R.B.  HAYES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 8, 1879.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, the report of the commission appointed under the provisions of the act approved May 3, 1878, entitled “An act authorizing the President of the United States to make certain negotiations with the Ute Indians in the State of Colorado,” with copies of letters from the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying documents.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 15, 1879.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith report from the Secretary of State, and accompanying papers, in relation to proceedings of the International Prison Congress of Stockholm, held in August last.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 18, 1879.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, dated the 17th instant, in relation to the destruction of the bark Forest Belle in Chinese waters in March last, submitted in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of February 4, 1879.

R.B.  HAYES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 21, 1879.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

Referring to my communication to Congress under date of the 8th instant, transmitting the report of the commission appointed under the act entitled “An act authorizing the President of the United States to make certain negotiations with the Ute Indians in the State of Colorado,” I submit herewith a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Interior and additional papers upon the same subject.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, February 28, 1879.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with its accompanying papers, submitted in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, in relation to railroads in Mexico.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, March 3, 1879.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I have received from the United States Centennial Commission their final report, presenting a full exhibit of the result of the United States Centennial Celebration and Exhibition of 1876, as required by the act of June 1, 1872.

In transmitting this report for the consideration of Congress, I express, I believe, the general judgment of the country, as well as my own, in assigning to this exhibition a measure of success gratifying to the pride and patriotism of our people and full of promise to the great industrial and commercial interests of the nation.  The very ample and generous contributions which the foreign nations made to the splendor and