FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, January 28, 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 Grand Portage, in the Territory of Minnesota, on the 16th day of September, 1856, between Henry C. Gilbert, Indian agent, acting as commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Bois Porte bands of Chippewa Indians, by their chiefs and headmen.

The treaty is accompanied by communications from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter to him from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and a report from Agent Gilbert of the 24th December, 1856.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, January 30, 1857.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate passed December 23, 1856, requesting “any information upon the files of the Department in relation to pay and emoluments of Lieutenant-General Scott or his staff under the resolution of February 15, 1855, which may not have been communicated in Executive Document No. 56, first session Thirty-fourth Congress,” and a resolution passed December 30, requesting “a statement of all payments and allowances which have been made, and of all claims which have been disallowed, to Brevet Lieutenant-General Scott from the date when he joined the army serving in Mexico up to December 1, 1856,” and “also copies of all correspondence on file in the Executive Departments relating to said claims, payments, or allowances,” I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of War, to whom the resolutions were referred in order that the information, statements, and copies of correspondence therein required might be prepared and furnished.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, February 4, 1857.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to the resolutions of the Senate of yesterday, adopted in executive session, I transmit reports[69] from the Secretary of State, to whom they were referred.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 69:  Relating to the convention between Great Britain and Honduras respecting the island of Ruatan.]

WASHINGTON, February 4, 1857.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents,[70] in answer to the resolution of the House of December 26, 1854.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 70:  Consular returns on shipping, shipbuilding, etc., in foreign countries.]

WASHINGTON, February 9, 1857.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers,[71] in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 30th ultimo.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 71:  Relating to the proclamation of martial law in Washington Territory, etc.]