[Footnote 101: Asking the publication and distribution of a digest of
the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.]
WASHINGTON, _February 20, 1844_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit herewith a report[102] from the Secretary of War, containing
the information requested in the resolution of the House of
Representatives of the 29th ultimo.
In order to a full understanding of the matter I have deemed it proper
to transmit with the information requested a copy of the reply of the
Adjutant-General to Brevet Major-General Gaines, with the documents to
which it refers.