| Call Number (LC) | Title | Results |
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| Serial set 1389 | New York election frauds. February 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed, with the views of the minority. | 1 |
| Serial set 1390 | New York election frauds. March 1, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. | 1 |
| Serial set 1391 | Report on the treatment of prisoners of war, by the rebel authorities during the War of the Rebellion, to which are appended the testimony taken by the committee and official documents and statistics, etc. | 1 |
| Serial set 1392 | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the first session of the Forty-first Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, March 4, 1869. In the ninety-fourth [i.e., ninety-third] year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
| Serial set 1393 |
Message of the President of the United States, communicating a copy of a report of the government board of directors of the Union Pacific Railroad relative to the election of directors for the ensuing year. March 16, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, withdrawing his message of the 6th instant, requesting the passage of a joint resolution to relieve the Secretary of the Treasury from the disabilities imposed by section 8 of the act approved September 2, 1789. March 9, 1869. -- 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 5th instant, a list of the public and private acts and resolutions passed at the third session of the 40th Congress. March 9, 1869. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, recommending that Alexander T. Stewart, appointed and confirmed to the office of Secretary of the Treasury, may be exempted from the operations of the eighth section of the act approved September 2, 1789. March 6, 1869. -- 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 17th instant, correspondence between James Buchanan, President of the United States, and Lewis Cass, Secretary of State, regarding the policy to be pursued to avert the war of the rebellion. March 30, 1869. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a report of the commissioners appointed under the 13th article of the treaty between the United States and the Senecas and mixed Senecas, Shawnees, and other Indians, concluded February 23, 1867, to ascertain and report the amount of money due by the United States to the Wyandott Indians. March 19, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in relation to the restoration of the states which were engaged in the rebellion to their proper relations to the government and country. April 7, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, to the chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, in relation to cheap ocean postage. April 6, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant, a report of the Chief of Engineers upon the military importance of San Juan Island. March 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. April 6, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, information in relation to contracts with Norman Wiard for the fabrication and delivery of ordnance. March 31, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. April 9, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, information whether the government of Venezuela has paid the first instalment due to American citizens under the award recently made by the mixed commission of the two governments. March 17, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1394 | Message of the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report from the Secretary of State upon claims against Great Britain. April 8, 1869. -- Read and ordered to lie upon the table. April 9, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. | 1 |
| Serial set 1395 | Correspondence concerning claims against Great Britain, transmitted to the Senate of the United States in answer to the resolutions of December 4 and 10, 1867, and of May 27, 1868. | 1 |
| Serial set 1396 | Correspondence concerning claims against Great Britain, transmitted to the Senate of the United States in answer to the resolutions of December 4 and 10, 1867, and of May 27, 1868. | 1 |
| Serial set 1397 | Correspondence concerning claims against Great Britain, transmitted to the Senate of the United States in answer to the resolutions of December 4 and 10, 1867, and of May 27, 1868. | 1 |
| Serial set 1398 | Correspondence concerning claims against Great Britain, transmitted to the Senate of the United States in answer to the resolutions of December 4 and 10, 1867, and of May 27, 1868. | 1 |
| Serial set 1399 |
Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of the Mineral Range Railroad. March 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the payment of the claims of citizens of that state for houses taken for the military service of the United States. March 8, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the New York and Antwerp Mail Steamship Co., asking that American steamships employed in carrying the mails may be released from the payment of all dues payable to the United States. March 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1869. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 94.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred a bill entitled "A Bill To Amend an Act Entitled 'An Act Granting Lands to Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Central Pacific Railroad in California to Portland in Oregon,' approved July 25, 1866," respectfully report... Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Chief of Engineers relative to guaranteeing the payment of certain bonds to be issued by the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi for the purpose of building and repairing the levees in said states. March 15, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 121. Resolution of the Legislature of North Carolina, ratifying the Fifteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. March 11, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1869. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 47.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the matter of S. & H. Sayles, respectfully report... Petition of David J. Millard, praying payment of balance due him on a contract with the government for the manufacture of sabres. March 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of the passage of the bill to establish a line of American steamships between the United States and Europe. March 9, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Oliver Evans Woods, suggesting a plan for the safe delivery of letters. March 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1869. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 42.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Captain Orlando Brown, submit the following report... Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of New Mexico, praying a confirmation of the Rio Grande land grant to the actual settlers who have occupied, improved, and lived upon said land for the last ten years, and against the confirmation of an old land grant, the conditions of which have not been complied with. March 21, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. March 8, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Lands Claims and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1869. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 232.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of the European and North American Railway Company, praying aid in the construction of a railroad... Memorial of Lewis Downing, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, remonstrating against the settling of various Indian tribes on the Cherokee domain west of the 96th degree of west longitude. March 23, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of J. Gregory Smith, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad, addressed to Hon. George F. Edmunds, enclosing two communications in relation to the treaty with Great Britain concerning the island of San Juan. March 22, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1869. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 221.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of the sureties of Israel T. Canby, late receiver of public moneys at Crawfordsville, Indiana, having duly considered the same, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1869. Mr. Thayer made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 2.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Senate Joint Resolution No. 2, for the relief of John E. Reeside, having had the same under consideration, respectfully beg leave to report... Memorial of A.L. Bogart, praying the introduction of Wilson's electric lighter over the Senate Chamber. April 3, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. April 5, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in relation to navigation between the United States and Canada. April 2, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of an appropriation for the completion of the harbor at the mouth of the Ontonagon River. March 29, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1869. Submitted by Mr. Sprague, to accompany the Bill S. 194, and ordered to be printed. The liberties and interests of the American people imperatively demand that scarcity of capital and high rates of interest for money shall cease... Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of granting the right of way and aid for the purpose of building a railroad from the shore of Green Bay, or Bay De Noc, to the iron district in Menomonee County. March 16, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of an appropriation for improving the navigation of the Delaware River. March 20, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the first session of the Forty-first Congress. March 24, 1869. Statement prepared in the Office of Internal Revenue in relation to tax on manufactured tobacco. April 3, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill H.R. No. 140. Resolution of the Legislature of Maine, ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States known as Article XV. March 20, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States known as Article XV. March 19, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States known as Article XV. March 29, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of South Carolina, ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States known as Article XV. March 29, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1869. 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, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 20th of March, 1869, instructing them to "inquire into the mode of appointment and tenure of office of the subordinate officers of the Senate, and to report if any changes are desirable in the same," report... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1869. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 260.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Polly Hunt, administratrix, and George W. Hunt, administrator of Walter Hunt, deceased, praying to be allowed a rehearing before the Commissioner of Patents of their application for an extension of patents for improvements in manufacturing paper collars, beg leave to make the following report thereon... Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of the law authorizing the holding of a term of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the District of Kansas, at Leavenworth City in that state. April 8, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of the District of Columbia, praying the organization of a single local government of the district, under the provisions of a law of Congress, similar to that proposed in the bill generally known as the Morrill Bill. March 26, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. April 7, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1400 | Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States; being the first session of the Forty-first Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, March 4, 1869, in the ninety-third year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
