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Serial set 1034 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, 1859. 1
Serial set 1035 Statistical report of the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States, complied from the records of the Surgeon General's Office; embracing a period of five years, from January, 1855, to January, 1860. 1
Serial set 1036 Report on the Art of War in Europe 1854, 1855, and 1856. By Major Richard Delafield, Corps of Engineers, from his notes and observations made as a member of a "Military Commission to the Theater of War in Europe," under the orders of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War. 1
Serial set 1037 Military commission to Europe, in 1855 and 1856. Report of Major Alfred Mordecai, of the Ordnance Department. 1
Serial set 1038 List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress. December 21, 1859.
Resolutions of the Legislature of California, requesting arms for the use of that state. March 19, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendments intended to be proposed by Mr. Saulsbury to the resolutions submitted by Mr. Davis on the 2d February, 1860. Amend the sixth resolution by adding thereto, after the word "redress," the following: "within the limitations and restrictions of the federal Constitution." Further amend by adding the following...
In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment proposed by Mr. Kennedy to Mr. Davis's resolutions. Resolved, that as the unity of government, ordained and established by the Constitution of the United States, is the main pillar in the edifice of our national existence...
Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New York praying that provision be made for collecting commercial statistics in taking the census. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in relation to the affairs of the Indian tribes within that state. February 21, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States, February 14, 1860. The Vice President presented a paper certified by the President and Secretary of the Kansas constitutional convention, to be a true copy of the constitution of the State of Kansas, adopted at Wynadott, July 29, 1859...
Resolutions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, in favor of a speedy admission of Kansas into the Union, as a state, under the constitution formed at Wyandott. February 29, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of California, in relation to the transmission of the ocean mails between the Atlantic and Pacific states. March 2, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of appropriations for certain mail routes, light-houses, buoys, and the removal of Blossom Rock, in the harbor of San Francisco. March 2, 1860. Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of California, in relation to the transmission of the mail from San Francisco to Sacramento. March 2, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the enactment of a law authorizing the Secretary of War to detail Army officers for the proper military instruction of the uniformed volunteer companies of that state. March 12, 1860. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed.
Supreme Court of the United States. No. 197. April 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. United States, appellants, vs. Francis P. Ferreira, administrator of Francis Pass, deceased.
Memorial of the State of California, praying that the amount expended by that state in the suppression of Indian hostilities may be refunded. May 4, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of a committee of the Corporation of Georgetown, D.C., setting forth their objections to a bill introduced into the Senate, to authorize the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to extend the Washington branch of their road across the Potomac River, at the site of the Long Bridge. May 4, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 7, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Communication from C.S. Drew, late adjutant of the second regiment of Oregon mounted volunteers, giving an account of the origin and early prosecution of the Indian war in Oregon. May 2, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 9, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Petition of the President and Secretary of the Dubuque and Pacific Railroad Company, praying that the company may not be divested of the title to lands upon which persons have settled, and compelled to take other lands in lieu of them. May 19, 1860. -- Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 22, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing the usual number, submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Memorial of the Principal Chief and his associates, representatives of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, praying that the President be authorized to purchase that portion of their territory known as the "neutral land." May 23, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Communication from Richard W. Meade, in relation to the claim of his father, R.W. Meade, deceased. June 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of an appropriation for the relief of Captain Thomas L. Smith. June 27, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the establishment of a daily mail from Eddyville to Des Moines in that state. March 19, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Officers and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of the establishment of a daily mail between Stockton and Mariposa, and all intermediate post offices. March 19, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of the establishment of a new land district in that state. March 19, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of an extension of the period of the preemption privilege to actual settlers on the public lands in that state. March 19, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed.
Statement of the reports of the Court of Claims made to the House of Representatives during the 34th and 35th Congresses, nature of claim, amount claimed, and action of the House thereon. January 18, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. January 19, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing the usual number submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Statement of the decisions of the Court of Claims, made since the 35th Congress, and reported on the 11th day of January to the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. January 19, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing the usual number submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Report of the Secretary of the Senate, showing the names and compensation of the persons employed in his Office during the year 1859. January 3, 1860. -- Read; motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. January 24. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Report of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in relation to the continuation of the compilation and publication of the American State Papers. December 7, 1859. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. January 9, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. January 24, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to.
In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1860. On motion by Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas: Ordered, that the following papers be printed to accompany "Bill (S. 19) Legalizing Certain Entries of Lands of Leavenworth Island, in the State of Missouri"...
In the Senate of the United States. Resolution by Mr. Brown: That the territories are the common property of the states, and that it is the privilege of the citizens of all the states to go into the territories with every description of property recognized under the Constitution, and held under the laws of any of the states, &c...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1860. -- Ordered, that all the resolutions relating to the questions of slavery and the territories be printed together.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, concerning Revolutionary and other claims of that state on the government of the United States. March 21, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Memorial of citizens of Washington and Georgetown, praying authority to construct a railroad from Georgetown along Pennsylvania Avenue to the Navy-yard, in Washington. March 21, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Texas, requesting the senators and representatives of that state in Congress to procure the reimbursement of funds expended for the protection of the frontier, and making other requests with reference to frontier affairs. March 22, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of the establishment of a mail stage route from Austin to some point on the overland mail stage route from St. Louis to El Paso. March 22, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of the incorporation of Captain John G. Tod, of the late Navy of Texas, into the Navy of the United States. March 22, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the establishment of a new territory in western Utah. February 23, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of the survey and establishment of the eastern boundary of that state. February 23, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of California, in relation to the public lands in that state. February 23, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of the establishment of a semi-weekly mail from San Juan to Los Angeles in that state. February 24, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of New Mexico, in favor of the organization of a territorial government for Arizona. February 27, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, on the subject of international law as to damages resulting from collisions at sea. February 23, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. February 28, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing the usual number submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, in relation to the establishment of a Navy-yard at Biloxi, in said state. March 27, 1860. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, praying the cession of certain public lands, to aid in the construction of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. March 27, 1860. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, in relation to the graduation act of lands belonging to the general government, to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and the Southern Railroad. March 27, 1860. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed.
Letter of the Secretary of the Territory of New Mexico, communicating copies of memorials and resolutions of the Legislative Assembly of that territory, in relation to the payment of certain militiamen and volunteers, called into service against the Indians in said territory. March 28, 1860. -- Read, and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, praying the establishment of a daily mail from the Village of Lake Mills to the Village of Jefferson in that state. March 3, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, relative to grants of public lands to actual settlers, and to the passage of "the homestead bill." April 2, 1860. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Joint resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, for additional mail facilities. April 4, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of Duff Green, President of the Sabine and Rio Grande Railroad Company, in the State of Texas, praying such enlargement of the powers and privileges of said company as will enable them to extend their road to the Pacific, at or near Mazatlan. April 4, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. April 5, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing the usual number submitted, considered, and agreed to.
In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to accompany "Bill (S. 384,) Authorizing the Sale of Abandoned Military Reservations"...
Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in relation to a uniform decimal system of weights, measures, and currencies. April 10, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed.
Petition of the People's Pacific Railroad Company, chartered by the Legislature of Maine, for the purpose of building a railroad and establishing a telegraph from the western line of the State of Missouri to San Francisco, praying the right of way and a grant of land. April 16, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Memorial and joint resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the remuneration of James B. Thomas and family for property lost and injury sustained by Indian depredations. April 17, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Petition of inventors and patentees, praying that the right of appeal from the decisions of the Commissioner of Patents be not abolished. April 18, 1860. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1860. -- Considered, postponed to, and made the special order of the day for Wednesday next, at 1 o'clock. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolutions: 1. Resolved, that, in the adoption of the federal Constitution, the states adopting the same acted severally as free and independent sovereignties, delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the federal government for the increased security of each against dangers, domestic as well as foreign...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolutions: 1. Resolved, that, in the adoption of the federal Constitution, the states adopting the same acted severally as free and independent sovereignties...
Report of Captain W.B. Franklin, in charge of the Capitol extension, made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate on the feasibility and expense of moving the Senate Chamber from its present position, so that it will take in the windows on the north end, or east or west sides of the Capitol. April 9, 1860. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. Report in favor of printing the usual number submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Petition of citizens of Texas, praying the erection of a light-house on or near the north breakers at the entrance of the harbor of Galveston, and the restoration of the light-vessel lately removed from the entrance of that harbor. April 30, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 2, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing the usual number, without the map, submitted, considered, and agreed to.
An act of the Legislature of California, granting the consent of said legislature to the formation of a different government for the southern counties of said state, with a statement of the votes polled in pursuance of said act. January 18, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed.
Report of the Secretary of the Senate showing the payments from the contingent fund of the Senate during the year ending December 3, 1859. January 16, 1860. -- Read; motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. January 19, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing the usual number submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Letter from the Superintendent of the Capitol Extension, to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, in relation to the dome and porticos of the Capitol. March 5, 1860. -- Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 6, 1860. -- Report in favor of printing the usual number submitted, considered, and agreed to.
Memorial of the American Missionary Association, praying the rigorous enforcement of the laws for the suppression of the African slave-trade, and the enactment of such additional laws as may be necessary to put an end to that traffic. January 25, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed
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Serial set 1039 In the Senate of the United States. December 23, 1859. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 22.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of John Scott, Hill W. House, and Samuel O. House, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 23, 1859. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 23.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of Arnold Harris and Samuel F. Butterworth, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 55.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Tilman Leak, beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 60.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Ann Scott, have had the same under consideration and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fessenden made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 74.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Edward N. Kent, with the accompanying papers, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 293.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Israel Johnson, of Cass County, Indiana, with accompanying evidence, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hammond made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 295.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William B. Shubrick, United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 97.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the report of the Attorney General of the United States (Ex. Doc. No. 30,) dated on the 17th February, 1859, submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 96.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers relating to the claim of Abner Merrill, an invalid pensioner, for an increase of pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Everts, only surviving child of Gideon Brownson, deceased, an officer of the Revolution, and Canada Brownson, his widow, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 66.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a bill to authorize and direct the settlement of the accounts of Ross Wilkins, James Witherell, and Solomon Sibley, report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 49.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs and legal representatives of Thomas Maddin, deceased, praying confirmation of a certain land claim, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 118.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the case of David Myerle, reported from the Court of Claims, unanimously report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 124.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy M. Gunsally, formerly widow of Lyman M. Richmond, deceased, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the "petition of Leonard Grant, master of the brig Plumas, praying remuneration for losses occasioned by the loss of said brig in consequence of the discontinuance by the government of one of the lights at Cape Elizabeth, without giving public notice," have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 134.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Smith, now of Washington, praying to be allowed a pension, beg leave to submit the following...
In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Ann Allen, widow of Samuel Allen, an officer of the militia of New York, in the War of 1812, praying to be allowed arrears of pension, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 143.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Francis Huttmann for remuneration for losses sustained in consequence of the illegal proceedings of the Collector of the Customs at San Francisco, have had the same under careful consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 144.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jeremiah Pendergast, of the District of Columbia, for an increase of pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary T. [i.e., J.] Maltby, praying to be allowed a pension, as widow of Lieutenant James West, of the Army, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hammond made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 145.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Otway H. Berryman, praying to be allowed the amount of money paid by him in the adjustment of his accounts as purser, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 300.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Isaac H. Randall, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Toombs made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 307.) The select committee to whom was referred the memorial of residents and owners of lands in the parishes of Ascension and Iberville, Louisiana, praying the repeal of the "Act To Provide for the Location of Certain Confirmed Private Land Claims in the State of Missouri, and for Other Purposes;" to whom, also, were referred the protest of the owners of the Houmas grant, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clarke made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 308.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Seth Eastman, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 16.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred "A Bill Repealing All Laws or Parts of Laws Allowing Bounties to Vessels Employed in the Bank or Other Codfisheries," have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 151.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ebenezer Ricker, of the State of Maine, praying to be allowed a pension on account of a wound received while in the military service of the United States, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigler made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 154.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial of Randall Pegg, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rice made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 28.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 28, entitled "An Act Making an Appropriation for the Erection in the City of Saint Paul, State of Minnesota, a Suitable Building for Custom-house, Post Office, Court Rooms, and Other Offices of the United States," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Peter Joseph [i.e., Josephs], praying an increase of pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bragg submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Ann E.T. Partridge, widow of Captain Alden Partridge, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 119.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 119, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of Theodore J. Eckerson, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 191.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George M. Weston, Commissioner of the State of Maine, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Hugh Wiley, praying to be allowed a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Abbott, praying to be allowed a pension, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Jones and others, of Clermont County, Ohio, asking for bounty lands, have reexamined the same, and ask leave to now to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elias Carpenter, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ten Eyck made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 195.) 