Martin Van Buren: “This course of legislation tends to impair public respect for the laws of the country.”

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 communication of the Secretary of War and the accompanying report of the colonel of Topographical Engineers are respectfully submitted in reply to the resolution of the 15th of June last, calling for a plan and estimate for the…

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 have to invite the special attention of Congress to that part of the Director's report in relation to the overvaluation given to the gold in foreign coins by the act of Congress of June 28, 1834