The rules and regulations herewith submitted have been prepared by a board of officers in conformity with an act passed May 19, 1832.[1]

They are approved by me, and in pursuance of the provisions of said act are now communicated to the House of Representatives for the purpose of obtaining to them the sanction of Congress.

ANDREW JACKSON.

[Footnote 1:  An act authorizing the revision and extension of the rules and regulations of the naval service.]

WASHINGTON, December 24, 1833.

To the Senate: 

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate as to the ratification thereof, the following Indian treaties that have been received since the adjournment of the last session of Congress, viz: 

No. 1.  Treaty with the Seminole Indians, made May 9, 1832.

No. 2.  Treaty with the Cherokees west of the Mississippi, made 14th February, 1833.

No. 3.  Treaty with the Creeks west of the Mississippi, made 14th
February, 1833.

No. 4.  Assignment to the Seminoles of a tract of land for their residence west of the Mississippi, made 28th March, 1833.

No. 5.  Agreement with the Apalachiccla band of Indians, made 18th
June, 1833.

No. 6.  Treaty with the united bands of Ottoes and Missourians, made 21st September, 1833.

No. 7.  Treaty with the four confederated bands of Pawnees residing on the Platt and Loup Fork, made 9th October, 1833.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, January 6, 1834.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I communicate to Congress an extract of a letter recently received from R.J.  Leib, consul of the United States at Tangier, by which it appears that that officer has been induced to receive from the Emperor of Morocco a present of a lion and two horses, which he holds as belonging to the United States.  There being no funds at the disposal of the Executive applicable to the objects stated by Mr. Leib, I submit the whole subject to the consideration of Congress for such direction as in their wisdom may seem proper.

I have directed instructions to be given to all our ministers and agents abroad requiring that in future, unless previously authorized by Congress, they will not under any circumstances accept presents of any description from any foreign state.

I deem it proper on this occasion to invite the attention of Congress to the presents which have heretofore been made to our public officers, and which have been deposited under the orders of the Government in the Department of State.  These articles are altogether useless to the Government, and the care and preservation of them in the Department of State are attended with considerably inconvenience.

The provision of the Constitution which forbids any officer, without the consent of Congress, to accept any present from any foreign power may be considered as having been satisfied by the surrender of the articles to the Government, and they might now be disposed of by Congress to those for whom they were originally intended, or to their heirs, with obvious propriety in both cases, and in the latter would be received as grateful memorials of the surrender of the present.