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MONROE, JAMES. President . Letter signed ("James Monroe") as President, "TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES," Washington, D.C., 2 March 1821. 1 page, 4to, 232 x 191 mm. (9 1/8 x 7½ in.), tipped to another sheet, otherwise fine. MONROE TRANSMITS AN INDIAN TREATY TO CONGRESS "I communicate to the two Houses of Congress copies of a treaty, this day duly ratified on the part of the United States, concluded and signed at the Indian Springs on the 8th of January last, with the Creek Nation of Indians, -- in order to such legislative measures as may be necessary for giving effect to it." During Monroe's tenure, the removal of Indians continued in the wake of the Creek Wars, in which Andrew Jackson very successfully negotiated treaties with the Indians on behalf of the U.S. government, often obtaining huge tracts of land. His treaties with the Creeks won some 23,000,000 acres of land for the United States in restitution for attacks on white settlements. .