ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, May 26, 1836.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit, in conformity with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant, a report of the Secretary of War, containing the information called for on the subject of the causes of the hostilities of the Seminoles and the measures taken to repress them.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, May 27, 1836.

To the House of Representatives: 

In further compliance with so much of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant as calls for an account of the causes of the hostilities of the Seminole Indians, I transmit a supplementary report from the Secretary of War.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, May 28, 1836.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith, for the consideration and action of the Senate, a treaty concluded on the 24th instant with the Chippewa Indians of Saganaw.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, May 31, 1836.

To the Senate: 

I transmit herewith the response of Samuel Gwin, esq.,[18] to the charges affecting his official conduct and character which were set forth in the evidence taken under the authority of the Senate by the Committee on Public Lands, and which was referred to the President by the resolution of the Senate bearing date the 3d day of March, 1835.  This resolution and the evidence it refers to were officially communicated to Mr. Gwin by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the response of Mr. Gwin has been received through the same official channel.

ANDREW JACKSON.

[Footnote 18:  Register of the land office for the northwestern district of Mississippi.]

WASHINGTON, June 1, 1836.

To the Senate: 

I transmit herewith to the Senate a communication which has been received from Mr. B.F.  Currey[19] in answer to a call made upon him by the President, through the War Department, in consequence of the serious charges which were preferred against him by one of the honorable members of the Senate.  It seems to be due to justice that the Senate should be furnished, agreeably to the request of Mr. Currey, with the explanations contained in this communication, particularly as they are deemed so far satisfactory as would render his dismissal or even censure undeserved and improper.

ANDREW JACKSON.

[Footnote 19:  Agent for the removal of the Cherokee Indians.]

WASHINGTON, June 3, 1836.

To the Senate: 

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 27th ultimo, requesting the President to inform the Senate “whether any increase or improvement of organization is needed in the Ordnance Corps,” I have to state that I entertain no doubt of the propriety of increasing the corps, and that I concur in the plan proposed for this purpose in the accompanying report from the Secretary of War.