I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification, a convention between the United States and the United Mexican States, concluded and signed by the plenipotentiaries of the respective parties at the City of Mexico on the 3d of April, 1835, and the object of which is to extend the time for the appointment of their commissioners and surveyors provided for by the third article of the treaty of limits between them of the 12th of January, 1835. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _December 17, 1835_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit to Congress a report from the Secretary of State, accompanying copies of certain papers relating to a bequest to the United States by Mr. James Smithson, of London, for the purpose of founding "at Washington an establishment under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The Executive having no authority to take any steps for accepting the trust and obtaining the funds, the papers are communicated with a view to such measures as Congress may deem necessary. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _December 22, 1835_. _To the Congress of the United States_: I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a report from the War Department, on the condition of the Cumberland road in the States of Illinois and Indiana. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _December 22, 1835_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice with regard to its ratification, a convention signed at Paris by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and the Swiss Confederation on the 6th of March last. A copy of the convention is also transmitted for the convenience of the Senate. ANDREW JACKSON. DECEMBER 23, 1835. _To the Senate of the United States_: I hereby submit, for the advice and sanction of the Senate, the inclosed proposal of the Secretary of the Treasury for the investment of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in behalf of the Chickasaw Indians under the treaties therein mentioned. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _January 11, 1836_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: Having laid before Congress on the 9th ultimo the correspondence which had previously taken place relative to the controversy between Ohio and Michigan on the question of boundary between that State and Territory, I now transmit reports from the Secretaries of State and War on the subject, with the papers therein referred to. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _January 12, 1836_. _To the Senate_: I transmit herewith, for the consideration and advice of the Senate as to the ratification of the same, the two treaties concluded with the Carmanchee Indians and with the Caddo Indians referred to in the accompanying communication from the War Department. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _January 15, 1836_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_.