Millard Fillmore: “I herewith communicate to the Senate, for its consideration, a convention for the adjustment of certain claims of…”

It is deemed advisable by the Department that our diplomatic relations with the States of Central America should be placed on a higher and more efficient footing.

I deemed it advisable to issue, relative to an extraordinary session of the Senate on the 4th of March next.

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a consular convention concluded in this city on the 23d instant between the United States and His Majesty the Emperor of the French.

Although it is stipulated by the terms of the first article of the convention that the commissioner on the part of this Government shall be appointed by the President of the United States, it is not understood that this stipulation was…