I transmit a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with the accompanying papers, in reference to grants of land made by acts of Congress passed in the years 1850, 1853, and 1856 to the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Louisiana, to aid in the construction of certain railroads. As these acts will expire by limitation on the 11th day of August, 1866, leaving the roads for whose benefit they were conferred in an unfinished condition, it is recommended that the time within which they may be completed be extended for a period of five years. ANDREW JOHNSON. WASHINGTON, _April 11, 1866_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 27th ultimo, in relation to the seizure and detention at New York of the steamship _Meteor_, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State and the papers by which it was accompanied. ANDREW JOHNSON. WASHINGTON, _April 13, 1866_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith, for the constitutional action of the Senate, a treaty concluded with the Bois Forte band of Chippewa Indians on the 7th instant, together with the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs. ANDREW JOHNSON. WASHINGTON, _April 13, 1866_. _To the House of Representatives_: In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th instant, requesting information in regard to the rights and interests of American citizens in the fishing grounds adjacent to the British Provinces, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred. ANDREW JOHNSON. WASHINGTON, _April 20, 1866_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In compliance with the Senate's resolution of the 8th January, 1866, I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of War of the 19th instant, covering copies of the correspondence respecting General Orders, No. 17,[6] issued by the commander of the Department of California, and also the Attorney-General's opinion as to the question whether the order involves a breach of neutrality toward Mexico. ANDREW JOHNSON. [Footnote 6: Instructing commanders on the southern frontiers within the Department of California "to take the necessary measures to preserve the neutrality of the United States with respect to the parties engaged in the existing war in Mexico, and to suffer no armed parties to pass the frontier from the United States, nor suffer any arms or munitions of war to be sent over the frontier to either belligerent," etc.] WASHINGTON, D.C., _April 20, 1866_. _To the House of Representatives_: In reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d instant, requesting information respecting the collection of the remains of officers and soldiers killed and buried on the various battlefields about Atlanta, I transmit herewith a report on the subject from the Secretary of War. ANDREW JOHNSON.