R.B.  HAYES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 24, 1880.

To the House of Representatives: 

I herewith transmit a communication from the Attorney-General, with reference to the requisite appropriation for the current fiscal year for the compensation, of the marshals of the United States, including their reimbursement for necessary expenditures in the discharge of their official duties.

R.B.  HAYES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 25, 1880.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I have the honor to transmit herewith a preliminary report and a draft of a bill submitted by the Public Lands Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1879.

The object of the report and of the bill accompanying it is of such importance that I respectfully commend it to the prompt and earnest consideration of Congress.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, February 27, 1880.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 27th ultimo, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with its papers, relating to the claim of Max.  Bromberger against the Government of Mexico.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, February 27, 1880.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the Government of the United States and His Highness Sultan Abdallah, King of Johanna, concerning commercial intercourse with that independent East African island, concluded at Johanna Town on the 4th day of October, 1879.

For your better understanding of the subject, I transmit also the correspondence of Commodore Shufeldt with the Navy Department, which accompanied the treaty, describing the condition and resources of the island of Johanna and narrating the progress of the negotiation, which was undertaken under the general instructions of the Department of State.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, March 1, 1880.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I deem it proper to invite the attention of Congress to the subject of the unsettled claims of Spanish inhabitants of East Florida during the years of 1812 and 1813, generally known as the “East Florida claims,” the settlement of which is provided for by a stipulation found in Article IX of the treaty of February, 1819, between the United States and Spain.  The provision of the treaty in question which relates to the subject is the following: