Since the adjournment of the last session of Congress, other errors of a kind similar to those which this resolution was designed to correct, have been discovered in the law, and it is now thought most expedient to include all the necessary corrections in one act or resolution.

The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose.

Abraham Lincoln.

TO GENERAL U. S. GRANT.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, January 5, 1865.

Lieutenant-general grant, City Point, Va.: 

Richard T. Jacob, Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky, is at the Spotswood House, in Richmond, under an order of General Burbridge not to return to Kentucky.  Please communicate leave to him to pass our lines, and come to me here at Washington.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL GRANT.

Executive Mansion,

Washington, January 6, 1865, lieutenant-general grant, City Point: 

If there is a man at City Point by the name of Waterman Thornton who is in trouble about desertion, please have his case briefly stated to me and do not let him be executed meantime.

A. Lincoln.

MESSAGE TO CONGRESS,

Washington, January 9, 1865.

To the Senate and house of representatives:  I transmit to Congress a copy of two treaties between the United States and Belgium, for the extinguishment of the Scheldt dues, etc., concluded on the twentieth of May, 1863, and twentieth of July, 1863, respectively, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Brussels on the twenty-fourth of June last; and I recommend an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions thereof relative to the payment of the proportion of the United States toward the capitalization of the said dues.

Abraham Lincoln.

TO SCHUYLER COLFAX.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, January 9, 1865.

Hon.  Schuyler Colfax,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Sir:—­I transmit herewith the letter of the Secretary of War, with accompanying report of the Adjutant-General, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives, dated December 7, 1864, requesting me “to communicate to the House the report made by Col.  Thomas M. Key of an interview between himself and General Howell Cobb on the fourteenth [15th] day of June, 1862, on the banks of the Chickahominy, on the subject of the exchange of prisoners of war.”