I am the more induced to suggest this course of proceeding from a knowledge that, while we shall thereby make a just return to the powers whose good offices have been acknowledged, and increase by a new and signal proof of moderation our claims on Spain, our attitude in regard to her will not be less favorable at the next session than it is at the present.
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To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.
The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.
I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State
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.
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