M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON CITY, _June 29, 1840_.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:

I transmit the inclosed report of the Secretary of War, with

accompanying documents, furnishing all the information the Department

has been able to obtain in relation to any violation of or desire on the

part of Great Britain to annul the agreement entered into between that

Government and the United States in the month of April, 1817, relative

to the naval force to be maintained upon the American lakes, called for

by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th March last.

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