ate, exhibiting the information
received at that Department on the subject.

John Quincy Adams.

Washington,
_May 5,1828_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I communicate to the Senate, for their consideration and advice, a
treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and His
Majesty the King of Prussia, signed on the 1st instant at this place by
the Secretary of State and the charge d'affaires of Prussia residing
here. A copy of the treaty is also transmitted.

John Quincy Adams.

Washington,
_May 9, 1828_.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:

The report of the Secretary of War herewith transmitted, with the
documents annexed, contains the information requested by a resolution of
the 3d of April last, relating to the payments made to the citizens of
Georgia under the fourth article of the treaty with the Creek Nation of
8th February, 1821, and to the disallowances of certain claims exhibited
under that treaty, and to the reasons for rejecting the same.

John Quincy Adams.

Washington,
_May 12, 1828_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice, the
articles of a convention concluded at this place on the 6th instant
between the Secretary of War and the chiefs and headmen of the Cherokee
Nation west of the Mississippi, duly authorized by their nation. A
report from the Secretary of War, with certain documents, and a map
illustrative of the convention are submitted with it to the Senate.

John Quincy Adams.

Washington,
_May 16, 1828_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:

By a communication received from the charge d'affaires of Prussia, a
translation of which is herewith transmitted, it appears that in the
ports of that Kingdom all discriminating duties so far as they affected
the vessels of the United States and their cargoes have been abolished
since the 15th of April, 1826. I recommend to the consideration of
Congress a legislative provision whereby the reciprocal application of
the same principle may be extended to Prussian vessels and their cargoes
which may have arrived in the ports of the United States from and after
that day.

John Quincy Adams.

Washington,
_May 19, 1828_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:

I transmit to Congress copies of three conventions concluded between the