with the President's annual message on the 5th instant.]

WASHINGTON, _December 12, 1870_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I submit to the Senate, for their consideration with a view to
ratification, a convention relating to naturalization between the United
States and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, signed at Vienna on the 20th of
September, 1870, which is accompanied by the papers mentioned in the
subjoined list.

U.S. GRANT.

WASHINGTON, _December 13, 1870_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I transmit, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of June 14, 1870,
a report from the Secretary of State and the papers[34] by which it was
accompanied.

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 34: Relating to charges for messages made by the International
Ocean Telegraph Company.]

WASHINGTON, _December 15, 1870_.

_To the House of Representatives:_

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th
of April, 1869, I herewith transmit a report[35] from the Secretary of
State.

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 35: Stating that all the correspondence relative to the
condition of affairs in Paraguay believed to be required by the public
interest had been made public.]

WASHINGTON, _December 15, 1870_.

_To the House of Representatives:_

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th
of January last, I herewith transmit a report[36] from the Secretary of
State, with accompanying documents.

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 36: Stating that the claim for indemnity in the case of the
ship _Canada_, wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1865, had been referred
to the British minister as arbiter, and submitting a summary of the
case, correspondence connected with it, and a copy of the award of the
arbiter.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 19, 1870_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:_

I transmit herewith a report[37] of the Secretary of the Treasury,
made in compliance with section 2 of the act approved July n, 1870,
"making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the
Government for the year ending June 30, 1871, and for other purposes."

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 37: Transmitting reports of consular agents.]

WASHINGTON, _December 19, 1870_.

_To the House of Representatives:_

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report of the Secretary of
State and the papers[38] by which it was accompanied, in an