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Serial set 1439	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the third session of the Forty-first Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 5, 1870, in the ninety-fifth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1440	Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th of December, 1870, information relative to an alleged unlawful traffic with rebels in the State of Texas during the late war, entered into by Harris Hoyt, Byron Sprague, and others. January 4, 1871. -- Referred to the select committee of five, consisting of Mr. Thurman, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Trumball, Mr. Howe, and Mr. Willey, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, returning, with his objections, Senate Joint Resolution (No. 92) for the relief of certain contractors for the construction of vessels of war and steam machinery. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of January 12, 1871, information as to what states and territories have paid their proportion of the direct tax levied by the acts of August 5, 1861, &c. February 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1870, certain statements relative to the collection and distribution of fines and forfeitures under the Customs laws. February 16, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating the second annual report of the Board of Indian Commissioners. February 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, the report of General Pope upon the enlargement of the military post and depot at Fort Leavenworth. February 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating to the Senate his reasons for allowing the bill prescribing the oath of office to be taken by persons who engaged in the late rebellion, but who are not disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, to become a law without his signature. February 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, recommending an appropriation for the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, and Piankeshaw Indians, in accordance with the treaty of February 23, 1867. February 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1870, the cost of transportation of mails and freights, and the expense of guarding the overland route from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, from the annexation of California to July 1, 1864. February 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War transmitting a communication from Joseph Richerson, complaining that he has been driven from his home in Kentucky by the so-called Ku-Klux Klan. February 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 1, 1871, dispatches of Hon. Henry T. Blow, minister of the United States to the court of Brazil. March 3, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a paper relative to the desire of certain Indian tribes in the northern superintendency to sell a portion of their lands with a view to the purchase of other lands. February 8, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, information in relation to the early labors of the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions in Oregon, commencing in 1836. February 9, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of January 27, 1871, information in relation to the non-execution of the act of July 14, 1870, requiring the laying of a water-main from the reservoir to Capitol Hill, through the Cities of Washington and Georgetown. February 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating copies of the reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Superintendent Hoag, and J.D. Lang, relative to the extension of the time of payment by settlers on the Osage Indian lands in Kansas. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of January 4, 1871, copies of correspondence with and orders issued to the commander of our naval squadron in the waters of the island of San Domingo since the commencement of the late negotiations. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1870, the report of the Engineer Bureau of the proposed ship canal from Fort St. Philip to Breton Island. February 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a report of the Chief of Engineers upon the proposed improvement of the Mississippi River from Alton to the mouth of the Maramee River. March 2, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating information in regard to the military depot at Fort Leavenworth, and recommending an appropriation for the improvement of that post. February 28, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, a report from the Secretary of State relative to the correspondence with the United States minister at Paris since the commencement of the war between France and Prussia. December 8, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of June 13, 1870, a copy of the report of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel B. Holabird, of a reconnaissance made by him in the Department of Dakota, in 1869. December 21, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating reports of the consular agents appointed under section two of the act of July 11, 1870, "Making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year Ending June 30, 1871, and for Other Purposes." December 20, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United states, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th of June, 1870, information in relation to charges made by the International Ocean Telegraph Company upon messages passing over their lines. December 13, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, a statement of the amount of free matter passing through the mails during the period of six months ending June 30, 1870. January 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 16th of December, 1870, information in relation to outrages committed by disloyal persons in North Carolina and other Southern states. January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant, information relative to the proposed annexation of the Dominican portion of the island of San Domingo. January 16, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of December, 1870, information relative to the probable cost of the improvement of the Umpqua and Willamette Rivers, in the State of Oregon. January 12, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating information in regard to alleged outrages committed by lawless bands in the State of Tennessee. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating information relative to the claims of Jordan & McPike and others arising out of the expedition against the Pi-Ute Indians in 1860. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, an inventory of the property belonging to the United States in the Department of the Interior, December 1, 1870. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Surgeon General communicating a contract made with the Providence Hospital for the care of sixty transient paupers, under act of July 15, 1870. December 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating to the Senate his acceptance of the statue of Abraham Lincoln, executed by Vinnie Ream, and recommending an appropriation to pay the remaining installment due for the same. January 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1870, a report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, relative to the collection of the tax on the forty-five million scrip dividend of the New York Central Railroad Company. January 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 20, 1870, information in relation to certain Indiana state bonds, held by him as trustee for various Indian tribes. January 9, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in obedience to law, inventories of the property of the United States in the possession of the War Department. December 8, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, the last correspondence between Mr. Motley, as minister to the Court of St. James, and the Department of State. January 9, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, correspondence from the legation of the United States at Constantinople, relating to the restrictions on the passage of the Straits of Dardanelles and the Bosphorus by the ships of other nations. March 3, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, communicating information in relation to the claims to the invention for postmarking and postage-stamp canceling, in use in the postal service. March 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 15th instant, the instructions issued to the commander of the Tennessee on her present cruise, and a list of the vessels in the waters of the island of San Domingo since the commencement of the negotiations with Dominica. February 18, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating the report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane upon the so-called Yellowstone Expedition of 1870. March 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, a copy of the regulations prescribed under the act providing that merchandise imported at certain ports of the United States and destined for certain other ports may be immediately transported to such other ports. December 6, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of the contracts and purchases of the Ordnance Department during the past year. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in relation to the donation of bronze cannon to monumental associations. January 19, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 8th of December, 1870, the reports of the board of trustees of colored schools of Washington and Georgetown. January 19, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 21, 1870, information in relation to the amounts paid for transportation and freights via the Isthmus and Cape Horn during the twelve months last past. January 24, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of the contracts of the Quartermaster's Department during the year ending December 31, 1870. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a copy of regulations for the consular courts of the United States in Japan, decreed and issued by the minister of the United States in that country. January 27, 1871. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a copy of the proceedings of the council of Indian tribes held at Ocmulgee, in December, 1870. January 30, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a copy of a letter of the Governor of South Carolina relative to outrages committed upon citizens of the United States resident in that state. January 31, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Outrages in the South and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of January 19, 1871, the report of the Chief of Engineers upon the survey of Charleston Harbor. February 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, the report of the Chief of Engineers upon the progress of the improvement of the Cape Fear River. January 31, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating an application from R.L.M. Camden for military protection for employees of an association engaged in gold-mining in South Carolina. January 31, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Outrages in the South and ordered to be printed.	52
