Year.  Imports.  Exports.
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  Cuba and Porto Rico 1869 L3,228,292 L1,374,242
  French possessions in America 1868 4,252 3,002
  Danish West Indies 1868 295,102 9,211
  Dutch West Indies and Guiana 1868 148,882 4,444
  Hayti and San Domingo 1868 220,806 6,043
  Sandwich Islands 1868 33,336 917
  Mexico 1868 350,664 92,077
  Central American States 1868 939,827 173,611
  Colombia 1869 971,396 2,500,039
  Peru 1869 2,734,784 1,180,931
  Chile 1869 3,211,174 1,596,905
  Argentine Republic 1869 1,034,445 1,841,953
  Uruguay 1869 535,015 1,009,425
  Brazil 1869 7,754,526 5,477,439
  Venezuela 1868 69,997 10,452
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WASHINGTON, July 14, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States and His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, relative to the citizenship of natives of the one country who may emigrate to the other.  A protocol on the subject is also herewith transmitted.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, July 14, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit, for consideration with a view to its ratification, a convention between the United States and the Republic of Salvador for the surrender of fugitive criminals, signed at San Salvador on the 23d day of May last.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 1870.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

Your attention is respectfully called to the necessity of passing an Indian appropriation bill before the members of Congress separate.  Without such appropriation Indian hostilities are sure to ensue, and with them suffering, loss of life, and expenditures vast as compared with the amount asked for.

The latest intelligence from Europe indicates the imminence of a war between France and North Germany.  In view of this a sound policy indicates the importance of some legislation tending to enlarge the commercial marine of this country.  The vessels of this country at the present time are insufficient to meet the demand which the existence of a war in Europe will impose upon the commerce of the United States, and I submit to the consideration of Congress that the interests of the country will be advanced by the opportunity afforded to our citizens to purchase vessels of foreign construction for the foreign trade of the country.  An act to this effect may be limited in its duration to meet the immediate exigency.