To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of War, inclosing a report of Captain M.C. Meigs, stating that the sum of $750,000 will be necessary for the prosecution of the Capitol extension until the close of the next session of Congress, and recommend that that amount may be appropriated.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WASHINGTON, August 15, 1856.
To the House of Representatives:
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 4th instant, requesting a copy of letters and papers touching the pardons or remission of the imprisonment of Daniel Drayton and Edward Sayres in August, 1852, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WASHINGTON, August 15, 1856.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, in relation to an error in a communication[62] of Captain Meigs.