[Footnote 31: Correspondence of Humphrey Marshall, commissioner to China.]
WASHINGTON, _July 22, 1854_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I have this day given my signature to the "Act making further
appropriations for the improvement of the Cape Fear River, in North
Carolina."
The occasion seems to render it proper for me to deviate from the
ordinary course of announcing the approval of bills by an oral statement
only, and, for the purpose of preventing any misapprehension which might
otherwise arise from the phraseology of this act, to communicate
in writing that my approval is given to it on the ground that the
obstructions which the proposed appropriation is intended to remove
are the result of acts of the General Government.