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On the recordDecember 21, 1835
I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice with regard to its ratification, a convention signed at Paris by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and the Swiss Confederation on the 6th of March last.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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