I remain, sir, with great respect, your most obedient servant,

WINFIELD SCOTT.

WASHINGTON, March 28, 1840.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I communicate to the House of Representatives, in compliance with their resolution of the 9th instant, reports[67] from the Secretaries of State and War, with documents, which contain information on the subject of that resolution.

M. VAN BUREN.

[Footnote 67:  Relating to the British naval armament on the American lakes, etc.]

WASHINGTON, March 31, 1840.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I communicate to the House of Representatives a report[68] from the Secretary of State, with documents, containing the information called for by their resolution of the 23d instant.

M. VAN BUREN.

[Footnote 68:  Relating to the demand of the minister of Spain for the surrender of the schooner Amistad, with Africans on board, detained by the American brig of war Washington, etc.]

WASHINGTON CITY, April 3, 1840.

Hon. R.M.T.  HUNTER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

SIR:  In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo, I communicate herewith, accompanied by a report from the Secretary of War, “copies of the arrangement entered into between the governor of Maine and Sir John Harvey, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, through the mediation of Major-General Scott, in the month of March last (1839), together with copies of the instructions given to General Scott and of all correspondence with him relating to the subject of controversy between the State of Maine and the Province of New Brunswick.”

M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, April 10, 1840.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d March last, I transmit a report[69] from the Secretary of State, which, with the documents accompanying it, contains the information in possession of the Department in relation to the subject of the resolution.

M. VAN BUREN.

[Footnote 69:  Relating to the seizure and condemnation by British authorities of American vessels engaged in the fisheries.]

WASHINGTON, April, 1840.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit herewith communications from the Secretary of War and Commissioner of Indian Affairs, giving the information “in possession of the Government respecting the assemblage of Indians on the northwestern frontier, and especially as to the interference of the officers or agents of any foreign power with the Indians of the United States in the vicinity of the Great Lakes,” which I was requested to communicate by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo.