satisfaction to communicate to you. The final adjustment of those transactions has devolved upon Congress and to facilitate the investigations incident to them, I have the honor to submit various documents pertinent to the subject. Among others is an elaborate communication from Mr Triplett. To my apprehension the letter of the Secretary of State to Mr Meux dated Velasco May and marked F presents the wholematter in controversy in a very prospicuous light and is entirely consonant to the letter and spirit of the moclified contract. The amount of money realised by the commis- sioners on these loans has been fully reported and the distribution · of it is exhibited in their accounts currents now on file in the Auditors Office. The same commissioners subsequently negociated a loan in the city of New York for one hundred-thousand dollars, ten per centum of which was advanced This contract has been fully presented lo you by my special communication of the 13th instant. Should any further information be required it will afford me pleasure to render it. The ullerior transactions of those commis- sioners have consisted principally of zealous and diffused efforts to explain to the citizens of the United States the nature of the contest in which we are engaged, the causes that led to that contest, and the results that are Likely lo accrue from it. In these respects I doubt not they have rendered to Texas many many and valuable benefits, the influence of which is rather felt than discerned. They have also made repeated applications and expositions to the members of the Government .at Washington City touching the recognition of the lndependance of Texas, which will certainly enure to the benefit of our country. On the 29th May last a letter of which a copy is subjoined marked F was addressed to S. F. Austin and others apprising them of the appointments of Peter W Grayson and James-Collinsworth Esqurs to represent this Govern- ment at the city of Washington and inviting the return of these gentlemen who were there charged with similar duties. It gives me unqualified pleasure to state on this occasion that the recal of those gentlemen proceeded from motives altogether extraneous to per- sonal considerations, and that there are no citizens in the country for whom I entertain a more profound respect or in whose intelligence probity andpatriotism I repose a more implicit confi- dence. While at Harrisburgh the health of the Hon Sam P. Carson the secretary of State elected by the convention became very infirm and precarious. He consequently applied for and obtained pennis- sion to visit the United States. Knowing that Mr. Carson had been a member of the Congress of that nation and that he still retained an extensive influence there we concluded to invest him with
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