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. February 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 196.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of Charles Porterfield, deceased, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bragg submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of John H. Wickizer, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hemphill submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Wm. L.S. Dearing, praying remuneration for expenses incurred in raising a company of volunteers for service in Florida, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of George Mayo, deceased, praying compensation for services performed by said Mayo as an extra clerk in the general Post Office Department, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bragg submitted [the] following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles M. Perry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 310.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary J. Maltby, praying to be allowed a pension as widow of Lieutenant James West, of the United States Army, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hemphill made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 311.] The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Colonel William Gates praying indemnity for losses sustained by the destruction of his property on board the steamship San Francisco, has had the same under consideration, and reports...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foote made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 230.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the cases of Letitia Humphreys and of Robert Harrison and other claimants, under the treaty of 1819 with Spain, together with voluminous documents in relation to said claims, have had the same under consideration, and, after a careful and patient reexamination of the whole subject, have reached the same conclusion at which this Committee arrived the first session of the last Congress, and adopt the report then made by this Committee through the honorable Mr. Clarke, of New Hampshire, then a member and nature of these claims, and which report is in the following words...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nicholson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 231.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the State of Georgia for the repayment of certain moneys paid to Peter Trezvant, submit the following report thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bragg submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Eliza E. Ogden, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 227.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Laura C. Humber, widow of the late Captain Charles W. [i.e., H.] Humber, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 228.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Valentine Wehrheim, an applicant for increase of pension, having had the same under careful examination, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 229.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Angelina C. Bowman, widow of Francis L. Bowman, praying to be remunerated for the expense of conveying the remains of her husband to his home in Pennsylvania, and to be allowed a pension, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ten Eyck made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 95.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 95, being a bill for the relief of Elizabeth Montgomery, heir of Hugh Montgomery...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of Horace E. Dimmick, praying remuneration for improvements made by him in artillery, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of George G. Barnard, assignee of the Hon. David C. Broderick, deceased, praying the enactment of a law authorizing the payment to him of the amount due said Broderick for salary and mileage at the time of his death, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 42.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 42, for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Mark Elisha, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 240.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the claim of B.E. Edwards to certain land in New Mexico, renew and adopt the annexed report, made at the first session of the 35th Congress, and recommend the passage of the bill accompanying this report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 241.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of McFarland & Downey, praying that the amount due them for rent of their house in Los Angelos, California, occupied by the United States court from 27th October, 1854, to 5th August, 1856, under contracts with the United States marshal of that district, be paid, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 94.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel V. Niles, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hammond made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 244.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of T.A.M. Crave, a lieutenant in the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 250.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Kate D. Taylor, widow of Brevet Captain Oliver H.P. Taylor, praying for a pension, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, and find...
In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a resolution of the Senate, directing them to inquire, and report whether the contracts heretofore made by the Secretary of the Senate with Mrs. Adeline Sergeant, and renewed, with modifications, on the 16 and 17th of February, 1860, for binding the reserved numbers of Senate documents, are authorized by law, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lemuel Worster, praying a pension on account of a disability incurred while employed as a waiter to a militia officer in the United States service, during the last war with Great Britain, having carefully examined the same, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nicholson submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Catharine Lydia McLeod, only surviving child of Ebenezer Markham, a Canadian refugee, praying relief of account of the losses and sufferings of her father in aiding the cause of the American Revolution, have agreed to the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 253.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Wetonsaw, son of James Connor, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William G. Ridgely, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown submitted the following report. The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the petition of James and Theodore Walter, asking the conveyance to them of certain lots in Washington City, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Hodges & Lansdale, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of F.E. Hassler, administrator of the late F.R. Hassler, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and of the works for the construction of standard weights and measures, praying remuneration for losses and expenses incurred by his father, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin submitted the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Petchaka, only surviving child of Elizabeth Petchaka, praying for relief in relation to a grant of three hundred and twenty acres of land, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 255.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Elias Yulee, late receiver of public moneys at Olympia, Washington Territory, have reexamined the same, and now report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 256.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas L. Disharoon, have the honor to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 6.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the "Bill in Relation to the Louisville and Portland Canal," and also the "Joint Resolution Authorizing the Enlargement of, and Construction of a Branch to, the Louisville and Portland Canal," beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 263.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Haym M. Salomon, for indemnity for advances of money made by his father during the Revolutionary War, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fitch made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 268.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary K. Guthrie, widow of Captain Presley N. Guthrie, praying for a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the papers in support of the claim of Adam Sener to a pension, beg leave to submit the following...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hemphill submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Stephen Krebs, Mary McGehe and Lucy Long, children of Stephen Krebs, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom the papers in the case of Sour-john, a Cherokee, were referred, ask leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 269.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Micajah Hawks, praying to be allowed a pension, submit the following...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 270.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of John H. Wheeler, late United States minister to Nicaragua, have had the same under consideration, and now report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hemphill made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 367.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial of Frederick E. Sickels, the inventor of an improvement in the steam-engine known as the "Sickels' cut-off," asking that a law may be passed authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to reexamine his application for an extension of his patent for the term of seven years, have adopted the report made to the Senate at the last session of Congress, with some modifications, and beg leave to submit the same to the Senate, as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 368.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the claim of the legal representatives of John Forsyth, deceased, having maturely considered the same, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 286.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Eliphalet Brown, Jr., asking for compensation for services rendered as an artist in the Japan expedition, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of George P. Ihrie, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 76.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred various memorials and petitions from the corporate authorities, the trustees of the public schools, and citizens of the City of Washington, praying congressional aid for the public schools in said city, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 80.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Jeremiah Moors, with a bill accompanying the same, having examined the same, report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Allen, a pensioner of the State of Maine, praying to be allowed arrears of pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Pickell, late a lieutenant in the United States Army, praying a pension from the date of his resignation, August 5, 1838, to the time he was placed upon the pension rolls, (November 1, 1857,) beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 106.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the "Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States," and also the petition of Edson Sherwood and twenty-four others, praying for the confirmation to the above-named Society of its title to a certain tract of land in the State of Wisconsin, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 108.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a petition for the relief of Mrs. A.L. Childs, widow of the late Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Childs, report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 61.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred S. Bill No. 61, having had the same under consideration, report: This bill proposes a reorganization of the several departments and corps of the Army...
In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 111.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Aaron H. Palmer, having had the same under consideration, and concurring in the views of this Committee at the first session of the last Congress, as explained in their report of that session, adopt that report as their own at the present session; which report is as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Livermore, praying that the pay of invalid pensioners may commence from the date of the disability, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Nathaniel Rye, of Tennessee, praying to be allowed a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Kerwin, who was wounded in the Florida and Mexican wars, asking an increase of pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Eliza J. Van de Venter, widow of the late Major E. Van de Venter, praying "back pension" from the disbanding of the "ten regiments" to June, 1854, from which date her husband was allowed a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fitzpatrick made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 114.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of R.F. Blocker, E.J. Gurley, and J.F. Davis, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 30.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Sheldon McKnight, praying additional compensation for carrying the mails on the Cleveland, Detroit, and Lake Superior routes, from the year 1848 to the present time, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 29.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the report of the Court of Claims adverse to the claim of Arthur Edwards and others, for compensation for carrying the through mails to and from various ports on Lake Erie during certain periods in the years 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, and 1853, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 117.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Dona Guadalupe Estudillo de Arguello, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 120.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Wallace, praying an increase of pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 297.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Van Camp & Chapin, concurring in the report made by the Hon. Miles Taylor, of the Committee of Claims of the House of Representatives of the last Congress, hereby adopt the same as the report of this committee in the case aforesaid. The said report is as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 169.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elijah R. Merrill, praying relief on account of injury received while at work for the government, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 170.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of the Legislature of Oregon, praying that a pension may be granted to H.H. Howard, a volunteer in the late Indian war in that territory, (now state,) beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 83.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Verbiski [i.e., Verbisky], praying to be allowed an increase of pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted by [sic] the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Raymond Reynolds, a soldier of the War of 1812, praying to be allowed a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Harrison Sargent, praying for a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles McClosky, praying that the pension he now receives may be increased, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 182.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the pension of Nicholas Underhill, a soldier of the War of 1812, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 183.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Cornelius Hughes, praying that the pension he now receives may be increased, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 98.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of Mrs. Olivia W. Cannon, widow of Joseph S. Cannon, deceased, late a midshipman in the United States Navy, praying an extension of her pension, heretofore granted by Congress for the period of five years for life or widowhood, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 189.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Franklin Peale, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin Ward, of the State of Maine, in favor of granting bounty land to the privateersmen of the United States, imprisoned at Dartmoor, during the War of 1812 with Great Britain, has considered the same, and ask leave now to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Edward D. Tippett, for bounty lands, has examined the same, and ask leave now to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Abraham Edwards, late register of the land office at Kalamazoo, Michigan, has fully considered the same, and now reports...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Allen Gaylord and other citizens of the State of Ohio, in favor of granting bounty lands to the heirs of militia men killed in the Indian wars, and in the War of 1812, with Great Britain, has considered the same, and ask leave now to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Wilcomb, a soldier of the War of 1812, praying an invalid pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 15.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John C. Carter, a lieutenant in the Navy, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 199.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Hobbs, of the State of Maine, for an extension of the act "To Provide for Satisfying Claims for Bounty Lands for Military Services in the Late War with Great Britain, and for Other Purposes," approved July 27, 1842, has examined the subject, and ask leave now to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 201.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the several petitions and memorials in relation to a railway on Pennsylvania Avenue, from the Navy-yard to Georgetown, having had the same under consideration, ask leave to report the accompanying bill. They also present as a part of this report an estimate of the costs and expenses of constructing and working the railway...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 221.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of A.T. Spencer and G.S. Hubbard, of Chicago, Illinois, praying compensation for services performed in carrying the mails on their line of steamers between Chicago and the ports on Lake Superior, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 222.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Featherston, widow of John Featherston, late a boatswain in the United States Navy, praying to be allowed a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 223.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of J.J. Lints, asking compensation for his services as custodian of the public property connected with the improvements of the harbor of Erie, Pennsylvania, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nicholson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 224.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Nason and others, legal representatives of John Lord, deceased, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the papers of Jane Perry, widow of the late Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 150.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of M. Sweetser, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 232.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Frederick L. Colclaser, for an invalid pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 233.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Alice Hunt, widow of Thomas Hunt, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of Florian Kern, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 235.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of Willis A. Gorman, for compensation as commissioner in investigating certain charges of fraud against George Alexander Ramsay, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 313.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the petition of certain property-holders in Washington City, praying the passage of a law to remunerate owners of property for damage sustained by changing the grades of the streets and avenues of that city, ask leave to report, as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 317.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Isaac E. Morse, praying additional compensation as special commissioner to New Granada, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 290.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of William Vance & Brothers, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 319.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of J. Hosford Smith, late United States consul at Beirut, Syria, "praying an increase of compensation for his services as consul, and compensation for judicial services," report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 29, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Barbara Glover, formerly the widow of John Smith, praying for a pension for the Revolutionary services of said Smith, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 29, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 11.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 11, "Making an Appropriation for the Payment of the Expenses Incurred by the People of the Territories of Oregon and Washington in the Suppression of Indian Hostilities Therein, in the Years 1855 and 1856," having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 288.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred a bill "To Create a Separate District Upon the Pacific Coast for the Inspection of Hulls and Boilers, and Machinery of Vessels Propelled in Whole or in Part by Steam," have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 341.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred various memorials, asking payment for the recapture and destruction of the frigate Philadelphia, in the harbor of Tripoli, in the year 1804, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nicholson submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the papers in the case of Jacob Bigelow, administrator of Francis Cazean against the United States, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ten Eyck submitted the following report. The Committtee [sic] on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Barnet W. Dole, heir-at-law of Eunice Dole, the widow of Enoch Dole, who was a surgeon's mate and a surgeon in the service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Green made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 245.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of Messrs. Sweeny, Rittenhouse, Fant & Co., ask to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 247.) The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the memorial of Mary Elizabeth Castor praying for a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 249.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel J. Hensley, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Jordan, praying for an increase of his pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 346.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Pattee, corporal in the Thirty-fourth Regiment United States Infantry, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 271.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 19th December, 1856, with the accompanying papers, relative to the claim of John P. Brown, principal interpreter of the Turkish language to the United States legation at Constantinople, for additional compensation for diplomatic and judicial services performed by him at various intervals during the years 1838, 1839, 1852, and 1854, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 272.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles E. Anderson, esq., late secretary of legation of the United States at Paris, praying additional compensation for services rendered and expenses incurred by him as acting charge d'affaires during a portion of the time, have had the same under consideration, and now report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 273.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of J.E. Martin, esq., acting consul of the United States, praying compensation for diplomatic services, have had the same under consideration, and now report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 274.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Townsend Harris, consul general of the United States in Japan, praying for compensation for his services in negotiating a treaty of commerce between the Kingdom of Siam and the United States, have had the same under consideration, and now report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 275.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frederick Vincent, administrator of James Le Caze, surviving partner of Le Caze & Mallet, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to adopt a report made by Mr. Shields at the last session, as expressing the views of the Committee...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 277.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Peter Van Buskirk, praying to be allowed a pension for his services as assistant commissory in the Revolutionary War, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bragg made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 278.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Isaac Varn, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bragg made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 280.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Thomas M. Newell, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 281.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of D.G. Farragut, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 383.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Meyer, praying compensation for services rendered and losses sustained by him as quartermaster to the Mexican Boundary-line Commission, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy Stout, widow of Joseph Stout, praying for a pension of the Revolutionary services of her husband, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lane made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 149.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred "A Bill (S. 149) Making Appropriations To Supply a Deficiency in the Appropriations for the Completion of the Geological Survey of Oregon and Washington Territories," have had the same under consideration, and report the bill back, with the recommendation that it do pass, and submit the following documents in support of the appropriations made in the bill...
In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nicholson submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims have considered the memorial of Catharine Wilkie, daughter and only heir of Joseph Paine, praying relief on account of the military services of her father during the Revolutionary War, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ten Eyck submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Hetty G. Dorr, daughter of John D. Alvery, postmaster of the American Army at headquarters, during the Revolutionary War...
In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 390.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Hester Stoll, widow of Urban Stoll, praying for a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fitzpatrick made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 28.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of A.M. Fridley, late agent for the Winnebagoes, under resolution of the Senate of 1st ultimo, with instructions to inquire into the expediency and propriety of relieving him from the effects of a judgment obtained against him in the district court for the Second District of the State of Minnesota, in consequence of his having, under orders from the Indian Bureau, disobeyed the injunction of said court, in regard to the payment of certain moneys belonging to said Winnebagoes, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 393.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and papers of Jos. C.G. Kennedy, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Alpheus T. Palmer, praying for an increase of his pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Crittenden submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Henry Brockholst Livingston, a lieutenant colonel of the Continental Army, praying for payment to them of the half pay, arrearages of pay, &c., to which he, as they allege, was entitled for his services in the War of the Revolution, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 395.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lemuel Worster, praying for an invalid pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 398.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel R. Franklin, a lieutenant in the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 399.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas G. Corbin, a lieutenant in the Navy, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 400.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of E. George Squier, praying to be allowed an outfit as Charge d' Affaires to each of the governments of Gautemala [i.e., Guatemala], San Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Honduras, and also a balance of salary which he claims to be due, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 401.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of James G. Clarke, praying compensation for his services as Charge d' Affaires of the United States at Belgium, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hemphill submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 233.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial of the legal Representatives of C.G. Treichel and others, deceased, late clerks in the Philadelphia Custom-house, praying arrears of compensation due said clerks; and also House Bill No. 233, "for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Five Deceased Clerks in the Philadelphia Custom-house," have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigler made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 403.) The Committee on Patents, to whom were referred the memorial and petition of Thatcher Perkins and William McMahon, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigler made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 404.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the memorial and petition of Jane B. Evans, widow, executrix, and devisee of Cadwallader Evans, late of Pittsburg, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 267.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Ann [i.e., Anne] W. Angus widow of Samuel Angus, late a captain in the Navy, and the Bill H.R. 267 for her relief, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 406.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Captain John B. Montgomery, of the United States Navy, praying to be released from his liability for an unpaid balance of public money intrusted to him for recruiting purposes, and lost by the failure of the bank in which it was deposited...
In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A.B. Thompson, and sundry other American citizens in California, praying relief from Congress, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 414.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Keziah Pritchett, formerly widow of David Moore, a soldier of the Revolution, praying for a pension, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 415.) The Committee on Claims [report a bill for the relief of George G. Durham.]
In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 411.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Jonathan Ely, legal representative of Edward Ely, deceased, praying that the accounts of said Edward Ely, as United States Consul at Bombay, may be settled on just and equitable principles, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 417.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of John Cradlebaugh, one of the justices of the Supreme Court for the Territory of Utah, have considered the same, and now report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 291.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and Senate Bill No. 291, for the relief of Mary Preston, widow of George Preston, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of Jeffrey T. Adams, late clerk of the District Court of the Territory of Minnesota, have fully considered the same, and now report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 246.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom were referred the following petitions, to wit: 1st. Of the City of New Orleans...
In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 392.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph C.G. Kennedy, in relation to his compensation as superintending clerk on the census, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 225.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Annie D. Reeves, widow of J.S.K. Reeves, deceased, late captain in the First Regiment of United States Artillery, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 396.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lockley Simpson, praying for an increase of pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 22, 1859. On motion by Mr. Crittenden, ordered, that the report from the Committee on Foreign Relations, on the claim of Francis Dainese, made at the last session of Congress, be printed and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, with Bill S. 14...
In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1860. -- Ordered, that the report of the Committee on Foreign Relations (No. 182, 34th Congress,) be printed. In Senate, May 26, 1856. Mr. Mason made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of J.E. Martin, esq., acting consul of the United States, praying compensation for diplomatic services, have had the same under consideration, and now report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William R. West, alias Mooney, praying Congress to grant him an invalid pension, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Emily L. Slaughter, widow of Commander A.G. Slaughter, praying a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 184.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rebecca A. Correl, widow of Isaac Correl, submitted the following...
In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 50.) The Select Committee, to whom was referred the Bill S. 50, "To Prohibit the Issue of Bank Notes by Corporations, Associations, or Individuals, Within the District of Columbia; and Further To Prevent the Circulation of Bank Notes Issued by Any Incorporated Company or Association of Individuals, Located Beyond the Limits of the District of Columbia, of a Less Denomination Than Twenty Dollars," having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 89.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of William D. Moseley, asking relief from a contract to furnish live-oak for a sloop-of-war, which he assumed as surety, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 10.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Joint Resolution S. No. 10, relating to the route of the railroad from Fond-du-Lac, on Lake Winnebago, in the State of Wisconsin, to Lake Superior, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 409.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs of Stephen Moylan, deceased, praying that the unsettled state of his accounts shall not be a bar to a grant of half-pay by Congress, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of John G. Mackall, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 371.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of the settlers on the "Fort Atkinson military reservation and old Indian agency," praying the right of preemption, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 373.) The Committee on Claims have had under consideration the memorial of William P. Bowhay, and make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 374.) The Committee on Claims, to whom the claim of Mrs. Eliza E. Ogden was recommitted, by order of the Senate, have had the same under consideration, and concur in the report of the Committee on Claims of the Senate on this claim, made during the first session of the last Congress, which the committee hereby adopt, and report a bill accordingly, for the relief of the memorialist. The report alluded to is as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fitzpatrick made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 376.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of Major Benjamin Alvord, a paymaster in the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 378.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the Mayor and Council of the City of Baton Rouge, have the honor to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 379.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Whitney, praying for the issue of a patent in his favor for certain lands, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 380.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Menard, praying to be allowed to relocate certain land warrants, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas O'Sullivan, praying to be allowed an invalid pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 309.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Charles J. Swett, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 259.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom were referred the petitions of William K. Jennings and Aphia Jennings, Henry A. Wise, Ann Robison, Edward Rudd, Mary Martin, and Benjamin Hodges, severally asking compensation for slaves taken and carried away by the British during the War of 1812, out of the fund provided for under the first article of the Treaty of Ghent, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
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Serial set 1040 In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason submitted the following report. The select committee of the Senate appointed to inquire into the late invasion and seizure of the public property at Harper's Ferry, beg leave to submit their report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 43.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 43, for the relief of Solomon Wadsworth, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 425.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred "An Act for the Relief of the Heirs and Legal Representatives of Pierre Dolet, of the State of Louisiana," have the honor to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 429.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Ashton S.H. White, for compensation for services rendered by him as Assistant Secretary to sign land warrants, under an appointment from the President, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas P. Dudley, for arrears of his pension from the date of his disability, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nicholson submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims have had under consideration the petition of the heirs of Nathan Weeks, praying for the seven years' half pay due them as the heirs of said Weeks, a lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army, and for the residue of his pay due at the time of his death, and respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Catharine Shepherd, widow of George Shepherd, praying for a pension, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nicholson submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims have had under consideration the petition of William C. Morris, who petitions for himself and the representatives of Joseph Morris, deceased, praying for the seven years' half pay due to Joseph Morris as an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and respectfully submit to the Senate the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thompson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 430.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Reuben Clough for an invalid pension, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 431.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of C.L. West and others, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 432.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial and papers in the case of C.S. Emory, surviving administrator of Calvin Read, of Florida, have considered the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jane W. [i.e., D.] Brent, widow of Thomas Lee Brent, praying for a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anna Mitchell, widow of Darius Mitchell, praying for a pension for the Revolutionary services of her husband, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Catharine Hagie, widow of John Hagie, for a pension for the Revolutionary services of her husband, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the resolution to inquire into the expediency of paying the officers of the Army and of the Marine Corps a gross sum per annum in lieu of the commutations, &c., as now allowed by law, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of Dr. C.F. Alexander, in relation to his rank in the medical corps of the Army, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 25.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the joint resolution of the Senate "manifesting the sense of Congress towards the officers and seaman of the vessels and others engaged in the rescue of the officers and soldiers of the Army, the passengers, and the officers and crew of the steamship San Francisco, from perishing with the wreck of that vessel," having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 436.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate "to inquire into the expediency of repealing so much of the act entitled 'An Act To Establish the Home Department and To Provide for the Treasury Department an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and a Commissioner of Customs,' approved March 3, 1849, as transfers from the Secretary of the War Department to the Secretary of the Interior, the supervisory and appellate powers, in relation to the acts and duties of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; and of restoring, by law, the said powers to the Secretary of War, as they existed prior to the passage of that act," having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 439.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mira M. Alexander, only surviving child of Major George Madison, deceased, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 440.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ruth Ellen Grelaud [i.e., Greland], widow of Captain John H. Grelaud [i.e., Greland], praying to be allowed a pension, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 446.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Louisa T. Whiting, widow of Brevet Major Fabius Whiting, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom referred the petition of Francis M. and Henrietta L. Greene, children of Lieutenant Colonel John Greene, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 195.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom were referred House Bill No. 195 and various reports of the Surveyor General of the Territory of New Mexico, in relation to private land claims in said territory, have the honor to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the "petition of Robert Orr and Chambers Orr, surviving heirs of Captain Robert Orr, in the expedition of General George Rogers Clark, of Virginia against the Indians in the now State of Ohio, in 1781, praying the land promised by the laws of Virginia," having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 452.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the case of Sylvester Gray...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson of Arkansas made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 453.) The Committee on Public Lands having had the case of Mary Towson, widow of Joshua Towson, a soldier of the War of 1812, for bounty land, under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 454.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Deborah Stevens Witham, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 455.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Emanuel Conkright, for an invalid pension, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson made the following report. (To accompany Bill 456.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John B. Miller, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Maurice K. Simons, praying for an increase of pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of John Reed, of New York, for an invalid pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Fairfax, praying to be allowed an invalid pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Richard Mackall, praying indemnity for property destroyed by the British during the War of 1812, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 462.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Hermon [i.e., Herman] D. Stratton, a soldier in the late war with Mexico, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 8.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the joint resolution which passed the Senate on the 23d March, 1860, of the present session, "relating to the claim of George Fisher, late of Florida, deceased," together with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, which passed the House of Representatives on the __, having had the same under consideration, ask leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred two resolutions of the Legislature of California, one of the 9th of February, and the other of the 6th of April last, in favor of the establishment of additional land districts in said state, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 474.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Rev. G. Hildt and others, praying the examination and settlement of the claims of J.W. Nye, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 476.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Virginia Rose, for herself and the other heirs of Captain Alexander Rose, of the Revolutionary War, praying to be allowed commutation, have considered the same, and beg leave to submit a report made by the late Mr. Evans, as expressing the views of the committee, to wit...
