Martin Van Buren: “Either the laws to prevent intrusion upon the public lands should be executed, or, if that should be impracticable or…”

I communicate to the Senate sundry papers, in further answer to its resolution of the 30th of December, 1839, which have been received from the governor of Florida since the adjournment of the last session of Congress.

It is submitted to Congress whether authority shall be given to the Mint to strike off copies of those medals, in bronze or other metal, to supply those persons making application for them, at a cost not to exceed the actual expense of…

I deem it my duty to lay the proposition before Congress for such disposition as they may think fit to make of it

I transmit, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 12th of March last, a communication of the Secretary of War, accompanied by such information as could be obtained in relation to the military and naval preparations of the British…