I have thus, fellow-citizens, acquitted myself of my duty under the Constitution by laying before you as succinctly as I have been able the state of the Union and by inviting your attention to measures of much importance to the country.  The executive will most zealously unite its efforts with those of the legislative department in the accomplishment of all that is required to relieve the wants of a common constituency or elevate the destinies of a beloved country.

JOHN TYLER.

SPECIAL MESSAGES

WASHINGTON CITY, December 13, 1842.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I hereby communicate to the Senate a letter from the Secretary of the
Navy, with accompanying documents.[80]

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 80:  Communication from Commodore Charles W. Morgan, commanding the United States naval forces in the Mediterranean, relative to the adjustment of differences with Morocco; translation of a letter from the Emperor of Morocco, etc.]

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

WASHINGTON, December 14, 1842.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a treaty recently concluded with the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, with communications from the War Department in relation thereto, and ask the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the said treaty.

JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON, December 14, 1842.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a treaty recently concluded with the Sac and Fox Indians, with communications from the War Department in relation thereto, and ask the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the said treaty.

JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON, December 23, 1842.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I have received the resolution of the 22d instant, requesting me “to inform the Senate of the nature and extent of ’the informal communications’ which took place between the American Secretary of State and the British special minister during the late negotiations in Washington City upon the subject of the claims of the United States and Great Britain to the territory west of the Rocky Mountains,” and also to inform the Senate what were the reasons which prevented “any agreement upon the subject at present” and which made it “inexpedient to include that subject among the subjects of formal negotiation.”