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Serial set 1432	Switzler vs. Dyer. Papers in the contested election case in the 9th Congressional District of Missouri. December 11, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Barnes vs. Adams. Papers in the contested election case of Sidney M. Barnes vs. George M. Adams, in the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky. December 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Reid vs. Julian. Papers in the contested election case of Reid against Julian in the Fourth Congressional District of Indiana. December 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed.	3
Serial set 1433	Mail route, Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota asking for mail route from Blue Earth City to Jackson. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Naval rank. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy inclosing petition of warrant officers asking for naval rank, directed to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Fort Kearney reservation in Iowa. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2196.) Letter of register and receiver in relation to Fort Kearney reservation. June 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Advertising for Thirty-seventh Congress. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives in answer to a resolution of the House of this date relative to payments made to D.C. Forney, for advertising certain statements relative to Thirty-seventh Congress. April 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the second session of the Forty-first Congress. II. Offices 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. July 15, 1870. Removal of disabilities in Virginia. Resolution of the General Assembly of Virginia asking Congress, without delay, to remove political disabilities from all citizens of the State of Virginia. February 22, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Reconstruction and ordered to be printed. Proposed additional rule. May 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Changes in consulates. Letter from the Secretary of State addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs proposing changes in regard to compensation and duties in several of the consulates of the United States. January 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Navy pension laws. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs relative to the Navy pension laws. January 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.. Federal public buildings in Missouri. Resolutions of the Legislature of Missouri, relative to the public buildings for the accommodation of the post office and United States district court at the capital of said state. January 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Harbor at Mobile. Memorial and joint resolutions of the General Assembly of Alabama, asking for appropriation for improvement of the harbor of Mobile. January 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Bronze doors. Letter from the Architect of Capitol Extension, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 13, relative to the bronze doors now in the passage leading from the rotunda to the House of Representatives. January 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Acquisition of foreign territory. January 20, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed Reorganization of the Navy. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 976.) Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, relative to the reorganization of the Navy of the United States. January 25, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Report of the receipts and expenditures of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for the year ending June 30, 1869. January 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed Solicitor and additional clerks for the State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State to Hon. N.P. Banks, recommending the appointment of a solicitor of claims for the State Department and an appropriation for the compensation of three additional clerks for indexing records and papers received by the Department. January 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Harbor at Duluth. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota to improve the harbor at Duluth. January 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Kansas claims. (To accompany H.R. 112.) Papers relative to the claim of the State of Kansas for claims against the government. January 28, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Tucker vs. Booker. Testimony in the case of George Tucker vs. Geo. W. Booker, Fourth Congressional District of Virginia. January 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Elections and ordered to be printed. Wagon road in Montana. Memorial from the Legislature of the Territory of Montana praying for an appropriation of forty thousand dollars. January 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. A.A. Vance. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1013.) Papers relative to claims for relief of A.A. Vance. January 31, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Postage on newspapers. Memorial of John W. Munday on the subject of newspaper postage. January 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Duty on coal. Joint resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia in relation to a reduction of duty on foreign coal. January 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Management of Indians in British America. Report on the management of the Indians in British North America by the British government. January 27, 1870. -- Presented by Mr. Clarke, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Duty on foreign coal. Letter from the Governor of West Virginia transmitting the proceedings of the legislature in relation to the duty on foreign coal. January 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Whittlesey vs. McKenzie. Testimony in the case of Chas. Whittlesey vs. Lewis McKenzie, Seventh Congressional District Virginia. January 31, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment. Letter from the Governor of Ohio transmitting the action of the Legislature of Ohio in adopting the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. January 31, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Railroad from Lake St. Croix to Superior. Letter from the Governor of Wisconsin transmitting the memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, asking for a re-grant of the land heretofore granted to aid in the construction of railroads from Lake St. Croix to Superior and Bayfield. February 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Pension and bounty laws. Resolution of the Legislature of Missouri asking Congress to extend the pension and bounty laws to the enrolled Missouri militia. February 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Missouri militia. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Missouri requesting that the militia of that state be placed on the same footing as other troops for pensions and bounties. February 2, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. St. Mary's Falls ship-canal. Joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, authorizing the board of control of the St. Mary's Falls ship-canal to transfer said canal to the United States. February 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Machinery free of duty. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama relative to the admission free of duty of certain machinery for manufacturing purposes. February 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Assignment of contested election cases. Assignment of contested election cases by the Chairman of the Committee of Elections. February 22, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Duty on sugar and molasses. Resolution of Legislature of Louisiana, relative to duty on sugar and molasses. February 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Breakwater at Crescent City, California. Memorial of the Legislature of California, praying an appropriation for the erection of a breakwater at Crescent City, in that state. February 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Public buildings at Leavenworth. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Kansas instructing the senators and representative from said state to vote for an appropriation to erect suitable buildings at Leavenworth for a post office and revenue office. February 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Gayle H. Kyle. Memorial of Hon. Gayle H. Kyle, of Arkansas, asking compensation as a member of the Thirty-ninth Congress. March 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Amendment to the Constitution. Letter from the Governor of the State of Nebraska, transmitting a certified copy of a concurrent resolution of said state, ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by Congress as Article XV. March 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Tariff on foreign coal. Memorial from committee of citizens of Alleghany County, Md., appointed at a public meeting in Cumberland, Maryland, concerning the tariff on foreign coal imported. March 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Captain John W. Bevins. Memorial of the Arkansas Legislature, asking relief for Captain John W. Bevins and his command of "Independent Rangers." March 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Charles Schreiber. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1379.) Papers to accompany the claim of Charles Schreiber. February 28, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Voters of Costilla and Conejos Counties, Colorado. Memorial of the voters of the counties of Costilla and Conejos in the Territory of Colorado. February 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Boyden vs. Shober. Evidence and papers in the contested election case in the Sixth Congressional District of North Carolina. February 25, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Pay for organizing colored troops. Memorial of the Legislature of Kansas in reference to the pay of officers engaged in organizing colored troops. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Survey of Osage River. Resolution of the Legislature of Missouri for an appropriation for the survey of the Osage River, in the State of Missouri. March 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Claims of Maine. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine relating to claims against the United States for advances made by Massachusetts in the War of 1812. March 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Washington City market. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1084.) Specifications for Washington City market building. March 9, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Soldiers of the War of 1812. Memorial and resolutions of soldiers of the War of 1812, praying Congress to grant pensions to the survivors. March 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Benjamin F. Butler. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Annual report of the president of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. March 15, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Constitution of the State of Texas. Letter from General Reynolds, transmitting a copy of the Constitution of the State of Texas, ratified at the election held November 30 and December 1, 2, and 3, 1869. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Reconstruction and ordered to be printed. Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage Land Company. Memorial from the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin in relation to a grant of land to the Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage Land Company. April 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Initial point of Union Pacific Railroad. Joint resolution of the General Assembly of Iowa relating to the initial point of the Union Pacific Railroad. March 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Railroad in Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota asking for a grant of lands, to aid in the construction of a railroad. March 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Harbor of Port Jefferson, Long Island Sound. Memorial of the Assembly of the State of New York relative to Port Jefferson harbor, Long Island Sound. March 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Tariff on coal. Communication from a committee of citizens of Alleghany County, Md., appointed at a public meeting in Cumberland, Maryland, to make known to Congress the wants and wishes of that community respecting the tariff on coal. March 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Postal facilities for Alabama. Memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama asking for increased postal facilities in said state. March 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Treaty with Shawnees, etc. (To accompany House Resolution No. 205.) Letter from the Commissioner of the Land Office relative to the treaty of February 23, 1867, with the Shawnees, Quapaws, and other Indians. March 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Sword of General Montgomery. Letter from the Secretary of State addressed to the Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, relative to the sword belonging to General Montgomery, deceased. March 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Joint Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Water communication west and east. Letter from the Governor of West Virginia transmitting memorial and resolutions of the Legislature of West Virginia relative to water communication from the west to the Atlantic sea-board, through the states of West Virginia and Virginia. March 15, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Removal of Indians from Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota relative to the removal of Indians from the frontier of said state. March 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Breakwater at Wilmington Harbor, California. Joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of California relating to a breakwater at Wilmington harbor, on the coast of California, and government survey. March 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Contest in Cuba. Joint resolution of the General Assembly of Iowa relating to the civil contest in the island of Cuba. March 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Improvement of rivers and harbors. A resolution proposed to be submitted by Mr. Conger, declaring the opinion of the House of Representatives regarding the improvement of the rivers and harbors of the United States. March 28, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mail route in Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin relative to the establishment of a post road in said state. March 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Cavalry for New Mexico. Memorial from the Legislature of the Territory of New Mexico asking that Congress will authorize the raising of two regiments of cavalry in said territory for defense against the Indians. March 23, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Duty on lumber. Letter to the Committee of Ways and Means on tariff on lumber. March 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Judicial districts in Wisconsin. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin relative to dividing the state into two judicial districts. March 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Harbors on Lake Superior. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin instructing their senators and representatives to ask for appropriations for harbors on Lake Superior. March 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mail route, Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota asking mail route from Leroy to High Forest. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Lands -- Lake Traverse reservation. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota asking that all Indians not authorized by the treaty of 1862, who are on Lake Traverse reservation, be removed to their proper reservation, and to prevent all Indians not authorized from being harbored or permitted to remain on the lands of the said Lake Traverse reservation. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Daily mail, Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota asking daily mail from St. Paul to Taylor's Falls, via Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Revolution in Cuba. Resolution of the Senate of Maryland in reference to the present revolution in Cuba. April 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mail route, Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota for mail route from Lake City to Eyota. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Homestead entries. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota relative to certain homestead entries. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Freedman's University. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas relative to a grant of lands in aid of Freedman's University. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Freedman's Affairs and ordered to be printed. Medal to Pennsylvania troops. April 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Telegraph between America and Asia. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1778.) Memorial of Cyrus W. Field relative to telegraphic communication between America and Asia. April 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. James Mercer. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1795.) Letter from Hon. F.C. Le Blond relative to this claim. April 18, 1870. -- Referred to Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Money-order offices. Joint resolution of the General Assembly of Iowa for an additional number of money-order offices. April 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Income tax. April 19, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Observations on eclipse of the sun. (To accompany Bill H. Res. No. 252.) Letter from the Superintendent of the Coast Survey relative to observations of the next total eclipse of the sun in Europe or Asia. April 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Commerce and navigation. Letter addressed to Hon. John Lynch, with report on commerce and navigation, by John Meredith Read, Jr., United States consul general of France. June 9, 1870. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Decline of American Tonnage. George F. Robinson. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine in relation to George F. Robinson, for protecting the life of William H. Seward, late secretary of state. June 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Postal telegraph. Resolution of the Legislature of Nebraska in relation to a postal telegraph. May 2, 1870. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Postal Telegraphs and ordered to be printed. Ridgway revolving battery. Memorial of Harriet A. Ridgway in relation to the "Ridgway revolving battery," invented by her late husband. June 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Obstructions at Hell Gate. Resolution relative to the removal of obstructions at Hell Gate. July 15, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Outrages committed by Indians on western and southwestern frontiers. (To accompany H. Res. No. 288.) May 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mexico to fulfill treaty stipulations. May 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. John W. Leftwich vs. W.T. Smith [i.e., W.J. Smith]. Testimony in the case of John W. Leftwich vs. W.T. Smith [i.e., W.J. Smith], in the Eighth Congressional District of Tennessee. June 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Improvement of Wisconsin River. Letter from the Governor of the State of Wisconsin transmitting a resolution adopted by the state board of assessors of said state, in relation to the improvement of the Wisconsin River. May 27, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Indian depredations in Texas. Memorial of three hundred and fifty citizens of the northwestern frontier of Texas relative to Indian depredations, and prayer for relief. May 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Florida Telegraph Company. Memorial of the Florida Telegraph Company. June 24, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. June 27, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Cherokee neutral lands. Argument of W.R. Laughlin. July 14, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Rank in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy directed to the Hon. Mr. Scofield, inclosing a communication from Admiral Farragut relative to rank in the Navy. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Pay of officers of Missouri militia. Resolution in reference to the extra pay of the officers of the Missouri state militia. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Capitol building in Wyoming. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Wyoming Territory, asking for an appropriation for a capitol building. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments to pension laws. Resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia, requesting amendments to the pension law. February 12, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Harbor of refuge at Block Island. Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island in relation to a harbor of refuge at Block Island. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Louisville Commercial Convention. 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. February 12, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Duty on foreign coal. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts relative to the duty on foreign coal. February 9, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Improvement of Wisconsin and Fox rivers. Letter from the Governor of Wisconsin transmitting memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin relative to the improvement of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers. February 3, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Sheafe vs. Tillman. Papers in the contested election case of Sheafe vs. Tillman, in the Fourth Congressional District of Tennessee. February 11, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Cherokee Nation. Letter from Lewis Downing, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, inclosing petitions of numbers of various tribes against a proposed territorial government over them. March 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resignation of members of the House of Representatives. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Treaty with Cherokee Nation. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Soldiers of the War of 1812. Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio in relation to the soldiers of the War of 1812. March 9, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and ordered to be printed. Meteorological observations. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 602.) Report of the New York Chamber of Commerce on the bill before Congress to institute meteorological observations at military stations, and for giving notice of the approach and force of storms. March 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. March 30, 1870. -- Reported back, committee discharged, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Claim for improvement of Racine harbor. Memorial from the Legislature of Wisconsin praying that the City of Racine, in said state, be reimbursed for moneys expended and liabilities incurred in the construction and improvement of the harbor at said city. April 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mail route, Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota for mail route from Blue Earth City to Jackson. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Improvement of rivers, Minnesota. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota asking improvement of upper Mississippi, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Mail route, Minnesota, Albert Lea to Blue Earth City. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota praying for mail route from Albert Lea to Blue Earth City. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Mail facilities in Iowa. Joint resolution of the General Assembly of Iowa asking increased mail facilities. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Reduction of foreign postal rates. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota asking for reduction of foreign postal rates between this country and the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Telegraph postal service. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts relative to postal telegraph system. April 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Postal Telegraph and ordered to be printed. Mail route, Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota asking for mail route from Sand Creek to Oral. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Louisville and Portland Canal. Memorial from the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce relative to Louisville and Portland Canal. April 6, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Steam service to Australia. Resolution of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce relative to steam service between California and Australia. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Grafton vs. Conner. Papers in the contested election case of Grafton vs. Conner, in the Second Congressional District of Texas. June 2, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Washington Aqueduct. April 27, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Charles E. Buck. May 10, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Material, etc., for the service of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, relative to expenses for material, officers, and men for the naval service. May 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Water communication between the Atlantic and Mississippi. Letter from the Governor of the State of Iowa transmitting a memorial of the State of Iowa in relation to water communication between the Atlantic and Mississippi. May 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Banking facilities. (To accompany H.R. No. 1900.) May 27, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. St. Mary's Falls ship canal. Statement of the iron and copper products of Lake Superior, the tonnage employed therein, and the condition of the Sault Ste. Marie Falls canal. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Military post near Pembina. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota relative to an appropriation for the establishment of a military post upon the northern boundary, at or near Pembina. April 4, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed Harbor at Port Washington. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin relative to a harbor at Port Washington, in Wisconsin. February 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	127
Serial set 1434	Digest of election cases. Cases of contested election in the House of Representatives from 1865 to 1871, inclusive. Compiled by D.W. Bartlett, clerk to Committee of Elections. July 13, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 1435	Testimony taken by the Sub-Committee of Elections in Louisiana.	1
Serial set 1436	United States ship Wyoming. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1072.) February 2, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Capitol buildings in territories. February 16, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Minnesota State University. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 253.) January 19, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. J.M. Hutchings, J.C. Lamon. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 184.) January 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Ninth census. January 18, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Settlement of officers' accounts. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 784.) January 11, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Catharine Jackson. January 21, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Green and Trainor. January 21, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. James F. Shattuck. January 21, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Dwight J. McCann. January 21, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Henry Lenhart. January 21, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. J.G. Lane. January 21, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Simon Van Etten. January 21, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Frederick Brosenne. January 21, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Jonas W. Nye. January 21, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Napoleon B. Giddings, (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1009.) January 28, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Land claims under Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. (To accompany Bill No. 740.) January 27, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Wallace vs. Simpson. January 28, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Georgia election cases. January 28, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. John Covode vs. Henry D. Foster. January 27, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Execution of the laws in Utah. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1089.) February 3, 1870. -- Recommitted to the Committee on the Territories and ordered to be printed. Van Wyck vs. Greene. February 3, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Emil Ruger. February 2, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Steamboats and other vessels owned in the loyal states. February 4, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. B.F. Whittemore. February 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Causes of the reduction of American tonnage. (To accompany Bills H.R. No. 1261 and 1262.) February 17, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Gold panic investigation. March 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Charles Cooper and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1395.) March 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles A. Pitcher. March 2, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Patents. William Conelly. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1189.) February 11, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Contract with Congressional Globe. February 12, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Richard M. Green. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1188.) February 11, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed.	32
Serial set 1437	A.S. Wallace vs. W.D. Simpson. May 18, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Telegraph with foreign countries. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1263.) March 3, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad. March 3, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Lydia E. Carhart. March 3, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Patents. Mount Vernon relics. March 7, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Elias C. Boudinot. March 30, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Sutro Tunnel. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1179.) March 17, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. R.R. Butler. March 16, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Deduction from pay of members for absence. March 16, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Hunt vs. Sheldon. March 16, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. George Tucker vs. Geo. W. Booker. March 22, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Calvin H. Frederick. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. J.N. Carpenter. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Albert Greenleaf, William Flynn, and S.P. Brown. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Joseph Segar. March 29, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Alfred M. Briggs. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Captain Edward Ball. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. John R. Reading. March 29, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Edward Barton and others, owners of steamer Abe. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Nathaniel Tarr. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Appointments to the military and naval academies. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1606.) March 24, 1870. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Washington and Alexandria Turnpike Company. April 1, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Newsham vs. Ryan. April 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Metropolitan Police. April 15, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Sturgeon Bay ship-canal. April 14, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. J.H. Sypher. April 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Post office buildings. April 14, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Darrall vs. Bailey. April 28, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Paraguayan investigation. May 5, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Captain Dominick Lynch. May 13, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed Examination on statements in the report of Special Commissioner of Revenue. May 19, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Cherokee neutral lands of Kansas. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1074.) April 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Janes, Fowler, Kirtland & Company of New York. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1667.) April 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. George W. Huntsman. April 1, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Morey vs. McCranie. April 27, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Customs revenue laws. May 10, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Claims of the State of Kansas. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 112.) May 3, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Buildings rented in the District of Columbia. May 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Retrenchment. Joseph Humphreys. May 13, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles W. Whitney. May 13, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed.	40
Serial set 1438	Alexander C. Twining. (To accompany Bill S. No. 704.) July 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Purchasers of lands of Bartholomew Cousin's representatives. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2372.) July 6, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Eggleston vs. Strader. May 23, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Barbara Schorr. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2254.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Commodore Charles [S]teedman. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2248.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. James R. Young. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2243.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. George S. Wright, administrator of John T. Wright, deceased. June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Switzler vs. Dyer. June 29, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Theodore Adams. July 12, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Charges against General Howard. July 13, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed with minority report. Cuba. June 14, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Kansas claims. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2176.) June 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee of Claims. Lucy A. Smith. (To accompany H. Res. No. 343.) June 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Patrick Woods. June 25, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Colonel Thomas P. McManus. (To accompany H. Res. No. 336.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. George H. Bonebrake. (To accompany H. Res. No. 345.) June 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. John Milone. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2285.) June 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Hiram A. Cutting. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1010.) June 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. James Weeks, Jr. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1668.) June 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Barnes vs. Adams. May 23, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Claim of Massachusetts. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2,104.) June 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Claims of American citizens against Venezuela. June 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. John Wilson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2250.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Wallis Pattee. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2245.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. W. Scott Smith. June 22, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. The State of Massachusetts coast defense. (To accompany H. Res. No. 346.) June 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Dr. John H. McQuown. (To accompany H. Res. No. 335.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. William J. Clark, adm'r. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2284.) June 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. William Selden. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2246.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. George J. [i.e., I] Langworthy. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2283.) June 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Frederick Smith. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2242.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Daniel M. Page. (To accompany H. Res. No. 344.) June 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. John L. Zeigler vs. John M. Rice. June 30, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Jacob R. Davis. (To accompany H. Res. No. 356.) July 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Postal telegraph in the United States. (To accompany H.R. No. 2365.) July 5, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. John S. Reid vs. George W. Julian. July 6, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. City of Milwaukee. July 13, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Shields vs. Van Horn. July 15, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed with the minority report. The Jose Dominguez land grant. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2026.) July 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Black Bob Indian lands. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 181.) July 6, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Arnton Smith. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2360.) July 2, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Postal telegraph system. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2366.) July 5, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Colonel James Belger. July 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Sea Islands, Beaufort, S.C. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2289.) June 30, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Indebtedness of certain southern railroads. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2178.) June 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Mrs. Jane A. Green. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2281.) June 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. The Brazil mail. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2244.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. William Eddy's heirs. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2241.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Richard M. Hodgson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1277.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Whittlesey vs. McKenzie. May 24, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.	50
Serial set 1439	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the third session of the Forty-first Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 5, 1870, in the ninety-fifth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1440	Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th of December, 1870, information relative to an alleged unlawful traffic with rebels in the State of Texas during the late war, entered into by Harris Hoyt, Byron Sprague, and others. January 4, 1871. -- Referred to the select committee of five, consisting of Mr. Thurman, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Trumball, Mr. Howe, and Mr. Willey, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, returning, with his objections, Senate Joint Resolution (No. 92) for the relief of certain contractors for the construction of vessels of war and steam machinery. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of January 12, 1871, information as to what states and territories have paid their proportion of the direct tax levied by the acts of August 5, 1861, &c. February 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1870, certain statements relative to the collection and distribution of fines and forfeitures under the Customs laws. February 16, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating the second annual report of the Board of Indian Commissioners. February 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, the report of General Pope upon the enlargement of the military post and depot at Fort Leavenworth. February 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating to the Senate his reasons for allowing the bill prescribing the oath of office to be taken by persons who engaged in the late rebellion, but who are not disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, to become a law without his signature. February 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, recommending an appropriation for the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, and Piankeshaw Indians, in accordance with the treaty of February 23, 1867. February 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1870, the cost of transportation of mails and freights, and the expense of guarding the overland route from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, from the annexation of California to July 1, 1864. February 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War transmitting a communication from Joseph Richerson, complaining that he has been driven from his home in Kentucky by the so-called Ku-Klux Klan. February 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 1, 1871, dispatches of Hon. Henry T. Blow, minister of the United States to the court of Brazil. March 3, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a paper relative to the desire of certain Indian tribes in the northern superintendency to sell a portion of their lands with a view to the purchase of other lands. February 8, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, information in relation to the early labors of the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions in Oregon, commencing in 1836. February 9, 1871. -- 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 January 27, 1871, information in relation to the non-execution of the act of July 14, 1870, requiring the laying of a water-main from the reservoir to Capitol Hill, through the Cities of Washington and Georgetown. February 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating copies of the reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Superintendent Hoag, and J.D. Lang, relative to the extension of the time of payment by settlers on the Osage Indian lands in Kansas. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of January 4, 1871, copies of correspondence with and orders issued to the commander of our naval squadron in the waters of the island of San Domingo since the commencement of the late negotiations. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1870, the report of the Engineer Bureau of the proposed ship canal from Fort St. Philip to Breton Island. February 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a report of the Chief of Engineers upon the proposed improvement of the Mississippi River from Alton to the mouth of the Maramee River. March 2, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating information in regard to the military depot at Fort Leavenworth, and recommending an appropriation for the improvement of that post. February 28, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, a report from the Secretary of State relative to the correspondence with the United States minister at Paris since the commencement of the war between France and Prussia. December 8, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of June 13, 1870, a copy of the report of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel B. Holabird, of a reconnaissance made by him in the Department of Dakota, in 1869. December 21, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating reports of the consular agents appointed under section two of the act of July 11, 1870, "Making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year Ending June 30, 1871, and for Other Purposes." December 20, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United states, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th of June, 1870, information in relation to charges made by the International Ocean Telegraph Company upon messages passing over their lines. December 13, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, a statement of the amount of free matter passing through the mails during the period of six months ending June 30, 1870. January 13, 1871. -- 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 the resolution of the Senate of the 16th of December, 1870, information in relation to outrages committed by disloyal persons in North Carolina and other Southern states. January 13, 1871. -- 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 4th instant, information relative to the proposed annexation of the Dominican portion of the island of San Domingo. January 16, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of December, 1870, information relative to the probable cost of the improvement of the Umpqua and Willamette Rivers, in the State of Oregon. January 12, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating information in regard to alleged outrages committed by lawless bands in the State of Tennessee. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating information relative to the claims of Jordan & McPike and others arising out of the expedition against the Pi-Ute Indians in 1860. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, an inventory of the property belonging to the United States in the Department of the Interior, December 1, 1870. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Surgeon General communicating a contract made with the Providence Hospital for the care of sixty transient paupers, under act of July 15, 1870. December 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating to the Senate his acceptance of the statue of Abraham Lincoln, executed by Vinnie Ream, and recommending an appropriation to pay the remaining installment due for the same. January 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1870, a report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, relative to the collection of the tax on the forty-five million scrip dividend of the New York Central Railroad Company. January 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 20, 1870, information in relation to certain Indiana state bonds, held by him as trustee for various Indian tribes. January 9, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in obedience to law, inventories of the property of the United States in the possession of the War Department. December 8, 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 5th instant, the last correspondence between Mr. Motley, as minister to the Court of St. James, and the Department of State. January 9, 1871. -- 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 2d instant, correspondence from the legation of the United States at Constantinople, relating to the restrictions on the passage of the Straits of Dardanelles and the Bosphorus by the ships of other nations. March 3, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, communicating information in relation to the claims to the invention for postmarking and postage-stamp canceling, in use in the postal service. March 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 15th instant, the instructions issued to the commander of the Tennessee on her present cruise, and a list of the vessels in the waters of the island of San Domingo since the commencement of the negotiations with Dominica. February 18, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating the report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane upon the so-called Yellowstone Expedition of 1870. March 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, a copy of the regulations prescribed under the act providing that merchandise imported at certain ports of the United States and destined for certain other ports may be immediately transported to such other ports. December 6, 1870. -- 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 past year. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in relation to the donation of bronze cannon to monumental associations. January 19, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 8th of December, 1870, the reports of the board of trustees of colored schools of Washington and Georgetown. January 19, 1871. -- 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 December 21, 1870, information in relation to the amounts paid for transportation and freights via the Isthmus and Cape Horn during the twelve months last past. January 24, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of the contracts of the Quartermaster's Department during the year ending December 31, 1870. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a copy of regulations for the consular courts of the United States in Japan, decreed and issued by the minister of the United States in that country. January 27, 1871. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a copy of the proceedings of the council of Indian tribes held at Ocmulgee, in December, 1870. January 30, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a copy of a letter of the Governor of South Carolina relative to outrages committed upon citizens of the United States resident in that state. January 31, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Outrages in the South and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of January 19, 1871, the report of the Chief of Engineers upon the survey of Charleston Harbor. February 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, the report of the Chief of Engineers upon the progress of the improvement of the Cape Fear River. January 31, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating an application from R.L.M. Camden for military protection for employees of an association engaged in gold-mining in South Carolina. January 31, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Outrages in the South and ordered to be printed.	52
Serial set 1441	In the Senate of the United States. Letter of the Secretary of State, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 22, 1870, copies of all treaties and conventions (except postal conventions) entered into by the United States, the ratification whereof has been exchanged. February 2, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 1442	Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of an act authorizing the issue of patents for the lands allotted to children of members of the Delaware tribe of Indians, in accordance with the treaty of March 4, 1866. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of John Roach, praying the passage of an act for the encouragement of iron ship building, and the formation of a line of first-class iron steamships. January 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, addressed to Hon. Willard Warner, communicating information on the subject of spirit meters. January 9, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Thomas H. Dowling, praying the relief which in equity may be due by reason of his forcible ejection by the military authorities of the United States from the Island of Yerba Buena, to which he claims title. February 2, 1871. -- Referred (with Bill S. 1296) to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of soldiers and veterans of the volunteer Army of the United States, praying the passage of an act granting a bounty of $8.33 for each month's service of all honorably discharged soldiers of the late war. March 2, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Thurman to the resolution reported by the Judiciary Committee, declaring Joshua Hill entitled to a seat in the Senate as a senator from the State of Georgia. Memorial of P.P. Pitchlynn, Choctaw delegate, in regard to carrying out treaty stipulations with the Choctaw Indians. February 6, 1871. -- Referred with Bill (S. 1307) to the Committee on the Judiciary. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of Robert Squires and others, praying the passage of House Bill No. 2591, relating to telegraph communication between the United States and foreign countries, without amendment. February 6, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Oregon, rejecting the Fifteenth Article of Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. February 8, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends, praying the aid of Congress in the establishment of a common-school system in that state. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Nevada, asking for a repeal of the duty now imposed on quicksilver. February 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, communicating information in relation to the Black Bob band of Indians in Kansas. February 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, in favor of an appropriation for the completion of the harbor at Michigan City. February 14, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Missouri, in favor of the passage of a law reapportioning the congressional representation on the basis of the census of 1870. February 16, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, asking an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Duluth. February 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas asking Congress to grant the right of way to the Chicago, Kansas and Texas railroad through the Indian Territory. February 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of an appropriation for the completion of the harbor at the mouth of the Ontonagon River. February 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of an appropriation to pay the citizens of Kansas for losses sustained during the political troubles of 1855 and 1856. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of placing the victims of the Lawrence massacre, in 1863, in the same position as regards pensions as though they had been killed in the military service of the United States. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens and property-holders along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad, praying the enactment of a law authorizing the sale of the timber lands along said road. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that clerks be allowed to the following committees of the Senate only... Memorial of members of the late General Assembly of the State of Georgia, remonstrating against the admission of Foster Blodgett to a seat in the Senate. March 2, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the construction of the fifteenth and sixteenth articles of the treaty of July 19, 1867 [i.e., 1866], with the Cherokee Nation, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate. February 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, to accompany amendments intended to be proposed by Mr. Harlan to the Bill H.R. No. 3064. Memorial of the chiefs of the confederated tribes of the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea Indians, praying to be reimbursed for the alleged misapplication of funds belonging to them by the Indian department. February 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. March 2, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Vermont, relative to the passage of a bill providing for the payment of the balance of the war claims due that state from the general government. December 5, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Petition of residents on the Hot Springs reservation, in the State of Arkansas, praying to be permitted to enter certain sections of land of said reservation. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on Tuesday, at 1 o'clock, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the calendar... Memorial of citizens of Tennessee, praying the interposition of Congress in behalf of the oppressed loyalists of that state. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Missouri in favor of such an amendment to the Homestead Act of May 20, 1862, as will permit settlers to make proof of the settlement and cultivation of the lands entered by them before some officer having a seal in the county in which they are situated. February 9, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of Tennessee, praying the enforcement of the laws and suppression of disorders in that state. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, withdrawing its assent to the ratification of the Fifteenth Article of Amendments to the Constitution. February 6, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, asking Congress to extinguish the Indian title to all Indian reservations in that state, and open the same to settlement. February 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1131.) Letter of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in regard to the proceedings of United States district tax commissioners in the distritc [i.e., district] of South Carolina. February 22, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking that the government military post at Fort Harker, Kansas, be not abandoned. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that in the present disturbed relations of the governments of the United States and Great Britain... In the Senate of the United States. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of an appropriation for deepening and completing the channel between the waters of Lake Superior and Eagle Harbor. February 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of the establishment, on a firm basis, of the rights of our citizens on the fishing grounds on the northeast coast. March 1, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate communicating, in obedience to law, an account of property of the United States in his possession December 5, 1870. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Casserly submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be, and hereby is, requested to transmit to the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interests, the following information... In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the Senate, if, in his opinion, not incompatible with the public interests, copies of all papers and correspondence relating to the proposed annexation of the Dominican portion of the Island of San Domingo, or the purchase of any part thereof... Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, communicating copies of opinions of the Attorney General and the decision of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, in relation to the fifth section of the act of July 12, 1870, in relation to unexpended balances of appropriations. January 4, 1871. -- Submitted by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions adopted by a convention of the Iron Molders' International Union held at Philadelphia in July 1870, against the further introduction of coolie labor into this country. December 12, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Schurz submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the disqualifications and disabilities imposed upon persons lately in rebellion against the government of the United States were dictated by imperative public necessities, and not by a spirit of hatred or vindictiveness... Joint resolution of the Legislature of Oregon, in favor of the passage of the bill known as the Oregon Branch Pacific Railroad bill. December 13, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the third session of the Forty-first Congress. January 25, 1871. Memorial of citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio, praying such alterations and modifications of the plans of the Newport and Cincinnati bridge as will elevate the spans forty feet above high-water mark. January 12, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota, in favor of an appropriation for the extension of the Sioux City and Missouri telegraph line to Fort Randall. January 13, 1871. -- 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 extension of the operation of the second section of the act of July 14, 1870, "To Extend the Provisions of the Preemption Laws to the Territory of Colorado, and for Other Purposes," to January 1, 1873. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of allowing settlers on the Osage Diminished Reserve to enter and prove their claims in any shape in which they may have claimed them by legal subdivisions. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of receipts and expenditures for the year ending December 5, 1870, and also an account of property in his possession at that date. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, communicating a statement of all the judgments rendered by said court during the year ending December 5, 1870. December 6, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Victoria C. Woodhull praying the passage of a law carrying into execution the right vested by the Constitution in citizens of the United States to vote, without regard to sex. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of William C. Barney, praying the adoption of a system of rules for the operation of international telegraph lines. December 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of settlers on agricultural lands in California, praying such legislation as will aid them is protecting their lands and crops from overflow during the rainy seasons of the year. January 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, praying the establishment of ocean mail steamship service between the United States and Australia. January 10, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, inclosing matters of appropriation and legislation which, in the opinion of the Department of the Interior, should be provided for. March 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations to accompany Mr. Harlan's proposed amendments to Bill H.R. No. 3064. Memorial of the Legislature of Nebraska, in favor of a grant of lands in aid of the Omaha and Northwestern Railroad. February 28, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Letter on the economic values of American coals, addressed to Hon. William M. Stewart, Chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining, United States Senate. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to Committee on Appropriations to accompany amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Stewart to the Bill H.R. No. 2789 and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and proposed as an amendment by Mr. Hamlin to the Bill H.R. No. 3064. Memorial of the council of the Seneca Nation of Indians, remonstrating against the sale of any portion of the Allegany Reservation. February 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following resolution. Whereas the Constitution (Art. 1, Sec. 9) provides that "a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time"... Memorial of the Board of Supervisors of Siskiyou County, California, and others, praying the establishment of certain post offices and post routes in that state. January 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a committee of the National Labor Convention, praying the appointment of a commission to inquire into the condition of affairs in the southern states. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury, communicating a statement of the amounts refunded to states for expenses incurred in raising volunteers, from 1861 to January 1, 1871. January 24, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the progress of the Library during the year ending December 1, 1870. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. January 24, 1871. -- Ordered that five hundred additional copies be printed for the use of the Library. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana in favor of the passage of the bill granting pensions to the surviving soldiers of the War of 1812. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of judges, officers, and members of the bar of Cincinnati, Ohio, praying that defendants in criminal cases, in federal courts, may be permitted to testify. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company in reply to the report of board of engineers in relation to their bridge. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans, in favor of an appropriation for postal steamship service between that city and foreign countries. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of citizens of the United States, praying for legislation looking to the establishment of lines of American steamships between the United States and Europe. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of William B. Whiting, praying such an amendment of the postal law of June 12, 1866, as will allow letters sent in care of authorized parties to be remailed to persons to whom addressed without prepayment of postage. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed to accompany Bill S. No. 1146. In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. New Mexico. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1006.) The Territory of New Mexico has within its limits the following counties viz... Letter of the Postmaster General, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, communicating his views on the petition of J.Q. Preble & Co., praying the discontinuance of the manufacture and sale of stamped envelopes by the government. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of legislation to protect the rights of bona fide settlers in the Cherokee Neutral Lands, sold in accordance with the treaty of August 11, 1866. January 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the payment of claims of citizens of that state for losses sustained by the illegal invasion of the territory by pro-slavery mobs in 1855, 1856, and 1857. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota in favor of the construction of a military road from Fort Abercrombie to Fort Pembina, in that territory. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a committee appointed by the commercial convention held at the City of Cincinnati, in October, 1870, urging that measures be taken for a congress of representatives of all the governments on the western continent to consult upon the best means for inaugurating an American system of commercial intercourse. February 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of New York, in favor of a treaty with the Seneca Indians, by which they will give up the Allegany reservation. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania against the passage of the bill for the removal of the military stores at the Allegheny arsenal, at Pittsburg, and the disposal of the remaining property to said city. February 3, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to Hon. James Harlan, in relation to the absentee Shawnee Indian lands in Kansas. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of the Des Moines Valley, Iowa, praying protection in their rights and the preservation to them of their homes on the odd-numbered sections of land in said valley. February 2, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of H.L. Gamble, widow of the late Lt. Col. John M. Gamble, U.S. Marine Corps, praying compensation for the capture by her husband, during the War of 1812, of the vessel "Seringapatam." February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of Anacostia Village, Washington County, praying the erection of a bridge across Anacostia River near the Navy yard. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Rhode Island in favor of the passage of an act granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors, and widows of those who served in the War of 1812. February 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin in favor of the renewal of the grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from St. Croix River or Lake to the west end of Lake Superior or Bayfield. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of J.M. Hutchings, praying a grant of lands in the Yosemite Valley, California. February 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. February 21, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of A.H. Davis and others, in relation to the disposal of the Miami Indian lands in Kansas. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the extension of the operation of the extradition treaty now existing between the United States and Great Britain. February 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.	90
Serial set 1443	In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1315.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was rfeerred [i.e., referred] the petition of Mrs. Fanny Kelly, praying for compensation for losses sustained by the destruction of property by the Sioux Indians, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1213.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mary M. Clark, widow of Leonard Clark, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 734.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Isaac H. Allen, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 479.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House Resolution No. 479, a joint resolution repealing the joint resolution approved July 15, 1870, entitled "A Joint Resolution Authorizing the Postmaster General To Adjust the Accounts of George Chorpenning," beg leave to report the same back to the Senate with a recommendation that it pass as it came from the House... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 996.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Resolution No. 178 and Senate Bill No. 827, providing for the collection of debts due the United States from certain southern railroad corporations, and also House Bill No. 996, which passed the House of Representatives February 2, 1871, and is identical with Senate Resolution No. 178, respectfully report said last-named bill and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 309.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the papers relating to the claim of Samuel Houston, of Arkansas, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Traffic with Rebels in Texas, submitted the following report. The Select Committee to whom were referred a resolution of the Senate offered by Mr. Sprague, and adopted by the Senate, December 13, 1870, and also four communications, with accompanying papers, from the Secretary of War in compliance with said resolution -- the dates of which communications are, respectively, December 22, 1870, January 9, 1871, January 17, 1871, and February 27, 1871 -- being Ex. Doc. No. 10, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, Forty-first Congress, third session, now report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1087.) The petitioner is the widow of Charles O. Collins, of the regular Army, who graduated at West Point in 1828, and served continually until he died, a captain, at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, in August, 1846... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellog made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1963.) The Committee on Claims have had under consideration House Bill No. 1963, for the relief of William T. Stotts, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of Reuben Wright against the Chickasaw Indians, would report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 214.