Special Message
12/05/1836
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Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives
The operations of the Navy during the year and its present condition are fully exhibited in the annual report from the Navy Department
It is not known to me that up to that period any appropriation had been required of the Chambers
The many distressing accidents which have of late occurred in that portion of our navigation carried on by the use of steam power deserve th...