FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WASHINGTON, May 29, 1856.
To the Senate of the United States:
In further answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th of January last, requesting a copy of any official correspondence not previously communicated touching the construction and purport of the convention between the United States and Great Britain of the 19th of April, 1850, I transmit a copy of an instruction of the 24th instant from the Secretary of State to the minister of the United States at London.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1856.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
I herewith communicate a letter of the 26th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, and accompanying papers, relative to the conflict of jurisdiction between the Federal and Cherokee courts and the inadequacy of protection against the intrusion of improper persons into the Cherokee country, and recommend the subject to the consideration of Congress.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1856.