Mst Congress, 

 1^^ Session. 



[HO. OF REPS.] 



Ex. Doc. 

 No. 75. 



TIGRE ISLAND AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 



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MESSAGE 



THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 



TRANSMITTING 



§3^curmnts in am%oer to a resolution of the House respecting Tigre Island ^ 



'^0 the House of Representatives of the United States: 



I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives, in compliance 

 "with the request contained in their resolution of the 24th day of January 

 last, the information asked for fey that resolution, relating to certain pro- 

 ceedings of the British government in the forcible seizure and occupation 

 of the island of Tigre ; also, all the " facts, circumstances and communi- 

 cations, within the knowledge of the Executive, relative to any seizure or 

 occupation, or attempted seizure or occupation, by the British government^ 

 of any port, river, town, territory or island belonging to, or claimed by 

 any of the States of Central America." 



The resolution of the House speaks of the island of Tigre, in the 

 State of Nicaragua. I am not aware of the existence of any such island 

 in that State, and presume that the resolution refers to the island of the 

 same name in the gulf of Fonseca, in the State of Honduras. 



The concluding part of the resolution, requesting the President to 

 communicate to the House all treaties not heretofore published which may 

 have been negotiated with any of the States of Central America ^^by 

 any person acting by authority of the late administration, or under the 

 auspices of the present administration," so far as it has reference to trea- 

 ties negotiated with any of those States by instructions from this govern- 

 ment, cannot be comphed with, inasmuch as those treaties have not yet 

 been acted upon by the Senate of the United States, and are now in the 

 possession of that body, to whom, by the constitution, they are directed 

 to be transmitted for advice in regard to their ratification. 



But, as its communication is not liable to the same objection, I trans- 

 mit, for the information of the HousC; a copy of a treaty in regard to a ship- 

 canal across the isthmus, negotiated by Elijah Hise, our late charge d'af- 

 faires in Guatemala, with the government of Nicaragua, on the 21st day of 

 June, 1849, accompanied by copies of his instructions from, and corre- 

 spondence with; the Department of State. 



July 22, 1850. 



Referred to the Committee on Foreign AfFairs. 



