FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, May 29, 1856.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In further answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th of January last, requesting a copy of any official correspondence not previously communicated touching the construction and purport of the convention between the United States and Great Britain of the 19th of April, 1850, I transmit a copy of an instruction of the 24th instant from the Secretary of State to the minister of the United States at London.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, June 3, 1856.

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

I herewith communicate a letter of the 26th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, and accompanying papers, relative to the conflict of jurisdiction between the Federal and Cherokee courts and the inadequacy of protection against the intrusion of improper persons into the Cherokee country, and recommend the subject to the consideration of Congress.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, June 3, 1856.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit a report[59] from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th ultimo.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 59:  Stating that no information relative to the action of the leading powers of Europe on the subject of privateering has been officially communicated by any foreign government.]

WASHINGTON, June 4, 1856.

To the House of Representatives: 

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th of last month, requesting information in regard to a contemplated imposition of additional duties on American leaf tobacco by the Zollverein or Commercial Union of the German States, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, June 13, 1856.

To the House of Representatives: 

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 18th of February last, requesting me to communicate to the House “the report of Captain E.B.  Boutwell, and all the documents accompanying it, relative to the operations of the United States sloop of war John Adams, under his command, at the Fejee Islands in the year 1855,” I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of the Navy.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, June 18, 1856.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents,[60] in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 16th instant.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 60:  Instructions to Mr Buchanan, late minister to England, on the subject of free ships making free goods, and letter from Mr. Buchanan to Lord Clarendon on the same subject.]