Washington,
_December 6, 1827_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 19th of February
last, requesting a statement of all the expenses annually incurred in
carrying into effect the act of March 2, 1819, for prohibiting the slave
trade, including the cost of keeping the ships of war on the coast of
Africa and all the incidental expenses growing out of the operation of
that act, I transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with the
statement, so far as it can be made, required by the resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_December 11, 1827_.
_To the Senate of the United States_: