U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 12:  Piegan in Montana.]

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

To the House of Representatives:

I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 7th instant, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.[13]

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 13:  Correspondence relative to affairs connected with Cuba and to the struggle for independence in that island.]

WASHINGTON, February 23, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 14th instant, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.[14]

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 14:  Correspondence of the United States minister to Japan relative to American interests in that country.]

WASHINGTON, February 24, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 21st instant, directing the Secretary of State to furnish the Senate with copies of all correspondence relating to the imprisonment of Mr. Davis Hatch by the Dominican Government, I transmit a report of the Secretary of State upon the subject.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, February 28, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, requesting to be informed “if any officer of the Government has, contrary to the treaty of July 19, 1866, with the Cherokee Nation, enforced or sought to enforce the payment of taxes by Cherokees on products manufactured in the Cherokee Nation and sold within the Indian Territory,” I transmit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom the resolution was referred.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, February 28, 1870.

To the House of Representatives:

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State upon the subject,[15] and the papers by which it was accompanied.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 15:  Imprisonment of American citizens in Great Britain for political offenses.]

WASHINGTON, March 1, 1870.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I transmit to Congress a communication from the Secretary of State, with the accompanying documents, relative to the claims of citizens of the United States on the Government of Venezuela which were adjusted by the commission provided for by the convention with that Republic of April 25, 1866.

U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., March 3, 1870.

To the House of Representatives:

I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the House asking for information in relation to the repairs of Spanish war vessels at the docks of the United States, the report of the Secretary of the Navy, to whom the resolution was referred.