M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, January 21, 1839.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification a convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States upon the Government of the Mexican Republic, concluded and signed in this city on the 10th of September last by John Forsyth, Secretary of State of the United States, and Francisco Pizarro Martinez, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Mexican Republic, on the part of their respective Governments.

M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, January 21, 1839.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit a treaty negotiated with the New York Indians, which was submitted to your body in June last and amended.  The amendments have, in pursuance of the requirement of the Senate, been submitted to each of the tribes, assembled in council, for their free and voluntary assent or dissent thereto.  In respect to all the tribes except the Senecas the result of this application has been entirely satisfactory.  It will be seen by the accompanying papers that of this tribe, the most important of those concerned, the assent of only 42 out of 81 chiefs has been obtained.  I deem it advisable under these circumstances to submit the treaty in its modified form to the Senate, for its advice in regard of the sufficiency of the assent of the Senecas to the amendments proposed.

M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, January 24, 1839.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith to the Senate, for their consideration in reference to its ratification, a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Sardinia, signed at Genoa on the 26th of November last by the plenipotentiaries of the contracting parties.

M. VAN BUREN.

WASHINGTON, January 25, 1839.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I herewith transmit to the Senate a report[46] from the Secretary of State, in answer to their resolution of the 22d instant.

M. VAN BUREN.

[Footnote 46:  Stating that there has been no correspondence with Great Britain in relation to the northeastern boundary since December 3, 1838.]

WASHINGTON, January 26, 1839.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I lay before you, for your consideration, a treaty concluded with the Omaha, Ioway, and Otoe tribes of Indians, and sanctioned by the Yancton and Santie bands of Sioux, by which a tract of land situated on the south side of the Missouri between the Great and Little Nemahaw rivers has been ceded to the United States.