James Buchanan: “I herewith transmit the reports of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers, in…”

The safety of the immense amount of public property in this city and that of the archives of the Government, in which all the States, and especially the new States in which the public lands are situated, have a deep interest.

In compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 17th and 18th February, 1858, requesting information upon the subject of the Aves Island, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents which accompanied it.

There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.

I have to state that all the information within my possession or power on these subjects was communicated to the House by the Secretary of the Treasury on the 21st instant, and was prepared under the resolution above referred to and a…