With full reliance upon the wisdom and patriotism of your deliberations,
it, will be my duty, as it will be my anxious desire, to cooperate with
you in every constitutional effort to promote the welfare and maintain
the honor of our common country.
JAMES K. POLK.
SPECIAL MESSAGES.
WASHINGTON, _December 14, 1846_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice with regard
to its ratification, a convention for the mutual surrender of criminals
between the United States and the Swiss Confederation, signed by their
respective plenipotentiaries on the 15th of September last at Paris.
I transmit also a copy of a dispatch from the plenipotentiary of the
United States, with the accompanying documents.
JAMES K. POLK.
WASHINGTON, _December 22, 1846_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
In compliance with the request contained in the resolution of the House
of Representatives of the 15th instant, I communicate herewith reports
from the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, with the
documents which accompany them.
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