R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 5:  Correspondence relative to the imposition of a differential duty of 50 cents per ton upon Spanish vessels entering ports of the United States.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 12, 1877.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 16th of October, 1877, I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement of the appropriations and expenditures by the Navy Department from the 4th of March, 1789, to June 30, 1876.

A similar statement for the War Department is being prepared as rapidly as the limited clerical force in the Treasury Department will permit, and when completed will be transmitted to the Senate.

R.B.  HAYES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 12, 1877.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 30th of October, 1877, I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement of the annual appropriations and expenditures for army and navy pensions, showing also the repayments, the amounts carried to the surplus fund, and the net expenditures under each appropriation from March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1876.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, November 14, 1877.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, I transmit herewith a report[6] from the Secretary of State.

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 6:  Stating that the information relative to the forcible rescue of two prisoners from the jail of Starr County, Tex., by an armed band of Mexicans had been transmitted by the President to the House of Representatives on the 12th instant.]

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 15, 1887.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to its resolution of the 12th instant, a report[7] from the Secretary of State.

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 7:  Relating to the indemnity paid by Spain on account of the execution of General Ryan and others at Santiago de Cuba.]

WASHINGTON, November 20, 1877.

To the House of Representatives: 

In answer to a joint resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th instant, requesting the opinions of the heads of the Departments respecting the obligatory use of the metrical system of weights and measures, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, November 27, 1877.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a declaration between the United States and the Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the reciprocal protection of the marks of manufacture and trade in the two countries, signed on the 24th of October, 1877.