_To the Senate_: I transmit to the Senate, for its constitutional action, a treaty made with the Chippewa Indians of Saganaw on the 20th of December, 1837. M. VAN BUREN. WASHINGTON, _January 26, 1838_. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: I herewith communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents, in answer to their resolution of the 9th instant. M. VAN BUREN. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, _WASHINGTON, January 25, 1838_. The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred a resolution of the House of Representatives, dated the 9th instant, requesting the President to communicate to that body "what measures, if any, have been taken by the Executive for the release of Mr. Greely, a citizen of Maine, now imprisoned in the provincial jail of New Brunswick at Frederickton for an alleged violation of the jurisdiction of said Province over the territory claimed by the British Government; and also to communicate any correspondence which the executive department may have had with the British Government or the executive of Maine upon the subject of said Greely's imprisonment, so far as a communication of the same may be deemed by him not incompatible with the public interest;" and likewise requesting the President, if not incompatible with the public interests, to communicate to that House "any correspondence or communication held between the Government of the United States and that of Great Britain at different times respecting the wardenship, occupation, or actual possession of that part of the territory of the State of Maine which is claimed by Great Britain," has the honor to report to the President the accompanying documents, which embrace the information and correspondence not heretofore published by Congress called for by the above-cited resolution. Respectfully submitted, JOHN FORSYTH. _The governor of Maine to the President of the United States_. STATE OF MAINE, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, _September 18, 1837_. His Excellency MARTIN VAN BUREN, _President of the United States_. SIR: I lose no time in advising Your Excellency that Ebenezer S. Greely, esq., a citizen of this State, while employed within its limits and under its authority in taking an enumeration of the inhabitants of the county of Penobscot residing north of the surveyed and located townships, has been arrested a second time by the provincial authorities of New Brunswick, and is now in confinement in the jail of Frederickton. It becomes my duty to request that prompt measures be adopted by the Government of the United States to effect the release of Mr. Greely. I have the honor to be, etc., ROBERT P. DUNLAP. _Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Dunlap_. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, _Washington, September 26, 1837_. His Excellency ROBERT P. DUNLAP, _Governor of Maine_.