A REPRINT OF AN EXECUTIVE DOCUMENT OF THE SPECIAL SESSION
OF MARCH 4, 1857, AND OF DOCUMENT NO. 194 OF THE
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.

FEBRUARY 8, 1900.-Ordered to be printed.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1900.

LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD E INIVERSITY.

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SEP 27 1901

[Originally printed as an Executive Document, special session of March 4, 1857.]

MESSAGE

FROM THE

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

COMMUNICATING

In answer to a resolution of the 7th instant, a report of the Secretary of State, with correspondence and documents connected with the treaty concluded at London between the United States and Great Britain, the 7th [17th] day of October, 1856.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant. FRANKLIN PIERCE.

WASHINGTON, January 12, 1857.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, January 12, 1857. The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant, requesting the President, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interest, to communicate to that body, in executive session, "copies of the correspondence and documents connected with the treaty concluded at London, between the United States and Great Britain, on the 7th [17th] day of October, 1856, and communicated to the Senate with his message of the 10th of December, 1856," has the honor to lay before the President the accompanying papers.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

W. L. MARCY.

List of accompanying papers.

Mr. Marcy to Mr. Dallas, 24th May, 1856. (Copy.)
The same to the same, 26th July, 1856. (Copy.)
The same to the same, 28th July, 1856.

S. Doc. 161-1

(Copy.)