SPECIAL MESSAGES.
Washington, December 6, 1831.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, for their advice with regard to its ratification, a treaty between the United States and France, signed at Paris by the plenipotentiaries of the two Governments on the 4th of July, 1831.
With the treaty are also transmitted the dispatch which accompanied it, and two others on the same subject received since.
ANDREW JACKSON.
December 7, 1831.
Gentlemen of the Senate:
In my public message to both Houses of Congress I communicated the state in which I had found the controverted claims of Great Britain and the United States in relation to our northern and eastern boundary, and the measures which since my coming into office I had pursued to bring it to a close, together with the fact that on the 10th day of January last the sovereign arbiter had delivered his opinion to the plenipotentiaries of the United States and Great Britain.
I now transmit to you that opinion for your consideration, that you may determine whether you will advise submission to the opinion delivered by the sovereign arbiter and consent to its execution.