[Footnote 138:  Transmitting statement of claims of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina for militia services during the late war.]

FEBRUARY 7, 1817.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report[139] of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 28th of last month.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 139:  Relating to the deportation of slaves by Great Britain in contravention of the treaty of Ghent, etc.]

FEBRUARY 22, 1817.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report[140] of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 20th instant.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 140:  Transmitting correspondence between the Governments of the United States and Spain relative to settlement of boundaries, to cession of East Florida by Spain, to indemnification for injuries to American commerce by Spanish vessels, etc.]

WASHINGTON, February 4, 1818.

To the House of Representatives: 

Pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 31st of December last, requesting information of the number of States which had ratified the thirteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States,[141] I transmit to the House a detailed report from the Secretary of State, which contains all the information that has been received upon that subject.

No time will be lost in communicating to the House the answers of the governors of the States of South Carolina and Virginia to the inquiries stated by the Secretary of State to have been recently addressed to them when they are received at that Department.

JAMES MONROE.

[Footnote 141:  “If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of profit or trust under them, or either of them.”  This proposed amendment did not become a part of the Constitution, failing of ratification by three-fourths of the States.]

WASHINGTON, February 6, 1818.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th of February, 1817, I now transmit copies of the reports in relation to the surveys and examinations made by naval officers in cooperation with officers of the Corps of Engineers.

JAMES MONROE.

WASHINGTON, February 12, 1818.