Total 10,040.80 On the books of the loan office of South Carolina, under date of April 27, 1795 is an entry showing that there was issued of the funded 6 per cent stock to Samuel Prioleau 4,081.63 Of the deferred stock 2,040.81 Of the 3 per cent stock 3,918.36 Total 10,040.80 On the ledger of said loan office an account was opened with Samuel Prioleau, in which he was credited with the three items of stock and deputed by the transfer of each certificate to certain persons named, under dates of May 20, 1795, August 24, 1795, and April 19, 1796. These records show that the account of Samuel Prioleau, required to be settled by the act of January 28, 1795, was settled; that the value of the property destroyed was allowed; that the amount so found due was funded by said Prioleau and entered by his order on the loan-office books of South Carolina, and soon thereafter by him sold and transferred. That the entire funded debt of the United States was long since paid is matter of history. It is apparent that the claim has been prosecuted under a misapprehension on the part of the present claimants. I present the evidence in the case collected by the First Comptroller and embodied in his report for your consideration, together with a copy of a letter just received by that officer from the executor of P.G. Prioleau, and respectfully recommend the repeal of the act of July 27, 1854. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _December 11, 1854_. _To the House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents,[33] in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th of July last. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 33: Correspondence of the American consul-general at Cairo relative to the expulsion of the Greeks from Egypt.] WASHINGTON, _December 11, 1854_. _To the Senate_: I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting authority to invest the sum of $6,561.80, received from the sales of lands in the Chickasaw cession, in stocks for the benefit of the Chickasaw national fund, as required by the eleventh article of the treaty with the Chickasaws of the 20th October, 1832, and the act of Congress of 11th September, 1841. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _December 12, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: Herewith I transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers,[34] in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 3d of August last. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 34: Correspondence relative to difficulties between Rev. Jonas King and the Government of Greece.] WASHINGTON, _December 16, 1854_. _To the House of Representatives_: