EXECUTIVE ORDER.
Washington, August 6, 1831.
Acting Secretary of War.
Sir: You will, after the receipt of this, report to the President for dismissal every clerk in your office who shall avail himself of the benefit of the insolvent debtors' act for debts contracted during my Administration.
Very respectfully, ANDREW JACKSON.
(The same order was addressed to the Secretary of the Navy.)
THIRD ANNUAL MESSAGE.
December 6, 1831.
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives:
The representation of the people has been renewed for the twenty-second time since the Constitution they formed has been in force. For near half a century the Chief Magistrates who have been successively chosen have made their annual communications of the state of the nation to its representatives. Generally these communications have been of the most gratifying nature, testifying an advance in all the improvements of social and all the securities of political life. But frequently and justly as you have been called on to be grateful for the bounties of Providence, at few periods have they been more abundantly or extensively bestowed than at the present; rarely, if ever, have we had greater reason to congratulate each other on the continued and increasing prosperity of our beloved country.