Martin Van Buren: “I have to invite the earliest attention of Congress to the subject contained therein”

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 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

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 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.