JAMES K. POLK.

WASHINGTON, _June 6, 1846_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I herewith communicate to the Senate, for its consideration, a

convention signed on the 2d day of May, 1846, by the minister of the

United States at Berlin with the plenipotentiary of Hesse-Cassel, for

the mutual abolition of the _droit d'aubaine_ and duties on emigration

between that German State and the United States; and I communicate with

the convention an explanatory dispatch of the minister of the United

States dated on the same day of the present year and numbered 284.

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