ANDREW JACKSON.

[Footnote 6: Of ship channel of Penobscot River from Whitehead to
Bangor, Me.]

_March 27, 1830_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_.

GENTLEMEN: I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a letter of
the Secretary of the Navy, accompanying the reports of Lieutenants
Tattnall and Gedney, who were detailed to make a survey of the Dry
Tortugas, and beg leave to call your attention to the importance of the
position to the United States as a naval station. I also respectfully
recommend that the appropriation necessary to make a scientific
examination of its capacities for defense may be granted.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_March 31, 1830_.
_To the House of Representatives_.

GENTLEMEN: I respectfully submit to your consideration the accompanying
report from the War Department, exhibiting the state of the
fortifications at Pea Patch Island and the necessity of further
appropriations for the security of that site. The report specifies the
improvements deemed proper, and the estimate of their cost.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_April 2, 1830_.
_To the House of Representatives_.

GENTLEMEN: In compliance with a resolution of the House of the 22nd
ultimo, "requesting the President of the United States to communicate to
it any correspondence or information in possession of the Government,
and which, in his judgment, the public service will admit of being
communicated, touching intrusions, or alleged intrusions, on lands the
possession of which is claimed by the Cherokee tribe of Indians, the
number of intrusions, if any, and the reasons why they have not been
removed; and also any correspondence or information touching outrages
alleged to have been committed by Cherokee Indians on citizens of
Georgia occupying lands to which the Indian claim has not been
extinguished, or by citizens of Georgia on Cherokee Indians," I transmit
herewith a report from the Secretary of War, containing the information
required.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_April 6, 1830_.
_To the Senate of the United States_.

GENTLEMEN: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th
instant, requesting the President of the United States to transmit to
the Senate any record or other information in the Department of War or
before the President respecting the conviction of Wharton Rector of any
crime in Missouri before his departure for Arkansas, or touching his
fitness for the office to which he has been nom