I can not abandon this subject without urging upon you in the most emphatic manner, whatever may be your action on the suggestions which I have felt it to be my duty to submit, to relieve the Chief Executive Magistrate, by any and all constitutional means, from a controlling power over the public Treasury.
Tyler urges Congress to relieve the Executive from excessive control over the Treasury, advocating for checks and balances.
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