Millard Fillmore: “No individuals have a right to hazard the peace of the country or to violate its laws upon vague notions of altering or…”

To the Senate and House of Representatives

I transmit for the information of Congress the accompanying report from the Department of State on the present state of the negotiations

Containing the report of Lieutenant Meigs, of the Engineer Corps, on the surveys, projects, and estimates for supplying the cities of Washington and Georgetown with an unfailing and abundant supply of water

The delays which have taken place in the negotiation of this treaty have been principally caused by the want of a resident diplomatic agent of the United States at Berne, and are among the reasons for which an appropriation for a charge'…