Washington, _December 15, 1830_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives._
Gentlemen: From information received at the Department of State it is
ascertained that owing to unforeseen circumstances several of the
marshals have been unable to complete the enumeration of the inhabitants
of the United States within the time prescribed by the act of the 23d
March, 1830, viz, by the 1st day of the present month.
As the completion of the Fifth Census as respects several of the States
of the Union will have been defeated unless Congress, to whom the case
is submitted, shall by an act of the present session allow further time
for making the returns in question, the expediency is suggested of
allowing such an act to pass at as early a day as possible.