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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
Serial set 694	Report of the Secretary of War, relative to the experiments made to test the relative efficacy and usefulness of the Onondaga solar salt and the Turk's Island salt, in the cure and packing of provisions. January 9, 1854. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the causes of the repeated detention of the northern mail. January 17, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. January 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a statement of receipts and expenditures of the Marine Hospital Fund for the year ending 30th June, 1853. January 23, 1854. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the transactions between Captain Hollins, of the United States ship Cyane, and the authorities at San Juan de Nicaragua. December 20, 1853. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a statement of the appropriations for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1853. December 12, 1853. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a statement of appropriations for the service of that Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1853. December 13, 1853. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the finances. December 7, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 10,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Report of the Superintendent of the Public Printing, showing the condition of the public printing. December 7, 1853. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating in compliance with resolutions of the Senate, the correspondence relative to the claim on Portugal, in the case of the brig General Armstrong. December 20, 1853. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a report of the Superintendent of the Census. December 20, 1853. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, further correspondence growing out of the Treaty of Washington of July 4, 1850. January 3, 1854. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the number and names of the persons employed in the Coast Survey during the year ending June 30, 1853; their compensation, and the time of their employment; together with a statement of all expenditures made under the direction of the Superintendent. December 30, 1853. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a copy of the correspondence with the government of the Papal States relative to the mission of Archbishop Gaetano Bedini to the United States. January 27, 1854. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the wreck of the steamer San Francisco. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of State, showing the disbursements for the service of the State Department, for the fiscal year ending the 30th June, 1853. December 13, 1853. Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the claims of citizens of the United States against Hayti, and the correspondence of the special agent to Hayti, in 1849. January 3, 1854. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the northern boundary line of the State of Iowa. December 27, 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, the reports of the commissioners who examined the different sites offered for a military asylum in the west. January 12, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a list of rejected applications for pensions, and recommending that the act of February 3, 1853, to continue half-pay to certain widows and orphans, be amended. January 17, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating a statement of the contingent expenses of the military establishment for the year 1853. January 9, 1854. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of State, showing the names and compensation of the clerks and other persons employed in that Department during the year 1853. January 17, 1854. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating a statement of the expenditures at the national armories, and of the number of arms and appendages made thereat during the year ending June 30, 1853. January 9, 1854. -- Read, and ordered to be printed.	22
Serial set 695	Report of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, accompanied by copies of such accounts as have been rendered by persons charged with the disbursement or application of moneys, goods, or effects for the benefit of the Indians, for the year ending June 30, 1852, with a list of the names of the persons to whom money, goods, or effects have been delivered. January 30, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a letter from the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs asking an additional appropriation for the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in the Territory of New Mexico. February 6, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating copies of all reports of the engineers and other persons, employed to make explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, that have been received at the Department. February 6, 1854. -- Referred to the select committee on the subject, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the improvement of the Arkansas River. January 31, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	4
Serial set 697	Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1853. Agriculture.	1
Serial set 698	Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the correspondence between Mr. Schenck, United States minister to Brazil, and the Secretary of State, in relation to the African slave trade. March 13, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed Report of the Secretary of War, communicating lists of clerks and other persons employed in the War Department, other than officers of the Army, during the year 1853. February 24, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of all communications from the American legation at Constantinople, respecting the seizure of Martin Koszta by the Austrian authorities at Smyrna. March 2, 1854. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury. In answer to a resolution of the Senate, calling for a statement of the amounts paid to the owners of certain vessels sunk for the defence of the harbor of Baltimore, in 1814. February 14, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, relative to the works of defence now in progress at Fort Point and Alcatrazas Island, California. March 15, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating the annual report of the Board of Inspectors of the Penitentiary for the District of Columbia, for the year ending December 31, 1853. March 7, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating Lieutenant Williamson's report of his surveys to ascertain a practicable route for a railroad to the Pacific Ocean. March 20, 1854. -- Referred to the select committee on the subject. April 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a copy of the correspondence in relation to the repair of the United States steam frigate Susquehanna at Rio de Janeiro. February 24, 1854. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, showing the contracts made under authority of the War Department during the year 1853. February 24, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report of the Director of the United States Mint at Philadelphia, upon the fineness and value of foreign coins. March 2, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for the report of the examination and measurement of the materials and work furnished by contract for the Patent Office building, and a statement of the payments made under the act of August, 1852. March 13, 1854. --Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a copy of the correspondence in relation to the imprisonment of James H. West in the island of Cuba. March 13, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the expediency of further measures for the safety, health, and comfort of immigrants to the United States by sea. May 4, 1854. -- Referred to the select committee on the subject. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for the amount expended for the transportation of troops, supplies, and munitions for the land and naval forces in the Pacific; also, for the transportation of the mails for the last three years. March 27, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. May 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of the correspondence in relation to the arrest, at Bremen, of Conrad Schmidt, a naturalized citizen of the United States, and the arrest, at Heidelberg, of E.T. Dana and other citizens of the United States; also, copies of the correspondence with the King of Prussia on the subject of religious toleration. May 8, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating the report of a board of officers of the Army, appointed to examine and report upon claims for funds advanced, and subsistence and supplies furnished or taken for the use of Fremont's California battalion, while engaged in the public service. March 16, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning to the Senate the bill entitled "An Act Making a Grant of Public Lands to the Several States for the Benefit of Indigent Insane Persons," with a statement of the objections which have required him to withhold from it his approval. May 3, 1854. --Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. May 4, 1854. -- Ordered that 10,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating an abstract of the returns of the militia of all the states and territories, with their arms, accoutrements, and ammunition. February 8, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Postmaster General, in answer to a resolution of the Senate respecting the measures taken to establish a daily mail between certain places on the Mississippi River, as required by the 11th section of the "Act To Establish Certain Post Roads and for Other Purposes," approved August 31, 1852. February 10, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Communications from the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, recommending certain appropriations for the Indian service. February 21, 1854. -- Submitted by Mr. Sebastian, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 28, 1853, in regard to the prices of various kinds of iron. February 20, 1854. Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate in relation to the United States Insane Asylum in the District of Columbia. February 23, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a set of works illustrative of the exhibition in London of 1851, presented by the British government to that of the United States. January 24, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library. February 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate calling for a statement of the amount of money received and expended by Luther Blake, late agent for the removal of the Indians from Florida, the objects for which expended, and the number of Indians removed. March 3, 1854. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a plan for the enlargement and modification of the judicial system of the United States. March 2, 1854. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for the amount of American securities held in Europe and other foreign countries, on the 30th June, 1853. March 2, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate in relation to the work done under the appropriations of 1852 for the improvement of western rivers and harbors. March 29, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the correspondence between the United States consul at Smyrna and the American legation at Constantinople, and between said consul and this government, in relation to Martin Koszta. April 6, 1854 -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a statement of the annual pay of the several railroad companies in the United States for the transportation of the mails. April 12, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post roads, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a report of the Attorney General, suggesting modifications in the manner of conducting the legal business of the government. April 25, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed.	30
Serial set 699	Report of the commissioners, appointed by the President of the United States, to investigate the official conduct of Alexander H. Ramsey, late governor of Minnesota Territory, with the testimony taken in the case by them, transmitted to the Senate with the message of the President of the United States, January 10, 1854. May 8, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Report and charts of the cruise of the U.S. brig Dolphin, made under direction of the Navy Department, by Lieut. S.P. Lee, United States Navy.	2
Serial set 700	Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of all papers and vouchers on file in his Department in relation to the claim of Daniel Nippes. May 15, 1854. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a statement of the amount of bonds or other securities of the United States redeemed since the 3d March, 1853. May 8, 1854. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating information, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the dock, basin, and railway at Pensacola. May 10, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, communicating copies of his accounts of receipts and disbursements for the Post Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1853. May 9, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, on the expediency of promptly completing the fortifications at the Tortugas and Key West. 1854, May 22. -- Ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a letter from H.S. Sanford, late charge d'affaires at Paris, on the different systems of penal codes in Europe. Also, a report on the administrative changes in France since the Revolution of 1848. May 29, 1854. -- Read and ordered to be printed -- motion to print 1,000 additional copies referred to Committee on Printing. May 31, 1854. -- Reported adversely and agreed to.	6
Serial set 701	Report of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, accompanied by copies of such accounts as have been rendered by persons charged with the disbursement or application of moneys, goods, or effects, for the benefit of the Indians, from July 1, 1852, to June 30, 1853, inclusive, with lists of the names of all persons to whom goods, moneys, or effects, have been delivered within the same periods. June 8, 1854.--Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of the communications from Mr. Marsh, the American minister at Constantinople, relative to the case of the Reverend Mr. King. May 24, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.	2
Serial set 702	Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of the correspondence between Ferdinand Coxe, late charge d'affaires of the United States at Brazil, and the Brazilian Government, concerning the seizure of the cargo of the American barque "Griffin," and the imprisonment of George Marsden, a citizen of the United States. August 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 1st instant, information concerning our relations with the government of Spain. August 1, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information in relation to marine hospitals, and the collection and disbursement of the hospital fund, with the sums annually appropriated by Congress therefor. July 20, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information respecting the bombardment of San Juan de Nicaragua. July 31, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, accompanied by reports on the improvement of the Brazos River, Texas, and the surveys of Georgetown harbor, South Carolina, and the Savannah River from Savannah up to Augusta. July 29, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information in relation to the application of surface or fresh water-condensers to steamships belonging to the United States. August 3, 1854 -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the examination and survey of the route for a canal across the peninsula of Florida. July 17, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. July 26, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating information, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the employment of Luther Blake to remove the Indians from Florida. June 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate in relation to the establishment of a naval depot at Newport, Rhode Island. June 19, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, statements of the expenditures of the Mint, and the amount received at the Mint in Philadelphia, or charged to depositors for refining, and other charges, since March 3, 1853. June 23, 1854. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 3d of August, 1846, on the petition of Kingsley B. Gibbs, executor of Zephaniah Kingsley, deceased, praying payment of interest on his claim arising under the treaty with Spain of 1819. June 25, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, as to the fulfilment, on the part of the government, of the stipulations of a treaty made with the Pottawattomies, on the 26th October, 1832. June 8, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. June 20, 1854. -- Discharged. July 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating copies of two communications from her Britannic Majesty's minister to the Secretary of State, relative to the health, on shipboard, of emigrants from foreign countries to the United States. June 30, 1854. -- Referred to the Select Committee Relative to Sickness on Board of Emigrant Ships, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information respecting the repair of the marine hospital at New Orleans. July 5, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information respecting the present condition of the building of the United States branch Mint at New Orleans. July 5, 1854. --Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 19th January, 1853, a draft of a general revenue law, designed to supercede all existing laws on the subject; and which shall embrace all needful provisions for regulating the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States in American and foreign vessels. July 11, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. July 14, 1854. -- Ordered that 100 additional copies be printed for the use of the Treasury Department. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate in relation to the establishment of a naval depot at or near the Town of Beaufort, in the State of North Carolina. June 19, 1854. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. July 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed; and that 3,000 additional copies be printed, of which 500 shall be for the use of the Navy Department. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the improvement of the bar of the St. John's River, Florida. July 15, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Postmaster General communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to proposals submitted to him for the purchase of a site for a post office in Philadelphia. July 21, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of July 10, 1854, correspondence and documents respecting the claims of persons for services performed, and supplies and subsistence furnished to the Indians, in California, under contracts with Indian agents, in 1851. August 2, 1854. -- Read and ordered to be printed.	20
Serial set 703	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, 1853.	1
Serial set 704	Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the Survey during the year 1853. [Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of that work during the year ending November 1, 1853. December 30, 1853...	1
Serial set 705	Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, requesting the senators and representatives in Congress from that state to oppose any action by Congress which may look to a repeal of the Missouri Compromise. February 17, 1854. Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, in favor of the enactment, by Congress, of such laws as may be necessary to secure the health of passengers in emigrant vessels. February 2, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut, in favor of restoring the Missouri Compromise to full force and effect; in favor of an amendment to the Fugitive Slave Law, to secure to every person claimed under said law the right of trial by jury; and censuring the Hon. Isaac Toucey for his vote on the final passage of the bill for the organization of the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. July 6, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of the "Bill to Organize the Territory of Nebraska." June 13, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, recommending the senators and representatives of that state in Congress to oppose the passage of any law tending to disturb the provisions of the act of March 6, 1820, commonly called the "Missouri Compromise Act," in regard to slavery. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the donation of land for certain railroads. February 27, 1854. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, against the extension of the institution of slavery, and the further acquisition of foreign territory by the general government; in favor of the right of trial by jury to all persons claimed under the Fugitive Slave Law; and approving the course of the delegation from that state on the bill for the establishment of territorial governments in Nebraska and Kansas. July 7, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, instructing the senators and requesting the representatives of that state to oppose the passage of the Nebraska Bill, so long as it shall contain any provision repealing, abrogating, rescinding, or in any way invalidating the Missouri Compromise. March 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed Letter of J.C. Fremont to the editors of the National Intelligencer, communicating some general results of a recent winter expedition across the Rocky Mountains, for the survey of a route for a roilroad [i.e., railroad] to the Pacific. June 15, 1854. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, praying that the horses and equipage purchased for Captain French's company of volunteers in the Creek War of eighteen hundred and thirty-six, may be paid for. March 29, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Sam. C. Reid, Jr., in behalf of the claimants in the case of the brig General Armstrong, praying indemnity. January 19, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. January 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Document containing statistical information in relation to the line of mail steamers proposed to be established by Christian Hausen, between Brooklyn, New York, and certain ports in Europe. February 9, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, praying that a grant of land be made to aid in the construction of the Mobile and New Orleans Railroad, and all other railroads now in progress in that state. February 14, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon, in relation to an increase of the mail service between New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Umpqua harbor, Astoria, and the intermediate points of mail delivery, which may hereafter be established by future mail contracts, in that territory. March 16, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Louisiana, in relation to granting lands within that state for railroad purposes. March 20, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of a donation of land to the different states for lunatic asylums. March 29, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, in favor of a donation of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from St. Louis, Missouri, via the Iron-Mountains, to Helena, and thence via Lexington, Miss., to New Orleans. March 20, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, relative to the claims of the officers of the Virginia line upon continental establishment; relative to the satisfaction of outstanding Virginia military land-warrants; and relative to an extension of the bounty-land laws. February 27, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Memorial of the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Evansville and State of Indiana, in reference to the site for a location of a western armory. March 7, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of an extension of the same privileges and grants of lands to the soldiers of the War of 1812 as have been extended to those of the more recent wars. March 9, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of an increasv [i.e., increase] of compensation to the contractor for carrying the mail from Austin to Waco village, in the State of Texas. March 13, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, in favor of the granting of pensions to the surviving officers and soldiers of the War of 1812, and bounty lands to those of the War of the Revolution. March 13, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of changing the port of entry for the collection district of Brazos de Santiago, from Point Isabel to Brownsville. March 13, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee of Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, asking the passage of a law for the establishment of certain post routes in said state. May 10, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of a session of the board of commissioners to ascertain and settle private land claims in that state being held at Los Angelos. April 27, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of the establishment of a free watering place in Humboldt Desert. April 27, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of the passage of a law to authorize and confirm the locations made by the agents of said state of the 500,000 acres of land granted for school purposes; and also to confirm by special act the past legislation of said state in relation to said lands. May 10, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of the New Orleans and New York Railroad. March 20, 1854. -- Referred to the Committe [i.e., Committee] on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, praying an appropriation for the improvement of Mobile Bay. March 20, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of a donation of land for the education of the deaf and dumb, and the blind. March 29, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed Memorial of Alexander S. Taylor, representing that he is in possession of manuscript papers and documents of great value in elucidating the early settlement and history of California, and praying an appropriation to insure their early publication as part of the archives of the government. May 17, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in relation to the claim of the state upon the United States for lands taken and required to be taken to satisfy claimants under the treaty of Washington. May 22, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in favor of cheap ocean postage. May 22, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Statements showing: I. -- All appropriations made during the first session of the Thirty-third Congress. II. -- New offices created and the salaries of each. III. -- Offices, the salaries of which are increased, and the amount of such increase. October 9, 1854. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, respecting a light-house on Absecom Beach, and bell buoy outside of Absecom Bar. December 21, 1853. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States, for the first session of the Thirty-third Congress. December 12, 1853. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from McGregor's landing to the Missouri River, at or near the mouth of the Big Sioux River. December 12, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from Dubuque to the Missouri River. December 12, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Iowa, praying a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from Davenport to Council Bluffs. December 12, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from Burlington and Keokuk to the Missouri River, at or near the mouth of the Platte River. December 12, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, relative to the construction of a breakwater at Cape May. December 21, 1853. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Senate showing the names and compensation of persons employed in his office during the year 1853. January 5, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial adopted at a meeting of the citizens of Boston, held in Faneuil Hall, in favor of a reduction of the rates of ocean postage. January 4, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Letter from John T. Towers, late Superintendent of the Public Printing. (To accompany Joint Resolution No. 7.) January 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Senate, showing the payments made from the contingent fund of the Senate for the year ending December 3, 1853. December 27, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. Petition of John W. Griffiths and Wm. Norris, praying the adoption of a new rule for ascertaining the tonnage of vessels. January 30, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Badger submitted the following letters. (To accompany Bill S. 202.)... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Badger submitted for consideration the following resolution. (The amendments proposed to be made to the existing 48th rule, by this resolution, are to add what will be found printed in italics.)... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury. (To accompany Bill S. 99.)... Memorial of H.D. Johnson, delegate from the Territory of Nebraska, claiming for the people of that territory the right to legislate for themselves on the subject of slavery, and that Congress should leave the question to the decision of their own choice. February 20, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, remonstrating against the passage of the Nebraska bill. February 24, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, recommending a reprint of D.D. Owens's report of a survey of the mineral lands in Iowa, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois. March 16, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi, in favor of the bill to organize the territories of Nebraska and Kansas. March 20, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in relation to the public domain. March 29, 1854 -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, relating to the improvement of the navigation and the protection of the harbors along the seaboard of that state. March 8, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Proceedings and resolutions of the Agricultural Society of New Castle County, Delaware, against the passage of the "Homestead Bill." April 6, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, respecting French spoliations. April 22, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in favor of the donation of one hundred and sixty acres of land to the soldiers of the War of 1812, and the extension of the pension system to them and their widows. March 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of an appropriation to pay Messrs. Cooke and Lockwood, for damages sustained by the destruction of their property by United States soldiers in 1850. March 13, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Georgia, approving of the principles contained in the "Nebraska bill," relating to the subject of slavery in the territories. April 20, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, relating to the revenue laws of the United States. May 22, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in favor of the abolition of spirit rations in the United States Navy. May 22, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut, instructing their senators and requesting their representatives to oppose, by all lawful means, and to the last extremity, the bill to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, with the clause abrogating the prohibition of slavery, known as the Missouri Compromise. May 22, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in relation to certain proposed modifications of the navigation laws of the United States, allowances of bounty to fishing vessels, and reciprocal trade with the British North American colonies. May 22, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana, in relation to the recent policy of the Spanish government in reference to the island of Cuba, and the necessity of the adoption by the United States of some decisive and energetic measures to thwart and defeat the same. May 24, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in relation to cheap ocean postage. June 13, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of John Charles Fremont, praying that the Secretary of the Interior may be authorized to examine and settle, upon principles of equity, his claim for beef-cattle furnished by him under a contract with the Commissioner of the United States for treating with the California Indians, in 1851, for the use and subsistence of those Indians. June 22, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a Committee of the Corporation of Georgetown, D.C., praying that Congress may pass no law allowing the Long Bridge across the Potomac River to be used in connection with a railroad between the depot of the Baltimore and Washington Railroad and Alexandria. June 22, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States, July 21, 1854. Resolved, that twenty thousand copies of the Kansas and Nebraska Act, certified by the Secretary of State, be printed in pamphlet form for the use of the Senate. Eighth annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution up to January 1, 1854, and the proceedings of the Board up to July 8, 1854. [Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, communicating the annual report of the Board of Regents. July 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered that 10,000 additional copies be printed, 500 of which for the use of the Smithsonian Institution.] Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of additional mail facilities for California and Oregon. April 27, 1854. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Report of a committee, accompanied by resolutions adopted at a meeting of citizens of New Hanover County, North Carolina, in favor of an appropriation for the removal of the bar in Cape Fear River. May 31, 1854. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland, in favor of some arrangement with the Peruvian government, by which the monopoly in the sale of guano may be removed. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed.	73
Serial set 706	In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 89.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the representative of W.G. Williams... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Steuben County, New York, praying an increase of the pension of Isaac Ackerman, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 258.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Peter A. Myers, for an increase of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 5,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. January 5, 1854. -- Ordered that the Bill (S. 22) be annexed to, and printed in connection with, the additional copies of the report. Mr. Douglas made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 22.) The Committee on Territories, to which was referred a bill for an act to establish the Territory of Nebraska... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 276.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Ann W. Angus, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 223.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Carlton, praying to be placed on the list of Revolutionary pensioners, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of James M. Crane, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Drane, praying a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Adam Hays, late a surgeon in the Army of the United States, praying for arrears of pension for disabilities incurred in said service, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawson made the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom the memorial of the Petersburg volunteers was referred, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Act H.R. 181.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred H.R. Bill No. 181, for the relief of John Hamilton, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 213.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Otway H. Berryman... In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William C. Parke, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 283.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Llewellyn Washington, have had the same under consideration and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 121.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Pamela Brown... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Catharine Wearer, and the documents relating thereto, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Nickel, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 103.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Derbigny, et al., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 162.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the case of Hiram Moore and John Hascall, being an application for the renewal of their patent for a harvesting machine, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 44.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill making a grant of public lands for the benefit of the indigent insane in the several states, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 157.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of William A. Burt, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 156.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Jonathan Kearsley, late receiver of public moneys at Detroit, in the State of Michigan, and the petition of John Biddle, late register of the land office at the same place, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 160.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill (No. 160), for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Colonel A.G. Morgan, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of David P. Weeks, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 9.)... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 151.) The Committee of the Senate on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial or petition of Peter M. [i.e., U.] Morgan, administrator of John Arnold and George G. Bishop, for the renewal of patents heretofore granted to them, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 148.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Zachariah Lawrence, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 152.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Varn, Sen., report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 10.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred Bill No. 10, "To Provide for the Surrender of Certain Bonds of the State of Indiana," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Thomas Connor, praying a pension in consequence of injuries received in the military service of the United States, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 209.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Ira Day, of Vermont, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones of Iowa made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Bowman, son and executor of Isaac Bowman, deceased, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pearce made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 291.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the memorial of Horace Southmayd and son, praying the return of duties exacted of and paid by them at Tampico, in Mexico, in 1847, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Act H.R. 267.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred House Bill, No. 267, being a bill for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain William Davis, late commander of the United States transport schooner Eufaula, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 285.