A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 163 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 163 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

JAMES MADISON.

JANUARY 26, 1816.

To the House of Representatives of the United States

In compliance with the resolution of the 24th instant, I transmit two letters from the envoy extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary of Spain to the Secretary of State, with his answer.[130]

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 130:  Relating to demand of Spain for possession of West Florida; to unlawful expeditions against Spanish possessions; to the exclusion from ports of the United States of the flags of revolting provinces of Spain; to the attitude of the United States toward the Mexican revolution; to vessels of the United States condemned in ports of Spain; to the free navigation of the Mississippi; to the boundaries of Louisiana, etc.]

WASHINGTON, January 31, 1816.

To the House of Representatives of the United States

I transmit a report[131] of the Secretary of State, complying with the resolution of the 4th instant.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 131:  Relating to the massacre of American prisoners at Dartmoor prison, England.]

FEBRUARY 13, 1816.

To the Senate of the United States

I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of War, complying with their resolution of the 5th instant.[132]

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 132:  Relating to the reduction of the late Army to a peace establishment.]

MARCH 11, 1816.

To the House of Representatives of the United States

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[133] of the Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the 17th of February.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 133:  Transmitting statements of receipts and expenditures of the city of Washington from 1791 to 1815, inclusive, and of moneys advanced by the United States to said city.]

MARCH 12, 1816.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

I lay before Congress a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, containing a statement of proceedings under the act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio, with a statement of past appropriations and an estimate of required appropriations.

JAMES MADISON.

MARCH 22, 1816.

To the House of Representatives of the United States

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report[134] from the Secretary of the Treasury, complying with their resolution of the 29th of February last.

JAMES MADISON.

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