James Monroe: “I transmit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, which furnishes the information desired.”

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…

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.

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

The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States relating to militia services.