Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.
Robert C. Schenck, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain.
Samuel Nelson, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Ebenezer R. Hoar, of Massachusetts.
George H. Williams, of Oregon.
I communicate herewith the correspondence which has passed on this subject between the Secretary of State and the British minister.
U.S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 10, 1871.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I submit herewith, for the information of Congress, the second annual report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior.