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Serial set 1207 Defences of the northeastern frontier. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 541.) June 20, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Frederick Sheridan. June 27, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
John Logan. June 27, 1864. -- Laid on the tale and ordered to be printed.
George Calvert. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 530.) June 17, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Amzi L. Burns. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 529.) June 17, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Archibald Crary -- heirs of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 528.) June 17, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
E.A. Thompson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 531.) June 17, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Sarah Smith. June 27, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Ezekiel Darling. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 556.) June 27, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
William Wallace. June 27, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Charles W. Carrigan vs. M. Russell Thayer. June 22, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
John Kline vs. Leonard Myers. June 22, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Joseph Pike. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 557.) June 27, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Colonel H.C. De Ahna. (To accompany H. Res. No. 105.) June 21, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Jethro Bonney. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 571.) June 30, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Volunteers in Mexican War. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 112.) June 21, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Jane Yates. June 27, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Ohio volunteers. June 21, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Treasury Department. June 30, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
James D. Johnson and others. July 4, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Henry Sliver. June 27, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Archibald Crary -- heirs of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 528.) June 30, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed with the old report and other papers.
Joint resolution on Mexican affairs. June 27, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Horace Gates. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 555.) June 27, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Jean M. Lander. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 547.) June 21, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
T.T. Garrard and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 568.) June 30, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
William Yokum. June 20, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed
Thomas K. Conn. June 27, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Nathan S. Brinton. (To accompany H. Res. No. 104.) June 21, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
James Lindsay vs. John G. Scott. June 20, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 544.) June 21, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Elizabeth Woodward and George Chorpenning. (To accompany H. Res. No. 112.) June 27, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed.
Edward Ball. June 30, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. 		33
Serial set 1208 Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 5, 1864, in the eighty-eighth [i.e., eighty-ninth] year of the independence of the United States. 1
Serial set 1209 Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, a copy of the report of Hon. Thomas Hood and Hon. S.W. Bostwick, special commissioners upon the condition and treatment of colored refugees in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. February 27, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 25th ultimo, papers relative to Mexican affairs. June 20, 1864. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. June 29, 1864. -- Committee discharged, and referred to the Committee on Printing. January 25, 1865. -- Reported in favor, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1865. Resolved, that the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, the Postmaster General, and the Attorney General, be each directed to inform the Senate what amount was paid or allowed in his department for attorney's or counsel fees of every kind and description, exclusive of the regular salaries paid to the Attorney General and the respective district attorneys, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864, and so far as practicable, from that period to the 1st of January, 1865, giving a list of the names of the persons employed, the amount paid each and out of what fund, and the services for which those fees were paid. February 21, 1865. Ordered, that the reports received in answer to the foregoing resolution be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating correspondence in relation to a proposed international exhibition at the City of Oporto, to be opened in August next. February 14, 1865. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, information relating to the quota of the State of Rhode Island under the act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and the acts in amendment thereto. February 6, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, information in relation to agents in the employment of the government for paying pensions. January 16, 1865. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 22d instant, copy of the instructions issued by that Department relative to the enrolment of citizens of the State of Louisiana. February 27, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to resolution of the Senate of the 15th of December, 1864, a report from the Secretary of State, relative to an arrangement between the United States and Great Britain, relating to the naval force to be maintained upon the American lakes. January 12, 1865. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, information in regard to and furnished to the rebellion by British subjects. December 8, 1864. