James Monroe: “Inhabited by different tribes of Indians and an inroad for every kind of adventurer, the jurisdiction of Spain may be…”

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

According to my judgment it cannot be derived from either of those powers, nor from all of them united, and in consequence it does not exist.

I transmit to Congress translations of two letters from Don Joaquin d'Anduaga to the Secretary of State, which have been received at Department of State since my last message communicating copies of his correspondence with this Government.

I have to state that having referred the resolution to the Secretary of State, and it appearing, by a report from him, that no such document had been deposited among the archives of the Department, I examined and found among my private…