For the purpose of acquainting the Senate with the nature and amount of those demands and with the course of the negotiation, I also communicate a copy of such parts of the correspondence of the agents of the two Governments as relate thereto. JOHN TYLER. WASHINGTON, _January 17, 1842_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, relative to the proceedings and final decision of the commissioners under the convention with the Republic of Texas upon the subject of the boundary between the United States and that Republic. JOHN TYLER. [The same message was sent to the House of Representatives.] WASHINGTON, _January 18, 1842_. _To the House of Representatives_: I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to the resolution of the 14th instant, a report[16] from the Secretary of State and the papers by which it was accompanied. JOHN TYLER. [Footnote 16: Relating to American citizens captured near Santa Fe, Mexico, by the Mexican army.] WASHINGTON, _January 19, 1842_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit to the Senate herewith a report[17] from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in answer to their resolution of the 11th instant. JOHN TYLER. [Footnote 17: Transmitting correspondence relative to the action of the authorities of Nassau, New Providence, in the imprisonment of slaves charged with mutiny and murder, the refusal to surrender them to the United States consul for trial in the United States, and the liberation of slaves, all of said slaves being a part of the cargo of the United States brig _Creole_.] JANUARY 27, 1842. _To the House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith a report[18] of the Secretary of War, in answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th August, 1841. JOHN TYLER. [Footnote 18: Relating to the origin of the Seminole war, slaves captured during said war by United States troops, etc.] WASHINGTON, _February 5, 1842_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith to the Senate copies of a report and letter from the commissioners appointed by the President for the exploration and survey of the boundary line between the States of Maine and New Hampshire and the conterminous British Provinces, showing the progress made in that work during the past season, and submitting an estimate, to which I invite the attention of Congress, of the funds that will be requisite for completing the surveys yet to be made on the boundary, and the office work consequent thereon, and for completing the maps of surveys already made. JOHN TYLER. [The same message was sent to the House of Representatives.] NEW YORK, _January 4, 1842_. Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER, _Secretary of State_: