It is hereby ordered that all of that portion of the Tule River Indian Reservation in California lying within the following boundary, be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain.

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 27th of May ultimo, I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.

To the House of Representatives: I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the board for testing iron, steel, and other metals, as requested in the resolution of the House of Representatives dated April 27, 1878.

I respectfully recommend that an adequate appropriation be made for certain expenses of the conference and of the commissioners attending the same on behalf of the United States.

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 called for by the resolution.

If our assembling In this place shall fitly honor those whom we wish remembered with gratitude, it will be because, beholding these scenes and contemplating the example of the heroes who made Gettysburg illustrious, we shall be able to…

The battle of Gettysburg will probably always be regarded as the battle which did more than any other to determine the result of the great civil war in the United States.

The honored dead who fought and perished will, therefore, be held in special and grateful remembrance.

They believed that our institutions were equal to any emergency, and that they ought to be maintained at the cost of property or of life.

Let us here give heed to the words of Abraham Lincoln.

I am directed by the President to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on Thursday, the 30th instant, in respect to the memory of those who fell in defense of the Union, and to enable the employees to…

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.

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.

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…

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of April 16, 1878, I transmit herewith reports

To the House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State and its accompanying papers.

In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 14th ultimo, requesting to be furnished with a copy of correspondence between the Government of the United States and that of China respecting the 'Ward' claims and the claim of Charles E. Hill…

To the Senate of the United States:In further answer to the resolution of the Senate of December 7, 1877, as to the cost of the Sioux War, I transmit copies of additional reports on the subject received from the Military Division of the…