Serial set 1441	In the Senate of the United States. Letter of the Secretary of State, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 22, 1870, copies of all treaties and conventions (except postal conventions) entered into by the United States, the ratification whereof has been exchanged. February 2, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 1442	Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of an act authorizing the issue of patents for the lands allotted to children of members of the Delaware tribe of Indians, in accordance with the treaty of March 4, 1866. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of John Roach, praying the passage of an act for the encouragement of iron ship building, and the formation of a line of first-class iron steamships. January 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, addressed to Hon. Willard Warner, communicating information on the subject of spirit meters. January 9, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Thomas H. Dowling, praying the relief which in equity may be due by reason of his forcible ejection by the military authorities of the United States from the Island of Yerba Buena, to which he claims title. February 2, 1871. -- Referred (with Bill S. 1296) to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of soldiers and veterans of the volunteer Army of the United States, praying the passage of an act granting a bounty of $8.33 for each month's service of all honorably discharged soldiers of the late war. March 2, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Thurman to the resolution reported by the Judiciary Committee, declaring Joshua Hill entitled to a seat in the Senate as a senator from the State of Georgia. Memorial of P.P. Pitchlynn, Choctaw delegate, in regard to carrying out treaty stipulations with the Choctaw Indians. February 6, 1871. -- Referred with Bill (S. 1307) to the Committee on the Judiciary. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of Robert Squires and others, praying the passage of House Bill No. 2591, relating to telegraph communication between the United States and foreign countries, without amendment. February 6, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Oregon, rejecting the Fifteenth Article of Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. February 8, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends, praying the aid of Congress in the establishment of a common-school system in that state. February 6, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Nevada, asking for a repeal of the duty now imposed on quicksilver. February 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, communicating information in relation to the Black Bob band of Indians in Kansas. February 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, in favor of an appropriation for the completion of the harbor at Michigan City. February 14, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Missouri, in favor of the passage of a law reapportioning the congressional representation on the basis of the census of 1870. February 16, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, asking an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Duluth. February 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas asking Congress to grant the right of way to the Chicago, Kansas and Texas railroad through the Indian Territory. February 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of an appropriation for the completion of the harbor at the mouth of the Ontonagon River. February 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of an appropriation to pay the citizens of Kansas for losses sustained during the political troubles of 1855 and 1856. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of placing the victims of the Lawrence massacre, in 1863, in the same position as regards pensions as though they had been killed in the military service of the United States. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens and property-holders along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad, praying the enactment of a law authorizing the sale of the timber lands along said road. February 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that clerks be allowed to the following committees of the Senate only... Memorial of members of the late General Assembly of the State of Georgia, remonstrating against the admission of Foster Blodgett to a seat in the Senate. March 2, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the construction of the fifteenth and sixteenth articles of the treaty of July 19, 1867 [i.e., 1866], with the Cherokee Nation, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate. February 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, to accompany amendments intended to be proposed by Mr. Harlan to the Bill H.R. No. 3064. Memorial of the chiefs of the confederated tribes of the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea Indians, praying to be reimbursed for the alleged misapplication of funds belonging to them by the Indian department. February 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. March 2, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Vermont, relative to the passage of a bill providing for the payment of the balance of the war claims due that state from the general government. December 5, 1870. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Petition of residents on the Hot Springs reservation, in the State of Arkansas, praying to be permitted to enter certain sections of land of said reservation. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on Tuesday, at 1 o'clock, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the calendar... Memorial of citizens of Tennessee, praying the interposition of Congress in behalf of the oppressed loyalists of that state. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Missouri in favor of such an amendment to the Homestead Act of May 20, 1862, as will permit settlers to make proof of the settlement and cultivation of the lands entered by them before some officer having a seal in the county in which they are situated. February 9, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of Tennessee, praying the enforcement of the laws and suppression of disorders in that state. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, withdrawing its assent to the ratification of the Fifteenth Article of Amendments to the Constitution. February 6, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, asking Congress to extinguish the Indian title to all Indian reservations in that state, and open the same to settlement. February 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1131.) Letter of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in regard to the proceedings of United States district tax commissioners in the distritc [i.e., district] of South Carolina. February 22, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking that the government military post at Fort Harker, Kansas, be not abandoned. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that in the present disturbed relations of the governments of the United States and Great Britain... In the Senate of the United States. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of an appropriation for deepening and completing the channel between the waters of Lake Superior and Eagle Harbor. February 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of the establishment, on a firm basis, of the rights of our citizens on the fishing grounds on the northeast coast. March 1, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate communicating, in obedience to law, an account of property of the United States in his possession December 5, 1870. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Casserly submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be, and hereby is, requested to transmit to the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interests, the following information... In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the Senate, if, in his opinion, not incompatible with the public interests, copies of all papers and correspondence relating to the proposed annexation of the Dominican portion of the Island of San Domingo, or the purchase of any part thereof... Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, communicating copies of opinions of the Attorney General and the decision of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, in relation to the fifth section of the act of July 12, 1870, in relation to unexpended balances of appropriations. January 4, 1871. -- Submitted by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions adopted by a convention of the Iron Molders' International Union held at Philadelphia in July 1870, against the further introduction of coolie labor into this country. December 12, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Schurz submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the disqualifications and disabilities imposed upon persons lately in rebellion against the government of the United States were dictated by imperative public necessities, and not by a spirit of hatred or vindictiveness... Joint resolution of the Legislature of Oregon, in favor of the passage of the bill known as the Oregon Branch Pacific Railroad bill. December 13, 1870. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the third session of the Forty-first Congress. January 25, 1871. Memorial of citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio, praying such alterations and modifications of the plans of the Newport and Cincinnati bridge as will elevate the spans forty feet above high-water mark. January 12, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota, in favor of an appropriation for the extension of the Sioux City and Missouri telegraph line to Fort Randall. January 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the extension of the operation of the second section of the act of July 14, 1870, "To Extend the Provisions of the Preemption Laws to the Territory of Colorado, and for Other Purposes," to January 1, 1873. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of allowing settlers on the Osage Diminished Reserve to enter and prove their claims in any shape in which they may have claimed them by legal subdivisions. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of receipts and expenditures for the year ending December 5, 1870, and also an account of property in his possession at that date. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, communicating a statement of all the judgments rendered by said court during the year ending December 5, 1870. December 6, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Victoria C. Woodhull praying the passage of a law carrying into execution the right vested by the Constitution in citizens of the United States to vote, without regard to sex. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of William C. Barney, praying the adoption of a system of rules for the operation of international telegraph lines. December 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of settlers on agricultural lands in California, praying such legislation as will aid them is protecting their lands and crops from overflow during the rainy seasons of the year. January 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, praying the establishment of ocean mail steamship service between the United States and Australia. January 10, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, inclosing matters of appropriation and legislation which, in the opinion of the Department of the Interior, should be provided for. March 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations to accompany Mr. Harlan's proposed amendments to Bill H.R. No. 3064. Memorial of the Legislature of Nebraska, in favor of a grant of lands in aid of the Omaha and Northwestern Railroad. February 28, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Letter on the economic values of American coals, addressed to Hon. William M. Stewart, Chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining, United States Senate. February 22, 1871. -- Referred to Committee on Appropriations to accompany amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Stewart to the Bill H.R. No. 2789 and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and proposed as an amendment by Mr. Hamlin to the Bill H.R. No. 3064. Memorial of the council of the Seneca Nation of Indians, remonstrating against the sale of any portion of the Allegany Reservation. February 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following resolution. Whereas the Constitution (Art. 1, Sec. 9) provides that "a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time"... Memorial of the Board of Supervisors of Siskiyou County, California, and others, praying the establishment of certain post offices and post routes in that state. January 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a committee of the National Labor Convention, praying the appointment of a commission to inquire into the condition of affairs in the southern states. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury, communicating a statement of the amounts refunded to states for expenses incurred in raising volunteers, from 1861 to January 1, 1871. January 24, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the progress of the Library during the year ending December 1, 1870. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. January 24, 1871. -- Ordered that five hundred additional copies be printed for the use of the Library. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana in favor of the passage of the bill granting pensions to the surviving soldiers of the War of 1812. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of judges, officers, and members of the bar of Cincinnati, Ohio, praying that defendants in criminal cases, in federal courts, may be permitted to testify. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company in reply to the report of board of engineers in relation to their bridge. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans, in favor of an appropriation for postal steamship service between that city and foreign countries. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of citizens of the United States, praying for legislation looking to the establishment of lines of American steamships between the United States and Europe. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of William B. Whiting, praying such an amendment of the postal law of June 12, 1866, as will allow letters sent in care of authorized parties to be remailed to persons to whom addressed without prepayment of postage. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed to accompany Bill S. No. 1146. In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. New Mexico. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1006.) The Territory of New Mexico has within its limits the following counties viz... Letter of the Postmaster General, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, communicating his views on the petition of J.Q. Preble & Co., praying the discontinuance of the manufacture and sale of stamped envelopes by the government. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of legislation to protect the rights of bona fide settlers in the Cherokee Neutral Lands, sold in accordance with the treaty of August 11, 1866. January 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the payment of claims of citizens of that state for losses sustained by the illegal invasion of the territory by pro-slavery mobs in 1855, 1856, and 1857. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota in favor of the construction of a military road from Fort Abercrombie to Fort Pembina, in that territory. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a committee appointed by the commercial convention held at the City of Cincinnati, in October, 1870, urging that measures be taken for a congress of representatives of all the governments on the western continent to consult upon the best means for inaugurating an American system of commercial intercourse. February 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of New York, in favor of a treaty with the Seneca Indians, by which they will give up the Allegany reservation. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania against the passage of the bill for the removal of the military stores at the Allegheny arsenal, at Pittsburg, and the disposal of the remaining property to said city. February 3, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to Hon. James Harlan, in relation to the absentee Shawnee Indian lands in Kansas. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of the Des Moines Valley, Iowa, praying protection in their rights and the preservation to them of their homes on the odd-numbered sections of land in said valley. February 2, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of H.L. Gamble, widow of the late Lt. Col. John M. Gamble, U.S. Marine Corps, praying compensation for the capture by her husband, during the War of 1812, of the vessel "Seringapatam." February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of Anacostia Village, Washington County, praying the erection of a bridge across Anacostia River near the Navy yard. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Rhode Island in favor of the passage of an act granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors, and widows of those who served in the War of 1812. February 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin in favor of the renewal of the grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from St. Croix River or Lake to the west end of Lake Superior or Bayfield. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of J.M. Hutchings, praying a grant of lands in the Yosemite Valley, California. February 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. February 21, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of A.H. Davis and others, in relation to the disposal of the Miami Indian lands in Kansas. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the extension of the operation of the extradition treaty now existing between the United States and Great Britain. February 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.	90