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 28th ultimo, information in relation to the number of soldiers and sailors the several states, territories, and the District of Columbia have furnished the Army and Navy under all calls. February 27, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, information in relation to the list of names of state or political prisoners required to be furnished to the judges of the circuit and district courts of the United States and the District of Columbia by the 2d section of the act of March 3, 1863, entitled, "An Act Relating to Habeas Corpus, and Regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases." February 21, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication and accompanying estimate of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions of the treaty made with the Great and Little Osages in Kansas, August 29, 1863, and Senate amendments thereto of July 2, 1864. February 24, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 25th instant, information in relation to the appointment of a commission in each of the slave states represented in Congress, charged to award to each loyal person, to whom a colored volunteer may owe service, a just compensation. January 26, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, information in relation to the muster-rolls of such of the regiments as have been raised in the State of Maryland in the present war, which were composed, in whole or in part, of those who were, at the time of their enlistment or draft, slaves. January 26, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 22d of December, 1864, a report of the Adjutant General in relation to volunteers called out in the State of Delaware for thirty and for one hundred days. January 26, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, information in relation to the report and evidence taken by a military commission, of which General Speed J. Fry was president, appointed to investigate the conduct of General Paine in and about Paducah, Kentucky. January 30, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating a copy of a dispatch of the 12th ultimo, addressed to the Secretary of State by the minister resident of the United States at Stockholm, relating to an international exhibition to be held at Bergen, in Norway, during the coming summer. February 14, 1865. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of December 20, 1864, information in relation to the disposition of the land of the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, under the treaty of October 1, 1859, with those Indians. January 6, 1865. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 10th of January, 1865, a list of officers of the regular Army, with a statement how they were employed on the 1st of January, 1865. February 1, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant, a complete list of all the major and brigadier generals in the volunteer forces of the United States, showing where and how they were employed on the first day of January, 1865. January 30, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th of January, 1865, communications from Major General McDowell, commanding the Department of the Pacific, in relation to a recent attempt to send arms and munitions of war out of that department to Mexico. February 1, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, information concerning recent conversations or communications with insurgents, under executive sanction. February 10, 1865. -- Read, motion to refer to select committee of five members, ordered to lie on the table, and ordered to be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate for an appropriation to pay William Sawyer and others the value of certain lands in Auglaize County, in the State of Ohio.
Report of the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, of April 4, 1864, a statement in regard to the number of cases commenced and pending in each circuit and district court of the United States the first day of January, 1864. December 8, 1864. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating the report of the commission appointed under the joint resolution of Congress, approved June 30, 1864, "to select the most approved site for a Navy yard or naval station of the Mississippi River or upon one of its tributaries," and recommending an appropriation to cover the expenses of said commission. February 11, 1865. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. February 18, 1865. -- Ordered that 2,000 extra copies be printed for the use of the Senate.
Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 19th of December, 1864, information in relation to the report of Major General Herron, relative to the military department of Arkansas. January 5, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy for the year 1864. January 10, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 20, 1864, information in relation to the arrest of Colonel Richard T. Jacobs, lieutenant governor of the State of Kentucky, and Colonel Frank Wolford, one of the presidential electors of that state. February 1, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th ultimo, information in relation to the present condition of Mexico and the case of the French war transport steamer Rhine. February 9, 1865. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. March 3, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 1,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 3d of February, 1865, information in relation to the printing of the argument of the judge advocate on the trial of Franklin W. Smith, and in relation to the employment of agents or detectives by the Navy Department. March 1, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in obedience to law, a report from the Secretary of State, and accompanying papers, showing the amount of fees collected, accounted for, and reported by the consular officers of the United States for the year 1863, together with a full list of all consular officers in office December 31, 1864, and the place of their official residence. March 3, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the 27th of February, abstracts of the proposals for transporting military supplies from Fort Leavenworth westward, opened December 31, 1864, by Captain Henry C. Hodges, and all communications upon the subject. March 3, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie upon the table and be printed.
Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of this date, information in relation to the amount of money paid by the War Department from the 1st day of March, 1861, to the 1st day of March, 1865, to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for the transportation of troops and munitions of war between the City of Baltimore and the City of Washington, or for any other purpose. March 3, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Letter of the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting the report of the commission appointed under an act of Congress approved February 25, 1863, "for investigations to test the practicability of cultivating and preparing flax or hemp as a substitute for cotton." March 1, 1865. -- Read.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 23d instant, a copy of General Orders No. 23, issued by Major General Banks at New Orleans, dated February 3, 1864. February 28, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. 		35
Serial set 1210 Resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, relating to a general tax on the sales of merchandise, to a ship canal uniting the lakes of Erie and Ontario, to the establishment of a line of steamers from San Francisco to Japan and China, and to fast-sailing ships of the Navy.
