U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, April 5, 1870.

To the House of Representatives:

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 28th ultimo, I transmit a report[18] from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 18:  Declining to communicate a copy of the list of privileges accompanying or relating to the San Domingo treaty while the subject is pending before the Senate in executive session.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 6, 1870.

To the House of Representatives:

In answer to your resolution of the 7th ultimo, requesting to be furnished with a copy of orders, correspondence, reports of councils with Indians by military and civil officers of the Government, in possession of the Interior and War Departments, relating to difficulties with the Cheyenne, Comanche, Arapahoe, Apache, and Kiowa tribes of Indians during the year 1867, etc., I herewith transmit the reports received from those Departments.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, April 14, 1870.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I transmit to Congress a report from the Secretary of State, relative to results of the proceedings of the joint commission at Lima under the convention between the United States and Peru of 4th of December, 1868, and recommend that an appropriation be made to discharge the obligation of the United States in the case of the claim of Esteban G. Montano, to which the report refers.

U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 20, 1870.

To the House of Representatives:

In answer to your resolution of the 21st ultimo, requesting to be informed “whether any portion of the military forces of the United States has been sent into the counties of Bourbon, Crawford, and Cherokee, in the State of Kansas, and, if so, when, what number, for what purpose, and on whose procurement; and also whether they have been required to erect there any winter quarters, forts, fortifications, or earth-works, and, if so, what, for what purpose, and at whose expense, and at what probable expense to the Government have all said acts been done,” I transmit herewith a report, dated 18th instant, from the Secretary of War, to whom the resolution was referred.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, April 26, 1870.

To the House of Representatives:

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the paper[19] which accompanied it.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 19:  Supplemental report to the Department of State by Samuel B. Ruggles, United States delegate to the International Monetary Conference at Paris, 1867.]

WASHINGTON, May 6, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States: