In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 22d instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, together with the copy of a communication from Francis W. Rice,[45] therein referred to.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 45:  Late United States consul at Acapulco, relative to outrages committed upon him by authorities of Mexico.]

WASHINGTON, February 26, 1855.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, requesting the President “to communicate to the Senate a copy of the order issued by the Navy Department to the officer in command of the Home Squadron in pursuance of which the United States sloop of war Albany was ordered on her last cruise to Carthagena and Aspinwall, etc.; also of the orders given by such officer to Commander Gerry to proceed upon such cruise, and also of any reports or letters from the captain of the Albany on the necessity of repairs to said vessel.”

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, February 27, 1855.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit to Congress herewith a communication of this date from the Secretary of the Interior, and recommend that the appropriation[46] therein asked for be made.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 46:  For surveying public lands in the northern part of Minnesota Territory acquired from the Chippewa Indians.]

WASHINGTON, February 27, 1855.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I communicate herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a letter of this date from the Secretary of the Interior, and accompanying paper, recommending certain appropriations[47] on account of the Indian service.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 47:  For running the boundary line between the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations of Indians and for negotiations with the Menominee Indians.]

WASHINGTON, February 27, 1855.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I communicate to the Senate herewith, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty made in this city on the 22d instant between the United States and the Mississippi, the Pillager, and the Lake Winnibigoshish bands of Chippewa Indians.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, February 28, 1855.

To the Senate of the United States: 

For eminent services in the late war with Mexico, I nominate Major-General Winfield Scott, of the Army of the United States, to be lieutenant-general by brevet in the same, to take rank as such from March 29, 1847, the day on which the United States forces under his command captured Vera Cruz and the castle of San Juan de Ulua.