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| Serial set 1313 | Delano vs. Morgan. Papers and evidence of the contestant, in the case of Columbus Delano against George W. Morgan, Thirteenth Congressional District of Ohio. | 1 |
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William McGarrahan. (To accompany H.R. 65.) March 26, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Kentucky election. July 9, 1867. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Impeachment of the President. November 25, 1867. --Ordered that the report with the testimony be printed, (the report of the majority and the views of the minorities be printed together,) and the further consideration postponed until Wednesday, the 4th day of December next. Impeachment investigation. Testimony taken before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives in the investigation of the charges against Andrew Johnson, second session Thirty-ninth Congress, and first session Fortieth Congress, 1867. Columbus Delano. March 8, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Mileage of members. March 21, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Joseph J. Stewart. March 8, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Colorado contested election. March 14, 1867. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1315 | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Fortieth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington December 2, 1867, in the ninety-first year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of 6th instant, information in relation to the transfer of unexpended balances of appropriations to other accounts, since the 23d of June, 1860. December 9, 1867. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, a list of the assistant district attorneys appointed in the several districts of the United States, and the amount of salary paid them. December 9, 1867. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a letter from the Director of the Bureau of Statistics in relation to the joint resolution abolishing said Bureau. March 4, 1868. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of the 3d instant, information in relation to the amount of rent paid for public stores in the City of New York, and in relation to other locations for Customs warehouses in said city. February 11, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating report of the board appointed July 6, 1867, to "examine the claims of certain contractors for the construction of vessels of war and steam machinery," under act of Congress approved March 2, 1867. December 4, 1867. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War ad interim, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 27th ultimo, copies of papers relating to the case of Fitz John Porter, late an officer in the Army of the United States. December 4, 1867. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 18, 1867, information in relation to the occupation of the island of San Juan, in Puget Sound. February 22, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 17th of February last, information in relation to the compromise of certain suits known as the Dennistoun cotton suits. March 2, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, information in relation to the appointment of Edmund Cooper assistant secretary of the Treasury, and his assuming the duties of said office. December 10, 1867. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, copies of communications from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue relative to the appointment or removal of assessors and collectors. February 14, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Volunteer officers. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of April 9, 1867, transmitting a list of the volunteer officers in the military service of the government at the time the resolution was received, and a like list of those at present retained in the service. January 16, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of December 9, 1867, information in relation to the action of that Department with reference to captured and abandoned property. January 20, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Joint Committee on Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 29th of November, information in relation to the proceeds of captured and abandoned property received by Colonel S.B. Holabird, of the Quartermasters' Department, while Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the Gulf. December 2, 1867. -- Read. December 4, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 26th ultimo, correspondence with Mr. Motley, recent minister of the United States at Vienna, or with the Austrian government, not heretofore communicated, especially so far as the same relates to the removal of Mr. Motley from his post. December 5, 1867. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 13, 1868, correspondence in relation to a claim to the guano on Alto Velo, an island in the vicinity of Saint Domingo. March 6, 1868. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. March 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a report by the Chief of Engineers, giving information as to the expense of removing the reefs in the East River, New York Harbor, known as Battery Diamond and Coenties, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 4, 1868. March 6, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, statement of contracts made by the Quartermasters' Department during the month of February, 1868. March 11, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 31st of February last, information in relation to the abduction of one Allan Macdonald from the Township of Moore, in Canada. March 6, 1868. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. March 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War ad interim, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 4, 1867, information relative to the reduction of the military reservation of Point San Jose, California. December 12, 1867. -- 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 25th ultimo, information in regard to the formation and the functions of the government of the United States of North Germany. December 12, 1867. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant, information in relation to the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its branches, and the Central Pacific Railroad Company. December 12, 1867. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, a statement showing the comparative rates now paid by the United States for the transportation of troops and military stores to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, eastern division, and to the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company. February 14, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, a report of the Commissary General of Subsistence, showing the quantity and money value of subsistence stores issued to Indians under charge of the Indian Bureau. February 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant, information in relation to instructions issued to General Pope and General Meade, on their being assigned to the command of the Third Military District. February 26, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 11, 1867, information in relation to the cost of opening, for first-class steamboat navigation, Bayou Manchac, Amite River, lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain. January 27, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. February 27, 1868. -- 3,000 additional copies ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, information in relation to Bill (S. 141) entitled "An Act for the Further Security of Equal Rights in the District of Columbia," presented to him on the 11th day of December, 1867. January 24, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, in answer to resolution of the 16th instant, transmitting a report of the amounts paid for special counsel and United States district attorneys during the years ending June 30, 1865, 1866, and 1867, and on the organization of this office. December 20, 1867. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a report and accompanying papers from the Secretary of State, in compliance with the 18th section of the act approved August 18, 1856, regulating the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States. January 9, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, in reply to a resolution of the 8th instant, transmitting copies of official opinions given by him relative to the pay of retired and reserved officers of the Navy. January 11, 1868. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, in reply to resolution of December 20, 1867, asking information in relation to the amounts paid for publishing United States laws and for counsel fees since March 4, 1861. January 9, 1868. -- Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State in answer to resolution of the 13th instant, calling for information relative to the appointment of the American minister at Pekin to a mission in behalf of the Chinese government. January 14, 1868. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to resolution of the 3d ultimo, requesting him to report the amount and character of the taxes collected from the national banks since their establishment, &c.; transmitting copies of reports from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the United States Treasurer in answer thereto. January 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to resolution of the 16th ultimo, relative to the amount of United States bonds issued to the Union Pacific Railroad Company's branches. January 9, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, information in relation to the withholding of a part of the salary of judges of the courts of the United States for taxes. December 9, 1867. -- 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 February 17, 1868, information in relation to the number of military districts or headquarters in the District of Columbia. March 3, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 17th of February, ultimo, information in relation to the alleged interference of our consul at Rome in the late difficulties in Italy. March 6, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 29, 1868, information in relation to the case of Lucius P. Bryan, same time under indictment in the United States Court for the District of Connecticut for robbing the mails. March 4, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 17, 1867, calling for copies of papers on file in the Third Auditor's office in relation to claims and accounts in the Quartermasters' Department which have not been paid, copies of papers of John Bullfinch [i.e., Bulfinch] and others, owners of the brig Ocean Belle. February 5, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of 6th instant, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State concerning the International Monetary Conference held at Paris in June, 1867. December 19, 1867. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and, with accompanying papers, ordered to be printed. |
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Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating information in relation to the Tabequache band of Utah Indians, and the treaty of the 2d of March, 1868, with the Utah Indians. June 27, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, information in relation to the public buildings at Santa Fe, New Mexico. July 9, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a letter from Brevet Major General A.B. Dyer, Chief of Ordnance, asking a trial by court-martial for offences imputed to him in a report made to Congress by the Joint Committee on Ordnance. July 22, 1868. -- Referred to the Joint Committee on Ordnance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, information in relation to the number of persons employed in the Navy yards on the 1st day of January, 1868, and the 1st day of July, 1868. July 17, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, information in relation to the discovery, occupation, and character of the Midway Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. July 20, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 13, 1866, the report of Brevet Brigadier General W.F. Raynolds, on the exploration of the Yellowstone and the country drained by that river. July 19, 1867. -- Read; ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. July 17, 1868. -- Resolved, that the report proper of General Raynolds... Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 28th ultimo, correspondence relating to the act of Congress prohibiting persons in the diplomatic service from wearing uniforms or official costumes. June 23, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating correspondence relative to an alleged practice of the Danish authorities to banish convicts to this country. July 3, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 13th of January last, information in relation to existing and unexpended appropriations. April 8, 1868. -- 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 14th instant, information in relation to any application by any party for exclusive privileges in connection with hunting, trading, and the fisheries in Alaska. April 27, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 27th of January last, information in relation to sales of captured and abandoned cotton. May 18, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a letter of Major General Canby and its enclosures, relating to an ordinance of the South Carolina Convention providing for the assembling of the general assembly, the temporary organization of each house, the installation of governor and lieutenant governor, and the continuation of the President of the convention in office until after the installation for the purpose of administering oaths. May 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 28th ultimo, information in relation to the number and designations of military departments formed since the first day of August, 1867. April 27, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the General of the Army of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 5, 1867, a statement of the number of white and colored voters registered in each of the states subject to the reconstruction acts of Congress, with other statistics relative to the same subject. May 13, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 17, 1867, information in reference to the seizure and confiscation of property under the act of July 17, 1862, entitled "An Act To Suppress Insurrection, To Punish Treason and Rebellion, To Seize and Confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes." May 21, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 3d instant, information in relation to claimants for indemnity for depredations by Sioux Indians in Minnesota, under the act of February 16, 1863. March 17, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 16th ultimo, information in relation to prohibiting Oneida Indians from cutting and removing timber from the common lands of the tribe. July 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of contracts made by the Quartermasters' Department during the month of April, 1868. May 26, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a statement from the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, showing the items omitted and changes made in the bill making appropriations for the Indian service for the year ending June 30, 1869. June 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by a despatch from the acting United States consul in charge of the United States legation in Costa Rica, in relation to a new port at Tivives, in the Gulf of Nicoya, on the Pacific Coast. June 2, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, information in relation to the disposition made of the proceeds of captured and abandoned property received by Colonel Holabird, Assistant Quartermaster. March 16, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of contracts made by the Quartermasters' Department during the month of May, 1868. June 16, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 16th instant, information relative to the present status of the claims of loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, under the forty-ninth article of the treaty with those tribes of April 28, 1866. June 18, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 27th ultimo, information in relation to the reasons why a number of persons enrolled as Creek Indians by the Creek agent in 1867 said to have been stricken from said rolls, and as to the payment of their per capita dividend. June 10, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to recent events in the empire of Japan. May 25, 1868. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. June 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 3d instant, information in relation to existing laws regulating the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels. February 20, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. April 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a corrected copy of the constitution framed by the Virginia Convention, as furnished by Brevet Major General J.M. Schofield, commanding the First Military District. May 18, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating information concerning the naturalization treaty recently negotiated between the United States and North Germany. April 27, 1868. -- 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 December 20, 1867, information in relation to the military reservation at Fort Ridgely. March 18, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 27th of January last, information in relation to the arrest and trial of Rev. John McMahon, Robert B. Lynch and John Warren, by the government of Great Britain. March 16, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, returning Bill (S. 213) entitled "An Act To Amend an Act Entitled 'An Act To Amend the Judiciary Act, Passed the Twenty-fourth of September, Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-nine,'" with his objections. March 25, 1868. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 28th ultimo, correspondence with the authorities of Great Britain in relation to a new postal treaty. June 8, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th of February last, correspondence upon the subject of the murder, by the inhabitants of the island of Formosa, of the ship's company of the American bark Rover. April 23, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, information in relation to the course of practice in respect to the settlement of public accounts and the drawing of requisitions therefor by the Secretary of War upon the Treasury, prior to the passage of the late act respecting the prompt settlement of public accounts. April 7, 1868. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, returning Bill (H.R. No. 1039) "To Admit the State of Arkansas to Representation in Congress," with his objections thereto. June 20, 1868. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, enclosing a communication from General Stoneman, commanding the First Military District, relative to a proposed election to be held therein; also the draught of a bill based on the recommendation of said communication. June 27, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating the only paper that has been submitted to him relating to the proceedings to which it refers in the State of Georgia. May 21, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating information in relation to recent raids and outrages upon citizens of Texas and in the Chickasaw nation by bands of Indians belonging to the Kiowa and Comanche tribes. May 26, 1868. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, a list of the states whose legislatures have ratified the proposed 14th Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, also a copy of the resolutions of ratification. July 15, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, recommending the removal of the Indians located on the Smith River Farm, in California, to the Round Valley reservation in that state. July 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating correspondence between the Secretary of State and the minister resident of the United States in Japan, showing the importance of an amendment to the law of the United States prohibiting the coolie trade. July 20, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating papers relating to the rights of freedmen under the 3d article of the treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians, concluded April 28, 1866. July 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, recommending certain amendments to the Constitution of the United States. July 18, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in obedience to law, the report of the board of naval officers appointed to select suitable locations for powder magazines. July 25, 1868. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 24th instant, information in relation to the construction of the iron-clad Monitor. July 25, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. July 25, 1868. -- Ordered that 500 extra copies be printed for the use of the Navy Department. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 6th of February last, information in relation to the expense of maintaining the military establishment in the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. July 13, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. |
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Letter from the Secretary of State to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, in relation to the cases of the British vessels Volant and Science. June 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 5,551 [i.e., No. 551]. Report of the commissioners appointed under act of June 27, 1866, to provide for the revision and consolidation of the statute laws of the United States. June 26, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter of E.W. Peck, president of the Constitutional Convention of Alabama, communicating a copy of the constitution of the State of Alabama, as revised and amended by the convention assembled at Montgomery, on the 5th day of November, 1867. February 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures and condition of the Institution for the year 1867 Report of the Secretary of the Senate, giving a detailed statement of the payments from the contingent fund of the Senate for the year ending December 2, 1867. December 18, 1867. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of C.H. Howard. Assistant Commissioner of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, in relation to the opinion of Attorney General Jones, of the State of Maryland, pronouncing void the decision of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, releasing apprentices bound under the laws of Maryland. February 4, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Naturalization. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in relations to the rights of American citizens in foreign countries. February 5, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Henderson submitted the following statements. The subjoined statements give the movement of the public debt from July 1, 1865, to December 1, 1867, and of the annual movements of the same from July 1, 1861, to July 1, 1867. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. Petition of members of the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina, praying aid to the Port Royal Railroad Company in completing its road from Port Royal to Augusta, Georgia. February 17, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, recommending that aid be granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. February 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Testimony in the case of Hon. R.R. Butler. April 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of aid to the Southern Pacific Railroad. April 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Memorial of H.M. Teller, remonstrating against the admission of Colorado as a state into the Union. February 20, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, relative to the construction of a draw-bridge across the Missouri River at Council Bluffs. April 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Report of the Librarian of Congress, showing the condition of the Library during the year ending December 1, 1867. December 8, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed, with 300 extra copies for use of Library. Resolutions of the Legislative Assembly of Colorado Territory, in favor of additional compensation to secure an early survey of the public lands in the mountain regions of that territory. February 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislative Assembly of Colorado Territory, in favor of the appointment of commissioners to examine, survey, and set apart to that territory the land known as the Upper Plateau land. February 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Colorado Territory, in favor of making the rates of postage uniform throughout the country. February 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Petition of the Ladies' Mt. Vernon Association of the Union, praying an appropriation of $9,000, as compensation for losses sustained by reason of the stoppage, during the war, of the boat plying between Washington and Mt. Vernon. June 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Benjamin Severson, in relation to the Washington City canal. July 2, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Translation of an act of the government of Mexico incorporating the Mexico and United States Railroad Company. July 3, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 73. Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed to the several states by a joint resolution of the two Houses of Congress, passed on the 13th day of June, 1866, to be designated Article XIV of Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. July 6, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Edward D. Neill, praying the publication of the records of the Virginia Company, of London, now in the Library of Congress. May 28, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, relative to the survey of the lands in the Red River valley. March 23, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the National Convention of Manufacturers, urging a change in the present system of internal revenue. January 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota, relative to protection to American citizens in foreign countries. February 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of removing the Indian tribes now occupying the country lying between the forks of the Cheyenne River, Dakota Territory, to some other locality, and that that region may be made available to the needs of the white man. February 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Conness submitted the following resolution. Whereas it is stated on credible, if not undoubted, authority that American citizens have been arrested, and are deprived of their liberty by the government of Great Britain, upon suspicion of conspiracy and the commission of overt acts of hostility against the peace and dignity of that government... Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a wagon road from Hidesville, in Humboldt County, to the southern boundary-line of said county, and a wagon road from Arcata to Weaverville, in said state. April 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, for a grant of lands to aid in the construction of the Chatfield Branch Railroad. April 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the General Assembly of Iowa, in relation to the project of connecting the waters of the Mississippi River with the waters of Lake Michigan. April 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of aid to the San Diego and Gila Southern Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company in the completion of its road from the port of San Diego to the Gila River. April 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, praying for the relief of Peter J. Knapp, private, Company H, 5th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry. April 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Israel Hall, Egbert Judson, and others, claiming to be the owners of the island Yerba Buena, in the bay of San Francisco, California, protesting against the passage of the bill which proposes to transfer to the Pacific Railroad Company more than nine-tenths of the rights and franchises of said island. February 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of Colorado Territory, in favor of opening the Fort Collins military reservation, subject to the pre-emption and homestead laws. February 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1867. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Mr. Williams submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Indian Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of adopting the following as the future policy of the government towards the Indians, excepting those now on reservations, and those who have adopted the customs of civilization... Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in favor of impartial suffrage in all the states of the Union, that the present state governments of the recent rebel states may be annulled, and the adoption of the necessary steps for instituting loyal state governments. December 9, 1867. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1867. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Drake submitted the following resolution. Concurrent resolution in relation to the annual message of the President of the United States. Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the President of the United States, in declaring, in his annual message to the two Houses of Congress at the present session, that the acts heretofore passed by those Houses in relation to the reconstruction of the insurrectionary states... Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of such assistance to the Northern Pacific Railroad as will insure its immediate construction and completion. December 9, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. March 4, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of Andrew J. Donelson and Minor Meriwether, for the board of the levee commissioners of the counties of Bolivar, Washington, and Issaquena, Mississippi, praying aid in rebuilding the levees of the Yazoo basin of the Mississippi valley. March 5, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. No. 418.) In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Hon. S.P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States, submitting some observations in respect to the proper mode of proceeding upon the impeachment which has been preferred by the House of Representatives against the President now in office. March 4, 1868. -- Read, referred to the select committee appointed to consider and report upon the message of the House of Representatives relative to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, to the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, respecting the removal of obstructions in the eastern approach to New York Harbor. March 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of granting to the Union Pacific Railway Southern Branch Company the same subsidy in bonds of the United States as is granted to the eastern branch of the Union Pacific Railway. March 13, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the St. Croix River. March 21, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Petition of presidents and executive officers of railroads throughout the United States, praying an immediate extension of the government aid to the Union Pacific Railway, eastern division. June 3, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of a grant of lands in lieu of those lands lost to schools by Indian reservations and trust lands, and in the disposition of Indian reservations and trust lands the 16th and 36th sections may be reserved for school purposes. March 16, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter of the President of the National Academy of Sciences, communicating, in obedience to law, a report of the operations of that society for the past year. July 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. July 11, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, and 1,000 additional copies for the use of the Senate and 1,000 copies for the academy. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the establishment of a United States land office in the valley of the Red River of the north. March 21, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of an amendment to the act entitled "An Act for a Grant of Lands to the State of Kansas, in Alternate Sections, To Aid in the Construction of Certain Railroads and Telegraphs in Said State," approved March 3, 1863, so as to make certain provisions for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company. March 13, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Report of the executive committee, appointed under a resolution of the regents of the Smithsonian Institution, on the influences of the Washington City Canal on the health of the population of Washington City. June 16, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of persons interested in the mining of coal in the United States, protesting against any action which would tend towards the reduction of the present duty on coal. June 16, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Constitutional Convention of Texas, in favor of the transfer from the military commander of the Fifth Military District to that convention the power and authority to appoint and remove registrars for ascertaining and recording the qualified voters of that state. June 17, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, on the subject of a return to specie payments. December 10, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee of Finance. December 13, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the honorable Philip F. Thomas, senator elect from Maryland, be admitted to his seat, on his taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution of laws of the United States... Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the establishment of certain mail routes. March 31, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Lime Springs, Iowa, to Spring Valley, in said state. March 31, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad. March 23, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, relative to the improvement of the Minnesota River. March 23, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in relation to mail service between Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory, and Helena, Montana Territory. March 23, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, relative to the unexpended balance of an appropriation made by Congress for the construction of a wagon road from the western boundary of Minnesota to the Missouri River. March 23, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions the Legislature of Iowa, asking Congress to declare the Iowa River unnavigable north of the City of Wapello, in Louisa County. April 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, for additional appropriations for the survey and improvement of the Mississippi River, above Rock Island, and of the Minnesota River. April 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to report a bill abrogating the unauthorized and illegal state governments now existing in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Arkansas... Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of a grant of lands to aid in the construction of the Atchison, Hays City and Santa Fe Railroad. February 25, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the payment of the expenses incurred by said state on account of the militia called out by order of Major General Curtis for the purpose of repelling the rebel raiders of Sterling Price from the states of Kansas and Missouri. February 24, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey submitted the following resolutions. Resolved, that the Committee on Foreign Relations is hereby directed to inquire into the expediency of a treaty between the United States and the dominion of Canada, which shall contain the following provisions... Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of the Wisconsin River Valley Railroad. May 18, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolutions. Whereas the people of the United States are grievously burdened by an enormous public debt, and a system of unequal and unjust taxation to raise money to pay the interest upon it... Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, in relation to the reorganization of the Treasury Department. February 3, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Ramsey submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Foreign Relations is hereby directed to inquire into the expediency of a treaty between the United States and the dominion of Canada, which shall contain the following provisions... Letter of the Secretary of State, to Hon. Charles Sumner, enclosing a report of the Examiner of Claims of that Department in relation to claims by citizens of the United States upon the six hundred thousand dollars paid to this government by the government of Japan. March 17, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 123. Resolution in relation to admission to the Senate galleries, during the trial of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. March 10, 1868. -- Considered, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of Colorado Territory, remonstrating against the admission of said territory as a state into the Union. March 11, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Minnesota state line to the Missouri River, at Yankton, Dakota Territory. March 21, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letters from the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Navy to Hon. Charles Summer, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, in relation to the services of Matthew Low, a resident of Nassau, New Providence. June 12, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 535. