y, 1831.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, _April 6, 1832_.
_To the Senate_:

I nominate William P. Zantzinger, of Pennsylvania, to be a purser in the
Navy of the United States.

In submitting the above nomination it is deemed proper to give some
detail of the peculiar circumstances of the case. Mr. Zantzinger was
formerly a purser, and after a trial by a court-martial in January,
1830, was dismissed from the naval service. The record is inclosed,
marked A. In July, 1830, verbally, afterwards in writing early in 1831,
he applied for restoration to his former situation and date on the
assumed ground that the proceedings in his trial were illegal and void,
and he fortified himself by the many numerous certificates and opinions
herewith forwarded, marked B.

These have been carefully examined, and though failing to convince me of
the correctness of his position in respect to the nullity of those
proceedings, I am satisfied that under all the circumstances of the case
a mitigation of his sentence can be justified on both public and
personal grounds.

With the loss of his former date and of his pay since his dismission, I
have therefore submitted his nomination to take effect like an original
entry into the service, only from its confirmation by the Senate. There
is now one vacancy in the corps of pursers.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, _April 9, 1832_.
_To the Senate_:

In compliance with the resolution requesting the President to transmit
to the Senate "Lord Aberdeen's letter in answer to Mr. Barbour's of the
27th November, 1828, and also so much of a letter of the 22d April,
1831, from Mr. McLane to Mr. Van Buren as relates to the proposed duty
on cotton," I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State,
communicating copies of the letters referred to.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, _April 13, 1832_.
_To the Congress of the United States_:

Approving the suggestions expressed by the Secretary of State in regard
to the propriety of exempting Portuguese vessels entering the ports of
the United States from the payment of the duties on tonnage, in
consequence of a like exemption being extended to those of the United
States, I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, his
letter on the subject.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, _April 18, 1832_.
_To the Senate_:

I transmit herewith a report[14] from the Secretary of the Treasury,
containing the information called for by the resolutio