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Resolution No. 214, "For the Further Relief of the Officers of the Fourth and Fifth Indian Regiments," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, from the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Asa O. Butman, administrator, for renewal of letters patent to James A. Cutting, for an improvement in composition for making photographic pictures, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1348.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs-at-law of William Humphrey, a Revolutionary soldier, praying that they be allowed the arrears of pension due to the said William Humphrey, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1347.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Messrs. Brott & Davis, praying payment for the model barge "Brott & Davis," impressed by the military authorities of the United States, and lost during the late war of the rebellion, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2700.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William W. Spiers, have instructed me to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 208.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate joint resolution, relative to claims of certain northern creditors, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Fiedler... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1239.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Ann Green and Mrs. Maria Bohrer, of the District of Columbia, asking to be allowed the arrears of half-pay claimed to be due to Lieutenant Colonel Uriah Forrest, of the Maryland Line of the Revolutionary War, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 679.) The Indian Territory, proposed to be organized by the bill, is about 350 miles in length by 200 miles in width, with an area, therefore, of about 70,000 square miles... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of U.P. Monroe, praying compensation for expenditures and services in opening the Sacramento River to navigation, have considered the same, and submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1331.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1331, for the relief of A.F. McMillan, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1319.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Jesse Warren and J.A. Moore, composing the firm of Warren & Moore, praying compensation for lumber taken from them for the use of the Army in 1862, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1305.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Fredrick [i.e., Frederick] P. Dimpfel, of the City of Philadelphia, praying an extension of his patent for an improvement in steam-boilers, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1161.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 1161, "A Bill for the Relief of Roxana W. Sawyer," reports... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Frances A. McCauley... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1326.) In the matter of the application of C.O.F. Clark for increase of pension... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stearns made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2356.) In the matter of the petition of Stephen Hull for an act granting him a patent... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2296.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2296, granting a pension to William Sickles, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stearns made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 280.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Carlton A. Uber, a second assistant engineer in the United States Navy, on the retired list, and a Joint Resolution (S.R. 280) for his relief, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1366.) Mr. Thayer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the petition and papers of Miss Rebecca L. Wright, beg leave to report that they have examined the same, and find the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Casserly, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2249.) The Committee on Printing, to whom was referred House bill entitled "An Act for the Relief of Thomas Allen," report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 267.) The Committee on the Pacific Railroad, to which was referred Senate Resolution No. 267, in relation to freights on the Pacific railroads, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 321.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of T.T. Garrard and others, proprietors and lessees of salt works near Manchester, in the State of Kentucky, praying compensation for the destruction of their salt and injuries committed upon their works by the troops of the United States, in the year 1862, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 303.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Joint Resolution S.R. 303 in relation to the claim of the American Board of Foreign Missions, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, from the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, submitted the following report. The Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, who were by a resolution of the Senate, passed December 14, 1870, instructed "to furnish a comparative detailed statement of the cost of collecting the Customs... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2293.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred H. Bill No. 2293, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pension, made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2333.) The committee to which was referred House Bill No. 2333, granting a pension to William Erwin, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 717.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom the case of Harmon E. Wentworth, late second lieutenant Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, was referred, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary A. Simpson... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 748.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the case of Lieutenant Colonel Humphrey M. Woodyard, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 59, for the relief of Jordan & McPike, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2317.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2317, granting a pension to Melissa Andrews, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 375.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill 375... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2332.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2332, granting a pension to Sarah Gillett, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, who were instructed by resolution of the Senate, of April 7, 1870, "to inquire into and report to the Senate the effect of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution upon the Indian tribes of the country; and whether by the provisions thereof the Indians are not citizens of the United States, and whether thereby the various treaties heretofore existing between the United States and the various Indian tribes are, or are not annulled," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. C.S. Wilson... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Ann G. Barker, praying to be allowed arrears of pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Warner made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 375.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred House Joint Resolution 375, for the relief of Robert Moir & Co., having had the same under consideration, report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it pass, for reasons which are set forth in the accompanying letters of Internal Revenue Commissioners Delano and Pleasonton... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1192.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of D. Jay Brown, dated March 9, 1864, praying compensation for losses by reason of his discharge from official position while in foreign countries, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1193.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was recommitted Senate Bill No. 870, for the relief of the United States Express Company, and the petition upon which said bill was reported, make the following supplemental report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 918.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of the East Tennessee University... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of R.S.M. Hunter... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. A.L. Henry... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1242.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Horace L. Emery, of Albany, New York, praying that the Commissioner of Patents be authorized to hear and determine his application for the extension of his letter-patent for an improvement in the endless railway horse-power, having considered the same beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1226.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, having had under consideration certain papers, referred to them by the Secretary of State, concerning the application of Christine Mahler, a Prussian subject, for indemnity on account of United States bonds destroyed by fire, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1215.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William H. Colledge, praying compensation for clerical labor performed in the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1225.) The Committee on Foreign Relations having had under consideration certain papers referred to them by the Secretary of State, concerning the application of George Sydney Clement, a British subject, for indemnity on account of a United States bond destroyed by fire, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1140.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Rear-Admiral Henry Walke, praying a modification of the act of January 16, 1857, so that he may receive the pay of a commander while holding the commission for that rank in the naval service, and the bill for his relief, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1275.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of George W. Hall, Charles F. Sampson, John E. Chase, Alfred W. Fish, W.H. Bradford, Moses Taft, Colin C. Baker, Philander Crosby, Charles T. Childs, and Jesse Davis, of Providence, Rhode Island, praying indemnification for losses occasioned by the seizure and detention, by authority of the United States, of bark A 1, at Philadelphia, in the winter of 1863-'64, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 944.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 944, for the relief of Mrs. Lucy H. Carroll, administratrix of George W. Carroll, deceased, late of Conway County, State of Arkansas, and Mrs. Hibernia Armstrong, of the same county and state, have considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1273.) The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration the claim of S.E. Ward... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 555.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 555, "For the Relief of Pitcher & Hayford and Otis & Ferguson, of Maine," having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1870 [i.e. 1871]. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred Senate resolution of April 29, 1870, as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2300.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2300, granting a pension to Laura Baker, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Duncan... In the Senate of the United States. January 5, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the communication of the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress, transmitting a copy of the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States upon the claim of the Choctaw Nation of Indians for $250,000 of United States bonds, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 271.