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Serial set 2414 Mineral Resources of the United States. Calendar years 1883 and 1884. Albert Williams Jr., Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology. 1
Serial set 2415 Report of receipts, etc., of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company. Letter from the President of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company transmitting the annual report of receipts and disbursements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885. January 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Adulterated food products. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Printing for Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Coinage of silver dollars. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed.
Messenger for Committee on Rivers and Harbors. January 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Land grants to railroads to Kansas. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Printing of testimony and papers. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Cruise of the Corwin, 1885. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Indian outrages in New Mexico and Arizona. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Substitutes in the department. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Organization of the offices of the House of Representatives. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Public printing. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Messenger for Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. February 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Plan to register votes, etc. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Railroad land grant forfeitures. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Winship B. Pettie. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Select Committee on the Internal Revenue. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Printing on tariff bill. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Ascertainment, etc., of electoral vote. Letter from the Governor of Connecticut, transmitting a resolution of the general assembly of that state relative to the ascertainment and counting of the electoral vote. December 12, 1885. -- Ordered to lie on [the] table.
War debt of Missouri. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Annual clerk for the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Decisions of the First Comptroller in the Department of the Treasury of the United States. By William Lawrence, First Comptroller. Vol. VI.
Coinage of silver. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measure and ordered to be printed.
Delay in adjudication of invalid pensions. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Limiting speeches. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Adjudication of private claims. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Arbitration and peace. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Pensions to surviving soldiers of Mexican War. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed.
The Trezevant claim. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
President's message. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Funeral expenses of James Reilly. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Receivers of railroads. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Decline of American cooperage interests. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Silver coinage. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed.
James D. Ryan. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting a statement of contingent expenses for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appropriation for Indians. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Additional copies of the digest. January 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Revision of the tariff. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Report of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Legislation for American Fishing Marine. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ship Building and Ship Owning Interests and ordered to be printed.
Contested election cases. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting a list of contested election cases. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Elections and ordered to be printed.
Calling names of absent members. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Seth Wilmarth. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Committee on Public Health. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Annual report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy, made to the Secretary of War, for the year 1885. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Patrick v. Dolan. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Claims for land in the Territory of New Mexico. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed.
Reference of the President's annual message. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Messenger for Committee on Elections. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Printing of documents. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Clerk for Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Clerk to the Select Committee on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Additional employes [sic] in the House document room. January 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Printing for Committee on Labor. January 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Printing documents. January 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Clerk to Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Clerk for Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River. January 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Select committee on Mississippi River improvements. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
The standard dollar. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and ordered to be printed.
Amending rules of House of Representatives. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Claims of postmasters. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Printing documents for use of Committee on Ways and Means. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Additional force in the House of Representatives. January 13, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Revised Statutes and supplement thereto. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Assistant Clerk to Committee on Claims. January 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Theodore D. Kanause. January 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Printing for Committee on Rivers and Harbors. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Willie S. Howard. January 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Information respecting certain telegraph companies. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Suits to annual patents. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
John F. Twomey. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Willie S. Howard. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Recoinage of silver dollars. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed.
Clerk to committee. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Claim of L.R. Byrne, deceased. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a report of the case of Charles E. Creecy, administrator of the estate of L.R. Byrne, deceased, vs. The United States. February 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents and ordered to be printed.
School facilities for the Sioux Indians. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Retired list of Navy. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Pay of postal clerks. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Civil service examinations for consular officers. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Telephone companies. February 15, 1886. -- Committed to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Employes [sic] in civil departments of the government. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Telephone suits. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Printing for Committee on the District of Columbia. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Public buildings. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings and ordered to be printed.
Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. King submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, requested, if not incompatible with the public interests, to report, at the earliest date practicable, the names of all persons whose property was taken possession of in Louisiana by the federal authorities during the late war...
Printing for Judiciary Committee. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Case of Elizabeth P. Dyer vs. the United States. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting copies of the order and findings of fact by that court in the case of Elizabeth P. Dyer vs. The United States. February 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Case of John B. Reid vs. United States. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of Court of Claims, transmitting copies of the order and findings of fact by that court in the case of John B. Reid vs. The United States. February 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Printing Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion. Letter from the Public Printer, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information as to cost, &c., of printing the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion. February 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Investigation of the Pension Bureau. March 3, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
The Hayes nitro-glycerine shell. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Ordnance shop, Washington Navy Yard. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Union Pacific Railroad investigation. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed.
Rule XXXIV. -- Amendment. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Accounts between the United States and states and territories. March 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Maurice Ruddlesden. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Business of the District of Columbia. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Labor legislation. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Harry Barton. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Memorial in regard to Texas fever or cattle plague. By O.M. Wozencraft, M.D. January 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture. February 25, 1886. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Permanent and indefinite appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning Bill H.R. 3271, to repeal certain laws relating to permanent and indefinite appropriations. February 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Eulogies on deceased members. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Land grant forfeiture. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Yellowstone Park. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Chicago River bridges. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Improvement of Alleghany and Monongahela rivers. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Education bills. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Amendment of rules. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Additional laborers, House folding-room. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Mediation between France and China. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
A.B. Norton. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Digest of international decisions of the United States. March 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Foreign mails. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Public buildings, District of Columbia. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics and ordered to be printed.
Sorghum and beet sugar. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
River navigation in Oregon. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Printing memorial Bi-Metallic Coinage Association. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
The "Blair Bill." March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
History of the rules of the House. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
War ships in process of construction. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Rule XXXIV, amendment. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Provision for the payment of increased pensions. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Department correspondence with foreign countries. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Retired list, Army officers. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Amending rule relating to funerals. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Department of Agriculture expenditures. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting a statement of expenditure for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885. March 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Indian and Yellowstone Park expenditures. March 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Expenses of Agricultural Department. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Unsettled accounts, Post Office Department. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Diplomatic service. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee of Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Peter Marck et al. vs. United States. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting copies of order and findings of fact by that court in the case of Peter Marck et al. against the United States. February 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
International polar expedition to Lady Franklin Bay. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. March 2, 1886. -- Reported with amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed.
Taxation of petroleum in Holland and the Dutch colonies. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Statue of James A. Garfield. January 6, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Investigation of expenditures and management of Pension Bureau. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed.
Committees entitled to clerks. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. 		140
Serial set 2416 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach: Operations in West Louisiana/Operations against Baton Rouge/Operations in LaFourche District; May-July 1862; Series 1, Vol. 15, Chapter 27] 1
Serial set 2417 United States consular reports. Reports from the consuls of the United States on the commerce, manufactures, etc., of their consular districts. For the months of October, November, and December, 1885.
United States consular reports. Reports from the consuls of the United States on the commerce, manufactures, etc., of their consular districts. For the months of January, February, and March, 1886, and special report on scouring of wool in Belgium, Great Britain, and Germany. 		2
Serial set 2418 Pacific railroads. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Substitute employes [sic], Treasury Department. April 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railroads. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed.
Educational bill. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed.
Amendment of rules. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Improvements in the Allegheny River. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Home rule in Ireland. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Frank B. Gorman. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Pension department. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
George Winters and L.B. Cook. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Free-ship bill. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on American Ship-building and Ship-owning Interests and ordered to be printed.
Fees of United States officials in Utah. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice and ordered to be printed.
Digest of International Law. April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
Denver and New Orleans Railroad. April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Labor troubles. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed.
Northern Pacific Railroad. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed.
Amendment of rules. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Business of Committee on Military Affairs. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Canadian fishing regulations. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Alleged homicides, Carrollton, Miss. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Ordnance and war ships. March 31, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Protests or appeals of importers, etc. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Maxwell land grant, New Mexico. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Anniversary celebration in 1889 and 1892. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Increase of naval establishment. March 31, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary and High School, Virginia. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the order and findings of fact by that court in the case of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary and High School in Virginia against the United States. April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Increase of the naval establishment. (Report 1470.) April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Charles H. Nye. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Clerkship of Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Hours of meeting, House of Representatives. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Readjustment postmasters' salaries. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Navigation and fishery interests. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Business of the Post Office Committee. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Consideration of House Bill No. 5788. April 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed.
Mississippi River. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Business of Pacific Railroads Committee. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed.
Tariff on unmanufactured wool. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Post Office Department contracts. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Wool tariff. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Atlantic and Pacific Ship-Railway Company. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Expenses of telephone investigation. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Washington Gas Light Company. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Violation of immigration laws, etc. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Expenditures chemical division, laboratory, Agricultural Department. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the House, a statement showing the amount expended for the chemical division in laboratory from the appropriation for the present fiscal year and the balance unexpended. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Disbursements of public moneys of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Proposed forfeiture of land grants. April 28, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Frank H. Isham and William E. Mallory. April 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Illinois and Michigan Canal. (Report 2031.) April 28, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Non-paying Custom districts. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Charles Holbrook. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Noah W. Halley. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Increase of naval establishment. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Educational bill. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Funeral obsequies. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
William McGarrahan. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed.
Seizure of the David J. Adams. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Study of physiology, etc. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and ordered to be printed.
Foreign mails. Letter from the Superintendent of Foreign Mails to Hon. R.Q. Mills, of the House of Representatives, transmitting a statement relating to the transportation of foreign mails and postal matters connected therewith. May 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed.
California Indian war claims. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Proposed fine for absence without leave. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Veto power in Utah. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Utah, setting forth the evils arising from the sweeping exercise of the absolute veto power of the governor, by which much needed legislation, including the general appropriation bill, has been defeated, and asking that this prerogative of the executive of the territory be withdrawn and measures adopted for immediate relief. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Territories and ordered to be printed.
Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. (Report 1839.) April 21, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Business of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed.
Increase of naval establishment. (Report 2648.) May 27, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Transportation of live stock. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Distribution of public offices. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Employment of substitutes by public officials. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Minnie Lyles. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Home rule in Ireland. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Progress of the Panama Canal. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Amendment to Rule XXI. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Anniversary of foundation of the government. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Maj. Justus McKinstry. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Hanson v. United States. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Edwin M. Stanton. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Special pensions. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed.
Alleged violation of immigration laws. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Lands held by aliens. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Order of business. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Commercial agents. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Salaries of clerks. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Amendment to rules. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Amendment of rules. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Division of Rivers and Harbors Committee. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
The Maxwell Grant. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Business of Committee on Naval Affairs. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Report on European dock-yards, by naval constructor Philip Hichborn, U.S.N.
Re-examination of the accounts of Hon. B.F. Butler, Acting Treasurer of the National Soldiers' Home. Communication from Hon. B.F. Butler, late Acting Treasurer of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, asking for a re-examination of his accounts as such acting treasurer. April 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Retired Army officers. Report of the Secretary of War, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of March 16, 1886, requesting a full and complete list of the officers now on the retired list of the Army, with their respective rank or relative rank, annual pay and allowance, &c. April 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed.
Heirs of Jerome S. Ridley. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Inquiry respecting officers and employes [sic] of the House of Representatives. Testimony taken by the Committee on Accounts in the inquiry into the number, character of employment, compensation, &c., of the officers and employes [sic] of the House of Representatives. April 10, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed.
Alaska reconnaissance. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Henry Brock. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Wheat and corn in the United States. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Claims against Nicaragua. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Consolidation of naval bureaus. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Increase of the naval establishment. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Claims allowed by accounting officers, Treasury Department. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Increase of naval establishment. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Consolidation of naval bureaus. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Business presented by the Committee on Agriculture. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Pacific railroads. April 15, 1886. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Union Pacific Railroad investigation. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Nathaniel L. Ard. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed.
Substitutes in Treasury Department. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Improvement of Columbia River. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Bureau of Animal Industry. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Panama ship canal. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Amendment of rules. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Report on animal industry. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Business of Friday night sessions. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Labor Committee. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed.
Louisville and Portland Canal. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Silver Profit Fund. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and ordered to be printed.
Business from Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed.
Payment of awards, Court of Claims. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Fees of witnesses and jurors. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice and ordered to be printed.
Sorghum and beet sugar. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting certain papers, in response to a resolution of the House calling for a copy of department circnlar [i.e., circular] of June 6, 1882; a copy of the award of the committee appointed to carry the provisions of the circular into effect; copies of all correspondence with the Delaware Beet Sugar Company on the subject, and a statement of the awards paid and to whom. May 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Fish-ways at Great Falls. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Trust funds, etc. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Accounts Pennsylvania Railroad Company. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed.
Bills introduced by request. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
William Blair Lord. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Fixing day for considering business reported by the Committee on Invalid Pensions. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. May 18, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Mrs. Addie S. Reed. May 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Naval establishment. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Robert Dougherty. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Range and cattle business of the United States. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Judiciary Committee business. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Funeral expenses of Charles S. Treutlen. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Wheat and corn. Letter from the Acting Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the House, a report by the statistician of that department respecting the supply and domestic requirement of wheat and corn, and the acreage of wheat, for the present year, as compared with the past five years, also the probable requirements of importing countries and the acreage of crop and probable surplus or shortage in exporting countries for the ensuing year. June 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Land grants in Kansas. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Jacob Pindle. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Appointments in the Treasury Department. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Furloughs in the Interior Department. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Question of privilege. June 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Improvement of New River, etc. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Electrical recording of yeas and nays. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Admission to the floor. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
H.H. Alexander. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Bridge over the Ohio River at or Near Cairo, Ill. June 19, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed.
Additional rule, House of Representatives. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
New Orleans exposition loans. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed.
Cherokee Indians. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Assistant Treasurer, Philadelphia. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed.
Northern Pacific Railroad land grant. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Amendment to rules. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Mexican claims. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Transportation and labor. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Duty on bituminous coal. March 29, 1886. -- Committed to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Retention of silver dollars, Sub-Treasury, Boston. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed.
