WASHINGTON, December 17, 1835.
The VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE:
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification, a convention between the United States and the United Mexican States, concluded and signed by the plenipotentiaries of the respective parties at the City of Mexico on the 3d of April, 1835, and the object of which is to extend the time for the appointment of their commissioners and surveyors provided for by the third article of the treaty of limits between them of the 12th of January, 1835.
ANDREW JACKSON.
WASHINGTON, December 17, 1835.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
I transmit to Congress a report from the Secretary of State, accompanying copies of certain papers relating to a bequest to the United States by Mr. James Smithson, of London, for the purpose of founding "at Washington an establishment under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The Executive having no authority to take any steps for accepting the trust and obtaining the funds, the papers are communicated with a view to such measures as Congress may deem necessary.
ANDREW JACKSON.
WASHINGTON, December 22, 1835.
To the Congress of the United States: