1. A treaty concluded at the Butte des Morts, on Fox River, in the
Territory of Michigan, on 11th of August, 1827, between Lewis Cass and
Thomas L. McKenney, commissioners of the United States, and the chiefs
and headmen of the Chippewa, Menomonie, and Winnebago tribes of Indians.
2. A treaty concluded at St. Joseph, in the Territory of Michigan, on
the 19th of September, 1827, between Lewis Cass, commissioner of the
United States, and the chiefs and warriors of the Potawatamie tribe of
Indians.
Upon which treaties I request the advice of the Senate. The instructions
and other documents relating to the negotiation of them are here-with
communicated.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_January 29_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
A report from the Secretary of State, with copies of a recent
correspondence between the chargé d'affaires from Brazil and him on the
subjects of discussion between this Government and that of Brazil,[014]
is transmitted to the House of Representatives, in compliance with a
resolution of the House of the 2d instant.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_February 6, 1828_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I communicate herewith to Congress copies of a treaty of commerce and
navigation between the United States and His Majesty the King of Sweden
and Norway, concluded at Stockholm on the 4th of July, 1827, and the
ratifications of which were exchanged on the 18th ultimo at this city.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_February 14, 1828_
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant,
requesting copies of the instructions to Andrew Ellicott, commissioner
for running the line between the United States and Spain, and of any
journal or report of the commissioners, I communicate herewith a report
from the Secretary of State, with the documents requested, so far as
they are found in the files of that Department.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_February 21, 1828_
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
In transmitting to Congress copies of a communication received from the
governor of Pennsylvania, with certain resolutions of the legislature of
that Commonwealth, relating to the Cumberland road, I deem it my duty to
recommend to the consideration of Congress an adequate provision for the
permanent preservation and repair of that great national work.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_March 3, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary
of State, with documents, containing the instructions of the Government
of the United States to Thomas Pinckney under which was negotiated the
treaty of San Lorenzo el Real, and relating to the boundary line between
the United States and the dominions, at that time, of Spain as requested
by a resolution of the House of the 18th ultimo.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_March 3, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 3d of January last,
requesting the communication of information in my possession relative to
alleged aggression on the rights of citizens of the United States by
persons claiming authority under the government of the Province of New
Brunswick, I communicate a report from the Secretary of State, with a
copy of that of the special agent mentioned in my message at the
commencement of the present session of Congress as having been sent to
visit the spot where the cause of complaint had occurred to ascertain
the state of the facts, and the result of whose inquiries I then
promised to communicate to Congress when it should be received.
The Senate are requested to receive this communication as the
fulfillment of that engagement; and in making it I deem it proper to
notice with just acknowledgment the liberality with which the minister
of His Britannic Majesty residing here and the government of the
Province of New Brunswick have furnished the agent of the United States
with every facility for the attainment of the information which it was
the object of his mission to procure.
Considering the exercise of exclusive territorial jurisdiction upon the
grounds in controversy by the government of New Brunswick in the arrest
and imprisonment of John Baker as incompatible with the mutual
understanding existing between the Governments of the United States and
of Great Britain on this subject, a demand has been addressed to the
provincial authorities through the minister of Great Britain for the
release of that individual from prison, and of indemnity to him for his
detention'. In doing this it has not been intended to maintain the
regularity of his own proceedings or of those with whom he was
associated, to which they were not authorized by any sovereign authority
of this country.
The documents appended to the report of the agent being original papers
belonging to the files of the Department of State, a return of them is
requested when the Senate shall have no further use for them.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_March 7, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
The resolution of the Senate of the 28th ultimo, requesting me to cause
to be laid before the Senate all papers which might be in the Department
of War relating to the treaty concluded at the Butte des Morts, on Fox
River, between Lewis Cass and Thomas L. McKenney, commissioners on the
part of the United States, and the Chippewa, Menomonie, and Winnebago
tribes of Indians, having been referred to the Secretary of War, the
report of that officer thereon is herewith inclosed. The papers therein
referred to were all transmitted to the Senate with the treaty. Before
that event, however, a petition and several other papers had been
addressed directly to me, in behalf of certain Indians originally and in
part still residing within the State of New York, objecting to the
ratification of the treaty, as affecting injuriously their rights and
interests. The treaty was itself withheld from the Senate until it was
understood at the War Department and by me that by the consent of the
persons representing the New York Indians their objections were
withdrawn, as by one of them, the Reverend Eleazer Williams, I was
personally assured. Those papers, however, addressed directly to me, and
which have not been upon the files of the War Department, are now
transmitted to the Senate.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_March 14, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice, a treaty
concluded at the Wyandot village, near the Wabash, in the State of
Indiana, between John Tipton, commissioner on the part of the United
States, and the chiefs, headmen, and warriors of the Eel River or
Thorntown party of Miami Indians, on the 11th day of February last.
A letter from the commissioner to the Secretary of War, with a copy of
the journal of the proceedings which led to the conclusion of the
treaty, are communicated with it to the Senate.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_March 15, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the House of the 21st ultimo,
requesting me to lay before the House correspondence not heretofore
communicated between the Government of the United States and that of
Great Britain on the subject of the claims of the two Governments to the
territory westward of the Rocky Mountains, I transmit herewith a report
of the Secretary of State, with the documents requested by the
resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_March 21, 1828_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress copies of a treaty concluded on the 15th day of
November, 1827, by commissioners of the United States and the chiefs and
headmen of the Creek Nation of Indians, which was duly ratified on the
4th instant.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_March 22, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
3d instant, touching the formation of a new government by the Cherokee
tribe of Indians within the States of North Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee, and Alabama, and requesting copies of certain correspondence
relating thereto, I transmit to the House of Representatives a report
from the Secretary of War, together with the documents desired by the
resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_March 25, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, prepared in
compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the
25th of February last, requesting copies of instructions and
correspondence relating to the settlement of the boundary lines of the
United States, or any one of them, under the Government of the
Confederated States and by the definitive treaty of peace of 3d
September, 1783, with Great Britain.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_April 8, 1828_
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
22d ultimo, on the subject of the treaty with the Creek Nation of
Indians of the 15th November last, I transmit herewith a report from the
Secretary of War, with the documents, containing the information desired
by the resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_April 15, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with the resolution of the House of the 9th instant,
requesting copies of the charges preferred against the agent of the
United States for the Creek tribe of Indians since the 1st of January,
1826, and of proceedings had thereon, I transmit herewith a report from
the Secretary of War, with documents, containing the information desired
by the resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_April 17, 1828_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
In conformity with the practice of all my predecessors, I have during my
service in the office of President transmitted to the two Houses of
Congress from time to time, by the same private secretary, such messages
as a proper discharge of my constitutional duty appeared to me to
require. On Tuesday last he was charged with the delivery of a message
to each House. Having presented that which was intended for the House of
Representatives, whilst he was passing, within the Capitol, from their
Hall to the Chamber of the Senate, for the purpose of delivering the
other message, he was waylaid and assaulted in the Rotunda by a person,
in the presence of a member of the House, who interposed and separated
the parties.
I have thought it my duty to communicate this occurrence to Congress, to
whose wisdom it belongs to consider whether it is of a nature requiring
from them any animadversion, and also whether any further laws or
regulations are necessary to insure security in the official intercourse
between the President and Congress, and to prevent disorders within the
Capitol itself.
In the deliberations of Congress upon this subject it is neither
expected nor desired that any consequence shall be attached to the
private relation in which my secretary stands to me.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_April 21, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice, a treaty
of limits between the United States of America and the United Mexican
States, concluded by the plenipotentiaries of the two Governments on the
12th of January last. A copy of the treaty and the protocols of
conference between the plenipotentiaries during the negotiation are
inclosed with it.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_April 22,1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
A copy of the opinion of the Attorney-General, dated 17th May, 1826,
upon the construction of the award of the Emperor of Russia under the
treaty of Ghent and upon certain questions propounded to him in relation
thereto, subjoined to a report from the Secretary of State, are herewith
communicated to the House, in compliance with their resolution of the
17th instant.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_April 24, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of their constitutional
authority thereon, a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between
the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed by
their respective plenipotentiaries on the 14th of February last, with a
copy of the treaty and the protocols of conference during and subsequent
to the negotiation.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_April 28,1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
9th instant, requesting a communication of the correspondence between
this Government and that of Great Britain on the subject of the trade
between the United States and the British colonial possessions in the
West Indies and North America, not heretofore communicated, I transmit
to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the
correspondence desired.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_April 30, 1828_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
In the month of December last 121 African negroes were landed at Key
West from a Spanish slave-trading vessel stranded within the
jurisdiction of the United States while pursued by an armed schooner in
His Britannic Majesty's service. The collector of the customs at Key
West took possession of these persons, who were afterwards delivered
over to the marshal of the Territory of East Florida, by whom they were
conveyed to St. Augustine, where they still remain.
