JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON CITY, January 17, 1844.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 26th ultimo, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, with a copy of the proceedings of the court-martial in the case of Second Lieutenant D.C.  Buell, Third Infantry, and of all orders and papers in relation thereto.

It will be perceived that at the date of the resolution the final action of the Executive was not had upon the case.  That action having since taken place, it is communicated with the papers.

JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 19, 1844.

To the House of Representatives: 

In compliance with your resolution of the 15th December, 1843, requesting “such information as may be on file in any of the Departments relative to the formation of a junction between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,” I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents, in relation thereto.

JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON, January 24, 1844.

To the House of Representatives: 

I communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, under date of the 7th ultimo, accompanied by a copy of a note from the Chevalier de Argaiz, on the subject of the schooner Amistad.

JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON, January 26, 1844.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War and accompanying papers, containing the information respecting the Indians remaining at present in Florida, requested by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th instant.

JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON, January 30, 1844.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit a report[96] of the War Department, prepared under a resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 96:  Relating to the proceedings and conduct of the Choctaw commission, sitting in the State of Mississippi, under the Dancing Rabbit Creek treaty.]

WASHINGTON, February 6, 1844.

To the House of Representatives: 

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d January, I herewith transmit a letter[97] from the Secretary of the Navy, containing all the information in the possession of that Department on the subject to which the resolution refers.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 97:  Relating to appointments of masters’ mates and the postponement of the sailing of the frigate Raritan.]

WASHINGTON, February 7, 1844.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate of the United States, in answer to their resolution of the 9th of January last, a report[98] from the Secretary of State and a report[99] from the Secretary of War.