EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., January 21, 1870.
To the House of Representatives:
In answer to the resolution passed by the House of Representatives on the 17th instant, requesting to be informed "under what act of Congress or by other authority appropriations for the Navy are diverted to the survey of the Isthmus of Darien," I transmit a report by the Secretary of the Navy, to whom the resolution was referred.
U.S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., January 29, 1870.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I herewith transmit to Congress a report, dated 29th instant, with the accompanying papers,[8] received from the Secretary of State, in compliance with the requirements of the eighteenth section of the act entitled "An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States," approved August 18, 1856.
U.S. GRANT.
WASHINGTON, February 1, 1870.
To the Senate of the United States: