I have made several nominations to offices located within the limits of the State of Mississippi which have not received the approbation of the Senate.  Inferring that these nominations have been rejected in pursuance of a resolution adopted by the Senate on the 3d of February, 1831, “that it is inexpedient to appoint a citizen of one State to an office which may be vacated or become vacant in any other State of the Union within which such citizen does not reside, without some evident necessity for such appointment,” and regarding that resolution, in effect, as an unconstitutional restraint upon the authority of the President in relation to appointments to office, I think it proper to inform the Senate that I shall feel it my duty to abstain from any further attempt to fill the offices in question.

ANDREW JACKSON.

The President of the Senate: 

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate passed the 1st instant, requesting “that the President inform the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interest, what negotiation has been had since the last session of Congress with Great Britain in relation to the northeastern boundary of the United States, and the progress and result thereof; also whether any arrangement, stipulation, or agreement has at any time been made between the Executive of the United States and the government of the State of Maine, or by commissioners or agents on the part of the United States and that State, having reference to any proposed transfer or relinquishment of their right of jurisdiction and territory belonging to that State, together with all documents, correspondence, and communications in relation thereto,” I inform the Senate that overtures for opening a negotiation for the settlement of the boundary between the United States and the British provinces have been made to the Government of Great Britain since the last session, but that no definitive answer has yet been received to these propositions, and that a conditional arrangement has been made between commissioners appointed by me and others named by the governor of Maine, with the authority of its legislature, which can not take effect without the sanction of Congress and of the legislature aforesaid, and which will be communicated to them as soon as the contingency in which alone it was intended to operate shall happen.  In the meantime it is not deemed compatible with the public interest that it should be communicated.

ANDREW JACKSON.
March 2, 1833.

VETO MESSAGES.[16]

[Footnote 16:  Pocket vetoes.]

WASHINGTON, December 6, 1832.
To the Senate of the United States: 

I avail myself of this early opportunity to return to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act providing for the final settlement of the claims of States for interest on advances to the United States made during the last war,” with the reasons which induced me to withhold my approbation, in consequence of which it has failed to become a law.