Believing that the circumstances under which they have been cast upon
the compassion of the country are not embraced by the provisions of the
act of Congress of 3d March, 1819, or of the other acts prohibiting the
slave trade, I submit to the consideration of Congress the expediency of
a supplementary act directing and authorizing such measures as may be
necessary for removing them from the territory of the United States and
for fulfilling toward them the obligations of humanity.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 1, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 17th ultimo,
relating to the removal of the Indian agency from Fort Wayne, in the
State of Indiana, I transmit a report from the Secretary of War, with
the documents and information requested by the resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 5, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 30th ultimo,
requesting information concerning any regulation of the Government of
Brazil relative to the reduction of certain duties, I transmit herewith
a report from the Secretary of State, exhibiting the information
received at that Department on the subject.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 5,1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I communicate to the Senate, for their consideration and advice, a
treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and His
Majesty the King of Prussia, signed on the 1st instant at this place by
the Secretary of State and the chargé d'affaires of Prussia residing
here. A copy of the treaty is also transmitted.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 9, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
The report of the Secretary of War herewith transmitted, with the
documents annexed, contains the information requested by a resolution of
the 3d of April last, relating to the payments made to the citizens of
Georgia under the fourth article of the treaty with the Creek Nation of
8th February, 1821, and to the disallowances of certain claims exhibited
under that treaty, and to the reasons for rejecting the same.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 12, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice, the
articles of a convention concluded at this place on the 6th instant
between the Secretary of War and the chiefs and headmen of the Cherokee
Nation west of the Mississippi, duly authorized by their nation. A
report from the Secretary of War, with certain documents, and a map
illustrative of the convention are submitted with it to the Senate.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 16, 1828_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
By a communication received from the chargé d'affaires of Prussia, a
translation of which is herewith transmitted, it appears that in the
ports of that Kingdom all discriminating duties so far as they affected
the vessels of the United States and their cargoes have been abolished
since the 15th of April, 1826. I recommend to the consideration of
Congress a legislative provision whereby the reciprocal application of
the same principle may be extended to Prussian vessels and their cargoes
which may have arrived in the ports of the United States from and after
that day.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 19, 1828_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress copies of three conventions concluded between the
United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the ratifications of which were exchanged
at London on the 2d of last month:
1. A convention concluded 6th August, 1827, for continuing in force the
provisions of the convention of 3d July, 1815.
2. A convention concluded 6th August, 1827, for continuing in force the
provisions of the third article of the convention of 20th October, 1818.
3. A convention concluded 29th September, 1827, for carrying into effect
the provisions of the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent in relation
to the northeastern boundary of the United States.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 21, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House a report[015] from the Secretary of State, with
a copy of the note of the minister of the United States to Spain dated
20th January, 1826, requested by a resolution of the House of the 19th
instant.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 22, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
The inclosed report from the Secretary of State is accompanied by copies
of the correspondence between this Government and the minister of His
Britannic Majesty residing here relating to the arrest and imprisonment
of John Baker,[016] requested by a recent resolution of the House.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 22, 1828_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to Congress copies of a treaty between the United States of
America and the Eel River or Thornton party of Miami Indians, concluded
on the 11th of February last at the Wyandot village, near the Wabash, and
duly ratified on the 7th instant.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 23, 1828_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant,
relating to the accounts and official conduct of Thomas A. Smith,
receiver of public moneys at Franklin, Mo., I transmit herewith a report
from the Secretary of the Treasury, with documents, containing the
information desired by the resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
Washington,
_May 23, 1828_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
30th ultimo, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State,
with copies of the correspondence[017] with the Brazilian Government,
and shewing the measures taken by the Government of the United States in
relation to the several topics noticed in the resolution.
John Quincy Adams.
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