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Serial set 1463	Bridges over the Ohio River. Joint resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia, requesting Congress to prohibit the construction of any bridges which may obstruct the navigation of the Ohio River, or impede the transit of boats and barges and their cargoes on said river. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Income tax. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, addressed to Hon. Samuel Hooper, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, relative to the income tax. February 6, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means. Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing: I. Appropriations made during the third 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. March 4, 1871. Amendment of the bankrupt law. Joint resolution of the General Assembly of North Carolina, asking an amendment of the fourteenth section of the bankrupt law. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Montana Central Railroad. Memorial of the Executive Board of Trustees of the Montana Central Railroad Company, praying for a grant of public lands to aid in the construction of said road. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. McGregor and Mississippi [i.e., Missouri] Railroad. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Territory of Dakota, asking for a grant of lands to aid in the construction of the McGregor and Missouri River Railroad. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Irish Emigrant Society. Memorial of the Irish Emigrant Society of New York. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Navigation of Wabash River. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to the improvement of the navigation of the Wabash River. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Stamped envelope contract. Evidence taken by the Committee on Appropriations, on the investigation of contract for stamped envelopes with Dempsey & O'Toole. February 28, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mail service in Texas. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Texas, calling attention to the great negligence and mismanagement which characterize the mail service of that state. February 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Major General E.R.S. Canby. Petition of citizens of Virginia, praying for an investigation into the conduct of Major General E.R.S. Canby in regard to the appointment of a sheriff of Pittsylvania County. February 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Public lands to railroads. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, requesting their senators and representatives in Congress to oppose all further grants of the public lands to railroad and other corporations, and approving the President's policy on that subject. February 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Production of iron steamships. Explanatory memoranda of the International Steamship Company, relative to the production of iron steamships, cost of iron and of ships, our ability to compete in these with Great Britain; advantages to the government and the people. February 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Building-yards and transatlantic steamers. Memorial of the International Steamship Company; synopsis of proposals to create building-yards and establish transatlantic steamers without other subsidy than postages as now established by law. February 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Repeal of income tax and franking privilege. Resolutions of the Board of Trade of Newark, N.J., for the repeal of the income tax and abolition of the franking privilege. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Removal of the capital. Resolutions of the Legislature of Indiana, instructing members of Congress to vote against appropriations for permanent improvements in the City of Washington, and in favor of a removal of the national capital to a central portion of the Mississippi Valley. February 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Hon. A.M. Waddell. Joint resolution of the General Assembly of North Carolina in relation to the disabilities of the Hon. A.M. Waddell and Sion H. Rogers. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Reconstruction and ordered to be printed. Settlers upon Cherokee Neutral Lands. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Kansas, requesting Congress to pass such laws as may be necessary to fully protect the rights of bona fide settlers upon the Cherokee Neutral Lands in Kansas, under the homestead and preemption laws, and the right of the state to the 16th and 36th sections for the support of common schools. February 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. New territory from Dakota. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota, asking for the organization of a new territory out of the northern portion of Dakota. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Beard vs. Corker. Testimony in the case of Beard vs. Corker, of the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia. February 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. Bridge over Big Sioux at Blue Earth City. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Territory of Dakota, asking an appropriation to build a bridge across the Big Sioux River at the crossing of the Sioux Falls and Blue Earth City Road. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals and ordered to be printed. Pensions to soldiers of the War of 1812. Concurrent resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, relative to pensioning the soldiers of the War of 1812. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and ordered to be printed. Bridge over the Big Sioux River. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Territory of Dakota asking an appropriation to build a bridge across the Big Sioux River below the mouth of Rock River. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Oregon Indian reservations. Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, in relation to Indian reservations in said state. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Tift vs. Whitely. Memorial of Nelson Tift, relative to the election in the Second Congressional District of Georgia. February 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. Accounts between United States, Mississippi and other states. (To accompany H. Res. No. 379.) Papers relative to the settlement of accounts between the United States and Mississippi, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, submitted by Mr. Cook, from the Committee on the Judiciary. February 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary Bounties on articles used in constructing steam and sailing ships. Resolutions of the Council of the City of Chester, Pennsylvania, asking Congress to allow bounties on all articles of domestic manufacture used in construction of steam and sailing ships engaged in foreign commerce equivalent to duties paid on imported articles used in building American vessels, &c. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Railroad from Cincinnati to Chattanooga. Memorial signed by four hundred and thirty citizens of Chattanooga, asking Congress to charter a railroad from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Chattanooga, Tennessee. February 16, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals and ordered to be printed. Ship-owners of the United States. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of ship-owners of the United States. February 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Literary fund. Joint resolution of the General Assembly of North Carolina, requesting aid of Congress in erecting a literary fund. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Tift vs. Whiteley. (Supplementary to Mis. Doc. No. 68, pt. 2.) Additional documents relative to the contested election case of Tift vs. Whiteley, in the Second Congressional District of Georgia. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Modification of grades near the Capitol. Letter from the Architect of the United States Capitol Expansion in relation to the modification of the grades in the vicinity of the Capitol. March 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. American Printing House for the Blind. Resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi, requesting the senators and representatives of that state to favor the granting of aid by an appropriation of money to the board and regents of the American Printing House for the Blind. February 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Redick McKee. Memorial of Redick M'Kee, late disbursing agent of the Indian department in California, praying certain allowances. February 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Direct tax. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 3066.) Letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, addressed to Hon. Mr. Maynard, relative to the direct tax. February 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Grant of land for railroad in Wisconsin. Memorial of citizens of Wisconsin, asking for regrant of land for railroad purposes, from St. Croix River to Bayfield, Wisconsin. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Tobacco and spirituous liquors. Joint resolution of the General Assembly of North Carolina, concerning internal revenue on tobacco and spirituous liquors. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Removal of the capitol [i.e., capital]. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Kansas, asking for the removal of the national capital to some more convenient and central location. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Breakwater at Marquette. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, asking Congress to make an appropriation for the completion of the breakwater at Marquette, on Lake Superior. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Removal of the national capital. Memorial of the Cincinnati convention, in relation to the removal of the national capital. December 20, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Expenditures. March 3, 1871. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Tift vs. Whiteley. Documents in connection with the contested election case of Tift vs. Whiteley, in the Second Congressional District of Georgia. February 28, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. Public property in charge of Architect. Letter from the Architect of the U.S. Capitol Extension transmitting an inventory of the property belonging to the United States in and about the Capitol, President's house, and the Botanical Garden. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. George Chorpenning. Report of the Postmaster General in the matter of George Chorpenning. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Public lands to private corporations. Resolutions of the Legislature of Missouri, on the subject of granting public lands to private corporations. February 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.	44
Serial set 1464	Northwestern Boundary Commission. (To accompany H. Res. No. 464.) January 14, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Bills for raising revenue. February 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Ventilation of Senate chamber and hall of House of Representatives. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. John Seys, Consul General to Liberia. February 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. John E. Hagerty. (To accompany H. Res. No. 503.) February 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. John Black. February 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. George F. Robinson. (To accompany Joint Resolution H. Res. No. 501.) February 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Public highways in the District of Columbia. (To accompany H.R. No. 3018.) February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. William H. Powell. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Library. Removal of the national capital. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Norman Wiard. February 28, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Brady's collection of historical portraits. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Joint Committee on the Library. Expulsion of cadets from Military Academy. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Settlers on certain lands in California. February 8, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Thomas H. Dowling -- claim to Yerba Buena. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Change and modification of bankrupt act. February 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Revision of the Laws. Senate chamber and hall of the House of Representatives. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. National asylum. March 2, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Logan H. Roots. February 28, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Two per cent. claim of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. February 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. William and Mary College, Virginia. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Reservation at Point San Jose, San Francisco. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2688.) January 10, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Telegraph between United States and foreign countries. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2591.) December 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Robert P. Chowden. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2719.) January 14, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Cherokee neutral lands. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1074.) January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Indians Affairs. Cherokee Neutral Lands in Kansas. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1074.) January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs. William M. Henry. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2711.) January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Arlington property and national cemeteries. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2715.) January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Charles Pomeroy. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2706.) January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Henry A. Messenger. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2493.) January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. A.V. Richards. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2720.) January 14, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. John C. McQuiston and Jeremiah D. Skeen. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2707.) January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mail steamship service in the Gulf of Mexico. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1955.) January 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Causes of the Reduction of American Tonnage. Apportionment of representatives to Congress. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2687.) January 10, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Contracts in the Treasury Department. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Elias C. Boudinot. February 10, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Affairs in the Indian department. February 25, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Choctaw Nation. February 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Boyden vs. Shober. January 16, 1871. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Polly W. Cotton. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2718.) January 14, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Henry Clay Williams. January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Entries under homestead law. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2702.) January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Navigation of the Mississippi River. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. John L. Thomas, Jr. (To accompany H. Res. No. 471.) January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means. Thomas Tyner. February 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Ethan Ray Clarke [i.e., Clark] and Samuel Ward Clarke [i.e., Clark]. February 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Claim of the State of New Hampshire. (To accompany H. Res. No. 226.) January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Claims. Victoria C. Woodhull. January 30, 1871. -- Recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. William McGarrahan. February 1, 1871. -- Recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 662.) February 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. To protect loyal and peaceable citizens of the United States. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 3011.) February 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Government for the District of Columbia. February 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Sheafe vs. Tillman. January 10, 1871. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.	53
Serial set 1465	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the first session of the Forty-second Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, March 4, 1871, in the ninety-fifth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1466	Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 16th instant, the reports of Samuel B. Ruggles, delegate from the United States to the International Statistical Congress at the Hague, in the year 1869. March 31, 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 the 15th instant, information as to the amount necessary to carry into effect the decision of the Supreme Court relative to bounties to soldiers. March 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating information relative to the unadjusted claims of the State of Florida arising out of the several Indian wars in that state. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating the report of the commission of inquiry to the island of Santo Domingo. April 5, 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 14th instant, information relative to the states ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution since March 30, 1870. March 17, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating the report of the Adjutant General on the claim of George W. Kirk. April 3, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, recommending that the act of July 15, 1870, be so amended as to allow the code of regulations prepared under that act to be in force and obeyed when approved by the President. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, information in relation to the mail-letting on route No. 17401, from Santa Fe to El Paso. March 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, a report from the Chief of Engineers upon the survey of the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. March 31, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of March 13, 1871, proposals made by the International Steamship Company for establishing iron-ship building yards and docks. April 14, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of a reconnaissance of the Yukon River, Alaska Territory. July to September, 1869. By Captain Charles W. Raymond, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with resolution of the Senate dated April 13, 1871, statement of the representative and total population of the United States, as shown by the ninth census. April 17, 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 10th instant, a copy of the reports made by Hon. William Whiting, on claims made by the subjects of foreign nations for damages in consequence of the war against the rebellious states. May 17, 1871. -- Read and motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 19, 1871. -- Reported, considered, and agreed to. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 15th instant, the report of a board of engineers appointed to examine and report upon bridges across the Ohio River. May 17, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	14
Serial set 1467	Letter of the Chief of Engineers of the Army, in relation to the levee system of the Mississippi River. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River. May 26, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of a committee appointed at a meeting of colored citizens of Frankfort, Ky., and vicinity, praying the enactment of laws for the better protection of life. April 11, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of granting additional bounties to soldiers enlisted in 1861 and 1862 and discharged before serving two years. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the payment of certain officers of colored troops in that state in 1862. March 30, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the establishment of a national bureau of immigration. March 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Joseph C. Abbott, claiming a seat in the Senate, from the State of North Carolina, for the term of six years, commencing March 4, 1871. March 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts in favor of the repeal of the duties on coal. March 18, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, asking Congress for an appropriation to construct a light-house and fog bells at the mouth of Little Traverse Bay in the State of Michigan. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, calling attention to the condition of the Black Bob band of Shawnee Indians in Kansas. March 9, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Nebraska, asking the establishment of certain mail routes in that state. March 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, addressed to Hon. J.F. Chaves, communicating a copy of the instructions issued to the Surveyor General of New Mexico August 21, 1854. March 13, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, asking a grant of the United States arsenal and grounds at Dearborn, Michigan, for state arsenal and military purposes. March 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky, in favor of the removal of the political disabilities of all persons engaged in the late Civil War. March 10, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, asking that the provisions of the act granting swamp and overflowed lands to the State of Arkansas and other states of the Union be extended to that state. March 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, asking an amendment to the Homestead Act. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Brief of protestants in the case of Foster Blodgett, claiming to be a senator-elect from the State of Georgia. March 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the extension of the jurisdiction of the Light-house Board over the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Eastern Nevada, praying that a land grant be made to aid is constructing a railroad running south from the Central Pacific Railroad, and through the eastern portion of said state. March 22, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of John E. Bryant, protesting against the admission of Foster Blodgett to a seat in the Senate. March 21, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, asking the appointment of a joint committee to inquire into and report upon the outrages committed in that state during the past five years by bands of Indians living within the United States, and harbored within the Republic of Mexico. March 28, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, asking the establishment of weekly mail service from Wadsworth in that state to Fort Independence, California. April 5, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Tables prepared by George S. Wagner, showing the commencement, duration, and termination of each session of Congress, and of each special session of the Senate, from 1789 to 1871. May 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, in favor of listing over the lands belonging to the Central Pacific Railroad in that state. March 14, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, requested to prepare and furnish to the Senate at his earliest convenience, his opinion of the expediency of providing for the appointment of a competent practical person, who, from personal observation, &c., shall prepare a report relative to each of the land states and territories... Memorial of the Legislature of Nebraska, asking an extension of time for payment by preemptors for their lands. March 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Governor of Rhode Island, presenting to Congress a statue of Roger Williams. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia, asking an appropriation for the establishment of the American Printing House for the Blind and the American University for the Blind in the District of Columbia. April 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution for the appointment of a joint committee to inquire into the condition of the late insurrectionary states... Memorial of the Legislature of Arkansas, asking the confirmation of title to lands purchased under the act of Congress known as the graduation act. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia, asking the payment of the balance due that state for advances to the United States during the War of 1812. March 28, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, asking the establishment of a tri-weekly mail service from Pine Grove to Rockland, in that state. April 5, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the City Council of Fernandina, Fla., asking a grant of certain unsurveyed beach and swamp lands within the jurisdiction of that city. April 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia, in favor of the removal of the political disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Article of Amendments to the Constitution. March 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Lewis Wieser, praying the erection of a bureau in the Department of the Interior, in connection with the Patent Office, to be known as the Bureau of Industry. March 9, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents. March 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the payment of bounty to the First Regiment of Minnesota Mounted Rangers. March 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the first session of the Forty-second Congress. March 10, 1871. Petition of the Ottawa Indians of the united bands of Blanchard's Fork and Roche de Boeuf, praying an investigation of the disposition made of lands granted them by treaty of June 24, 1862, for the education of their children. March 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the extension of the operation of the extradition treaty between the United States and Great Britain. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Memorial of William McGarrahan, praying a patent for the tract of land known as the Panoche Grande Rancho. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of making the port of Duluth a port of entry. March 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of members of the Forty-first Congress from the State of California praying a grant of land to aid in the construction of a canal from the mountain lakes of El Dorado and Amador Counties to Sacramento, in that state. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, asking legislation to authorize settlers upon homesteads to make proof of settlement before county clerks of the counties where the lands are situated. March 31, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretaries of the Treasury, of War, and the Navy do report to the Senate, at its next session, by appropriate schedules, all property by classes, with its estimated value, which has been seized or taken possession of since January 1, 1861... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed as agreed to. Resolution prescribing the legislative business of the Senate during the present session of Congress... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that as organized bands of desperate and lawless men, mainly composed of soldiers of the late rebel armies, armed, disciplined, and disguised, and bound by oaths and secret obligations, have, by force, terror, and violence, subverted all civil authority in large parts of the late insurrectionary states... Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of an appropriation for life-saving stations on the coast of that state. March 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of D. Little and others, of Castine, Maine, praying indemnity for French spoliations prior to 1800. March 31, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, for the establishment of a tri-weekly mail between the towns of Elko and Tuscarora, in that state. April 5, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance is hereby instructed, during the recess of Congress, to carefully examine the existing system of taxation by the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolutions regarding the employment of the Navy of the United States on the coast of St. Domingo during the pendency of negotiations for the acquisition of part of that island... Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, relative to Indian reservations in that state. April 12, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nebraska, asking a grant of land for the endowment of normal schools in that state. April 15, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nebraska, asking relief for Captain James Murrie. April 15, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Treasurer of Washington City Savings Bank, transmitting annual statement for the year ending April 1, 1871. April 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the following rule be adopted by the Senate, viz: All treaties with foreign powers shall be considered in public and open session of the Senate, unless when communicated in special confidence by the President, or when ordered otherwise by special vote for the Senate... Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in favor of additional legislation for the protection of emigrants in this country. March 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	56
Serial set 1468	In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom were referred the credentials of George Goldthwaite, claiming a seat in this body as a senator from the State of Alabama, and the credentials of Foster Blodgett, claiming a seat in this body as a senator from the State of Georgia, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the credentials of the Hon. Morgan C. Hamilton, Senator-elect from the State of Texas, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott from the Select Committee of the Senate to Investigate Alleged Outrages in the Southern States, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter, from the Select Committee To Investigate How and by Whom the Treaty Known as the Treaty of Washington Was Made Public, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate requesting the Committee to "examine and report whether the members of the Senate are entitled to mileage at the present special session," submit the following report...	5
Serial set 1469	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the first session of the Forty-second Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, March 4, 1871, in the ninety-fifth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1470	Army engineer contracts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the contracts of the Engineer Department of the Army for the year 1870. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Special report on immigration, accompanying information for immigrants relative to the prices and rentals of land, the staple products, facilities of access to market, cost of farm stock, kind of labor in demand in the western and southern states, etc., etc., to which are appended tables showing the average weekly wages paid in the several states and sections for factory, mechanical, and farm labor; the cost of provisions, groceries, dry goods, and house rent in the various manufacturing districts of the country, in the year 1869-'70. By Edward Young, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. Postal service between Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky. Letter from the Postmaster General, in relation to the discontinuance of postal service on the route between Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Encroachment of river at Vicksburg. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relative to the encroachment of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Claim of Lieutenant R.H. Pratt. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the claim of Lieutenant R.H. Pratt, United States Army. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Black Bob band of Shawnee Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the Black Bob band of Shawnee Indians in Kansas. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indians Affairs and ordered to be printed. Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the Territory of Alaska. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mining statistics west of the Rocky Mountains. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the report of the special commissioner for the collection of mining statistics in the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for horses lost. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to an appropriation for payment for horses, &c., lost while in the military service. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed Appropriations for claims of colored sailors and soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the omission of the last Congress to appropriate money for the payment of claims of colored soldiers and sailors during the fiscal year of 1871-'72. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.	10
Serial set 1471	Balances due from collectors of internal revenue. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to balances due from collectors of internal revenue. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Montana. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of March 14, 1871, in relation to charges made by the late agent for the Blackfeet Indians, in the Territory of Montana, against the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for said territory. March 28, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplies for Arapahoe and other Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation for the purpose of purchasing supplies for the Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Final report of the United States Geological Survey of Nebraska and portions of the adjacent territories made under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, by F.V. Hayden, United States Geologist. March 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Occupation of Rome by the King of Italy. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 31st ultimo, relative to the occupation of Rome by the King of Italy. April 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Robert C. Schenck. Letter from the Secretary of State, in relation to the compensation of Robert C. Schenck, United States minister to Great Britain. April 5, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Northwestern Boundary Commission. Letter from the Secretary of State, in relation to the expenses of a joint commission to mark the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Japanese pupils to West Point. Letter from the Secretary of State, submitting the draught of a bill for admitting six Japanese pupils to West Point Military Academy, and recommending the passage of the same. April 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Condition of affairs in the South. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the condition of affairs in the South. March 23, 1871. -- Referred to a select committee of nine members to be appointed by the Speaker, and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1870	10
