U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., January 21, 1870.

To the House of Representatives:

In answer to the resolution passed by the House of Representatives on the 17th instant, requesting to be informed “under what act of Congress or by other authority appropriations for the Navy are diverted to the survey of the Isthmus of Darien,” I transmit a report by the Secretary of the Navy, to whom the resolution was referred.

U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., January 29, 1870.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I herewith transmit to Congress a report, dated 29th instant, with the accompanying papers,[8] received from the Secretary of State, in compliance with the requirements of the eighteenth section of the act entitled “An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States,” approved August 18, 1856.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 8:  Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of the United States for 1868, and tariff of consular fees.]

WASHINGTON, February 1, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit to the Senate, in compliance with its resolution of the 31st ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, communicating information in relation to the action of the legislature of the State of Mississippi on the proposed fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, February 2, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 8th ultimo, I transmit a report[9] from the Secretary of State and the papers which accompanied it.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 9:  Relating to the insurrection in the Red River settlement, in British North America.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 4, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

I herewith lay before the Senate, for the consideration and action of that body in connection with a treaty of December 4, 1868, with the Seneca Nation of Indians, now pending, amendments to said treaty proposed at a council of said Indians held at their council house on the Catteraugus Reservation, in New York, on the 26th ultimo.

A letter of the Secretary of the Interior, of the 3d instant, accompanies the papers.

U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 4, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

For the reasons stated in the accompanying communication from the Secretary of the Interior, I respectfully request to withdraw the treaties hereinafter mentioned, which are now pending before the Senate: 

First.  Treaty concluded with the Great and Little Osages May 27, 1868.

Second.  Treaty concluded with the Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri and
Iowa tribes of Indians February 11, 1869.