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of an increase of the mail service on the route from Fort Abercrombie to Pembina, Dakota Territory. March 31, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following motion. Ordered, that the order of the 15th of March instant, relative to admission to the gallery, be suspended until further order, and that the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate shall take special care that order shall be observed in the galleries during the trial of the impeachment now pending... Resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota, in relation to the purchase of Alaska and the transfer of the territories between Minnesota and Alaska to the dominion of Canada. March 31, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky, protesting against the action of the House of Representatives in refusing to admit the representatives of that state to seats in that body. March 26, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letters from the Secretary of State to Hon. Charles Sumner, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, relative to the case of the British steamer Labuan. June 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 528. Report of George H. Elliot, G.H. Mendell, and B.S. Alexander, officers of engineers, to General A.A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, of an examination of Yerba Buena Island, showing its importance as a military defence to the harbor of San Francisco. June 12, 1868. --Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 159. Memorial of citizens of Baltimore interested in the mining of coal, remonstrating against any reduction of the duty on coal. June 17, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Francis Leiber, Professor of Public Law in the Law School of Columbia College, in the City of New York, praying a revision of the law regulating postage on printed matter to the territories of the United States. June 12, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the House of Representatives, in relation to the treaty concluded on the 27th day of May, 1868, with the Great and Little Osage tribe of Indians. June 19, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Papers relating to the amount of bonds issued to the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its branches; the amount of interest paid by the United States and repaid by the companies in cash and in transportation. June 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of soldiers in service of United States, residing in the City of Washington, praying that they may be granted the elective franchise, and protesting against the action of the register of said city in throwing out their votes after the return of the result of the election was duly made by the sworn commissioners of election. June 23, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey submitted the following memorial, &c. Northern Pacific Railroad... In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Constitution should be so amended as to create a tribunal with jurisdiction to decide all questions of constitutional power that shall arise in the government of the United States, and all questions of conflict of jurisdiction between it and the state governments... Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of paying the claims for labor done and materials furnished in building a mill at New Ulm in 1862, pursuant to an order to General Pope, commanding the District of Minnesota. March 31, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Memorial of American Statistical Association, in relation to the metrical system of weights, measures, and coins. February 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a report from the Chief of Engineers relative to the construction of a harbor of refuge on Block Island. April 23, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of an appropriation for the erection of a light-house at Trinidad, in Klamath County. April 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota, relative to the Fort Ridgley [i.e., Ridgely] military reservation in Minnesota. April 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Henderson submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting to the Senate, for its consideration at an early day, a bill containing the following provisions, to wit... Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, relative to the improvement of the Wisconsin and Fox River. April 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment intended to be submitted by Mr. Doolittle to Mr. Morton's resolution of the 8th instant, directing the Committee on the Judiciary to report a bill abrogating illegal state governments in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, &c., by striking out all after the word "Resolved," and inserting, in lieu thereof, the following words, viz... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Williams submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing for the funding and consolidation of the debt of the United States into bonds or obligations, the principal of which shall never become due and payable... Resolution of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, in favor of such an appropriation as will insure the regular and prompt issue of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. March 6, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of the construction of a railroad between San Francisco and the Missouri Valley, by the southern route, and passing through the territories of Arizona and New Mexico. March 2, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of citizens of Territory of Colorado, praying the admission of that territory as a state into the Union, and protesting against the memorial of H.M. Teller against the admission of said territory as a state into the Union. February 29, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolutions. Resolutions declaring the constitutional responsibility of Senators for their votes in cases of impeachment... Letter from the Secretary of State to the Hon. John Sherman, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, transmitting correspondence with the State Department in relation to the injurious effect upon the Nova Scotia coal trade, occasioned by the abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty. June 3, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 180. Letter from the Secretary of State, to the Hon. Charles Sumner, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, in relation to the case of the British brig Dashing Wave. July 17, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 624. Letter of the President of constitutional convention of Texas communicating the report of special committee on lawlessness and violence in that state. July 20, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed to the several states by a joint resolution of Congress passed on the 13th day of June, 1866, to be designated as Article XIV of amendments to the Constitution of the United States. July 18, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of A.J. Marshall, on the ventilation of the two halls of Congress. July 28, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Fortieth Congress. December 3, 1867. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of an appropriation to construct a wagon-road from Fort Abercrombie down the Red River of the north to the Dakota settlement, on the Pembina River, thence to parallel of latitude forty-nine degrees north, in the direction of the Hudson's Bay Company's settlement, and to bridge the Cheyenne, Wild Rice, Elm, Goose, Turtle, Salt, Park, and Pembina rivers. March 21, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Letters from the comptroller of the currency, to the Hon. John Sherman, chairman of the Committee on Finance, in relation to proposed amendments of the national currency act. May 29, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany the proposed amendments reported by Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, to the Bill S. No. 440. |
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In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 595.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of John Potts, submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 434.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Barker, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Valentine H. Voorhees, praying compensation for services as 2d lieutenant in the 13th Regiment New York Heavy Artillery from March 1 to November 1, 1864, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 35.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 35, for the relief of John F. Stewart... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate resolution No. --, directing them to inquire into the propriety and necessity of taking such steps as shall be found necessary to restore to the body of the public domain the tract of land in California known as the "Gabillan grant," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 340.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Chittenden, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 342.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Stewart, having considered the same submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of George Ashley, administrator de bonis non of Samuel Holgate, late of Vermont, deceased, presented the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 322.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sherman H. Cowles, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Wylly Woodbridge, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 291.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ann Kelly, widow of Bernard Kelly, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 55.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the joint resolution for the relief of Leonard J. Smith... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of James C. Pickett, with the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 500.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lucinda R. Johnson, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 241.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred a bill authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to pay certain employes of the Patent Office for services rendered, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 519.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Emma M. Moore, widow of Senior Captain Edwin W. Moore... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yates made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 11.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was recommitted Senate Bill No. 11, to admit the State of Colorado into the Union; to whom was also referred resolutions of the House of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado, requesting Congress "to admit Colorado as a state... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 339.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Webb, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 314.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George T. Brien, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the New York and Virginia Steamship Company, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 25, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, having considered the petition of Jerome J. Getty, of Stearns County, Minnesota, asking payment for certain property destroyed by United States troops in said state in the winter of 1864-'5, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Milton B. Duffield, late marshal of the United States for the Territory of Arizona, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 318.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charlotte Posey, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 323.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Michael Kelly, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 359.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Louisa Fitch, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 477.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles C. O'Neill, have examined the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the select committee appointed to revise the rules of the Senate, submitted the following report. The select committee appointed to revise the rules of the Senate have had the same under consideration, and recommend the following for the standing rules for conducting business in the Senate of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 383.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Susan Overlees, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 332.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 332) granting a pension to John W. Harris, having considered the papers accompanying it, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 422.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Maria Schweitzer... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 421.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Caroline E. Thomas... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 282.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Annie E. Dixon... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 408.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Asbury Dickens [i.e., Dickins], report... In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 598.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Scott, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, of New Hampshire, from the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 587.) The great want of our foreign service is special knowledge and experience on the part of those who enter it as officials... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the draught of a section prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury for incorporation into one of the fiscal bills, together with a communication from the secretary recommending the repeal of all acts and parts of acts which authorize the abatement, reduction, or return of duties on account of damages occurring to merchandise during voyage, or from injury or destruction by fire or other cause, after reaching port and while yet in custody of Customs officers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Drake made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 157.) The Committee on the Pacific Railroad beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 596.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Eliza Potter, submit the following as their report of the case... In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 591.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of O.N. Cutler have examined the same, and submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. July 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 257.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 257, for the relief of Clement T. Rice and Chaney N. Noteware, late register and receiver at Carson City, Nevada, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 148.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred Senate Joint Resolution No. 148, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the duties on certain religious books donated to the people of the United States, having fully considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the memorial of members of the First Church Society of Boston, praying for a remission of the duties on painted glass windows, valued at from $10,000 to $15,000, to be used in their new church, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 501.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Harriet W. Pond, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 517.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rehma Brown... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 496.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Riley H. Smith, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Narcom, of North Carolina, asking compensation for property destroyed by Union troops, in 1862, at Edenton, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of M.N. Ladovich, of Louisiana, praying compensation for the steamer Diana, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 457.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth J. Miller, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 207.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred so much of the President's message as relates to the public debt, and the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances, is called upon to report upon three important subjects necessarily connected with each other... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cole, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Benjamin Tilley, have examined the same, with the proofs, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cole made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 367.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Albert Grant, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. George B. Simpson, having considered the same, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 341.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John W. Salyers, of Indiana, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 333.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of Julia M. Molin, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, who were instructed by a resolution of the Senate, adopted on the 5th day of December last, "to inquire what changes have been made in the organization of the several Navy yards of the United States in the various civil departments thereof; whether such changes have added to their efficiency for the transaction of business, and whether the expense of their maintenance has been increased or diminished thereby; and to report what legislation, if any, is necessary for the improvement of the system in force, and for the more judicious and economical expenditure of the public money," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 185.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill S. 185, submit their report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs and representatives of Miss Harriott Pinckney, of South Carolina, praying the restoration to them of Pinckney Island, in South Carolina, the same having been confiscated for the non-payment of taxes, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of J.F. Caldwell... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard made the following report. The select committee appointed to consider and report upon the message of the House of Representatives, relating to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, submitted the following... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Vice-Admiral David D. Porter... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 292.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Maria Raftery, widow of Patrick Raftery, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 424.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Caroline A. Bachelder, late widow of David W. Edwards, deceased, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Harriet W. Pond... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 293.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of members of the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina, praying aid to the Port Royal Railroad Company, in completing its road from Port Royal to Augusta, Georgia, made the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 420.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Governor Merrill and other state officers and citizens of Iowa, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 25, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1129.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 1129, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the widow of Colonel Mulligan $5,000 out of any moneys appropriated for the pay of the Army, submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 436.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and proofs of James Hooper... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 48.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Albert Greenleaf, late Navy agent at Washington, accompanied by Senate Bill No. 48, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. To accompany Bill S. No. 151. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the bill for relief of Goldsmith Brothers... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 238.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 238) granting a pension to Carrie E. Burdett, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 232.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 232, granting a pension to Henrietta Nobles, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs of the Senate, to whom was referred the petition of Emma M. Moore, widow of Commodore E.W. Moore, deceased, praying the payment to her of the sum of $5,000 as due to her late husband as an officer of the Navy of Texas before its annexation, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 597.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rebecca C. Meeker, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Minerva Lewis, administratrix of the estate of Ezekiel Lewis, deceased, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. The memorial of the Protestant Episcopal Parish of St. Mary's, Burlington, New Jersey... In the Senate of the United States. July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mary C. Lane, formerly of Burlington, Vermont, for compensation of property alleged to have been destroyed by the government troops in Mississippi, during the rebellion, made the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 73.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred S.R. 73, for the relief of the Columbia Turnpike Company, submit their report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Black Beaver, a Delaware Indian, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 867.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House Bill 867, for the relief of Jonathan Jessup, postmaster at York, Pennsylvania, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 456.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sylvester Nugent, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Jeremiah Carhart, praying an extension of his patent for certain improvements in reed musical instruments, such as melodeons, seraphines, parlor organs, &c., and that Congress confirm the re-issued patent of August 18, 1857, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 452.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the papers and petition of Parker Quince... In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 279.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 279, for the relief of William Henry Otis... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1069.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 1069, for the relief of Charles B. Tanner, late first lieutenant 69th Pennsylvania Volunteers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Washington Tams, who is represented by Richard B. Duane, Esq., submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 548.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Amanda Stackhouse, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed, with the accompanying evidence. Mr. Johnson made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the credentials of the Hon. Philip F. Thomas, senator elect from the State of Maryland, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman made the following report (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 881.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred H.R. 881, refunding duties paid under protest on the importation from France of a bell donated for the use of St. Mary's Institute and Notre Dame University, Indiana, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 343.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of W.G. Cummings... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 344.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Admiral Charles H. Bell... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 337.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of John H. Finlay, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 251.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles N. Goulding, submit this report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a memorial for the relief of William L. Adams, together with sundry accompanying papers, have considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 391.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rosa Lenker, guardian of Edward Hamel, Jr., having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 168.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 168, "An Act for the Relief of George E. Glenn, Additional Paymaster United States Army," ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 382.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Obadiah T. Plum, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 281.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anne Dycher, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin, from the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, submitted the following report. The Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate have, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate, passed on the fifteenth day of April last, examined and thoroughly investigated the accounts of John W. Forney, secretary of the Senate, from the date of his election to the present time, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 427.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eveline Jameson, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 425.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Michigan, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 162.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of the heirs of Simeon Castro, and their assigns, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom the petition of Sister Xavier and Sister Mary De Salls, of Charleston, South Carolina, was referred, submit their report... In the Senate of the United States. June 26, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a communication of the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the appointment of Louis V. Bogy as a special agent to receive and purchase goods for the Indian service, together with a copy of his appointment, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 321.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Gaither, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 317.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sylvanus Blodget, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 308.