Serial set 1472	Virgil Hillyer vs. A.T. McIntyre. Memorial of Virgil Hillyer, in contested election in First District in Georgia. March 9, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. Income tax. Resolution of the Legislature of New York, relative to the repeal of the income tax. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Harbor at Superior City. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, for an appropriation to complete the harbor at Superior City, Wisconsin. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Railroad -- Keweenaw Bay. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, to procure a grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the head of Keweenaw Bay to Montreal River, in said state. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Public buildings, Jefferson, Missouri. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Missouri, memorializing Congress to make an appropriation for the building of a post office and United States court-room at the City of Jefferson, the capital of the State of Missouri. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Election contest, Third District of Arkansas. Response of Hon. John Edwards to the memorial of Hon. Thomas Boles, contestant, for a seat in the Forty-second Congress from the Third Congressional District of Arkansas. March 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. Modification of excise laws. Memorial of the Legislature of Arizona, asking for a modification of the excise laws. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Improvement of Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in relation to the improvement of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mail route from Carver to Henderson. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, for a mail route from Carver to Henderson. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Louis Goldstone. Memorial of Louis Goldstone, relative to the Alaska seal fishery. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Cape Fear River. Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, asking for appropriations to remove obstructions from Cape Fear Bar and Pamlico River. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Protection to emigrants. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, relative to protecting emigrants in this country. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Claims for bounty. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, praying for an extension of time and payment of bounty claims. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Taxation and tariff. March 14, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Kansas City and Memphis Railroad. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 364.) Papers relative to Kansas City and Memphis Railroad. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Homestead laws. Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, relative to amendment of the homestead laws. April 5, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Public lands. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, relative to public lands granted by Congress to the State of Nevada. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Equalization of bounties. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to the equalization of bounties to soldiers and sailors of the United States. March 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. List of the members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and their places of residence during the Forty-second Congress, first session, commencing Saturday, March 4, 1871. Protection from hostile Indians. Memorial of the Legislature of Arizona, asking protection from hostile Indians. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Heirs of Benjamin W. Ladd. Petition, papers, and statement of facts, in the case of the heirs of Benjamin W. Ladd. March 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Land subsidies. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, relative to land subsidies by the general government. March 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Freedmen of the Chickasaw Nation. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 379.) Copy of an act passed by the Legislature of the Chickasaw Nation, relative to the freedmen of the Chickasaw Nation. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Lands to railroad companies. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to donations of land for railroad purposes. March 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Homesteads to soldiers. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to homesteads to soldiers. March 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Immigrant wagon roads. Memorial of the Legislature Assembly of Dakota, asking for the construction of immigrant wagon roads through the public domain of Dakota Territory. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. McKenzie vs. Branton. Papers in the case of Lewis McKenzie vs. Elliott M. Braxton, in the Seventh Congressional District of Virginia. April 10, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Annexation of a portion of Idaho Territory to Nevada. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, relative to the annexation of a portion of Idaho Territory to the State of Nevada. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Land grants to railroads. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, to receive land grants to railroads. April 5, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Ship-builders of the United States. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of the ship-builders of the United States. March 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Reduction works. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, relative to the establishment of reduction works by the United States. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. David S. Gooding vs. Jeremiah M. Wilson. Papers in the case of David S. Gooding vs. Jeremiah M. Wilson, in the Fourth Congressional District of Indiana. April 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Archie C. Fisk. Memorial of Archie C. Fisk, claiming that he was duly elected a member of the Forty-second Congress from the Fourth District of Mississippi, and protesting against the right of all the sitting members from said state. March 28, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. School lands. Memorial of the Legislature of Nebraska, relative to confirmation of title to school lands. April 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Captain Samuel Adams. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 260.) Communication from Captain Samuel Adams, relative to the exploration of the Colorado River and its tributaries. April 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mobile and Northwestern Railroad. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi, on the subject of aid by grant of lands to the Mobile and Northwestern Railroad Company. April 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Rooms for the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, in relation to setting apart additional rooms in the Capitol for the use of said court. April 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing: I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-second 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. April 20, 1871. Woman suffrage. Memorial of the St. Louis County Woman Suffrage Association. April 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Toledo a port of entry. Resolution of the Board of Trade of Toledo, asking that Toledo be made a port of entry. April 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Swamp and overflowed lands. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, relative to swamp and overflowed lands. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. John Cessna vs. Benjamin F. Meyers. Papers in the case of Cessna vs. Meyers, introduced by Mr. Schofield. March 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. Breakwater at Mackinaw. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan relative to a breakwater at Mackinaw City. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	43
Serial set 1473	Ninth census -- Volume I. The statistics of the population of the United States, embracing the tables of race, nationality, sex, selected ages, and occupations, to which are added the statistics of school attendance and illiteracy, of schools, libraries, newspapers and periodicals, churches, pauperism and crime, and of areas, families, and dwellings, compiled from the original returns of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census.	1
Serial set 1474	Ninth census -- Volume II. The vital statistics of the United States, embracing the tables of deaths, births, sex, and age, to which are added the statistics of the blind, the deaf and dumb, the insane, and the idiotic, compiled from the original returns of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census.	1
Serial set 1475	Ninth census -- Volume III. The statistics of the wealth and industry of the United States, embracing the tables of wealth, taxation, and public indebtedness; of agriculture; manufactures; mining; and the fisheries, with which are reproduced, from the volume of population, the major tables of occupations, compiled from the original returns of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census.	1
Serial set 1476	compendium of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) compiled pursuant to a concurrent resolution of Congress, and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census.	1
Serial set 1477	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Forty-second Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 4, 1871, in the ninety-sixth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1478	Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Governor of Utah in relation to the establishment of a military post in the southern part of that territory, and recommending an appropriation for that purpose. January 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting reports from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Navy relative to the cases of the ship Hudson and the schooner Washington. January 17, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1871, information in relation to the improvement of the Columbia River near and below the mouth of the Willamette River, and the removal of obstructions in the Columbia River above Celilo, Oregon. January 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, papers relative to and recommending the construction of a government line of telegraph from San Diego, California, via Yuma and Maricopa Wells, to Prescott and Tucson, Arizona. January 9, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant, a report of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office concerning the line of railway from the mouth of the Ohio River to the City of Mobile. January 16, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, information in relation to the detention of the California mails on the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads. February 15, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 19th of January, 1869, information in relation to the resources and extent of the fishing-grounds of the North Pacific Ocean, opened to the United States by the treaty of Alaska. February 18, 1869. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. February 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1871, information in relation to the present condition of the life saving stations on the coasts of New Jersey and Long Island. January 24, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of an engineer survey to determine the practicability of re-opening to navigation the Cabaret Slough, in the Mississippi River. February 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of the commission to examine and report upon the Sutro Tunnel, in Nevada. January 9, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 19th of December last, correspondence relating to the subject of international coinage. January 11, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretaries of War, Treasury, and State, communicating in obedience to law the award made by them to the trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, for the use of the building and adjoining grounds by the United States. January 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, inventories of public property in the possession of the War Department and its bureaus. January 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, copies of the examination and survey of different harbors. January 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 16th ultimo, information concerning the seizure and retention of the American steamers Hero, Dudley Buck, Nutrias, and San Fernando, the property of the Venezuelan Steam Transportation Company, an American corporation. February 7, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, an additional statement of contracts made by the subsistence department during the calendar year 1871. February 1, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office relative to the drainage of Beaver Lake, Indiana. February 1, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation of $100,000 for ordnance and ordnance stores, in addition to what has been asked for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873. February 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying the transmission of information respecting the nature and extent of the raft in the Red River, above Shreveport, Louisiana, and also with regard to surveys, estimates, and appropriations made with a view to the removal of the raft. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1871, information in relation to the Touro Hospital, New Orleans. February 13, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, the case of the United States presented to the board of arbitration at Geneva. February 13, 1872. