A 20.02

339950

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849.

BY EDWARD WALKER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.

STEREOTYPED BY C. C. SAVAGE,

13 Chambers Street, N. Y.

SPECIAL MESSAGE.

MAY 28, 1846.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:—

I TRANSMIT a copy of a note, under date the 26th instant, from the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of her Britannic majesty to the secretary of state, communicating a despatch, under date the 4th instant, received by him from her majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs.

From these it will be seen that the claims of the two governments upon each other, for a return of duties which had been levied in violation of the commercial convention of 1815, have been finally and satisfactorily adjusted. In making this communication, I deem it proper to express my satisfaction at the prompt månner in which the British government has acceded to the suggestion of the secretary of state for the speedy termination of this affair.

SPECIAL MESSAGE.

JUNE 6, 1846.

To the Senate of the United States :—

In answer to the resolutions of the senate of the 10th, 11th, and 22d of April last, I communicate herewith a report from the secretary of state, accompanied with the correspondence between the government of the United States and that of Great Britain in the years 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843, respecting the right or practice of visiting or searching merchantvessels in time of peace; and also, the protest addressed by the minister of the United States at Paris, in the year 1842, against the concurrence of France in the quintuple treaty; together with all correspondence relating thereto.

SPECIAL MESSAGE.

JUNE 8, 1846.

To the Senate of the United States

I COMMUNICATE herewith a report from the secretary of War, transmitting the correspondence, called for by the resolution of the senate of the 5th instant, with General Edmund P. Gaines and General Winfield Scott, of the army of the United States.

The report of the secretary of war, and the accompanying correspondence with General Gaines, contain all the information in my possession .n relation to calls for "volunteers or militia into the service of the United States," "by any officer of the army," without legal "authority therefor," and of the "measures which have been adopted" "in relation to such officer or troops so called into service."