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Washington, _December 10, 1830_.
_To the Senate of the United States:_

I submit for the consideration of the Senate a treaty of commerce and
navigation, together with a separate and secret article, concluded at
Constantinople on the 7th day of May last, and signed by Charles Rhind,
James Biddle, and David Offley as commissioners on the part of the
United States, and by Mahommed Hamed, reis effendi, on the part of the
Sublime Porte.

The French versions herewith transmitted, and accompanied by copies and
English translations of the same, are transcripts of the original
translations from the Turkish, signed by the commissioners of the United
States and delivered to the Government of the Sublime Porte.

The paper in Turkish is the original signed by the Turkish
plenipotentiary and delivered by him to the American commissioners. Of
this a translation into the English language, and believed to be
correct, is like-wise transmitted.

ANDREW JACKSON.

Washington, _December 15, 1830_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives._

Gentlemen: From information received at the Department of State it is
ascertained that owing to unforeseen circumstances several of the
marshals have been unable to complete the enumeration of the inhabitants
of the United States within the time prescribed by the act of the 23d
March, 1830, viz, by the 1st day of the present month.

As the completion of the Fifth Census as respects several of the States
of the Union will have been defeated unless Congress, to whom the case
is submitted, shall by an act of the present session allow further time
for making the returns in question, the expediency is suggested of
allowing such an act to pass at as early a day as possible.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_December 20, 1830_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant,
calling for copies of any letters or other communications which may have
been received at the Department of War from the chiefs and headmen, or
any of them, of the Choctaw tribe of Indians since the treaty entered
into by the commissioners on the part of the United States with that
tribe of Indians at Dancing Rabbit Creek, and also for information
showing the number of Indians belonging to that tribe who have emigrated
to the country west of the Mississippi, etc., I submit herewith a report
from the Secretary of War, containing the information requested.

ANDREW JACK