James Monroe: “It is desired that the original letters may, when the Senate shall have no further use for them, be returned.”

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

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information called for by their resolution of the 1st of this month, touching the capture and detention of American fishermen during the last…

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.

Upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy