Rice exported, 1833................................325 Spain- Rivers.... Roads.... 49-53 ........157-250 Ministers to, since 1789.......341 Ministers to........ S. Sailmakers........ Sailing Masters........... ..... 98 96 ...368 Staff, General, of the Army- ...368 Sales, &c. of Public Lands 245,266-| 272. Salt....... ...239 Salt imported, 1833............. ............... 140 Saxe Weimar..................140] Schools, Navy.... Adjutant General's Office..... 97 .128, 139 Schools, Indian................................................170 1789......................... Secretary of State.... of Treasury Report of..............219-238 State Banks 28 95 State, Department of............ 57 Senate.-See Congress, Sicily...... ....... 40 ...327 Relations with......... .... 16 Steel, imported, 1833.. ...213 ....319 Silk manufactures imported, '33 318 Stocks owned by the U. S........237 63 Subsistence Department....106, 143 Sw Swit of the coast........205, 237/ U 48 Unfunded debt.................... s of Public Lands......262 United States Bank........ ors of the Cust ins....... 275) of. 1834.. ..... tions with..... isters to rland........ Tennessee- T .... .........299 ...128, 139 ........ 15 V Vem zuela................... 255 25 17 Senators, 23d Congress........ 40] Custom House Officers in.....288 ....... 40 Senators, 23d Congress Tonnage...... .......212 ...207 Vessels on the stocks........ ..320 .325 Tonnage, American and For- 40 Senators, 23d Congress...... ....... 122 Custom House Officers in.... 296 Tonnage of each District, 1833..328 Virginia Land Warrants........269 Eutered and cleared..........328 W Topographical Bureau......98, 143 Wabash river.................34-38 Trade withludians regulated 172-179 Secretary and Clerks.... Transfer of copy rights.......... 58 Turkey..... ........ ........ .... ..... 139 Tunis.................................................................... 12 ood, dye, imported, 1833......320 ................ ................... 1835. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. ANDREW JACKSON, of Tennessee, $25,000 per annum. The President must be thirty-five years of age, fourteen years a resident of the United States, and a natural born citizen, or a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, In case of his removal, death, or resignation, or inability, the duties of his office devolve on the Vice President: and, by act of 1st March, 1792, in case of removal, death, or resignation, or inability both of President and Vice President, the Presi dent of the Senate pro tempore, and in case there shall be no President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being is to act as President. The legal title of this officer is The President of the United States; and he is, by the Constitution, Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the service of the United States. He receives ambassadors and other public ministers; and it is his duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. He is empowered, with the advice and consent of two thirds of the Senators present, to make treaties; and, by and with the advice of a majority of the Senate, he appoints ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers established by law, whose appointments are not otherwise provided for in the Constitution, and the appointment of whom, wheu of an inferior nature, is not vested by Congress in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of Departments. He commissions all officers of the United States; and may grant reprieves and pardons, except in cases of impeachment. The compensation of the President is 25,000 dollars per annum, which cannot be increased or diminished during the term for which he is elected. His salary was fixed by act of 18th February, 1793. He, as well as the Vice President, is elected by Electors, in the respective States, who are chosen as the Legislatures of the several States may provide. According to an Act of Congress, of the 1st of March, 1792, the choice of these Electors must be made within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday of December, of the year in which an election of President and Vice President takes place: and they must be equal to the number of Senators and Representatives to which the several States may by law, be entitled at the time when the President and Vice President thus to be chosen shall come into office. Provided always, That where no apportionment of Representatives shall have been made after any enumeration, at the time of choosing electors, then the number of Electors shall be according to the existing apportionment of Senators and Representatives." No Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, can be appointed an Elector. The votes for President and Vice President are given by the Electors on the first Wednesday of December, in every fourth year, throughout the Union. The Electors meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for the President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an VOL. XIII. inhabitant of the same State with themselves They vote for President and Vice President separately, by distinct ballots. They make lists of the number of votes given, and of the persons voted for: which they transmit sealed to the seat of the General Government directed to the President of the Senate, who, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, opens all the certificates, and the votes are counted. The person having the greatest number of votes for President is duly elected if such number be a majority, of all the Electors appointed. If no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, in