were no means of making pecuniary satisfaction for the
risk and loss incurred in performing this humane and meritorious
service. Believing, therefore, that the obligation devolved upon the
nation, but having no funds at my disposal which I could think
constitutionally applicable to the case, I have thought honor as well as
justice required that the facts should be submitted to the consideration
of Congress, in order that they might provide not only a just indemnity
for the losses incurred, but some compensation adequate to the merits of
the service.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, _December 13, 1831_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:

I transmit herewith, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the
8th December, 1831, all the information in the possession of the
Executive relative to the capture, abduction, and imprisonment of
American citizens by the provincial authorities of New Brunswick, and
the measures which, in consequence thereof, have been adopted by the
Executive of the United States.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON CITY, _December 21, 1831_.
_To the Congress of the United States_:

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a report of the
Secretary of State, respecting tonnage duties levied at Martinique and
Guadaloupe on American vessels and on French vessels from those islands
to the United States.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON CITY, _December 21, 1831_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate_:

Since my message of the 7th instant, transmitting the award of the King
of the Netherlands, I have received the official communication, then
expected, of the determination of the British Government to abide by the
award. This communication is now respectfully laid before you for the
purpose of aiding your deliberations on the same subject.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, _December 29, 1831_.
_To the House of Representatives_:

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
19th instant, requesting the President of the United States to
communicate to it "the correspondence between the governor of Georgia
and any Department of this Government, in the years 1830 and 1831, in
relation to the boundary line between the State of Georgia and the
Territory of Florida," I transmit herewith a communication from the
Secretary of State, with copies of the papers referred to. It is proper
to add, as the resolutions on this subject from the governor and
legislature of Georgia wer