To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, on the subject of documents* called for by the resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
*Researches of H. S. Sanford, late charge d'affaires at Paris, on the condition of penal law in continental Europe, etc.; also a "Memoir on the Administrative Changes in France since the Revolution of 1848," by H. S. Sanford.