In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 21st instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, inclosing a copy of the letter[43] addressed to the Department of State on the 17th November, 1852, by Mr. Joaquin J. de Osma, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Peru. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 43: Proposing a settlement of the Lobos Islands controversy.] WASHINGTON, _February 23, 1855_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I communicate to Congress herewith a communication of this date from the Secretary of the Interior, with accompanying estimates, and recommend that the appropriation[44] therein asked for be made. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 44: To fulfill treaty stipulations with the Wyandotte Indians.] WASHINGTON, _February 24, 1855_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 22d instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, together with the copy of a communication from Francis W. Rice,[45] therein referred to. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 45: Late United States consul at Acapulco, relative to outrages committed upon him by authorities of Mexico.] WASHINGTON, _February 26, 1855_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, requesting the President "to communicate to the Senate a copy of the order issued by the Navy Department to the officer in command of the Home Squadron in pursuance of which the United States sloop of war _Albany_ was ordered on her last cruise to Carthagena and Aspinwall, etc.; also of the orders given by such officer to Commander Gerry to proceed upon such cruise, and also of any reports or letters from the captain of the _Albany_ on the necessity of repairs to said vessel." FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _February 27, 1855_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I transmit to Congress herewith a communication of this date from the Secretary of the Interior, and recommend that the appropriation[46] therein asked for be made. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 46: For surveying public lands in the northern part of Minnesota Territory acquired from the Chippewa Indians.] WASHINGTON, _February 27, 1855_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I communicate herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a letter of this date from the Secretary of the Interior, and accompanying paper, recommending certain appropriations[47] on account of the Indian service. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 47: For running the boundary line between the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations of Indians and for negotiations with the Menominee Indians.] WASHINGTON, _February 27, 1855_. _To the Senate of the United States_: