1. A convention between the United States and Great Britain for the
continuance in force of the convention of 3d July, 1815, after the 20th
October, 1828, the term at which it would otherwise expire.
2. A convention between the same parties for continuing in force after
the 20th October, 1828, the provisions of the third article of the
convention of 20th October, 1818, in relation to the territories
westward of the Rocky Mountains.
3. A convention between the same parties for the reference to a friendly
sovereign of the points of difference between them relating to the
northeastern boundary of the United States.
The first and second of these conventions were signed by the
plenipotentiaries of the respective parties at London on the 6th day of
August and the third on the 29th day of September last.
Copies of them are also communicated, together with the correspondence
and documents illustrative of their negotiation.
I request the advice of the Senate with regard to the ratification of
each of them.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_December 11, 1827_
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for their advice with regard to its
ratification, a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United
States and the Kingdom of. Sweden and Norway, signed at Stockholm by the
plenipotentiaries of the two Governments on the 4th day of July last.
A copy of the treaty, with a translation, and the instructions and
correspondence relating to the negotiation are also communicated.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_December 12, 1827_
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit herewith to Congress copies of a report of the
surveyor-general of lands northwest of Ohio, with a plat of the northern
boundary line of the State of Indiana, surveyed in conformity to the act
of Congress to authorize the President of the United States to ascertain
and designate the northern boundary of the State of Indiana, passed the
2d of March, 1827.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_December 24, 1827_
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant,
requesting a communication of the instructions to the American minister
at London for the negotiation of the convention of the 13th of November,
1826, with Great Britain, for indemnity to the claimants under the first
article of the treaty of Ghent, together with the letters of the
minister accompanying and explaining the said convention, I transmit
herewith a report from the Secretary of State, together with the
documents desired.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_January 4, 1828_
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 19th of last month,
I communicate herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with copies
of the correspondence with the British Government relating to the
establishment of light-houses, light-vessels, buoys, and other
improvements to the navigation within their jurisdiction, opposite to
the coast of Florida, referred to in the resolution,
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_January 7, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
17th of last month, I transmit to the House a report from the Secretary
of State and the correspondence with the Government of Great Britain
relative to the free navigation of the river St. Lawrence.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_January 9, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant, I
transmit herewith Mitchell's map and the map marked A,[013] as requested
by the resolution, desiring that when the Senate shall have no further
use for them they may be returned.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_January 15, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
2d instant, requesting information respecting the recovery of debts and
property in the Mexican States from persons absconding from the United
States, and also respecting the boundary between the State of Louisiana
and the Province of Texas, I now transmit a report from the Secretary of
State on the subject-matter of the resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_January 22, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice, articles
of agreement signed at the Creek Agency on the 15th of November last by
Thomas L. McKenney and John Crowell in behalf of the United States and
by the Little Prince and other chiefs and headmen of the Creek Nation,
with a supplementary article concluded by the said John Crowell with the
chiefs and headmen of the nation in general council convened on the 3d
instant, embracing a cession by the Creek Nation of all the remnant of
their lands within the State of Georgia. Documents connected with the
negotiation of the treaty and the instructions under which it was
effected are also communicated to the Senate.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_January 22, 1828_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
By the report of the Secretary of War and the documents from that
Department exhibited to Congress at the commencement of their present
session they were advised of the measures taken for carrying into
execution the act of 4th May, 1826, to authorize the President of the
United States to run and mark a line dividing the Territory of Florida
from the State of Georgia, and of their unsuccessful result. I now
transmit to Congress copies of communications received from the governor
of Georgia relating to that subject.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_January 23, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
A resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant requested information
relative to the trade between the United States and the colonies of
France. A report from the Secretary of State, with a translation of the
ordinance of the King of France of the 5th of February, 1826, is
herewith transmitted, containing the information desired by the
resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_January 28, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_: