and custom h o uses. ,If ships laden with val- proportion of the hardens of alt necessary and ee ee e car goes, approach the shore or sail a- useful irnprok , l einents. And as nothing cou d long the coast, light houses are aeceesary , at contribute irioi.e to the health, comfort, and ~ _ ta bl e po i n t s f or the protenilon 0. life and safety ofthee city, and the security of the p " ropel ty. Other facilities and securities for public -buildings and records, than an abuti commerce and navigation, are !hardly less dant ,eupply of pure water, I respectfully rec important •, sea those clauses of the C,oestite- ommerid that you make such provisions for tett, therefore, to which' have referred, l ilave o btaining) the same as in your wisdom you , m i re d from the origin of the Govern meet - may itleene proper. lib era l and beneficial_ construction. , The ec passed at your late session, ma -1 int only ,have lighthouses, buoys, and king cert. in propositions to Texas fur settling 5 l es ,:the dispu ed boundary between the State and beacons been established, and floating bare been e l, re e !;the Territ ry of New. Mexico, was immedis rie untsined, but harborsl 61E 4 unproved, piers constructed, and e en diately ort its passage, transmitted by express be et for the safety of shippilig, a d to the Governor of Texas), to be laid by him se a walls to protect harbors from being ti led 1 before the General Assembly for its agree , up, and rendered useless, by the• actiotr of I meat thereto. Its receipt. was duly ackuowl the ocean, have been erected at very ge'eat ) edged, hat no official information has yet expense. And this construction of the (len. 1 beeu received of the action of the General stitution appears the more reasonable from Assembly 'thereon : it may, however, be very t e e c onsideration, that if these works, of I soon expected, as, by theiterms of the prop sue'l LT bent importance and unity, are not to 1 a4itions sulenaitted, they were to have been 1 ,, , • 1 lished by Congress they cannot be i acted upon, on or before the first day of the ii,--Japastied at all. 'BY 'the adoption of the presets month. C c -et:mon the several States voluntarily i It was .hardly to have been expected that iee ted w ith th e , power of collecting dutiee of , the series of measures passed at your last le , et in their own ports ; and it - is not toy be sessioq with the view of healing the sectional H ee'eted that they should raise money, by ixiitferences whic'a had sprung from the sla -ti, taxation, direct or indirect, for the "very and territorial questu!tus, should at once tf. h"tit of that commerce, the revenues tie. 1 hat e realized their beniticent purpose. All nied from which do not, either in whole or 'mutual concession, in the nature of dcompro , I part, go iuto their own treasuries. I mise must necessarily be Unwelcome to men Nor Jo I perceive any difference between lof extreme opinions. And thoogh without the power of Congress to make appropria- i such concessions out. Constitution could not, :.ere for objects of this kind on the ocean and ' have been formed and cannot be permanent :: t ower to make appropriations for similar i ly sustained, yet we have seen them made the tiets on lakes and rivers, wherever they are , subject of bitter controversy in both sections ire_ enough to bear on their waters an es . lof the Republic. It reeuireil many months ot • tell: se traffic. The magnificent Mississippi the'tx''°" "tld d'"l'bertut°"' to secure the eon - NAti is tributaries, and the vast lakes of the , curl, nee of a ma j ority of (unotees in their oe, and the Northwest, appear to me to tutor, it e Le. le te.• suange if they had been .. e 'thin the exercise of the power, as justly .7 'vexes ed N% ail immediate approbation le pee .es, d as clearly as the Ocean and the Gulf , el, I'l,e and States prejudiced and heated by the M, e co. It is a mistake to regard expendet exceoug contiosereiee of thigh i(ipresentaties. • --feludiciously made for these objects •as I 1 hetteve these measures to have been re