JAMES K. POLK.
WASHINGTON, _May 12, 1846_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I herewith transmit to Congress a copy of a communication[7] from the
officer commanding the Army in Texas, with the papers which accompanied
it. They were received by the Southern mail of yesterday, some hours
after my message of that date had been transmitted, and are of a prior
date to one of the communications from the same officer which
accompanied that message.
JAMES K. POLK.
[Footnote 7: Relating to the operations of the Army near Matamoras,
Mexico.]
WASHINGTON, _May 19, 1846_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, in answer to a
resolution of the Senate of the 4th of December last, which contains the
information called for "with respect to the practicability and utility
of a fort or forts on Ship Island, on the coast of Mississippi, with a
view to the protection of said coast."
JAMES K. POLK.
WASHINGTON, _May 26, 1846_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
A convention was concluded at Lima on 17th March, 1841, between the
United States and the Republic of Peru, for the adjustment of claims
of our citizens upon that Republic.
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