SPECIAL MESSAGES.
WASHINGTON, December 14, 1846.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice with regard to its ratification, a convention for the mutual surrender of criminals between the United States and the Swiss Confederation, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries on the 15th of September last at Paris.
I transmit also a copy of a dispatch from the plenipotentiary of the United States, with the accompanying documents.
JAMES K. POLK.
WASHINGTON, December 22, 1846.
To the House of Representatives of the United States:
In compliance with the request contained in the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant, I communicate herewith reports from the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, with the documents which accompany them.
These documents contain all the "orders or instructions" to any military, naval, or other officer of the Government "in relation to the establishment or organization of civil government in any portion of the territory of Mexico which has or might be taken possession of by the Army or Navy of the United States."