WASHINGTON, _April 11, 1871_.

_To the House of Representatives:_

I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution
of March 31, 1871, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying
documents.[45]

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 45: Dispatches from the United States minister at Florence
relative to the occupation of Rome by the King of Italy.]

[The following messages were sent to the special session of the Senate
convened by proclamation (see pp. 133-134) of April 20, 1871.]

WASHINGTON, _May 10, 1871_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification,
a treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the settlement
of pending questions between the two countries, signed at Washington on
the 8th instant by the commissioners of the United States and Great
Britain, respectively.

Copies of the powers and instructions to the commissioners on the part
of the United States and the protocols of the conferences are also
transmitted.

U.S. GRANT.

WASHINGTON, _May 15, 1871_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 10th
instant, a report[46] from the Secretary of State and the papers which
accompanied it.

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 46: Relating to claims of the subjects of foreign nations
growing out of the War of the Rebellion.]

WASHINGTON, _May 17, 1871_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 15th instant, I transmit
herewith a report [47] from the Secretary of State.

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 47: Relating to claims under the treaty of Washington of May 8
1871.]

PROCLAMATIONS.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided in the Constitution of the United States that the
United States shall protect every State in this Union, on application of
the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature can not be
convened), against domestic violence; and

Whereas it is provided in the laws of the United States that in
all cases of insurrection in any State or of obstruction to the laws
thereof it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on
application of the legislature of such State, or of the executive (when
the legislature can not be convened), to call forth the militia of any
other State or States, or to