John Tyler: “In compliance with your resolution of the 26th ultimo, I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy.”

In view of the magnitude and importance of our national concerns, actual and prospective, in China, I submit to the consideration of Congress the expediency of providing for the preservation and cultivation of the subsisting relations of…

The special mission authorized by Congress for this purpose has fully succeeded in the accomplishment so far of the great objects for which it was appointed.

Some action on the part of Congress seems desirable in order to give full effect to these important concessions of the Chinese Government.

I did not consider the irregularities into which the surveyor-general had fallen as of sufficient magnitude to induce his dismissal from office at the time that the papers reached me