I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, relative to depredations upon and the future care of the reservations of lands for the purpose of supplying timber for the Navy of the United States.
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I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which I deem it proper to state are all the papers* that have been submitted to the President relating to the proceedings to which they refer in the States of South Carolina and Arkansas.
For the purpose of regulating the citizenship of those persons who emigrate from the Confederation to this country and from the United States to the North German Confederation.
No report upon this subject has yet been received by me from the War Department.
For these reasons, thus briefly and imperfectly stated, and for others, of which want of time forbids the enumeration, I deem it my duty to withhold my assent from this bill, and to return it for the reconsideration of Congress.
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