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Brigadier General Richard B. Mason, of the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1852. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 292.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the executor of Robert Sewell [i.e., Sewall], praying compensation for property destroyed by the British in 1814, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the several petitions of John F. Webb, of Robert Steele, and of Lucretia W. Hubbard, praying Congress to allow to the children of their fathers, respectively, who had served in the Revolutionary War, the pension their fathers would have respectively received under the act of March 15, 1828, had they survived the date of its passage, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 240.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of James Edwards, of the administrator of Edward M. Wanton, and of the executors of Nehemiah Brush, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 248.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of William Harris, praying compensation for his services as a soldier in the Army of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walker made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 259.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of the "Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company," report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1854. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Weller submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of William A. Slacum, deceased, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of the administrator of David Richardson, deceased, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Franklin Chase, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones of Iowa made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 241.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Wormsley, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Weller made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Frances Ann McCauley, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Absalom Kyle and William C. Kyle, praying compensation for transporting the mail, due according to the terms of their contract, made the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 268.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Sam. C. Reid, Jr., in behalf of the claimants in the case of the brig General Armstrong... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 265.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Robert Jemison and Benjamin Williamson... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report: The Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to whom was referred the petition of James Robertson, praying indemnity for his arrest and imprisonment by the officers of the Senate, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 277.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Theresa Dardenne... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 279.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was recommitted the memorial of Hezekiah Miller, together with additional documents, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 274.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Andrew Hodge, Jr., report... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 275.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Andrew J. Dickerhoff, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 278) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Henry La Reintrie, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Act H.R. 127.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred H.R. Bill No. 127, for the relief of James F. Green, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 56.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of the late Dr. William Somerville, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 53.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Winslow, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 52.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mary E.D. Blaney, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chase made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 33.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs of the late Major Caleb Swan, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fish made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 32.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph Gideon, praying to be paid the difference between the compensation of a captain's clerk and an acting purser of the United States store-ship Fredonia, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fish made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 30.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Marston Taylor, asking allowance for Treasury notes deposited in the Phoenix Bank, and lost by the failure of that bank, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dodge, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 29.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Mitchell for pay and bounty land as a soldier... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1853. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward, made the following report. (To accompany Resolution, S. 3.) The Committee on Commerce to whom was referred the petition of the owners of the Kate Boyd, together with a joint resolution for their relief, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 22, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 61.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petitions of the administrator of Rinaldo Johnson, and of the administratrix of Ann E. Johnson, and the memorial of Hodges and Lansdale, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 86.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of J. Boyd, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 88.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William G. Ridgely, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of B.E. Abbott, son of George F. Abbott, late vice consul of the United States at Salonica, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 87.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jacob Gideon, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 91.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Dunning, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Weller made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 170.) The Committee on Military Affairs to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Helen Mackay, widow and administratix [i.e., administratrix] of Colonel Aeneus Mackay, deceased, praying that the proper accounting officers may be directed to receive certain vouchers as evidence in the settlement of her late husband's accounts, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 8.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of J. Wilson Smith, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 153.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 153, "A Bill To Relinquish the Reversionary Interest of the United States to a Certain Reservation Therein Mentioned and To Confirm the Title of Chas. G. Gunter thereto,"... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of William Rees, praying to be allowed to locate 10,000 acres of land in one tract... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 171.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial of William R. Nevins, a citizen of the United States, praying for the extension of a patent granted to him for a certain useful improvement for rolling and cutting crackers and biscuits, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 128.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial and accompanying papers of Captain Hiram Paulding... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dodge of Iowa made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 92.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Bill (S. 92) "To Lay off the Town of Council Bluffs, in Iowa... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 181.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Selina C. Sumner... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Felker, on behalf of the heirs of George Godfrey Felker, deceased, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 189.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the documents in relation to the claim of Mrs. Sally T.B. Cochrane, widow of the late Lieutenant R.E. Cochrane, United States Army, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 184.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Smith, asking for payment for her military services in the Mexican War, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 186.) Mr. Evans, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom were referred the petitions of the widow of William Riley and divers other persons... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the representative of William Russworm, an officer of the Revolutionary Army, praying to be allowed interest on his commutation, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 191.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas B. Parsons, for arrears of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 193.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Maria Morell, widow of the late Hon. George Morell... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Somers Corson, nearest surviving relative of Captain Richard Somers, who fell at Tripoli, praying a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 206.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Harriet O. Read, executrix of the late Brevet Colonel A.C.W. Fanning, of the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ann L. Moore, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jacob T. Smith, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Michael Hennessy, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was refered [sic] the petition of Harriett D.P. Baker, widow, and the children of John M. Baker, late consul at Rio de Janeiro... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 51.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Cornelius McCaullay, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fish made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 31.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Purser F.B. Stockton, praying the return to him of certain money deposited in the Phoenix Bank... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 55.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of merchants of New Orleans, praying that the said port be extended... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 101.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Michael Everly, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 100.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Mary C. Hamilton... In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 90.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Cooper & Co., report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 146.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel H. Hampstead... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom a resolution of the Senate of December 21, 1853, was referred, have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 141.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the documents in support of the claim of Richard Fitzpatrick, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 147.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of James Chapman, administrator of Thomas Chapman, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Francis Barnes... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 165.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A.J. Williamson, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 167.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of D.J. Campau, in behalf of his father Joseph Campau, praying for a patent for a certain tract of land... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 109.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Silas L. Loomis, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the papers relating to the claim of Orson Young, for pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the papers relating to the claim of the heirs of George Waugh for arrearages of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 134.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Allen G. Johnson... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 117.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred certain documents and papers in support of the claim of Moses Olmstead... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (Considered and Committee discharged.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the documents in relation to the claim of W.C. Easton... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Browmer, praying a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Adams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 127.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom, on the 4th of January, 1854, was referred the petition of John Phagan, do respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chase made the following report. The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of John Thomas... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 145.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of John G. Camp, late marshal for the middle district of Florida, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shield made the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of James D. Cobb... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Report on the memorial of Lavinia Taylor. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lavinia Taylor, asking to be allowed a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 132.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Albert Hart... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 108.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rebecca Freeman... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of John Brown, praying for back pension from the date of his disability, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 135.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Adam D. Steuart... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 142.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition and papers in the case of Don B. Juan Domercq, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (Which was considered, postponed to, and made the special order for the day for, Wednesday next, January 18, 1854.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a resolution of the Senate, of the 4th of January, 1854, have had the same under consideration and have directed me to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 182.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Butler, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 185.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the executors of Samuel Prioleau... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 158.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred the memorial and accompanying papers of David Myerle, asking indemnity for losses sustained in his efforts, made under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of the Navy, to introduce the process of water-rotting hemp... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 187.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the following resolution: "Resolved, That the subject-matter of relief to the innocent purchasers and settlers on the Maison Rouge and De Bastrop grants..." In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petitions of Edward Torry [i.e., Torrey], administrator of Joseph Torry [i.e., Torrey], and the administrator of William Johonnot, praying for the payment of interest on commutation allowed them, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Abraham Hunt, a captain in the Massachusetts line of the Continental Army, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 175.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Bronson, for the payment for goods lost, and destroyed by the enemy, in 1813, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petitions of sundry collateral heirs of John Morgan, director general and physician-in-chief of the American hospitals, during the Revolutionary War... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 192.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Amos Knapp... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 106.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Senate Bill (No. 106), to authorize the payment of invalid pensions, in certain cases, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 208.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Devlin, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 105.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Bill (S. 105) for the relief of paymasters' clerks who served in Mexico... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 224.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred "documents in relation to the claim of Joseph Watson," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 222.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Wilson... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 231.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Metcalf, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 60.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the memorial of Hiram O. Alden and James Eddy... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawson made the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Brevet Colonel Benjamin S. Roberts, of the Army, praying indemnity for losses sustained by him during the war with Mexico, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 218.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Commander G.S. [i.e., G.J.] Pendergrast, of the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Fitzsimmons, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 199.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 199, "A Bill Authorizing a Patent To Be Issued to Peter Poncin, for Certain Lands Therein Named," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition of Jeremiah Simmons, also that of Joseph Penley, accompanied by a printed narrative, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 205.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the "Bill Making a Grant of Land to the State of Alabama, in Alternate Sections, To Aid in the Construction of a Railroad from the Line of Georgia, on the Chattahoochee River, to the City of Mobile,"... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Everett made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 215.) The Committee of Foreign Relations have had under consideration the memorial of Richard W. Meade, administrator of Richard W. Meade, deceased, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 230.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Asbury Dickins, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Act H.R. 192.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred H.R. Bill 192, for the relief of Pamela Slavin... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 225.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Cook, Pelatiah Shepherd, and Benjamin A. Napier, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 216.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Smith, asking the right to locate certain lands, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of the children of Leonard Proctor, praying a pension on account of his services in the war of the revolution, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 229.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Thomas J. [i.e. T.] Russell... Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in the case of Alexander Ramsey. February 24, 1854. -- Submitted, considered, and agreed to. In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 234.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mathew [i.e., Matthew] Rippey... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Everett made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 282.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of John Bozman Kerr... In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Broadhead made the following report (to accompany Bill S. 290.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Rulif Van Brunt, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 250.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William Claude Jones, praying compensation for services as an officer during the Florida war in 1837-'38, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Joseph Pomroy, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James A. Glanding, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 251.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of J. Epes Cowan... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jane A. Wight, praying an increase of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Phoebe Hascall, who was the widow of Captain Sidney Smith, of the Navy of the United States, praying for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chase made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 260.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial of Gideon Hotchkiss... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 257.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 257, "A Bill To Confirm the Claim of Dusuan de la Croix to a Tract of Land Therein Described," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 266.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Almanzon Huston, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Act H.R. 124.) The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the H.R. Bill No. 124, for the relief of Lemuel Hudson, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones of Iowa made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Mary Baury, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Act H.R. 126.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the House of Representatives Bill No. 126, for the relief of George S. Claffin [i.e., Claflin], beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 281.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Miller to be allowed a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate "to inquire whether any additional rule, or amendment of an existing rule, in relation to the proceedings of the Senate in executive session be necessary, and if in their opinion any such rule or amendment be necessary, to report such rule or amendment to the Senate," have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fish made the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Charles G. Ridgely, praying that certain allowances be made to him in the settlement of his accounts at the Navy Department, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 217.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the "resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in relation to claims to lands of Joseph Sansfacon and others," have had the same under consideration, and find that a report was submitted on the 29th of June, 1846, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, on the petition of citizens of Michigan, praying passage of an act for the adjustment of private land claims in that state... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Act H.R. 178.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred "H.R. Bill No. 178, fore the relief of Benjamin Rowe," and accompanying papers, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 54.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Priscilla C. Simonds, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 212.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers of Captain Philip F. Voorhees, of the United States Navy... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1853. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 50.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Noah Miller, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 102.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Albert G. Howell, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 272.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Mark and Richard H. Bean, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Boykin, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of E. Ritchie Dorr, late United State consul at Buenos Ayres, praying compensation for diplomatic services alleged to have been performed by him from the 27th November, 1834, to the 31st August, 1838, having had the same under consideration, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Weller made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 264.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Francisco Lope [i.e., Lopez] Urriza, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 280.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Messrs. Amos and John E. Kendall, claiming to be reimbursed for moneys belonging to them, wrongfully paid out by the United States to the Western Cherokees, or Old Settler Indians, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of B.M. Van Derveer, praying a pension on account of his father's services, beg leave to report...	181
