FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, January 6, 1857.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers,[66] in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 66:  Relating to the refusal of the minister to the United States from the Netherlands to testify before the criminal court of the District of Columbia.]

WASHINGTON, January 12, 1857.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th August, 1856, and 9th January instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, together with the documents[67] therein referred to.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 67:  Relating to the claims of certain American citizens for losses consequent upon their expulsion by Venezuelan authorities from one of the Aves Islands, while collecting guano.]

WASHINGTON, January 12, 1857.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I again transmit to the Senate, for its advice and consent with a view to ratification, the convention between the United States and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, for the mutual delivery of criminals fugitives from justice in certain cases, and for other purposes, which was concluded at The Hague on the 29th day of May, 1856.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, January 12, 1857.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers,[68] in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 68:  Correspondence and documents connected with the treaty concluded at London between the United States and Great Britain October 17, 1856, relative to Central America.]

WASHINGTON, January 12, 1857.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: 

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d ultimo, in relation to information with regard to expenditures and liabilities for persons called into the service of the United States in the Territory of Kansas, I transmit the accompanying report of the Secretary of War.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, January 13, 1857.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States and the Republic of Peru relative to the rights of neutrals at sea, signed at Lima by the plenipotentiaries of the parties on the 22d of July last.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, January 16, 1857.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I communicate to the Senate herewith, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty made and concluded at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, on the 16th day of December, 1856, between Indian Agent Benjamin F. Robinson, commissioner on the part of the United States, the principal men of the Christian Indians, and Gottleib F. Oehler, on behalf of the board of elders of the northern diocese of the Church of the United Brethren in the United States of America.