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 5, 1871, the reports of the Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, in relation to the branch Mint at New Orleans, its operations, &c. December 14, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, communicating, in obedience to law, a list of all the attorneys employed as assistants to the United States district attorneys since the commencement of the session in 1870, with the compensation paid to each. December 18, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, calling the attention of Congress to a discrepancy in the act of February 24, 1871, which locates the Fort Walla-Walla military reservation in Oregon instead of Washington Territory, and recommending the passage by Congress of an amendatory act correcting said error. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, correspondence in relation to the retirement of Constantin Catacazy, minister from Russia to the United States. December 6, 1871. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. December 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States transmitting the report of the commissioner appointed to devise rules and regulations for the purpose of reforming the civil service. December 19, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Motion to print 10,000 additional copies referred to the Committee on Printing. Letter from the Postmaster General, communicating information, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 21, in relation to the persons liable as sureties on the official bond of Norton, the late defaulting money-order clerk in the New York City Post-office. January 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in obedience to law, the report of the board of officers organized to examine into the cases of such officers as may deem themselves unjustly passed over by promotions made in conformity with the act of Congress approved July 25, 1872. January 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, engineer reports of the survey of Aquia Creek, Virginia; Accotink, Neabsco, Quantico, and Choppawamasic bays; East Chester Creek, New York; Rondout Harbor, New York; and Passaic River, New Jersey. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 20, 1871, a letter of the Superintendent of the Census, accompanied with a report of the number of persons employed in obtaining the ninth census, time employed, amount paid to each, &c. December 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate February 15, 1871, information relative to claims incurred in the suppression of Indian hostilities in Oregon and Washington Territories, and which were not acted or reported upon by the commission authorized by act of August 18, 1856. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 27, 1871, information relative to claims incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities in Oregon and Washington Territories, and which were acted and reported upon by the commission authorized by act of August 18, 1856. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, an inventory of all the property of the United States now in his department. December 5, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1871, relative to questions with Spain growing out of affairs in Cuba. February 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.	34
Serial set 1479	Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 11, 1872, a statement in regard to certain railroad companies. May 21, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 19, 1872, information in relation to what amount is due to any of the states lately in insurrection, under provisions of the 12th section of the act of Congress approved June 7, 1862, entitled "An Act for the Collection of Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary Districts, and for Other Purposes;" also "whether any, and, if so, what amount has been paid to any of said states under and in accordance with the provisions of said act or other acts amendatory thereof." March 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of the report of Major W.E. Merrill, Corps of Engineers, upon the survey of the harbor at Evansville, Indiana. March 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 4, 1872, information relating to the sale of lands by the State of Texas to the United States, known as the Pan Handle. March 6, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, information in relation to the wharf or river frontage at the Port of New Orleans now claimed or occupied by the government. March 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, an engineer report of an examination or survey of the harbor of Norfolk, Virginia, and of the Elizabeth River. March 4, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 13, 1871, further information in relation to proposals for establishing iron ship building yards and docks. March 12, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 26, 1872, information in relation to the lands in Louisiana granted to said state in aid of the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad. April 4, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, lists of the clerks, messengers, and laborers employed in the various bureaus of the War Department during the year 1871. April 18, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 30, 1872, information relating to mail service rendered in Louisiana. February 26, 1872 -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 12, a list of the military reservations in and near the City of San Francisco, California, giving the name and approximate extent in acres of each. February 26, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Patents in relation to a reorganization of the Patent-Office. March 15, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of December 20, 1871, a statement in relation to the expenses of vessels on the coast of San Domingo. March 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying an engineer report of a reconnaissance of the Yellowstone River in 1871. April 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a copy of the counter case of the United States, presented to the tribunal of arbitration, at Geneva, under the provisions of the Treaty of Washington. April 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying engineer reports upon the survey of the mouth of Saint Mark's River and of Choctawhatchee River, Florida. April 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, accompanying information called for by a Senate resolution of January 18, 1872, in relation to the correspondence which has passed between the governments of the United States and Great Britain relating to the dues now collected in the latter country from merchant-shipping for the support of light-houses and beacons. April 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 1, 1872, statements from the commandants of the armories at Springfield, Massachusetts, and Rock Island, Illinois, showing the operation of the eight-hour law. May 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report and estimates of the Chief of Engineers in relation to the Falls of Saint Anthony. April 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of April 9, 1872, information relating to the canal and dike at Du Luth, Minnesota. April 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 7, 1872, a preliminary report of Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, of the progress of the engineer exploration of the public domain in Nevada and Arizona. April 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, an engineer report of the survey of Cumberland River between Nashville and the head of steamboat navigation. March 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, statements of the expenditures at the Springfield armory, and of the munitions of war manufactured, altered, and repaired thereat during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871. March 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 8, information in regard to the occupancy of the Indian Territory by unauthorized persons. March 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of February 9, 1872, information relative to the estimated cost of improving the navigation of Red River at or near Tone's Bayou. March 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 8, 1872, information in relation to the wharf or river-frontage used by the United States at New Orleans. March 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 1st instant, a report of the Board of Engineers, relative to the improvement of Mobile Harbor. April 19, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of April 19, 1872, the report of a board of engineers upon the present condition of the Mississippi River between Saint Louis and Alton. April 25, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 23, 1872, information relative to the recent affray at the court-house in Going Snake, Indian Territory, and recommending the erection of a judicial district in the Indian Territory. May 7, 1872. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Solicitor General and Acting Attorney General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 23, 1872, information in relation to proceedings which have been taken in the judicial courts to restrain the digging of a canal across Minnesota Point, near Du Luth, in the State of Minnesota. May 14, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a report of the examination and survey of Red River from its mouth to a point above Shreveport, Louisiana. May 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, recommending legislation in relation to the transportation of immigrants to and within the United States. May 14, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 955) granting a pension to Mary Ann Montgomery, widow of William W. Montgomery, late captain in Texas Volunteers, with his objections. May 14, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Bill S. 805, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Abigail Ryan, Widow of Thomas A. Ryan," with his objections. April 15, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, the report of the inspector of the national cemeteries for the years 1870 and 1871. May 2, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. May 17, 1872. -- Reported and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 19, 1872, estimates of appropriations necessary for the next fiscal year to carry out the recommendations of the report of Captain Faunce, and render operative and effective the life-saving stations on the coasts of New Jersey and Long Island. May 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 28, 1872, correspondence in regard to the persecution and oppression of the Israelites in Roumania. May 14, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 18, 1872, a statement of the amount of coin on deposit in or to the credit of the Treasury on the first day of each of the preceding four months. May 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, accompanying the transmission of the annual report of the Board of Public Works of the District of Columbia. April 30, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Acting Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 9, 1872, information in regard to certain railroad companies. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of February 28, 1872, information concerning the Presidio Military Reservation, near San Francisco. April 11, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 22, 1872, information in regard to assistance rendered by the Navy Department in pursuance of the provisions of "An Act To Encourage and Facilitate Telegraphic Communication Between the Eastern and Western Continents." May 23, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 12, 1872, information respecting the amount of money expended by the government during the last three years for telegraphing by ocean cables. May 24, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying a report of the Solicitor of the Treasury relative to the claim of the Choctaw Indians, known as the "net proceeds claim." June 7, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning, without his approval, "An Act for the Relief of Thomas B. Wallace, of Lexington, in the State of Missouri." June 7, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning, without his approval, "An Act for the Relief of J. Milton Best." June 1, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in relation to the ambiguity of an act to aid in the erection of an equestrian statue of the late General John A. Rawlins. May 31, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. International Congress on the Prevention and Repression of Crime, including penal and reformatory treatment: preliminary report of the commissioner appointed by the President to represent the United States in the Congress, in compliance with a joint resolution of March 7, 1871. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, the report of the supervising surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital Service for the six months ending December 31, 1871. February 21, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, concerning the necessity for a connecting line of telegraph between important military posts in the military division of the south. March 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, an engineer report of the survey of Otter Creek, Vermont, from Vergennes to its outlet on Lake Champlain. March 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	52
