James Monroe actually said...

...authorizing the location of a road from Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, to a point on the left bank of the Mississippi River between ...

...and copies of the report made by the said commissioners to the Treasury Department of the progress they have made in the execution of the...

I transmit to Congress a report from the Secretary of the Treasury submitting copies of the instructions given to the commissioners appointe...

requesting the President of the United States to communicate