Subject. REPORT AND LETTERS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR-Cont'd. Communicating information in relation to the Tabequache band of Utah Communicating information in relation to prohibiting the Oneida Indians Communicating papers relating to the right of freedmen under the third Recommending the removal of Indians located on the Smith River farm, REPORTS AND LETTERS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, VIZ: Communicating a list of the assistant district attorneys appointed in the Transmitting report of the amounts paid for special counsel and United 2 ED In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, information in relation to the disposition made of the proceeds of captured and abandoned property received by Colonel Holabird, assistant quartermaster. MARCH 16, 1868.-Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 13, 1868. SIR: In reply to a resolution adopted by the Senate of the United States on the sixth of March instant, requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the Senate whether the examination of the account of Colonel Holabird, assistant quartermaster, has been completed by the Third Auditor; and if so, that he state the amount found to be due the fund arising from the proceeds of captured and abandoned property; whether the amount thus found due has been credited to that fund and charged to the quartermasters' department, and if the balance thus found due has not been credited to said fund; whether the same has not been thus credited and included in the total net sum realized from the sale of captured and abandoned property in the treasury of the United States, I have the honor to transmit the annexed report made to me, at my request, by the Third Auditor of the Treasury, containing all the information in my power to give upon the matters concerning which inquiry is made. Respectfully, H. McCULLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury. The PRESIDENT of the Senate of the United States. THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 11, 1868. Respectfully returned to the Secretary of the Treasury, with the information. that an audit of Colonel Holabird's accounts, involving the subject-matter contained in the Senate resolution of March 6, 1868, of which the within is a copy, was accomplished in this office on the 25th of January last past; that the amount found to be due from the quartermasters' department to the fund denominated "captured and abandoned property" was $802,392 48; that said settlement was, on the same day, viz., the 25th January, 1868, reported to the Second Comptroller of the Treasury for examination and certification of the balance arising thereon, as required by law, and was, on the 4th of February following, returned by him to this office fully confirmed. (See Settlement No. 6373, current series.) That on the day following, to wit, the 5th of February, 1868, the balance, so found, was formally certified to the Secretary of War, with the request that he would cause a requisition to issue upon the Secretary of the Treasury, in conformity with said settlement, whereby the appropriation for the "quartermasters' department" would be charged, and the fund captured and abandoned property" credited, and the objects of the settlement thus fully accomplished; and finally, that up to the present time such requisition of the Secretary of War has not issued, so far as this office is aware, and no information has been received from the War Department in relation thereto. JOHN WILSON, Auditor. In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 27th of January last, information in relation to the arrest and trial of Rev. John McMahon, Robert B. Lynch and John Warren, by the government of Great Britain. MARCH 16, 1868.-Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate of the United States: In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 27th of January last, in relation to the arrest and trial of the Rev. John McMahon, Robert B. Lynch and John Warren, by the government of Great Britain, and requesting to be informed what action has been taken by this government in maintaining the rights of American citizens abroad, I transmit a report of the Secretary of State, which is accompanied by a copy of the papers called for by that resolution. WASHINGTON, March 14, 1868. ANDREW JOHNSON. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, March 14, 1868. The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 27th of January last, calling for a copy of any correspondence on file in this department relating to the arrest and trial of the Rev. John McMahon, Robert B. Lynch and John Warren, by the government of Great Britain, and also desiring to be informed what has been done by this government for the maintenance of the rights of American citizens abroad, has the honor to lay before the President the papers mentioned in the subjoined list, which presents all the correspondence and information in regard to the case of McMahon and Lynch. The papers in the case of John Warren were communicated with the message of the President of the 6th of February last to the House of Representatives, and were published in House Executive Document No. 157, of the present session of Congress. As they are very voluminous, it is thought that this reference will obviate the necessity of further answer to that part of the resolution which relates to his case. Respectfully submitted: The PRESIDENT. F. W. SEWARD, |