_To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a report from the Secretary of State on the subject of consular pupils. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _January 2, 1863_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I submit to Congress the expediency of extending to other Departments of the Government the authority conferred on the President by the eighth section of the act of the 8th of May, 1792, to appoint a person to temporarily discharge the duties of Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of War in case of the death, absence from the seat of Government, or sickness of either of those officers. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _January 3, 1863_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a convention for the mutual adjustment of claims between the United States and Ecuador, signed by the respective plenipotentiaries of the two Governments in Guayaquil on the 25th November ultimo. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _January 5, 1863_. _To the House of Representatives_: In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d ultimo, in relation to the alleged interference of our minister to Mexico in favor of the French, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the papers with which it is accompanied. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _January 6, 1863_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit for the consideration of Congress, and with a view to the adoption of such measures in relation to the subject of it as may be deemed expedient, a copy of a note of the 8th instant addressed to the Secretary of State by the minister resident of the Hanseatic Republics accredited to this Government, concerning an international agricultural exhibition to be held next summer in the city of Hamburg. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _January 14, 1863_. _To the House of Representatives_: The Secretary of State has submitted to me a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant, which has been delivered to him, and which is in the following words: _Resolved_, That the Secretary of State be requested to communicate to this House, if not in his judgment incompatible with the public interest, why our minister in New Granada has not presented his credentials to the actual Government of that country; also the reasons for which Señor Murillo is not recognized by the United States as the diplomatic representative of the Mosquera Government of that country; also what negotiations have been had, if any, with General Herran, as the representative of Ospina's Government in New Granada, since it went into existence.