U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., December 20, 1869.

To the Senate of the United States:

I hereby request the return of such part of my message of December 9, in response to Senate resolution of December 6, requesting the reports of the military commander of the district of which Georgia is a part, to wit, an anonymous letter purporting to be from “a Georgia woman.”  By accident the paper got with those called for by the resolution, instead of in the wastebasket, where it was intended it should go.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, December 20, 1869.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit to the Senate, in relation to their resolution of the 8th instant, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.[6]

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 6:  Relating to the revolution in Cuba and the political and civil condition of that island.]

WASHINGTON, December 22, 1869.

To the Senate:

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, in relation to correspondence between the United States and Great Britain concerning questions pending between the two countries since the rejection of the claims convention by the Senate, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State upon the subject and the papers by which it was accompanied.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, December 22, 1869.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 8th instant, a report[7] from the Secretary of State.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 7:  Stating that neither correspondence nor negotiation upon the subject of trade and commerce between the United States and Canada had been entered into.]

WASHINGTON, January 10, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to its ratification, a convention between the United States and the Dominican Republic for a lease to the former of the bay and peninsula of Samana.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, January 10, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to its ratification, a treaty for the annexation of the Dominican Republic to the United States, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the parties on the 29th of November last.

U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., January 10, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

In response to the resolution of the Senate of December 9, 1869, requesting the information in possession of the President or any of the Departments relating to the action which has been had in the District of Virginia under the act “authorizing the submission of the constitutions of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas to a vote of the people, and authorizing the election of State officers provided by the said constitutions, and Members of Congress,” approved April 10, 1869, I have the honor to transmit herewith the reports of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney-General, to whom, severally, the resolution was referred.