R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 16:  Relating to the defalcations of William R. Whitaker while collector of internal revenue for the first district of Louisiana and while assistant treasurer of the United States at New Orleans.]

WASHINGTON, May 10, 1878.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention defining the rights, immunities, and privileges of consular officers, between the United States and His Majesty the King of Italy, signed on the 8th instant.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, May 14, 1878.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 29th ultimo, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with its accompanying papers.[17]

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 17:  Correspondence relative to the terms and conditions under which the Cuban insurgents surrendered and to the policy of Spain in the government of Cuba.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 17, 1878.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I herewith transmit, for your appropriate action, a communication from the Secretary of State, on the subject of the result of the deliberations of the Fishery Commission appointed under certain provisions of the treaty of Washington, with the accompanying documents.

Article XXII of the treaty provides that any sum of money which the commissioners may award shall be paid by the United States Government in a gross sum within twelve months after such award shall have been given.

The commission announced the result of its deliberations on the 23d day of November last year, and an appropriation at the present session of Congress will be necessary to enable the Government to make the payment provided for in the treaty.

I respectfully submit to the consideration of Congress the record of the transaction as presented upon the papers, and recommend an appropriation of the necessary sum, with such discretion to the executive government in regard to its payment as in the wisdom of Congress the public interests may seem to require.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, May 25, 1878.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to its ratification, a consular convention between the United States and the Netherlands, signed on the 23d instant.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, June 11, 1878.

To the House of Representatives: 

In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th May ultimo, I transmit the response of the Secretary of State, accompanied by a copy of the papers[18] called for by the resolution.

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 18:  Relating to the convention of May 20, 1875, for the establishment of an international bureau of weights and measures.]