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition of General Robert Anderson, as trustee of his wife, Mrs. E.B. Anderson, and accompanying papers, have examined the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 319.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Bridget W. McGrorty, widow of Lieutenant William B. McGrorty, 5th Minnesota Volunteers, having had the same under consideration report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 315.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Marquis D.L. Mitchell, of the Creek Nation, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of enlisted men of the 21st New York Cavalry Volunteers, have examined the matter, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret A. Laurie, have examined the proofs presented in the case, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 490.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, in regard to the claim of John Bulfinch and others, owners of the brig Ocean Belle, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 494.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Steepleton, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 499.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret Whitt, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 454.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel N. Miller, praying an extension of his patent for an improved compound anchor, having duly considered the same, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cole made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 128.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of George B. Halstead, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 780.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Martha M. Jones, praying for confirmation of a certain patent for an invention in the manufacture of white oxide of zinc, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 175.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 175, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 518.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Fannie Fetty... In the Senate of the United States. June 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 630.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy A. Stocks, widow of Reuben Stocks, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 356.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 356, for the relief of Messrs. Gelatt & Moore, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. 218.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Joint Resolution 218, for the relief of John M. Palmer, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 17, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred Senate resolution of the 12th of February last, instructing said committee to inquire into the facts connected with the forcible ejection from the cars of the Alexandria and Washington Railroad of one of the employes of the Senate, on account of race... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 783.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Pierce... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 520.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Martha Stout... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 536.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Carson, praying compensation for subsistence furnished to prisoners confined in the Bourbon County jail, in Kentucky, by order of the military authorities of the United States, from August, 1862, to the latter part of 1865, having considered the same, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 550.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Robert Ford, submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 553.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Stephen G. Montano, a citizen of Peru, with the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration and ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 545.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of New York, praying that a pension be allowed to Hannah Cook, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 521.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles C. Higdon... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Margaret A. Russell, for the value of ninety-four hogsheads of sugar taken by the United States forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 546.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Jane McMurray, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hendricks made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 486.) The Committee on Naval Affairs have carefully considered the subject-matter of a bill entitled "An Act to Facilitate the Settlement of Certain Prize Cases in the Southern District of Florida," and respectfully recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. June 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hendricks made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 555.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred, on the 23d April last, the memorial of the governor of the State of Minnesota, praying the passage of an act giving construction to existing laws granting lands to said state for a state university... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 549.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Catharina Eckhardt, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 547.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Sheets, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 516.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Julia Whistler, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 25, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of E. Lockwood requesting the Senate "to refer the claims of Charles Rosefield, for subsisting a part of a regiment of troops in Camden, New Jersey, in the summer of 1861, to the Committee on Claims of the Senate, for examination, and to authorize and request said committee to send for papers relating to the case, on file in the War Department," beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was submitted the petition of Dennis Sullivan, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 428.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 428, for the relief of the sureties of Israel T. Canby, late receiver of public moneys at Crawfordsville, Indiana, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 26, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Clara Moore, submit this their report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. June 26, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Newell, submit their report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 575.) The Committee on Claims having considered the petition of Joseph Segar, of Virginia, praying compensation for commissary and quartermasters' supplies seized and appropriated by the military authorities of the United States of the property of the said Joseph Segar... In the Senate of the United States. June 29, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 65.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 65, entitled "An Act for the Relief of William McGarraham [i.e., McGarrahan]," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 9.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate resolution No. 9, in favor of A.W. Walker, submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 338.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Blake, a soldier of the War of 1812, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 474.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Captain Dan. Ellis, submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 473.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles E. Capehart, submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 253.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom were referred the petition and evidence of William H. Murphy, a mail contractor of the State of Missouri, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany the Joint Resolution (S. 89) providing for the representation of the United States at the International Maritime Exhibition to be held at Havre.)... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 166.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of the owners of the land within United States survey, No. 3217, in the State of Missouri, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 256.) The Committee on the Pacific Railroad, to whom was referred the memorial of the "Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company," makes the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Robert Robinson, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 419.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Atkinson... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 423.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Jackson, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 580) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frederick Vincent, administrator of James Le Caze, surviving partner of Le Caze & Mallet, having had the same under consideration, from a careful examination of the evidence adduced, beg leave to adopt the following report, made by Mr. Foster to the Senate at the first session 36th Congress, as expressing the views of the committee... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 495.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Reens [i.e., Reems], having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 497.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Catharine Wands, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 498.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anna M. Howard, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William J. Blackistone, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 316.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rebecca V. Senor, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 302.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frances S. Richardson, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 320.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Lynch, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1118.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred H.R. No. 1118 entitled "An Act To Confirm to J.M. Hutchings and J.C. Lamon Their Preemption Claims in the Yosemite Valley, in the State of California," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 25, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Joint Committee on Ordnance, submitted the following report. The Select Joint Committee on Ordnance, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of War to the President of the Senate of the 21st of July, enclosing a letter of the 20th of July from Brevet Major General A.B. Dyer, Chief of Ordnance, have attended to the matter of the communication submitted to them, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. July 22, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Jonas P. Levy, with the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 633.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy Smith, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 17, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 163.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petitions of Benjamin Cooley and James W. Boswell, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joel Hyatt, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 634.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Violet Henry, widow of Sherrod Henry, late a private in Company D, 60th Regiment United States Colored Troops, praying a pension, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 606.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill S. No. 606, having considered the same, report: The bill authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to place upon the pension roll the name of Robert Watson... In the Senate of the United States. July 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, of New Hampshire, made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 175.) The Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, after investigation into the facts and circumstances connected with the recent letting of the contract for supplying the Interior Department and its various bureaus and offices with stationery for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1868, and ending June 30, 1869, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 256.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Joint Resolution (H.R. 256) for the relief of Martha E. King, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 162.) The following papers have been referred to the Committee on Commerce... In the Senate of the United States. July 17, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cole made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 626.