Millard Fillmore: “Legislation should never encourage dishonesty or crime.”

Since my last message to your honorable body, communicating a report from the Treasury Department, in answer to your resolution of the 3d instant (27th ultimo?), in reference to the compensation of weighers and gaugers, further…

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a consular convention concluded in this city on the 23d instant between the United States and His Majesty the Emperor of the French.

For these reasons I have deemed it proper to submit the whole matter to Congress, for such action as they may deem best.

Lieutenant Herndon's report of the exploration of the valley of the Amazon and its tributaries