Andrew Jackson said...

I transmit herewith a copy of the instructions, prepared under my direction by the War Department, for the commissioners...

I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon

I transmit a report * from the Secretary of State, together with the documents by which it was accompanied.

I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaire...