To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan, providing for the reimbursement of certain specified expenses which may be incurred by either country in consequence of the shipwreck on its coasts of the vessels of the other.
R.B. HAYES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 5, 1881.
To the Senate of the United States:
In response to the resolution of the Senate of June 21, 1879, I herewith transmit reports[42] received from the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of War.
R.B. HAYES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 10, 1881.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate, two treaties[43] signed at Peking on the 17th of November, 1880, by the commissioners plenipotentiary of the United States and China, respectively, together with a letter of the Secretary of State in relation thereto, and accompanying papers.