James Monroe: “I now transmit a report from the Secretary of War, which, with the accompanying documents, contains all the information…”

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

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

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

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.