Serial set 1480	Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the practicability of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. By Robert W. Shufeldt, captain United States Navy.	1
Serial set 1481	In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be, and is hereby, requested to inform the Senate under what provisions of the law of April 20, 1871, if any, and if not under that law, by what authority he has caused the Constitution and laws of the United States and the constitution and laws of the State of South Carolina to be set aside and martial law declared... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1871. -- Submitted, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be authorized in their discretion to hold sessions in the City of New York, or elsewhere, during their proposed investigation... Memorial of Benjamin Severson, engineer, in behalf of property holders of the City of Washington, for an investigation of the work on the Washington Canal. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1871. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire if any moneys have been paid on account of any asserted lease of the Bay of Samana to the United States... Letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, upon the action of the Department of the Interior relating to the Kansas Indian lands in the State of Kansas. December 11, 1871. -- Referred with Bill (S. 346) to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of the heirs and legal representatives of the late Joseph Wheaton, praying for the pay stipulated by the government for those officers who served to the end of the Revolutionary War. January 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. January 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of W.A. Shannon to Hon. S.C. Pomeroy, Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, inclosing a statement of the sales of lands at the land office at Augusta, Kansas, embracing the months of October, 1870, to November, 1871, and recommending that all fees to the register and the receiver be abolished, and that an adequate compensation be fixed by law. January 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1872. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter introduced the following resolution: Whereas the Constitution of the United States requires the President to nominate, and, by and with the consent of the Senate, to appoint all officers of the United States whose appointments are not in said Constitution... Letter from the Secretary of War, addressed to the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, in regard to inaugurating a system of military prisons and of prison discipline for the Army. January 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 506. In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull submitted the following resolution. Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that a Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, consisting of four members of the Senate and seven members of the House, be appointed by the presiding officers of the two Houses... Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating a statement of receipts and expenditures for year ending December 4, 1871, and also an account of the government property in his possession on the same date. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, in favor of the passage of the supplemental civil-rights bill. January 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the American Temperance Commission, asking that the President be authorized to appoint a commission to investigate and report the results of prohibitory legislation in Maine and other states for the suppression of intemperance, and to recommend any necessary legislation to prohibit the manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage. February 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part I. Report on the condition of the sea fisheries of the south coast of New England in 1871 and 1872, by Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner, with supplementary papers. In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1871. -- Amended, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be composed of the following senators... Annual report of the Librarian of Congress. December 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. December 21, 1871. -- Resolution to print additional copies for the use of the Library of Congress reported, considered, and agreed to. Memorial of the Industrial League, setting forth the benefits of the system of tariff protection which has existed since 1861, and praying the repeal of the entire system of internal revenue except excise taxes, the repeal of the import duties upon tea and coffee, and remonstrating against any general reduction in the tariff rates upon manufactured goods. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the General Assembly of Virginia, asking the removal of disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment. January 15, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions adopted at a public meeting held in Washington City January 5, 1872, in favor of the passage of the Bill (S. 99) supplementary to an act entitled, "An Act To Protect All Citizens of the United States in Their Civil Rights, and To Furnish the Means for Their Vindication," passed April 9, 1866. January 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to Hon. D.S. Bennett, in regard to the propriety of issuing an American register to the brig A.S. Palmer [i.e., A.L. Palmer.] January 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. To accompany Bill H.R. No. 330. In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be authorized to sit during the sessions of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Tabular statement to accompany Bill H.R. 243. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, urging that the tract of land known as the Cherokee strip be opened to entry by actual settlers, and that the Indian title thereto be extinguished. January 24, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of Committee of Indian Affairs, transmitting a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in regard to placing at the disposal of the Department the balance of an unexpended appropriation for promoting education among Indian tribes. January 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 535. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in relation to the removal of settlers from the Indian Territory bordering upon Kansas, and also in favor of a change of boundary of said state. January 30, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment inquire, ascertain, and report whether Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, now has, or heretofore has had, any interest, certain or contingent, in any contract to do work for the United States, or to furnish any material to be used in any public building; and if he has or has had any such interest, whether it came to him by purchase or by gift... Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting copy of a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to certain selections of land made for members of the Shawnee tribe of Indians. January 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 536. Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia, in favor of the removal of political disabilities under which a portion of the people of that state are laboring. January 26, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, recommending the purchase of Independence Hall. February 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Choctaw Nation of Indians, remonstrating against the establishment of a territorial government over their country. January 31, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of such laws as will secure to bona-fide settlers upon the Cherokee Neutral Lands the full benefit of the homestead and pre-emption laws, and also to secure to the state the 16th and 36th sections of land in each township, for school purposes. January 30, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of New Mexico, in favor of an appropriation for the benefit of schools in that territory. February 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Florida, relative to the improvement of the harbor of the St. John's River of Fernandina, Florida, and asking an appropriation for the same. February 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Nebraska, asking the completion of improvements already commenced to open a water-route from the Mississippi Valley, by way of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers, to Lake Michigan, and another by way of Lake Superior. February 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Petition of Ellen Call Long, daughter of the late General Richard K. Call, praying that the government pay her a judgment obtained by her father against the United States. February 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, asking aid from the general government for the construction of a ship-canal around the falls of Niagara, on the American side. January 31, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking the passage of an act equalizing bounties to soldiers. February 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of W.A. Adams, praying to be indemnified for spoliations committed by the French prior to the year 1801. January 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Forty-second Congress. December 21, 1871. Memorial of A.C. Cleveland, Commissioner for the State of Nevada, asking remuneration for moneys paid by the Territory of Nevada for the use and benefit of the United States, and also for moneys paid since the territory became a state. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Louis Baker, praying that the necessary steps be taken by Congress to introduce into the southern states certain palms for the production of sugar and fruits. December 14, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1871. -- Submitted and agreed to. December 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Corbett submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be, and hereby are, instructed to inquire into the recent defalcations in the Treasury Department, and to report what, if any, guards and checks are necessary to protect the public Treasury, and for that purpose to examine persons and papers. In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1871. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the sum of five thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary for the expenses of the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment, is hereby directed to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1871. -- Submitted. December 19, 1871. -- Agreed to. December 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. December 11, 1871. -- Taken up for consideration. Mr. Trumbull moved to strike out all after resolved, and insert his resolution for a Joint Committee on Retrenchment. Mr. Conkling submitted the following resolution. Resolved, (That the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire...) In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1871. -- Submitted. December 19, 1871. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Whereas, it has been declared in the Senate that at the port of New York there exists, and is maintained by officers of the United States, under the name of the general order business, "a monstrous abuse," fraudulent in character; and whereas the following statement has been made by a senator... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1871. -- Agreed to. December 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be, and they are hereby, instructed to inquire whether any minister of the United States at any foreign court is, or has been, interested in and a director of any mining company... Memorial of Brevet Brigadier General Benj. S. Roberts, praying a royalty for the use by the government of his patents for improvements in fire-arms and cartridges. January 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Petition of Mary Ann Randolph Lee, widow of Robert E. Lee, praying an appropriation of three hundred thousand dollars for the purchase of the property known as "Arlington," in the County of Alexandria, State of Virginia. January 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Petition of I. & L.M. Hellman and others, on behalf of the Liquor Dealers' Association of St. Louis, praying the enactment of a law requiring that all the tax on spirits distilled within the United States may be collected at the distillery or distillery warehouse. January 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and copies of accompanying papers from the Committee of Friends, in relation to the disposition of portions of Indian reservations in the Northern Superintendency. January 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 308. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs, inclosing papers relating to the removal and subsistence of scattered bands of Chippewa Indians. January 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 506. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Forty-second Congress. December 7, 1871. Letter of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of all the property of the United States in his possession December 4, 1871. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of all judgments rendered by said court for the year ending December 4, 1871. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire into the expenditures in all branches of the services of the United States, and to report whether any and what offices ought to be abolished... Report of the commissioners appointed to revise and consolidate the statutes of the United States under acts of June 27, 1866, and May 4, 1870. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of E.S. Ingalls and seventy-seven others, residents of Menomonee County, in the State of Michigan, for a circuit and district court for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. January 25, 1872. -- Referred, with Bill S. 529, to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, asking the passage of an act granting the right to build a bridge over the Mississippi River at Clinton. January 31, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Memorial of Denis Sullivan, praying compensation for cotton destroyed by order of Major General Banks on or about the 27th day of April, 1864. December 6, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, in regard to foreign commerce of the United States. January 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.	61
Serial set 1482	Resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky, in relation to a uniform tax on tobacco by the federal government. April 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution: Whereas it appears from a recent cable telegram that the Committee of the French National Assembly on war contracts has adopted a resolution asking the United States government to furnish the result of inquiry into the conduct of American officials suspected of participating in the purchase of arms for the French government during the War with Germany... Resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia, in favor of the construction of a causeway across the west branch of the Ohio River at Wheeling. April 16, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Maine in favor of a faithful observance of treaties made with the Indian tribes. March 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the expenses of the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment, is hereby directed to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate... Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1871. Letter from the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, in relation to the Japanese admitted into that institution as cadet midshipmen. February 19, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of South Carolina, asking the passage of the bill providing for the sale of the interests of the federal government in Beaufort County. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking that the amount of tax collected on cotton during the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 be refunded. February 23, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans, in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the navigation of Red River. February 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a committee appointed by a convention held in Washington City, February 15, 16, and 17, 1872, under a call issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture, praying a grant of lands or a part of the proceeds of the sales of the public domain for the benefit of agricultural colleges. February 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture. February 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, asking an appropriation for the construction of a canal around the Falls of Niagara, on the American side. March 4, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy, from the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the standing rules of the Senate be amended as follows... Memorial of the National Board of Trade, in favor of legislation to facilitate the restoration of American tonnage. March 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1872. -- Submitted by Mr. Sherman and referred to the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules. March 4, 1872. -- Reported by Mr. Pomeroy with amendments and ordered to be printed. Note. -- The amendments are indicated by striking out the words included within (brackets) and inserting the words printed in italics. Resolution: resolved, that rule 24 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following... Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, on the decline of American commerce. February 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia, against the reduction of the duty on sumac. March, 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolutions: Resolutions concerning arbitration as a substitute for war in determining differences between nations... Petition of citizens of Chicago, praying the passage of the bill to allow a drawback of the duties paid on materials used in the construction and repair of buildings in the burned district of that city. February 19, 1872. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking the passage of an act to extend the time in which to make further selections of swamp and overflowed lands, and to refund to that state moneys arising from the sale of said lands. February 20, 1872. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, submitting the draught of an act to expedite the transaction of business in the General Land-Office, and bring up the arrears of work, and also a draught of a bill to reorganize the clerical force of the General Land-Office. February 27, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire whether any United States senator has received money, under color of counsel-fees or otherwise, from the Treasury of the United States... Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in relation to a public building at Trenton, in that state. February 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conkling submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee of Investigation and Retrenchment, now sitting in New York, be instructed to inquire into abuses alleged to exist and extortions said to be practiced at the port of New York upon importers, in connection with quarantine and health regulations, and that said committee be further instructed to inquire into the treatment of immigrants arriving at said port. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in favor of the passage of the bill granting bounty-land warrants to certain persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States from and after the 4th of March, A.D. 1861, introduced into the House of Representatives by Hon. D.L. Shoemaker, of Pennsylvania. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in relation to the terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds modified his resolution to read as follows: Resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested, if not in his opinion incompatible with the public interest, to communicate to the Senate any information in his possession respecting the complaint made by the English government against the case submitted by the government of the United States to the arbitrators at Geneva... Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the repeal of the bankrupt law. March 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of D.H. London, praying the establishment of the Exchequer of the United States of America. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance. March 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, in relation to water communication between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, by way of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Communication from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, addressed to Hon. John Sherman, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, in regard to direct taxes apportioned to the several states by act of Congress of August 5, 1861. April 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. 781.) Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the passage of an act to place lumber on the free list. April 17, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, relative to the building of a bridge across the Big Sioux River. May 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Revision of the Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the thirtieth rule be amended by inserting after the word "Senate," in the second line of the second paragraph, the words "or proposed in pursuance of an estimate from the head of some of the departments." Memorial of the chiefs and principal men of the Oneida Indians of Wisconsin, praying to have secured to them the quiet possession of their reservation. April 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial and resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in relation to the Niagara Falls ship-canal. April 4, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, asking grants of land for university and normal school purposes. April 23, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed and committee discharged. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the erection of fortifications for the defense of the city and harbor of San Diego. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, to the Chairman of the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, accompanying a comparative statement of operations of the Post-Office Department from 1868 to 1871, inclusive. April 12, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of tobacco manufacturers and dealers of Kentucky, in favor of a uniform tax of twenty cents per pound on all kinds and grades of manufactured tobacco. April 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 18, the memorial of the citizens and property-holders along N Street against the passage of the bill incorporating the National Junction Railroad Company. March 21, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of W.H. Gleason, asking that a light-house be constructed at the harbor of Punta Rassa, on Sanibel Island, Florida. March 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, asking an appropriation for the construction of a ship-canal around the Falls of Niagara, on the American side. March 12, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, asking an increase of pension for Mrs. Charlotte D. Crocker, widow of General M.M. Crocker, of Iowa. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Annual statement of the Washington City Savings Bank, for the year ending April 1, 1872. April 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following resolution: Whereas the fourteenth section of an act approved July 1, 1862, incorporating the Union Pacific Railroad Company, provides... Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia, in favor of an amendment to the bankrupt act. March 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, in favor of raising the diplomatic representation at the court of Yedo to a first-class mission. March 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Corbett submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee on Finance be and hereby are instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending section 29 of "An Act To Provide a National Currency Secured by a Pledge of United States Bonds, and to Provide for the Circulation and Redemption Thereof," so as to read as follows... Petition of members of the Senate and House of Representatives of Mississippi, praying that a law be enacted similar to the bill known as the "Sumner Amendment to the General Amnesty Bill." April 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 3, 1872, a statement of the statistics of wools and woolens, showing the importation and domestic production thereof. April 24, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the House of Representatives in relation to the form of an amendment for the Bill of the House (H.R. 1537) entitled "An Act To Repeal Existing Duties on Tea and Coffee." April 2, 1872. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Revision of the Rules, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the 28th rule be amended by adding thereto the following words... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Revision of the Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the twelfth rule be amended by adding thereto the words... Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in favor of the passage of the bill to extend the jurisdiction of the Light-house Board so as to include the Mississippi River from Saint Paul to its mouth, the Missouri River from Sioux City to its mouth, and the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to its mouth. April 27, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that during the present session it shall be in order, pending an appropriation bill, to move to confine debate on the pending bill and amendments thereto to five minutes... Letter from Admiral David D. Porter, on the subject of Senate Bill No. 848, entitled "A Bill for the Reduction of the Number and Grades of Officers of the Navy, and Other Purposes." April 3, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Abstract of returns of an election held in Utah Territory, on March 18, 1872, for the purpose of voting for or against the constitution of the proposed State of Deseret. April 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Thomas E. Tutt & Co., assignees of Smith and Vernon, praying compensation for goods furnished the Osage Regiment of Missouri Volunteers in 1861. December 12, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. May 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. S.C. Pomeroy, Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, inclosing copy of a letter from the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, asking for such constructive legislation as will enable him to administer with certainty the law commonly known as the soldiers' homestead law. May 13, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of reimbursing the settlers on Suscol Rancho for moneys expended for the survey of United States lands and for the erection of buildings thereon. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of maintaining the present duty on chiccory flour. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual statement of the National Savings-Bank of Washington, D.C. for the year ending December 31, 1871. May 22, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, addressed to Hon. A.H. Cragin, Chairman Committee on Naval Affairs, United States Senate, inclosing copy of a communication from the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, in relation to the distribution of prize-money. March 21, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 849. Petition of residents of Utah Territory, praying that the protection of the general government may not be withdrawn from them by the admission of that territory as a state. March 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed, with the names of the petitioners, and an accompanying letter. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Forty-second Congress. March 22, 1872. Proposals of the Western Iron-Ship and Boat-Building Company to construct vessels of war and their machinery. April 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, addressed to Honorable P.W. Hitchcock, in relation to the encouragement of the growth of timber on western prairies. April 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 680. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa in relation to settlers on swamp-lands or land claimed as such. May 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Casserly submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, directed to transmit to the Senate a statement of the following particulars in regard to certain railroad companies respectively, namely, the Central Pacific and Western Pacific Railroads, the Union Pacific Railroad, the Kansas Pacific, the Central Branch Union Pacific, Sioux City and Pacific... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Resolved, that during the present session it shall be in order at any time to move a recess, and pending an appropriation bill, to move to confine debate on amendments thereto to five minutes by any senator on the pending motion... Memorial of the Columbia Typographical Union, remonstrating against the repeal of the eight-hour law. April 29, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vickers submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on the Revision of the Rules be instructed to inquire into the propriety of so amending the thirtieth rule of the Senate as to confine amendments to appropriations bills to matters germane or pertinent to such bills. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relating to the transfer of the public lands of the United States to corporations. April 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of reserving public lands in that state for actual settlers only, under the homestead and pre-emption laws, and for a more rapid extension of the surveys of public lands in said state. April 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company asking increased mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil. April 9, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the House of Representatives, expressive of the regret with which Congress has heard of the demise of Professor S.F.B. Morse. April 5, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of an increase of ocean mail steamship service between San Francisco and Japan and China. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of an increase of the ocean mail steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China. April 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts on the subject of French spoliations. April 10, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Anna Ella Carroll, asking compensation for service rendered the United States in the war of the rebellion. June 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of William P. Ross, W.P. Adair, and C.N. Vann, in favor of the establishment of a separate court for the Indian Territory. June 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Proceedings of the National Agricultural Convention, held at Washington, D.C., February 15, 16, and 17, 1872. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the formation of a new judicial district composed of Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory. February 21, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Western Union Telegraph Company, remonstrating against the passage of the Bill (S. 341) to connect the telegraph with the postal service, and to reduce the rates of correspondence by telegraph. February 21, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory asking the passage of an act granting titles to lodes or veins whenever sufficient improvement has been made to establish the fact of discovery in good faith. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, instructing senators and requesting representatives from that state to oppose the passage of the bill for the remission of import duties on materials used in rebuilding the burnt district of Chicago. February 14, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking the passage of an act for the relief of innocent purchasers of land under the act of August 14, 1854, relating to the entry of public lands. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking a grant of public lands to aid in the construction of the Columbus, Fayette and Decatur Railroad. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of sustaining the President of the United States in his present policy for the management of the various Indian tribes, and against the opening of the Indian country for settlement, corporate, or speculative purposes. February 29, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Savannah, Georgia, praying the establishment of the Exchequer of the United States of America. February 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of additional compensation to Richard G. Murphy, for the time he served as Indian agent for the Sioux of Minnesota. February 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of the President, directors, and officers of the First National Gold Bank of San Francisco, California, praying the passage of an act giving the right to use the issue of national gold banks for the payment of duties on imports and other coin payments to be made to the government. February 27, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking for the renewal of land-grants to aid in the construction of the Elyton, Corinth and Tennessee River Railroad. February 23, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Rhode Island, in reference to the opening of the Indian Territory for settlement. February 23, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the recognition of belligerent rights of the people of Cuba by the government of the United States. March 4, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the passage of a law granting one hundred and sixty acres of land to honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the war of the rebellion. March 2, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the National Board of Trade, held in the City of Saint Louis in December 1871, in relation to the resolution of specie payments; limit of taxation and the liquidation of the national debt; the shipping interest; local quarantine regulations; the light-dues paid by vessels in Great Britain; the Treaty of Washington and the fisheries; direct importations to interior cities; freedom of trade with the dominion of Canada; revision of the tariff; protection of the telegraph; the abrogation of state inspection laws; and the improvement of the Mississippi levees. March 2, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, remonstrating against the passage of the bill granting a part of Goat Island, in the harbor of San Francisco, to the Central Pacific Railroad Company. March 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conkling submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested, if in his judgment not incompatible with the public interest, to inform the Senate of the number of recommendations for appointments to or removals from office, so far as the same can be ascertained... Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the renewal of the grant to aid in the construction of a railroad from St. Croix River, or lake, to the west end of Lake Superior, and to Bayfield. February 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of an appropriation to aid in the improvement of the harbor of Du Luth. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, transmitting a copy of the report of the board of officers appointed under the resolution approved July 1, 1870, to examine the cases of such officers as may deem themselves unjustly passed over by promotion made in conformity with the act of Congress approved July 25, 1866. February 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of an appropriation for the erection, at the capital of that state, of public buildings for the accommodation of the United States courts, post office, pension-office, land-offices, internal revenue, and other federal offices; also, for suitable buildings for post-office, custom-house, and revenue offices of the United States at Leavenworth, in said state. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, in regard to the navigation of the Delaware River. February 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to confirming to the Great and Little Osage Indians a reservation in the Indian Territory. April 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 976.	106

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