James Monroe: “A further appropriation will be necessary for carrying it into effect.”

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

I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State

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.