James Monroe: “I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of War, which contains the information required.”

The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States relating to militia services.

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.

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.

I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.