With that view I now recommend the subject to their consideration.

The United States, having been the first to abolish within the extent of their authority the transportation of the natives of Africa into slavery.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

The wisdom of the Legislature will decide on the course which, under these circumstances, is prescribed by a joint regard to the amicable relations between the two nations and to the just interests of the United States.

The Constitution has intrusted Congress exclusively with the power of creating and regulating a currency of that description.

Occurrences having taken place which shew that the statutory provisions for the dispensation of criminal justice are deficient.

The operations of the Treasury continued to be obstructed by difficulties arising from the condition of the national currency.

the locations of the land warrants of the said volunteers should 'be subject to such regulations as to priority of choice and manner of location as the President of the United States shall direct'

the land warrants of the said Canadian volunteers may be located agreeably to the said act at the land offices at Vincennes or Jeffersonville, in the Indiana Territory, on the first Monday in June next

should any of the warrants not appear for location on that day they may be located afterwards, according to their priority of presentation

the warrantees may, in person or by their attorneys or other legal representatives, in the presence of the register and receiver of the said land district, draw lots for the priority of location

I lay before Congress copies of a convention concluded between the United States and the Cherokee Indians on the 2d day of March last, as the same has been duly ratified and proclaimed; and I recommend that such provision be made by…

With a view to the more convenient arrangement of the important and growing business connected with the grant of exclusive rights to inventors and authors, I recommend the establishment of a distinct office within the Department of State…

I recommend also that further restraints be imposed on the issue of patents to wrongful claimants, and further guards provided against fraudulent exactions of fees by persons possessed of patents.

The occasion may be proper, also, for securing the use and accommodations of the Neapolitan ports, which may at any time be needed by the public ships of the United States

I transmit the original of the convention between the United States and Great Britain, as signed by their respective plenipotentiaries, on the 3d day of July last.

I transmit also a copy of the late treaty of peace with Algiers, as certified by one of the commissioners of the United States.

I lay before the Senate, for their consideration and advice as to a ratification, a convention to regulate the commerce between the United States and Great Britain, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries on the 3d of July last.