relative to the Mexican indemnity.

I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of War, containing information in regard to the claims of citizens of California for services rendered and for money and for property furnished in 1846 and 1847 in the conquest of that country.

I communicate to both Houses of Congress a report from the Department of State, containing copies of the correspondence which has taken place between that Department and the minister of the United States in Paris respecting the political…

I transmit a copy of a letter which has been addressed to me by the secretary of the Territory of Utah since my recent message to the House of Representatives in answer to its resolution requesting information in regard to the affairs of…

In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th ultimo, requesting information in regard to the Territory of Utah, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred.

I cordially commend to the consideration of Congress, with the single additional suggestion that to be available it should be promptly made.

The facts of the case will more fully appear in the accompanying papers from the Department of the Interior.

I nominate Elisha Whittlesty and Elias S. Terry to be commissioners under the seventeenth article of the treaty concluded with the Cherokee tribe of Indians at New Echota on the 29th day of December, 1835.

To the House of Representatives: As a further answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th ultimo, calling for information respecting the imprisonment, trial, and sentence of John S. Thrasher in the island of Cuba…

The reservation, including Fort Point, Point Jose, and the Presidio, at the entrance of the Harbor of San Francisco, California, made by an order dated November 6th, 1850, is hereby modified and reduced so as to embrace only the following…

Representing the necessity of an immediate appropriation by Congress of the money necessary for that purpose.

I transmit herewith a copy of a letter of the 26th instant.

In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant, requesting information in regard to the imprisonment, trial, and sentence of John S. Thrasher in the island of Cuba, I transmit a report from the Secretary of…

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, requesting the communication of a dispatch addressed to the Department of State by Mr. Niles, late charge' d'affaires of the United States at Turin, I transmit a report from the…

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, requesting information in regard to the imprisonment of John S. Thrasher at Havana, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents which accompanied it.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate a report of the Secretary of State, in answer to their resolution of the 8th of March last.

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States and the Republic of Costa Rica, signed in this city on the 10th day of July last.

The production of gold in California for the past year seems to promise a large supply of that metal from that quarter for some time to come.