Footnotes
1 Report of the Government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad relative to an injunction issued by Judge Barnard, of the supreme court of the city of New York, restraining and prohibiting an election of officers or directors on the day directed by the law of December 20, 1867.
2 Correspondence with the United states minister and the secretary of legation at Madrid.
3 Regarding the policy to be pursued to avert civil war, then threatening, which correspondence led to the resignation of Mr. Cass.
4 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments.
5 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments.
6 Relating to the revolution in Cuba and the political and civil condition of that island.
7 Stating that neither correspondence nor negotiation upon the subject of trade and commerce between the United States and Canada had been entered into.
8 Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of the United States for 1868, and tariff of consular fees.
9 Relating to the insurrection in the Red River settlement, in British North America.
10 Relating to the payment in currency, instead of coin, of the semiannual installments of interest due to the United States under the convention with Spain concluded February 17, 1834, and opinion of the Attorney-General relative thereto.
11 Lists of officers commissioned by the Department of State, their compensation, etc.
12 Piegan in Montana.
13 Correspondence relative to affairs connected with Cuba and to the struggle for independence in that island.
14 Correspondence of the United States minister to Japan relative to American interests in that country.
15 Imprisonment of American citizens in Great Britain for political offenses.
16 Relating to legislation necessary to insure the administration of justice and the protection of American interests in China and Japan.
17 Statement of the number and character of the ironclad vessels of the Navy, their cost, by whom designed, who recommended their construction, and their condition.
18 Declining to communicate a copy of the list of privileges accompanying or relating to the San Domingo treaty while the subject is pending before the Senate in executive session.
19 Supplemental report to the Department of State by Samuel B. Ruggles, United States delegate to the International Monetary Conference at Paris, 1867.
20 Dispatches of J. Somers Smith, commercial agent of the United States at San Domingo, relative to the imprisonment of Davis Hatch by the Dominican Government.
21 Relating to the claims of United States citizens against Venezuela.
22 Dispatch from Henry T. Blow, United States minister to Brazil, relative to the commercial interests of the United States with South America.
23 Communication from George Bancroft, United States minister at Berlin, relative to political questions in Germany.
24 Stating that he has received no official information relative to a reported persecution and massacre of Israelites in Roumania.
25 Lists of American vessels seized by Spanish authorities in Cuba; of American citizens executed and imprisoned in Cuba; of American citizens whose property was confiscated or embargoed in Cuba, and of decrees under which the Spanish authorities acted, and correspondence showing steps taken by the United States Government in reference thereto.
26 Instructions to the minister to Spain stating the basis on which the United States offered its good offices for the purpose of terminating the war in Cuba, correspondence relative thereto, etc.
27 Correspondence between the United States and Great Britain concerning questions pending between the two countries.
28 Relating to the importation of Chinese coolies into the United States.
29 See pp. 86-89.
30 See pp. 89-92.
31 Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of the United States for 1868, and tariff of consular fees prescribed by the President October 1, 1870.
32 Stating that the correspondence relative to the arrest and detention of American fishing vessels in the Straits of Canso by armed vessels flying the British flag had been communicated to Congress with the President's annual message on the 5th instant.
33 Stating that the correspondence with the United States minister at Paris relative to the Franco-Prussian war had been communicated with the President's annual message on the 5th instant.
34 Relating to charges for messages made by the International Ocean Telegraph Company.
35 Stating that all the correspondence relative to the condition of affairs in Paraguay believed to be required by the public interest had been made public.
36 Stating that the claim for indemnity in the case of the ship Canada, wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1865, had been referred to the British minister as arbiter, and submitting a summary of the case, correspondence connected with it, and a copy of the award of the arbiter.
37 Transmitting reports of consular agents.
38 Relating to the seizure at Port Hood, Nova Scotia, by a Canadian revenue cutter, of the schooner Granada, of Provincetown, Mass.
39 Correspondence relative to public documents or libraries in the care of legations of the United States.
40 The last correspondence with Mr. Motley, including telegraphic dispatches, etc., relative to his recall as minister to the Court of St. James.
41 Correspondence, etc., in 1844 and 1845 relative to the resources and condition of the Dominican Republic.
42 Correspondence from the United States legation at Constantinople relative to restrictions on the passage of the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus by the ships of other nations.
43 Dispatches, etc., from the United States minister to the Court of Brazil relative to the Paraguayan war, the culture of cotton in Brazil, trade with Brazil, etc.
44 Reports, communications, etc., relative to the International Statistical Congress held at The Hague in 1869.
45 Dispatches from the United States minister at Florence relative to the occupation of Rome by the King of Italy.
46 Relating to claims of the subjects of foreign nations growing out of the War of the Rebellion.
47 Relating to claims under the treaty of Washington of May 8 1871.
48 See pp. 134-135.
49 See pp. 135-136.
50 See pp. 136-138.
51 Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of the United States for 1870, and tariff of consular fees prescribed by the President October 1, 1870.
52 Correspondence relative to the retirement of Constantin de Catacazy, minister from Russia to the United States.
53 Omitted.
54 Seized by British authorities at the Falkland Islands in 1854.
55 Correspondence relative to the seizure and detention of the American steamers Hero, Dudley Buck, Nutrias, and San Fernando, property of the Venezuela Steam Transportation Company, and the virtual imprisonment of the officers of those vessels.
56 Relative to the number of consular and commercial agents of the United States abroad who speak or write the language of the country in which their districts are situated.
57 Stating that there are no papers in the Department of State to show that the inhabitants of the Navigators Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, have made application to have the protection of the United States extended over said islands.
58 Transmitting a translation of the Spanish royal decree of July 6, 1860, prescribing regulations for the introduction of Chinese laborers into Cuba, and translation of a decree of Count Valmaseda, Captain-General of Cuba, of December 13, 1871, relative to the decree of July 6, 1860.
59 Selected to publish the laws of the United States for the second session of the Forty-second Congress.
60 Correspondence relative to the imprisonment by Spanish authorities of Dr. J.R. Houard, a citizen of the United States, charged with complicity in the insurrection in Cuba.
61 Stating that the report of Richard D. Cutts on the marketable products of the sea was transmitted with the message of President Johnson of February 17, 1869.
62 Presented to the board of arbitration at Geneva.
63 Presented to the board of arbitration at Geneva.
64 Correspondence relative to the claim of the owners of the steamer Aroostook for compensation for the use of that vessel in searching for bodies and property lost in the United States steamer Oneida, wrecked in the Bay of Yedo in 1870.
65 Relating to acts of United States marshals and deputy marshals in that portion of the western district of Arkansas comprising the Indian country.
66 See pp. 15-16.
67 See p. 19.
68 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.
69 Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of the United States for 1871, and tariff of consular fees.
70 Stating that the correspondence relative to the existence of slavery on the coast of Africa and to the action taken by Great Britain and other countries for its suppression was transmitted with the annual message of the President on the 2d instant.
71 De B. Randolph Keim.
72 De B. Randolph Keim.
73 Claim against Russia for illegal arrest and imprisonment.
74 Report of the United States commissioner to the International Penitentiary Congress of London, and appendix containing summary of proceedings of the National Prison Congress of Baltimore.
75 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.
76 Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of the United States for 1872, list of consular officers and their official residences, and tariff of consular fees.
77 Correspondence relative to the refusal of the United States consul at Cadiz, Spain, to certify invoices of wine shipped from that port, etc.
78 Report of John M. Thacher, United States delegate to the International Patent Congress held at Vienna in August, 1873, and exhibits.
79 Relating to the involuntary deportation to the United States of foreign convicts, paupers, idiots, insane persons, etc., and transmitting correspondence relative thereto.
80 Report of the United States delegates to the eighth session of the International Statistical Congress, held at St. Petersburg, Russia, in August, 1872, and appendix.
81 Omitted.
82 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.
83 Omitted.
84 See pp. 273-276.
85 See pp. 277-281.
86 See pp. 276-277.
87 Dispatches in regard to the records and public documents of the Mexican Government relative to the lands embraced within the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico.
88 Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of the United States for 1873, list of consular officers, and tariff of consular fees prescribed by the President September 1, 1874.
89 Asking all the rights of citizenship.
90 See pp. 276-277.
91 See pp. 275-277.
92 Pocket veto. This message was written in the President's room at the Capitol, but failed to reach the House of Representatives before the final adjournment of Congress. The original is filed at the Executive Mansion.
93 "An act to equalize the bounties of soldiers who served in the late war for the Union."
94 Of commerce and navigation.
95 Stating that the question of indemnity demanded from Spain for the execution or detention of a portion of the crew of the steamer Virginius and for the execution of passengers, citizens of the United States, had been disposed of by an agreement between the two countries, and transmitting correspondence connected therewith.
96 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc,
97 See pp. 324-325.
98 Correspondence with Spain relative to Cuba.
99 Stating that no correspondence had taken place during the year 1875 with any European Government other than Spain relative to Cuba.
100 Calling for correspondence with any government or its representatives relative to the centennial celebration to be held in Philadelphia.
101 Correspondence relative to the mode of transferring to the United States the Alabama indemnity of $15,500,000, and correspondence and papers showing the payment of the indemnity, the form of receipt given therefor, and the disposition of the indemnity.
102 Calling for information or facts relative to the charges against George F. Seward, United States minister to China.
103 Explanatory of the object, intent, and character of the power conferred upon A.B. Steinberger, special agent to the Samoan or Navigators Islands, and transmitting correspondence relative to the object, operation, and result of his agency.
104 Course pursued to enforce the provisions of the convention with Venezuela of April 25, 1866, and the payment of adjudicated claims under act approved February 25, 1873.
105 Relating to amount of money in the custody of the Department of State to the credit of the awards of the mixed commission under the treaty with Venezuela of April 25, 1866.
106 Relating to the steps taken for the protection of American citizens in the Ottoman dominions.
107 The refusal of Great Britain to surrender certain fugitive criminals in accordance with the extradition clause of the treaty of August 9, 1842.
108 Relating to claims before and judgments rendered by the Alabama Claims Commission arising from captures by the rebel cruiser Shenandoah.
109 Relating to hostile demonstrations of the Sioux Indians and the disaster to the forces under General Custer.
110 Stating that no correspondence has taken place with Great Britain relative to the sequestration of the lands and property in New Zealand claimed by William Webster, an American citizen.
111 Aggregate number of civil officers in or connected with the Department of State from 1859 to 1875, inclusive.
112 Omitted.
113 Omitted.
114 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.
115 See pp. 390-391.
116 See pp. 394-395.
117 See pp. 392-394.
118 Correspondence relative to the Venezuelan mixed commission held under the convention of April 25, 1866, for the settlement of claims against Venezuela.
119 See pp. 396-397.
120 Correspondence with diplomatic officers of the United States in Turkey relative to atrocities and massacres by Turks in Bulgaria.
121 Preliminary and final reports of J. Hubley Ashton, agent of the United States before the United States and Mexican Claims Commission.
122 Statements of appropriations and expenditures of the Department of State from March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1876, inclusive.
123 Correspondence, etc., connected with the agency of A.B. Steinberger in the Samoan Islands.
124 Directing the Secretary of State to transmit any communication demanding the payment of moneys claimed to be due the Dominican Government from the United States.