In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d January last, "that the President of the United States be respectfully requested to furnish this House with copies of all contracts made by and correspondence subsequently with the Chief of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers for furnishing materials of wood and stone for improving the harbors and rivers on Lake Michigan, under and by virtue of the act making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers," approved August 30, 1852, I transmit a letter of the Secretary of War submitting a report of the Colonel of Topographical Engineers inclosing copies of the contracts and correspondence called for. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _March 1, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 7th of December last, requesting me to present to the Senate the plan referred to in my annual message to Congress, and recommended therein, for the enlargement and modification of the present judicial system of the United States, I transmit a report from the Attorney-General, to whom the resolution was referred. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _March 1, 1854_. _To the House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith a report of the Attorney-General, in answer to the resolutions of the House of the 22d of December, requesting me to communicate to the House the plan for the modification and enlargement of the judicial system of the United States, recommended in my annual message to Congress. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _March 7, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State and the documents[9] therein referred to, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 26th March, 1853. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 9: Correspondence with R.C. Schenck, United States minister to Brazil, relative to the African slave trade.] WASHINGTON, _March 7, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State and the documents[10] therein referred to, in answer to the resolution of the Senate in executive session of the 3d January, 1854. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 10: Correspondence with the Mexican Republic touching the eleventh article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and copies of instructions on that subject to the United States minister to Mexico.] WASHINGTON, _March 11, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith to the Senate a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents,[11] in compliance with their resolution of the 9th of March, 1853. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 11: Correspondence relative to the imprisonment, etc., of James H. West in the island of Cuba.] WASHINGTON, _March 14, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: