DANL. WEBSTER,
_Secretary of State_.
[From Executive Journal of the Senate, Vol. VIII, p. 299.]
WASHINGTON, _March 3, 1851_.
_To the Senators of the United States, respectively_.
SIR: Whereas divers and weighty causes connected with executive business
necessary to be transacted create an extraordinary occasion requiring
that the Senate be convened, you are therefore requested, as a member of
that body, to attend a meeting thereof to be holden at the Capitol, in
the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March instant.