WASHINGTON, _February 8, 1832_.
_To the Senate_:
I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, made in compliance
with a resolution of the Senate of March 2, 1831, requesting the
President of the United States "to cause to be collected and reported to
the Senate at the commencement of the next stated session of Congress
the most authentic information which can be obtained of the number and
names of the American citizens who have been killed or robbed while
engaged in the fur trade or the inland trade to Mexico since the late
war with Great Britain, the amount of the robberies committed, and at
what places and by what tribes; also the number of persons who annually
engage in the fur trade and inland trade to Mexico, the amount of
capital employed, and the annual amount of the proceeds in furs, robes,
peltries, money, etc.; also the disadvantages, if any, which these
branches of trade labor under, and the means for their relief and
protection."