Serial set 1443	In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1315.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was rfeerred [i.e., referred] the petition of Mrs. Fanny Kelly, praying for compensation for losses sustained by the destruction of property by the Sioux Indians, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1213.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mary M. Clark, widow of Leonard Clark, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 734.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Isaac H. Allen, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 479.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House Resolution No. 479, a joint resolution repealing the joint resolution approved July 15, 1870, entitled "A Joint Resolution Authorizing the Postmaster General To Adjust the Accounts of George Chorpenning," beg leave to report the same back to the Senate with a recommendation that it pass as it came from the House... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 996.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Resolution No. 178 and Senate Bill No. 827, providing for the collection of debts due the United States from certain southern railroad corporations, and also House Bill No. 996, which passed the House of Representatives February 2, 1871, and is identical with Senate Resolution No. 178, respectfully report said last-named bill and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 309.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the papers relating to the claim of Samuel Houston, of Arkansas, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Traffic with Rebels in Texas, submitted the following report. The Select Committee to whom were referred a resolution of the Senate offered by Mr. Sprague, and adopted by the Senate, December 13, 1870, and also four communications, with accompanying papers, from the Secretary of War in compliance with said resolution -- the dates of which communications are, respectively, December 22, 1870, January 9, 1871, January 17, 1871, and February 27, 1871 -- being Ex. Doc. No. 10, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, Forty-first Congress, third session, now report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1087.) The petitioner is the widow of Charles O. Collins, of the regular Army, who graduated at West Point in 1828, and served continually until he died, a captain, at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, in August, 1846... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellog made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1963.) The Committee on Claims have had under consideration House Bill No. 1963, for the relief of William T. Stotts, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of Reuben Wright against the Chickasaw Indians, would report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 214.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Resolution No. 214, "For the Further Relief of the Officers of the Fourth and Fifth Indian Regiments," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, from the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Asa O. Butman, administrator, for renewal of letters patent to James A. Cutting, for an improvement in composition for making photographic pictures, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1348.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs-at-law of William Humphrey, a Revolutionary soldier, praying that they be allowed the arrears of pension due to the said William Humphrey, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1347.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Messrs. Brott & Davis, praying payment for the model barge "Brott & Davis," impressed by the military authorities of the United States, and lost during the late war of the rebellion, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2700.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William W. Spiers, have instructed me to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 208.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate joint resolution, relative to claims of certain northern creditors, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Fiedler... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1239.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Ann Green and Mrs. Maria Bohrer, of the District of Columbia, asking to be allowed the arrears of half-pay claimed to be due to Lieutenant Colonel Uriah Forrest, of the Maryland Line of the Revolutionary War, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 679.) The Indian Territory, proposed to be organized by the bill, is about 350 miles in length by 200 miles in width, with an area, therefore, of about 70,000 square miles... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of U.P. Monroe, praying compensation for expenditures and services in opening the Sacramento River to navigation, have considered the same, and submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1331.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1331, for the relief of A.F. McMillan, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1319.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Jesse Warren and J.A. Moore, composing the firm of Warren & Moore, praying compensation for lumber taken from them for the use of the Army in 1862, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1305.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Fredrick [i.e., Frederick] P. Dimpfel, of the City of Philadelphia, praying an extension of his patent for an improvement in steam-boilers, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1161.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 1161, "A Bill for the Relief of Roxana W. Sawyer," reports... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Frances A. McCauley... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1326.) In the matter of the application of C.O.F. Clark for increase of pension... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stearns made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2356.) In the matter of the petition of Stephen Hull for an act granting him a patent... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2296.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2296, granting a pension to William Sickles, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stearns made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 280.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Carlton A. Uber, a second assistant engineer in the United States Navy, on the retired list, and a Joint Resolution (S.R. 280) for his relief, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1366.) Mr. Thayer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the petition and papers of Miss Rebecca L. Wright, beg leave to report that they have examined the same, and find the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Casserly, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2249.) The Committee on Printing, to whom was referred House bill entitled "An Act for the Relief of Thomas Allen," report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 267.) The Committee on the Pacific Railroad, to which was referred Senate Resolution No. 267, in relation to freights on the Pacific railroads, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 321.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of T.T. Garrard and others, proprietors and lessees of salt works near Manchester, in the State of Kentucky, praying compensation for the destruction of their salt and injuries committed upon their works by the troops of the United States, in the year 1862, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 303.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Joint Resolution S.R. 303 in relation to the claim of the American Board of Foreign Missions, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, from the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, submitted the following report. The Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, who were by a resolution of the Senate, passed December 14, 1870, instructed "to furnish a comparative detailed statement of the cost of collecting the Customs... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2293.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred H. Bill No. 2293, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pension, made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2333.) The committee to which was referred House Bill No. 2333, granting a pension to William Erwin, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 717.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom the case of Harmon E. Wentworth, late second lieutenant Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, was referred, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary A. Simpson... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 748.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the case of Lieutenant Colonel Humphrey M. Woodyard, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 59, for the relief of Jordan & McPike, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2317.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2317, granting a pension to Melissa Andrews, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 375.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill 375... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2332.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2332, granting a pension to Sarah Gillett, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, who were instructed by resolution of the Senate, of April 7, 1870, "to inquire into and report to the Senate the effect of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution upon the Indian tribes of the country; and whether by the provisions thereof the Indians are not citizens of the United States, and whether thereby the various treaties heretofore existing between the United States and the various Indian tribes are, or are not annulled," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. C.S. Wilson... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Ann G. Barker, praying to be allowed arrears of pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Warner made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 375.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred House Joint Resolution 375, for the relief of Robert Moir & Co., having had the same under consideration, report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it pass, for reasons which are set forth in the accompanying letters of Internal Revenue Commissioners Delano and Pleasonton... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1192.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of D. Jay Brown, dated March 9, 1864, praying compensation for losses by reason of his discharge from official position while in foreign countries, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1193.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was recommitted Senate Bill No. 870, for the relief of the United States Express Company, and the petition upon which said bill was reported, make the following supplemental report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 918.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of the East Tennessee University... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of R.S.M. Hunter... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. A.L. Henry... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1242.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Horace L. Emery, of Albany, New York, praying that the Commissioner of Patents be authorized to hear and determine his application for the extension of his letter-patent for an improvement in the endless railway horse-power, having considered the same beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1226.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, having had under consideration certain papers, referred to them by the Secretary of State, concerning the application of Christine Mahler, a Prussian subject, for indemnity on account of United States bonds destroyed by fire, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1215.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William H. Colledge, praying compensation for clerical labor performed in the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1225.) The Committee on Foreign Relations having had under consideration certain papers referred to them by the Secretary of State, concerning the application of George Sydney Clement, a British subject, for indemnity on account of a United States bond destroyed by fire, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1140.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Rear-Admiral Henry Walke, praying a modification of the act of January 16, 1857, so that he may receive the pay of a commander while holding the commission for that rank in the naval service, and the bill for his relief, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1275.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of George W. Hall, Charles F. Sampson, John E. Chase, Alfred W. Fish, W.H. Bradford, Moses Taft, Colin C. Baker, Philander Crosby, Charles T. Childs, and Jesse Davis, of Providence, Rhode Island, praying indemnification for losses occasioned by the seizure and detention, by authority of the United States, of bark A 1, at Philadelphia, in the winter of 1863-'64, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 944.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 944, for the relief of Mrs. Lucy H. Carroll, administratrix of George W. Carroll, deceased, late of Conway County, State of Arkansas, and Mrs. Hibernia Armstrong, of the same county and state, have considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1273.) The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration the claim of S.E. Ward... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 555.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 555, "For the Relief of Pitcher & Hayford and Otis & Ferguson, of Maine," having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1870 [i.e. 1871]. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred Senate resolution of April 29, 1870, as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2300.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2300, granting a pension to Laura Baker, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Duncan... In the Senate of the United States. January 5, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the communication of the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress, transmitting a copy of the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States upon the claim of the Choctaw Nation of Indians for $250,000 of United States bonds, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 271.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A.G. Lee, praying for remuneration for property destroyed by United States troops at Paducah, Kentucky, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Hegeman, praying for compensation for the use by the United States Army of his improvement on the ponton [i.e., pontoon] boats, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 290.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a "Joint Resolution To Prevent Obstruction to Navigation of the Ohio River," which resolution refers to the bridge being built by the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2095.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the act for the relief of John W. Massey, (H.R. 2095,) have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2707.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2707, entitled "An Act for the Relief of General John C. McQuiston and Jeremiah D. Skeen, of Indiana," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott from the Committee of Conference, appointed by the two Houses, to consider the question as to the power of the Senate to originate the Bill (S. 1083) to repeal so much of the act approved July 14, 1870, entitled "An Act To Reduce Internal Taxes and for Other Purposes," as continues the income tax after the 31st day of December, 1869... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jerome J. Getty... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 887.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 887, for the relief of Rebecca J. Sheppard, of Philadelphia, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 687.) The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration the petition of Mary Dunn for restoration of property on Dawfuski Island, South Carolina, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2357.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred Bill H.R. No. 2357, for the relief of Jacob J. Anderson, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lewis made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1724.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred House Bill 1724, "To Authorize a Subscription by the Corporate Authorities of the City of Washington to the Capital Stock of the Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire Railroad Company, or the Washington and Ohio Railroad Company, As the Case May Be," respectfully submit... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Edwin M. Chaffee, praying the passage of an act of Congress extending certain letters-patent granted to him for the machine patent, so called, used in the manufacture of India-rubber, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 253.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Joint Resolution No. 253, entitled "A Joint Resolution Explanatory of the Act Admitting the State of Oregon into the Union," respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 672.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 672, "For the Relief of the Trustees of the Theological Seminary and High School of Virginia," have examined the same, and beg leave to submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1154.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Bill S. No. 1154, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the credentials of Joshua Hill, H.V.M. Miller, Henry P. Farrow, and Richard H. Whitely, claiming to have been elected senators from the State of Georgia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1216.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Phoebe Hepburn… In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1243.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Albert W. Gray, praying leave to apply to the Commissioner of Patents for an extension of letters-patent for an improvement in horse-powers, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 285.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred House Joint Resolution No. 285, to authorize the President of the United States to reappoint Joshua Bishop, late a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1019.) The Committee on the Pacific Railroad, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 1019) entitled "An Act To Incorporate Branches of the Southern Trans-continental Railway Company, Under the Name and Style of the Western North Carolina Extension Railway Company," have authorized me to ask that the following report may be printed... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2535.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2535, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Noah Fisher," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanagan made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2415.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 2415,) entitled "An Act for the Relief of Lot North, Late Postmaster at Patriot, Indiana," with the memorial and evidence accompanying it, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 217.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 217, for the relief of James A. Waymire, have considered the same and beg leave to submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanagan made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2285.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2285) entitled "An Act for the Relief of John Milone, Postmaster at Uhrickville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio," with the memorial and evidence accompanying it, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1253.) In the matter of the petition of Sarah Evans for pension... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanagan made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2243.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2243, an act for the relief of James R. Young, late postmaster at Lisbon, New Hampshire, with the memorial and evidence accompanying it, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1255.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Lewis Johnson, Lewis J. Davis, and David Walker, bankers of the City of Washington, composing the firm of Lewis Johnson and Company, praying to be reimbursed for certain moneys paid by them on a check drawn by Paymaster Benj. F. Gallaher, United States Navy, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2236.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2236, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Mary J. Pearson," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 294.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of J.W. Parish & Co., praying compensation for losses sustained on account of the refusal on the part of the government to receive from them twenty thousand tons of ice, parcel of thirty thousand tons contracted to be delivered at various points on the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers, during the year 1863, and for refusal to pay according to the terms of the contract, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1993.