any of the public lands in the said counties of Lafayette, Sevier, or Miller, or who may be surveying or attempting to survey the same without any authority therefor from the Government of the United States; and to execute and carry into effect this proclamation I do hereby authorize the employment of such military force as may be necessary pursuant to the act of Congress aforesaid, and warn all offenders in the premises that they will be prosecuted and punished in such other way and manner as may be consistent with the provisions and requisitions of the law in such case made and provided.

Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of February, A.D. 1831, and of the Independence of the United States of America the fifty-fifth.

ANDREW JACKSON. 
By the President.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

Washington, August 6, 1831.
Acting Secretary of War.

Sir:  You will, after the receipt of this, report to the President for dismissal every clerk in your office who shall avail himself of the benefit of the insolvent debtors’ act for debts contracted during my Administration.

Very respectfully,
ANDREW JACKSON.

(The same order was addressed to the Secretary of the Navy.)

THIRD ANNUAL MESSAGE.

December 6, 1831. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: 

The representation of the people has been renewed for the twenty-second time since the Constitution they formed has been in force.  For near half a century the Chief Magistrates who have been successively chosen have made their annual communications of the state of the nation to its representatives.  Generally these communications have been of the most gratifying nature, testifying an advance in all the improvements of social and all the securities of political life.  But frequently and justly as you have been called on to be grateful for the bounties of Providence, at few periods have they been more abundantly or extensively bestowed than at the present; rarely, if ever, have we had greater reason to congratulate each other on the continued and increasing prosperity of our beloved country.

Agriculture, the first and most important occupation of man, has compensated the labors of the husbandman with plentiful crops of all the varied products of our extensive country.  Manufactures have been established in which the funds of the capitalist find a profitable investment, and which give employment and subsistence to a numerous and increasing body of industrious and dexterous mechanics.  The laborer is rewarded by high wages in the construction of works of internal improvement, which are extending with unprecedented rapidity.  Science is steadily penetrating the recesses of nature and disclosing her secrets, while the ingenuity of free minds is subjecting the