James Monroe: “If the law imposed such restraint, it would in that case be void.”

I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, with documents, which contains the information requested.

I recommend them particularly to the consideration of Congress, believing that although there may be ground for controversy with regard to the application of the engagements of the treaty to the case, yet a liberal construction of those…

I communicate herewith to both Houses of Congress copies of the alterations in the treaty of peace and friendship of August, 1797, between the United States and the Bashaw Bey of Tunis, concluded at the Palace of Bardo, near Tunis, on the…

Any mode which the Senate may adopt will be satisfactory to me.