ANDREW JOHNSON.

[Footnote 22:  Relating to the withdrawal of French troops from the Mexican Republic.]

WASHINGTON, March 20, 1867.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 15th instant, reports[23] from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, with accompanying papers.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

[Footnote 23:  Relating to the fees of consular agents within the districts of salaried consuls, etc.]

WASHINGTON, March 20, 1867.

To the House of Representatives: 

In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th instant, relative to the arrest, imprisonment, and treatment of American citizens in Great Britain or its Provinces, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State on the subject.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 1867.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded on the 19th of March, 1867, between the United States and the Chippewa tribe of Indians of the Mississippi.

A letter of the Secretary of the Interior and a copy of a letter of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, special commissioner, of the 20th instant, explanatory of the said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30, 1867.

To the House of Representatives: 

In giving my approval to the joint resolution providing for the expenses of carrying into full effect an act entitled “An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” I am moved to do so for the following reason:  The seventh section of the act supplementary to the act for the more efficient government of the rebel States provides that the expenses incurred under or by virtue of that act shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.  This provision is wholly unlimited as to the amount to be expended, whereas the resolution now before me limits the appropriation to $500,000.  I consider this limitation as a very necessary check against unlimited expenditure and liabilities.  Yielding to that consideration, I feel bound to approve this resolution, without modifying in any manner any objections heretofore stated against the original and supplemental acts.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

WASHINGTON, March 30, 1867.

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 His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias upon the subject of a cession of territory by the latter to the former, which treaty was this day signed in this city by the plenipotentiaries of the parties.