_To the Senate of the United States_:
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 21st January last,
I transmit a report[21] of the Secretary of War, containing the copies
called for so far as relates to his Department.
ANDREW JACKSON.
[Footnote 21: Relating to frauds in sales of public lands or Indian
reservations.]
VETO MESSAGE.
WASHINGTON, _June 9, 1836_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
The act of Congress "to appoint a day for the annual meeting of
Congress," which originated in the Senate, has not received my
signature. The power of Congress to fix by law a day for the regular
annual meeting of Congress is undoubted, but the concluding part of
this act, which is intended to fix the adjournment of every succeeding
Congress to the second Monday in May after the commencement of the first
session, does not appear to me in accordance with the provisions of the
Constitution of the United States.
The Constitution provides, Article I, section 5, that--
Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the
consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any
other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
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