R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 13:  Relating to the survey of lands in the Indian Territory, etc.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 20, 1878.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to the resolution of the Senate dated December 7, 1877, I transmit herewith reports from the General of the Army, the Quartermaster-General, the Commissary-General of Subsistence, and the Chief of Ordnance, showing what has been the cost (estimated) of the late war with the Sioux Indians, and what the casualties of rank and file among the soldiers engaged in said Sioux War.

R.B.  HAYES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 27, 1878.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith, for the information of the Senate, the reply of the Commissioner of Agriculture to a resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, “relative to the disease prevailing among swine,” etc.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, March 21, 1878.

To the Senate: 

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 11th of March instant, I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.[14]

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 14:  Correspondence relative to the appointment of a third commissioner under the twenty-third article of the treaty with Great Britain of May 8, 1871, on the question of the fisheries.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 25, 1878.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In further answer to the resolution of the Senate of December 7, 1877, as to the cost of the Sioux War, I transmit copies of additional reports on the subject received from the Military Division of the Missouri.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 1878.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to the Senate’s resolution of the 14th ultimo, requesting to be furnished with a copy of correspondence between the Government of the United States and that of China respecting the “Ward” claims and the claim of Charles E. Hill, I herewith submit a letter from the Secretary of State, together with its accompanying papers.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, March 29, 1878.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith, in compliance with a resolution of the House of
Representatives of the 21st ultimo, a report from the Secretary of
State and its accompanying papers.[15]

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 15:  Correspondence with Spain relative to the seizure of the steamer Virginius, etc.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 2, 1878.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of April 16, 1878,1 transmit herewith reports[16] made to me by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General.