[Footnote 57: Claim of Richard W. Thompson for alleged services to the
Menominee Indians.]
WASHINGTON, _April, 1856_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I communicate to Congress herewith a letter from the Secretary of the
Interior and a copy of a conditional contract entered into, under
instructions from that Department, for the purchase of a lot and
the building thereon, for the use of the United States courts at
Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, and recommend that an
appropriation of $78,000 be made to complete the same.