James Monroe: “No appropriation has yet been made to defray the expenses incident to the execution of the resolution of 21st April…”

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.

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

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

Of the right in Congress to promote these great results by the appropriation of the public money, in harmony with the States to be affected by them, having already communicated my sentiments fully and on mature consideration, I deem it…