[Footnote 19: Agent for the removal of the Cherokee Indians.]
WASHINGTON, _June 3, 1836_.
_To the Senate_:
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 27th ultimo,
requesting the President to inform the Senate "whether any increase or
improvement of organization is needed in the Ordnance Corps," I have
to state that I entertain no doubt of the propriety of increasing the
corps, and that I concur in the plan proposed for this purpose in the
accompanying report from the Secretary of War.