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1 Whether the works at Black Rock raise the waters of Lake Erie to the injury of property on its southern and western shores.

2 Omitted.

3 Omitted.

4 Respecting transactions in the Cherokee country.

5 Relating to the capture and sequestration of the ship Mary, of Baltimore, and her cargo by the Dutch Government at the island of Curacoa in 1809.

6 Relating to adjustment of claims to reservations of land under the fourteenth article of the treaty of 1830 with the Choctaw Indians.

7 By the United States sloop of war Natchez off the coast of Texas.

8 Transmitting instructions and correspondence concerning the preservation of the neutrality of the United States in the civil wars and insurrections in Mexico and in any of the British Provinces north of the United States since 1829.

9 Calling for information of any acts endangering the amicable relations with Great Britain.

10 Relating to alleged frauds upon the Creek Indians in the sale and purchase of their lands, etc.

11 Omitted.

12 Omitted.

13 Omitted.

14 Omitted.

15 Omitted.

16 Omitted.

17 Omitted.

18 Omitted.

19 Omitted.

20 Omitted.

21 Omitted.

22 Issued by Manuel E. de Gorostiza, formerly minister from Mexico, before his departure from the United States, containing the correspondence between the Department of State and the Mexican legation relative to the passage of the Sabine River by troops under the command of General Gaines.

23 Relating to a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien.

24 Relating to the prosecution of the claim of the United States to the bequest made by James Smithson.

25 Relating to high duties and restrictions on tobacco imported into foreign countries from the United States, etc.

26 Omitted.

27 Omitted.

28 Omitted.

29 South Sea surveying and exploring expedition.

30 A chief of the Apalachicola Indians, for indemnification for losses sustained by depredations on his property by white persons.

31 List of officers of the Corps of Engineers and of the works upon which they were employed during the year 1837.

32 Omitted.

33 Omitted.

34 Against the Government of Holland.

35 Killed on board of the United States ship Chesapeake when attacked by the British ship of war Leopard, June 22, 1807.

36 Transmitting reports of the commissioners appointed under the sixth and seventh articles of the treaty of Ghent to ascertain and fix the boundary between the United States and the British possessions in North America, etc.

37 Relating to operations while commanding the army in Florida.

38 Transmitting communications, papers, documents, etc., elucidating the origin and objects of the Smithsonian bequest and the origin, progress, and consummation of the process by which that bequest was recovered, etc.

39 Relating to the "Buckshot war."

40 Relating to the "Buckshot war."

41 In aid of the construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal.

42 Copies of orders and instructions issued since April 14, 1836, relative to the kind of money and bank notes to be paid out on account of the United States.

43 Relating to the invasion of the southwestern frontier of the United States by an armed force from the Republic of Texas.

44 Transmitting statements of cases in which a per centum has been allowed to public officers on disbursements of public moneys.

45 Relating to the intermeddling of any foreign government, or subjects or officers thereof, with the Indian tribes in Michigan, Wisconsin, the territory beyond the Rocky Mountains, or elsewhere within the limits of the United States, etc.

46 Stating that there has been no correspondence with Great Britain in relation to the northeastern boundary since December 3, 1838.

47 Relating to the demand upon the British Government for satisfaction for the burning of the steamboat Caroline and murdering of unarmed citizens on board, at Schlosser, N.Y., December 29, 1837.

48 Relating to the commerce and navigation carried on within the Turkish dominions and in the Pashalic of Egypt.

49 Relating to compensation by Great Britain in the cases of the brigs Enterprise, Encomium, and Comet, slaves on board which were forcibly seized and detained by local authorities of Bermuda and Bahama islands.

50 Letter of Mr. Stevenson, minister to England, relative to the duties and restrictions imposed by Great Britain upon the tobacco trade of the United States.

