As no compensation is authorized by law for the execution of the duties assigned to Mr. Lambert, it is submitted to the discretion of Congress to make the necessary provision for an adequate allowance to him and to the assistant whom he employed to aid him in his observations.
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I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.
Upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy
It belongs to Congress alone to terminate this distressing incident on just principles, with a view to the highest interests of our Union.
From the view which I have taken of these reports I contemplate results of incalculable advantage to our Union
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