WASHINGTON, _March 2, 1833_.
_To the Senate_:
I have made several nominations to offices located within the limits of
the State of Mississippi which have not received the approbation of the
Senate. Inferring that these nominations have been rejected in pursuance
of a resolution adopted by the Senate on the 3d of February, 1831, "that
it is inexpedient to appoint a citizen of one State to an office which
may be vacated or become vacant in any other State of the Union within
which such citizen does not reside, without some evident necessity for
such appointment," and regarding that resolution, in effect, as an
unconstitutional restraint upon the authority of the President in
relation to appointments to office, I think it proper to inform the
Senate that I shall feel it my duty to abstain from any further attempt
to fill the offices in question.