The Executive has no power over the subject.
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In addition to information already communicated in compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 17th January last, I think it proper to transmit to the Senate copies of two letters, with inclosures, since received from the governor of Maine, and of a correspondence relative thereto between the Secretary of State and the British minister.
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Navy and the Postmaster-General.
To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with documents, containing the information required by their resolution of the 9th March last.
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, which, with the documents accompanying it, contains the information in possession of the Department in relation to the subject of the resolution.





