I lay before the House of Representatives a treaty recently concluded with the Choctaw tribe of Indians, that provision may be made for carrying the same into effect agreeably to the estimate heretofore presented by the Secretary of War to the Committee of Ways and Means.
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I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a letter addressed to me on the 30th ultimo by the governor of the State of New Hampshire, communicating several resolutions of the legislature of that Commonwealth and claiming the reimbursement of certain expenses incurred by that State in maintaining jurisdiction over that portion of its territory north of the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, known by the name of Indian Stream, under circumstances explained in his excellency's letter.
For the several reasons above assigned, the President disapproves the opinion of the court, and remits to it the proceedings in question.
But there are circumstances in the relations of the two countries which require us to act on this occasion with even more than our wonted caution.
I transmit to the Senate a report of the Secretary of the Navy, complying with their resolution of the 24th of May, 1836.
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