In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution. Whereas, at the commencement of the present rebellion, the United States were at peace with all the governments of the world, and upon terms of comity and good-will with Great Britain...
Communication of Norman Wiard, addressed to the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, upon the subject of great guns. February, 27, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of the removal of the duty on paper. January 31, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of improving the harbor of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. February 6, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin in favor of the selection of a site within the harbor of Milwaukie for the establishment of a naval depot. February 9, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of additional relief to the sufferers from the Sioux Indian War of 1862. February 11, 1865. -- Referred to Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of indemnifying the citizens of that state who suffered loss by reason of Sterling Price's raid in that state, in October, 1864, and for damages sustained by the acts of the United States troops at that time. February 13, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed.
Statement of all contracts executed by Hanson A. Risley, agent, &c., since July 4, 1864. Accompanying the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of February 6, 1865, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of January 23, 1865. February 10, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of a grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from Wyandotte to the southern boundary of that state, and that the title of the Cherokee Indians to certain lands in said state be extinguished. February 6, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of the President and the Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers' National Cemetery Association, praying an appropriation to aid in the erection of a monument to the memories of the soldiers who fell in the battles of Gettysburg. December 20, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Resolution requesting the President of the United States to cause Brigadier General E.A. Paine to be arraigned and tried for his conduct while in command of Paducah, Kentucky. January 16, 1865. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed.
Letter of the Postmaster General to the Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, in relation to the postal laws. January 12, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed to accompany Bill S. 390.
In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interests, to furnish to the Senate any information in his power concerning any recent personal communications with the rebel Jefferson Davis, said to have been under executive sanction, and also copies of any correspondence relating thereto...
Letter of the Governor of the State of Louisiana, communicating the credentials of the Hon. Charles Smith and Hon. R. King Cutler, senators elect from that state to the Congress of the United States, with copies of the proceedings of the General Assembly of Louisiana in reference to their election. December 7, 1864. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Petition of William C. Bryant, Henry W. Longfellow, Horace Greeley, John A. Dix, U.S. Grant, and others, citizens of the United States, praying an appropriation for the founding and support of a national home for totally disabled soldiers and sailors of the Army and Navy of the United States. December 8, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1864. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution. Whereas raids have been organized in the Canadas and Nova Scotia, and men enlisted in said British provinces by men purporting to hold commissions from the rebels of the United States, for the purpose of robbing and murdering peaceable citizens of the United States, of burning cities and villages, of piratically capturing merchant vessels and murdering their crews, and for a general systems of murder, arson, robberies, and plunder of the peaceable and unarmed citizens of the United States...
Memorial of citizens of Louisiana, remonstrating against the admission of senators or representatives from the State of Louisiana into the Congress of the United States, and the reception of any electoral vote of that state in counting the vote for President and Vice-President of the United States, and praying the passage of an act guaranteeing republican government in the insurrectionary states. December 7, 1864. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Papers submitted by Mr. Sherman, to accompany Bill (S. 403) to amend the act entitled "An Act to Encourage Immigration," approved July 4, 1864, and the act entitled "An Act to Regulate the Carriage of Passengers in Steamships and Other Vessels," approved March 3, 1865, and for other purpose. January 23, 1865. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed.
Suggestions presented to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate of the U.S. by Major General N.P. Banks, relating to the State of Louisiana. January 11, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Nevada, in favor of the passage of a law fixing as the eastern boundary of the State of Nevada the thirty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington. February 24, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1865. -- Submitted by Mr. Foot, and referred to the Committee on Printing. February 18, 1865. -- Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Printing, reports in favor of printing; considered and agreed to. Resolved, that the compilation of the provisions of the Constitution and Laws of the United States, fixing the time of the meeting or sessions of Congress, and of the extra sessions of the Senate, and the practice under the same, from the 4th of March, 1789, to the present time, prepared by the chief clerk of the Senate, be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolutions. Concurrent resolutions declaring the rule in ascertaining the three-fourths of the several states required in the ratification of a constitutional amendment...
