FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 3:  Relating to seizure and imprisonment by Spanish authorities at Puerto Rico of officers and crew of schooner North Carolina.]

WASHINGTON, January 23, 1854.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit to Congress a report of the Secretary of State, together with the set of works illustrative of the exhibition in London of 1851 to which it refers, in order that such disposal may be made of them as may be deemed advisable.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, January 25, 1854.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents,[4] in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 4:  Relating to a complimentary mission to the United States of Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, apostolic nuncio to the Empire of Brazil, for the purpose of conveying, in the name of Pope Pius IX, sentiments of regard for the President of the United States.]

WASHINGTON, February 2, 1854.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents,[5] in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 30th ultimo.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

[Footnote 5:  Correspondence with the American charge to Austria relative to the claim of Simon Tousig to the protection of the United States.]

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, February 4, 1854.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I submit to the Senate herewith, for their constitutional action thereon, a treaty negotiated on the 27th of July, 1853, by Agent Thomas Fitzpatrick, on behalf of the United States, with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians inhabiting the territory on the Arkansas River.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, February 4, 1854.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I submit to the Senate herewith, for their constitutional action thereon, two treaties, one negotiated on the 10th day of September, 1853, by Superintendent Joel Palmer and Agent Samuel H. Culver, on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the bands of the Rogue River tribe of Indians in Oregon; the other negotiated on the 19th of the same month, on behalf of the Government by the said superintendent, with the chiefs of the Crow Creek band of Umpqua Indians in said Territory.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, February 6, 1854.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State upon the subject of the resolution[6] of the House of Representatives of the 14th of December last, and recommend that the appropriation therein suggested as being necessary to enable him to comply with the resolution be made.