| Serial set 1401 |
Paraguay difficulties. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of despatch of February last from William Van Vleck Lidgerwood, relative to events which have transpired in Paraguay. April 8, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Interest on the public debt. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the payment of the interest on the public debt. March 23, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. S.A. Peugh. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter of S.A. Peugh relative to rent due him for the occupancy of his building by the Pension Office. March 19, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Destruction of merchant vessels. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the destruction, during the late war, by rebel vessels, of certain merchant vessels of the United States, and concerning the damages and claims arising therefrom. April 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Owen Thorn. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of State, enclosing copies of papers filed in his department relative to the claim of Owen Thorn. April 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Report of Samuel Purdy. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the report of Samuel Purdy, special agent of the Treasury Department. April 9, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1402 |
Papers in the case of A.S. Wallace vs. W.D. Simpson, Fourth Congressional District, South Carolina. Ordered to be printed. Penitentiary in Utah. Memorial of the Legislature of Utah Territory, praying that the net proceeds of internal revenue be set aside for the erection of a penitentiary. March 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Papers in the case of Charles H. Van Wyck vs. George W. Greene, Eleventh Congressional District, New York. Myers vs. Moffet. Papers in the case of Leonard Myers vs. John Moffet, relative to the contest for a seat in the 41st Congress as a representative from the Third District of Pennsylvania. March 5, 1869 [i.e., 1868]. --Ordered to be printed. John Covode. Papers in the prima facie case from the 21st District, Pennsylvania. Standing and select committees of the House of Representatives of the United States. Forty-first Congress, first session, commencing Thursday, March 4, 1869. Papers in the case of S.L. Hoge vs. J.P. Reed, Third Congressional District, South Carolina. Papers in the case of J.H. Sypher vs. Louis St. Martin, from the First Congressional District of Louisiana. Ordered to be printed. List of the members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and their places of residence, during the Forty-first Congress, first session, commencing Thursday, March 4, 1869. Losses by citizens of Kansas Territory. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 115.) Memorial for indemnity from government for losses sustained by the citizens of Kansas Territory. March 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Papers in the case of C.B. Darrall vs. Adolphe Bailey, Third Congressional District, Louisiana. Papers in the case of Frank Morey vs. G.W. McCranie, Fifth Congressional District of Louisiana. Coin contracts. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to coin contracts. March 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Claim of Kansas. Statement in reference to the claim of the State of Kansas, for indemnification for expenses incurred in the support of her militia during the rebel invasion in 1864. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 112.) March 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. North Carolina. Resolution of the Legislature of North Carolina, ratifying the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. March 17, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Rules of the Committee of Elections, House of Representatives. March 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Isaac Bolinger and Andrew C. Fondrin. Resolution of the Legislature of Tennessee, requesting their senators and representatives in Congress to procure an appropriation for Isaac Bolinger and Andrew C. Fondrin. March 23, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Constitution of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, with all the acts of Congress relating to the institution, from its organization, February 16, 1857, to March 3, 1869. March 30, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed Condition of affairs in Georgia. Nelson Tift's rejoinder to the letter of Governor Bullock, relative to the condition of affairs in Georgia. April 2, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Reconstruction and ordered to be printed. St. James and Little Rock Railroad. Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, asking for a grant of lands to aid in the construction of the St. James and Little Rock Railroad. March 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Town sites in Utah. Memorial of the Legislature of Utah Territory, asking for a change of the act approved March 2, 1867, relating to town sites. March 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Amendment to the Constitution. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, ratifying the 15th article of the amendment to the Constitution. March 19, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Public lands. Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, relative to the appropriation of pubic lands, &c. March 15, 1869. -- Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Robert C. Bliss and George F. Masterman. March 16, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Ninth census. Communications from Dr. Franklin B. Hough and others, relative to the ninth census of the United States. April 1, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Ninth decennial census. Memorial of life insurance companies of the United States, relative to the taking of the decennial census of 1870. March 26, 1869. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Census and ordered to be printed. Constitution and ordinances of the State of Mississippi. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 147.) March 19, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Survey of public lands in Utah. Memorial of the Legislature of Utah Territory, asking for an appropriation for a resurvey of the public lands. March 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Indian depredations in Utah. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory, praying for an appropriation to pay for Indian depredations and expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities. March 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed with the accompanying papers. Custom-house at St. Louis. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 244.) Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing a communication from the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department relative to the Custom-house at St. Louis, Missouri. March 23, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. March 24, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Territorial library. Memorial of the Legislature of Utah Territory, asking for an appropriation to increase the territorial library. March 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Territories and ordered to be printed. Constitution of the State of Texas. Constitution of the State of Texas, adopted by the constitutional convention convened under the reconstruction acts of Congress passed March 2, 1867, and the acts supplementary thereto; to be submitted for ratification or rejection at an election to take place on the first Monday of July, 1869. March 30, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Reconstruction and ordered to be printed. Appropriations, new officers, etc. Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-first Congress. II. Officers created and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period. April 10, 1869. Reed and Simpson. Papers in the contested election cases of Reed and Simpson, Third and Fourth Congressional Districts, South Carolina. April 10, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Newsham vs. Ryan. Papers in the contested election case of Newsham vs. Ryan, from the Fourth Congressional District of Louisiana. March 30, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Secret sales of gold and bonds. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 292.) Memorial from the business men and boards of trade of Chicago, New York, Boston and Philadelphia, relative to secret sales of gold and bonds by the Treasury Department. March 29, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1403 |
John B. Rodgers. April 7, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Myers vs. Moffet. April 6, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Joseph Anderson. March 24, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Hoge vs. Reed. March 30, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Foster vs. Covode. March 26, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Wallace vs. Simpson. April 1, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Hunt vs. Sheldon. March 31, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Hoge vs. Reed. April 2, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Appropriations. April 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, made the special order for to-morrow (April 6) after the reading of the journal, and ordered to be printed. Wallace vs. Simpson. April 5, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Sypher vs. St. Martin. April 6, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Morey vs. McCranie. April 6, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1404 | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Forty-first Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 6, 1869, in the ninety-fourth year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
| Serial set 1405 |
Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 20, 1869, the reports of Captain Charles Bryant, late special agent of the Treasury Department for Alaska, and H.A. [i.e., H.H.] McIntyre, special agent of the Treasury Department. January 26, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 15th instant, information in relation to orders restoring the lands in California previously withdrawn for the uses of the Southern Pacific Railroad. December 21, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 16, 1869, information in relation to the amount of land claimed, held, or occupied by the Navy Department, in the State of Florida, for naval or other purposes. January 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a statement showing the number of clerks employed in that Department during the last fiscal year, and the amount of compensation received by each. December 7, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of March 23, 1869, relative to the Fort Ridgely military reservation in Minnesota. December 13, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a report of the disbursements for the maintenance of peace among the various Indian tribes, under act of April 10, 1869. December 13, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a report from the Surgeon General of the expenditures of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum. December 7, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, communicating a list of persons employed by him to assist district attorneys in the discharge of their duties, and the amount of compensation paid to each. December 6, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, reports of the military commander of the district of which Georgia is a part, in regard to the political and civil condition of that state. December 9, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 22, 1869, a copy of the opinion of the Attorney General of July 29, 1869, relating to our national cemeteries in the lately rebellious states. January 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, information in relation to the lands claimed, held, or occupied by the Navy Department for naval or other purposes in the State of Louisiana. December 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. December 22, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, statements showing the number of desks, the number of clerks now employed in the War Department and its bureaus, the number employed during the fiscal year ending the 30th June, 1869, and the amount of compensation paid. December 21, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 17, 1869, correspondence with the French government relative to a modification of the postal convention with France of March 2, 1857. January 10, 1870. -- 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 20th instant, correspondence between the United States and Great Britain concerning questions pending between the two countries since the rejection of the claims convention by the Senate. December 22, 1869. -- 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 the 8th instant, information in regard to the progress of the revolution in Cuba, and the political and civil condition of the island. December 20, 1869. -- 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 9th instant, information in relation to the present condition of the United States marine hospital and grounds in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana. December 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 22, 1869, information in relation to the United States arsenal buildings and grounds at Little Rock, Arkansas. January 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a report of the Chief of Engineers upon the harbor of San Diego, California. January 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, returning Bill S. No. 273, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Rollin White," with his objections. January 11, 1870. -- 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 December 8, 1869, information relative to a reciprocity treaty on the subject of trade and commerce between the United States and the Dominion of Canada. January 10, 1870. -- 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 December 9, 1869, information in relation to the present condition of the United States branch mint at New Orleans, Louisiana. January 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, submitting to the Senate a draught of a bill to provide for the disposition of useless military reservations. January 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of expenditures made under the provisions of the act for the improvement of rivers and harbors of the United States between July 1, 1868, and November 30, 1869. January 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 9, 1869, information relating to the action which has been had in the District of Virginia under the act "authorizing the submission of the constitutions of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas to a vote of the people, and authorizing the election of state officers provided by the said constitutions, and members of Congress." January 10, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of the contracts and purchases of the Ordnance Department during the year 1869. January 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in relation to a transfer of fund for sick and wounded soldiers to the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. January 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 19, 1869, information in relation to obstructions to navigation at the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River. January 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 31, 1870, information in relation to the action of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi in reference to the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. February 1, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 31st of January last, information in relation to opinions given by him concerning affairs in Georgia. February 1, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, a statement from the Special Commissioner of Revenue, relative to the cost of American pig-iron. January 28, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating the report of the Secretary of State, made in compliance with the requirements of an act entitled "An Act To Regulate the Diplomatic and Consular Systems of the United States," approved August 18, 1856, relative to fees collected by consular officers. January 31, 1870. -- 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 7th instant, the report of the agent of the United States to examine consular affairs, with reports of consular offices in France and Belgium. February 8, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 3, 1870, copies of papers relating to the claim of Foster Blodgett as late postmaster at Augusta, Georgia. February 10, 1870. -- 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 1, 1870, information relative to the number, location, and rent of buildings occupied by the Quartermaster's Department of the Army. February 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant, a statement of the bonds issued to the various Pacific railroad companies. February 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 30, 1869, information in relation to the establishment of a branch of the Soldiers' Home on the Pacific coast. December 13, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. February 8, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior communicating an estimate of funds required to defray the necessary expenses of a general council of certain Indians in the Indian Territory, as provided by treaties with the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws, and Chickasaws. February 9, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th of January last, information in relation to the constructing a harbor light-house at the mouth of Aquina Bay, in the State of Oregon. February 9, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to Hon. Charles Sumner, United States Senate, transmitting a communication from John Bigelow, formerly United States consul at Paris, concerning the report of General Starring relative to the lease by him of certain property for the use of the consulate, and the transfer thereof to his successor. April 4, 1870. -- 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 December 8, 1869, information relating to the presence of the honorable William McDougall at Pembina, in Dakota Territory, and the opposition by the inhabitants of Selkirk settlement to his assumption of the office of governor of the Northwest Territory. February 3, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed |
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Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 14th instant, correspondence of Charles E. De Long, minister resident of the United States to Japan, relating to American interests in that country. February 28, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 13, 1869, papers in relation to the sale of certain lands in Kansas, known as the lands of the "Black Bob Band" of Shawnees. January 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. February 11, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, information concerning the recent engagement of Brevet Colonel Baker, United States Army, with the Piegan Indians in Montana. February 19, 1870. -- 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 9th instant, information in relation to the claim of the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad Company to continue and extend its road, and to receive in aid of the construction thereof, lands and bonds from the United States. February 16, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 24, 1870, a list of officers commissioned by the Department of State, the compensation allowed to each of said appointments, and the state from where appointed. February 18, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 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 the appropriations heretofore made to provide for the defense of certain suits now pending in the Court of Claims, known as the cotton cases. February 18, 1870. -- 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 14th instant, copy of the reports of the special agents of the Treasury Department appointed to examine the assay office in New York and the branch Mint in San Francisco, so far as the same relates to the subjects of assaying and refining. February 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 21, 1870, correspondence relating to the imprisonment of Mr. Davis Hatch by the Dominican government. March 1, 1870. -- 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 14th instant, information in relation to removing the United States branch Mint from the City of New Orleans to the City of New York, and in relation to the condition thereof. February 28, 1870. -- 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 19th instant, information in relation to the enforcement or attempt to enforce the payment of taxes by Cherokees on products manufactured in the Cherokee Nation and sold within the Indian Territory. February 28, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 