant, copies of two official notes which have passed subsequently to the date of my message of the 22d between the Secretary of State and the British minister at Washington, containing additional information in answer to the resolutions referred to.

In further compliance with a resolution of the Senate passed December 30, 1839, I herewith submit reports* from the Secretary of the Navy and the Postmaster-General, together with a supplemental statement from the Secretary of the Treasury, and the correspondence annexed.

all such persons, whether laborers or mechanics, be required to work only the number of hours prescribed by the ten-hour system

for such legislative action on the part of Congress as may be necessary to carry the engagements of the United States under the convention into full effect.