f Representatives of the 23d of December, 1848, requesting the
President "to cause to be transmitted to the House, if compatible with
the public interest, the correspondence of George W. Gordon, late, and
Gorham Parks, the present, consul of the United States at Rio de
Janeiro, with the Department of State on the subject of the African
slave trade; also any unpublished correspondence on the same subject
by the Hon. Henry A. Wise, our late minister to Brazil."

JAMES K. POLK.

WASHINGTON, _March 2, 1849_.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States:_

I communicate herewith a report of the Secretary of State, together with
the accompanying papers, in compliance with the resolution of the House
of Representatives of the 20th ultimo, requesting the President to
communicate to that House a list of all consuls, vice-consuls, and
commercial agents now in the service of the United States, their
residence, distinguishing such as are citizens of the United States from
such as are not, and to inform the said House whether regular returns
of their fees and perquisites and the tonnage and commerce of the
United States within their respective consulates or agencies have been
regularly made by each, and to communicate the amount of such fees and
perquisites for certain years therein specified, together with the
number of vessels and amount of tonnage which entered and cleared within
each of the consulates and agencies for the same period; also the number
of seamen of the United States who have been provided for and sent home
from each of the said consulates for the time aforesaid.

JAMES K. POLK.

WASHINGTON, _March 2, 1849_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury,
accompanying a report from the Solicitor of the Treasury presenting a
view of the operations of that office since its organization.

JAMES K. POLK.

PROCLAMATIONS.

[From Senate Journal, Thirtieth Congress, second session, p. 349.]

WASHINGTON, _January 2, 1849_.

_To the Senators of the United States, respectively_.

SIR: Objects interesting to the United States requiring that the Senate
should be in session on Monday, the 5th of March next, to receive and
act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the
Executive, your attention in the Senate Chamber, in this city, on that
day at 10 o'clock in the forenoon is accordingly requested.