Martin Van Buren: “A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated.”

I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives of the United States a report from the Director of the Mint, exhibiting the operations of that institution during the year 1840

Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions which it was the end and aim of the…

I communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with documents, containing the information requested by their resolution of the 26th of May last.

if it should be the pleasure of Congress that the preparatory exploration and survey of the northeastern boundary of the United States should be completed