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Serial set 675 American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting an abstract of the returns of American seamen. December 23, 1852. -- Ordered to be printed.
Estimates -- rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates, &c., for continuing river and harbor improvements. December 23, 1852. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed.
Estimates of appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1854. December 10, 1852.
Additional estimates -- Indian service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting additional estimates for the Indian service, &c. December 23, 1852. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.
Treasurer's accounts. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting copies of his accounts for the 3d and 4th quarters of 1851, and 1st and 2d quarters of 1852. December 23, 1852. -- Ordered to be printed. 		5
Serial set 676 Schooner Amistad. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Spanish minister relative to the case of the Amistad. January 19, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Navy Pension Fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the receipts and expenditures on account of the Navy Pension Fund. December 30, 1852. -- Ordered to be printed.
Balances -- War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of appropriations and balances. December 23, 1852. -- Ordered to be printed.
Balances -- Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of balances, &c. December 23, 1852. -- Ordered to be printed.
Additional estimate -- Navy hospital, Norfolk. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a letter from the Chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks, asking an additional estimate for the Navy hospital at Norfolk. December 30, 1852. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
Contingent expenses -- military establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of expenditures for the contingent expenses of the military establishment. January 14, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Clerks and other employees of the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting list of clerks, &c. January 14, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Contracts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of contracts for 1852. January 19, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Balances. Letter from the First Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting statements of accounts, &c. January 14, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Seminole Indians. Message from the President of the United States, in reference to the Indians remaining in Florida. January 19, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Estimates -- mail service. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting estimates for the mail service. January 19, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Willard Richards, Acting Secretary of Utah. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Comptroller recommending an appropriation for the payment of Willard Richards, while acting as Secretary of Utah. January 5, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories.
Estimate -- Congressional Library. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate to cover deficiency in the appropriation for repairing the Congressional Library. January 14, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Midshipmen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement showing the number of midshipmen to each state, &c. January 14, 1853. --Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
Finances. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the finances. January 20, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. January 27, 1853. -- Ordered, that 13,000 extra copies of the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances, and 2,000 copies of the portion of it relating exclusively to the fisheries, be printed separately, for the use of the House.
Reports of Surveyors General of California and Oregon. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting annual reports of the Surveyors General of California and Oregon. January 14, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. January 27, 1853. -- Ordered, that there be printed for the use of the Commissioner of the General Land Office 1,000 copies of the supplement to the annual report of said Commissioner for the year 1852-'53.
Estimates P.O. Department -- explanation. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Auditor of the Post Office Department, in explanation of estimates heretofore submitted. January 5, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. 		17
Serial set 677 Mint of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the annual report of the Director of the Mint. February 12, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Contracts. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a list of contracts entered into by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and an abstract of offers to furnish articles under the cognizance of that Bureau. February 1, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Contingent fund of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the expenditure of the contingent fund of that Department. February 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Penitentiary, D.C. -- report of Inspectors. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the annual report of the Inspectors of the Penitentiary. February 12, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.
Minnesota -- expenses of Legislative Assembly. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of expenses of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota. February 3, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Balances. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting statement of balances, &c. February 2, 1853. Ordered to be printed.
Fisheries and commercial reciprocity with Canada. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report on the subject of the fisheries and commercial reciprocity with Canada. February 8, 1853. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Balances -- officers of the Customs. Letter from the Acting Commissioner of Customs, transmitting a statement of balances, &c. January 25, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Heirs of Lieutenant Browning. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information in reference to the claim of the heirs of Lieutenant Browning. January 25, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Custom-house officers -- additional pay. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reference to claims of Custom-house officers for additional pay. January 25, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Army Register. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the official Army Register. February 1, 1853. Ordered to be printed.
