M. VAN BUREN.

[Footnote 30: A chief of the Apalachicola Indians, for indemnification

for losses sustained by depredations on his property by white persons.]

WASHINGTON, _April 23, 1838_.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the

16th instant, relative to an attack on the steamboat _Columbia_ in the

Gulf of Mexico by a Mexican armed vessel, I transmit a report from the

Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred.

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