The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

SIR:  I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 3d instant, calling for information in regard to the examinations of inventions designed to prevent the calamities resulting from the explosion of steam boilers, directed by the acts of Congress of the 28th of June and the 9th of July last.

M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, January 10, 1839.

To the House of Representatives: 

I communicate to the House of Representatives, in compliance with its resolution of the 3d instant, reports[43] from the Secretaries of State and War, containing all the information called for by said resolution now in possession of the Executive.

M. VAN BUREN.

[Footnote 43:  Relating to the invasion of the southwestern frontier of the United States by an armed force from the Republic of Texas.]

WASHINGTON, January 11, 1839.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of yesterday’s date, calling for information respecting the agreement between him and the United States Bank of Pennsylvania on the subject of the sale or payment of certain bonds of that institution held by the United States, and respecting the disposition made of the proceeds thereof.

M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, January 15, 1839.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 9th of July last, I transmit reports[44] from the several Departments of the Government to which that resolution was referred.

M. VAN BUREN.

[Footnote 44:  Transmitting statements of cases in which a per centum has been allowed to public officers on disbursements of public moneys.]

WASHINGTON, January 16, 1839.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I lay before you a communication from the Secretary of War, which is accompanied by one from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, suggesting the propriety of setting apart a tract of country west of the Mississippi for the Seminole Indians, so that they may be separate from the Creeks, and representing the necessity of a small appropriation for supplying the immediate wants of those who have been removed; and I respectfully recommend these subjects for the early consideration and favorable action of Congress.

M. VAN BUREN.

JANUARY 17, 1839.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I herewith communicate to Congress a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in respect to the Florida claims under the treaty of 1819 and the subsequent acts of Congress passed to enforce it.