JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 23:  Relating to the colonial history of New York.]

WASHINGTON, February 21, 1842.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with an accompanying paper,[24] in answer to their resolution of the 18th instant.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 24:  Extract of a letter from the Department of State to the United States minister at London relative to the case of the brig Creole.]

WASHINGTON, February 26, 1842.

To the House of Representatives: 

The resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant, requesting the President of the United States to communicate to that body, “if not incompatible with the public interest, the state of the negotiation between the United States and the Government of Great Britain in relation to the northeastern boundary of the State of Maine, and also all correspondence on that subject between the two Governments not hitherto communicated,” has been transmitted to me.  Desirous always to lay before Congress and the public everything affecting the state of the country to the fullest extent consistent with propriety and prudence, I have to inform the House of Representatives that in my judgment no communication could be made by me at this time on the subject of its resolution without detriment or danger to the public interests.

JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON, February 28, 1842.

To the House of Representatives: 

I have the honor to submit copies of the correspondence[25] and other documents called for by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d February.

I am not informed of the existence of any official opinion of the late Judge Johnson on the unconstitutionality of the act or acts of the State of South Carolina upon the subject referred to in the resolution.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 25:  Relating to an act of the legislature of South Carolina providing for the imprisonment of free negroes found on board vessels entering any of the ports of that State, complaints of the British Government relative to the operation of said act, etc.]

WASHINGTON, March 8, 1842.

To the House of Representatives: 

I feel it to be my duty to invite your attention to the accompanying communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the probable demands which will be made upon the Treasury for the present quarter.  It will be seen that, without arresting the requisitions which will be made by the War and Navy Departments for the months of March, April, and May, there will be an unprovided-for deficit of upward of three millions.