SIR: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 3d instant, calling for information in regard to the examinations of inventions designed to prevent the calamities resulting from the explosion of steam boilers, directed by the acts of Congress of the 28th of June and the 9th of July last.
M. VAN BUREN.
WASHINGTON, January 10, 1839.
To the House of Representatives:
I communicate to the House of Representatives, in compliance with its resolution of the 3d instant, reports[43] from the Secretaries of State and War, containing all the information called for by said resolution now in possession of the Executive.
M. VAN BUREN.
WASHINGTON, January 11, 1839.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of yesterday's date, calling for information respecting the agreement between him and the United States Bank of Pennsylvania on the subject of the sale or payment of certain bonds of that institution held by the United States, and respecting the disposition made of the proceeds thereof.
M. VAN BUREN.