Serial set 707	In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 390.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of Overton Love, a Chickasaw Indian, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Views of Mr. Jones, of Iowa, Mr. Clay, and Mr. Williams, of the Committee on Pensions, on a resolution of the Senate instructing them to enquire into the expediency of granting a pension to the widow of James Batchelder, of Massachusetts, who was killed while assisting the United States marshal to execute a law of Congress.... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a petition of the inhabitants of the County of Erie, and State of Pennsylvania, praying an increase of the pension of Lyman Badger of said county, have instructed me to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper made the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William L. Meredith, the son and only heir of Major William Meredith, late of Edmonson County, in the State of Kentucky, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of Cadwallader Wallace, praying compensation for certain Virginia military bounty land warrants, the lands appropriated for satisfying such warrants having been sold by the United States, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 29, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 297.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Sylvanus Culver, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lewis Humbert for an increase of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 307.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas C. Nye... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 337.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Eliza M. Evans, only child and heir at law of Colonel Anthony Walton White, a colonel in the Revolutionary Army... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Catty White, widow of William White, deceased, for arrears of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. James, from the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, reported the following index and digest of patents, which have been extended or removed by acts of Congress, with a reference to the act in each case... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of John Makin, a pilot of the Savannah, for salvage compensation for his services to the United States steam frigate Saranac, has had the same under consideration, and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred five petitions of widows of officers of the Army who have died in the service since the war with Mexico, praying to be allowed half-pay for five years, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 311.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Michael Nourse, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Morris Powers, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 301.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Catharine Crosby... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Lieutenant S.L. Fremont, praying to be restored to the position formerly held by him in the Quartermaster's Department, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rebecca Bright, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 356.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of George Dennett... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 329.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George Jennings and others, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Toombs made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Stearns, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 347.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Ann Eliza Childs... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Seth Ingram, for arrears of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Everett made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 336.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles Evans and others, citizens of Florida, who sustained losses by the operations of the United States Army in that quarter in 1814... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lawrence Taliaferro, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anne Royall, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Harriet Wilcon, widow of an officer in the revenue service, for a pension; also, the petition of Elizabeth A.W. Gibson, widow of a carpenter in the revenue service, for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 289.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 289, "A Bill for the Relief of Margaret A. Copley, of the State of Louisiana," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 361.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frederic[k] Vincent, administrator of James La Caze... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 368.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Captain Charles G. Merchant, of the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John T. Hildreth, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Steward, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 178.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was re-committed H.R. 178, for the relief of Benjamin Rour [i.e., Rowe], beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Everett made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 358.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry Cronchey... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 367.) In the matter of the application of the legal representatives of John Shly... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton made the following report. The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the memorial of Denton Offutt, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 2,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Morton made the following report. The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the memorial of the Maryland State Agricultural Society, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 372.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles D. Arfwedson... In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 362.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Asa Andrews, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 129.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the "H.R. Bill No. 129, for the relief of Cornelius H. Latham," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 360.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John McVey, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 191.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the H.R. Bill No. 191, for the relief of George W. Gibson, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 359.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Summers, widow of Cornelius Summers, for bounty land, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas B. Eastland, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 369.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of Colonel John Anderson, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 29, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 296.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Manuel Hernandez... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was recommitted the petition of Leonard Proctor, with additional papers, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Scituate, Massachusetts, in favor of Josiah Mann, for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 398.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs of Joshua Chamberlain... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William B. May, and other citizen of Massachusetts, praying the enactment of a law authorizing certain pensioners of the United States, living in that state, to draw pensions from the date of the injuries received in the public service, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John R. Presher to be allowed back pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 401.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the "petition of William Duer, praying remunerations for expenses incurred, and services rendered, while consul in Valparaiso, in defending William N. Stuart, an American citizen, against a criminal prosecution by the Chilian authorities," have had the same under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James H. Bradford for arrears of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Redding for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. The application of the heirs of Stephen Morrell for the amount of money, which they allege was due their father at his decease, from the United States, is based upon the following facts, which are gathered from the original papers now on file in the Pension Department... In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fish made the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of the officers and crew of the frigate St. Lawrence, asking increased compensation, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 470.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred the petition of lieutenants in the United States Revenue Marine service, who were attached to the United States naval squadron in the West Indies, during the Florida war, in 1836, 1837, 1838, and 1839, praying to be allowed the same compensation as officers of like grade in the Navy... In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 460.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ephraim Hunt, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 473.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Horatio J. Perry, secretary of legation at Madrid, praying compensation as charge d'affaires for the several periods during which he acted in that capacity, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettis made the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the "petition of William W. Gitt, assignee of land warrants lost, and praying an act authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue other warrants in his favor," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... Report of the Select Committee of the Senate of the United States on the sickness and mortality on board emigrant ships. August 2, 1854. In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles D. Arfwedson, late United States consul at Stockholm, asking compensation for diplomatic services, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 468.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 468, entitled "A Bill for the Relief of David F. Douglass, Late Marshal of the Northern District of California," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of the executrix of William W. Chew, deceased, late secretary of legation and acting charge d'affaires at St. Petersburg, have had the same under consideration, and now respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 476.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry Savage, United States consul at Guatemala, praying compensation for diplomatic services alleged to have been rendered by him... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 5,000 additional copies, with the bill, be printed in pamphlet form for the use of the Indian Department. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 483.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the bill to establish and organize the territories of Cha-lah-kee, Muscogee, and Cha-ta, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 478.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Peter Parker, secretary of legation of the United States, and Chinese interpreter, praying compensation for his services as charges d'affaires ad interim... In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 491.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel A. Belden & Co.,... In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 490.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Betsey W. Eve, widow of Joseph Eve, praying to be allowed certain expenses incurred by her late husband while charge d'affaires to the late Republic of Texas... In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 478.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of George Frasier, praying remuneration for the losses sustained in consequence of the seizure of his property... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 474.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Robert M. Walsh, late secretary of the United States legation in Mexico... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 477.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of J.B. Holmans, late United States secretary of legation in Chili... In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 475.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of George W. Lippett, United States consul at Vienna, praying compensation for diplomatic services alleged to have been rendered by him... In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norris made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 486.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the petition of William B. Kibbey, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chase made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 484.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Gad Humphreys, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright made the following report. The Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom was referred the memorial of "the president, directors, and stockholders of the Ohio Falls Marine Railroad Company," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1854. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Adams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 300.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Rhodes, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 308.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel A.G. Bennett, a paymaster in the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1854. -- Ordered to printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S.299.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jean Baptiste Beaubien... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chase made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 310.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the application for extension of the patent for a planing machine granted to Uri Emmons, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 306.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred the public documents and testimony of James Erwin... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 303.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of James M. Goggin, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pearce made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 305.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the memorial of William D. Merrick and Benjamin C. Howard, special agents of the State of Maryland, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fessenden made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 328.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Obed Hussey... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 323.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorials of Lewis Morris, and others, praying compensation for military services in the late war with Mexico... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 346.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of the children and heirs-at-law of William Van Wart... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Toombs made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 43.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 53 [i.e., 43], entitled "A Bill To Authorize the Payment of Certain Claims for Depredations and Spoliations During the Hostilities with the Creek and Seminole Indians in 1836 and 1837," have the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lewis Elwell and others, of Northport, Maine, who were detained as prisoners of war in Dartmoor, during the War of 1812, praying compensation for diseases and loss of health occasioned by their captivity; also, the petition of citizens of the United States upon the same subject; also, two petitions of American citizens upon the same subject, big leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 353.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers in the case of the representative of Henry King... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 344.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of James Jeffries and Jeremiah M. Smith... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 331.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of R.D. Battle... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 342.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William Darby, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 340.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Crandall... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Margaret Barnitz, sole heir of Lieutenant Colonel David Greer [i.e., Grier], beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Toombs made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 345.) The Committee on Indian Affairs have examined the petition of Calvin B. Seymour... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 326.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Thomas Crown, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Hiram Upson and others, of Warwick, New York... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of Henry Conner, alias Wabish-ken-dib, praying the payment of an amount awarded said Conner under the treaty with the Saganaw band of Chippewa Indians, of January 14, 1837, have had the same under consideration and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 339.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petitions of Daniel Hay and others, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the "memorial of George Barrell and others, praying confirmation of their title to certain lands purchased of the Indian tribes on the northwest coast of America; or such compensation as Congress shall deem just and proper for their explorations and discoveries in those regions," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Robert C. Steptoe... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Shields made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 324.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Seneca G. Simmons, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 18.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred S. Bill 18, for the relief of Sophia Kirby, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Nathan Daggett, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rhoda Lewis, an applicant for a Revolutionary pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 357.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jacob Stoll, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 354.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy Bowen, also the petition of Sarah Larabee, widows of soldiers, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 334.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to which was referred the petition of Francois Cousin, praying the confirmation of his title to a tract of land, have had the same under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of Douglass Ottinger, asking for compensation for an invention of his for saving life, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 349.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Nock... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Shenandoah County, Virginia, and Thomas S. Ridgeway, respecting the potato disease and its remedy, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fish made the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, who were attached to the Gulf Squadron during the late war with Mexico, praying to be allowed extra compensation, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 365.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to which the memorial of John W. Kelly was referred, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 375.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs of General Stephen Moylan... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fish made the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Peleg Rhoads, Julia L. Smith and others, describing themselves as relatives and heirs at law of Captain William Henry Allen, late of the United States Navy, praying for remuneration for his services, and for an equivalent to his share (as prize money) of the value of several vessels captured and destroyed during the war with Great Britain, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Sarah D. Brigham... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of F.B. Underwood and H.A. Crane, heirs of John Underwood, praying the confirmation of their title to certain land, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 263.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 263, "A Bill To Confirm the Claim of John Ervin to a Certain Tract of Land in the Bastrop Grant," have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 376.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, having under consideration the Navy, and having carefully examined the means of improving it, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 343.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Senate Bill No. 343, "A Bill To Confirm the Claim of William H. Henderson, to Five Hundred Acres of Land in the Bastrop Grant," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Messrs. Gibbons & Kelly, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 386.) The Committee on Foreign Affairs [i.e., Committee on Foreign Relations], to whom was referred the memorial of Mr. John Randolph Clay, minister of the United States to Peru, setting forth the expediency of making provision by law for the relief of distressed citizens of the United States, other than seamen, in foreign countries, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 381.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Brown, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 379.) The committee to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Colt, for an extension of letters patent granted to him... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 392.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Frances Smith, for an increase of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret Chandler for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 6th day of February, instructing them to inquire into the claim of David Carter, report.... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 237.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 237, "A Bill for the Relief of Pine Grove Academy, in Louisiana," have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John H. Hand, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Adele Lands, widow of Richard M. Lands, of the Army; also the petition of Charlotte S. Westcott... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 383.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a list of rejected applications for pensions, and recommending that the act of February 3, 1853, "To Continue Half-pay to Certain Widows and Orphans," be amended, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 389.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Michael Hanson for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 387.) The Committee of Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of John S. Tyler... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Gideon Prior, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 317.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred "An Act for the Relief of L.E.L.A. Lawson, Sole Surviving Heiress of General Eleazer [i.e., Eleazar] Ripley, Deceased," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Texas, and also a petition of residents of the valley of the Rio Grande, asking that Brownsville be made a port of entry for the collection district of Brazos de Santiago... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 395.) The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Peter Amey, praying a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jane M. Rudolph for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 394.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Betsey Whipple for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Crapin, for arrears of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Abigail Saunders for bounty land, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 399.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the legal representatives of James Bell, late of Chambly, in the province of Lower Canada, deceased, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fessenden made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 409.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Cyrus H. McCormick, for extension of letters of patent granted to him on the 21st June, 1834, for improvements in the machine for reaping all kinds of small grain, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. A memorial from Townsend [i.e., Townend] Glover and others, praying Congress to purchase Glover's collection of artificial fruits, now on exhibition at the United States Patent Office. Your committee, after an examination of the subject referred, respectfully beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Frederick Denio, for back pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Uriah Jones, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Morey, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 412.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Catherine Dickerson, to be pensioned under the act of July 7, 1838, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Harmon, formerly widow of Timothy Murray, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Toombs made the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the "memorial of George Stealy [i.e., Stealey], praying compensation for his services and remuneration for expenses while on a mission to the Indian tribes in the northern portion of the State of California, under the authority of the Indian commissioners," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 415.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Phineas M. Nightingale, legal representative of General Nathaniel [i.e., Nathanael] Greene... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of P.C. Miles, for an increase of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 371.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred a bill to amend the act approved August 31, entitled "An Act Making Further Provision for the Satisfaction of Virginia Land Warrants," beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Petit made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 89 [i.e., 98].) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 98, "A Bill for the Relief of Henry Lewis, of Clinton County, Indiana," also, a memorial from Moses Petet praying for the relief granted in said bill to Henry Lewis, have had the same under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. June 26, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 417.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the Muscogee or Creek Nation of Indians, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 26, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 396.) The Committee on Private Lands [i.e., Land] Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 396, "A Bill for the Relief of the Assignees, or Legal Representatives, of Jacques Moulon," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 420.