A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler
Presidents -- United States; Tyler, John, 1790-1862; United States -- History -- Sources; United States -- Politics and government
An argument has also been attempted to be drawn from the limits given on
Greenleaf's map to a purchase made from the State of Massachusetts by
Watkins and Flint. This purchase is, however, by the patent extended to
the highlands, and the surveyors who laid it out crossed the Walloostook
in search of them. Here they met, at a short distance from that stream,
with waters running to the north, which they conceived to be waters of
the St. Lawrence, and they terminated their survey. The lines traced on
Greenleaf's map are therefore incorrect, either as compared with the
grant or the actual survey, and although from a want of knowledge of the
country the surveyors stopped at waters running into Lake Temiscouata
instead of the St. Lawrence, the very error shows the understanding they
had of the true design of the patent, and this transaction, so far from
being an available argument against the American claim, is an act of
possession at an early date within the limits of the disputed territory.
WASHINGTON, _April 8, 1842_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with your resolution of the 31st March, 1842, I have the
honor to submit the accompanying document and report[64] from the
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
JOHN TYLER.
[Footnote 64: Relating to surveys and sales of the public lands during
1841 and 1842, etc.]
WASHINGTON, _April 9, 1842_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives a report from the
Secretary of State, with a copy of the correspondence[65] requested by
their resolution of the 7th instant.
JOHN TYLER.
[Footnote 65: With Great Britain relative to an international copyright
law.]
WASHINGTON, _April 11, 1842_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I herewith transmit a memorial[66] which I have received from the
Choctaw tribe of Indians and citizens of the State of Mississippi, with
a request that I should communicate the same to Congress. This I do not
feel myself at liberty to decline, inasmuch as I think that some action
by Congress is called for by justice to the memorialists and in
compliance with the plighted national faith.
JOHN TYLER.
[Footnote 66: Relating to an alleged violation by the United States of
the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.]
WASHINGTON, _April 12, 1842_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In further compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 2d of
February last, requesting information touching the demarcation of the
boundary line between the United States and the Republic of Texas,
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the accompanying
documents.
JOHN TYLER.
WASHINGTON, _April 13, 1842_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 24th of July last,
I communicate to that body a report from the Secretary of State,
conveying copies of the correspondence[67] which contains the
information called for by that resolution.
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