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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 28, 1832

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 22d December, 1831, calling for certain information in relation to the trade between the United States and the British American colonies, I transmit herewith a report from the…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 23, 1832

Gentlemen of the Senate: I lay before you, for your consideration and advice, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, concluded at Mexico on the 5th day of April, in the year 1831.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 19, 1832

Under these views of the case, which a charitable consideration of the proceedings and of his character as fully developed in the annexed documents appears fully to justify, his punishment ought, in my opinion, to be mitigated.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 19, 1832

To the Senate: I nominate Charles Ellery to be a lieutenant in the Navy of the United States, to take rank as if appointed the 29th of April, 1826.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 12, 1832

I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information and documents called for by a resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 9, 1832

I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of War 'of the survey of the Savannah and Tennessee rivers made in 1828.'

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 6, 1832

A treaty of commerce and navigation having been entered into between the United States and the Sublime Porte, it has been ratified with the advice and consent of the Senate; and my ratification having been exchanged in due form on the 5th…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 26, 1832

To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 18th instant, I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of State, which, together with the letter of His Britannic Majesty's charge d'affaires…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 26, 1832

I therefore nominate the said Hampton Westcott to be a lieutenant in the Navy of the United States from the 17th of May, 1828, his former date, and to take rank next after Richard R. McMullin.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 25, 1832

containing the information required by the resolution of the House of the 5th instant

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 22, 1832

That such legislative provision may be made in behalf of the claimant as shall appear just and proper in the case.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 22, 1832

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a copy of a correspondence between the late minister of Great Britain and the late Secretary of State of the United States on the subject of a claim of Cyrenius Hall.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 11, 1832

To the Senate of the United States: I herewith lay before the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification of the same, a treaty made on the 8th of August last with the Shawnee Indians.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Dec 20, 1831

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a report of the Secretary of State, respecting tonnage duties levied at Martinique and Guadaloupe on American vessels and on French vessels from those islands to the United States.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Dec 20, 1831

Since my message of the 7th instant, transmitting the award of the King of the Netherlands, I have received the official communication, then expected, of the determination of the British Government to abide by the award.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Dec 12, 1831

Believing, therefore, that the obligation devolved upon the nation, but having no funds at my disposal which I could think constitutionally applicable to the case, I have thought honor as well as justice required that the facts should be…

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