No time will be lost in communicating to the House the answers of the governors of the States of South Carolina and Virginia to the inquiries stated by the Secretary of State to have been recently addressed to them when they are received at that Department.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, February 6, 1818.
To the Senate of the United States:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th of February, 1817, I now transmit copies of the reports in relation to the surveys and examinations made by naval officers in cooperation with officers of the Corps of Engineers.
JAMES MONROE.
WASHINGTON, February 12, 1818.
To the House of Representatives of the United States:
Conformably with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th of this month, I now lay before that House a report received from the Secretary of State, with the copy of the correspondence[142] referred to and requested by that resolution.
JAMES MONROE.