James Monroe: “I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State”

I have to state that having referred the resolution to the Secretary of State, and it appearing, by a report from him, that no such document had been deposited among the archives of the Department, I examined and found among my private…

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

I transmit to Congress translations of two letters from Don Joaquin d'Anduaga to the Secretary of State, which have been received at Department of State since my last message communicating copies of his correspondence with this Government.

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.