U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, December 3, 1872.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I transmit herewith to Congress a report, dated the 2d instant, with the accompanying papers,[69] received from the Secretary of State, in compliance with the requirements of the eighteenth section of the act entitled “An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States,” approved August 18, 1856.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 69:  Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of the United States for 1871, and tariff of consular fees.]

WASHINGTON, December 3, 1872.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico, signed in this city on the 27th ultimo, further extending the time fixed by the convention between the same parties of the 4th of July, 1868, for the duration of the joint commission on the subject of claims.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, December 3, 1872.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Ecuador, providing for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals, signed at Quito on the 28th of June last.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, December 3, 1872.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States and His Majesty the King of Denmark, relating to naturalization.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, December 9, 1872.

To the Senate of the United States:

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, I transmit herewith a report[70] from the Secretary of State.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 70:  Stating that the correspondence relative to the existence of slavery on the coast of Africa and to the action taken by Great Britain and other countries for its suppression was transmitted with the annual message of the President on the 2d instant.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 12, 1872.

To the House of Representatives:

In compliance with section 2 of the act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ended June 30, 1871, and for other purposes, I herewith transmit a report received from the Secretary of the Treasury, giving the name of, the report made by, and the amount paid to the single consular agent of the United States.[71]

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 71:  De B. Randolph Keim.]

WASHINGTON, December 16, 1872.