The report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 15th instant, herewith transmitted, shows that the sum of $58,100 5 per cent stock, created under the act of 3d March, 1843, now stands on the books of the Treasury in the name of the Secretary of the Treasury, as trustee for the Chickasaw national fund.  This stock, by the terms of its issue, is redeemable on the 1st July next, when interest thereon will cease.  It therefore becomes my duty to lay before the Senate the subject of reinvesting this amount under the same trust.

The second section of the act of 11th September, 1841 (the first section of which repeals the provisions of the act of 7th July, 1838, directing the investment of the Smithsonian fund in the stocks of the States), enacts that “all other funds held in trust by the United States, and the annual interest accruing thereon, when not otherwise required by treaty, shall in like manner be invested in stocks of the United States bearing a like rate of interest.”

I submit to the Senate whether it will advise and consent that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized, under my direction, to reinvest the above-mentioned sum of $58,100 in stocks of the United States under the same trust.

Franklin Pierce.

Washington, March 21, 1853.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 18th of January last, calling for further correspondence touching the revolution in France of December, 1851, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.

Franklin Pierce.

Executive Chamber, March 25, 1853.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I nominate Mrs. Mary Berard to be deputy postmaster at “West Point,” N.Y., the commissions for said office having exceeded $1,000 for the year ending the 30th June, 1852.  Mrs. B. has held said office since the 12th of May, 1848, under an appointment of the Post-Office Department.

Franklin Pierce.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

Executive office, March 23, 1853.

Believing that the public interests involved in the erection of the wings of the United States Capitol will be promoted by the exercise of a general supervision and control of the whole work by a skillful and competent officer of the Corps of Engineers or of the Topographical Corps, and as the officers of those corps are more immediately amenable to the Secretary of War, I hereby direct that the jurisdiction heretofore exercised over the said work by the Department of the Interior be transferred to the War Department, and request that the Secretary of War will designate to the President a suitable officer to take charge of the same.

Franklin Pierce.