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Serial set 368	Memorial of the Society of Friends, upon the subject of the foreign slavetrade. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Commerce Florida -- pre-emption. Resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in favor of settlers upon the public lands, who have been deprived of pre-emption by decisions of the courts in favor of original grants to large claimants, &c. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Louisiana Legislature -- mail route, Vidalia to Natchitoches. Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana, in relation to a mail route from Vidalia to Natchitoches. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Railroad -- Boston to the Mississippi. Memorial of Amasa Walker and 445 others, citizens of Boston and its vicinity, in favor of granting land in aid of the continuous line of railroads from Boston to the Mississippi River. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Public domain. Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, in relation to the proceeds of the sales of the public lands. May 20, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Tobacco-trade. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State upon the subject of the tobacco-trade between the United States and foreign countries. April 16, 1840. Referred to the select committee, appointed on the 6th of February last, upon the subject. May 29, 1840. Printed by order of the committee, under resolution of the House of 25th April ultimo. Wiskonsin. Petition for a repeal of so much of the act of Congress of April 18, 1818, as conflicts with the ordinance of 1787. May 25, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Virginia Institution -- deaf and dumb. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 281.) Petition of the President and visitors of the Virginia Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and of the Blind. February 6, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. April 4, 1840. Bill reported Bounty to fishing vessels. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, relative to the repeal of the act giving a bounty to vessels engaged in the fisheries. March 19, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. National domain. Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, in relation to the national domain. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. National defence and national foundries. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with the resolution of the 9th ultimo, a system of national defence and the establishment of national foundries. May 15, 1840. So much as relates to national foundries, referred to a select committee on the subject; and the residue to the Committee on Military Affairs. Bankrupt law. Resolution of the Legislature of New York, in favor of the passage of a law on the subject of bankruptcies. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Massachusetts Legislature. Resolves of the Legislature of Massachusetts, concerning the duty on salt, and the bounty to fishing vessels. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Massachusetts Legislature. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in relation to steamboats. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Canals -- Falls of Niagara. Resolution of the Legislature of New York, consenting to the construction of a ship-canal around the Falls of Niagara by the general government. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. School lands -- Louisiana. Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana, in relation to the sixteen sections of school lands. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Payments for negotiating Indian treaties since 1829. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a statement of amounts paid to persons concerned in negotiating Indian treaties since 1829, &c. May 18, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Firearms. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report showing the causes which have delayed an answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 11th of February, 1839, respecting the prices at which muskets, rifles, and pistols, might be procured at private armories, &c., &c. May 21, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Indiana. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Indiana, concerning the northeastern boundary. May 19, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Mail contracts. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of the contracts for carrying the mail for the year ending on the 30th of June, 1839; also, an abstract of the offers for carrying the mail with the said year. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Presents from Muscat. Message from the President of the United States, upon the subject of certain presents from his highness Seyhd Seyhd, Imaum of Muscat, &c., &c. May 26, 1840. Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Fortification -- Penobscot Bay. Resolutions of citizens of Prospect, Maine, in favor of fortifying Penobscot Bay. May 25, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Bankrupt law. Memorial of citizens of Florida, in favor of a bankrupt law. May 25, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Florida -- annex Escambia County to Alabama. Petition of citizens of Escambia County, in Florida, to be annexed to Alabama. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Wiskonsin. Petition of citizens of Milwaukie, for a reduction of the price of the Milwaukie canal lands to $1.25 the acre. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Wiskonsin. Petition for a repeal of so much of the act of Congress of April 18, 1818, as conflicts with the Ordinance of 1787. May 25, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Indians -- Cherokees. May 26, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. State of Maine -- French spoliations. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, relating to the French spoliations prior to September, 1800. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Wiskonsin -- southern boundary. Proceedings of a public meeting at Galena, in relation to the southern boundary of Wiskonsin Territory. May 25, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Virginia -- inhabitants of Richmond. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 443.) Memorial of the citizens of Richmond, asking for an appropriation for the erection of a custom-house in said city. May 25, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. June 2, 1840. Bill reported. Mineral lands of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 6th of February last, concerning the mineral lands of the United States. June 6, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Ohio -- currency, &c. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Ohio, in relation to the currency, &c. June 3, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Building for War Department. June 3, 1840. Submitted by Mr. Petrikin, and ordered to lie upon the table, and be printed. Harbors on Lake Michigan. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 446.) June 2, 1840. Reported from the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed.	34
Serial set 369	Tobacco Planters -- Kentucky. July 6, 1840. Read, and referred to the Select Committee on the Tobacco Trade. Workmen on the public buildings. Report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, relative to the workmen employed on the Treasury and Patent Buildings, &c. July 1, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Public Buildings. Commerce and navigation of the United States. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, of the commerce and navigation of the United States for the year ending 30th September, 1839. July 1, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table, and 10,000 extra copies ordered to be printed. Seamen of the United States versus Consul Trist. Memorial of G.F. Russell, and others, against the conduct of N.P. Trist, American Consul at Havana. July 8, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Chronometers, &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report on the subject of chronometers, &c., &c. July 1, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Lieutenant George M. Hooe. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a copy of the record of proceedings of the naval court martial, for the trial of Lieutenant George M. Hooe. June 24, 1840. Read. June 30, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Passengers from foreign countries. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statements of the number and designation of the passengers who have arrived in each collection district of the United States during the year 1839. July 7, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Payments of Revolutionary claims since 1794. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 25th May last, respecting payments made on account of Revolutionary claims since the year 1794. July 21, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Navy pensioners. Message from the President of the United States, upon the subject of an appropriation to pay navy pensioners. July 1, 1840. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Postmaster -- Baton Rouge. Letter from the Postmaster General, communicating the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant, in relation to the indebtedness of the postmaster of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. June 11, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Military preparation -- Northeastern frontier. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 6th of April last, respecting the military preparation of Great Britain on the northern and northeastern frontier of the United States, &c. July 1, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. N.P. Trist. Letter from N.P. Trist, Consul of the United States at the Port of Havana, to the Honorable John Quincy Adams. July 8, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Naval force on the lakes. Message from the President of the United States, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of March last, respecting the arrangement entered into with the government of Great Britain upon the subject of the naval force to be maintained upon the American lakes, &c. July 1, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. French spoliations. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 319.) Memorial of citizens of Pennsylvania, upon the subject of spoliations on the commerce of the United States prior to the year 1800. July 3, 1840. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. China trade. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th of February last, respecting the commerce and navigation between the United States and China, from 1821 to 1839. July 1, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Land within the Chickasaw Cession. Message from the President of the United States, in relation to lands sold which lie within the Chickasaw cession, &c. June 9, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Payment of arrears of military pensions. Letter from the Commissioner of Pensions, in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant, in relation to the payment of arrears of military pensions granted since the 4th of March last, &c. June 9, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Frauds on the revenue. Memorial of the Board of Trade of New York, against the passage of the act entitled "An Act to Ensure the More Faithful Execution of the Laws Relating to the Collection of Duties on Imports." July 14, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Manufactures. Standard weights and measures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of F.R. Hassler, superintendent of the works of standard weights and measures. July 21, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Transfer of appropriations -- Navy, 1840. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Navy, of transfers made during the present year of appropriations for the naval service to other appropriations for the same service, &c., &c. July 21, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Lands in Illinois to soldiers of late war. Letter from the Commissioner of General Land Office, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th of April last, respecting patents for lands in the military bounty land district in the State of Illinois, issued to soldiers of the late war, &c. July 21, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Appropriations -- new offices, &c. Report of the House of Representatives of the United States, in compliance with the "Act To Authorize the Appointment of Additional Paymasters, and for Other Purposes," passed July 4, 1836. July 21, 1840. Money for paying members of Congress. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the subject of drawing the moneys from the Treasury for the purpose of paying the members of Congress, &c. July 21, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Frauds on the revenue. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, against the passage of the "Act To Ensure the More Faithful Execution of the Laws Relating to the Collection of Duties on Imports." July 14, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Manufactures. Deficit in the revenue. July 15, 1840. Laid before the House by the Chairman of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.	25
Serial set 370	Thomas Collins. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 190.) March 5, 1840. Samuel Brown. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 225.) March 5, 1840. Stephen Olney. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 172.) March 5, 1840. Jacob Becker. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 121.) March 5, 1840. Pre-emption -- lots in Perrysburg. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 66.) March 3, 1840. Jacob Adams. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 149.) March 5, 1840. John Gassaway. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Alexander H. Everett. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 111.) March 5, 1840. Heirs of Jacob Cohen. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. William Langbourne's heirs. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. James Bailey. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 192.) March 5, 1840. David A. Baldwin. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 230.) March 5, 1840. Asenath Campbell. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 179.) March 5, 1840. William Glover. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 243.) March 5, 1840. William Bowman. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 228.) March 5, 1840. Simeon [i.e., Simon] Knight. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 239.) March 5, 1840. Elijah Foochee. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 135.) March 5, 1840. Captain James Hunter -- widow of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 183.) March 5, 1840. Land to soldiers -- Old Fourth Regiment. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 245.) March 5, 1840. Wilfred Knott. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 242.) March 5, 1840. James Coyle, heir of Patrick Coyle. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. George R.T. Hewes. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Seneca Rider. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 235.) March 5, 1840. Jesse Cunningham. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 238.) March 5, 1840. William Lightfoot. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Daniel B. Perkins. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Nathaniel Goddard et al. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 39.) February 29, 1840. D. and J. Wilkinson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 33.) February 29, 1840. John Howe. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 32.) February 29, 1840. Benjamin Adams & Company, and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 23.) February 29, 1840. Captain John Downes. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 47.) February 29, 1840. Chastelain and Ponvert. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 27.) February 29, 1840. Doctor James Reynolds. February 29, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Meigs D. Benjamin & Co. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 50.) February 29, 1840. William Bryden. February 29, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. R. Hathaway and M. Hubbell, executrix of W. and J. Flinn. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. J. and N. Hamlin. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Samuel M. Asbury. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 187.) March 5, 1840. John H. Lincoln. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 196.) March 5, 1840. Sylvester Tiffany. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 214.) March 5, 1840. George Hommill. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 222.) March 5, 1840. Lucina Kingsley, late widow of Captain N. Elton. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. Lyman N. Cook. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 220.) March 5, 1840. Elijah Blodget. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 189.) March 5, 1840. Medad Cook. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 210.) March 5, 1840. Charles Larrabee. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Barton Hooper. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 205.) March 5, 1840. Gideon Sheldon. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 207.) March 5, 1840. Charles Risley. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 212.) March 5, 1840. James Schoonover. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Levi Johnston. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 204.) March 5, 1840. Samuel D. Braynard. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Laban Williams. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Daniel W. Going. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 194.) March 5, 1840. John W. Wyckoff. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. William Walker. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Levi M. Roberts. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 219.) March 5, 1840. Isaac Justice. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 206.) March 5, 1840. Myron Chapin. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 209.) March 5, 1840. Hiram Saul. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 195.) March 5, 1840. William Hughes. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 199.) March 5, 1840. William Butterfield. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 221.) March 5, 1840. James Cummings. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 200.) March 5, 1840. James Fleming. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 186.) March 5, 1840. Robert Whittel [i.e., Whittet]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 217.) March 5, 1840. Joseph Farrar. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Jacob Euler. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 223.) March 5, 1840. Lyman Bristol. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 211.) March 5, 1840. Raymond A. Henderson. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Leonard Smith. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 145.) March 5, 1840. Harrison R. Blanchard. March 4, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Sarah Haring, widow of Captain Samuel Haring. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. William Sloan. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 216.) March 5, 1840. Ichabod Beardsley [i.e., Beardsly]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 148.) March 5, 1840. Martha Strong. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 153.) March 5, 1840. James Boylan. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 143.) March 5, 1840. Isaac Champlin and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 56.) March 3, 1840. Gilbert A. Smith and Nathan Stark. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 62.) March 3, 1840. Sarah Oakley. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 147.) March 5, 1840. James Brewer. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 65.) March 3, 1840. Stephen Arnan. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. James Alexander. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 64.) March 3, 1840. George Dyer, Jr., owner schooner Three Brothers. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 60.) March 3, 1840. Wealthy Barker, widow of Isaac Barker, dec'd. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 142.) March 5, 1840. Thruston Cornell. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 152.) March 5, 1840. Robert Milnor. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 58.) March 3, 1840. William Williams -- heirs of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 73.) March 4, 1840. John Lathram. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 139.) March 5, 1840. Elizabeth Case. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 150.) March 5, 1840. John Cole. March 4, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John H. Newland. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Smithsonian bequest. (To accompany amendatory Bill H.R. No. 1.) John McWilliams. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Palmer Branch. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. George W. Howard -- widow of. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John B. Lasala. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 259.) April 4, 1840. John Lybrook. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 161.) March 5, 1840. Erastus Pierson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 176.) March 5, 1840. Francis Pellecier -- administrator of. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Boggs & Thompson, Robert & Thomas Hutchinson, and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 49.) February 29, 1840. Jacob Higle. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Widow and heirs of Septa Fillmore. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Mary Tucker. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 74.) March 4, 1840. Benjamin F. Wesley. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Daniel B. Baker. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Stephen Appleby. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 193.) March 5, 1840. Valentine Cowgill. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. William Wickham. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 51.) February 29, 1840. George Willis. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 54.) February 29, 1840. Boundary of Missouri and Iowa. (To accompany H.R. Bill No. 11.) February 4, 1840. Sureties of Melancton W. Bostwick, deceased. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 109.) March 5, 1840. John Black. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 170.) March 5, 1840. Philip Hartman. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 166.) March 5, 1840. Heirs of Jonathan Dye. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 86.) March 5, 1840. Saunders and Porter, sureties of William Estis [i.e., Estes]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 84.) March 5, 1840. Children of Stephen Johnston, deceased. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 99.) March 5, 1840. William Marbury. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 96.) March 5, 1840. Pierre Molaison, et al. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 92.) March 5, 1840. Benjamin Fry. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 82.) March 5, 1840. Oliver Welch. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 90.) March 5, 1840. Settlers -- salt-lick reservation -- Tennessee. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 95.) March 5, 1840. Christian Brougher. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 174.) March 5, 1840. Refund duties on French ship Alexandre. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 110.) March 5, 1840. Helen Miller. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 171.) March 5, 1840. John H. Genther. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 118.) March 5, 1840. Chilton Allan. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 94.) March 5, 1840. William Andrews. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 173.) March 5, 1840. James Phelps. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 124.) March 5, 1840. Thompson Hutchinson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 127.) March 5, 1840. Peter Hedrick. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 175.) March 5, 1840. Phebe Dickman. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 123.) March 5, 1840. James J. Coffin. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 156.) March 5, 1840. Elizabeth Davidson. (To accompany Bill H.R. 119.) March 5, 1840. Israel Parsons. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 165.) March 5, 1840. Elizabeth Jones and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 126.) March 5, 1840. Daniel Parker. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 107.) March 5, 1840. Matthew Lyon -- heirs of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 80.) March 5, 1840. William York. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 168.) March 5, 1840. John Davis. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 158.) March 5, 1840. William B. Winston. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 125.) March 5, 1840. Conrad Widrig. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 157.) March 5, 1840. David Mellen. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 162.) March 5, 1840. Daniel W. Sleeth. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 155.) March 5, 1840. William Gregory -- heirs of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 85.) March 5, 1840. John Kelley. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Archibald McCullum. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Thomas Simpson. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. George Gale. February 29, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Captain Abraham N. Brevoort. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Job Wood. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 182.) March 5, 1840. Isaac Boyd. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 227.) March 5, 1840. Jehoshaphat [i.e., Jehosaphat] Briggs. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 237.) March 5, 1840. George Morris. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 138.) March 5, 1840. Heirs of Capt. Daniel McNeil [i.e., Neil], deceased. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Lieutenant John Allison. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 231.) March 5, 1840. John England. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 129.) March 5, 1840. James Deatly [i.e., Deatley]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 130.) March 5, 1840. David Wilson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 224.) March 5, 1840. Levi Colmus. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 232.) March 5, 1840. Heirs of Captain Garland Bumley. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Moses Holden. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Peter A. Myers. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 180.) March 5, 1840. John Keeler. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 184.) March 5, 1840. Heirs of Leighton Yancey. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Chauncey Rice. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 132.) March 5, 1840. John Brown. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 241.) March 5, 1840. Thomas Harrison. February 29, 1840. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Cornelius Tiers. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 40.) February 29, 1840. Nicholas Hedges. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 29.) February 29, 1840. Thomas Holden. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Doctor Thomas Coit. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Benjamin C. Roberts. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 48.) February 29, 1840. William Nicholas. February 29, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. Andrew Low, assignee of Low, Taylor & Co., of Georgia. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 22.) February 29, 1840. Gamaliel E. Smith. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 37.) February 29, 1840. Bates and Lacon. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 20.) February 29, 1840. John McIntire and others. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Simon Green. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. O.H. Dibble. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. James Cox. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 35.) February 29, 1840. Peter Mills. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Louisville and Portland Canal. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 13.) February 10, 1840. Reprinted, by order of the House of Representatives. Augustin Lacoste. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 91.) March 5, 1840. Henry Bush. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 164.) March 5, 1840. Isaac Austin. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 169.) March 5, 1840. Dade Institute. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 89.) March 5, 1840. Thomas Bennett. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 160.) March 5, 1840. Sarah H.B. Stith. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 83.) March 5, 1840. Matthew Wiley. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 167.) March 5, 1840. Hyacinth Lassel. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 97.) March 5, 1840. Ann Bloomfield. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 163.) March 5, 1840. Catharine Allen. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 128.) March 5, 1840. Mary Sroufe. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 98.) March 5, 1840. Jabez Collins. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 122.) March 5, 1840. Heirs of Don Carlos de Villemont [i.e., Vilemont]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 93.) March 5, 1840. Tennessee school lands. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 87.) March 5, 1840. James Francher. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 159.) March 5, 1840. William Lomax. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 120.) March 5, 1840. Doctor Wheeler Randall. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Hugh Davis. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 131.) March 5, 1840. Captain Clough Shelton. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Benjamin McCulloch. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 229.) March 5, 1840. Peter W. Short. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 236.) March 5, 1840. William A. Cuddeback. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 134.) March 5, 1840. Joel Byington. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Noah Conner. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Samuel Kincaide [i.e., Kincaid]. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Lewis Bissell. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Josiah Strong. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 234.) March 5, 1840. Michael Seitsinger. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 177.) March 5, 1840. Captain Abraham Livingston -- heirs of. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. William Poole. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 233.) March 5, 1840. Joseph Bailey. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 137.) March 5, 1840. Emanuel Srofe. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 226.) March 5, 1840. John Piper. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 181.) March 5, 1840. Elizabeth French. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 136.) March 5, 1840. Robert Lucas. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 240.) March 5, 1840. Amend acts allowing pensions to widows. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 133.) March 5, 1840. Thomas Crown. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Chauncey Calhoun. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 36.) February 29, 1840. William Hunter. February 29, 1840. Laid upon the table. Richard Booker and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. 31.) February 29, 1840. John T. Addoms. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 46.) February 29, 1840. Preston Frazier. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Zachariah Jellison. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 25.) February 29, 1840. Josias Thompson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 42.) February 29, 1840. Richard J. Jones. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Thomas Fillebrown, Jr. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 44.) February 29, 1840. James McCutchen. February 29, 1840. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Smith and Farnsworth. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 55.) February 29, 1840. Garret Vleit. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 38.) February 29, 1840. Isaac Ruland. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. John M. Jacqueline [i.e, Jacquelin]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 52.) February 29, 1840. Ebenezer A. Lester. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 28.) February 29, 1840. Elisha Button. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. William Bailey and Elizabeth Sweetland, late widow of H. Delord. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 43.) February 29, 1840. David Beard's assignees. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Thos. W. Taylor. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 34.) February 29, 1840. John R. Allen. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Phelps and Landon. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 45.) February 29, 1840. John Underwood. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 41.) February 29, 1840. Lyman King. February 29, 1840. Laid on the table. Nathaniel Davis. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 198.) March 5, 1840. Robert Frazier. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 208.) March 5, 1840. Jeremiah A. Winney. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Neil Shannon. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 188.) March 5, 1840. Fielding Pratt. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 185.) March 5, 1840. Jared Winslow. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 197.) March 5, 1840. John E. Wright. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 201.) March 5, 1840. Daniel Morse, Jr. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. James Smith. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 215.) March 5, 1840. Richard Hall. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Samuel B. Hugo. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 203.) March 5, 1840. Heirs of John Lindsey. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 151.) March 5, 1840. Land -- Indiana canal. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 79.) March 4, 1840. Robert Milnor and John Thompson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 57.) March 3, 1840. Ebenezer Lobdell. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 30.) February 29, 1840. John L. Bowman et al. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 61.) March 3, 1840. Representatives of John Grimble [i.e, Grimball]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 75.) March 4, 1840. Benjamin Price. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 154.) March 5, 1840 John Patton. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Joseph W. Knipe. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 218.) March 5, 1840. Pamela Brown. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 213.) March 5, 1840. John Dean. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Thomas Wilson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 202.) March 5, 1840. Hannah Hazzard. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. School land for St. Clair County, Illinois. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 67.) March 3, 1840. Nathan Baldwin. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 146.) March 5, 1840. Reuben Murray. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 141.) March 5, 1840. Job Halsey. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 144.) March 5, 1840. Benjamin Mitchell. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 140.) March 5, 1840. Captain Darius Hawkins. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. John Cammack. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Joseph Brown. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Mary Lashels. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. John Perham. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John Trowbridge. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Anna Swinerton. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Peter Ambler. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John Hibbert. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. William Morain. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. Charles Ewing. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. William King. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. John M. Baker. March 9, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. David Bartlett. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. Moses Smith. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. James Cox. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Lewis Howard. March 5, 1840. Laid on the table. George McFadden. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Louis Barney. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Mary Ball. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Benjamin Hinckley. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John McKenna. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. (To be annexed to Rep. No. 24.) William Bailey and Elizabeth Swetland [i.e., Sweetland], widow of H. Delord. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 43.) March 21, 1840. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Penitentiary -- Iowa. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 251.) March 16, 1840. Public printing. March 26, 1840. Read, and made the special order of the day for Thursday, the 2d of April next. Resolved, that the reports of the majority and minority of the Select Committee on Public Printing, together with the testimony taken before said Committee, and the journal of their proceedings, be printed for the use of the House. Nathan Levy. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 59.) March 3, 1840. Rules and orders of the House. Report of the Committee on the Rules and Orders of the House. January 7, 1840. Read, and made the special order of the day for Thursday, the 9th of January instant, at half past one o'clock. Heirs of Richard Apperson. March 5, 1840. Read, and laid on the table.	299
Serial set 371	Joseph W. Ross. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Asahel Kingsley. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 368.) April 25, 1840. Jane Vreeland and others -- for pensions. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Widow and heirs of John Thomas. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 308.) April 4, 1840. William C. Fargo. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Church of St. Philip, in Charleston. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 269.) April 4, 1840. William Jennings, executor of John S. Westwood. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Isaac Morrow -- settlers on sixteenth sections. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 288.) April 4, 1840. Jedediah Skinner. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Peter Gennell. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Thomas Morgan. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Heirs of General Thomas Sumter [i.e., Sumpter]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 303.) April 4, 1840. Joseph Janes. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. James Shinalt. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 304.) April 4, 1840. John Barnes, executors of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 263.) April 4, 1840. Representatives of Thomas Jett, Wm. T. Smith, and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 302.) April 4, 1840. Irwinton Academy, Alabama. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. James P. Carlton. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. John H. Russell. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Representatives of Nathan Lamme. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Internal improvement companies in Alabama and Mississippi. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 287.) April 4, 1840. Jenny Newbit. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Hopestill Bigelow. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. General John Cocke. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 266.) April 4, 1840. Stephen Beard, Betty H. Beard, & James W. Gray. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 268.) April 4, 1840. Isaac and T.S. Winslow. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 270.) April 4, 1840. Christian Schroyer. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. John Patterson. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Inhabitants of the Village of Cahokia. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. John Housewright. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. George Cassady. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. School lands in the Indian reservations in the State of Ohio. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 286.) April 4, 1840. Joel Beaman. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. James Gee. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Mary Williams. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 326.) April 4, 1840. Exchange school lands granted to half-breed Sac and Fox Indians. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 390.) April 4, 1840 French spoliations prior to 1800. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 319.) April 4, 1840. William Fabre. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 316.) April 4, 1840. George Boone Steele. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 306.) April 4, 1840. Samuel M. Burnett. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Villinave Leblanc [i.e., Villeneuve Le Blanc]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 347.) April 24, 1840. George Mayfield. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 339.) April 4, 1840. Jacob Haas. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 307.) April 4, 1840. General Duncan L. Clinch. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 265.) April 4, 1840. Seth Chapin. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 385.) April 25, 1840. William Baker. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Charles Sumption. April 4, 1840. Laid upon the table. Samuel Butler. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Separating government printing from the public press. April 14, 1840. Report of the majority. Effie Van Ness, widow of Garret Van Ness. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 386.) April 25, 1840. Convention with Mexico. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 403.) April 30, 1840. William Scott. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 338.) April 4, 1840. John W. Cox. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 389.) April 25, 1840. Joseph Hall. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. James Wright, Jr. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 388.) April 25, 1840. John Pratt. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 364.) April 25, 1840. Henry Wilson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 305.) April 4, 1840 Thomas Latham. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 262.) February 8, 1840. Owner and crew of the schooner "Success." (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 278.) April 4, 1840. S. & F. Dow & Co. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 271.) April 4, 1840. Owners and crew of the schooner Martha. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 274.) April 4, 1840. Nathan Smith, and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 277.) April 4, 1840. John McColgan. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 275.) April 4, 1840. Harvey & Stagg [i.e., Slagg]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 272.) April 4, 1840. Josiah Holmes. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 276.) April 4, 1840. Jonathan Snowden. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. William J. Roberts. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 295.) April 4, 1840. Josiah Sturgis [i.e., Sturges]. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. John G. Munn and others. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Samuel Norris. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 310.) April 4, 1840. New Jersey election. March 11, 1840. Sureties of H.H.B. Hays. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 264.) April 4, 1840. James Smallwood. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. John I. Smith. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Nancy Kenney. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 309.) April 4, 1840. Commodore Isaac Hull. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 315.) April 4, 1840. James Anderson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 283.) April 4, 1840. Mayor and aldermen of the City of Wetumpka, Alabama. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Peters, Moore, & Co. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 289.) April 4, 1840. David Allspach. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 294.) April 4, 1840. Susan Merrill. April 4, 1840. Laid upon the table. Levi Eldridge. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Owner and legal representatives of the crew of the schooner Industry. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 279.) April 4, 1840. Gorham A. Worth. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 292.) April 4, 1840. Elizabeth Gavitt. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Robert C. Stickney. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Sutherland Mayfield. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Adam Flesher. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Trustees of Dublin Township, Ohio. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 285.) April 4, 1840. Doctor John Roberts -- heirs of. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. William R. Jenkins. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. John Parnell. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Military land warrants. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 280.) April 4, 1840. Michael Glass. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 284.) April 4, 1840. Andrew Craig. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Walker, Caruthers, & Co. -- Rhodes & Austill. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 290.) April 4, 1840. John Roberts. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 296.) April 4, 1840. Alexander Hammett. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 318.) April 4, 1840. Construct public buildings in Florida -- use of courts. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 324.) April 4, 1840. Sarah Moore. (To accompany H.R. No. 325.) April 4, 1840. Edward D. Oliver. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. George Barkley and John Weaver. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 332.) April 4, 1840. Susanna [i.e., Susannah] Honeyman -- heirs of. (To accompany Bill S. No. 52.) April 4, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. John H. Hickman. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Maria C. Bell. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 337.) April 4, 1840. Cyrus C. Scott. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. James Taylor. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. William Rice. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. William Kerns. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 335.) April 4, 1840. Austin Brockenborough. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. John H. Robinson. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Elnathan Sears, deceased. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 327.) April 4, 1840. Benjamin Murphy. (To accompany Senate Bill No. 23.) April 4, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Lois Fisher. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 333.) April 4, 1840. Dennis Dygert. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 340.) April 4, 1840. Allen Gentry. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Elizabeth S.W. Bacot, et al. April 4, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Peter C. Fox. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Harriet Beard. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Wm. S. Merril. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 336.) April 4, 1840. Isaac Plumer. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 330.) April 4, 1840. Betsey H. Hartwell and Zapharine D. Snow. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 331.) April 4, 1840. Loomis & Gay. (To accompany Bill S. No. 18.) April 4, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Amaziah Goodwin. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 334.) April 4, 1840. Andrew Bartle. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. E.P. Miller. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Charles Newkirk. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Samuel Hutchinson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 328.) April 4, 1840. Horace B. Abbey. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 329.) April 4, 1840. Sally Stanley and others -- for pensions. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Abigail Dumas. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. James Scott. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. John Balch, Jr. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Elisha Mooreland and others. April 4, 1840. Laid on the table. Jacob Baugh. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 341.) April 4, 1840. Removal of the Red River raft. April 18, 1840. Read, and with the bill, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Stephen Merritt. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Joseph P. and George W. Johnson. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Thomas Stratton. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Abram D.W. Bodley. April 25, 1840. Frances Green, widow. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 381.) April 25, 1840. Betsey Ingalls. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 379.) April 25, 1840. Mary McCurdy. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 371.) April 25, 1840. Virginia Revolutionary claims -- bounty land and commutation pay. April 24, 1840. Ordered to be laid on the table, and that 2,000 extra copies be printed. Major John Campbell -- heirs of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 359.) April 24, 1840. Robert Brownfield. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Lorenzo N. Clarke. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. William McMillan. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. James Shields. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 363.) April 25, 1840. William Trask. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 361.) April 25, 1840. Heirs of Col. Burgess Ball. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Messrs. Garland and Bynum. April 25, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. April 27, 1840. Consideration thereof postponed until to-morrow. Burlington and Des Moines Transportation Company. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 356.) April 24, 1840. Postmaster -- Jacksontown. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Presly Gray. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 375.) April 24, 1840. Mary Campbell, widow of John. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 382.) April 25, 1840. Lieutenant Colonel Uriah Forest. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Matthew Irwin Keith. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. R.P. Waller, executor of Thomas Griffin. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. Nancy Wilson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 370.) April 25, 1840. George M. Bedinger. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 378.) April 25, 1840. Isaac McHenry. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. George W. Paschall [i.e., Paschal]. (To accompany Bill S. No. 192.) April 24, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Nancy Moorefield and others. April 25, 1840. Canal -- Lake Michigan to Rock River. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 344.) April 24, 1840. Robert Casey. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 362.) April 25, 1840. Additional land office in Michigan. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 348.) April 24, 1840. James B. Rice. April 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Britton Evans. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John Keith. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 380.) April 25, 1840. Arms for inhabitants of Iowa. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Mrs. Frances L. Piatt. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Ann [i.e, Anne] Royall. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. Charles W. Cutter. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. William Nelson -- heir of. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Dr. R.R.G. Lee. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Sarah Chase. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Charles Fitzgerald. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 369.) April 25, 1840. Israel Pearce -- heirs of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 358.) April 24, 1840. Job Hawkins. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 372.) April 25, 1840. James W. Anderson. April 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Joel Leftwich. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John H. Hall. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 367.) April 25, 1840. Eleanor Clark. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 376.) April 25, 1840. Mary Johnson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 401.) April 30, 1840. Michael Farrel. April 30, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Andrew Johnson. April 30, 1840. Pensions to officers, &c. -- Indian wars, 1783 to 1795. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 384.) April 25, 1840. Nancy Terry. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 402.) April 30, 1840. Peter Yarnall [i.e., Yarnell] et al. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 393.) April 30, 1840. Elizabeth Gresham. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 373.) April 25, 1840. Captain M.P. Mix -- widow of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 390.) April 25, 1840. Charles S. Mathews [i.e., Matthews] , Charles Wood, and James Hall. April 30, 1840. Read, and referred to the Solicitor of the Treasury. Boyd Reilly. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 398.) April 30, 1840. Cotton Evans. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 374.) April 25, 1840. Amos Wade. April 30, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. George Armstrong. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 387.) April 25, 1840. Charles Morgan. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Mary Wolf [i.e., Wolfe]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 383.) April 25, 1840. W.H. Robertson, S.H. Garrow, and J.W. Simonton. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1.) April 30, 1840. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow Thomas W. Chinn. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 395.) April 30, 1840. Charles G. Ridgely. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 399.) April 30, 1840. Joseph Henry Brearley. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 396.) April 30, 1840. William Fitzgerald. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 377.) April 25, 1840. Jesse H. Willis. April 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Brigadier General John E. Wool. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 312.) April 4, 1840. Springfield Manufacturing Company. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 267.) April 4, 1840.	207
