JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON, June 22, 1842.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 15th of April last, I communicate to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, accompanying copies of the correspondence[75] called for by said resolution.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 75:  Relating to the conduct and character of William B. Hodgson (nominated to be consul at Tunis) while dragoman at Constantinople.]

WASHINGTON, June 24, 1842.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith to the Senate the translation of a letter[76] addressed by the minister of France at Washington to the Secretary of State of the United States and a copy of the answer given thereto by my direction, and invite to the subject of the minister’s letter all the consideration due to its importance and to a proposition originating in a desire to promote mutual convenience and emanating from a Government with which it is both our interest and our desire to maintain the most amicable relations.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 76:  Relating to the establishment of a line of steamers between Havre and New York.]

[The same message was sent to the House of Representatives.]

WASHINGTON, June 24, 1842.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 16th of February last, I herewith transmit a letter[77] from the Secretary of State and the papers in that Department called for by the resolution aforesaid.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 77:  Transmitting names and compensation of employees and witnesses in connection with the commission of inquiry relative to the public buildings in Washington, D.C.]

WASHINGTON, June 25, 1842.

To the House of Representatives: 

I have this day approved and signed an act, which originated in the House of Representatives, entitled “An act for an apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the Sixth Census,” and have caused the same to be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, accompanied by an exposition of my reasons for giving to it my sanction.

JOHN TYLER.

[Transmitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of State in compliance with a resolution of that body.]

WASHINGTON, June 25,1842.

A BILL entitled “An act for an apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the Sixth Census,” approved June 25, 1842.

In approving this bill I feel it due to myself to say, as well that my motives for signing it may be rightly understood as that my opinions may not be liable to be misconstrued or quoted hereafter erroneously as a precedent, that I have not proceeded so much upon a clear and decided opinion of my own respecting the constitutionality or policy of the entire act as from respect to the declared will of the two Houses of Congress.