ANDREW JACKSON.

April 6, 1830. To the Senate of the United States.

GENTLEMEN:  In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, requesting the President of the United States to transmit to the Senate any record or other information in the Department of War or before the President respecting the conviction of Wharton Rector of any crime in Missouri before his departure for Arkansas, or touching his fitness for the office to which he has been nominated, and any other evidence in the Department relative to the fitness of Wharton Rector for the office of Indian agent, I inclose herewith a report from the Secretary of War.

ANDREW JACKSON.

April 13, 1830. To the House of Representatives.

GENTLEMEN:  I transmit herewith a report from the War Department, in compliance with the resolution of the House of the 18th ultimo, calling for information in relation to the expenses incident to the removal and support of the Indians west of the Mississippi, etc.

ANDREW JACKSON.

April 15, 1830. To the Senate of the United States.

GENTLEMEN:  I submit to the Senate, in compliance with the request in their resolution of the 12th instant, all the communications found in the Department of State touching the character, conduct, and qualifications of John Hamm, which appear or are supposed to have been made while the said Hamm was an applicant for reappointment to the office of marshal of the district of Ohio, in the year 1822.

As that individual has been recently nominated to the Senate to be charge d’affaires of the United States to the Government of Central America, I take advantage of the occasion to request the Senate to postpone a final decision on his nomination, upon the following grounds:  That information, though not official, has just been received at the Department of State of a change having been lately effected in the Government of Central America, which, if confirmed, may make a correspondent change in the appointment necessary, or perhaps render it altogether unnecessary that this Government, under present circumstances, should send a diplomatic agent to that country at all.

ANDREW JACKSON.

April 22, 1830. To the House of Representatives.

GENTLEMEN:  I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a report from the War Department of a survey[7] authorized by the act of 2d March, 1829.

ANDREW JACKSON.

[Footnote 7:  Of the harbor of St. Augustine, Fla.]

April, 23, 1830. To the Senate of the United States.

GENTLEMEN:  In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, I transmit herewith a report[8] from the Secretary of War.

ANDREW JACKSON.

[Footnote 8:  Transmitting correspondence of June, 1825, relative to treaties with the Osage and Kansas Indians.]