James Monroe: “I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with the documents called for by that resolution.”

I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the 10th of December, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same…

The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States relating to militia services.

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

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.