I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of War, accompanied by a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, indicating the importance of an extension of the authority given by the sixteenth clause of the first section of the act entitled 'An act providing for the salaries of certain officers therein named, and for other purposes,' approved 9th May, 1836.
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I transmit herewith a report from the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Navy and the Postmaster-General.
They may be redeemed out of the accruing revenue if the expenditures do not exceed the amount within which they may, it is thought, be kept without prejudice to the public interest.
all such persons, whether laborers or mechanics, be required to work only the number of hours prescribed by the ten-hour system
I transmit to the Senate herewith copies of official notes which have passed between the Secretary of State and the British minister since my last message on the subject of the resolutions of the 17th of January.
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