I recommend, therefore, that other lands be designated
by Congress for the purpose of supplying the deficiency.
JAMES MADISON.
MARCH 5, 1816.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, they
are informed that great losses having been sustained by citizens of
the United States from unjust seizures and confiscations of their
property by the late Government of Naples, it was deemed expedient
that indemnification should be claimed by a special mission for that
purpose. The occasion may be proper, also, for securing the use and
accommodations of the Neapolitan ports, which may at any time be needed
by the public ships of the United States, and for obtaining relief for
the American commerce from the disadvantageous and unequal regulations
now operating against it in that Kingdom,
JAMES MADISON.
MARCH 9, 1816.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States
according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.
JAMES MADISON.
APRIL 11, 1816.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
With a view to the more convenient arrangement of the important and
growing business connected with the grant of exclusive rights to
inventors and authors, I recommend the establishment of a distinct
office within the Department of State to be charged therewith, under a
director with a salary adequate to his services, and with the privilege
of franking communications by mail from and to the office.
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