[Footnote 10: Relating to payments to the Ute Indians under the fourth article of the agreement of September 13, 1873, and to the occupancy of lands ceded by said Indians.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 4, 1878_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: The commission appointed under the act of Congress approved March 3, 1873, entitled "An act to authorize inquiries into the causes of steam-boiler explosions," have addressed a report of progress, made to date thereof, to the Secretaries of the Treasury and Navy Departments, which has been transmitted to me by these officers. The commission also present a copy of a report dated February 27, 1877, which they say "was mislaid and did not reach the President." These reports are respectfully submitted for the information of Congress. WASHINGTON, _February 6, 1878_. _To the Senate_: I transmit herewith, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 6th of December last, a report from the Secretary of State and its accompanying papers.[11] R.B. HAYES. [Footnote 11: Correspondence relative to the Franco-German War.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 11, 1878_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: In compliance with the resolution of Congress entitled "Joint resolution accepting a painting[12] tendered to Congress by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson," approved by me on the 1st instant, I have this day caused a copy of the resolution to be delivered to Mrs. Thompson. R.B. HAYES. [Footnote 12: Carpenter's painting of President Lincoln and his Cabinet at the time of his first reading of the Proclamation of Emancipation.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 20, 1878_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In response to the resolution of the Senate of January 30, 1878, I transmit herewith a report,[13] dated the 16th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. R.B. HAYES. [Footnote 13: Relating to the survey of lands in the Indian Territory, etc.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 20, 1878_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In answer to the resolution of the Senate dated December 7, 1877, I transmit herewith reports from the General of the Army, the Quartermaster-General, the Commissary-General of Subsistence, and the Chief of Ordnance, showing what has been the cost (estimated) of the late war with the Sioux Indians, and what the casualties of rank and file among the soldiers engaged in said Sioux War. R.B. HAYES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 27, 1878_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith, for the information of the Senate, the reply of the Commissioner of Agriculture to a resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, "relative to the disease prevailing among swine," etc. R.B. HAYES. WASHINGTON, _March 21, 1878_. _To the Senate_: In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 11th of March instant, I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.[14] R.B. HAYES.