16, 1869, information in relation to amount of land claimed, held, or occupied as military reservations in the State of Florida. February 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General communicating, in compliance with two resolutions of the Senate, of the 8th instant, information relative to blank petitions recently sent from that department for the abolition of the franking privilege. February 28, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in obedience to law, the report of the inspector of national cemeteries of the United States for 1869. March 15, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 3d instant, information as to what states have ratified the amendment known as the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. March 15, 1870. -- 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 January 28, 1870, the report of the Chief of Engineers upon the survey of the harbor of Du Luth, at the head of Lake Superior. February 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. March 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 22, 1869, statements regarding the Revenue Marine Service. March 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, the report of the commander of the Department of Alaska upon the late bombardment of the Indian village at Wrangel, in that territory. March 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in relation to the manner in which the settlers upon the Black Bob Shawnee lands have interfered with the occupancy and disposition of the same. March 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indians Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 16th instant, a copy of the report of S.N. Clark, special agent of the Freedmen's Bureau, upon the condition of the freedmen in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian nations. March 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States recommending early legislative action toward an increase of the commerce of the United States. March 24, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 15, 1870, information in relation to the iron-clad ships belonging to the Navy of the United States. March 28, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 24, 1870, information in relation to the marine hospital building at New Orleans. March 22, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant, information in relation to the present condition of, and expenditures upon, the Custom-house at New Orleans, and the amount of appropriation required to complete the same. March 29, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, so much of the report of Vincent Colyer, special Indian commissioner, as relates to the Indian village of Wrangel, Alaska, showing the condition of that village previous to its recent bombardment by United States troops. March 22, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, a report of the Chief of Engineers concerning the survey and improvement of the upper Columbia River. April 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating a report from the Secretary of State, relative to results of the proceedings of the Joint Commission at Lima, under the convention between the United States and Peru, of 4th December, 1868, in relation to the claim of Esteban G. Montano, and recommending an appropriation to discharge the obligation of the United States in said case. April 15, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 15, 1870, information in relation to public lands in Louisiana. May 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 21, 1870, information in relation to the Indians of southeastern Oregon. May 3, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indians Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, information in relation to an organized band of persons at Cheyenne, in the Territory of Wyoming or vicinity, the number and designs of such persons. May 23, 1870. -- 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 1st instant, information in regard to officers of the Navy residing permanently or temporarily in Washington City; of officers of the Navy on duty in Washington at the date of the meeting of the present Congress; of officers of the Navy who have been ordered to report for special duty in Washington since that date; and of officers and members of the senior class of midshipmen attached to the Naval Academy at Annapolis who have visited Washington under orders or leave of absence since the date aforesaid. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 9, 1870, information in relation to the claim of Foster Blodgett for services as postmaster at Augusta, Georgia, while excluded from discharging the duties of that office. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Office 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 4th instant, information in regard to the proceedings had in the State of Georgia in pursuance of the recent act of Congress entitled "An Act To Promote the Reconstruction of Georgia," and in relation to the organization of the legislature of that state since the passage of that act. February 14, 1870. -- Read, referred the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant, information in relation to the value of Indian goods lost on the Missouri River above Omaha, during the last eight years, by means of the wrecking and destruction of steamboats. February 14, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States relative to the obligation of Congress to make the necessary appropriations to carry out the Indian treaties made by what is known as the Peace Commission of 1867. March 8, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury asking the immediate appropriation of $150,000, to meet the current expenses of the marine hospital establishment; also, the sum of $80,000, to place the hospitals in order. March 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, information respecting the title of the United States to the branch Mint property in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana. March 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of February 4, 1870, a list of all the steamers engaged in transporting military stores and property of the United States, which have been destroyed on the Missouri River, north of Omaha, during the last five years, together with a statement of the value of the property lost by reason of the destruction of said steamers. March 8, 1870. -- 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 4th instant, correspondence in regard to the so-called "Transcontinental Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company." March 10, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, 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 of February last, information as to what legislation is necessary to insure the administration of justice and to protect American interests in China and Japan. March 10, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 28th instant, copies of two reports made by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, dated, respectively, October 9, 1867, and October 24, 1868. March 30, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating the proclamation of the Secretary of State of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and recommending the adoption of means to promote education throughout the country. March 30, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 10, 1870, a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office showing the amount and location of unsurveyed public lands in the State of Indiana, the value thereof, the amount of such lands disposed of in 1869, the price received therefor, the expense of maintaining the land office at Indianapolis, and the expediency of removing the same to the General Land Office at Washington City. April 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 6th instant, a statement of the Superintendent of the Census relating to the amount to be saved to the Treasury by dispensing with certain copies of the census returns required by the act of 1850. April 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 18, 1870, information in relation to a settlement with the Corliss Steam Engine Company for naval engines manufactured for the government. April 6, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 11, 1870, a statement of the number of foreign-built vessels, under enrollment or register, now employed in the commerce of the United States. April 29, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 10, 1870, information in relation to the Fort Ripley military reservation in Minnesota. May 23, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, information in relation to postage statistics. May 23, 1870. -- 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 this date, the report on the final completion of the Pacific Railroad. May 23, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 18th instant, information in relation to the passage of any English or Canadian steamer through the canal of the Sault Ste. Marie. May 23, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with a supplemental report of the commissioners appointed in accordance with the Senate amendment of the 13th article of the treaty of 23d of February, 1867, embracing the claims of the Wyandott Indians. April 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. |
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Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in obedience to the resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, a report of the Chief of Engineers on Bulkhead Rock, Providence River, Rhode Island. June 30, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate, of the 17th ultimo, information in relation to the practice of the Court of Claims in the matter of remanding for further evidence or argument cases submitted to its consideration, and of ordering new trials in cases decided by the court; and submitting the draught of a bill to secure the rights of the United States in that respect. July 6, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, calling the attention of Congress to the necessity of the passage of certain measures before the adjournment of the session. July 15, 1870. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 18, 1870, correspondence relating the political questions in Germany. June 3, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating information and making certain recommendations in relation to the existing insurrection in Cuba. June 13, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a list of clerks and other persons employed in that Department. June 3, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 22d instant, proposals of the International Steamship Company for constructing and placing iron steamships in transatlantic service. June 25, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in response to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, a report of Brevet Major General Warren, upon the survey and cutting out of a road from Du Luth to Fort Bois reservation. June 30, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, copies of correspondence between the United States and Great Britain concerning questions pending between the two countries. July 14, 1870. -- 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 April 9, 1870, a report of the special commission appointed to consider and report upon the character of vessels best adapted for the revenue marine service. May 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, information in relation to the action of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, of Missouri... Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of June 20, 1868, the report and survey of the officer acting as commissioner of public buildings and grounds, relative to the new Navy Yard bridge across the Anacostia River. March 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. June 20, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Acting Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, a copy of a letter addressed by the Department of the Interior to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in relation to the right of the State of Kansas to certain lands sold to the United States by the Osage Indians under the treaty of September 29, 1865. June 24, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of June 27, 1870, information in relation to the proceeds of the sale of abandoned lands under the act of June 7, 1862. July 12, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of June 20, 1870, information relative to the settlement of the claim of the legal representatives of George Fisher, deceased, for the use and destruction of property in the Creek Indian War. July 6, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 1st instant, information relative to the alleged occupation of private property situate within the Fort Barrancas military reservation. June 27, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, information in relation to the emancipation of slaves in Cuba. July 14, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant, information in relation to the condition of the commercial relations between the United States and the Spanish-American states on this continent, and between those countries and other nations. July 14, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 26th of May and the 14th of June, 1870, information in relation to the seizure of American vessels, and injuries to American citizens, during the hostilities in Cuba. July 9, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant, information in relation to the removal of James F. Casey, as Collector of Customs at New Orleans. July 12, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. July 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment. Message of the President of the United States returning with his objections the Bill S. 476, entitled "An Act To Fix the Status of Certain Federal Soldiers Enlisting in the Union Army from the States of Alabama and Florida." July 14, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating a copy of an opinion of the Attorney General, and a letter of L.E. Chittenden, relative to the eviction by state courts of certain purchasers of lands sold for taxes in the late insurrectionary states. June 9, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 3d instant, a letter from the Secretary of State relative to the massacre of Israelites in Roumania. June 8, 1870. -- 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 24th instant, a copy of a dispatch of Henry T. Blow, United States minister to Brazil, dated December 18, 1869, in relation to the commercial interests of the United States with South America. May 28, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 23, 1870, a report of the Chief of Engineers relating to the Washington Aqueduct. June 6, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, information in relation to the importation of Chinese coolies into the United States. July 15, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed |
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Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of a through investigation into the cause of the disaster to the steamer Oneida. June 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the appointment of a commission to investigate the claims of all persons who have lost property or sustained damages by reason of depredations committed since the first day of January, 1864, by any of the Indian tribes or members thereof with whom peace conferences have been held or many hereafter be held by the commission appointed under the act to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes. February 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia declaring the assent of said state to the condition imposed upon said state by the act of Congress of June 25, 1868, proposing to admit the State of Georgia to representation in Congress as a state of United States. February 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Forty-first Congress. April 22, 1870. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the passage of a law to extinguish the title of the Indians to the Black Bob Shawnee reservation. January 26, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the withdrawal from private entry of all the public lands within that state. January 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the payment of the claims of certain citizens of that state for services rendered in recruiting, organizing, and drilling men with a view to their muster into the military service of the United States in 1862. March 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to inform the Senate what, if any, measures are being taken by this government to assist in suppressing the traffic in slaves now carried on on the coast of Africa... Memorial of the International Ocean Telegraph Company in answer to the memorial of the Florida Telegraph Company, praying to be allowed the privilege of laying a submarine cable from the coast of Florida to the West India Islands. June 29, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Petition of the citizens of California praying the interposition of Congress in behalf of American citizens imprisoned by the British government for political offenses. July 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the enactment of a law dedicating the Presidio reservation, in the City of San Francisco, for the purpose of a public park. April 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 370. Letter of the Treasurer of Washington City Savings Bank of Washington City, D.C., communicating, in obedience to law, the annual statement showing the condition of said bank for the year ending April 1, 1870. April 28, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Texas asking an appropriation to improve the bars at Galveston, Pass Cavallo, Aransas Pass, Sabine Pass, and Brazos Santiago. June 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Governor of South Carolina, transmitting a copy of resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of South Carolina, in favor of recognizing the independence of Cuba. December 9, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Address of the Republican state convention, held in Richmond, Virginia, on the 24th and 25th of November, 1869, relative to the election in that state on the 6th of July last. December 7, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of members of the Virginia Legislature, praying that that state may be admitted to representation in Congress. December 9, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. December 6, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the regents of the University of California praying amendments of existing laws granting lands for the support of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts. December 13, 1869. -- Referred with Bill S. 325 to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Chief Clerk of Court of Claims, communicating a statement of the judgments rendered in the Court of Claims for the year ending December 6, 1869. December 6, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Librarian of Congress, showing the progress of the Library during the year ending December 1, 1869. December 15, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. December 17, 1869. -- Ordered that 500 additional copies be printed with covers for the use of the Library. Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a detailed statement of the payments from the contingent fund of the Senate for the year ending December 6, 1869. December 17, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Louisville Commercial Convention, in favor of granting aid to the Mediterranean and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, of New York, for the establishment of an American line of steamships between New York, Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick, Port Royal, Mobile, New Orleans, and Cadiz, Marseilles, Genoa, Trieste, Venice, and other Mediterranean ports of southern Europe. December 17, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the laboring men of the United States, in convention assembled, in the City of Washington, Dec. 6, 1869, praying that the surveyed public lands in the southern states may be subdivided into tracts of forty acres each, and that any freedman who shall settle on one of such subdivisions, and cultivate the same for one year, shall receive a patent for the same. December 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Board of Trade of Norfolk, Va., in favor of the passage of the bill for the establishment of a line of steamships by the Mediterranean and Oriental Steam Navigation Company of New York, from certain ports in the United States to southern Europe and the Mediterranean ports. December 17, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the National Typographical Union, adopted at a meeting held at Albany, N.Y., June 7, 1869, in favor of the favorable consideration of the bill for the establishment of a postal telegraph. January 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Missouri in favor of an appropriation for the erection of a public building for the accommodation of the post office and the United States courts at Jefferson City, in that state. January 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, repealing, rescinding, and annulling the preamble and resolution of the legislature of that state, passed April 14, 1869, ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. January 12, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Edward Downey, Mayor of Brownsville, Texas, praying that measures be taken to procure from the Mexican government the abolition of the "zona libre," (free belt) established by the Legislature of the State of Tamaulipas, by act passed on the 28th December, 1837, and approved by the Congress of Mexico July 30, 1831, along the frontier of the Republic of Mexico, on the Rio Grande, with a view to prevent smuggling into the United States, and for the protection of American interest on that frontier. January 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of California in favor of the restoration of the land now claimed by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to settlement by pre-emption, and against further grants of land in large tracts in that state for any purpose. January 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Petition of the German Colonization Company of Colfax, Fremont Co., Col., praying a grant to said company of 40,000 acres of unsurveyed and unoccupied public lands in Fremont County, Colorado. January 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. January 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1870. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Casserly submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that, with a view to the more speedy settlement and disposition of the public lands of the United States in the State of California... Petition of Samuel Adams, praying compensation for services rendered and expenses incurred in the exploration of the Colorado River of the west, its tributaries, and the country adjacent thereto. January 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, with Bill (S. 412) and ordered to be printed. Letter of Millard Fillmore communicating a report upon the Southern Pacific Railroad, made to the Louisville Commercial Convention. January 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of the District of Columbia, representing the several boards of trustees and other authorities having charge of public schools within said district, praying aid for maintaining and extending the advantages of education in said District of Columbia. January 24, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, asking an appropriation to reimburse said city for money expended in the construction of Milwaukee harbor. January 20, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the Falls of St. Anthony. January 24, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Anti-Collie and Anti-Monopoly Association of San Francisco, California, remonstrating against granting a subsidy to the Pacific Steamship Company for carrying the mail between San Francisco and China and Japan. February 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the establishment of a tri-weekly mail route from Junction City to New Scandinavia, in said state. January 26, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the establishment of mail routes from Santa Rosa to Sonoma, from Santa Rosa to Sebastopol, and from Healdsburg to Calistoga, in said state. February 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin in favor of connecting the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, by navigable channels through the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. January 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior to Hon. John Sherman, Chairman of Committee on Finance, inclosing copy of a letter from his predecessor in the Interior Department, and draught of a bill requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold any moneys due from the United States to a defaulting state on any account whatever. January 26, 1870. -- Referred, with Bill S. 441, to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the removal of the national capital from Washington to Fort Leavenworth military reservation, Kansas. January 26, 1869 [i.e., 1870]. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the abolition of the franking privilege. January 26, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the passage of the bill for the early apportionment of representation under the coming census. January 26, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of the abolition of the franking privilege. January 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio ratifying the amendment proposed by Congress as the Fifteenth Article of the Constitution of the United States. January 31, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Petition of citizens of Connecticut, praying that there may be required in the next census returns an account of the net proceeds of incomes derived from every business, profession, or employment. February 7, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1870. -- Submitted, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott submitted the following resolution. Whereas in localities of some states of this Union the public peace is commonly violated, laws defied, and life and property unprotected; and whereas these facts, being indubitably attested, show either a want of efficiency on the part of the local authorities, or a disinclination to protect citizens; and whereas protection to life and property by the government of the United States is the right of every citizen... Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts in favor of the immediate recognition and adjustment of the claims of American citizens against the United States an account of French spoliations prior to the year one thousand eight hundred. February 7, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Alabama in favor of the establishment of a postal telegraph system. February 8, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa ratifying the proposed fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. February 8, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Georgia ratifying the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. February 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of C.E. McKay, remonstrating against the right of suffrage being granted to women. February 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas remonstrating against the ratification of the treaty for the sale of the Kaw Indian reserve. February 19, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the establishment of a weekly mail from Millville to Bidwell in said state, and the establishment of post offices at certain places in that state. February 22, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the passage of a bill providing for the payment of stock and other property stolen or destroyed by the Osage, Kaw, and other Indians on the border of Kansas. February 22, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the removal of all Indians who have not become citizens, from the limits of that state to special reservations, and the extinguishment of their right of possession to all lands within that state, that the same may be granted to aid in the construction of railroads, and in favor of a grant of lands to aid in the construction of railroads in the Indian Territory. February 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the speedy adjustment and payment of the claims of citizens of that state for services rendered, transportation, forage, subsistence, and property lost in action under Major General Curtis, in repelling the invasion of General Price, commanding the Confederate Army, and the Indian expedition in July and August, 1864. February 22, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of a grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from O'Brien County, Iowa, to the Missouri River, at or near Yankton, in Dakota Territory. February 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of increased protection of the frontier of that state against depredations by the Indians, and against any further reduction of the Army. February 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Rhode Island ratifying the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. February 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at Du Luth. March 3, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia in favor of a reduction of the tax on tobacco. February 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the National Association of State and City Superintendents of Public Instruction praying the requisite appropriations for keeping in active operation the present system of schools in the southern states, and the establishment and endowment of normal schools in each state. March 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Copies of acts of the Legislative Assembly of Wyoming Territory viz: "An Act To Protect Railroad Employes [sic] Who Are Injured While Performing Their Duties," Also, "An Act Providing for the Collection of Taxes Heretofore Assessed and Levied in This Territory." Also, part of an act of the legislative assembly of said territory in relation to the organization of corporations. March 3, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Governor of the State of Virginia communicating copies of the acts passed by the general assembly of that state ratifying the proposed Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. February 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the principal chief and delegates of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, remonstrating against a territorial form of government, legislative jurisdiction of Congress, the abrogation of existing treaties and the burden of government taxation without representation, and in favor of the payment by the United States of all just obligations to said nation. March 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of removing the capital of the United States, and opposing any appropriations for buildings in the District of Columbia. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the St. Louis Board of Trade and citizens of St. Louis, praying the enactment of a law to give increased facilities to the great cities of the interior for the direct importation of foreign merchandise, and its examination and appraisement at designated ports of delivery instead of ports of entry alone. March 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi in favor of the speedy removal of the political disabilities of all the citizens of that state. March 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities and ordered to be printed. Comparative statement showing the amount of salaries paid to the line officers in the Navy, under the present organization, and under the provisions of Senate Bill No. 656, introduced by Hon. George E. Spencer, of Alabama, in the United States Senate, March 11, 1870. March 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of Brevet Major General J.J. Reynolds, commanding Fifth Military District communicating extracts from the journals of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Legislature of the State of Texas of proceedings relating to the election of Morgan C. Hamilton and J.W. Flanagan United States senators. March 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota in favor of ceding to the United States the Sault St. Mary's canal. March 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1870. -- Printed as amended, and motion of Mr. Thurman to place resolution at the foot of the calendar pending. Resolved by the House of Representatives, (the Senate concurring,) that a joint special committee to consist of ten members, five from the Senate and five from the House, be appointed, to whom shall be referred the subject of the propriety of a change or modification of the Indian policy and system of governing the Indian tribes... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1870. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Corbett submitted the following resolution resolved, that the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads be, and they are hereby, instructed to inquire into the expediency of enacting a law requiring that all bidders, upon every mail route, for the transportation of mails upon the same... Memorial of the Choctaw Nation of Indians remonstrating against the enactment into laws of the following bills, now under consideration in the House of Representatives, entitled "A Bill To Provide for the Consolidation of the Indian Tribes, and to Organize a System of Government in the Indian Territory;" and "A Bill to Incorporate the Kansas, Indian Territory and Gulf Railway Company, and to Enable the Missouri River, Fort Scott, and Gulf and the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Companies to Unite Upon and Construct a Single Track Through the Indian Territory and to Reach the Gulf." March 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the establishment of a tri-weekly mail from Oroville to Taylorville, and the extension of the route to Round Valley, in said state. March 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine in favor of the payment of the claims of Massachusetts and Maine for interest on advances to the United States during the War of 1812 with Great Britain. March 18, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota in favor of speedy action by the government towards perfecting the titles of certain settlers on the military reservation at Fort Ridgely, in that state. March 18, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the principal chief and delegates of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, protesting against the passage of the Bill (S. 631) "To Provide for Carrying into Effect the Provisions of a Treaty Concluded Between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians July 19, 1866." March 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Petition of J.A. Cushing, praying an investigation into the business of the gas company, of Washington City, with a view to the protection of consumers from fraud. January 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. March 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed, with the answer of the Washington Gas-light Company, and the rejoinder of J.A. Cushing to the said answer. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the navigation of the Penobscot River. March 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the abolition of the income tax. April 1, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of Ossian B. Hart, of Florida, claiming to be entitled to a seat in the Senate as a senator, duly elected by the Legislature of Florida, and asking that his claim to said seat may be investigated by the Senate. April 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of such a modification of the internal revenue law as will exempt from taxation distillers of fruit. April 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the establishment of a mail route from San Diego, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah, and the establishment of post offices on said route. April 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a committee on behalf of the colored people of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, representing their grievances, and praying the adoption of such measures as will secure to them equal rights and privileges with white citizens. March 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. April 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional papers in the case of Davis Hatch, an American citizen, imprisoned by the Dominican government at Azua, San Domingo. March 23, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of J.C. Fremont, president of Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company, to the Chairman of the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, communicating a statement in relation to the affairs of said company. March 25, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly, Territory of New Mexico, in favor of locating the reservation stipulated by the treaty with the Utah Indians in the region of the San Juan River, and remonstrating against its location elsewhere in said territory. March 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to the Cherokee treaty pending before the Senate, and the claim of the Cherokees to territory west of the one hundredth meridian. March 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Maine in favor of the enactment of a law for the appointment of a board of commissioners for the preservation of the harbors of the United States against encroachments. March 23, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco in favor of the establishment of a line of steamships between Australia and the South Pacific islands and the port of San Francisco. April 6, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Petition of Andrew McClory praying the enactment of a law authorizing him to enter the land on which he settled in Marysville District, California, at the government price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. April 9, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio in favor of the surrender of the National Road in that state to the several counties in which it is located. April 22, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of John W. Garrett, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and P.G. Van Winkle, president of Parkersburg Branch Railroad Company, praying a reduction of the duty on iron and steel rails. April 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Solicitor of the Treasury in relation to the enactment of a law authorizing the payment to district attorneys of two per centum upon all moneys hereafter collected or realized in suits or proceedings upon official bonds of public officers, &c. April 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River by the construction of a canal around the Des Moines Rapids. April 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Anita to Carroll Center, in said state. April 22, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of an appropriation for the completion of the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. April 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts in favor of aid to the Cape Cod Ship Canal by the construction of a breakwater at the eastern end of the canal. April 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1870. -- On motion by Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, ordered to be printed. The sub-committee of the Pacific Railroad Committee, to whom was referred, for the purpose of investigation, a bill "Incorporating the Southern Transcontinental Railway Company and Granting the Right of Way to Lands in Aid of its Contractions," presented to their committee the following report, accompanied by the testimony and statements laid before them... Letter of the Postmaster General to the chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, in relation to an increase of service on the mail steamship route from San Francisco to Japan and China. April 25, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of a grant of land to that state to indemnify persons who have purchased from the United States, or pre-empted, any of the odd sections of land lying along the Des Moines River and held invalid on account of previous grants by Congress. April 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of such legislation as will set aside the verdict of the military court in the case of William B. Critchfield and Henry C. Anderson, late soldiers of the Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, upon a charge of absence without leave, and that they be allowed their pay and allowances forfeited by reason of such decision. April 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy submitted the following resolution for consideration: Resolved, that the thirtieth rule of the Senate be amended by adding thereto the following... Letter of the Governor of Mississippi transmitting resolutions of the legislature of that state in favor of an appropriation and grant of lands for rebuilding the levees of the Mississippi River. June 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Acting Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance transmitting a tabular statement showing the rates of increase and decrease of duty on articles mentioned in the bill before the Senate entitled, "An Act To Reduce Internal Taxes and for Other Purposes." June 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio requesting the senators and representatives in Congress from that state to use their influence to secure the immediate intervention of the government in behalf of American citizens now confined in British dungeons. April 29, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Petition of the National Executive Committee of the Colored People, praying that public instruction in the District of Columbia may be given without proscription of any class on account of color. April 29, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that from and after the 20th day of this month, and until the close of the present session, there shall be, unless the Senate otherwise order, three evening sessions... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the last Friday and Saturday of this month be assigned exclusively to the consideration of bills and matters relating to the District of Columbia. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate communicating a statement of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to all the Indian tribes within the bounds of the United States. April 29, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. May 13, 1870. -- Ordered that 500 additional copies by printed for the use of the Department of the Interior. Resolution of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois in favor of the removal of the national capital to some point in the Mississippi Valley. May 13, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letters of the Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of War, relative to surveys for a harbor at the Delaware breakwater. May 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the thirtieth rule of the Senate be amended by adding thereto... Letter of the Secretary of War to the Committee on Commerce of the Senate, communicating a report of the Chief of Engineers upon the Cape Cod Ship Canal. May 26, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of merchants, underwriters, ship-owners, and ship-masters of the City of San Francisco, praying an appropriation for the removal of Rincon Rock from the harbor of San Francisco. May 26, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of John Warren, praying redress for his arrest and imprisonment by the government of Great Britain under the charge of giving aid and comfort to the enemies thereof: April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. May 20, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania remonstrating against the construction of bridges across the Ohio River unless said bridges shall have one span over the main channel of water-way at least four hundred feet in the clear. May 27, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of William F. Smith, President of the International Ocean Telegraph Company, praying to be admitted to a fair participation in any benefits to be granted by Congress for the promotion of international telegraphic communication, and proposing to establish and maintain certain lines of submarine telegraphs. June 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relation and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Fenton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States is hereby requested to institute an inquiry by such means as in his judgment shall be deemed proper into the present condition of the commercial relations between the United States... Claims on Venezuela. (Supplementary to executive document H.R. 176, second session Forty-first Congress.) Papers from the Department of State relative to the claims of citizens of the United States against the government of Venezuela. July 2, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. 890.) Table showing the internal revenue taxes collected in the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869, the amounts of such that are repealed by Senate Bill No. 890, and the amounts that are retained... Petition of H.C. Ingersoll praying that the right of suffrage be granted to women in the District of Columbia. February 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of an appropriation for the erection of a suitable building in the City of Topeka for the use of the federal courts, the post office, land and revenue offices. February 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the passage of the bill creating additional land districts in that state. February 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce in relation to a revision of the existing tariff laws. February 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of members of Black Bob's band of Shawnee Indians, against any attempt to force their people to break up their tribal organization, and against a division of their lands. February 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of granting a pension to Lieutenant Colonel John C. Abercrombie, of that state, corresponding to his rank. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia ratifying the proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. February 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas ratifying the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. February 7, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature Assembly of the Territory of Colorado against any change of the organic law concerning the jurisdiction of probate courts in that territory. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Certified copy of a letter from J.J. Reynolds, brevet major general U.S.A., commanding Fifth Military District, addressed to the Adjutant General United States Army, communicating a copy of the proceedings of the Legislature of the State of Texas on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, a copy of the constitution of the State of Texas, and copies of certain general orders. March 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue communicating a statement showing the gradual and steady increase in the receipts of internal revenue for the several years ending with each month from June, 1869, to January 1870, inclusive. March 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa instructing their senators and requesting their representatives in Congress to use their efforts to secure a tri-weekly mail route from Strawberry Point, Clayton County, Iowa, via St. Sebold and Volga City, to Elkader, Iowa. March 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the board of directors and members of the Union Merchants Exchange of St. Louis, and citizens of St. Louis, praying to enactment of a law to give increased facilities to the great cities of the interior for the direct importation of foreign merchandise, and its examination and appraisement at certain designated ports of delivery instead of at the ports of entry alone. March 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota in favor of the passage of the Bill (S.381) granting lands to the first division of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company, to aid in the construction of a railroad from some point on the western boundary of Minnesota to the Winnipeg district of British America. March 14, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of Nicholas P. Trist praying additional compensation for services rendered as commissioner plenipotentiary to the Republic of Mexico. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Memorial of delegates of the Creek Nation of Indians remonstrating against the organization of a territorial government for the Indian Territory. March 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories. March 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin in favor of the removal of certain bands of Indians from that state. March 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin in favor of the enactment of a law granting a bounty of eight and one-third dollars per month to all soldiers honorably discharged from service. March 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of Anna Ella Carroll, praying compensation for suggesting certain plans of operation for the armies of the United States during the late war. March 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the warden of the jail in the District of Columbia communicating a statement of the number of prisoners confined therein during the year ending October 31, 1869, and amount of disbursements for the year ending March, 1870; also a statement showing the expenses of the criminal court of said district for the year 1869. April 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial adopted by citizens of Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, at a mass meeting held in said city March 31, 1870, remonstrating against the passage of the Bill (H.R. No. 1089,) "in Aid of the Execution of the Laws in the Territory of Utah, and for Other Purposes." April 12, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco in favor of the establishment of a line of steamships between Australia and the South Pacific islands and the port of San Francisco. April 9, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions adopted at a meeting of citizens of Whitfield County, Georgia held in Dalton on the 2d of April, 1870, enumerating the inducements of climate and productiveness of soil to emigration to that state. April 6, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of citizens of Arkansas praying the removal of political disabilities of James C. Tappan. June 15, 1870. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Washington praying the passage of certain pending bills for the improvement of the city, in order to give employment to a large number of surplus laborers now in the city. June 14, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Cherokee delegation of Indians transmitting an address of the Grand International Council of Indians inhabiting the Indian Territory, adopted on the 4th instant, asking a strict observance of treaty stipulations on the part of the United States. June 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Texas asking that measures be taken to prevent the Republic of Mexico from harboring hostile bands of Indians depredating the southwestern frontier of that state. June 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, communicating amendments to the Cherokee treaty concluded July 9, 1868. June 2, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany the treaty with the Cherokee Indians. Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio in favor of aid by the United States in the early construction of the Kanawha and James River Canal. April 29, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to the chairman of the Committee on Finance communicating a report of John Jay Knox in relation to a revision of the laws pertaining to the Mint and coinage of the United States. April 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. May 2, 1870. -- Ordered that five hundred additional copies be printed for the use of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of War (with accompanying papers) relative to granting the Presidio reservation to the City of San Francisco for a public park, as proposed by Bill S. 370. April 4, 1870. -- Bill (S. 370) postponed indefinitely. May 2, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Petition of owners and masters of steamships and sailing vessels engaged in the coasting trade between New Orleans and ports on the Gulf of Mexico, praying such an amendment to the act declaring the railroad and bridges of the New Orleans and Chattanooga Railroad Company a post road, as will compel said company to construct a draw-bridge, of not less than three hundred feet wide, across the Great Rigolet. April 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of State addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, communicating copies of a correspondence between the French minister and the Secretary of State, relative to landing upon the coast of the United States the submarine cable designed to connect this country with France. June 20, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Petition of the President and Secretary of the Citizens Association of New York, praying the passage of the bill to incorporate the "International Society of the United States for the Promotion and Protection of Immigration." May 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Pomeroy submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the President be requested, if in his judgment it be deemed expedient, to open negotiations with the government of Great Britain... Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from some point on the Missouri River, between the parallel of forty-two and one-half degrees of north latitude and the mouth of the Niobrara River, to the Pacific Ocean, via to City of Helena, Montana. April 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Architect of the Capitol Extension, the Superintendent and Inspector of Sewers in Washington City, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Rich'd Delafield, Brevet Major General Corps of Engineers U.S.A., to the Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia of the Senate, in relation to the improvement of the Washington Canal. May 20, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa in favor of the full payment of all back pay and allowances due Peter J. Knapp, private Company H, Fifth Iowa Infantry Volunteers. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the delegates of the Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw nations of Indians, remonstrating against the passage of the Bill (S. 679) to organize the Territory of Oklahoma, consolidate the Indian tribes under a territorial government, and carry out the provisions of the treaties of 1866 with certain Indian tribes. May 23, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. |
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