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Rhode Island, in favor of the passage of the joint resolution submitting to the legislatures of the several states an amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishing slavery. January 26, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of an additional grant of lands to aid in the completion of the several lines of railroad and branches in that state mentioned in the act approved March 3, 1857, and for an extension of the time limited therein. February 1, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Secretary of the Navy be instructed to inform the Senate whether the argument of the judge advocate on the trial of Franklin W. Smith...
Papers submitted by Mr. Sherman, supplementary to an act entitled "An Act To Provide a National Currency, Secured by a Pledge of United States Bonds, and To Provide for the Circulation and Redemption Thereof." (To accompany Bill S. No. 423.) February 1, 1865. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from Elwood, via Marysville, to the Big Bend of the Republican River. February 7, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from Lac La Belle to the Cliff mine, in Keweenaw County, thence along the mineral range to some point on the Montreal River. February 9, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the selection for a naval depot at same point embraced within the harbor of Milwaukie, in that state. February 20, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter of the Postmaster General to the Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads in relation to clerkships in the Post Office Department. January 13, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed to accompany Bill S. 389.
Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, in favor of the establishment of a fort or garrison in the southwest corner of that state. February 25, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, remonstrating against the passage of any bankrupt law. January 31, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of placing an increased military force in the hands of Major General Curtis, commanding that department, to enable him to give sufficient and sample protection to the frontier of said state and the overland and Santa Fe routes. January 30, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Resolutions of the Legislative Assembly, Territory of Nebraska, in favor of the payment of the Nebraska militia while actually employed in he service of the government in repelling hostile Indians and guarding the United States mail and Pacific telegraph and protecting the border settlers. February 13, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the militia and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan in favor of the establishment of a general naval recruiting and muster-in office for the State of Michigan, in the City of Detroit. February 14, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota in favor of the location of the North or Sioux City branch of the Pacific Railroad, westwardly, as near as it may be, along the parallel of forty-two and one-half degrees of north latitude, to a point of junction with the main trunk of said road. February 14, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress. December 8, 1864.
Letter of the Governor of the State of Maryland communicating resolutions of the legislature of said state, remonstrating against the right being granted to any railroad therein to connect with the Northern Central Railroad and extending to the limits of the District of Columbia. February 20, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Missouri in favor of granting a bounty to the soldiers and their legal representatives of the Missouri state militia; and the completion of the southwest branch of the Pacific Railroad; and that persons who have volunteered since the organization of the several companies and regiments to which they have been attached may be mustered out of the service at the same time the company or regiment is mustered out...
Resolution of the convention of the State of Missouri, in favor of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery in all the states and territories. January 23, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
Resolutions of the Legislature of Indiana, in favor of granting pensions to persons wounded and the representatives of persons killed in the defence of that state from the invasion by the rebels. February 20, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed.
Harbor of Michigan City. Resolutions of the Legislature of Indiana, in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Michigan City. February 18, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed.
List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress. January 5, 1865.
Statement or table of the senators of the United States, with the commencement and termination of the service of each, showing the succession in each class from the time to which the statement was brought by the late edition of the Book of the Constitution and Statistics, published by W. Hickey, to the 4th of March, 1865. February 25, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. February 28, 1865. -- Ordered that 3,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate.
Communication from the Quartermaster General to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, with other papers in relation to the settlement of claims of certain land-grant railroads for the transportation of troops and government stores. February 18, 1865. -- Submitted, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that where a state has been declared to be in insurrection, no person can be recognized as senator from such state...
Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a detailed statement of the payments from the contingent fund of the Senate for the year ending December 5, 1864. March 3, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the special session of the Senate. March 8, 1865.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Nevada, in favor of the establishment of railroad communication between the navigable waters of the Pacific and the mining districts of Nevada. March 7, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a ship canal from Lake Superior through the isthmus or neck of land known as The Portage, which divides the waters of Lake Superior from Portage Lake. February 24, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. 		51
Serial set 1211 In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade, from the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, submitted the following report. The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, in pursuance of the foregoing resolution, ask leave to make the following report, with the accompanying testimony...
