Martin Van Buren: “Having no authority to enter into the proposed negotiation, I can only submit the subject to the consideration of…”

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in answer to their resolution of the 21st instant.

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.

I communicate the report of the Secretary of War, containing the information called for by that resolution as far as it relates to the Department under his charge.

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification, a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and Portugal, signed at Lisbon on the 26th day of August, 1840, and certain letters…