James Monroe: “I have to request that these documents, which are original, may be returned when the Senate shall have acted on the…”

From the view which I have taken of these reports I contemplate results of incalculable advantage to our Union

That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of the Government, its protection against such diseases must form one of its principal objects.

I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State

It belongs to Congress alone to terminate this distressing incident on just principles, with a view to the highest interests of our Union.