To the House of Representatives: 

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 4th of December last, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with its accompanying papers.[23]

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 23:  Correspondence relative to commercial relations with Mexico.]

WASHINGTON, January 13, 1879.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 3d of June last, requesting a copy of correspondence between this Government and that of Her Britannic Majesty in regard to inviting other maritime powers to accede to the three rules of neutrality laid down in Article VI of the treaty of May 8, 1871, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, together with its accompanying papers.

R.B.  HAYES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 20, 1879.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 17th of June last, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to send to the Senate certain reports on sheep husbandry, copies of the same, with accompanying papers, received from the Commissioner of Agriculture for this purpose, are herewith transmitted.

R.B.  HAYES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 20, 1879.

To the House of Representatives: 

In answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th instant, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to forward to the House any facts or statistics in his office on the subject of forestry not heretofore reported, copies of the same, with accompanying papers, received from the Commissioner for this purpose, are herewith transmitted.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 23, 1879.

To the House of Representatives: 

In answer to a resolution of the 25th of May last, requesting information respecting the claim of Messrs. Carlos Butterfield & Co. against the Government of Denmark, I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives a report of the Secretary of State and its accompanying papers.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, January 24, 1879.

To the House of Representatives: 

In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th instant, I transmit herewith a report[24] from the Secretary of State, with its accompanying papers.

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 24:  Relating to the claim of John C. Landreau against the Government of Peru.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 24, 1879.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, copies of a report and accompanying papers received from the Secretary of the Interior, upon a communication addressed to the President of the United States in behalf of a certain claim of the Choctaw Nation arising under the provisions of the Choctaw and Chickasaw treaty of June 22, 1855.