Claims on Spain -- barque " Georgiana" and brig "Susan Loud." Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in reference to the claims on Spain in the cases of barque "Georgiana" and brig "Susan Loud." January 21, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Receipts and disbursements of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting copies of accounts for receipts and disbursements for the Post Office Department. January 20, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Clerks -- War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting lists of clerks of the War Department. February 1, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Weighers and gaugers. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communications respecting the compensation of weighers and gaugers. February 1, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Contingencies War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of expenditures for contingencies of the War Department. February 1, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
National armories. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement in reference to the national armories. January 25, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Pay of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tabular statements showing the pay and allowances of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, &c. February 1, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Contingencies -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the contingent fund of the Navy Department. February 1, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. 		19
Serial set 678 Exploration of the valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy Department, by Wm. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon, Lieutenants United States Navy. Volume V. Part I. By Lieut. Herndon. 1
Serial set 679 Army Register for year ending June, 1850. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting transcript of the official Army Register for the year ending June 30, 1850. February 19, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Revenue cutter on Pacific coast. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending an appropriation for the building a revenue cutter for the Pacific coast. February 18, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Navy Register. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the Navy Register for 1853. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Contingent fund of the Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statements of the expenditure of the contingent fund for that Department. February 18, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Navy steamers. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting information respecting Navy steamers built since 1835. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Inter-oceanic canal -- Nicaragua route. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report in reference to the inter-oceanic canal by the Nicaragua route. February 18, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Marine Hospital Fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of expenditures from the Marine Hospital Fund. February 12, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Army Register for year ending June 30, 1851. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a transcript of the official Army Register for the year ending 30th June, 1851. February 12, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
State Department -- contingent expenses, &c. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statement of contingent expenses of the State Department, statement of balances, &c. February 12, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Clerks -- Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting lists of the clerks and others employed in the Department of the Interior. February 18, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Army Register for year ending June 30, 1852. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the official Army Register for the year ending 30th June, 1852. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Estimates for salaries of inspectors of steamboats. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimates of appropriations for salaries of supervising and local inspectors of passenger steamboats. February 18, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Cape Vincent harbor. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Topographical Bureau in reference to the harbor of Cape Vincent. February 18, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Passengers arriving in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting tabular statements showing the number, &c., of passengers who arrived in the United States during the last year. February 12, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Clerks -- State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting lists of clerks, &c. February 12, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Militia of the States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting abstract of returns of the militia of all the states. February 12, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Clerks -- Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting list of clerks. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Chickasaw trust funds. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the Chickasaw trust funds. February 22, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed
Receipts and disbursements -- Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting statement of receipts and disbursements for the Post Office Department. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. 		19
Serial set 680 Mail contracts, etc. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting report of mail contracts, &c. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. 1
Serial set 681 Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the Survey during the year 1852. Volume VIII. 1
Serial set 682 Letter from the Commissioner of Patents, transmitting his annual report. March 2, 1853. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered that 110,000 extra copies of the agricultural, and 60,000 extra of the mechanical part, be printed; 10,000 of each of which are for the use of the Patent Office. 1
Serial set 683 Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1852. Volume IX. Part II. Agriculture. 1
Serial set 684-1 Clerks -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting lists of clerks, &c. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Court-martial -- Fabius Stanly. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the record of the court-martial in the case of Lieutenant Fabius Stanly, together with correspondence relating thereto. Ordered to be printed.
Charles F. Sibbald. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report in the case of Charles F. Sibbald. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Banks in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report on the condition of the banks throughout the Union. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. 		4
Serial set 684-2 Commerce and navigation. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report from the Register of the Treasury of the commerce and navigation of the United States, for the year ending June 30, 1852. January 1, 1853. 1
Serial set 685 Distribution of the public lands. Preamble and resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York correcting an error made in the engrossing of a resolution presented at the last session to the House of Representatives of the United States, relative to the distribution of public lands. January 20, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Appropriations, new offices, etc. Report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, U.S., in compliance with the "Act To Authorize the Appointment of Additional Paymasters and for Other Purposes," passed July 4, 1836. May 20, 1853.
Distribution of lands to actual settlers. Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, asking a distribution of the public lands to actual settlers. December 13, 1852. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed.
Deficiencies -- contingent fund House of Reps. (To accompany Bill H.R. 335.) Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting estimate for contingencies of the House of Representatives. December 23, 1852.
Civil and diplomatic. (To accompany Bill H.R. 337.) Communications addressed to the Committee of Ways and Means, in reference to items of appropriation in the general appropriation bill.
Balances carried to the surplus fund. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 335.) Letter from the Secretary of War, on the subject of balances, &c. January 12, 1853.
Mouth of Cape Fear River. Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, asking an appropriation for deepening the channel at the mouth of Cape Fear River. January 17, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed.
Clerks and other employees of the House of Representatives. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting a list of clerks, &c. January 14, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Military posts on Kansas and Upper Minnesota Rivers. Letter from the Secretary of War, on the subject of estimates for posts at the Republican Fork of Kansas River, and on Upper Minnesota River. January 26, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Thos. Ap C. Jones, U.S.N. Letter from Commodore Thos. Ap C. Jones, transmitting sundry papers in refutation of certain allegations made against him; also a communication from the Hon. Edward Stanly, in connexion with the same subject. February 22, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
Muscogee or Creek Indians. Letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in reference to the affairs of the Creek Indians. January 17, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Railroad -- Burlington and Keokuk to Missouri River. Joint resolution of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Iowa, asking a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from Burlington and Keokuk to the Missouri River. January 20, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
Appropriations for the naval service. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 342.) Communications addressed to the Committee of Ways and Means, on the subject of appropriations for the naval service. January 7, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Public printing. Letter from the Superintendent of Public Printing, submitting estimates, &c. January 19, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Railroad from Davenport to the Missouri River. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, asking a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from Davenport to the Missouri River, in said state. January 20, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting a statement of the expenditure of the contingent fund of the House, &c. January 6, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Reciprocity of trade with Canada. Letter from the Governor of Vermont, transmitting resolutions of the legislature of that state on the subject of reciprocal trade with the British North American colonies. February 17, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Estimates for paper, &c. Letter from the Superintendent of Public Printing, transmitting estimates for paper, &c. February 12, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Mail ocean steamers. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 349.) Letters addressed to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, transmitting statements of revenue derived from ocean mail steamers. January 27, 1853. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union.
