Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, the 30th day of March, A.D. 1867, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-first.
By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, _Secretary of State_.
[The following messages were sent to the special session of the Senate.]
I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 20th instant, a report[24] from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.
[Footnote 24: Relating to the exequatur of the consul of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg residing at New York.]
I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 10th instant, calling for information relative to prisoners of war taken by belligerents in the Mexican Republic, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 28th of January last, requesting certain information in regard to governors, secretaries, and judges of Territories, I transmit herewith reports[25] from the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Attorney-General.
[Footnote 25: Relating to the absence of Territorial officers from their posts of duty.]
I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 13th instant, a report[26] from the Secretary of State.
[Footnote 26: Relating to the absence of Governor Alexander Cumming from the Territory of Colorado since his appointment as governor.]
I transmit herewith reports from the heads of the several Executive Departments, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, requesting "copies of any official opinions which may have been given by the Attorney-General, the Solicitor of the Treasury, or by any other officer of the Government on the interpretation of the act of Congress regulating the tenure of office, and especially with regard to appointments by the President during the recess of Congress."
[The following messages were sent to the Fortieth Congress, first session.]
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention for commercial reciprocity between the United States and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, which convention was signed by the plenipotentiaries of the parties in the city of San Francisco on the 21st day of May last.