ANDREW JACKSON.
WASHINGTON, April 13, 1832.
To the Congress of the United States:
Approving the suggestions expressed by the Secretary of State in regard to the propriety of exempting Portuguese vessels entering the ports of the United States from the payment of the duties on tonnage, in consequence of a like exemption being extended to those of the United States, I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, his letter on the subject.
ANDREW JACKSON.
WASHINGTON, April 18, 1832.
To the Senate:
I transmit herewith a report[14] from the Secretary of the Treasury, containing the information called for by the resolution of the Senate of the 3d instant.
ANDREW JACKSON.
[Footnote 14: Relating to trade with the European possessions of Great Britain for the year ending September 30, 1831.]
WASHINGTON, April 19, 1832.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith printed copies of each of the treaties between the United States and the Indian tribes that have been ratified during the present session of Congress.
ANDREW JACKSON.
WASHINGTON, April 20, 1832.
To the Senate:
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, requesting the President “to communicate to the Senate all the instructions given by this Government to our ministers to Great Britain and all the correspondence of our ministers on the subject of the colonial and West India trade since the 3d of March, 1825, not heretofore communicated, so far as the public interest will, in his judgment, permit,” I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information required.
ANDREW JACKSON.
WASHINGTON, April 23, 1832.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a report from the Secretary of State, suggesting the propriety of passing a law making it criminal within the limits of the United States to counterfeit the current coin of any foreign nation.
ANDREW JACKSON.
WASHINGTON, April 23, 1832.
To the Senate:
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, containing the information called for by the resolution of the 26th of March last, in which the President is requested to communicate to the Senate—
First. The total amount of public lands belonging to the United States which remain unsold, whether the Indian title thereon has been extinguished or not, as far as that amount can be ascertained from surveys actually made or by estimate, and distinguishing the States and Territories respectively in which it is situated, and the quantity in each.
Second. The amount on which, the Indian title has been extinguished and the sums paid for the extinction thereof, and the amount on which the Indian title remains to be extinguished.