James Monroe: “This power can be granted only by an amendment to the Constitution and in the mode prescribed by it.”

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information called for by their resolution of the 1st of this month, touching the capture and detention of American fishermen during the last…

From the view which I have taken of these reports I contemplate results of incalculable advantage to our Union

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.

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