5,000 pounds short linked proof chain, sizes from to 3-inch. 6 best quality Hoe's make cross-cut saws, 4 to 6 feet long, 2 dozen L'Hommedieu's ship augers, (200 eighths). 20 platina points for lightning conductors 20 boxes XX tin 6 buck saws, with frames. 2 spirit levels, 2 feet stocks, with plumbs. 50 pounds Babbitt's metal 2 dozen Collins' best narrow axes. 6 cast steel hand saws, with 4 rivets 35 do 10 do 9 do do 40 do 50 do 20 do 12 do 14 00 per dozen. 15.00 do 9.00 do June 22 June 30 C. B. Grant & Co ...... 80 stone headers, 1 foot 8 inches thick, 2 feet wide, 3 feet 640 lineal feet stretchers, 1 foot 8 inches thick, 1 foot 10 640 lineal feet stretchers, 1 foot 6 inches thick, 1 foot 8 $0 50 per dozen. Pensacola. 1 00 do 1 00 each. 1.00 do 25 do 12 00 per dozen. 2.00 each. 2.00 per pair. 2 00 per dozen. 8 00 do 2.00 each. 2.00 do 2. 00 do June 26 June 22 June 30 June 30 Lot Day. M. W. Smith T. H. & E. Faron 40 headers, 1 foot 2 inches thick, 2 feet wide, 3 feet long, face measure....... 320 lineal feet stretchers, 1 foot 2 inches thick, 1 foot 4 1,000,000 common hard burned brick 70 square piles, 36 feet long, 14 by 14 inches 134 round piles, 34 feet long, 12 butt and 8 point, or larger. 74......do.....30...do....12....do...8.. do do do do each. do do do do 390 00 per 200. do New York. R. P. Parrott.. Nov. 16 May 16 D. D. Badger & Co. Gage, Warner & Whitney. Constructing, furnishing and delivering the blowers, shafting, &c., according to specifications..... Constructing, furnishing and delivering flues and appurtenances for smithery, according to specifications...... Constructing, furnishing and delivering 4-feet forges, and appurtenances, according to specifications.. New York. . Doc REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN COMPLIANCE WITH A resolution of the Senate of the 17th ultimo, calling for certain papers and information relative to the claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to 1800. FEBRUARY 19, 1856.-Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. To the Senate of the United States: The Secretary of State has received the resolution of the Senate of the 17th ultimo, directing him to lay before that body "a copy of the report of adjudications made by the Board of American Commissioners, at Paris, to liquidate and audit the claims of American citizens against the French government, being for debts' due to them, and for the satisfaction of which provision was made by the convention between the United States and France of April 30, 1803; also, to lay before the Senate any information to be obtained in the Department of State showing how far the government of the United States has made effectual its proffered aid to the American sufferers from French captures and other injuries, as set forth in the public notice by the Secretary of State, Mr. Jefferson, by order of President Washington, dated August 27, 1793; whether the said sufferers accepted said overture of aid, and complied with its invitation to submit to the government the evidence of their losses, and whether said overture was ever withdrawn or modified, and what has become of the evidence and proofs of loss so called for and received by the government;" and, by the President's permission, has the honor to represent that no report like that called for by the resolution can be found in this department, or any trace that such a report was ever made to or filed in the department. On the contrary, it is inferred from the letter of Mr. Fulwar Skipwith to Mr. Madison, a copy of which is hereunto annexed, that, in point of fact, there never was any report of the character referred to. It appears from the instructions of this department to the ministers of the United States at Paris, and from reports which have already been communicated to the Senate by my predecessors, that the proofs in the cases of claims on France were from time to time transmitted to those ministers. The efficacy or inefficacy of the aid alleged to have been proffered by this government for the recovery of the claims ad |