[Footnote 28: Transmitting list of agents, etc., employed by the Navy
Department without express authority of law, etc.]
WASHINGTON, _March 30, 1842_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives two extracts from a note
of the chargé d'affaires of the Republic of Texas accredited to this
Government to the Department of State, one suggesting in behalf of his
Government such modifications of the existing laws of the United States
as will impart greater facility to the trade between the two countries,
particularly to that which passes across their frontier, and the other
expressing a desire for some regulation on the part of this Government
by means of which the communication by post between the United States
and Texas may be improved.
As the wishes of the Texan Government in relation to those subjects can
only be gratified by means of laws to be passed by Congress, they are
accordingly referred to the consideration of the two Houses.