prospects of success, but that
propositions had recently passed between the two Governments which it
was hoped would lead to a satisfactory adjustment of that controversy.

I now transmit to the Senate, for their constitutional consideration and
advice, a convention signed at London by the plenipotentiaries of the
two Governments on the 13th of the last month, relating to this object.
A copy of the convention is at the same time sent, together with a copy
of the instructions under which it was negotiated and the correspondence
relating to it. To avoid all delay these documents are now transmitted,
consisting chiefly of original papers, the return of which is requested.

John Quincy Adams.

Washington,
_December 22, 1826_.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
12th instant, requesting information of the measures taken to carry into
effect the act of Congress of 3d March, 1825, directing a road to be
made from Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson, in the Territory of
Arkansas, I transmit a report from the Secretary of War, with a letter
from the Quartermaster-General, containing the information desired by
the resolution.

John Quincy Adams.

Washington,
_December 22, 1826_.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:

I communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the
Secretary of State, with a copy of the three articles[009] (marked A)
requested by the resolution of the House of the 19th instant. The third
of those articles relating to a subject upon which the negotiation
between the two Governments is yet open, the communication of all the
other documents relating to it is reserved to a future period, when it
may be closed.

John Quincy Adams.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary
of State, with sundry documents, containing the information requested by
two resolutions of the House of the 15th instant, relating to the
proceedings of the congress of ministers which assembled last summer at
Panama.

The occasion is taken to communicate at the same time two other
dispatches, from the minister of the United States to the Mexican
Confederation, one of which should have been communicated at the last
session of Congress but that it was then accidentally mislaid, and the
other having relat