In further answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th of January last, requesting a copy of any official correspondence not previously communicated touching the construction and purport of the convention between the United States and Great Britain of the 19th of April, 1850, I transmit a copy of an instruction of the 24th instant from the Secretary of State to the minister of the United States at London. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _June 3, 1856_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: I herewith communicate a letter of the 26th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, and accompanying papers, relative to the conflict of jurisdiction between the Federal and Cherokee courts and the inadequacy of protection against the intrusion of improper persons into the Cherokee country, and recommend the subject to the consideration of Congress. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _June 3, 1856_. _To the House of Representatives_: I transmit a report[59] from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th ultimo. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 59: Stating that no information relative to the action of the leading powers of Europe on the subject of privateering has been officially communicated by any foreign government.] WASHINGTON, _June 4, 1856_. _To the House of Representatives_: In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th of last month, requesting information in regard to a contemplated imposition of additional duties on American leaf tobacco by the Zollverein or Commercial Union of the German States, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _June 13, 1856_. _To the House of Representatives_: In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 18th of February last, requesting me to communicate to the House "the report of Captain E.B. Boutwell, and all the documents accompanying it, relative to the operations of the United States sloop of war _John Adams_, under his command, at the Fejee Islands in the year 1855," I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of the Navy. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _June 18, 1856_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents,[60] in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 16th instant. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 60: Instructions to Mr Buchanan, late minister to England, on the subject of free ships making free goods, and letter from Mr. Buchanan to Lord Clarendon on the same subject.] WASHINGTON, _June 20, 1856_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_: