WASHINGTON, March 20, 1844.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, with documents, containing the information[113] requested by their resolution of the 23d ultimo.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 113:  Relating to the interpretation of the tenth article of the treaty of August 9, 1842, between the United States and Great Britain.]

WASHINGTON, March 20, 1844.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives a copy of the convention concluded on the 17th day of March, 1841, between the United States and the Republic of Peru, which has been duly ratified and of which the ratifications have been exchanged.

The communication of this treaty is now made to the end that suitable measures may be adopted to give effect to the first article thereof, which provides for the distribution among the claimants of the sum of $300,000, thereby stipulated to be paid.

JOHN TYLER.

[The same message was sent to the Senate.]

WASHINGTON CITY, March 26, 1844.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith copies of the report and papers[114] referred to in a resolution of the Senate of the 20th of February last.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 114:  Relating to the survey of the harbor of St. Louis.]

WASHINGTON, March 26, 1844.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I submit for the consideration of Congress the accompanying communication from A. Pageot, minister plenipotentiary ad interim of the King of the French, upon the subject of the tonnage duties levied on French vessels coming into the ports of the United States from the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, and proposing to place our commercial intercourse with those islands upon the same footing as now exists with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, as regulated by the acts of the 9th of May, 1828, and of the 13th of July, 1832.  No reason is perceived for the discrimination recognized by the existing law, and none why the provisions of the acts of Congress referred to should not be extended to the commerce of the islands in question.

JOHN TYLER.

WASHINGTON, March 27, 1844.

To the Senate: 

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom I had referred the resolution of the Senate of the 27th December last, showing that the information[115] called for by that resolution can not be furnished from authentic data.

JOHN TYLER.

[Footnote 115:  Statement of the expenditures of the Government each year from its organization up to the present period, and when and for what purpose these expenditures were made.]

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 9, 1844.