swer to its
resolution of the 7th instant.

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 38: Relating to the seizure at Port Hood, Nova Scotia, by a
Canadian revenue cutter, of the schooner _Granada_, of Provincetown,
Mass.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 4, 1871_.

_To the House of Representatives:_

I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their
resolution of the 12th of December, 1870, a report from the Secretary of
State, with accompanying documents.[39]

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 39: Correspondence relative to public documents or libraries
in the care of legations of the United States.]

WASHINGTON, _January 9, 1871_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 5th
instant, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying
documents.[40]

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 40: The last correspondence with Mr. Motley, including
telegraphic dispatches, etc., relative to his recall as minister to the
Court of St. James.]

WASHINGTON, _January 9, 1871_.

_To the House of Representatives:_

I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their
resolution of the 5th instant, a report from the Secretary of State,
with the accompanying documents.[41]

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 41: Correspondence, etc., in 1844 and 1845 relative to the
resources and condition of the Dominican Republic.]

WASHINGTON, D.C., _January 9, 1871_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I transmit, for consideration with a view to its ratification, a treaty
of amity, commerce, and consular privileges between the United States
and the Republic of Salvador, signed at the city of San Salvador on the
6th of December last.

A copy of the official correspondence relating to the instrument is also
herewith transmitted.

U.S. GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 11, 1871_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

In view of a proclamation having been published in newspapers of the
United States purporting to emanate from Cabral, a chieftain who opposed
the constitutional authorities of the Republic of San Domingo, I deem it
but just to communicate to the Senate of the United States the views of
that chieftain and his followers, as voluntarily communicated by him
through the United States minister to the Republic of Hayti in June
last. It will be observed by the letter of Minister Bassett that Cabral
did not wish his views to be made public before the que