d to judge of the obligation as well as
the expediency of submitting to or rejecting the decision of the
arbiter, I herewith transmit--

1. A protest made by the minister plenipotentiary of the United States
after receiving the opinion of the King of the Netherlands, on which
paper it may be necessary to remark that I had always determined,
whatever might have been the result of the examination by the sovereign
arbiter, to have submitted the same to the Senate for their advice
before I executed or rejected it. Therefore no instructions were given
to the ministers to do any act that should commit the Government as to
the course it might deem proper to pursue on a full consideration of all
the circumstances of the case.

2. The dispatches from our minister at The Hague accompanying the
protest, as well as those previous and subsequent thereto, in relation
to the subject of the submission.

3. Communications between the Department of State and the governor of
the State of Maine in relation to this subject.

4. Correspondence between the charge d'affaires of His Britannic Majesty
and the Department of State in relation to the arrest of certain persons
at Madawasca under the authority of the British Government at New
Brunswick.

It is proper to add that in addition to the evidence derived from Mr.
Treble's dispatches of the inclination of the British Government to
abide by the award, assurances to the same effect have been uniformly
made to our minister at London, and that an official communication on
that subject may very soon be expected.

ANDREW JACKSON.

Washington City, _December 7, 1831_.
_To the Congress of the United States_:

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, two letters from
the Secretary of State, accompanied by statements from that Department
showing the progress which has been made in taking the Fifth Census of
the inhabitants of the United States, and also by a printed copy of the
revision of the statements heretofore transmitted to Congress of all
former enumerations of the population of the United States and their
Territories.

ANDREW JACKSON.

Washington, _December 13, 1831_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:

The accompanying papers show the situation of extreme peril from which
more than sixty of our fellow-citizens have been rescued by the courage
and humanity of the master and crew of a Spanish brig. As no property
was saved, there