01/16/1837
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"I have the honor, in compliance with a resolution of your House of the 10th ultimo, to transmit the inclosed documents."
"The inclosed documents will present to Congress the necessity of some legislative provision by which to prevent the offenses to which they refer."
"I suggest, therefore, for your consideration the propriety of adopting some provision, with adequate penalties, to meet the case."
"At present it appears there is no law existing for the punishment of persons guilty of interrupting the public surveyors when engaged in the performance of the trusts confided to them."