I am free to confess that, existing contracts being guarded and protected, the law to operate in futuro would be regarded as both proper and wise.

With these objections, I return the bill to the House in which it originated for its final constitutional action.

JOHN TYLER.

PROCLAMATION.

[From Senate Journal, Twenty-eighth Congress, second session, p. 271.]

WASHINGTON, January 8, 1845.

To the Senators of the United States, respectively.

SIR:  Objects interesting to the United States requiring that the Senate should be in session on Tuesday, the 4th of March next, to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive, your attendance in the Senate Chamber, in this city, on that day at 10 o’clock in the forenoon is accordingly requested.

JOHN TYLER.