12/03/1833
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"I respectfully submit to your consideration the accompanying report from the War Department, exhibiting the state of the fortifications at Pea Patch Island and the necessity of further appropriations ..."
"I also respectfully recommend that the appropriation necessary to make a scientific examination of its capacities for defense may be granted."
"I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a letter of the Secretary of the Navy, accompanying the reports of Lieutenants Tattnall and Gedney, who were detailed to make a survey of the Dry Tortuga..."
"I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a report from the War Department of a survey authorized by the act of the 2d of March, 1829."