James Monroe: “I have thought proper to communicate every document comprised within this call.”

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

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 House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State