James Monroe: “How many of them have been appointed officers in the Army and Navy of the United States”

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 House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State

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.

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