[Footnote 56: Relating to his administration of the affairs of the
Quartermaster's Department at St. Louis.]
WASHINGTON, _January 11, 1840_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, in compliance with its resolutions of the 30th
ultimo, two reports of the Secretary of State, containing the answers of
the Commissioner of Patents and the disbursing agent of the Department
of State to the inquiries embraced in said resolutions.[57]