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December  31,  1867,  with  a  view  to  its  consideration  and  the  ratification
thereof,  of  the  modification  proposed  by  the  royal  counselors  of  the  King-
dom of  Siam  in  Article  I  of  the  general  regulations  which  form  a  part
of  the  treaty  between  the  United  States  and  that  Kingdom  concluded
May  29, 1856,  of  which  a  printed  copy  is  also  herewith  transmitted.
ANDREW  JOHNSON.
Washington,  Jurie  2g,  1868.
To  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives:

I  transmit  to  Congress  a  copy  of  a  dispatch  from  the  United  States  con-
sul at  Elsinore,  and  of  an  instruction  from  the  Secretary  of  State  to  the
United  States  minister  at  Copenhagen,  relative  to  an  alleged  practice  of
the  Danish  authorities  to  banish  convicts  to  this  country.  The  expe-
diency of  making  it  a  penal  offense  to  bring  such  persons  to  the  United

•States  is  submitted  to  your  consideration.
ANDREW  JOHNSON.
^  ^,     jj  r  r,  .         ,  1-  Washington, /z^A/  2,  1868.
To  the  House  of  Representatives:  >  -/    -^

I  transmit  herewith  a  report  from  the  Secretary  of  State  of  the  2d

instant,  together  with  accompanying  papers.*

ANDREW  JOHNSON.
Washington,  D.  C.  ,  fuly  7,  1868.
To  the  Se7iate  of  the  United  States:

I  herewith  lay  before  the  Senate,  for  its  constitutional  action  thereon,
a  treaty  concluded  at  Fort  Earamie,  Dakota  Territory,  on  the  7th  of  May,
1868,  between  the  United  States  and  the  chiefs  and  headmen  of  the  Crow
Indians  of  Montana,  and  a  treaty  concluded  at  Fort  Laramie,  Dakota
Territory,  on  the  loth  of  May,  1868,  between  the  United  States  and  the
chiefs  and  headmen  of  the  Northern  Cheyenne  and  Northern  Arapahoe
tribes  of  Indians.
