Millard Fillmore: “The Government of the United States is emphatically a government of written laws.”

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.

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th January last, requesting information in regard to the fisheries on the coasts of the British North American Provinces, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents…

I deemed it advisable to issue, relative to an extraordinary session of the Senate on the 4th of March next.

To the Senate of the United States