Applications have been frequently made at the Mint for copies of medals voted at different times by Congress to the officers who distinguished themselves in the War of the Revolution and in the last war (the dies for which are deposited in the Mint), and it is submitted to Congress whether authority shall be given to the Mint to strike off copies of those medals, in bronze or other metal, to supply those persons making application for them, at a cost not to exceed the actual expense of striking them off.

M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, January 29, 1841.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

By the report of the Secretary of State herewith communicated and the accompanying papers it appears that an additional appropriation is necessary if it should be the pleasure of Congress that the preparatory exploration and survey of the northeastern boundary of the United States should be completed.

M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, February 1, 1841.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I respectfully transmit herewith a report and accompanying documents from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the 22d of December, 1840, requesting the President to transmit to the Senate any information in his possession relative to the survey directed by the act of the 12th of June, 1838, entitled “An act to ascertain and designate the boundary line between the State of Michigan and Territory of Wiskonsin.”

M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 1841.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith the copy of a report from the commissioners for the exploration and survey of the northeastern boundary, in addition to the documents sent to Congress, with reference to a further appropriation for the completion of the duty intrusted to the commission.

M. VAN BUREN.

Report of the commissioners appointed by the President of the United States under the act of Congress of 20th July, 1840, for the purpose of exploring and surveying the boundary line between the States of Maine and New Hampshire and the British Provinces.

NEW YORK, January 6, 1842.

Hon. JOHN FORSYTE,

Secretary of State.

SIR:  The commissioners, having assembled in this city in conformity with your orders under date of 29th of July, beg leave respectfully to report—­

That the extent of country and the great length of the boundary line included in the objects of their commission would have rendered it impossible to have completed the task assigned them within the limits of a single season.  In addition to this physical impossibility, the work of the present year was entered upon under circumstances very unfavorable for making any great progress.  The law under which they have acted was passed at the last period of a protracted