_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_.
GENTLEMEN: I transmit herewith the annual report of the inspectors of
the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, and beg leave to recommend
the propriety of providing by law a reasonable compensation for the
service of those officers. The act of Congress under which they were
commissioned, though it imposes upon them important duties, in the
performance of which much time and labor are necessary, is silent as to
the compensation which they ought to receive.
ANDREW JACKSON.
_February 1, 1830_.
_February 5, 1830_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I herewith communicate to the Senate a letter from the Secretary of War,
with the papers which accompany it, in answer to the resolution of the
Senate of the 2d February, requesting "so much of a report received from
the officer of the United States Army who had command of the detachment
for the protection of the caravan of traders to Santa Fe of New Mexico
during the last summer as may be proper to be made public and material
to be known, devising further means for the security of the inland trade
between Missouri and Mexico."