Indian tribes. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Fort Brown, Texas. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Labor Committee business. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed. 		156
Serial set 2419 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Western Theater: Confederate Heartland Offensive; June-October 1862; Series 1, Vol. 16, Chapter 28, Part 1]. 1
Serial set 2420 Memorial addresses on the life and character of Michael Hahn, (a Representative from Louisiana,) delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Forty-ninth Congress, first session.
Memorial addresses on the life and character of Reuben Ellwood, (a Representative from Illinois), delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Forty-ninth Congress, first session.
Memorial addresses on the life and character of Joseph Rankin, (a Representative from Wisconsin,) delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Forty-ninth Congress, first session. 		3
Serial set 2421 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Western Theater: Confederate Heartland Offensive; June-October 1862; Series 1, Vol. 16, Chapter 28, Part 2] 1
Serial set 2422 To expunge part of the record. July 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Education in Alaska. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
General W.S. Hancock. July 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Eight-hour law for letter-carriers. July 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Silver Profit Fund. July 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed.
Business of Committee on Naval Affairs. July 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Detention of A.K. Cutting in Mexico. July 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Information from the Treasury Department. July 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Samuel Donelson. July 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Coinage of standard silver dollars. August 2, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and ordered to be printed.
Improvements of river Rhone, France. August 2, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Hydrophobia. July 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Printing digest. July 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Diseases among cattle. July 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Cost of printing private bills. July 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Women's National Press Association. July 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing I. -- Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress. II. -- Offices created and the salaries thereof. III. -- The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period. August 5, 1886. Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, in compliance with the sixth section of the "Act To Authorize the Appointment of Additional Paymasters, and for Other Purposes," approved July 4, 1836.
Armies of India. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Rule XVI, clause 9. July 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Wednesday evening session for private business. July 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Business of Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. June 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Political contributions. June 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Daily hour of meeting. June 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Messengers in House post office. July 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Imprisonment of Julio Santos. July 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
The English Army in India. July 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs ordered to be printed.
Reciprocity convention with Mexico. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Education. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and ordered to be printed.
Trial of Maj. Justus McKinstry. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
R.D. Lancaster. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed.
Appointments, classified service, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information as to the authority for appointments to positions in the Civil Service from the District of Columbia in excess of proportion, and transmitting a list of employes [sic] appointed from the District of Columbia under Civil Service rules. July 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Reprinting a report. July 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
The navigation laws of the United States. Bureau of Navigation, 1886.
Special intelligence report on the progress of the work on the Panama Canal during the year 1885. By Lieutenant W.W. Kimball, U.S.N., assisted by Naval Cadet W.L. Capps, U.S.N.
District of Columbia business. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Officers of Union Pacific Railway Company. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed.
Richard D. Lancaster. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed.
James D. Ryan. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Business of District Committee. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Claims of stenographers. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Report of Director of Mint. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Committee on salaries. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Interoceanic canal. July 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Business of Ways and Means Committee. July 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Alleged violations of Rule XXXIV. July 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Clerk to Southern Claims Commission. July 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Pleuro-pneumonia. July 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Portrait of La Fayette. August 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. 		48
Serial set 2423 The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac for the year 1889. First edition. 1
Serial set 2424 Testimony taken by the Committee appointed by the House of Representatives to investigate charges against certain public officers relating to the Pan-Electric Telephone Company, and to suits by the United States to annul the Bell telephone patents. 1
Serial set 2425 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Western Theater: Iuka and Corinth Operations/Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee/Vicksburg Campaign and Siege; June 1862-January 1863; Series 1, Vol. 17, Chapter 29, Part 1] 1
Serial set 2426 Department of Agriculture. Report upon an examination of wools and other animal fibers, by Wm. McMurtrie, E.M., Ph. D. Made under the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture. 1
Serial set 2427 International polar expedition. Report on the proceedings of the United States expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land, by Adolphus W. Greely, First Lieutenant, Fifth Cavalry, Acting Signal Officer and Assistant, commanding the expedition. Volume I. 1
Serial set 2428 Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U.S. Navy, commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884.
International polar expedition. Report on the proceedings of the United States expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land, by Adolphus W. Greely, First Lieutenant, Fifth Cavalry, Acting Signal Officer and Assistant, commanding the expedition. Volume II. 		2
Serial set 2429 Reports of the silver commission of 1876. (Being a reprint of Senate Report No. 703, 44th Congress, second session.) March 2, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. 1
Serial set 2430 International Monetary Conference held, in compliance with the invitation extended to certain governments of Europe by the government of the United States, in pursuance of the second section of the act of Congress of February 28, 1878, in Paris, in August, 1878, under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of France. 1
Serial set 2431 Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1885. Part I 1
Serial set 2432 Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1885. Part II. 1
Serial set 2433 Monographs of the United States Geological Survey. Volume XII. [Geology and mining industry of Leadville, Colorado, with atlas, by Samuel Franklin Emmons.] 1