Serial set 372	Abraham Dudley and Rebecca, his wife. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 416.) May 25, 1840. Lysander Spooner vs. Hon. John McLean. June 5, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Iowa militia claim. May 25, 1840. Read, and the resolution therein contained concurred in by the House. Colonel William Piatt. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 430.) May 25, 1840. Robert Marshall. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Militia. June 6, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table, and 5000 extra copies ordered to be printed. Joseph Paxton. (To accompany Bill S. No. 134.) May 25, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Cadwallader Wallace. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 408.) May 25, 1840. Samuel Hambleton. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 432.) May 25, 1840. David Deardurff. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 407.) May 25, 1840. Samuel L. Sayles. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. William Harper. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 435.) May 25, 1840. John Kurtz, and others. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Allen Rogers. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 433.) May 25, 1840. Henry Wells. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 426.) May 25, 1840. Isaac Sasser. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Enos Soper. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Sarah Hildreth. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 424.) May 25, 1840. Representatives of Francis Eppes, deceased. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 414.) May 25, 1840. Expenses of Virginia in the Illinois expedition in 1778, '79. -- Pierre Menard, Antoine Peltier, and Joseph Placy. (To accompany Bill S. No. 39.) May 25, 1840. Lot Hall, widow, &c., of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 412.) May 25, 1840. Edward Putnam. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 436.) May 25, 1840. N.G. Hamilton. (To accompany Bill S. No. 296.) May 25, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Heirs of Colonel John H. Stone. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 417.) May 25, 1840. Samuel Moore. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 415.) May 25, 1840. John Jorden. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 418.) May 25, 1840. Testimony in the New Jersey contested election. May 26, 1840. Printed under the order of the House of Representatives of the 12th of May instant. Nathan Coats. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Elizabeth Champney. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 431.) May 25, 1840. Mileage of Members of Congress. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 448.) June 6, 1840. Militia -- minority. June 6, 1840. Ordered to lie on the table, and 5,000 extra copies to be printed. Alexander McDonald. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Commander William Boerum. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. To establish ports of entry in Arkansas and Missouri, and to allow debenture, &c. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 441.) May 12, 1840. Conrad House. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 404.) May 16, 1840. James S. Blount. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Daniel Pratt. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 422.) May 25, 1840. Harriet Barney. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 434.) May 25, 1840. David Freelove. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 437.) May 25, 1840. Burnett Burdsall. (To accompany Bill H.R. 423.) May 25, 1840. Joseph Nimblett. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 420.) May 25, 1840. James C. Hallock. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 425.) May 25, 1840. Isaac Allen. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 419.) May 25, 1840. Thomas Bingey and Ignatius Lucas. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Adam D. Stuart. (To accompany Bill S. No. 230.) May 25, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Thomas Park. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 413.) May 25, 1840. Amos Bull. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Thomas Tatum. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Jacob Shade. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 421.) May 26, 1840. Polly Churchill. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Moses Archer. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Ira Fancher. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. John Baker. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John Finley. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Post-roads in the United States, &c. May 26, 1840. Read, and made the special order of the day for Monday next. John Prock. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Thomas Moran. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Abraham Pray. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Daniel Fielding. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. Widow of C. Leming. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Ephraim Beasley. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. James Campbell. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Adverse report of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions on eighteen cases. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Nathaniel Masters. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. Settlement of the claim of Maine for militia services. (To accompany Bill S. No. 325.) May 25, 1840. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives. John Dickerson. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John E. Alexander. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 439.) May 25, 1840. John McLaughlin. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Uriah Warren. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Joseph Pulcifer. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. William Ball. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. Zebulon Wade. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Volunteer militia. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Jacob Headerick. May 25, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Chester Griswold. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Stephen Richardson. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Repeal law relating to pilots. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 442.) May 30, 1840. Received; bill read first time, and motion to recommit report and bill to Committee on Commerce. June 2, 1840. Consideration postponed till to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Marine hospital at Mobile. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 445.) June 2, 1840. Exchange of books. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 447, and Joint Resolution No. 14.) June 6, 1840. Charles L. Little. May 25, 1840. Laid on the table. Apollos Cooper. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 411.) May 25, 1840.	81
Serial set 373	Adam Hall. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Thomas Gregory Smith. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. John P. Baldwin. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Madison Collins. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. Hugh Riddle. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 459.) June 23, 1840. Henry Overly, Aaron Adams, Theophilus Somerby, Samuel Spalding, Wm. A. Houston. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John McCollam -- heirs of. June 23, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Esther Parrott. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 469.) July 10, 1840. Expenditures -- public buildings. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. Seth Willey. (To accompany Bill H.R. 478.) July 10, 1840. Richard Paulett. June 23, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. George Leach. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Alphonsa F.A. Blake. July 2, 1840. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, to-morrow Heirs of Stephen Graham, deceased. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Colonel Charles Lewis -- heirs of. June 23, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Silas Wells. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Magnetic and meteorological observations. July 2, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Thomas Chapman -- executor of. June 23, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Spanish tonnage duties. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 463.) July 2, 1840. Heirs of James Rumsey, deceased. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 483.) July 10, 1840. Presley Scott. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 489.) July 10, 1840. Monument to Captain Nathan Hale. (With Joint Resolution H.R. No. 16.) July 10, 1840. John Gerard Ford. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. George Randall and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 488.) July 10, 1840. Heirs of Captain John Stokes. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Spartan Allen. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Representatives of Lathrop Allen. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Alexander H. Saunders. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Cochran's bomb-cannon. April 25, 1840. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Williamson Smith. May 10, 1840. Read, and with the papers on file in the Clerk's office, referred to the Secretary of War. 127th Rule of the House. May 30, 1840. Richard Mack. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Ground in New Orleans. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 451.) June 23, 1840. Roger Staynor [i.e., Stayner]. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Theodore Middleton. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Joseph Ramsey, et al. June 23, 1840. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Captain Hawkins Boon -- widow of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 454.) June 23, 1840. Captain Tarpley White. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Heirs of John Brown, deceased. (To accompany Bill H.R. 456.) June 23, 1840. Reefers of Florida, Housman and Bethell -- Montgomery Railroad Company -- David R. Mitchell -- Legislature of Florida, land for seats of justice. June 19, 1840. Laid on the table. Heirs of Captain Robert Vance. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. John H. Kelly. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 453.) June 23, 1840. George Mayfield. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 455.) June 23, 1840. Representatives of Wm. Slaughter. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Railroad -- New Albany to Mount Carmel. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 449.) June 17, 1840. Francis Malone. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Dennis Pursell. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Samuel Jones. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Joseph Erwin's heirs. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 458.) June 23, 1840. Louis Durett's heirs. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 460.) June 23, 1840. Harriet de la Palm Baker, heir of Frederick H. Weissenfels. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Elisha Moreland and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 450.) June 19, 1840. Henry Newingham -- for bounty land. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 452.) June 19, 1840. Asa Clark. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Harvey Whiting. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Benjamin Chapman. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 472.) July 10, 1840. Canal -- Albemarle Sound to the Atlantic Ocean. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 481.) July 10, 1840. Thomas J. Stone. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table Joseph Hewins. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 476.) July 10, 1840. John Wilson. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John Magoon. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 468.) July 10, 1840. Pugh Cannon. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. John Godfrey. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 477.) July 10, 1840. John Hagie. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 473.) July 10, 1840. Samuel Carter. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John Johnson. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. Amanda M. Dade. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. William McNaught. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Allen H. Powell. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Vincent J. Strickland. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Abel Herrick and others. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. J. & N. Hamblin. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Alexander Watson. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. William G. Sanders. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Solomon Jarvis and others. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. B.H. Manleif. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. William Fleming. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Daniel W. Church. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. Linza Thomas. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Isaac S. Middleton. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Alford Gandy. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Elbert Anderson. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Lemuel W. Varian. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. William Perry. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. John Flood. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 480.) July 10, 1840. William H. Wilson. (To accompany Bill H.R. 479.) July 10, 1840. Thomas W. Coker. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Desire Merriam. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 474.) July 10, 1840. Rufus King Love. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Joseph Croskey and others. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Leah Munday. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 471.) July 10, 1840. Samuel D. Enocks [i.e., Enochs]. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. W.Y.C. & R.A. Ewing. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Sylvester Nash. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. George A. Winslow. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. David Sherer, of Pennsylvania. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 475.) July 10, 1840. John G. Bibb. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. William Cooley. July 10, 1840. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Leonard Wardwell. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. Joseph Parker. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 470.) July 10, 1840. John Winston -- representatives of. June 23, 1840. Read and laid upon the table. Maurice Wright. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table. Dr. William Rickman -- heirs of. June 23, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Thomas D. [i.e., O.] Selfridge. July 2, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. William D. Jones. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 464.) July 2, 1840. Eliphalet Spafford -- daughter of. June 23, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John S. Billings. (To accompany Bill S. No. 117.) July 10, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Shropshire and Ross. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid on the table. Raub's safety-valves. (To accompany Bills H.R. Nos. 484, 485, and 486.) July 10, 1840. William P. Rathbone. (To accompany Bill S. No. 249.) July 10, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Isaac Cormick [i.e., Cormack]. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John Brown. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Samuel Mackay. (To accompany Bill S. No. 265.) July 10, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Ephraim F. Gilbert. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. D.W. Haley, et al. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. James S. Calhoun. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 490.) July 10, 1840. Arthur R. Owens. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John M. Brodhead. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 492.) July 10, 1840. Simon Carly et al. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Aaron Vail. (To accompany Bill S. No. 285.) July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John McCloud. (To accompany Bill S. No. 96.) July 10, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Turner Chamblin. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Joseph M. Shephard. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John L. Scott. (To accompany Bill S. No. 143.) July 10, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. David Wilkinson & Co. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. John Richey. (To accompany Bill S. No. 150.) July 11, 1840. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Robert McGuire. July 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Contested election -- Naylor and Ingersoll. June 9, 1840. Printed under the order of the House of the 12th ultimo. N.P. Trist. July 21, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Jesse D. Oldham. July 10, 1840. Laid on the table. Charles Holmes. June 23, 1840. Laid on the table.	131
Serial set 374	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Twenty-sixth Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington, December 7, 1840. And in the sixty-fifth year of the independence of the said United States.	1
Serial set 375	Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Twenty-sixth Congress. December 9, 1840. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the finances. December 9, 1840. Ordered to be printed, and that 1,500 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting copies of his accounts for the 1st, 2d, and 3d quarters of the year 1839. December 14, 1840. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the sales and donations of public lots in the City of Washington. December 14, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States, for the second session of the Twenty-sixth Congress, 1840-'41. December 10, 1840.	5