Books for members. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in reference to books furnished members of the House of Representatives. February 18, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Annual report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. Letter from the Commissioner of Public Buildings, transmitting his annual report. February 18, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Employees in House of Representatives, Capitol, and on public grounds, &c. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting list of clerks, and other employees, &c. January 6, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed.
Contracts -- Commissioner of Public Buildings. Letter from the Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds, transmitting copy of contracts. March 3, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. 		23
Serial set 686 The seventh census of the United States: 1850. 1
Serial set 687 Judge John C. Watrous, of Texas. February 28, 1853. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
The Gardiner investigation. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 326.) October 7, 1852. -- Filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives. December 7, 1852. -- Ordered that the report and evidence be printed.
Reciprocal trade with the British North American colonies. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 360.) February 11, 1853.
Deficiencies. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 335.) February 19, 1853. Committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed.
Light-houses, buoys, &c. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 362.) February 18, 1853.
E.G. Chambers et al. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 352.) February 1, 1852 [1853].
Seventh census -- printing and binding. (To accompany J.R. No. 31.) February 3, 1853. 		7
Serial set 688 List of committees of the Senate of the United States, for the special session of the Senate. March 8, 1853.
Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in further compliance with a resolution of the Senate, certain papers in relation to the Mexican Boundary Commission. March 22, 1853. -- Referred to the select committee on the subject, and ordered to be printed. March 23, 1853. -- Ordered that 2,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate.
In Senate of the United States. March 22, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. March 23, 1853. -- Ordered that 2,00 extra copies be printed. Mr. Borland made the following report. The select committee appointed by the Senate under the resolution of the 6th August, 1852, in the following words: "Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the President of the Senate to inquire into abuses, bribery, or fraud, in the prosecution of claims before Congress..."
In Senate of the United States. In executive session, March 23, 1853. Ordered, that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the following, and that the same be printed for the use of the Senate.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, relative to the imprisonment of James H. West, a citizen of the United States, and the seizure of his property by the authorities of Cuba. March 9, 1853. -- Read, and ordered to be printed.
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the report of Gilbert Rodman, esq., upon the subject of the Custom-house at San Francisco, Cal. April 9, 1853. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a report in relation to the construction of a light-house on the New South Shoal off Nantucket. April 19, 1852. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 23, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. April 4, 1853. -- Ordered that 100 additional copies be printed for Major Bache.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the contract with Howland & Aspinwall for supplying the Japan Squadron with coal. March 14, 1853. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Report of the Postmaster General, communicating in further compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a contract with Messrs. Ramsey and Carmick, for the transportation of the mails to San Francisco. March 14, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 17th January, 1853, in relation to the fisheries on the coasts of the British North American provinces. March 8, 1853. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. March 14, 1853. -- Ordered, that 2,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate.
Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a copy of the correspondence between the Department of the Interior and the Indian agents and commissioners in California. March 17, 1853. -- Read, and ordered to be printed.
Documents relative to an outrage alleged to have been committed on James H. West, a citizen of the United States, by the authorities of the island of Cuba. March 14, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, further correspondence between the minister of the United States at Paris and the Department of State, concerning the revolution in France of December, 1851. March 22, 1853. -- Read and ordered to be printed. 		13
Serial set 689 Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the first session of the Thirty-third Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington, December 5, 1853; and in the seventy-eighth year of the independence of the United States. 1
Serial set 690 Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-third Congress. December 6, 1853. -- Read, and ordered to be printed; and that 10,000 copies in addition to the usual number be printed for the use of the Senate 1
Serial set 691 Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-third Congress. December 6, 1853. -- Read, and ordered to be printed; and that 10,000 copies in addition to the usual number be printed for the use of the Senate. Part II. 1
Serial set 692 Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-third Congress. December 6, 1853. -- Read, and ordered to be printed; and that 10,000 copies in addition to the usual number be printed for the use of the Senate. Part III. 1
Serial set 693 Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-third Congress. December 6, 1853. -- Read, and ordered to be printed; and that 10,000 copies, in addition to the usual number, be printed for the use of the Senate. Part IV. Maps and other illustrations belonging to reports accompanying the message. 1