FRANKLIN PIERCE.

SPECIAL MESSAGES.

WASHINGTON, December 2, 1856.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report[63] from the Secretary of State, in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th of August last.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 63:  Stating that the correspondence in the Departments of State and of the Navy relative to Hamet Caramally had been transmitted to Congress.]

WASHINGTON, December 8, 1856.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and Siam, concluded at Bangkok on the 29th day of May last.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, December 10, 1856.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty for the settlement of the questions which have come into discussion between the United States and Great Britain relative to Central America, concluded and signed at London on the 17th day of October last between the United States and Great Britain.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, December 12, 1856.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit a copy of a letter of the 20th of May last from the commissioner of the United States in China, and of the decree and regulations[64] which accompanied it, for such revision thereof as Congress may deem expedient, pursuant to the sixth section of the act approved 11th August, 1848.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 64:  For judicial jurisdiction by acting consuls or vice-consuls of the United States in China.]

WASHINGTON, December 15, 1856.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit to Congress an extract from a letter of the 22d ultimo from the governor of the Territory of Kansas to the Secretary of State, with a copy of the executive minutes[65] to which it refers.  These documents have been received since the date of my message at the opening of the present session.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 65:  Containing a history of Kansas affairs.]

WASHINGTON, December 29, 1856.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with, a resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, requesting the President “to communicate to the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interest, such information as he may have concerning the present condition and prospects of a proposed plan for connecting by submarine wires the magnetic telegraph lines on this continent and Europe,” I transmit the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.