I transmit to the Senate, in compliance with its resolution of the 31st ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, communicating information in relation to the action of the legislature of the State of Mississippi on the proposed fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
U.S. GRANT.
WASHINGTON, February 2, 1870.
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 8th ultimo, I transmit a report[9] from the Secretary of State and the papers which accompanied it.
U.S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 4, 1870.
To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for the consideration and action of that body in connection with a treaty of December 4, 1868, with the Seneca Nation of Indians, now pending, amendments to said treaty proposed at a council of said Indians held at their council house on the Catteraugus Reservation, in New York, on the 26th ultimo.
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior, of the 3d instant, accompanies the papers.