Andrew Jackson: “As the completion of the Fifth Census as respects several of the States of the Union will have been defeated unless…”

“As the completion of the Fifth Census as respects several of the States of the Union will have been defeated unless Congress, to whom the case is submitted, shall by an act of the present session allow further time for making the returns in question, the expediency is suggested of allowing such an act to pass at as early a day as possible.”