I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 3d of March last, calling for a comparative statement of the condition of the public defenses, of all the preparations and means of defense, and of the actual and authorized strength of the Army on the 1st of January, 1829, and the 1st of January, 1841. JOHN TYLER. WASHINGTON, _December 7, 1841_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith a report from the War Department, in compliance with so much of the resolution of the Senate of March 3, 1841, respecting the military and naval defenses of the country, as relates to the defenses under the superintendence of that Department. JOHN TYLER. WASHINGTON, _December 8, 1841_. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 4th of September last, requesting information touching the relations between the United States and the Republic of Texas, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred. JOHN TYLER. WASHINGTON, _December 8, 1841_. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, exhibiting certain transfers of appropriations which have been made in that Department in pursuance of the power vested in the President of the United States by the act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1809, entitled "An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments." JOHN TYLER. WASHINGTON, _December 29, 1841_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I herewith transmit to the Senate a report[15] from the Secretary of State, in answer to their resolution of the 27th instant. JOHN TYLER. [Footnote 15: Stating that no proposition has been made by either the United States or Great Britain relative to the mutual right of search.] WASHINGTON, _January 4, 1842_. _To the House of Representatives of the United States_: I herewith communicate a report and statement from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 19th of June, 1841, requesting the aggregate amount of each description of persons within the several districts of the United States by counties and principal towns. JOHN TYLER. WASHINGTON, _January 10, 1842_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States and the Republic of Peru, signed at Lima on the 17th of March last, providing for the adjustment and satisfaction of certain claims of citizens of the United States against the Government of that Republic.