In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Doolittle made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 38.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred House Resolution No. 38, having had the same under consideration, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial and documents relative to the claim of Henry Rudd, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Alfred Spink and Daniel Wolf, praying remuneration for losses sustained by them from the seizure of two hundred and seventy-seven bales of cotton by the government of the United States, and the confiscation of the same as property of the rebels, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. February 10, 1865. -- Ordered that 5,000 additional copies be printed. Mr. Wade submitted the following report. The Committee on the Conduct of the War, in pursuance of the foregoing resolution, submit the following report, with accompanying testimony...
Report of the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, on the Bill (H.R. 586) to drop from the rolls of the Army unemployed general officers. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 586.) December 22, 1864. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Taylor of Victoria County, Texas, for compensation for services rendered and supplies advanced to the United States at Chicago, Illinois, during the Black Hawk War of 1832, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 473.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of James Todd, administrator of Joshua D. Todd, late of the United States Navy, deceased, asking that the difference of compensation between the grade of a passed midshipman and master may be allowed said Joshua D. Todd for the time he acted as master, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Crosswell, have considered the same, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the "petition of Denis Nolan, praying that he may be allowed to purchase or lease a strip of land now occupied by him, lying between the enclosure of the light-house and the shore of Lake Michigan, in Michigan City, Indiana," have had the same under consideration, and after consultation with the Commissioner of the General Land Office and Light-house Board, for reasons set forth in their respective communications herewith submitted, and made a part of this report, do not deem it advisable to grant the prayer of petitioner. They therefore request to be discharged from a further consideration of the subject...
In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 359.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, having had under consideration a bill "To Reimburse the State of Missouri for Moneys Expended for the United States," beg leave to report the same back, with a unanimous recommendation in favor of its passage...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 456.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred an Act (H.R. 456) entitled "An Act for the Relief of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company of New York," having carefully examined the same, and the evidence therewith submitted, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1865. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy made the following report to accompany Bill S. No. 70. The Committee on Claims, to whom as referred Senate Bill No. 70, entitled "A Bill To Enable the Accounting Officers of the Treasury To Settle the Claims of the State of Kansas," respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade, from the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, submitted the following testimony of Lieutenant General Grant on the exchange of prisoners...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 442.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying documents relative to the claim of William Pierce, of San Francisco, California, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 111.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom were referred sundry petitions praying for the enactment of a law preferring for appointment in all inferior offices "persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States, who shall have served for the period of three years during the present rebellion, or who shall have suffered permanent disability while in the service, or who shall have been held for one year as prisoners of war, and that the tenure of such office be for life or during good behavior," having considered the same, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 470.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jane W. Nethaway, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hendricks made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 119.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petitions of Woodruff & Beach and others, and of William H. Webb, of New York, and of Paul S. Forbes, of New York, and of James R. Eade [i.e., James Buchanan Eads], of St. Louis, claiming relief for additional cost and expense beyond the contract price for the construction of naval vessels and machinery, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckalew submitted the following report. The joint select committee of the two Houses of Congress appointed at the last session to examine into the present condition of the Senate chamber and hall of the House of Representatives...