Serial set 376	In Senate of the United States. January 4, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas C. Clark & Co., asking remuneration for the use and detention of a certain steamboat (of which they were the owners) while the same was in the service of the United States... In Senate of the United States. December 22, 1840. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 127.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Walter Loomis and Abel Gay, with the accompanying papers, report... Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements showing the condition of the banks in the District of Columbia at the close of the year 1840. January 7, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the improvement of the Pennsylvania Avenue, and the construction of a bridge across Rock Creek. January 8, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, showing the contingent expenses of the military establishment during the year 1840. January 8, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Navy, showing the names and salaries of the clerks employed, during the year 1840, in the offices of the Secretary of the Navy and of the Navy Commissioners. January 8, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of a bankrupt law at the present session of Congress. January 8, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of any bankrupt law that does not include banks and trading corporations. January 8, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, what portions of the public lands have been subject to entry at private sale for five years and upwards. January 8, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Petition of a number of citizens of the City of Washington, praying the adoption of measures to promote the establishment of a system of education within the District of Columbia. January 8, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 8, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Richard B. Mason... Memorial of Daniel W. Coxe, praying that his interest in certain lands may not be affected by any legislation of Congress on the subject of pre-emption and settlement rights. January 8, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of State, transmitting statements showing the incidental and contingent expenses of that Department during the year ending November 30, 1840. December 14, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. Motion submitted by Mr. Crittenden, in relation to the Bill (S. 28) "To Establish a Permanent Prospective Pre-emption System in Favor of Settlers on the Public Lands, Who Shall Inhabit and Cultivate the Same, and Raise a Log-cabin Thereon." January 8, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Navy, showing the expenditures on account of the contingent expenses of the offices of the Secretary of the Navy and of the Navy Commissioners during the year ending September 30, 1840. December 14, 1840. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Resolution submitted by Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, calling for information in relation to the sales of the public lands. December 14, 1840. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of the City of Washington, praying the recharter of the banks in that city. December 14, 1840. Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Petition of a number of citizens of Missouri, praying an alteration in the mode of conveying the mail from Jefferson City to the county seat of Benton County. December 14, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. December 15, 1840. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Amendments proposed by Mr. Allen, to the motion submitted by Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, in relation to the repeal of the "Act for the Collection, Safekeeping, Transfer and Disbursement of the Public Revenue," viz... Report from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of the expenditures of the contingent fund of the War Department, and of the bureaus and offices attached thereto, during the year ending September 30, 1840. December 14, 1840. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a statement exhibiting the annual and total amount of goods imported free of duty from each foreign country since the 30th of September, 1833. December 14, 1840. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. December 23, 1840. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard made the following report: (To accompany Senate Bill No. 139.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Francis Gehon, the late marshal of the Territory of Wisconsin, report... Memorial of a number of citizens of Georgetown, D.C., praying the recharter of the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of said town. December 24, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements showing the rejected applications for pensions during the year 1840. December 21, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the claim of the heirs of Daniel Pettibone. December 14, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. December 22, 1840. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Senate, communicating a statement showing the expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate during the year ending December 7, 1840. December 17, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the pay and emoluments of the Army. December 21, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Documents relating to the Bill (S. 92) to revive and continue the corporate existence of the banks in the District of Columbia. December 21, 1840. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Corporation of the City of Washington, remonstrating against the surrender to the State of Maryland of the stock held by that corporation in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. December 28, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of a board of dragoon officers appointed to witness an exhibition of the repeating fire arms and water-proof ammunition invented by Samuel Colt. December 16, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. December 24, 1840. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wall made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 146.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Haskins and Ralph Haskins, report... In Senate of the United States. December 23, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard submitted the following report: (To accompany Senate Bill No. 137.) The Committee of Claims, to whom were referred the petition of Daniel Steenrod [i.e., Steinrod], and the papers relating thereto, report the accompanying bill... Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of the act "For Carrying into Effect the Treaties with the Chickasaws," showing the amount received on account of their lands. December 17, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of Professor F.R. Hassler, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and the fabrication of standard weights and measures, &c. December 15, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. December 21, 1840. Ordered to be printed, and that 300 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. In Senate of the United States. December 24, 1840. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wall submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the petition and papers of James Williams, report... Memorial of a number of citizens of Newburyport, Mass., praying the modification or repeal of the act of May 29, 1830, "To Amend the Acts Regulating the Commercial Intercourse Between the United States and Certain Colonies of Great Britain." December 28, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance, in part, with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the survey of a site for fortifications on Lake Champlain. December 31, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of State, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, an abstract of the returns of the sixth census. December 30, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of State, showing the number of American seamen registered in each port of entry of the United States, during the year ending September 30, 1840. December 28, 1840. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the sales of the public lands in the State of Michigan, north of the line dividing townships twelve and thirteen north, and west of the line dividing ranges two and three west, of the principal meridian. December 28, 1840. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. December 30, 1840. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard submitted the following report: (To accompany Senate Bill No. 159.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph Paxton, of the County of Campbell, and State of Kentucky, make the following report... In Senate of the United States. January 4, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Smith, of Indiana, made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Iowa, praying an amendment of the organic law of the territory, report... Documents relating to the bill "Authorizing the Erection of Certain Light-houses and Light-boats, and the Establishment of Certain Buoys and Beacon-lights." (To accompany Bill S. No. 8.) December 31, 1840. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. December 31, 1840. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Knight made the following report: (To accompany Senate Bill No. 167.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of the Nantucket Steamboat Company, report... Report from the Postmaster General, showing the expenditures from the contingent fund of the Post Office Department during the year 1840. January 5, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting copies of his accounts for the service of the Post Office Department for the years 1837, 1838, and 1839. January 5, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Governor of the State of Missouri, transmitting an act of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri for ascertaining and settling the northern boundary line of that state; together with a memorial of the legislature of said state on the same subject. January 5, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of a bankrupt law at the present session of Congress. January 5, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans, praying the passage of a general bankrupt law. January 6, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, additional information in relation to the bonds issued by the Legislature of Florida. January 6, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Postmaster General, showing the names and salaries of the clerks employed in the Post Office Department during the year 1840. January 7, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Vermont, in favor of restricting the eligibility of the President of the United States to a single term. January 6, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the payment of a sum of money into the Treasury, by the commissioners under the act for the settlement of Mississippi land claims. January 7, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, showing the number and names of the soldiers enlisted during the late war, and entitled to bounty land. January 7, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 6, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mouton made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 182.) The Committee on Private Land Claims to whom was referred the petition of the heirs and legal representatives of Pierre Dolet...	55
Serial set 377	Document in relation to the bounties allowed to vessels employed in the fisheries. February 2, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the heirs of Louis de Repentigny, praying the confirmation of their claim to a tract of land in the State of Michigan. January 14, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the General Assembly of Arkansas, praying the cession of the public lands to the states in which they lie, on certain conditions. January 16, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, showing the names and salaries of the clerks employed in that Department during the year 1840. January 22, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of E. Gonon, praying the adoption of a system of telegraphs to be established between the cities of Washington and New York. January 30, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the number and kind of troops stationed on the western frontier, and the necessity of an additional military post on the same. January 22, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Remonstrance of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, against the passage of the bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy. January 25, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of any bankrupt law at the present session of Congress. January 25, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Philanthropic Law Reform Association of the City of New York, praying the passage of a general bankrupt law. January 28, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the New York Chamber of Commerce, remonstrating against the repeal of the act of March 2, 1837, concerning pilots. January 28, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Alabama, in relation to the obligations of the states to surrender fugitives from justice. January 21, 1841. Ordered to be printed In Senate of the United States. January 22, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 221.) The Committee of Claims, to whom has been referred the petition of Peter H. Green, with the accompanying papers, report... Remonstrance of the marine insurance companies of the City of New York, against the repeal of the act of March 2, 1837, "Concerning Pilots." January 25, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the marine insurance companies of the port of New York, praying that the pilot law of 1837 may not be repealed. January 23, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Kentucky, in favor of the establishment of a national bank, and of the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands. January 25, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of North Carolina, in favor of reopening Roanoke Inlet. January 29, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Navy, with a list of the contracts entered into by the Navy Commissioners during the year 1840. January 22, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, praying the modification of the act of July 7, 1838, "For the Better Security of the Lives of Passengers on Board of Vessels Propelled in Whole or in Part by Steam." January 23, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of any bankrupt law at the present session of Congress. January 23, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Petition of a number of citizens of the United States, praying a modification of the act of March 2, 1837, "Concerning Pilots." January 18, 1841. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 20, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Henderson made the following report: The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Stokes & Purdom, report... Memorial of the widow of Lieut. Colonel Alexander R. Thompson, praying to have the benefits of the act of July 5, 1838, granting additional rations to officers of the Army, extended to her. January 28, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the General Assembly of Louisiana, in favor of the passage of a general bankrupt law. February 1, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, with a report of the special agent of the lead-mines, relative to the sale or future management of the mineral lands of the United States. January 23, 1841. Submitted by Mr. Walker, and ordered to be printed, and that 500 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Memorial of a number of citizens of Charleston, S.C., praying Congress not to pass any bankrupt law at this time. February 1, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of correspondence, imputing malpractices to the American consul at Havana, in regard to granting papers to vessels engaged in the slave-trade. January 20, 1841. Read. January 26, 1841. Ordered to be printed Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office showing the operations of that office during parts of the years 1839 and 1840. January 4, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. January 6, 1841. Ordered, that 1,000 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Royal Hopkins... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Motion by Mr. Tappan, prescribing certain duties for the chairmen of committees of Congress, in relation to private claims... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Phelps made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 195.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Gary Hinant... Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the rates of foreign and domestic exchange, and the prices of bank-notes and specie, at New York and Philadelphia, during the years 1838, 1839, and 1840. January 13, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Linn made the following report: (To accompany Senate Bill No. 196.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate instructing the Committee to inquire into the expediency of a law providing for the location of two tracts of land, of eight hundred arpens each, confirmed to Alexander Coleman and Jacques Bon, of Missouri, by the board of commissioners appointed under the act of July 9, 1832... In Senate of the United States. January 13, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Graham made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 181.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the bill to cause monuments to be erected in honor of Brigadier General Francis Nash and Brigadier General William Davidson... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Phelps made the following report: The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William Dickinson, report... In Senate of the United States. January 11, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Phelps made the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution No. 1.) The Committee on Roads and Canals, to which was referred the joint resolution "directing the transfer to the State of Maryland of the stock in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal standing in the name of the United States, upon certain conditions," report... Petition of a number of citizens of Massachusetts, praying that jurisdiction over offences committed within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States may be extended to the district courts of the United States. January 11, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a plan of a permanent change in the tariff. January 19, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Alden Partridge, praying the application of a portion of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the establishment of a system of education. January 15, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of any bankrupt law at the present session of Congress. January 20, 1841. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 14, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard submitted the following report: (To accompany Senate Bill No. 207.) The Committee of Claims make the following report on the petition of Converse and Rees... Report from The Secretary of the Treasury, Showing, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, the Quantity of Public Land Unsold on the 30th June, 1828; the Estimated Average Value Per Acre Thereof, and the Quantity Since Sold, and at What Price; Together with the Quantities Offered for Sale at Different Periods. January 18, 1841. Read, and Ordered to be Printed; and that 1,000 Additional Copies Be Furnished for the Use Of the Senate. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Alabama, adverse to the establishment of a protective tariff. January 14, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of any bankrupt law at the present session of Congress. January 14, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Illinois, adverse to the repeal of the independent Treasury law, and the establishment of a national bank. January 19, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 15, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard made the following report: (To accompany Senate Bill No. 208.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel G. Skinner... Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, praying that banks and other trading corporations may be subjected to the operation of any bankrupt law that may be passed by Congress. January 15, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of any bankrupt law at the present session of Congress. January 16, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, praying that banks and other trading corporations may be subjected to the operation of any bankrupt law that may be passed by Congress. January 20, 1841. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 19, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fulton submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 213.) The Committee on Public Lands, to which was referred the petition of the heirs-at-law of Major General Duportail, Brigadier General Armand, and Major De La Colombe, report... Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, praying that banks and other trading corporations may be subjected to the operation of any bankrupt law passed by Congress. January 15, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements showing the contracts made by that Department during the year 1840. January 20, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, praying the incorporation of certain provisions in any bankrupt law passed by Congress. January 14, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, demonstrating against the passage of any bankrupt law at the present session of Congress. January 18, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the fitness of American water rotted hemp for the use of the Navy of the United States. January 18, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 20, 1841. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Prentiss made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 217.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a resolution of the Senate, instructing the Committee to inquire into the expediency of granting a pension to John McNeil... Memorial of a number of citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, praying the passage of a general bankrupt law. January 15, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Agnes Slacke, praying the confirmation of her title to a tract of land in the State of Michigan. January 14, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of Albany, New York, praying the passage of a general bankrupt law. January 14, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of Baltimore, praying the erection of a fortification at that place. January 19, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Alden Partridge, praying the discontinuance of the Military Academy at West Point. January 15, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Report and resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, in relation to the election of President of the United States, the construction of the Constitution, and the future arrangements as to the tariff of duties on imports. January 25, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Indiana, in favor of designating the same day throughout the United States for the choice of electors of President and Vice President of the United States. January 29, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 29, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill No. 229.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of E.W. and H. Smith, report... Resolutions of the General Assembly of Indiana, in favor of so amending the Constitution of the United States as to restrict the eligibility of the President of the United States to a single term. January 23, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, praying that banks and other trading corporations may be subjected to the operation of any bankrupt law that may be passed by Congress. January 23, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Indiana, in favor of the repeal of the independent Treasury law; also, in relation to a national bank. January 28, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, praying that banks and other trading corporations may be subjected to the operation of any bankrupt law that may be passed by Congress. January 25, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, praying the passage of a general bankrupt law. January 25, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of a bankrupt law which will affect existing obligations. January 25, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the sales of the lands, the titles of which were closed under the relief laws of the 31st March, 1830, and 25th February, 1831. January 29, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 21, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 219.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Enoch Hidden... Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the creation of a company of sappers and miners to be attached to the Engineer Department. January 25, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of the City of Washington, remonstrating against the passage of the bill "To Amend and Continue in Force the Act To Incorporate the Inhabitants of the City of Washington." January 26, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the appropriations and expenditures for that Department during the year 1840, and the balances remaining in the Treasury at the end of that year. January 22, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New York, remonstrating against the passage of any bankrupt law that does not embrace all classes of citizens. January 25, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the General Assembly of Indiana, in favor of the establishment of a national bank. January 29, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Michigan, to obtain an appropriation for the completion of the lake harbors commenced by the United States. February 1, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of Albany, New York, remonstrating against the passage of the Bill (S. 160) "To Establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy Throughout the United States." February 1, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 2, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crittenden made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 232.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Robert H. Saunders... Petition of a number of citizens of Pennsylvania, praying the completion of the works for the improvement of the harbor of Erie. February 1, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, praying a grant of land to aid in the construction of the Mount Carmel and New Albany Railroad. February 1, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of Oneida County, New York, remonstrating against the passage of any retrospective bankrupt law. February 1, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, in favor of the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands among the several states, and for an increase of the tariff. February 1, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of North Carolina, in favor of the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands among the several states. February 1, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Delaware, in favor of the distribution of the proceeds of the states of the public lands among the several states. February 1, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, transmitting abstracts of the general returns of the militia of the United States, and of their arms, accoutrements, and ammunition, for the year 1840. February 1, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of masters of vessels, lying in the port of New York, remonstrating against the repeal of the act of March 2, 1837, concerning pilots. February 2, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the drafts drawn by the Treasury Department, or by its order, protested for non-payment, or which remain unpaid. January 14, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed.	90
Serial set 378	Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of New York, praying the incorporation of certain provisions in any bankrupt law that may be passed by Congress. February 8, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of correspondence relative to the negroes taken on board the schooner Amistad. February 12, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed Documents relating to the claim of the heirs of Robert Fulton. January 26, 1841. Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 225. Resolution of the General Assembly of Indiana, on the subject of raising revenue by duties on foreign goods. February 22, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Petitions of a number of settlers on the public lands in Illinois, praying that their pre-emption rights to said lands may not be affected by the grant to the Polish exiles. December 17, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. February 26, 1841. Bill reported, (S. 267,) and the petitions ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Delaware, in relation to the District of Columbia. February 27, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Petition of a number of citizens of Chatauque County, New York, praying that the treaty with the Seneca Indians may not be enforced in regard to those who may be averse to emigration. February 23, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Report of a committee of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, in relation to the present commercial arrangements with Great Britain. March 2, 1841. Submitted by Mr. Ruggles, and ordered to be printed, and that 1,000 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Report from the Secretary of State, showing the number and designation of the passengers who have arrived in each collection district of the United States during the year 1840. February 22, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Delaware, in favor of so amending the Constitution of the United States, as to restrict the eligibility of the President of the United States to a single term. February 19, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Petition of Samuel Martin, submitting a plan for a national bank. February 23, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of New York, in relation to the disposition of the public lands. March 3, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Petition of Thomas S. Jesup, stating that he has sustained an injury in consequence of an omission in a document printed by order of the Senate, and praying redress. February 18, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. March 3, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the excess of the appropriations over the estimates for the years 1837, 1838, and 1839, with the cause of such excess, &c. March 2, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of State, showing, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, what progress has been made in the completion of the sixth census. February 24, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Document showing the testimony given before the judge of the fifth judicial circuit of the State of Missouri, on the trial of Joseph Smith, Jr., and others, for high treason, and other crimes against that state. February 15, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of Pennsylvania, praying the construction of a number of floating-batteries and steam-vessels. February 15, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 17, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Smith, of Connecticut, made the following report: (To accompany S. Bill No. 255.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to which was referred the memorial of Horatio Alden and Philura Alden, his wife, late Philura Deane, of Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, report... In Senate of the United States. February 15, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Smith, of Indiana, submitted the following report: (To accompany Senate Bill No. 249.) The Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom the subject was referred, report: "A Bill To Confirm to the State of Indiana the Lands Selected by Her, in Lieu of the Lands Covered by Reservations in the Treaties of 1837 and 1839, with the Miami Indians"... Resolutions of the General Assembly of Michigan, in relation to the boundary-line between that state and the Territory of Wiskonsin. February 15, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the official emoluments and expenditures of the officers of the Customs for the year 1840. February 15, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the payment of claims under the Treaty with the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians. February 20, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the General Assembly of Mississippi, in favor of appropriating the two per cent fund of that state towards the construction of a railroad. March 2, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wiskonsin, praying the passage of a law allowing pre-emption rights to settlers on the mineral lands in that territory. February 15, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Louisiana, on the subject of placing buoys at the several mouths of the Mississippi River. February 15, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 16, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Prentiss submitted the following report: (To accompany S. Bill No. 254.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Esther Johnston, widow of Colonel Jonas Johnston, of North Carolina, deceased, for a pension, report... Resolutions of the General Assembly of Indiana, in relation to the completion of the Cumberland Road. February 17, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of Chicot County, Arkansas, praying the passage of a general bankrupt law. February 17, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of Oneida County, New York, remonstrating against the passage of any retrospective bankrupt law. February 15, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the General Assembly of Missouri, praying the donation of the swamp lands in that state to the counties in which they are situated, for certain purposes. February 5, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Petition of a number of citizens of Pittsburg, Penn., remonstrating against the passage of any law requiring the exclusive use on steam-boilers of any invention for preventing explosions, and asking the appointment of a board of commissioners to test the relative merits of such inventions. February 15, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Petition of a number of citizens of New York, praying that the treaty with the Seneca Indians may not be enforced in regard to those who may be averse to emigration. February 23, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. March 10, 1840. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. January 26, 1841. Ordered to be reprinted. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee of Claims, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 225.) The Committee of Claims, to whom were referred the memorial of the heirs of Robert Fulton, and the accompanying papers, report... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the imports and exports of sugar during the year ending 30th of September, 1840. February 4, 1841. Submitted by Mr. Nicholas, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate in relation to the survey to ascertain and designate the boundary-line between the State of Michigan and the Territory of Wisconsin. February 3, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed; and that 500 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Letter from the Board of Commissioners of the Pilots of New York, recommending the repeal of the act of March 2, 1837, concerning pilots. February 5, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the contracts made in that Department during the year 1840; the payments on account of miscellaneous claims during the same year; and the expenditures from the Marine Hospital Fund during the year 1839. February 8, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in reference to the construction of the Potomac aqueduct, and the kyanizing of timber for the use of the same. February 5, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed, and that 200 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Topographical Bureau. Report from the Commissioner of Patents, showing the operations of the Patent Office during the year 1840. February 3, 1841. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 4, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Prentiss made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 238.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the claim of Thankful Reynolds for a pension, made the following report... Memorial of the pilots of the port of New York, by the way of Sandy Hook, praying the repeal of the act of March 2, 1837, concerning pilots. February 3, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislative Assembly of Wiskonsin, in relation to the survey of the public lands north of the Fox and Wiskonsin Rivers. February 5, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of Seneca County, New York, remonstrating against the passage of a bankrupt law. February 3, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a plan for assessing the value of goods, wares, and merchandise, in the ports of the United States, instead of foreign countries. February 4, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed; and that one thousand additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Report of George Plitt, special agent of the Post Office Department. February 3, 1841. Ordered to be printed; and that 1,386 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Wiskonsin, praying the survey and construction of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River. February 5, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Petition of a number of manufacturers and mechanics of the United States, praying the adoption of measures to secure to them their rights in patterns and designs. February 3, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Wiskonsin, praying the improvement of the navigation of the Neenah and Wiskonsin Rivers. February 5, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of John McClelland and others, praying the passage of a general bankrupt law. February 4, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Second Auditor of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the disbursements of money, goods, or effects, for the benefit of the Indians, during the year ending the 30th of September, 1840. February 5, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Samuel Raub, Jr., praying the purchase by the government of the right to use the "double self-acting safety-valves," invented by him, and the passage of a law requiring the use of the same on all steam boilers. February 8, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the General Assembly of Illinois, praying the establishment of a marine hospital at the City of Cairo, in that state. February 8, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of Philadelphia, praying the incorporation of certain provisions in the Bill (S. 160) to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy. February 8, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the results of the assays made at the Mint, of foreign coin. February 12, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 11, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Mr. King made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 193.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Enoch Baldwin, accompanied by a Bill (S. 193) for his relief, report... Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the losses by the general government, and by the people of the United States, from the use of banks and bank-paper. February 12, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed, and that 20,000 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the quantity of public land sold since the year 1828, and the amounts ceded to the respective states. February 9, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wiskonsin, praying the passage of a law to define the western boundary-line of said territory. February 8, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, showing the expenses of the national armories, and the quantity of arms manufactured, during the year ending September 30, 1840. February 10, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of the report of the commissioners for the exploration and survey of the northeastern boundary. February 9, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the General Assembly of New Hampshire, on the subject of appointing the same day throughout the Union for the choice of presidential electors. February 24, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 18, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mouton made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 261.) The Committee on Commerce, to which was referred the memorial of E. Gonon, praying the adoption of a system of telegraphs, of which he is the inventor, beg leave to report... Resolutions of the General Assembly of Indiana, in relation to the bill "To Establish a Permanent Prospective Pre-emption System in Favor of Settlers on the Public Lands Who Shall Inhabit and Cultivate the Same, and Raise a Log-cabin Thereon." February 22, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Documents relating to the improvement of the system of artillery. March 2, 1841. Submitted by Mr. Benton, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Joshua Leavitt, praying the adoption of measures to secure an equitable and adequate market for American wheat. February 27, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of the Town of Havre-de-Grace, in the State of Maryland, praying an appropriation for the removal of obstructions at the entrance of the harbor of that place. February 24, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 23, 1841. Submitted, concurred in, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright made the following report: The Committee on Finance, to which has been referred the petition of David Green... In Senate of the United States. February 17, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the sale of the machinery, implements, and materials, used in the construction and improvement of harbors, rivers, roads, &c. February 16, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 17, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Nicholas made the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of sundry mechanics engaged in the construction of the United States arsenal at Fayetteville, North Carolina, praying compensation for the time lost by them in consequence of the suspension of that work, report... Memorial of a number of citizens of New Jersey, praying the enactment of a general bankrupt law. February 23, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a number of citizens of New Hampshire, remonstrating against the passage of a bankrupt law. March 1, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. March 2, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benton made the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the corporate authorities of the City of Baltimore, praying that Congress would provide for the defence of that city... Resolutions of the General Assembly of Indiana, in relation to the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands. February 22, 1841. Ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the payment of money out of the Treasury, to persons whose names are included in a list of balances on the books of the Treasury. March 3, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of reports made by a board of Navy officers on Colt's improved repeating fire-arms. February 17, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 16, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hubbard submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 252.) The Committee of Claims, to whom has been referred the petition of the executor of David Gelston, deceased, praying for an equitable settlement of the accounts of said deceased with the government, report... Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in relation to the claims for French spoliations committed prior to the 31st day of July, 1801. February 24, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. March 2, 1841. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Norvell made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 107.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred a bill making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors on the northern and northeastern [i.e., northwestern] lakes... Report from the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the cost of building and repairing certain vessels. March 1, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in favor of the repeal of the independent Treasury bill, and the establishment of a national bank; an increase of the tariff; and the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands. February 18, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Petition of a number of citizens of New York, praying that the treaty with the Seneca Indians may not be enforced against those who are averse to emigration. February 22, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Statements showing: 1st, appropriations made during the 2d session of the 26th Congress; 2d, the offices created, and the salaries thereof; 3d, the offices, the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period. March 31, 1841. Prepared by the Secretary of the Senate, in pursuance of the sixth section of the act approved July 4, 1836, "To Authorize the Appointment of Additional Paymasters, and for Other Purposes." Memorial of a number of citizens of Oneida County, New York, remonstrating against the passage of any retrospective bankrupt law. February 11, 1841. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.	84
Serial set 379	Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the delay in completing the annual statement of the commerce and navigation. March 2, 1841. Read, and ordered that the statement, when completed, be printed, and that 2,000 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Report from the Secretary of the Senate, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a list of private claims which have been before the Senate since the commencement of the Fourteenth Congress, with the proceedings of the Senate thereon. January 4, 1841. Read. January 5, 1841. Ordered to be printed.	2
Serial set 380	Report intended to illustrate a map of the hydrographical basin of the Upper Mississippi River, made by I.N. Nicollet [i.e, J.N. Nicollet], while in employ under the Bureau of the Corps of Topographical Engineers. February 16, 1841. Ordered to be printed, and that 200 additional copies be printed for the Topographical Bureau, and 300 additional copies for the use of the Senate.	1
Serial set 381	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: being the second session of the Twenty-sixth Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington, December 7, 1840, and in the sixty-fifth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 382	Treasurer's accounts. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copies of the Treasurer's accounts for the 1st, 2d, and 3d quarters of the year 1839. December 14, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Insolvent debtors. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report, in obedience to the eighth section of "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors of the United States," approved March 2, 1831. December 15, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Twenty-sixth Congress. December 9, 1840. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union Contingent fund -- War Department -- 1840. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of the expenditures of the contingent fund of the War Department, and offices and bureaus attached thereto, during the fiscal year ending on the 30th of September last. December 14, 1840. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Expenditures in the War Department. Mathews [i.e., Matthews] & Wood and James Hall. Report of the Solicitor of the Treasury, upon the case of Mathews [i.e., Matthews] & Wood and James Hall. December 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Contingent expenses -- House of Representatives. Report of the Clerk of House of Representatives U.S., of expenditures from the contingent fund of the House for the year 1840. December 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Contingent expenses -- State Department -- 1846. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statements of the contingent expenses of the Department for the year 1840. December 15, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Expenditures of the Department of State. Contingent expenses -- offices of the Secretary and Commissioners of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report of the contingent expenses of the offices of the Secretary and Commissioners of the Navy, from the 30th September, 1839, to the 30th September, 1840. December 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. list of reports to be made to Congress, at the second session of the Twenty-sixth Congress, by public officers. Prepared, in obedience to a standing order of the House, by the Chief Clerk. December 7, 1840. Balances on the books of the Fourth Auditor. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting an abstract of balances on the books of the Fourth Auditor, which have remained due and unsettled more than three years prior to the 30th September, 1840, &c. December 14, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Navy Pension Fund. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Navy in relation to the Navy Pension Fund. December 10, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Coast Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of Professor F.R. Hassler, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and the fabrication of standard weights and measures, &c. December 15, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Contingent expenses -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the Department for the year ending in September last. December 15, 1840. Read, and referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department. Contracts -- Commissioner of Public Buildings. Letter from the Commissioner of Public Buildings, transmitting copies of all the contracts made in his office from the 1st December, 1839, to the 14th December, 1840, &c., &c. December 21, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Public Buildings. Appropriations -- payment of pensioners for 1841. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 529.) December 18, 1840. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. Chickasaw fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the funds of the Chickasaw Indians, as required by the act of 20th April, 1836. December 21, 1840. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Balances on the books of the Second Auditor. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances on the books of the Second Auditor, which have remained due and unsettled more than three years prior to the 30th of September last, &c. December 15, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Balances on the books of the Treasury from receivers of public moneys. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances standing on the books of the Treasury, which have remained unsettled by receivers of public moneys more than three years prior to the 30th September, 1839. December 15, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Expenditures in suppressing Indian hostilities in Florida. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th of July last, in relation to the amount of expenditure in suppressing Indian hostilities in Florida, &c. December 15, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Finance -- and estimate of appropriations for 1841. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his annual report on the state of the finances; also an estimate of appropriations for the year 1841. December 10, 1840. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.	20
Serial set 383	Commerce with China. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23rd instant, in relation to the commerce of the United States with China, &c. December 31, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Treaty with the Seneca Indians. Memorial of Benjamin Ferris, in behalf of the four yearly meetings of Friends, of Genesee, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, remonstrating against any appropriation being made to carry out the treaty with the Seneca Indians. January 8, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Clerks -- War Department, 1840. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the names of the clerks employed in the Department during the year 1840, and the compensation of each. January 25, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Customs -- collection of, since 1829 -- officers dispensed with, &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of December, 1840, in relation to subordinate Custom-house officers whose services have been dispensed with within the two past years, &c.; also, a statement of the revenue collected since the year 1825, &c. January 16, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Custom-house building -- Philadelphia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives, in relation to the condition of the Custom-house building in that port. December 31, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Estimates for the Army -- for the year 1841. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 580.) January 6, 1841. Submitted by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses -- military establishment. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the expenditure of the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the military establishment during the year 1840. January 16, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Appropriations and expenditures, 1840. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the Second Comptroller, of the appropriations and expenditures for the year 1840, and the balance in the Treasury on the 31st December of the same year. January 25, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Operations of the Mint, 1840 -- and medals. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the operations of the Mint of the United States and its branches during the year 1840, also, an inquiry whether authority shall be given to the Mint to strike off copies of medals given for meritorious services in the War of the Revolution, and in the late war, &c. January 25, 1841. So much as relates to the operations of the Mint and branches, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means; and so much as relates to medals, to the Committee on the Library. West Point -- Military Academy. Memorial of Alden Partridge, relating to the Military Academy at West Point, and praying that young men educated at other military schools may have an equal chance for admission to the Army as those young men have who are educated at West Point. January 21, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Land districts discontinued under act June 12, 1840. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of January 9, 1841, in relation to six land districts discontinued under the act of June 12, 1840, &c., &c. January 22, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Charles T. James, on steamboat boilers. January 25, 1841. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, to which sundry bills on that subject are committed. Official Army Register for 1841. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting two hundred and forty-five copies of the official Army Register for the year 1841. January 28, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Lands purchased by pre-emption. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th instant, respecting lands claimed to be purchased by pre-emption, under the several acts of Congress granting pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands, &c. January 25, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Contracts -- Navy Commissioners -- 1840. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the contracts made by the Commissioners of the Navy during the year 1840. January 25, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Navy Register for 1841. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting two hundred and seventy five copies of the Navy Register for the year 1841. January 7, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the Third Auditor, of officers who have not rendered their accounts within the year; of accounts which have remained unsettled more than three years; and an abstract of moneys advanced prior to 3d March, 1809, on the books of the late Accountant of the War Department, unaccounted for. January 16, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Post Office agents. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a list of agents employed by the Department from the 1st of July, 1839, to the 30th of November, 1840. January 7, 1841. Read, and referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department. Mail route -- Fort Madison to Fairfield, Iowa. Memorial of the Legislature of Iowa, praying for the establishment of a mail-route from Fort Madison to Fairfield, in the Territory of Iowa. January 7, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Territories. Military road in Iowa. Memorial of the Legislature of Iowa, praying for an appropriation to construct a military road from Bloomington to Iowa City. January 7, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Territories. Penitentiary -- Iowa. Memorial of the Legislature of the Territory of Iowa, for an appropriation for the penitentiary of said territory. January 7, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Territories. Post Office estimates for the year 1841. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 601.) January 11, 1841. Submitted by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, to which is committed the Bill H.R. No. 601, making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year 1841. "Latter-Day Saints," alias Mormons. The petition of the Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as Mormons, stating that they have purchased lands of the general government, lying in the State of Missouri, from which they have been driven with force by the constituted authorities of the state, and prevented from occupying the same; and have suffered other wrongs, for which they pray Congress to provide a remedy. December 21, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Registered seamen, &c. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting an abstract of American registered seamen in each port of entry of the United States from 1st October, 1839, to 30th September, 1840, &c. December 31, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Suspend operations -- public works. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the suspension of operations on the public works on the lake borders of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wiskonsin, and on the Cumberland Road in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, &c. January 4, 1840. Read and laid upon the table. Clerks -- Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the names of the clerks employed in the State Department, with the salary paid to each. January 4, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Tobacco -- Kentucky. Petition of citizens of Daviess County, Kentucky, interested in the cultivation of tobacco. December 22, 1840. Referred to the Select Committee on the Tobacco Trade. Connecticut Legislature -- public lands. Resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut, relative to the disposition of the proceeds of the public lands. December 17, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Navy officers absent on leave or furlough. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a list of naval officers, including passed midshipmen, who are absent on leave or furlough, &c. December 22, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Estimates -- Indian Department -- for 1841. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 543.) December 23, 1840. Submitted to the House, by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Tobacco Convention. Proceedings of the Tobacco Convention, held in the City of Washington, on the 15th and 16th of the present month. December 22, 1840. Referred to the Select Committee on the Subject of the Tobacco Trade. Applicants for pensions. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report, in obedience to a resolution of the 29th of May, 1830, in relation to applications for pensions, or an increase of pension. December 22, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Curtailments in the transportation of the mail. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant, in relation to curtailments in the transportation of the mail of the United States made since the close of the 1st session of the present Congress. December 23, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Sale of damaged paper. Report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives U.S., on the sale of damaged or useless paper, &c. &c. December 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Secretary of the Treasury and Treasurer U.S. -- Sub-Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 17th instant, respecting a correspondence between the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer of the United States, upon the subject of the Sub-Treasury Bill, &c. December 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Suspension of appropriations. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 17th instant, in relation to appropriations made at the last session, which have been suspended, &c., &c. December 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Ralph Jackson. Letter from the Postmaster General, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, inquiring whether Ralph Jackson is a contractor for carrying the mail of the United States, &c. &c. December 24, 1840. Read, and laid upon the table. Steamboat accidents, loss of life, &c. Letter from J.P. Van Tyne to the Hon. J.R. Underwood, with a schedule of accidents to American steam vessels since the year 1830, &c. December 21, 1840. Submitted to the House by Mr. Underwood, referred to a select committee, and ordered to be printed. Annual report -- Commissioner General Land Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the operations of the General Land Office for parts of the years 1839 and 1840. January 4, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. H.A. Garland. Memorial of H.A. Garland, Clerk of the House of Representatives. January 4, 1841. Read and referred to the Select Committee on the Public Printing. Balances on the books of the revenue. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of the balances standing on the books of the revenue, which have remained due and unsettled more than three years prior to the 30th September, 1839. January 4, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Public printing. Letter from John C. Rives to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, on the subject of the printing for the House of Representatives for the 26th Congress, &c. &c. December 31, 1840. Referred to a select committee. Burning of the Caroline. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting correspondence in relation to the burning of the steamboat Caroline. December 31, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 5,000 extra copies ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses -- naval establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of the contingent expenses of the naval establishment, from 1st October, 1839, to 30th September, 1840. January 4, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Offers for carrying the U.S. mail. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a copy of the abstract of offers for carrying the mails of the United States, for the year preceding the 1st of July, 1840. January 5, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Contingent expenses -- Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a statement of disbursements made from the contingent fund of the Department from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1840. January 5, 1841. Read, and referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department. Northern boundary of Missouri. Letter from the Governor of the State of Missouri, transmitting a copy of an act of the Legislature of said state, "For Ascertaining and Settling the Northern Boundary Line of the State of Missouri." January 5, 1841. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Territories. Deficiency of revenue. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 598.) January 9, 1841. Submitted to the House by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and committed, with the Bill No. 598, to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union Clerks Post Office Department, 1840. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a statement of the number and names of the clerks in the Post Office Department during the year 1840, and the compensation of each. January 7, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Banks of the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements showing the condition of the incorporated banks of the District of Columbia. January 7, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Clerks -- Navy Department -- 1840. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a list of clerks in the offices of the Secretary of the Navy and of the Navy Commissioners during the year 1840. January 15, 1841. Read, and ordered to be printed. Maine -- inhabitants of Bucksport. Memorial from inhabitants of Bucksport, in the State of Maine, praying for a permanent revenue, and correction of abuses in affairs of government. January 20, 1841. Ordered to lie on the table. Estimates Post Office Department -- 1841. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting the estimates for the Post Office Department for the year commencing July 1, 1841. January 13, 1841. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Balances on the books of the Register of the Treasury. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of balances remaining on the books of the Register of the Treasury, which have remained unsettled more than three years prior to September 30, 1840. January 16, 1841. Read, and laid on the table. Annual report -- Commissioner of Public Buildings. January 13, 1841. Read, and referred to the Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings. Clerks -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the names of the clerks employed in the several offices of the Treasury Department, and the compensation of each. January 13, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Post Office fines and deductions. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of all fines imposed, and deductions made from the pay of contractors, during the year ending on the 30th of June, 1840. January 28, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Contracts -- War Department, 1840. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of all contracts made by the War Department during the year 1840. January 25, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table Political relations between the United States and China. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State upon the subject of the political relations between the United States and the Empire of China. January 25, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Estimates -- Florida war. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of appropriations for the continuance of the Florida war. January 21, 1841. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Alabama -- General Assembly of. Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, adverse to a protective tariff. January 26, 1841. Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. National education -- system of. Memorial of Alden Partridge, praying Congress to adopt measures with a view to the establishment of a general system of education for the benefit of the youth of this nation. January 21, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table.	62
Serial set 384	Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, with statements of the mails established within the fiscal year, &c.; of contracts for transportation; of additional allowances and curtailments of mail services, &c., &c. January 26, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. January 28, 1841. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Appropriations and expenditures -- naval -- 1840. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statements of the annual appropriations for the Navy Department for 1840, and the expenditure of the same, &c. January 30, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Privateer Pension Fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th instant, in relation to the Privateer Pension Fund, &c. January 30, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Treasury notes and drafts since January 1, 1840. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of 22d December, 1840, respecting Treasury notes and drafts which have been drawn and issued since the 1st January, 1840, with the dates of such notes and drafts, and objects for which they have been drawn, &c. January 30, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Independent Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report on the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 17th ult., calling for explanations as to the manner in which the Independent Treasury Law has been carried into operation. January 30, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Choctaw Treaty -- Dancing Rabbit Creek. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in respect to the manner in which certain stipulations in the Choctaw treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek have been fulfilled. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Assays of gold and silver coins, &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the fineness and value, by weight, of certain gold and silver coins specified in the acts of Congress of April 10, 1806, and June 28, 1834. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Slaves in Connecticut -- sixth census. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting an abstract of the returns of the Marshal of Connecticut, showing the number of slaves in said district, &c. &c. January 30, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table Alfred Conkling. Letter from Judge Conkling to the Hon. Christopher Morgan. January 4, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Penitentiary in the District of Columbia. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the twelfth annual report of the Inspectors of the Penitentiary of the District of Columbia. January 30, 1841. Read, and referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Commander Smoot and Lieutenants Sharpe and Stallings. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copies of the naval courts-martial, in the cases of Commander Smoot and Lieutenants Sharpe and Stallings. January 30, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Distribution of proceeds of public lands. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, upon the subject of the public lands. February 2, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. National domain, and Roanoke Inlet. Resolutions of the General Assembly of North Carolina, in relation to the public domain, and the re-opening [of] Roanoke Inlet. February 6, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. South Carolina. Report of the Committee on Federal Relations, upon the several messages of the Governor. February 6, 18[41]. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States. Survey northeastern boundary United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State upon the subject of the northeastern boundary of the United States. January 30, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Kentucky resolutions. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Kentucky, relating to a United States bank and the public lands. February 6, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Wharves at Governor's and Bedlow's Islands, New York. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information relating to the construction of permanent wharves at Governor's and Bedlow's Islands, in the harbor of New York. February 12, 1841. Submitted to the House by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Day of election of President and Vice President of the United States. Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, on the subject of so amending the Constitution of the United States as to provide that the election of President and Vice President be holden on the same day throughout the United States. February 10, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Military Academy. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 676.) Estimate of funds required for the service of the Military Academy, for the year 1841, &c., &c. February 12, 1841. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Legislature of Vermont. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Vermont, on the subject of the New Jersey election. February 11, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Northeastern boundary. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of the report of the commissioners for the exploration and survey of the northeastern boundary, &c. &c. February 12, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Claims of citizens of the United States on Hayti. Message from the President of the United States, in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th ultimo, in relation to claims of citizens of the United States on the government of Hayti. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Lands -- currency -- national bank. Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, in relation to the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands, the repeal of the Sub-Treasury, and the establishment of a national bank. March 2, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. National armories. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the expenses of the national armories, and of the arms, &c. manufactured therein. February 19, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Independent Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a further reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 17th of December, relative to the collection and disbursement of the public revenue. March 3, 1841. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Army proper -- 1837 to 1840, inclusive. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a comparative view of the cost of the Army proper, officers, and professors of Military Academy, cadets, &c., for subsistence, clothing, &c. February 19, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Disbursements to Indians. Letter from the Second Auditor of the Treasury Department, transmitting copies of the accounts of persons charged with the disbursement of moneys, &c., for the benefit of the Indians, from 1st October, 1839, to 30th September, 1840; together with a list of the names of persons to whom goods, moneys, &c., have been intrusted, within the same period. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table.	27
Serial set 385	Condition of the state banks. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in obedience to the resolution of the House of Representatives of July 10, 1832, statements showing the condition of the several state banks, so far as the same have been received at the Treasury Department. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table.	1
Serial set 386	Passengers who arrived in the U. States -- 1840. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statements showing the number of passengers who have arrived in the United States from foreign countries during the year 1840. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of 17th December, 1840, respecting the surplus or additional sections lying along or adjoining the alternate sections on the Miami Canal, in the State of Ohio; and also, respecting the withholding from sale lands on the route of said Miami Canal and on the Auglaize River, &c., &c. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Search or seizure of American vessels on coast of Africa, &c. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to seizures or search of American vessels, &c. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table Contracts -- Treasury Department -- 1840. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of contracts made by the Department for 1840, &c. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Sale of tools used -- northern and western lakes. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the sale of tools used on the public works on the great northern and western lakes. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Claims for horses, &c. lost in Florida. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d December last, respecting claims presented to the Department for horses, &c. lost in the several campaigns in Florida, against the Seminole Indians, &c. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Appropriations -- new offices, &c. Report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States, in compliance with the "Act To Authorize the Appointment of Additional Paymasters, and for Other Purposes," passed July 4, 1836. March 4, 1841. Militia of the United States -- returns of. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting abstracts of the general returns of the militia of the United States, and of their arms, accoutrements, and ammunition, for the year 1840. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Officers of the Customs -- emoluments of. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting abstracts of the official emoluments and expenditures of the officers of the Customs; also, statements of the fees of such officers for certificates to accompany distilled spirits, wines, and teas, and for commissions on disbursements as superintendents of light-houses, and as agents for marine hospitals. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Lands -- alternate sections on the Miami Canal, &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, of the 23d of December last, in relation to lands lying along and adjoining, and within the line of alternate sections, sold since January 1, 1830, to 1st January, 1836; and, also, copies of instructions given from the General Land Office, relating to withholding from sale lands on the route of the Miami Canal. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table. Commerce and navigation of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Register of the Treasury in relation to the annual statement of commerce and navigation. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table, and 10,000 extra copies ordered to be printed. Expenditures, &c., Post Office Department -- 1840. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of the expenditures of the Department, for the year ending 30th June, 1840, &c. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table.	12
Serial set 387	Attorneys General -- construction of public laws. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of opinions given by Attorneys General, &c., which give construction to the public laws not of a temporary character. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon the table.	1

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