y Adams.

Washington,
_March 3, 1828_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 3d of January last,
requesting the communication of information in my possession relative to
alleged aggression on the rights of citizens of the United States by
persons claiming authority under the government of the Province of New
Brunswick, I communicate a report from the Secretary of State, with a
copy of that of the special agent mentioned in my message at the
commencement of the present session of Congress as having been sent to
visit the spot where the cause of complaint had occurred to ascertain
the state of the facts, and the result of whose inquiries I then
promised to communicate to Congress when it should be received.

The Senate are requested to receive this communication as the
fulfillment of that engagement; and in making it I deem it proper to
notice with just acknowledgment the liberality with which the minister
of His Britannic Majesty residing here and the government of the
Province of New Brunswick have furnished the agent of the United States
with every facility for the attainment of the information which it was
the object of his mission to procure.

Considering the exercise of exclusive territorial jurisdiction upon the
grounds in controversy by the government of New Brunswick in the arrest
and imprisonment of John Baker as incompatible with the mutual
understanding existing between the Governments of the United States and
of Great Britain on this subject, a demand has been addressed to the
provincial authorities through the minister of Great Britain for the
release of that individual from prison, and of indemnity to him for his
detention'. In doing this it has not been intended to maintain the
regularity of his own proceedings or of those with whom he was
associated, to which they were not authorized by any sovereign authority
of this country.

The documents appended to the report of the agent being original papers
belonging to the files of the Department of State, a return of them is
requested when the Senate shall have no further use for them.

John Quincy Adams.

Washington,
_March 7, 1828_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

The resolution of the Senate of the 28th ultimo, requesting me to cause
to be laid before the Senate all papers which might be in the Department
of War relating to the treaty concluded at the Butte des Morts,