A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Part 30

As but one copy of these acts was sent to me, I am prevented from communicating them by a joint message to the two Houses of Congress.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _January 23, 1833_.

_The President of the Senate_:

A treaty of peace, friends.h.i.+p, and amity between the United States and the King of the Belgians having this day been concluded by the plenipotentiaries of the respective countries, I herewith transmit it to the Senate for its consideration.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_The Speaker of the House of Representatives_:

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report of the Secretary of State, with a list of appointments made by the Executive since the 13th of April, 1826, from members of Congress during their term of service and for twelve months thereafter, pursuant to the resolution of the said House of the 26th of December, 1832, which I referred to him, and which appointments are recorded in his office. I send likewise a list of similar appointments, also furnished by the Secretary of State and of record in his office, from the 3d of March, 1825, to the 13th of April, 1826.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_January 23, 1833_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I send herewith a convention concluded on the 14th day of October last between the United States and His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies.

This treaty has been ratified by me agreeably to the Const.i.tution, and the ratification will be dispatched to Naples without delay, when there is no doubt it will be ratified by His Sicilian Majesty.

The early communication of this treaty is deemed proper because it will be necessary to provide for the execution of the first article in order that our fellow-citizens may with as little delay as possible obtain the compensation stipulated for by this convention.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_January 24, 1833_.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _January 25, 1833_.

_The Speaker of the House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, the report of the officer to whom was intrusted the inspection of the works for the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _January 29, 1833_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Postmaster-General, which I request may be considered as forming a part of my message of the 23d instant, in answer to the resolution calling for a list of all appointments made by the Executive since the 13th April, 1826, from the members of Congress during their term of service and for twelve months thereafter, etc.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _February 7, 1833_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a report from the Secretary of State, on the subject of our diplomatic intercourse with foreign nations.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _February 12, 1833_.

_To the Senate_:

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate requesting the President of the United States to lay before it "copies of the orders which have been given to the commanding officers of the military forces a.s.sembled in and near to the city of Charleston, S.C., and also copies of the orders which have been given to the commander of the naval forces a.s.sembled in the harbor of Charleston, particularly such orders, if any such have been given, to resist the const.i.tuted authorities of the State of South Carolina within the limits of said State," I transmit herewith papers, numbered from 1 to 17, inclusive, embracing the orders which have been given to the commanding officers of the land and naval forces a.s.sembled in and near the city of Charleston and within the limits of the State of South Carolina, and which relate to the military operations in that quarter. No order has at any time been given in any manner inconsistent therewith. There is a part, however, of the letter of the Secretary of War dated December 3, 1832, omitted, which, being conditional in its character, and not relating to the operation of the troops, it is deemed improper in the present state of the service to communicate.

No order has been at any time given "to resist" the const.i.tuted authorities of the State of South Carolina within the chartered limits of said State.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _February 12, 1833_.

_To the Senate_:

I transmit herewith to the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification of the same, a treaty recently concluded between the commissioners for adjusting all differences with the Indians west of the Mississippi and the mixed band of Shawnese and Senecas who emigrated from Ohio. I transmit also the journal of their proceedings.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _February 15, 1833_.

_To the Senate_:

I transmit herewith to the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification of the same, articles of agreement supplemental to the treaty of February 8, 1831, between the commissioner on the part of the United States and the Menominee tribe of Indians, with the a.s.sent of the New York Indians.

I transmit also the journal of proceedings.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _February 19, 1833_.

_To the Senate_:

The renomination of Samuel Gwin to be register of the land office at Mount Salus, in the State of Mississippi, having been on the 16th of July last laid upon the table of the Senate, with a resolution declaring that it was not the intention of the Senate to take any proceeding in regard to it during that session, a vacancy in the office was found existing in the recess, which the public service required to be filled, and which was filled by the appointment of Samuel Gwin. I therefore nominate the said Gwin to the same office.

In addition to the papers which were transmitted with his nomination at the last session, I have received others from the most respectable sources in the State of Mississippi, bearing the fullest testimony to his fitness for the office in question. Of this character are the two now inclosed, signed by members of the convention recently a.s.sembled to revise the const.i.tution of the State, and also by many members of its present legislature. They also show that the appointment of Mr. Gwin would be acceptable to the great body of the people interested in the office.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _February 22, 1833_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the House, a letter from General Lafayette to the Secretary of State, with the pet.i.tion which came inclosed in it of the Countess d'Ambrugeac and Madame de la Goree, granddaughter of Marshal Count Rochambeau, and original doc.u.ments in support thereof, praying compensation for services rendered by the Count to the United States during the Revolutionary war, together with translations of the same; and I transmit with the same view the pet.i.tion of Messrs. De Fontenille de Jeaumont and De Rossignol Grandmont, praying compensation for services rendered by them to the United States in the French army, and during the same war, with original papers in support thereof, all received through the same channel, together with translations of the same.

ANDREW JACKSON.