Martin Van Buren: “I withheld my approval from the joint resolution.”

The information called for the reply is in the course of preparation and will be without doubt communicated at the commencement of the next session of Congress.

I transmit the accompanying report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th ultimo, on the subject of claims of citizens of the United States on the Government of Hayti.

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

I transmit a report of the Secretary of State, containing the information asked for by the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, relative to the negroes taken on board the schooner Amistad.