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 450.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and documents relative to the claim of Samuel L. Gerald, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 475.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and papers relative to the claim of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 469.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Nicholls [i.e., Nichols], have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 161.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill H.R. No. 161, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Josiah O. Armes," with the accompanying petition and documents, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 109.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and papers relating to the claim of George J. Stubblefield, having examined the evidence in the case, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 448.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and documents, with the report of the Court of Claims, relative to the claim of Captain John Ericsson, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. February 23, 1865. -- Ordered that 1,000 additional copies be printed -- 500 for the use of the Senate and 500 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Foot submitted the following report. Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Senate, jointly with the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House, be, and they are hereby, directed to inquire into the origin of the fire by which the Smithsonian Institution buildings...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 117.) The Committee on Judiciary, to whom were referred the credentials of R. King Cutler and Charles Smith, claiming seats from the State of Louisiana, report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. 102.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the House Joint Resolution No. 102, for the relief of Captain M.M. Hawes, assistant quartermaster, report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1865. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 80.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred Joint Resolution (H.R. No. 80) for the relief of J. & O.P. Cobb, of Indiana, and accompanying papers, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1865. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Pensions, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary McIlvoy, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 566.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 566) for the relief of Francis Patterson, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. March 2, 1865. -- Ordered that 5,000 additional copies be printed. Mr. Doolittle submitted the following report. On the 2d of July last, just before the close of the last session, on motion by Mr. Ramsey, it was "Resolved, that the Committee on Indian Affairs be authorized, during the recess of the Senate, to inquire into and report upon, at the next session of Congress, the policy of providing by general law so as to relieve the public domain of the United States of the possessory title thereto of the several Indian tribes...
In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the credentials of William D. Snow, claiming to have been elected a senator from the State of Arkansas for six years from the 4th of March instant, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. The Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Bill H.R. 51, entitled "An Act To Establish a Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs," having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend to their respective Houses as follows: that the Senate recede from their amendment to the said bill, and the committee agree to the following as a substitute...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred a memorial of the President and the Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers' National Cemetery Association, praying an appropriation to aid in the erection of a monument to the memories of the soldiers who fell in the battles of Gettysburg, have considered the same and ask leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 357.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 357) for the relief of Olivia W. Cannon, widow of Joseph S. Cannon, late a midshipman in the United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1865. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark, from the Committee on Claims, made the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and papers of John Robb, report as follows... 		37
Serial set 1212 Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the second session Thirty-eighth Congress. Army of the Potomac. Battle of Petersburg. 1
Serial set 1213 Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the second session Thirty-eighth Congress. 1
Serial set 1214 Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the second session Thirty-eighth Congress. 1
Serial set 1215 Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 5, 1864, in the eighty-ninth year of the independence of the United States. 1
Serial set 1216 Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress. Part I. 1
Serial set 1217 Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress. Part II 1
Serial set 1218 Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session the Thirty-eighth Congress. Part III. 1
Serial set 1219 Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress. Part IV 1
Serial set 1220 Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress 1
Serial set 1221 Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress. 1
Serial set 1222 Letters from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of additional appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865; and also estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1866.
Finance report. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his annual report of the finances for the year 1864. December 6, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. 		2
Serial set 1223 Receipts and expenditures of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting statement of receipts and expenditures of the Post Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1864. February 1, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Exchange of prisoners of war. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 7, the report of Colonel Key relative to the exchange of prisoners of war. January 9, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Brooklyn Navy yard. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, asking appropriation for addition to the Brooklyn Navy yard. December 19, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Contingent expenses of the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the contingent fund of that Department for the year 1864. February 6, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 24, in regard to the Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department. February 6, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Protection of American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the State, transmitting returns of the United States collectors relative to relief and protection of American seamen. December 13, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Public printing. Letter from the Superintendent of Public Printing, transmitting estimates of additional appropriations for the Office of the Superintendent of the Public Printing for the fiscal year ending on the 30th June, 1865. December 6, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Dock-yards and iron works of Great Britain and France. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of 20th instant, transmitting report of Chief Engineer King, as also May, in relation to iron-clad vessels and dock-yards of Europe. December 22, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. January 19, 1865. -- Ordered that 1,000 copies, with the maps accompanying the same, be printed for the use of the Navy Department.
