1.  An act of the legislative assembly of that Territory, passed February 1, 1851, entitled “An act to provide for the selection of places for the location and erection of public buildings of the Territory of Oregon.”

2.  Governor Gaines’s message to the legislative assembly of the 3d February, 1851.

3.  The opinion of the Attorney-General of the United States of 23d April, in regard to the act of the legislative assembly of the 1st February, 1851.

4.  The opinion of the supreme court of Oregon, pronounced on the 9th December, 1851.

5.  A letter of Judge Pratt of the 15th December, 1851, dissenting from that opinion.

6.  Governor Gaines’s letter to the President of the 1st January, 1852.

7.  Report of the Attorney-General of the United States on that letter, dated 22d March, 1852.

If it should be the sense of Congress that the seat of government of Oregon has not already been established by the local authorities pursuant to the law of the United States for the organization of that Territory, or, if so established, should be deemed objectionable, in order to appease the strife upon the subject which seems to have arisen in that Territory I recommend that the seat of government be either permanently or temporarily ordained by act of Congress, and that that body should in the same manner express its approval or disapproval of such laws as may have been enacted in the Territory at the place alleged to be its seat of government, and which may be so enacted until intelligence of the decision of Congress shall reach there.

MILLARD FILLMORE.

WASHINGTON, May 1, 1852.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice with regard to its ratification, a convention between the United States and the Free and Hanseatic Republics of Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck, signed in this city by their respective plenipotentiaries on the 30th day of April, A.D. 1852, for the mutual extension of the jurisdiction of consuls.  A copy of a note from the special plenipotentiary of Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck accompanies the convention.

MILLARD FILLMORE.

WASHINGTON, May 5, 1852.

To the Senate of the United States: 

On the 3d of March, 1849, a general convention of peace, amity, commerce, and navigation between the United States and the Republic of Guatemala, by Elijah Hise, the charge d’affaires of the United States to that Republic, on the part of this Government, and by Senor Don Jose Mariano Rodriguez, minister for foreign affairs, on the part of the Government of Guatemala.  This convention was approved by the Senate on the 24th of September, 1850, and by a resolution of the 27th of that month that body authorized the ratification of this Government to be exchanged for the ratification of the Government of Guatemala at any time prior to the 1st of April, 1851.  I accordingly