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles Stearns, praying to be allowed indemnity for expenses incurred by him in defending his title to certain lots of ground claimed by the United States, and for expenses incurred in two criminal prosecutions brought against him by the United States authorities at Springfield... In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 419.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sherman Pierce, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles Homer, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Gabriel Druton, praying that further relief may be granted to the soldiers of the War of 1812, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the "petition of Moren Moore..." In the Senate of the United States. July 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 96.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the subject of the debt of the late Republic of Texas, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Robert M. Hamilton, United States consul at Montevideo, praying compensation for diplomatic services, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 29, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 100 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Mallory made the following report. The special committee, to whom was referred the memorial of Ithiel S. Richardson upon the subject of his proposed atmospheric telegraph, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rebecca P. Stanbury and others, children of Thomas Peters, deceased, praying to be allowed an amount of money equal to the pensions their father and mother would have been entitled to for the services of the former during the Revolutionary War, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chase made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 424.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Swain, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 421.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Abraham Cutter for pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. July 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the legal representatives of Henry Payson, assignee of John Randall, owner of the schooner "Contradiction," praying indemnity for the confiscation of that vessel and cargo at the island of Margaritta, in 1812, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. July 1, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 430.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of H.S. Sanford, late secretary of legation at Paris, praying the difference between his pay as secretary of legation and as charge d'affaires, &c., during the time he acted in the latter capacity, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 30, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Petit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 423.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Gaston T. Raoul... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 441.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Lieutenant William D. Porter, of the United States Navy, praying that he may be reimbursed for expenses incurred by him in bringing to this country Amin Bey, of the Turkish Army... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 439.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the "memorial of Neal Smith, agent and attorney in fact for the heirs of William Turvin, deceased, praying to enter certain lands belonging to the United States..." In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 437) The Committee on Indian Affairs, having had under consideration the claim of John Shaw, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 436.) The select committee, to whom were referred the memorial of the Mayor and City Counsel of Baltimore, and the petition of the Board of Trade of that city, asking an appropriation by Congress for the improvement of the navigation of the Patapsco River... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 370.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred S. Bill No. 370, "A Bill To Authorize T.H. McManus to Enter by Pre-emption Certain Lands in the Greensburg Land District, Louisiana," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 454.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of John P. Brown, principal interpreter of the Turkish language to the United States legation of Constantinople, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawson made the following report (To accompany Bill S. 453.) The Committee on Military Affairs to whom was referred the memorial of Brevet Brigadier General John B. Walbach of the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 450.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of William Rich, late secretary of the United States legation in Mexico... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 447.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was recommitted their report and the papers in the case of Patrick C. Miles, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 451.) The Committee on Foreign Relations to whom were referred the memorials of the Hon. Robert C. Schenck, late United States minister plenipotentiary to the court of Brazil, and the Hon. John S. Pendleton, late United States charge d'affaires to the Argentine Confederation, praying compensation for services rendered and expenses incurred by them on special missions... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 270.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to which was referred S. Bill No. 270, "A Bill for the Relief of John Boyd," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. The select committee appointed under the resolution of the Senate "to take into consideration the several resolutions and orders of the Senate, providing for the appointment, and prescribing the duties of its officers; to report rules and regulations fixing the number of such officers, and other subordinates; classifying them; fixing their compensation; prescribing the mode of appointment to, and dismissal from, office, and effecting such organization generally as better to insure their responsibility and efficiency;" have had the subjects thereby committed to them under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. July 11, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chase made the following report. The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Adolphus Allen, praying for an extension of a patent, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 442.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom were referred the petitions of William K. Jennings and Aphia Jennings, Henry A. Wise, Ann Robinson, Edward Rudd, and Mary Martin, severally asking compensation for slaves taken and carried away by the British during the War of 1812... In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 443.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill (No. 443,) "A Bill for the Relief of A.G. Penn," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Geyer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 445.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of James M. Carlisle and Walter S. Cox, administrators with the will annexed, and the petition of Madelena Van Ness, widow of Cornelius P. Van Ness, deceased, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 444.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the memorial of Nancy Holkar, widow and administratrix of the Hon. John Holkar, late of Clarke County, Virginia, deceased, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 465.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Messrs. Puig, Mir & Co., of New Orleans... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gwin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 469.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Lewis Warrington, Jr., purser United States Navy... In the Senate of the United States. July 24, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 430.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was recommitted the report heretofore made by them on the first instant, in the case of Henry S. Sanford... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 466.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elliot Smith, Wm. C. Green, and Nathan Farnsworth, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 457.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of William Clark, praying relief and indemnity for losses sustained by him in consequence of an alleged erroneous construction, by the officers of the government, of a contract to furnish materials... In the Senate of the United States. July 24, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 471.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of J.H.F. Thornton, Lawrence Taliaferro, and Hay T. Taliaferro, praying to be released from their liability as sureties of D.M.F. Thornton... In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chase made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 464.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Israel Ketchum, report... In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States of the first day of the present month, in reply to the resolution of the Senate asking information from the President "whether anything has arisen since the date of his message to the House of Representatives of the 15th of March last, concerning our relations with the government of Spain, which, in his opinion, may dispense with the suggestions therein contained touching the propriety of 'provisional measures' by Congress to meet any exigency that may arise in the recess of Congress affecting those relations," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 480.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Ferdenand Coxe, late secretary of the United States legation at Rio de Janeiro... In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph Balesteir [i.e., Balestier], late special agent of the United States in Asia, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to which was referred the petition of Martin Fenwick, praying for confirmation of his title to a certain tract of land, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of J.G. Schwarr, late consul of the United States at Vienna, praying compensation for diplomatic services, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred the memorial of E.A. Williams and W.D. Ligon, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the following preamble and resolution of the Senate, have had the same under consideration, and report: Whereas, the Hon. Jared W. Williams was appointed by his excellency the Governor of New Hampshire, in the recess of the legislature of that state, to fill a vacancy in the Senate of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 479.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Graham, United States consul at Buenos Ayres, praying compensation for services as charge d'affaires ad interim... In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of H. Gold Rogers, late charge d'affaires of the United States at Sardinia, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of William Field... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 203.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 203, for the relief of Thomas Snodgrass, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin Burton, son and administrator of Sarah Burton, deceased, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 350.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Worden... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 330.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to which was referred the petition of Juan M. and Jose L. Luco for permission to file their title to a certain tract of land in the State of California... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of C.C. Beatty, son and executor of Reading Beatty, deceased, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jane Beccannan, report...	210
Serial set 708	In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1854. -- Ordered to be printed. March 31, 1854. -- Ordered, that three thousand additional copies of the report of the Select Committee on Mexican Claims be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Brodhead made the following report. The select committee, to whom was referred "the memorials on the files of the Senate, in relation to the proceedings of the Board of Commissioners on the claims against Mexico," beg leave to submit the following report...	1
Serial set 709	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: 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 710	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, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and, together with the accompanying documents, ordered to be printed; and that 20,000 extra copies, with the accompanying documents, be printed. Part I.	1
Serial set 711	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, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and, together with the accompanying documents, ordered to be printed; and that 20,000 extra copies, with the accompanying documents, be printed. Part II.	1
Serial set 712	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, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and, together with the accompanying documents, ordered to be printed; and that 20,000 extra copies, with the accompanying documents, be printed. Part III.	1
Serial set 713	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