Exchange of prisoners. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of 21st December last, relative to the exchange of prisoners of war. January 23, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Expenditures of the contingent fund of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting statement of the expenditures of the contingent fund of the Post Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1864. January 18, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Parrott rifled guns. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of 5th instant, in relation to bursting of guns at the bombardment of Fort Fisher. January 20, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Contingent expenses of the State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statement of the incidental expenses of the State Department for the year ending June 30, 1864. January 26, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Officers in the Subsistence Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of 25th instant, transmitting a list of the officers in the Subsistence Department. February 2, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Goods purchased for Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, asking for an appropriation to pay for supplies of goods purchased for Indians in place of certain goods destroyed. February 2, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Lieutenant William B. Cushing. Message from the President of the United States, recommending a vote of thanks to Lieutenant Cushing for his important, gallant, and perilous achievement in destroying the rebel iron-clad steamer Albemarle. December 8, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Appropriations and expenditures for the naval service. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the appropriations and expenditures for the naval service for the year ending June 30, 1864. December 21, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Estimates of appropriations. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting estimates of the appropriations needed for that Department for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1865. December 15, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Captain John A. Winslow. Message from the President of the United States, recommending a vote of thanks to Captain Winslow for skill and gallantry in the destruction of the private craft Alabama. December 8, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Coast Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the number and names of persons employed in the Coast Survey during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864. December 22, 1864. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
One hundred days' volunteers. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 20th instant, relative to one hundred days' men accepted from Ohio and other states. January 21, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Transfers of appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an exhibit of amounts transferred from, and to, appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1864. -- January 6, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Washington Aqueduct. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting supplemental report of the Chief Engineer of the Washington Aqueduct. January 24, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
The public printing. Annual report of the Superintendent of Public Printing, showing the condition of the public printing and binding. January 19. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Medals for Indian chiefs. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, asking for an appropriation for medals for certain Indian chiefs. February 2, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Recruits for old regiments. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 15, 1864, respecting recruits enlisted to fill up old regiments. January 30, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Officers assigned in the Quartermaster's Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 25th instant, in relation to the assignment of officers under the act for the better organization of the Quartermaster's Department. January 30, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 7th instant, calling for report of General Dix in regard to the rebel raid on Lake Erie. January 30, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Major General H.W. Halleck. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 25th instant, in relation to Major General H.W. Halleck. January 30, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Receipts and expenditures of the United States Mint. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States Mint, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864. January 26, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Transit of goods to and from Canada. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of 5th instant, in relation to the transit of goods to and from Canada. January 20, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Exchange of naval prisoners. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 21, transmitting a statement in relation to the exchange of naval prisoners. January 16, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Cancelling and marking stamp. Letter from the Postmaster General, on the subject of a patent cancelling and marking stamp used by the Department. January 20, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Overland California mail. Letter from the Postmaster General, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 5th instant, transmitting list of bidders' names, bids, and proffers to contract for carrying the overland California mail. January 18, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Purchase of products in states in insurrection. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 22d December last, relative to the purchase of products in states declared in insurrection. January 5, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Naval recruits. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 5th instant, relative to the apportionment of naval recruits among the different enrolment districts. January 20, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Payments to Illinois Central Railroad. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 16th instant, in relation to payments to the Illinois Central Railroad Company. January 27, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Owners of slaves enlisted as volunteers. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 17th instant, in relation to appointment of commissioners to award compensation to the owners of slaves enlisted as volunteers. January 26, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed
Army Register. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House relative to the publication of the Army Register. January 30, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Treaty with the King of the Belgians. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of two treaties between the United States and the King of the Belgians in relation to the Scheldt dues, &c. January 9, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Certain amounts paid for commutation. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of 20th instant, relative to amounts paid for commutation by persons illegally drafted. January 24, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Balances of appropriations Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting annual statement of balances of appropriations. January 16, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Tax commissioners of Florida. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House, transmitting copy of a report of Austin Smith on the conduct of tax commissioners for the district of Florida. January 6, 1865. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Rebellious States and ordered to be printed.
Disbursement of the contingent fund of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of the disbursement of the contingent fund in that Department for the year ending June 30, 1864. January 9, 1865. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Reservations in Washington City. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a joint resolution of Congress, approved June 30, 1864, in relation to the public reservations in the District of Columbia. December 7, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. 		44
Serial set 1224 Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1864. 1
Serial set 1225 Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1864. Arts and manufactures. Volume I. 1
Serial set 1226 Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1864. Arts and manufactures. Volume II. Illustrations. 1