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A.G. Lee, praying for remuneration for property destroyed by United States troops at Paducah, Kentucky, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Hegeman, praying for compensation for the use by the United States Army of his improvement on the ponton [i.e., pontoon] boats, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 290.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a "Joint Resolution To Prevent Obstruction to Navigation of the Ohio River," which resolution refers to the bridge being built by the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2095.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the act for the relief of John W. Massey, (H.R. 2095,) have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2707.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2707, entitled "An Act for the Relief of General John C. McQuiston and Jeremiah D. Skeen, of Indiana," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott from the Committee of Conference, appointed by the two Houses, to consider the question as to the power of the Senate to originate the Bill (S. 1083) to repeal so much of the act approved July 14, 1870, entitled "An Act To Reduce Internal Taxes and for Other Purposes," as continues the income tax after the 31st day of December, 1869... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jerome J. Getty... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 887.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 887, for the relief of Rebecca J. Sheppard, of Philadelphia, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 687.) The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration the petition of Mary Dunn for restoration of property on Dawfuski Island, South Carolina, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2357.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred Bill H.R. No. 2357, for the relief of Jacob J. Anderson, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lewis made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1724.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred House Bill 1724, "To Authorize a Subscription by the Corporate Authorities of the City of Washington to the Capital Stock of the Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire Railroad Company, or the Washington and Ohio Railroad Company, As the Case May Be," respectfully submit... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Edwin M. Chaffee, praying the passage of an act of Congress extending certain letters-patent granted to him for the machine patent, so called, used in the manufacture of India-rubber, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 253.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Joint Resolution No. 253, entitled "A Joint Resolution Explanatory of the Act Admitting the State of Oregon into the Union," respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 672.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 672, "For the Relief of the Trustees of the Theological Seminary and High School of Virginia," have examined the same, and beg leave to submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1154.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Bill S. No. 1154, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the credentials of Joshua Hill, H.V.M. Miller, Henry P. Farrow, and Richard H. Whitely, claiming to have been elected senators from the State of Georgia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1216.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Phoebe Hepburn… In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1243.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Albert W. Gray, praying leave to apply to the Commissioner of Patents for an extension of letters-patent for an improvement in horse-powers, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 285.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred House Joint Resolution No. 285, to authorize the President of the United States to reappoint Joshua Bishop, late a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1019.) The Committee on the Pacific Railroad, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 1019) entitled "An Act To Incorporate Branches of the Southern Trans-continental Railway Company, Under the Name and Style of the Western North Carolina Extension Railway Company," have authorized me to ask that the following report may be printed... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2535.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2535, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Noah Fisher," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanagan made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2415.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 2415,) entitled "An Act for the Relief of Lot North, Late Postmaster at Patriot, Indiana," with the memorial and evidence accompanying it, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 217.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 217, for the relief of James A. Waymire, have considered the same and beg leave to submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanagan made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2285.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2285) entitled "An Act for the Relief of John Milone, Postmaster at Uhrickville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio," with the memorial and evidence accompanying it, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1253.) In the matter of the petition of Sarah Evans for pension... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanagan made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2243.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2243, an act for the relief of James R. Young, late postmaster at Lisbon, New Hampshire, with the memorial and evidence accompanying it, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1255.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Lewis Johnson, Lewis J. Davis, and David Walker, bankers of the City of Washington, composing the firm of Lewis Johnson and Company, praying to be reimbursed for certain moneys paid by them on a check drawn by Paymaster Benj. F. Gallaher, United States Navy, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2236.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2236, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Mary J. Pearson," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 294.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of J.W. Parish & Co., praying compensation for losses sustained on account of the refusal on the part of the government to receive from them twenty thousand tons of ice, parcel of thirty thousand tons contracted to be delivered at various points on the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers, during the year 1863, and for refusal to pay according to the terms of the contract, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1993.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1993, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Josephine Donahue," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 174.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 174, entitled "A Bill Granting Relief to Lois Clark," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 1118.) The bill now reported, while it differs from the bill of the same company before the Senate at its last session, seeks to accomplish the same important results... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1274.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William J. Phillips, praying compensation for services as assessor of internal revenue for the Second District of Texas, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1140.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom has been referred the case of Charles Trichler, of Adams County, Ohio, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles L. Thompson, guardian of the minor children of William S. Thompson, deceased, late an engineer on the iron-clad Atlanta, praying that a pension be allowed his wards, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2396.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred "An Act for the Relief of James J. Hiles, Late a Private in the Third Missouri Cavalry," having had the same under consideration, have instructed me to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the account of the Northwest Fur Company, for provisions and payment of men for the defense and protection of government property at Fort Union in 1866 and 1867, and the claim of T. Bruguin & Geowey, for subsistence furnished for the protection of the fort at the same time, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 230.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred "A Bill for the Relief of David Braden," having had the same under consideration, instruct me to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1281.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred R. Cruikshank's petition for relief, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2718.) The bill is for the relief of the widow of a soldier, giving ten months captain's pay and allowances, deducting therefrom the pay of a private... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth B. McCormick... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1299.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of R.M. Corwine, praying that the money now in the Treasury of the United States, the proceeds of the sale of certain cotton and other property captured by the Porter expedition up Red River in 1864, may be paid into the district court for the Southern District of Illinois, to enable that court to make distribution of the same among the claimants, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elkanah Huddleston, praying compensation for services rendered as second lieutenant from August 13, 1863, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 465.) The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration Joint Resolution H.R. 465, for relief of W. Buck, late surgeon Sixth Maine Volunteers, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1293.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom were referred the memorial and papers of Miss Carroll, of Maryland... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1295.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. Leonidas Russell and his wife, Martha L. House [i.e., Howse] Russell, praying compensation for property of hers taken and used by the troops of the United States at the Battle of Stone River, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, who were authorized by resolution of the Senate of December 9, 1870, to inquire and report whether the railway companies which have received aid in bonds of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1341.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of J. and C.M. Dailey for goods and provisions furnished the Sioux Indians in Minnesota in the year 1862, would report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration the petition of David J. Millard, of Clayville, New York, for compensation on a contract, report...	115
Serial set 1444	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the third session of the Forty-first Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 5, 1870, in the ninety-fifth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1445	Message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the Forty-first Congress.	1
Serial set 1446	Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress.	1
Serial set 1447	Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress.	1
Serial set 1448	Reports of the Secretary of the Navy and the Postmaster General, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress.	1
Serial set 1449	Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress. Volume I.	1
Serial set 1450	Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress. Volume II	1
Serial set 1451	Report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the third session of the Forty-first Congress of the United States. December 5, 1870. Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1870.	2

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