(The same message was sent to the House of Representatives.)
Washington, _December 10, 1830_.
_To the Senate of the United States:_
I submit for the consideration of the Senate a treaty of commerce and
navigation, together with a separate and secret article, concluded at
Constantinople on the 7th day of May last, and signed by Charles Rhind,
James Biddle, and David Offley as commissioners on the part of the
United States, and by Mahommed Hamed, reis effendi, on the part of the
Sublime Porte.
The French versions herewith transmitted, and accompanied by copies and
English translations of the same, are transcripts of the original
translations from the Turkish, signed by the commissioners of the United
States and delivered to the Government of the Sublime Porte.
The paper in Turkish is the original signed by the Turkish
plenipotentiary and delivered by him to the American commissioners. Of
this a translation into the English language, and believed to be
correct, is like-wise transmitted.