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1993, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Josephine Donahue," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 174.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 174, entitled "A Bill Granting Relief to Lois Clark," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 1118.) The bill now reported, while it differs from the bill of the same company before the Senate at its last session, seeks to accomplish the same important results... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1274.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William J. Phillips, praying compensation for services as assessor of internal revenue for the Second District of Texas, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1140.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom has been referred the case of Charles Trichler, of Adams County, Ohio, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles L. Thompson, guardian of the minor children of William S. Thompson, deceased, late an engineer on the iron-clad Atlanta, praying that a pension be allowed his wards, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2396.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred "An Act for the Relief of James J. Hiles, Late a Private in the Third Missouri Cavalry," having had the same under consideration, have instructed me to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the account of the Northwest Fur Company, for provisions and payment of men for the defense and protection of government property at Fort Union in 1866 and 1867, and the claim of T. Bruguin & Geowey, for subsistence furnished for the protection of the fort at the same time, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 230.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred "A Bill for the Relief of David Braden," having had the same under consideration, instruct me to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1281.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred R. Cruikshank's petition for relief, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2718.) The bill is for the relief of the widow of a soldier, giving ten months captain's pay and allowances, deducting therefrom the pay of a private... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth B. McCormick... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1299.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of R.M. Corwine, praying that the money now in the Treasury of the United States, the proceeds of the sale of certain cotton and other property captured by the Porter expedition up Red River in 1864, may be paid into the district court for the Southern District of Illinois, to enable that court to make distribution of the same among the claimants, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elkanah Huddleston, praying compensation for services rendered as second lieutenant from August 13, 1863, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 465.) The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration Joint Resolution H.R. 465, for relief of W. Buck, late surgeon Sixth Maine Volunteers, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1293.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom were referred the memorial and papers of Miss Carroll, of Maryland... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1295.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. Leonidas Russell and his wife, Martha L. House [i.e., Howse] Russell, praying compensation for property of hers taken and used by the troops of the United States at the Battle of Stone River, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, who were authorized by resolution of the Senate of December 9, 1870, to inquire and report whether the railway companies which have received aid in bonds of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1341.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of J. and C.M. Dailey for goods and provisions furnished the Sioux Indians in Minnesota in the year 1862, would report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration the petition of David J. Millard, of Clayville, New York, for compensation on a contract, report...	115
Serial set 1444	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the third session of the Forty-first Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 5, 1870, in the ninety-fifth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1445	Message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the Forty-first Congress.	1
Serial set 1446	Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress.	1
Serial set 1447	Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress.	1
Serial set 1448	Reports of the Secretary of the Navy and the Postmaster General, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress.	1
Serial set 1449	Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress. Volume I.	1
Serial set 1450	Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress. Volume II	1
Serial set 1451	Report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the third session of the Forty-first Congress of the United States. December 5, 1870. Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1870.	2
Serial set 1452	Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872. Public property in charge of Secretary of State. Letter from the Secretary of State transmitting an inventory of the public property under his charge. December 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. James A. Laizure. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the claim of James A. Laizure. December 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Unexpended balances, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, being statement of balances unexpended June 30, 1870; amount appropriated for fiscal year current; net expenditures for quarter ending September 30, 1870; amount necessary for the completion of year, and amount that may be carried to surplus fund. December 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations for the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting estimates for appropriations for his Department for the year ending June 30, 1872. December 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deeds for Brooklyn Navy yard property. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy in answer to a resolution of the House of the 6th instant, transmitting copies of deeds for the land now occupied by the Brooklyn Navy yard. December 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Inventory of public property. Letter from the Postmaster General transmitting inventory of the public property held by the Post Office Department. December 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Condition of affairs in Paraguay. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 9th April, 1869, relative to the condition of affairs in Paraguay. December 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimates of deficiencies -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations required to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871. December 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Louis W. Viollier. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the removal of Louis W. Viollier, a consular clerk, for disobedience of orders. December 12, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Relief and protection of American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting an abstract of the returns made to his Department by the collectors of Customs, pursuant to the act of May 28, 1796, for the relief and protection of American seamen. December 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Indemnity case of ship Canada. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of 20th January last, transmitting correspondence relative to a claim for indemnity in the case of the ship Canada. December 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Commercial relations. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report on the commercial relations of the United States and foreign nations, for the year ending September 30, 1869. December 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. January 5, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Consular fees. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report from the Secretary of State relative to consular fees for the year ending December 31, 1869. December 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.	15
Serial set 1453	Appropriations for Navajo Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the appropriation of $75,000 made July 15, 1870, for feeding Navajo Indians in New Mexico. January 12, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public property in the public buildings and grounds. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting inventories of the public property of the United States in the public buildings and grounds. January 5, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Survey of Green River. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimates of appropriation to complete survey of Green River. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Engineer's report of certain rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of the Chief Engineer upon the improvement of certain rivers and harbors. February 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Engineer's report of certain rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of the Chief Engineer upon the improvement of certain rivers and harbors. February 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Uniformity in the mode of appointing appraisers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting draught of a bill to secure uniformity in the mode of appointing appraisers, and for other purposes. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Engineer's report of certain rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the Chief of Engineers upon the improvement of certain rivers and harbors. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Stamped envelopes. Letter from the Postmaster General in answer to a resolution of the House December 16, 1870, in relation to stamped envelopes. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Engineer's report of certain rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of the Chief Engineer upon the improvement of certain rivers and harbors. February 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Choctaw Indian claim. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of an opinion given by the Attorney General of the United States upon the claim of the Choctaw Indians to the issue of United States bonds to the amounts of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Books of record for Recorder of Deeds for District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimate of appropriations for books of record for Office of Recorder of Deeds for District of Columbia. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Wreck of Scotland light-ship. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to a resolution of the House of December 13, 1870, relative to the wreck of the Scotland light-ship. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Ninth census. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting the report of the Acting Secretary of the Interior, in reply to House resolution of the 15th instant, in relation to the census. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Ninth Census and ordered to be printed. Schooner Granada. Message from the President of the United States in answer to a resolution of the House of 7th instant, relative to the alleged seizure of the schooner Granada, of Provincetown, Massachusetts. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Newport and Cincinnati Bridge. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting the report of Board of Engineers on Newport and Cincinnati bridge, &c., to accompany letter of Chief of Engineers to Secretary of War, of December 21, 1870. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Charles Cooper and others. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill 1395 with his objections. January 4, 1871. -- Laid on the Speaker's table and ordered to be printed. Fort Wilkins military reservation. Letter from the Secretary of War in relation to the transfer of the Fort Wilkins military reservation, Michigan, to the custody of the General Land Office, for the purpose of disposing of the same by sale or otherwise. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Dominican Republic. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of 5th instant, transmitting report of Captain George B. McClellan upon the Dominican Republic, in the year 1854. January 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiencies in Quartermaster's Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the Quartermaster's Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for Pension Bureau. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, asking for an appropriation to supply deficiencies in the Pension Bureau. January 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disbursing clerk Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the disbursing clerk of his Department. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Treasurer's report third and fourth quarters of 1867, and first and second of 1868. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, making report of receipts and expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1868. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Marine hospital establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting draught of joint resolution providing for the transfer to the marine hospital establishment at New Orleans, certain buildings. January 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Certain officers of volunteers. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 4, transmitting a report of the construction placed by the War Department upon the law of July 11, 1870, for the relief of certain officers of volunteers. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Survey of the Grande Ronde Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs upon the survey of the Grande Ronde reserve, and asking for an appropriation. January 12, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures at the national armory, Springfield. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statement of expenditures at the national armory at Springfield, and of the arms and repairs to arms made at said armory, during the year ending June 30, 1870. January 12, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Bonds to Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 9, 1871, in relation to bonds of the United States issued to Indian tribes and other parties; also the amount of the principal of said bonds. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Construction of an experimental rifled gun. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letter from the Chief of Ordnance recommending an appropriation of $200,000 for the construction of an experimental rifled gun. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Navajo Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior submitting joint resolution to render an appropriation of $75,000 available for feeding Navajo Indians. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Des Moines Rapids. Letter from the Secretary of War in answer to a resolution of the House of December 12, 1870, transmitting a report upon the present condition of the Des Moines Rapids improvement. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Indian orphan accounts. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting estimate of appropriation for expenses of settlement of Indian orphan accounts. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Railroad and telegraph from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to a resolution of the House of December 6, 1870, in relation to the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. New jail in the District of Columbia. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to a resolution calling for a certified statement of the vouchers for disbursement on account of the new jail for the District of Columbia. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditures from the appropriation for incidental and contingent expenses of the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Dominican Republic. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 5th instant, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State relative to the Dominican Republic. January 9, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Ocean steamship lines. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2486.) Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, suggesting alterations in House Bill 2486, and inclosing copy of such alterations as proposed. January 5, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. American fishing vessels. Message from the President of the United States in answer to a resolution of the House of July 1, 1870, relative to the arrest and detention of American fishing vessels. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Washington Aqueduct. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the Chief of Engineers upon the Washington Aqueduct. January 5, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public documents and libraries in care of foreign ministers. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 12th December, transmitting correspondence of minister to Portugal relative to public documents or libraries in the care of foreign ministers. January 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenses of Indian delegations to Washington. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior submitting joint resolution to enable the Department to use, subsequent to January 1, 1871, the balance of appropriation for defraying expenses of Indian delegations to Washington. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Light-house reserve, Port Huron. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to a resolution of the House of December 8, 1870, relative to the light-house reserve at Port Huron, Michigan. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the War Department for contingent expenses during the year 1870. January 12, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief of poor in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Lieutenant Bridges of the number of persons relieved under the act of Congress granting temporary relief to the poor of the District of Columbia. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annuities to Winnebago Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of funds required for the payment of annuities to certain Winnebago Indians. January 12, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Survey of Indian reservations. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in relation to the survey of Indian reservations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Engineer's report of certain rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report of the Chief of Engineers upon the improvement of certain rivers and harbors. January 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	46
Serial set 1454	Survey of the Ohio River. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 14, 1871, in relation to the survey and improvement of the Ohio River. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Purchase of United States statutes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation of $7,000 for the purchase of two thousand copies of the sixteenth volume of the United States Statutes at Large. February 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Clerks and others employed in the Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the names of clerks and other persons employed in the Department of State. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. State of trade with British North American provinces. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report on the state of trade between the United States and the British North American possessions. February 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Commercial relations. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report on the commercial relations of the United States with foreign nations for the year ending September 30, 1870. February 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Bligh E. Wood. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the claim of Bligh E. Wood on account of depredations by Yancton Sioux Indians. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiencies contingent expenses Quartermaster's Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of deficiencies contingent expenses Quartermaster's Department, year ending June 30, 1871. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. C.E. Hedges. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the claim of C.E. Hedges for supplies furnished Yancton Sioux Indians. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiencies in Quartermaster and Paymaster Departments. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of appropriations for deficiencies in the Paymaster and Quartermaster's Departments for current fiscal year. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Broken sets of congressional documents. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of broken sets of congressional documents, &c. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Clerks employed in Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting list of clerks employed in the Navy Department. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Attorney General. Letter from the Attorney General of the United States, transmitting his annual report to Congress. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Breakwater in the Potomac River. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2740.) Letter from the Secretary of War relative to the breakwater in the Potomac River. January 30, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Claims of Wyandott Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting claims of Wyandott Indians for property taken from them by whites. January 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Aid to civilize the Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to aid in the civilization of the Indians. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiencies in Paymaster's Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an estimate of amounts required to supply deficiencies for the Pay Department for the current fiscal year. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenses of general council of Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimates to defray expenses of general council of certain Indians in the Indian Territory. January 23, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Joseph Bissonnette. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the claim of Joseph Bissonnette for depredations committed by Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. H.C. Jackson. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report in relation to the claim of H.C. Jackson, of Nashville, Tennessee. January 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Saint Mary's Falls Canal. Letter from the Secretary of War, asking for an appropriation of $100,000 to continue the improvement of the Saint Mary's Falls Canal, Michigan. January 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. James Bourdeau and Clement Lamoureaux. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting claims of James Bourdeau and Clement Lamoureaux, for depredations by Sioux Indians. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Contingent appropriations incidental expenses of departments. Letter from the Secretary of State, in relation to an act legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have usually been included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the departments and offices of the government. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Advertising casualties to light vessels and buoys. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to advertising, and stating the importance of giving prompt notice by advertisement, of the breaking adrift of light vessels and buoys, and the occurrence of other casualties. January 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. W.H. Moore & Co. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting claim of W.H. Moore & Co. for depredations committed by Cheyenne Indians. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Baltazar Marfin. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the claim of Baltazar Marfin for depredations committed by Navajo Indians. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Andrew J. Smith. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting claim of A.J. Smith for supplies furnished to the Sheep-Eaters, a northern band of Shoshone Indians. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Fort Bridger Military Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting memorial of citizens of the town of Merrill in relation to the Fort Bridger reservation. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Fines imposed on mail contractors. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting report of fines imposed on contractors carrying United States mails for year ending June 30, 1870. January 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Survey in Louisiana. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimates of appropriations for survey of township in Louisiana in which New Orleans is situated. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cabinet of minerals and natural history connected with the General Land Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report on the history and present condition of the cabinet of minerals and natural history connected with the General Land Office. January 25, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Foreign commerce and the practical workings of maritime reciprocity. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of 23d instant in relation to the foreign commerce of the United States. January 26, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Passengers arriving in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a statement of the number, age, sex, and occupation of passengers arriving in the United States by sea, from foreign countries, during the year 1870. February 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Bayou Teche. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 23, 1871, relative to an appropriation for the improvement of Bayou Teche. February 1, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	33
Serial set 1455	Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1870. Volume I.	1
SERIAL SET 1456	United States congressional serial set [vol.1-2999]	1
SERIAL SET 1457	United States congressional serial set [vol.1-2999]	1
Serial set 1458	Survey of private land claim of Bernabe Manuel Montano et al. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the report of the Surveyor General of New Mexico on private land claim number 49, and accompanying papers. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Claim of Northwest Fur Company. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the claim of the Northwest Fur Company for subsistence furnished by them for the Indians of the Fort Berthold Indian agency. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Pay and allowances to officers of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 25, 1871, in relation to the pay and allowances of the several grades of officers in the Army, under the act of July 15, 1870. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Alaska seal fishery lease. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the leasing of the Alaska seal fishery. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Cadet barracks, West Point. Letter from the Secretary of War, asking for an appropriation to repair cadet barracks at West Point. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Sisterhood of St. John. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation for the Sisterhood of St. John. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Ponca Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation for supplies and transportation furnished the Ponca Indians. February 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. James River and Kanawha Canal. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of February 3, relative to the survey of the James River and Kanawha Canal. February 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Expenses special agent Treasury Department at New York. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 12, in relation to the expenses connected with the office of special agent of the Treasury Department at New York. February 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cadet barracks, Military Academy. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an estimate of a special appropriation required to repair damages to the cadet barracks at the United States Military Academy. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for Montana Indian war claims. Letter from the Secretary of War, asking for an appropriation for expenses of investigation into Montana Indian war claims. February 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency in surveying service. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation to supply deficiencies in the surveying service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Union of the states of Germany. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the union of the states of Germany. February 7, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Montana Indian war claims. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report upon the Montana Indian war claims of 1867. February 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Housatonic River and New Haven Harbor. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 31, in relation to the improvement of the Housatonic River and the Harbor of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut. February 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on the commerce and navigation of the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1870.	16

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