I transmit herewith to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, with the documents desired by their resolution of the 13th instant.[173] In requesting that the originals may eventually be returned it may be unnecessary to add that the negotiations being by common consent to be hereafter resumed, it is important that this communication should be regarded by the Senate as strictly confidential.

JAMES MONROE.

[Footnote 173:  Relating to commercial intercourse with the British colonies of the West Indies and Canada; to the boundary under the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, and the navigation of the St. Lawrence River; to admission of United States consuls into British colonial ports; to the Newfoundland fishery; to maritime questions; to the northwest coast of America.]

WASHINGTON, February 2, 1825.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I herewith transmit a report from the Director of the Mint of the United
States, showing the operations of that institution for the last year.

JAMES MONROE.

WASHINGTON, March 1, 1826.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Director of the Mint of the United
States, showing the operations of that institution for the year 1825.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

WASHINGTON, March 15, 1826.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I now submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of making the appropriation necessary for carrying into effect the appointment of a mission to the congress at Panama.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

WASHINGTON, December 8, 1826.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 20th of January, 1818, I transmit a report of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, containing the annual statement of expenditures on those buildings and the account of their progress, required by the said resolution.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

WASHINGTON, December 11, 1826.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit to Congress sundry additional papers appertaining to the report from the War Department relating to Indian affairs, communicated at the commencement of the session.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

WASHINGTON, December 28, 1826.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information requested by two resolutions of the House relating to certain negotiations[174] with the Government of the United Mexican States.