51 Relating to troubles in the British Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada and to alleged violations of neutrality on the part of the United States or Great Britain, and whether the authorities of Upper Canada have undertaken to interdict or restrict the ordinary intercourse between said Province and the United States, inconsistent with subsisting treaties.

52 Relating to attempts to keep down the price of public lands.

53 Stating that the only reason he had not sent an answer to a resolution of the Senate was because it was not ready, which was considered disrespectful.

54 Pocket veto.

55 Omitted.

56 Relating to his administration of the affairs of the Quartermaster's Department at St. Louis.

57 Relating to the sale or exchange of Government drafts, etc.

58 Transmitting correspondence with the British Government on the subject of the northeastern boundary and the jurisdiction of the disputed territory; also with the governor of Maine and the minister of Great Britain relative to the invasion of Maine, etc.

59 Relating to the discharge of liens and incumbrances upon real estate which has or may become the property of the United States.

60 Relating to the compensation by Great Britain in the case of the brigs Enterprise, Encomium, and Comet, slaves on board which were forcibly seized and detained by local authorities of Bermuda and Bahama islands.

61 Operations in the Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers, etc.

62 Relating to the trade with China, etc.

63 Containing information relative to the necessity of amending the existing law regulating the transfer of property in American vessels abroad.

64 Omitted.

65 Omitted.

66 Transmitting lists of removals from office since March 3, 1789.

67 Relating to the British naval armament on the American lakes, etc.

68 Relating to the demand of the minister of Spain for the surrender of the schooner Amistad, with Africans on board, detained by the American brig of war Washington, etc.

69 Relating to the seizure and condemnation by British authorities of American vessels engaged in the fisheries.

70 Relating to the tobacco trade between the United States and foreign countries.

71 Relating to the sale or exchange of Government drafts for bank notes and the payment of Government creditors in depreciated currency.

72 Military and naval.

73 Relating to the sale or exchange of Government drafts, etc.

74 Relating to bonds of the Territory of Florida.

75 Transmitting correspondence with France, Sweden, Denmark, and Prussia relating to the surrender to the United States of persons charged with piracy and murder on board the United States schooner Plattsburg in 1817; correspondence relating to the demand by the chargÉ d'affaires of Great Britain for the surrender of a mutineer in the British armed ship Lee in 1819; opinion of the Attorney-General with regard to the right of the President of the United States or the governor of a State to deliver up, on the demand of any foreign government, persons charged with crimes committed without the jurisdiction of the United States.

76 Relating to the sale or exchange of Government drafts, etc.

77 Relating to bonds of the Territory of Florida.

78 Relating to the refusal of banks to pay the Government demands in specie since the general resumption in 1838, and the payment of Government creditors in depreciated currency.

79 Relating to the manner in which the public funds have been paid out by disbursing officers and agents during 1838 and 1839.

80 Relating to charges preferred by Dr. John Baldwin, of Louisiana, against Marmaduke Burroughs, consul at Vera Cruz.

81 Relating to purchases of Indian lands since the establishment of the Federal Government.

82 Relating to sales and donations of public lots in Washington, D.C.

83 Relating to the suspension of appropriations made at the last session of Congress.

84 Transmitting correspondence with Great Britain relative to the burning of the steamboat Caroline at Schlosser, N.Y., December 29, 1837.

85 Transmitting correspondence with Great Britain relative to proceedings on the part of that Government which may have a tendency to interrupt our commerce with China.

86 Omitted.

87 Relating to bonds of the Territory of Florida.

88 Correspondence imputing malpractices to N.P. Trust, American consul at Havana, in regard to granting papers to vessels engaged in the slave trade, etc.

89 Relating to the origin of any political relations between the United States and the Empire of China, etc.

90 Also see report No. 176, House of Representatives, Twenty-fifth Congress, third session.

91 Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States from the commencement of the Government to March 1, 1841.

92 Relating to the search or seizure of United States vessels on the coast of Africa or elsewhere by British cruisers or authorities, and to the African slave trade, etc.





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