Special Message
02/20/1853
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Made by him in connection with Lieutenant Lardner Gibbon, under instructions from the Navy Department
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a consular convention concluded in this cit...
The tone of the letter of instructions from Mr. Manuel Bertran de Lis is somewhat more peremptory than could be wished, ...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, relative to the fisheries on the coasts of Florida, I tra...