the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose, immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President the votes are taken by States, the Representation from each having ONE vote: a quorum for this purpose consists of a member or members from two thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States is necessary to a choice. If the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice devolves upon them, before the fourth of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The period of service is four years, but there is no restriction as to reelection. If the offices of President and Vice President should both become vacant, it then becomes the duty of the Secretary of State to communicate information thereof to the Executive of each State, and to cause the same to be published in at least one newspaper in every State, giving two months previous notice that Electors of President shall be appointed or chosen in the several States, within thirty-four days next preceding the first Wednesday in December ensuing, when the choice of President must proceed as usual. The twelfth Presidential term commenced with the twenty-third Congress, on the fourth of March, 1833, and will terminate with the twenty-fourth Congress, on the fourth of March, 1837. VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. MARTIN VAN BUREN, of New York, $5,000 per annum. The Vice President is, ex-officio, President of the Senate; and as President of the Senate, in virtue of an act of the 8th of May, 1792, one of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. His salary of 5,000 dollars per anuum, is fixed by the act of 18th February, 1793. The Vice President is not a member of the Cabinet. The ordinary duties of this officer is, to preside in the Senate of the United States. When he does not officiate in that station his place is supplied by a President of the Senate pro tempore, who is chosen from the body of Senators by ballot, and receives additional compensation for his services. The Vice President is elected in the same manner, at the same time, for the same term, and by the same Electors as the President. But if no person has a majority of the whole number of Electors, then from the two highest numbers in the list, the Senate chooses the Vice President; a quorum for this purpose consists of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole is necessary to a choice. No person, constitutionally ineligible to the office of President, is eligible to that of Vice President of the United States. MESSAGE From the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the twenty-third Congress. FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE SENATE, AND OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: In performing my duty at the opening of your present session, it gives me pleasure to congratulate you again upon the prosperous condition of our beloved country. Divine Providence has favored us with general health, with rich rewards in the fields of agriculture and in every branch of labor, and with peace to cultivate and extend the various resources which employ the virtue and enterprise of our citizens. Let us trust that, in surveying a scene so flattering to our free institutions, our joint deliberations to preserve them may be crowned with success. Our FOREIGN RELATIONS continue, with but few exceptions, to maintain the favorable aspect which they bore in my last annual message, and promise to extend those advantages which the principles that regulate our intercourse with other nations are so well calculated to secure. The question of the northeastern boundary is still pending with Great Brilain, and the proposition made in accordance with the resolution of the Senate, for the establishment of a line according to the treaty of 1783, has not been accepted by that government. Believing that every disposition is felt on both sides to adjust this perplexing question to the satisfaction of all the parties interested in it, the hope is yet indulged that it may be effected on the basis of that proposition. With the Governments of Austria, Russia, Prussia, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark, the best understanding exists. Commerce, with all, is fostered and protected by reciprocal good will, under the sanction of liberal conventional or legal provisions. In the midst of her internal difficulties, the Queen of Spain has ratified the Convention for the payment of the claims of our citizens arising since 1819. It is in the course of execution on her part, and a copy of it is now laid before you for such legislation as may be found necessary to enable those interested to derive the benefits of it. Yielding to the force of circumstances, and to the wise counsels of time and experience, that power has finally resolved no longer to occupy the unnatural position in which she stood to the new governments established in this hemisphere. I have the great satisfaction of stating to you that in preparing the way for the restoration of harmony between those who have sprung from the same ancestors, who are allied by common interests, profess the same religion, and speak the same language, the United States have been actively instrumental. Our efforts to effect this good work will be persevered in while they are deemed useful to the parties, and our entire disinterestedness continues to be felt and understood. The act of Congress to countervail the discriminating duties, levied to the prejudice of our navigation, in Cuba and Porto Rico, has been transmitted to the Minister of the United States at Madrid, to be communicated to the Government of the Queen. No intelligence of its receipt has yet reached the Department of State. If the present condi-: |