James Monroe: “The late change in the Government of Spain, by the reestablishment of the constitution of 1812, is an event which…”

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

To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.

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.