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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 2, part 1: James Monroe by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
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of all these instructions, including that particularly referred to.

JAMES MONROE.



JANUARY 11, 1819.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant,
requesting me "to cause to be laid before it a statement of the
effective force composing the military establishment of the United
States; also a statement of the different posts and garrisons at and
within which troops are stationed, and the actual number of officers,
noncommissioned officers, and privates at each post and garrison,
respectively; also to designate in such statement the number of
artillerists and the number and caliber of ordnance at each of the said
posts and garrisons," I transmit a report from the Secretary of War,
which, with the documents accompanying it, contains all the information
required.

JAMES MONROE.



JANUARY 29, 1819.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:

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