By the President of the United States of America Meress, yoke Bud to her of the set of Congress of the Sveter "Ister qe sdo thirteenth of July, one Shirtly to entitled, franish visuels L next for their meeting at the city of Washington, hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress in order to receive such communications as may then be made to them and to consult and determine on such measures as in their wisdom may be deemed meet for the welfare of the United States. In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand. [SEAL.] Done at the city of Washington, the 15th day of May, A. D. 1837, and of the Independence of the United States the sixtyfirst. By the President: MARTIN VAN BUREN. JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF The United STATES OF America. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas by the third section of the act of Congress of the United States of the 13th of July, 1832, entitled "An act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels," it is provided that whenever the President shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of tonnage levied by any foreign nation on the ships or vessels of the United States shall have been abolished he may direct that the tonnage duty on the vessels of such nation shall cease to be levied in the ports of the United States; and Whereas satisfactory evidence has lately been received from His Majesty the King of Greece that the discriminating duties of tonnage levied by said nation on the ships or vessels of the United States have been abolished: Now, therefore, I, Martin Van Buren, President of the United States, do hereby declare and proclaim that the tonnage duty on the vessels of the Kingdom of Greece shall from this date cease to be levied in the ports of the United States. Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the 14th day of June, A. D. 1837, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-first. By the President: JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. M. VAN BUREN. EXECUTIVE ORDER. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, March 7, 1837. GENERAL ORDER No. 6. I. The Major-General Commanding in Chief has received from the War Department the following order: WASHINGTON, March 6, 1837. General Andrew Jackson, ex-President of the United States, being about to depart from this city for his home in Tennessee, and the state of his health rendering it important that he should be accompanied by a medical attendant, the President directs that the Surgeon-General of the Army accompany the ex-President to Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, there to be relieved, in case the ex-President's health shall be such as to allow it, by some officer of the Medical Department, who will attend the ex-President from that place to his residence. In giving this order the President feels assured that this mark of attention to the venerable soldier, patriot, and statesman now retiring in infirm health from the cares of office to the repose of private life will be as grateful to the feelings of the American people as it appears to the President to be suitable in itself. M. VAN BUREN. The Major-General Commanding in Chief will carry into effect the foregoing directions of the President of the United States. B. F. BUTLER, Secretary of War ad interim. II. Pursuant to the above order, Surgeon-General Lawson will immediately join the ex-President, and will accompany him as his medical attendant to Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, and, at his discretion, to the residence of the ex-President, at the Hermitage, near Nashville, in the State of Tennessee. III. Assistant Surgeon Reynolds will join the ex-President at Wheeling, Va., and from that place, either alone or in conjunction with the Surgeon-General, as the latter may direct, will proceed with the ex-President to his residence in Tennessee. IV. The officers above named, on the conclusion of the duties above assigned to them, will repair to their respective stations. By order of Alexander Macomb, Major-General Commanding in Chief: R. JONES, Adjutant-General. |