To the House of Representatives of the United States:
I transmit a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with the accompanying papers, in reference to grants of land made by acts of Congress passed in the years 1850, 1853, and 1856 to the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Louisiana, to aid in the construction of certain railroads. As these acts will expire by limitation on the 11th day of August, 1866, leaving the roads for whose benefit they were conferred in an unfinished condition, it is recommended that the time within which they may be completed be extended for a period of five years.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, April 11, 1866.
To the Senate of the United States:
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 27th ultimo, in relation to the seizure and detention at New York of the steamship Meteor, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State and the papers by which it was accompanied.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, April 13, 1866.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit herewith, for the constitutional action of the Senate, a treaty concluded with the Bois Forte band of Chippewa Indians on the 7th instant, together with the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs.