pies of communications from officers of the Navy on the subject.

JAMES K. POLK.

WASHINGTON, _May 9, 1848_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I herewith communicate to the Senate, for their consideration with a
view to its ratification, a convention for the extension of certain
stipulations[19] contained in the treaty of commerce and navigation of
August 27, 1829, between the United States and Austria, concluded and
signed in this city on the 8th instant by the respective
plenipotentiaries.

JAMES K. POLK.

[Footnote 19: Relating to disposal of property, etc.]

WASHINGTON, _May 15, 1848_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I communicate herewith a report from the Secretary of the Navy, together
with the accompanying documents, in compliance with the resolution of
the Senate of the 13th instant, requesting information as to the
measures taken for the protection of the white population of Yucatan by
the naval forces of the United States.

JAMES K. POLK.

WASHINGTON, _May 19, 1848_.

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

I transmit for the information of Congress a communication from the
Secretary of War and a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
showing the result of the settlement required by the treaty of August,
1846, with the Cherokees, and the appropriations requisite to carry the
provisions of that treaty into effect.

JAMES K. POLK.

WASHINGTON, _May 29, 1848_.

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

I lay before Congress the accompanying memorial and papers, which have
been transmitted to me, by a special messenger employed for that
purpose, by the governor and legislative assembly of Oregon Territory,
who constitute the temporary government which the inhabitants of that
distant region of our country have, from the necessity of their
condition, organized for themselves. The memorialists are citizens of
the United States. They express ardent attachment to their native land,
and in their present perilous and distressed situation they earnestly
invoke the aid and protection of their Government.

They represent that "the proud and powerful tribes of Indians" residing
in their vicinity have recently raised "the war whoop and crimsoned
their tomahawks in the blood of their citizens;" that they apprehend
that "many of the powerful tribes inhabiting the upper valley of the
Columbia have formed an allia