James Monroe: “Also how many cadets have been admitted into the Academy”

I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the 10th of December, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same…

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

From the view which I have taken of these reports I contemplate results of incalculable advantage to our Union

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.