etary of State, together with the documents which contain the
information requested by the resolution of the House of the 10th of
December last, relating to the establishment at the mouth of Columbia
River.

JAMES MONROE.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, containing
one from Captain John Rodgers, president of the Naval Board, accompanied
by a description of the inclined plane, dock, and fixtures for hauling
up ships, and an estimate of the cost and materials and workmanship
necessary for the completion of a dock and wharves, proposed to be
connected with the inclined plane constructed at the navy-yard,
Washington, and recommend the same to the attentive consideration of
Congress.

It is confidently believed that this invention combines advantages so
highly useful as to justify the appropriation required.

JAMES MONROE.

JANUARY 28, 1823

FEBRUARY 3, 1823.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

Having lately received a memorial from the legislative council of the
Territory of Florida on subjects very interesting to the inhabitants of
the Territory and also to the United States, which require legislative
provision, I transmit the same to Congress and recommend it to their
consideration,

JAMES MONROE.

[The same message was addressed to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.]

WASHINGTON, _February 3, 1823_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:

I transmit herewith a resolution of the legislature, with an extract
of a letter from the governor, of Georgia, and a memorial of the
legislature of Missouri, relative to the extinguishment of the Indian
title to lands within the limits of these States, respectively.
Believing the present time to be propitious for holding treaties for the
attainment of cessions of land from the Indians within those States,
I submit the subject to the consideration of Congress, that adequate
appropriations for such treaties may be made should Congress deem it
expedient.

JAMES MONROE.

FEBRUARY 4, 1823.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the
12th of December last, requesting the President "to communicate to the
House such information as he might possess with regard to any expedition
prepared in the United States and having sailed from