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret Doyle, praying compensation for cutting a quantity of timber in Nevada, under a contract with the Indian Department, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 635.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Richard M. Hoe, praying an extension of his patent for an improvement in printing machines, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 310.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred Senate Bill 310, "To Incorporate the Georgetown and Washington Canal and Sewerage Company," beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 167.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the letter of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey and other papers relative to losses sustained by certain Coast Survey officers consequent upon the sinking of the United States schooner Arago, in the Neuse River, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 17, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Ordnance, submitted the following report. The Select Committee on Ordnance, to whom was referred the joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of March 30, 1867, having had under consideration the official records relating to the "purchases, contracts, and experiments of the Ordnance Department," and the testimony of numerous witnesses respecting the same, report, in part... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Thomas H. Dowling, praying for the passage of a law to restore to him the possession of certain land on the island of Yerba Buena, in the bay of San Francisco, or afford him further relief, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1322.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of F.F. Stevens, late an additional paymaster United States Army, on account of government funds said to have been lost by the burning of the steamer Alabama, on the Mississippi River, in the spring of 1867, and Bill H.R. No. 1322, for his relief, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 622.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the resolution offered by Mr. Morton, of the Senate, recommitting House Bill No. 384, and requesting the consideration by the committee of the subject of a general bill authorizing the construction of bridges across the Ohio and Mississippi rivers upon such terms and conditions as will not interfere with navigation, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 22, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a communication of the Secretary of War in regard to the condition of the appropriation of $60,000 made July 28, 1866, for the preparation and publication of 5,000 copies of the first volume of the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion... In the Senate of the United States. July 23, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 643.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of W.A. Griffin asking reimbursement for expenditures made and losses sustained while in charge of the National Cemetery at Andersonville, Georgia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 217.) The following documents have been referred to the Committee on Finance... In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Drake made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 574.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Oscar Bullus, a commodore on the reserved list of the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 229.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of O.F. Winchester... |
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| Serial set 1322 | Message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents, to the two House of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the Fortieth Congress. Part I. | 1 |
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| Serial set 1324 | 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 Fortieth Congress. | 1 |
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Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1867. Letters from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of additional appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, and previous years; and also estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869. |
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Currency. Letter from the Comptroller of the Currency, transmitting his fifth annual report. December 2, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, on the operations of the internal revenue system for the year ending June 30, 1867. |
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Columbia Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of the directors of the Columbia Hospital for Women in the District of Columbia. December 10, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contracts by Quartermasters' Department. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a statement of contracts made by the Quartermasters' Department. December 12, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Twenty per cent. compensation. Letter from the Attorney General, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th instant, respecting the twenty per cent. additional compensation. December 13, 1867. -- Referred to the Select Joint Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Inspection of oil in Pennsylvania. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th instant, transmitting a copy of a report of John Miller, special revenue agent, relative to the inspection of oil in the Twenty-second District of Pennsylvania. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Twenty per cent. compensation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th instant, respecting the twenty per cent., additional compensation. December 13, 1867. -- Referred to the Select Joint Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Patent Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, asking for an appropriation for the Patent Office Building. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Commissary Department. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, relative to an increase of officers in the Commissary General's Department. December 12, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Bonds. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the purchase and sale of bonds. December 12, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Twenty per cent. -- War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, withdrawing from the Committee of Ways and Means and Appropriations his recommendations relative to an increase of twenty per cent. to the clerks in his Department. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for reconstruction. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, relative to further appropriations for reconstruction purposes. December 12, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Protection of American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report relative to the relief and protection of American seamen. December 10, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Pensions. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, asking for a further appropriation for deficiency for current fiscal year. December 11, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Milliken, a returned rebel. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 5th instant, relating to one Milliken, a returned rebel. December 7, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Immigration. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting report of the Commissioner of Immigration, of the expenditures of the Bureau for the year ending September 30, 1867. December 5, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Taxes from national banks. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 30th ultimo relative to amount of taxes received from national banks. December 9, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Estimates for the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in compliance with the act of July 2, 1836, estimates required for his Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Twenty per cent. -- Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th instant, relative to the allowance of twenty per cent, for last fiscal year. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Property at Harper's Ferry. Letter from the Attorney General, in answer to a resolution of the House of 26th March last, relative to the title to property at Harper's Ferry. December 5, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Sinking fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of November 25, relative to the sinking fund of the United States. December 3, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Revenue from distilled spirits. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of July 8th last, stating the amount of revenue derived from the tax on distilled spirits. December 5, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Armory at Rock Island. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a draught of a joint resolution explanatory of certain acts relative to the armory and arsenal at Rock Island, Illinois. December 3, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Colorado militia. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a statement of the settlement of the accounts of the Colorado militia for 1864 and 1865. December 3, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Leased building in New York and Brooklyn. Letter of the Secretary of War ad interim, in answer to a resolution of the House of November 26, transmitting a statement relative to buildings leased to the United States in New York and Brooklyn. December 3, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of the Secretary of War ad interim for the Department under his charge. December 5, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Twenty per cent. -- State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th instant, relative to the twenty per cent. allowed for clerks in his Department for the last fiscal year. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Military offices at San Francisco. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, in reference to an appropriation for buildings at San Francisco. December 12, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Revenue collected in Illinois. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 12th instant, transmitting copy of a report from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, relative to the amount of revenue collected in the State of Illinois for the six months ending November 30, 1867, &c. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Twenty per cent. -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 14th instant, relative to the amount of twenty per cent. allowance to the clerks in his Department for the last fiscal year. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 9th instant, transmitting certain papers relative to the central branch of the Union Pacific and San Francisco and St. Jose Railroad Company. December 11, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Albert M.D.C. Lusk. Message from the President of the United States, relating to the trial of Albert M.D.C. Lusk by a military commission. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Twenty per cent. compensation. Letter from the Postmaster General in answer to a resolution of the 11th instant, respecting the twenty per cent. additional compensation. December 13, 1867. -- Referred to the Select Joint Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Me-shin-go-me-sia band of Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in regard to the issuing of patents to the Me-shin-go-me-sia band of Indians. December 13, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Otoe Indian reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the sale of a certain Indian reservation. December 12, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Louis M. Goldsborough. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of 26th ultimo, relative to Louis M. Goldsborough. December 12, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Tonnage of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the cause of the diminution of the tonnage of the United States. December 10, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. H.B. Sainte-Marie. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, relative to a claim of Sainte-Marie for compensation for information furnished in the Surratt case. December 12, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations for survey of Indian lands. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to appropriations for survey of Indian reservations. December 17, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supervisors and local inspectors. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 5th instant, relative to the expenditures for salaries of supervisors and local inspectors. December 10, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Twenty per cent. -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House as to the amount paid as extra compensation, under joint resolution of July 28, 1867, in the Navy Department. December 16, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public buildings in New Mexico. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the condition of the public buildings in New Mexico. December 12, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Removal of Hon. E.M. Stanton and others. Letter from General Grant, in answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of date November 26, 1867, in relation to the removal of Hon. E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War, and Major General P.H. Sheridan, commander of the Fifth Military District, and of Major General D.E. Sickles, commander of the Second Military District, &c. December 17, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Engineer Department. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, recommending the passage of a resolution for the settlement of the accounts of certain officers of the Engineer Department. December 3, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Repairs of Capitol. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, asking for further appropriations for repairs of the old portion of the Capitol. December 6, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mexican affairs -- Maximilian. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of 17th July last, relative to Maximilian. December 9, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Pardons by the President. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting final report of the names of persons engaged in rebellion who have been pardoned by the President. December 4, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Leased buildings in St. Louis. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 26th ultimo, a statement of buildings rented in St. Louis. December 4, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. California and Nevada volunteers. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, relative to California and Nevada volunteers discharged in Arizona and New Mexico. December 7, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Military Academy. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, in reference to the Military Academy. December 4, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriations Post Office Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Postmaster General, relative to appropriations for the service of his Department. December 5, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Quartermasters' Department. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting estimate of funds required for carrying on the Department of the Quartermaster General. December 4, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Schuylkill arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a communication from the Quartermaster General, submitting plan and estimate for repair of the wharf at Schuylkill arsenal, Pennsylvania. December 3, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1331 | Trial of Henry Wirz. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, in answer to a resolution of the House of April 16, 1866, transmitting a summary of the trial of Henry Wirz. December 7, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. | 1 |
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Swamp lands in rebel states. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting reports from military commanders in southern military districts, relative to swamp lands granted to the states lately in rebellion and yet undisposed of. January 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Shaker Association of New Lebanon, N.Y. Letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in reply to a resolution of the House of the 12th ultimo, relative to the mode of taxing the Shaker Association of New Lebanon, New York. January 7, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Fort Covington. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting draught of a joint resolution for the sale of the site of Fort Covington, in the City of Baltimore. January 10, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Amendment to the Constitution. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 6th instant, relative to the states ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States known as the 14th Article. January 10, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed Revenue from distilled spirits. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 18th instant, relative to the amount of revenue collected from distilled spirits. December 20, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. General W.S. Hancock. Message from the President of the United States, recommending some recognition of the services of General Hancock, as commander of the Fifth Military District. December 18, 1867. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Twenty per cent. -- War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th instant, relative to the twenty per cent. allowance to the clerks in his Department. December 19, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Terminal Central Pacific Railroad Co. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a report by the Chief of Engineers relative to a bill for the relief of the Terminal Central Pacific Railroad Company. January 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Adam Hardt. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a report of the Quartermaster General relative to the claim of Adam Hardt for money advanced to the crew of the steamer John Raine. December 19, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed Duty on corks. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the United States consul at Barcelona, relative to the export of corks from that port, and recommending a specific instead of an ad valorem duty on corks. January 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Military offices in New York. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a communication from the Quartermaster General relative to the hiring of buildings in New York for military offices. December 19, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue. January 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Chattanooga rolling mill. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting draught of a joint resolution for the sale of the Chattanooga rolling mill property, at Chattanooga, Tennessee. January 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Freedmen and taxation. Communication from the Commissioner of Freedmen's Affairs, transmitting petition of colored people of Kentucky in relation to unjust taxation by state authority. January 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs and ordered to be printed. Lands in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the survey of lands in the peninsula of Kenay, Alaska. January 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Gettysburg Asylum lottery. Letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in answer to a resolution of the House of 12th instant, relative to the Gettysburg Asylum lottery. December 19, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Assassination of President Lincoln. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of George H. Sharpe relative to the assassination of President Lincoln. December 19, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriations. -- Paymaster General. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of additional appropriations required by the Paymaster General. December 20, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Milliken, a returned rebel. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 5, 1867, transmitting report of General George H. Thomas relative to one Milliken, a returned rebel, arrested for violation of his parole. January 9, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. St. Louis arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Ordnance, suggesting the removal of the St. Louis arsenal to the Jefferson Barracks reservation. January 13, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Government funds in national banks. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of 4th ultimo, transmitting statement of deposit of government funds in the national banks. January 9, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. Indian trust funds. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting papers and report upon the condition of the Indian trust funds. December 18, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Pawtucket River. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting report respecting the improvement of the Pawtucket River. December 19, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Disbursements for Indian service. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a tabular statement of the disbursements for contingent and miscellaneous purposes for the Indian service for the year ending June 30, 1867. January 6, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Southern railroads. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a report, by the officer of the Quartermasters' Department having the same in charge, of certain information relative to southern railroads. January 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Southern Railroads and ordered to be printed. Deputy collectors and assistant assessors. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 9th ultimo, a communication from the First Comptroller, containing the names of deputy collectors and assistant assessors who have performed the duties of collectors and assessors, amount of compensation received by each, &c. January 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Department of Agriculture. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, in response to House resolution of the 9th of December, 1867. January 13, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Militia of Memphis. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting the petition of certain members of the late militia of Memphis, Tennessee, and all information thereto. January 13, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Destitution of Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to the great destitution of the Sioux Indians, near Devil's Lake, Dakota Territory. January 7, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Fort David Russell. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim in answer to a resolution of the House of the 10th instant, transmitting a report relative to establishing an arsenal at Fort David Russell, in Dakota Territory. December 19, 1867. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Manufacture of arms. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting report of the Chief of Ordnance relative to the manufacture of arms at the Springfield armory during the year ending June 30, 1867. January 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Indian lands in Kansas. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th ultimo, transmitting report relative to the sale of certain Indian lands in Kansas. January 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Japanese treaty fund. Letter from the Secretary of State, relative to the Japanese treaty fund. January 13, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Robert Buffum. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a communication from the Judge Advocate General, enclosing a letter from Robert Buffum, late of the Twenty-first Ohio Volunteers, who volunteered to perform very hazardous service during the late war. January 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Bureau of refugees. Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Freedmen, recommending that authority be granted by Congress for the transfer to the Bureau of Refugees of a quantity of desiccated mixed vegetables now on hand in the Subsistence Department. January 13, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs and ordered to be printed. Russian naval vessels. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 18th ultimo, relative to interference of Russian war vessels with American whalers. January 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Steamer Nuestra Senora de la Regla. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the seizure of a Spanish steamer in 1861. January 10, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Maps. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting communication from the Commissioner of the Land Office, relative to the publication of the maps accompanying and illustrating his annual report. December 19, 1867. -- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Printing. |
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| Serial set 1333 | Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1867. January 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents and ordered to be printed. | 1 |
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