In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William L. Hudson, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom referred the petition of John Sample, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Crittenden submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims have had under consideration the petition of Ford Barnes, praying compensation for the services of his father as a soldier of the American Army in the War of the Revolution, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 36.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of A.S. Baldwin, a lieutenant of the United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 481.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Frances M. Webster, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 485.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Harriet Crocker, widow of Edward Crocker, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 419.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 419, recognizing the survey of the Grand Cheniere Island, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ten Eyck submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the representatives of Richard Taliaferro, beg leave to adopt a report made by Mr. Shepley, in the year 1836, as part of their report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 492.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of Captain J.W. Davidson, of the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed, and that the views of the minority be printed with the report. Mr. Wigfall made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 513.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House Bill No. 513, for the relief of John M. Hockaday and William Liggit, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to present their report, as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bragg made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 347.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred a bill to declare the meaning of the act entitled "An Act Making Further Provision for the Satisfaction of Virginia Land Warrants," passed August 31, 1852, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 496.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the return of Mathew Johnson, and the return of Silas Carleton...
In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 220.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom House Bill No. 220, for the relief of Anson Dart, was recommitted, respectfully report that they have had the matter under consideration, and still concur in their former recommendation, that the bill pass without amendment...
In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 499.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Miriam Davis, widow of Lot Davis, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 79.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 79, entitled "A Bill for the Relief of James Henderson," have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of W. Brenton Boggs, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 41.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 41, to affirm certain entries of land in the State of Louisiana, report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fessenden made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 501.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Rice, report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell submitted the following report the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of William Maxwell Wood, a surgeon in the Navy of the United States, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1860. -- Submitted. June 12, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell submitted the following report. The select committee appointed by virtue of the following resolution, adopted 24th January, 1860, "Resolved, that a select committee be appointed to inquire and report to the Senate whether forty-one thousand dollars, or other sum or sums, were paid by the public printer..."
In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Green submitted the following report. Your committee was appointed under the following resolution: "Resolved, that a select committee of five be appointed to inquire whether the sixth section of the act entitled 'An Act Making Appropriations for the Post Office Department..."
In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, on the subject of international law, as to damages resulting from collisions at sea, have considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following adverse report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 352.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred bill from the House of Representatives (No. 352) for the relief of James Hooten, asking indemnification for the loss of postage stamps, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 498.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 498, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 507.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of the California Stage Company, asking compensation for extra services rendered on thirteen routes in California...
In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 44.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the "joint resolution of the Legislature of California, asking Congress to cede and donate a tract of land known as the 'Colorado Desert' to that state, for certain purposes therein set forth," having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 508.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William Nelson, a Lieutenant in the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 267.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was recommitted the "Bill (H.R. 267) for the Relief of Mrs. A.W. Angus, Widow of the Late Captain Samuel Angus, United States Navy," have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 16, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom has been referred "the memorial of William T. Kendall, of Baltimore, asking indemnity for property seized and confiscated by the alleged authority of the British Government, and for the value of guano claimed under the act of August 18, 1856," have had same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 16, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Green made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 386.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred (Senate Bill No. 386) "A Bill Explanatory of an Act Entitled 'An Act Supplementary to an Act To Authorize Notaries Public To Take and Certify Oaths, Affirmations, and Acknowledgments, in Certain Cases,'" having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 514.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Redick McKey [i.e., McKee], having considered the same, report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, in obedience to the following resolution of the Senate, to wit...
In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 515.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, having had under consideration the report of the Secretary of the Interior, and the account stated under his direction, showing the amount due the Choctaw Tribe of Indians, according to the principles of settlement prescribed by the award of the Senate, made by the resolution of March 9, 1859, report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 493.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Augustus Steele, have had the same under consideration, and there upon report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 382.) The Committee on Private Lands Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Oliver Landry, of the State of Louisiana, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Crittenden submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Israel Honeywell, deceased, for compensation for property destroyed by the enemy during the Revolutionary War, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 463.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred "the petition of William H. Vesey, United States Consul at Havre, to have refunded to him money paid by him on account of the default of certain bankers in Paris with whom he had deposited funds of the government," have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 371.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred H.R. 371, "An Act for the Relief of Joseph B. Eaton," having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following adverse report. (To accompany Bill S. 251.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of John B. Rittenhouse, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of A.C. Rhind, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of T. Harman Patterson, have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of C.W. Cartwright and others, representing themselves to be a committee appointed by a meeting of some of the citizens of Boston, beg leave to report, as follows...
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Serial set 1041 Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: being the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 5, 1859, in the eighty-fourth year of the independence of the United States. 1
Serial set 1043 Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861.
Contingent fund -- State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, communicating statements showing the manner of the expenditure of the contingent fund of the State Department, &c. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Balances of appropriations -- Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating statement of balances of appropriations, transfers, repayments, &c. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Balances due and unsettled. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances due the United States and unsettled. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Employees in the Coast Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting list of persons employed in the Coast Survey. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Employes -- State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting list of clerks and other employes of the State Department. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Registered American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of State transmitting an abstract of returns of registered American seamen. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 1044 Letter of the Secretary of State, transmitting a statement of the commercial relations of the United States with foreign nations, for the year ending September 30, 1859. 1
Serial set 1045 Receipts and expenditures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of receipts and expenditures of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1859. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. 1
Serial set 1046 Clerks and other employes of the Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting list of clerks and others employed in the Department of the Interior. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Indian disbursements. Letter from the Second Auditor, transmitting accounts of persons charged with disbursement of moneys, goods, &c., for benefit of the Indians. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Claims growing out of Indian hostilities in Oregon and Washington in 1855 and 1856. Report of the Third Auditor of the Treasury, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives passed February 8, 1858. February 10, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Contingent expenses of the Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the annual statement of the contingent expenses of the Department of the Interior. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 1047 Treasurer's accounts. Letter from the Acting Treasurer, transmitting copies of accounts with the United States. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Estimates -- service of Post Office Department for 1860. Letter from the Postmaster General, submitting estimates for the service of the Post Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1860. February 14, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.
Estimates -- service of Post Office Department for 1861. Letter from the Postmaster General, communicating estimates for the service of the Post Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1861. February 14, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.
War Department -- appropriations for. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a statement of appropriations for the War Department, &c. February 15, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.
War Department -- contracts. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a statement of contracts made during the year 1859. February 15, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
New Mexico -- private land claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating documents in relation to private land claims in New Mexico. February 10, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed.
