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Rice exported, 1834...... .367 Spain........................ 131, 136 16 153, 157 Specific duties.............240--244 152, 162 Sperm Candles esporterl, 1834, 364 132, 138 Spices importedl, 1834...........363 131, -136 Spirits imported, 1834..... ...363 From France, 1821--1834.....384 95 ....416 Staff, General, of the Army- Engineer Department......... 94 ..133 Ordnance Office ......... 95 ......132, 138 Quartermaster's Department 96 .....132, 137 Purchasing Department...... 103 ..104 ....196, 416 Pay Department........ . 104 .172 ...105 131 Staff, Military Academy........405 72 Standing Coinmittees, Senate.. 56 75 House of Representatives.... 57 ..57.59 90 State Bauks....... ....31- 33 .106 Secretary and Clerks......... 72 60 Navigation of each, 1834.....369 ......174 Staves exported, 1834...........365 .......44, 61 Steam Batteries recommended.. 141 Steam Engines.... .,199 m 1 Steel imported, 1834... ..361 95 ...418 Froin France, 1821--1834.. ..384 Sub Agents, Indian)..... ...177 ....363 72 of Light Houses .........307.-312 Surgeon General's Office .......105 Novy.. 411 ... ..... 90 ....133 Surveyors of Public Lands......2841 ...................343 Uruguay... V .....274 Valve of Foreign Exports, 1790, ..273 Value of Imports, 1833--1835...271 Mail Contractors in ....... .240 Vermont- Expenditures on..............388 Mail Contractors in..........229 ...362 Custom House Officers in...,317 Clearind, 1831....369--374 Built, 1833...........374 Vessels of War of the U. S.....420. .203 40 ..372 Visiters, Military Academy ,...187 Report of....... ..,182 .373 w French, 1821. 1834.:383 Prquisition Bureau.......... 91: 92 92 .77, 10% .345 136 hlehrne exporied, 1834 .....364. From France, 1821--1834....384! ...133 Wool, importert, 1834..........361 .18, 132 Wool, manufactures of, importe ..361, 380 91 ....133 1836. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Tue 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 bis 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 President 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 Uniled Slates; and he is, by the Constitution, Commander-in-chief of the Ariny 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 em. powered, with the advice and consent of two-thirds of ihe Senators present, to make treaties; and, by and with the advice of a majority of the Senate, he appoints ainhassadors, other public ministers, and counsuls, 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, when of an inferior mature, is vot 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 muy by law, be entitled at the time when the President and Vice Presi. dent thus to be chosen shall come into office. Provided aliays, That were 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 Setrator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, cau 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 l'resident and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an VOL. XIV. inhabitant of the same State with themselves. They vote for President and Vice President separately, by distinct ballois. 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 a ppointed. If no person bave such majorily, 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 Sia les 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 the published in at least one newspaper in every State, giving (wo 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 tern: cominenced with the wenty-third Congress, on the fourth of March, 1833, and will terminale 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 Sevate ; and as President of the Senate, in virtue of an act of the 8th of May, 1792, one of the commissioners of the sinking rund. His salary of 5,000 dollars per annum, is fixed by the act of 18th of 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, land 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 Thighest numbers in the list, the Senate chooses the Vice Presidenti 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 Uniled Slales, to the luo Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the twenty fourth Congress. FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE SENATIC, AND OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES : In the discharge of my official duty, the task again devolves upon nie of communicating with a new Congress. The reflection that the repre. sentatiou of the Union has been recently renewed, and that the constitutional term of its service will expire with my own, heightens the solici. tude with which I shall attempt to lay before it the state of our national) concerns, and the devout hope which I cherish, that its labors to improve Thein may be crowned with success. You are assembled at a perio:1 of profound interest to the American patriot. The unexa inpled growth and prosperity of our country, having given us a rank in the scale of nations which removes all apprehension of danger to our integrity and independence from external foes, the career of freedom is before us, with an earnest from the past, that, if true to ourselves, there can be no formidable obstacle in the future, to its peaceful and uninterrup:ed pursuit. Yet, in proportion to the disappearance of those apprehensions which attended our weakness, ás once contrasted with the power of some of the States of the old world, sbould we now be solicitous as to those which belong to the conviction, that it is to our own conduct we must look for the preservation of those causes, on which depend the excellence and the duration of our happy system of Government. In the example of other systems, founded on the will of the people, we trace to internal dissension the influences which have so often blasted the hopes of the friends of freedom. The social elements, which were strong and successful when united against external danger, failed in the more difficult task of properly adjusting their own internal organization, and thus gave way the great principle of self-government. Let us trust that this adınonition will never be forgotten by the Government or the People of the United States, and that the testimony which our experience thus far bolds out to the great human family, of the practicability and the blessings of free goveroment, will be confirmed in all time to como. We have but to look at the state of our Agricullüre, Manufactures, and Commerce, and the unexanıpled increase of our populalion, 10 feel the magnitude of the trust committed to us. Never in any former period of our history have we had greater reason than we now have, to be thankful to Divine Providence for the blessings of health and general prosperity. Every branch of labor we see crowned with the most abue. dant rewards: in every element of national resources and wealth, and of individual comfort, we witness the most rapid and solid improvements. With no interruptions to this pleasing prospect at home, which will not yield to the spirit of harmony and good will that so strikingly pervades the mass of the people in every quarter, amidst all the diversity of interest and pursuits to which they are attached : and with no cause of soli. citude in regard to our external affairs, which will not, it is boped, disappear before the principles of simple justice and the forbearance that |