f the inspectors of
the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, and beg leave to recommend
the propriety of providing by law a reasonable compensation for the
service of those officers. The act of Congress under which they were
commissioned, though it imposes upon them important duties, in the
performance of which much time and labor are necessary, is silent as to
the compensation which they ought to receive.

ANDREW JACKSON.
_February 1, 1830_.

_February 5, 1830_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:

I herewith communicate to the Senate a letter from the Secretary of War,
with the papers which accompany it, in answer to the resolution of the
Senate of the 2d February, requesting "so much of a report received from
the officer of the United States Army who had command of the detachment
for the protection of the caravan of traders to Santa Fe of New Mexico
during the last summer as may be proper to be made public and material
to be known, devising further means for the security of the inland trade
between Missouri and Mexico."

ANDREW JACKSON.

_February 12, 1830_.
_The Speaker of the House of Representatives_:

I forward to the House of Representatives, for the information and
decision of Congress, a communication to me from the Secretary of War on
the subject of the continuation of the Cumberland road.

There being but one plan of the surveys made produces the necessity of
making this communication to but one branch of the Legislature. When the
question shall be disposed of, I request that the map may be returned to
the Secretary of War.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_February 18, 1830_.
_To the House of Representatives_:

In pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th
instant, requesting information respecting the accounts of William B.
Lawrence as charge d'affaires of the United States to Great Britain, I
have the honor to communicate a report of the Secretary of State,
furnishing the desired information.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_February 20, 1830_.
_To the Senate of the United States_.

GENTLEMEN: Having seen a report from the Treasury Department, just made
to me, that General John Campbell, lately nominated Indian agent, stands
recorded as a public defaulter on the books of the Treasury, and being
unapprised of this fact when he was nominated to the Senate, I beg leave
to withdraw this nomination.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_March 1, 1830_.
_To the Senate of the United States_.