DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

_Washington, September 25, 1837_.

The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolution of the House

of Representatives dated the 13th instant, requesting the President to

communicate to that body, "so far as the public interest will permit,

the correspondence between the Government of the United States and that

of Great Britain relating to the northeastern boundary of the United

States since the message of the late President to the Senate of the

United States of the 15th of June, 1836, and all the correspondence

which has taken place since that period between the Government of the

United States and the governor of the State of Maine on the subject

of alleged aggressions upon the rights of Maine by the British

authorities," has the honor respectfully to submit to the President

copies of the letters and documents requested by that resolution.

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