Contingent fund -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the expenditure of the contingent fund of the Navy Department. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Clerks and others employed in the Department of War. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of clerks and others employed in that Department. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Clerks and others in the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statement of the number of clerks and other persons employed in the Navy Department. February 10, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 1048 Clerks in the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating list of clerks employed in that Department for the year 1859. February 17, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Contingent expenses, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the contingent fund of that Department for year 1859. February 17, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Military establishment -- contingent expenses. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the contingent expenses of the military establishment. February 21, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
National armories. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the expenses of the national armories, &c. February 21, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Militia returns. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a return of the militia of the United States, &c. February 21, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Passengers arriving in the United States. Letter of the Secretary of State, communicating, in obedience to law, statements showing the number and designation of passengers arriving in the United States during the year 1859. February 28, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Miscellaneous claims paid at the Treasury. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a statement of miscellaneous claims paid at the Treasury for the year 1859. March 2, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Board of naval officers. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the House, reports of the board of officers ordered to examine into the condition of the Navy yards. March 2, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Army Register. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a transcript of the Army Register for 1859. March 2, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Wagon road -- Fort Smith to Colorado River. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of Mr. Beale relating to the construction of a wagon road from Fort Smith to the Colorado River. March 9, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Art Commission. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the House, the report of the Art Commission. March 9, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Northern and northwestern lakes. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House requesting the communication of the annual report of Lieutenant Colonel James D. Graham on the harbor improvements for the northern and northwestern lakes. February 23, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Commerce and free trade. Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House calling for a copy of a letter of the Emperor of France on the subject of commerce and free trade. February 28, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed.
Collectors of Customs in Illinois. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House, calling for information as to whether there be defalcations by collectors of Customs in the State of Illinois, &c. February 28, 1860. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
Art Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House calling for the report of the Art Commissioners, &c. March 5, 1860. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
Navy and Marine Corps -- pay of, etc. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the pay and allowances to the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps for the year 1859. March 6, 1860. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
Navy Register. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copies of the Navy Register. March 6, 1860. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
New York Indian reserve in Kansas Territory. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House calling for information in regard to the condition of the New York Indian reserve in Kansas Territory. March 5, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Contingent expenses of the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the contingent expenses of the War Department. February 21, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Fines and deductions -- mail contractors. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of the fines imposed upon and deductions from the pay of mail contractors, &c. March 8, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 1049 Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey showing the progress of the survey during the year 1859. 1
Serial set 1050 Charges against A.D. Bonesteel, United States agent for the Menomonee Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the correspondence relative to charges preferred against A.D. Bonesteel, United States agent for the Menomonee Indians. March 19, 1860. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
Convention between the United States and the Republic of Paraguay. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of the convention between the United States and the Republic of Paraguay, concluded on the 4th February, 1859. March 19, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Receipts and disbursements of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Treasurer, communicating copies of the Treasurer's accounts of the receipts and disbursements for the service of the Post Office Department for the years ending June 30, 1858 and 1859. March 12, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Manchac Pass, on Mississippi River. Letter from the Secretary of War, in reference to a resolution of the House calling for information in relation to the nature of the obstructions in the Bayou Manchac, Mississippi River. March 16, 1860. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
Banks throughout the Union. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the condition of the banks throughout the United States. March 28, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Alleged interference of the Executive with the action of Congress. Message of the President of the United States, protesting against certain proceedings the House of Representatives. March 29, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, with leave to report at any time, and ordered to be printed.
Persons employed in delivering letters -- Post Office, New York. Letter from the Acting Postmaster General, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House, a statement showing the number of persons employed in the delivery of letters from the Post Office Department. March 30, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.
Difficulties on southwestern frontier. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the House, information in reference to the difficulties on the southwestern frontier. April 2, 1860. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
Estimates -- public buildings in New Mexico. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating estimates necessary to complete the capitol and penitentiary buildings in New Mexico. March 13, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 1051 Charles N. Pine, United States marshal, and Henry S. Fitch, United States district attorney, Northern District of Illinois. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House, information in reference to the accounts of Charles N. Pine, late United States marshal, and Henry S. Fitch, United States district attorney, of the Northern District of Illinois. April 2, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Imprisonment of an American citizen in the island of Cuba. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the House, information in reference to the imprisonment of an American citizen in the island of Cuba. April 2, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Ports of delivery discontinued. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House calling for information relative to what ports of delivery, if any, have been discontinued, &c. April 6, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Mississippi Sound, &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives, calling for a memoir and charts of Mississippi Sound, &c., &c. April 6, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Reported expulsion of American citizens from Mexico. Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives calling for information touching the reported expulsion of American citizens from Mexico. April 11, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Duties on tobacco in foreign countries. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives, information in regard to the duties on tobacco in foreign countries. April 11, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Estimate -- negotiation of treaties with Indian tribes. Letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the House, estimates, &c., for negotiating treaties with certain Indian tribes of the plains and in Minnesota. April 11, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.
Estimate for furnishing rooms in the Custom-house at New Orleans for the post office. Letter from the Acting Postmaster General, asking an appropriation for completing and furnishing rooms in the Custom-house at New Orleans for the use of the post office. April 11, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.
Estimates -- district land offices. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimate for certain expenses of district land offices. April 12, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.
Harlem River. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives calling for information as "to the practicability of making the Harlem River navigable for commercial purposes," &c. April 12, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed.
Affairs in Oregon. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, correspondence with General Harney, relating to affairs in the department of Oregon. April 12, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Persons who served more than six months in the War of 1812. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the House calling for a statement of the number of officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, &c., who served for a period of six months and upwards in the War of 1812. April 13, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Abstract of offers for furnishing naval supplies. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of offers for furnishing naval supplies. April 13, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Indian hostilities in New Mexico. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House, information concerning Indian hostilities in the Territory of New Mexico. April 16, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Books for members of Congress -- amount paid for them, &c., &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives calling for the amount that has been paid out of the Treasury for books ordered to be published by either or both Houses of the 33d Congress, as well as the amount paid for books for the new members of said Congress, under the usual resolutions, &c., &c. April 11, 1860. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
Contract for labor performed at the public stores in New York. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, calling for information in reference to a contract for the performance of certain labor at the public stores in the City of New York. April 12, 1860. -- Referred to the select committee on the subject of a contract for public stores in the City of New York.
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Serial set 1052 Results of meteorological observations, made under the direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, being a report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress. Vol. I. 1
Serial set 1053 Results of meteorological observations, made under the direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, being a report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress. Vol. II. 1
SERIAL SET 1054 Narrative and final report of explorations for a route for a Pacific railroad, near the forty-seventh and forty-ninth parallels of north latitude : from St. Paul to Puget Sound...1855 / 1