A letter of the Secretary of the Interior of the 23d instant and accompanying copies of letters of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Major T. R. Brown, in relation to said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
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In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of February, last, calling for the correspondence upon the subject of the murder by the inhabitants of the island of Formosa of the ship's company of the American bark Rover
The orders issued by me upon this subject are in accordance with long-established usage and hitherto unquestioned authority.
I transmit to the Senate, in further answer to their resolution of the 14th of April last, the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.
It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.
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