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Serial set 1120	Message of the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress. Volume IV. December 3, 1861. -- Read, and ordered that the usual number of the message and documents be printed.	1
Serial set 1121	Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, relative to the purchase of extracts of coffee for the use of the troops. January 16, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 2d of March, 1861, relative to the claim of Pierce & Bacon, for payment of sundry bills of exchange accepted by the late Secretary of War, Mr. Floyd. December 24, 1861. -- Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a correspondence between the Secretary of State and the authorities of Great Britain and France, in relation to the recent removal of certain citizens of the United States from the British mail-steamer Trent. January 6, 1862. -- Read and ordered to be printed. On motion by Mr. Summer that the message be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations -- ordered, that the further consideration thereof be postponed to, and be the special order for Thursday next, the 9th instant, at one o'clock. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of Senate of the 9th instant, relative to the employment of George D. Morgan, of New York, to purchase vessels for the government. January 15, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the finances, for the year ending June 30, 1861. Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, in relation to the appointment of brigade sutler of the brigade commanded by General Daniel E. Sickles. January 10, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of July 29, 1861, in relation to the payments under the act of Congress passed March 28, 1848, for the relief of the heirs of John Paul Jones. January 13, 1862. -- Read, and on motion by Mr. Foot, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant, in relation to the number, names, and residences of all consuls and commercial agents appointed under the act of August 2, 1861. January 13, 1862. -- Read and, on motion of Mr. Foot, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, statements showing balance of appropriation for the year 1860, and the expenditures of appropriation made for 1861, including amount carried to surplus fund and balance remaining on hand June 30, 1861. January 13, 1862. -- Read on motion by Mr. Wilson, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a correspondence between the Minister from Austria and the Secretary of State of the United States, in relation to the taking of certain citizens of the United States from on board the British steamer Trent, by order of Captain Wilkes, of the United States Navy. January 14, 1862. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th day of July, 1861, and of the 14th January, 1862, relative to the contracts for the Army and the payment of troops. January 16, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a correspondence between the Minister of Prussia and the Secretary of State, in relation to the capture and detention of certain citizens of the United States, passengers on board the British steamer Trent, by order of Captain Wilkes, of the United States Navy. January 20, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, in relation to the presentation of American citizens to the court of France. February 11, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, calling for information whether any aid and what aid is rendered by the pay department of the Army to enable volunteers to transmit home any part of their pay, and what additional facilities may be extended to that object. December 16, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 18th instant, in relation to the law requiring passports of passengers going direct from New York to San Francisco. December 20, 1861. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, relative to the raising and employing volunteer militia in the State of Missouri. December 24, 1861. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, calling for copies of the charges, testimony and finding of the recent court of inquiry, in the case of Colonel Dixon S. Miles, of the United States Army. December 16, 1861. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. December 26, 1861. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 500 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 9th December, calling for information in relation to the employment of a special agent in the State of Minnesota. January 8, 1862. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of December 16, 1861, in relation to the aides-de-camp appointed under the act of August 5, 1861. February 11, 1862. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. February 14, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of January 30, in relation to what contracts have been made in the office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the transportation of goods for the Indians. February 7, 1862. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. February 24, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of an instruction from Prince Gortchacow to the Minister of Russia, accredited to this government, and a note of the Secretary of State to the latter, relative to the adjustment of the question between the United States and Great Britain, growing out of the removal of certain citizens of the United States from the British mail steamer Trent. February 25, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of two letters from his Majesty the Major King of Siam to the President of the United States, accompanied by certain presents, and of the President's answer thereto. February 26, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 4th of February in relation to orders, supplies, and amount of force given to the military command in service in Kansas. March 3, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 29th January, in relation to the number of troops raised for the service of the United States, in each state of the Union. March 3, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 7th of January, in relation to the number of three years volunteers in the service of the United States, and the number of brigadier generals and other brigade officers that have been nominated to the Senate for its confirmation. March 3, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 16th January, in relation to payments for transportation made to railroads in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. March 3, 1862. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 24th of February, to institute an inquiry and report what officers employed in the collection and protection of the revenue may be discontinued without detriment to the public service. March 3, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of a despatch to the Secretary of State from the minister resident of the United States at Lisbon, concerning recent measures which have been adopted by the government of Portugal intended to encourage the growth and enlarge the area of the culture of cotton in its African possessions. March 5, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, transmitting copies of all accounts which have been received at that Office from persons charged or trusted with the disbursement of moneys, goods, or effects of any kind for the benefit of the Indians, from July 1, 1860, to June 30, 1861. February 12, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. March 5, 1862. -- Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 10, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed, and one thousand additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a translation of an instruction to the minister of his Majesty the King of Italy accredited to this government, and a copy of a note to that minister from the Secretary of State, relating to the settlement of the question arising out of the capture and detention of certain citizens of the United States, passengers on board the British steamer Trent, by order of Captain Wilkes, of the United States Navy. March 5, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	30
Serial set 1122	Message of the President of the United States, informing Congress that he had approved and signed the act entitled "An Act for the Release of Certain Persons Held to Service of Labor in the District of Columbia," and recommending an amendatory act. April 16, 1862. -- Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to resolutions of the Senate of the 19th instant, calling for information in relation to persons who have been arrested in the southern district of New York, from the 1st day of May, 1852, to the 1st day of May, 1862, charged with being engaged in the slave trade; also the names and number of vessels arrested and bonded, from the 1st day of May, 1852, to the 1st day of May, 1862, in the southern district of New York, charged with being engaged in the slave trade, &c. May 30, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of this date, so much of the report of the honorable Joseph Holt and Robert Dale Owen, on the subject of ordnance and gun contracts, as relates to gun contracts of Schubarth. June 21, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 25th March, 1862, a tabular statement showing the quantity and value of the different articles of merchandise imported into the United States from the British North American colonies during the fiscal years ending June 30, 1859, 1860, and 1861, under the Treaty of Reciprocity. June 13, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in relation to a resolution passed by the House of Representatives censuring Hon. Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War. May 28, 1862. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, calling for information touching the arrest of persons in Kentucky since the 1st of September, 1861, and their imprisonment beyond the limits of that state. May 28, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant in relation to the present condition of the Military Asylum. May 29, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, transmitting a copy of the letter of appointment constituting the Hon. Edward Stanly military governor of North Carolina; also a copy of the instruction he received from the War Department. June 4, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 30th ultimo, transmitting a copy of the correspondence between that Department and the War Department upon the subject of imprisoning soldiers and volunteers in the penitentiary of this district. June 4, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 22d ultimo, transmitting the official reports and documents connected with the recent engagements on the Mississippi River, which resulted in the capture of Forts Jackson, St. Philip, and the City of New Orleans, the destruction of the rebel flotilla, &c. June 6, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed, and three thousand additional copies be printed, two thousand for the use of the Senate and one thousand for the Navy Department. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave trade. June 10, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 29th ultimo, transmitting copies of the reports of W.H. Walsh and William H. Coombs, in relation to the "half-breed Kaw lands" on the Kansas River, in the State of Kansas. June 5, 1862. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. June 11, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant, information in relation to the testing of an improvement in building ships-of-war, by Martin Bishop, of Indiana. June 11, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, the last report of the board of examiners of the Naval School at Newport, Rhode Island. June 13, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, statements showing the amounts paid to the marshals of the District of Columbia for the year ending June 30, 1861, &c. June 14, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, in relation to the amount of money paid to the States of Maine and Massachusetts for yielding their assent under the Ashburton Treaty establishing the boundary between the United States and the British possessions in America. June 20, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 193) "To Repeal That Part of an Act of Congress That Prohibits the Circulation of Bank Notes of a Less Denomination Than Five Dollars in the District of Columbia," with his objections thereto. June 24, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of April 21, in relation to the arrest of Brigadier General Stone. May 2, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a petition of citizens of Oregon and Washington Territory, and a report of the Third Auditor of the Treasury in relation to the Indian war claims in Oregon and Washington Territory. May 2, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a list of naval officers who commanded vessels engaged in the recent brilliant operations of the squadron commanded by Flag-Officer Farragut, and recommending that they should, by name, receive a vote of thanks of Congress. May 15, 1862. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, in relation to the nature, amount, and condition of the claim of Carmack & Ramsey on his Department. May 9, 1862. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. May 12, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, recommending that Captain D.G. Farragut receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his services and gallantry displayed in the capture, since the 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and City of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, &c. May 15, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance to a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, a report of the Secretary of State in regard to railway systems in Europe. March 13, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of December 17, 1861, in relation to the names and numbers of the major generals, and the names of the officers who are performing the duties as such; also the number of officers and soldiers to their staff, and the rent of the buildings occupied by them as offices. March 17, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 18th instant, in relation to the contracts made with Robert L. Stevens for the construction of a steam floating battery. March 24, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, in relation to the removal of the Naval Academy from Annapolis, Maryland, to Newport, Rhode Island. March 20, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. March 24, 1862. -- Ordered that 3,000 additional copies be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of a communication of the 21st of December last to the Secretary of State by the Governor of the Territory of Nevada. March 27, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 30th day of January, in relation to the vessels purchased or chartered for the use of the War Department since the 1st day of April last. March 27, 1862. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. March 31, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of 27th day of March, 1862, in relation to the slave vessel the "Bark Augusta." April 1, 1862. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. April 3, 1862. -- Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. April 4, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating the report of Edwin F. Johnson, upon the defences of Maine. April 8, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of a correspondence between the Secretary of State and Benjamin E. [i.e., H.] Brewster, of Philadelphia, relative to the arrest of Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War, at the suit of Pierce Butler, for trespass, vi et armis, assault and battery, and false imprisonment. April 21, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 18th instant, in relation to the amounts paid to different persons on account of legal and other services for investigating land titles in the State of California during the years 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, and 1861. April 23, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1861. Agriculture. Letter of the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of March 26, 1862, communicating a correspondence between the State Department and the Hon. Franklin Pierce, ex-president of the United States, upon the subject of a supposed conspiracy against the government. April 1, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.	34
Serial set 1123	Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the 9th of May, the reports of the officers in command in relation to the recent battles at Pittsburg Landing. June 28, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 4th ultimo, copies of all instructions given to commanding generals in pursuance of the acts of Congress approved August 6, 1861, setting free slaves who have been employed, by the consent of their masters, against the government of the United States. July 10, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a draft of a bill to compensate any state which may abolish slavery within its limits, and recommending its passage. July 14, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 10th ultimo, a statement in relation to claims made by citizens of the United States upon the War Department for damages to, or destruction of property by the federal Army. July 16, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, recommending that some suitable acknowledgement be made to Cornelius Vanderbilt for the valuable present to the United States of the steamer "Vanderbilt." July 17, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a copy of the report of the commission on ordnance and ordnance stores made to the War Department. July 17, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, informing Congress that he had approved the bill "To Suppress Insurrection, Punish Treason and Rebellion, To Seize and Confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes," and the joint resolution explanatory of said act. July 17, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed	7
Serial set 1124	Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland, approving the views of the President in his annual message as to the course to be pursued in suppressing the present rebellion, and declaring the state to be ready to fulfil all her constitutional obligations to the general government as a loyal state. January 2, 1861 [i.e., 1862]. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, concerning federal relations. January 8, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a speedy suppression of the present rebellion. February 3, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Petition of citizens of New York, praying a postal reform. February 11, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Motion to print the address and petition without the names referred to the Committee on Printing. February 14, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed without the names. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, asking a donation of land and money to aid in the construction of a military railroad from some point on the Mississippi River, or Lake St. Croix, in the State of Wisconsin, to Superior City, in Douglas County, in said state. April 21, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the establishment of an arsenal and armory on the island of Rock Island, in the State of Illinois. January 31, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, relative to rebel officers in Columbus and Camp Chase Prison. April 25, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a grant of land by the government of the United States to endow a military school in that state. February 6, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating in obedience to law, a detailed statement of the payments from the contingent fund of the Senate during the year ending December 2, 1861. March 19, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of State to Norman B. Judd, in relation to the stade dues. (To accompany Bill S. 215.) February 28, 1862. -- Presented and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, in favor of the location of the Naval Academy of the United States at Newport, in said state. February 7, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress. December 4, 1861. Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of appropriate action for the relief of Ireland from impending famine. February 18, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. February 18, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Petition of L.F. Carter, praying an appropriation for services rendered in surveying public lands in the State of Oregon. (To accompany Bill S. No. 207.) In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Resolution. Whereas Lazarus W. Powell, a Senator from the State of Kentucky, after eleven states had published their ordinances of secession, by which to sever themselves from the government of the United States, had formed a confederation and provisional government, and made war upon the United States, did, on the 20th day of June last, at the City of Henderson, in the State of Kentucky, attend a large southern state's rights convention, over which he was called to and did preside; and, on taking his seat as president thereof, made a speech, in which he stated the object of said convention, and then appointed a committee, which reported to said convention a long series of resolutions that were unanimously adopted by it. Among those resolutions are the following... Resolution of the Legislature of Connecticut, relating to a uniform decimal system of weights, measures, and currencies. December 9, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Connecticut, in favor of the repeal of so much of an act of Congress entitled "An Act To Provide Increased Revenue from Imports, &c., as Imposes a Tax upon 'Income' of the Several Residents of the United States." December 9, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, in favor of Congress taking appropriate action for the immediate relief of the people of Ireland from impending famine. December 11, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carlile submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Finance inquire into the expediency: First. Of raising, by direct taxation upon real and personal property of every kind and description... Memorial of John B. Temple and others, of the military board of Kentucky, praying that the officers and soldiers who were engaged in actual duty before being mustered into service may be placed upon the same footing as to pay, bounty, and pensions, as they would have been had they been mustered into service at the time they performed their duty. January 15, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wade submitted the following resolution. Resolved, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the following be added to the joint rules of the two Houses... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1862. -- Submitted, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolutions. Resolutions declaratory of the relations between the United States and the territory once occupied by certain states, and now usurped by pretended governments, without constitutional or legal right... Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan in favor of the adoption of measures for the exchange of prisoners. January 23, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New York in favor of the abolition of the franking privilege. January 27, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, praying the establishment of a steam mail line from San Francisco to Japan and China. January 2, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. January 29, 1862. -- Discharged, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce, St. Paul, Minn. remonstrating against any action at the present session of Congress suspending the treaty between the United States and Great Britain of June 5, 1854, commonly known as the Reciprocity Treaty. January 27, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations; motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. January 29, 1862. -- Reported in favor of printing. Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of such an amendment to the laws for the naturalization of foreigners as will secure letters of citizenship to foreigners honorably discharged from the Army of the United States. February 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of the establishment of a national armory in said state. February 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, relating to the frontier defences of that state. February 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Resolution of the Legislature of New York, in favor of allowing each state to assess and collect such direct taxes as Congress may impose, in accordance with its own laws and through its own officers. February 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, relative to lake and river defences in said state. February 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the passage of a law making all frauds committed by any person upon the general government or its Treasury a felony punishable by imprisonment for years. February 4, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the imposition of a national tax according to the value of property, both real and personal. February 4, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in relation to the sale and use of intoxicating liquors, as a beverage, to the officers, soldiers, and employes [sic] of the government within the District of Columbia. February 4, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Memorial and resolutions of the Legislature of Nebraska, in favor of the establishment of a mail-route from Marshalltown, in Iowa, to Decatur, in Nebraska. February 5, 1862. -- 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 erection of a light-house at the entrance of Black Lake harbor, in Ottawa County. February 6, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, in relation to the expenses of the loans made under the authority of the acts of 17th July and 5th August last. February 7, 1862.-- Submitted by Mr. Pearce, from the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Delaware, in favor of an appropriation to erect a suitable fortification for the protection of the Delaware Bay and River, and an appropriation for the completion of the railroad from Milford to the Delaware breakwater. February 10, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, asking the co-operation of the national government in measures of military necessity upon the frontier, between Minnesota and the English settlements at Selkirk, in central British America. February 11, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes submitted the following document, establishing two bureaus in the Navy Department. (To accompany Bill S. 171.)... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the Constitution of the United States is the fundamental law of the government... Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, asking for a mail route by steamboat from Detroit, Michigan, to Superior City, Wisconsin. February 13, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the establishment of a port of entry at La Crosse, in said state. February 13, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, transmitting a copy of the report of the architect of the United States Capitol extension in relation to the protection of the Capitol extension from injury, as provided for by the joint resolution of Congress approved April 16, 1862. May 12, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. certified copy of the constitution of the State of West Virginia, proposed by the convention assembled at Wheeling on the 26th November, 1861, and ratified by a vote of the people. May 29, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the commissioners appointed by the convention of West Virginia, praying for the admission of that state into the Union. May 31, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Petition of the chiefs of the Delaware Indians in Kansas praying an issue of United States bonds in lieu of bonds that have been abstracted from them by an agent, and on which no interest has been paid since 1860, and that an appropriation be made to pay the interest on the same to the 1st day of July, 1862. June 2, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of D.T. Valentine, clerk of the Common Council of New York City, transmitting resolutions adopted by the Board of Common Councilmen and Board of Aldermen of the City of New York, in relation to the establishment of a mint at New York City. June 6, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dixon submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that all acts or ordinances of secession, alleged to have been adopted by any legislature or convention of the people of any state, are, as to the federal Union, absolutely null and void... In the Senate of the United States. June 18, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes submitted the following resolution. Resolved as the opinion of the Senate, that it is the right and duty of the government to call all loyal persons within the rebellious states to its armed defence... In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1862. -- Submitted. June 18, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that in the prosecution of the present war for the suppression of a wicked rebellion the time has come for the government of the United States to appeal to the loyalty of the whole people everywhere, but especially in the rebel districts, and to invite all, without distinction of color or class, to make their loyalty manifest by ceasing to fight or labor for the rebels... Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs; also, letter of the Assistant Secretary of War to the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, transmitting copies of a report from the Quartermaster General, and letters of Colonel D.C. McCallum and Captain E.L. Hartz in relation to the act of June 2, 1862, relative to contracts, &c. June 20, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut, in favor of the location of a Navy yard at New London, in said state. July 2, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Petition of citizens of Pittsburg and western Pennsylvania, remonstrating against the obstruction of the Ohio River by the Pittsburg and Steubenville Railroad Company in the erection of a bridge across that river near Steubenville or elsewhere. July 5, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. An Act To Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to Secure to the Government the Use of the Same for Postal, Military, and other Purposes... Report of the Marshal of the District of Columbia in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant, in relation to the persons confined in the Washington County jail, and the causes of their confinement, &c. December 9, 1861. -- Read, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1861. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ten Eyck submitted for consideration the following resolution. Resolved, that the present war is for the Union, according to the Constitution... Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, praying that the United States assay office in the City of New York have conferred upon it the privilege of coining into the national currency such portion of gold and silver bullion as may be deposited with the treasurer at New York for that purpose. December 16, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, relative to the baking establishment in the Capitol and Capitol grounds. December 23, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Anthony M. Dignowitz, of San Antonio, Texas, praying the military occupation of Texas, with a view of protecting loyal citizens. December 24, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland, declaring their devotion to the Constitution, and the purpose of the people of Maryland to uphold and defend it; that the present rebellion is without justification, and approving the course of the Executive in his efforts to suppress it. January 2, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a grant of land for the construction of a road through the mining districts of Michigan and Wisconsin. January 6, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1862. -- Agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire whether any practice now prevails, or has heretofore, within the past year, prevailed, in any branch of the Naval Service of making purchases through any other agent or agencies than those recognized by the laws and regulations for the government of the Navy Department... Resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky, concerning the federal courts for the District of Kentucky. January 8, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, in relation to the construction of a railroad to connect Kentucky with east Tennessee and western North Carolina. January 8, 1862. -- Referred to the select committee appointed on the subject, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, relating to the assumption by that state of the federal direct tax. January 8, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the establishment of a naval station and dock-yard in the State of Michigan. January 16, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of E.W. Hinman, of New York, praying the employment by government of the vessels employed in the fisheries as particularly adapted to aid in maintaining an effective blockade. January 16, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of chaplains in the U.S. Army, praying that no law may be passed that will impair their usefulness, and that their rank and pay be that of a captain of infantry. January 17, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the New York Chamber of Commerce, in relation to a system of taxation. April 30, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Maine, in favor of taxation for the support of the government of articles in the hands of vendors and manufacturers and not in the hands of consumers. March 28, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, approving of the recent message of the President of the United States recommending the co-operation of the government with any state for the gradual abolishment of slavery. April 10, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of such an amendment to the bill for the purpose of raising internal revenue as may permit the several states to collect the same within their respective limits, and determine the compensation of the officers by them employed. April 14, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress. May 9, 1862. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of a donation of lands and money to aid in the construction of a railroad from St. Paul to the head of Lake Superior, in said state. February 24, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress. February 25, 1862. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of an appropriation to extend the line of the public surveys over the unsurveyed portion of the state, and the extinguishment of Indian titles to lands in said state. February 26, 1862. -- Referred to the Committees on Public Lands and Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of a semi-monthly mail by sea from San Francisco to Crescent City, in said state. February 28, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, showing the names and compensation of the persons employed in his office during the year 1861. March 6, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of Wm. B. Shubrick, (Chairman Light-house Board,) to the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the Light-house Board in relation to the transfer of the light-house establishment to the Navy Department, as proposed in a bill now before the Senate "To Reorganize the Navy Department." March 6, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of the passage of a law authorizing the authorities of said state to locate lands, in lieu of sections 16 and 36, reserved for public uses, or taken by private claims, upon any unappropriated public lands in said state, except mineral lands. March 10, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in relation to the defence of the coast and frontier of said state. March 13, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of an act to secure the early completion of a railroad from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean; the ratification of the treaty lately made with the Pottawatomie Indian nation; and a grant to said state of five million acres of the public lands in said state to aid in the construction of railroads. March 17, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce in relation to changing the port of entry from Port Townsend, in the District of Puget Sound, Washington Territory, to Port Angelos, in said district and territory. (To accompany Bill S. No. 241.) March 20, 1862. -- Submitted by Mr. Ten Eyck, from the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, in relation to the proposed tax on tobacco. March 24, 1862. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Board of Trade of Philadelphia, praying a review of the tax bill reported by the Committee of Ways and Means to the House of Representatives, with a view to a reduction of the proposed tax on manufactures. March 24, 1862. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the Senate of the United States, in relation to the construction of iron-clad steamers, &c. March 26, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the establishment of a tri-weekly mail route from Des Moines City to Council Bluffs, in said state. March 26, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the establishment of a tri-weekly mail route from Des Moines to Magnolia, in said state; a tri-weekly mail route from Des Moines, Iowa, to St. Joseph, Missouri; a daily mail route from Eddyville, Iowa, to Nebraska City, Nebraska Territory; and a daily mail route from Eddyville to Des Moines City, in said state. March 26, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the organization or construction of one federal or United States circuit, for judicial purposes, out of the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. March 26, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Maine, in favor of notice to the British government by the government of the United States of their intention to rescind the so-called Reciprocity Treaty at the expiration of the time limited by its terms. March 28, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in favor of the United States co-operating with any state which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such system. March 31, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee of Indian Affairs, transmitting a communication from H.B. Whipple, Bishop of Minnesota, to the President of the United States, in relation to Indian affairs in that state, recommending the adoption of measures for their improvement. April 1, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of the passage of a law creating a new collection district from the northern portion of the district of San Francisco, to be called the district of Humboldt, with a port of entry at Eureka, on Humboldt Bay, and ports of delivery at Trinidad and Crescent City. April 2, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, transmitting, for the consideration of said Committee, a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 31st ultimo, submitting additional estimates for the Indian service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863. April 2, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in favor of the construction of one or more iron-clad gunboats, or other adequate means of defence, for the protection of the City of Philadelphia and all the important region of country bordering upon the Delaware. April 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, remonstrating against a stamp tax on newspapers or the interdiction of free exchanges. April 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the establishment of a naval depot and national armory in said state. April 9, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, approving the course of the President of the United States in the administration of the government. April 9, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, remonstrating against the taxation of mining claims for the financial benefit of the general government; in favor of continuing the overland mail service, and that the federal government transfer from the overland route all printed postal matter other than the letter mail to a steamship line by way of the Isthmus of Panama; and, in addition, that the pony express be restored. April 10, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution by Mr. McDougall, for information in relation to the arrest of General Charles P. Stone. April 11, 1862. -- Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions adopted by the annual conference of United Brethren in Christ, held in Prairie City, in Kansas, March 29, 1862, praying the government to extinguish utterly the guilty cause of the insurrection. April 14, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of a modification of the proposed tax on leaf tobacco. April 14, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Petition of the medical cadets of the U.S. Army, praying an increase of the rank and pay of the medical cadet to the rank and pay of brevet second lieutenant of infantry, United States Army. April 17, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of relief to James G. Sadd, mail contractor on route no. 13,025 in said state. April 21, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Munches to Hartford in said state. April 21, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California in favor of the continuance of the overland mail and pony express. February 22, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the appointment of one more additional surgeon to each regiment of volunteers from that state, and the necessary female nurses to attend to the sick soldiers, and that permission be granted to said state to provide for their suffering condition some suitable place in said state. March 19, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed.	108
Serial set 1125	In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill made the following report. (To accompany Bill No. 108.) The bill provides for the emancipation of the slaves in this district, with just compensation to loyal masters... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Motion to print 50,000 extra copies of the report without the documents referred to the Committee on Printing. May 1, 1862. -- Report in favor of printing 50,000 extra copies of the report without the documents agreed to. Mr. Wade submitted the following report. The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the Present War beg leave respectfully to submit a report, in part, as follows: On the first day of April the Senate of the United States adopted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Conduct of the War... In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 381.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial of Thatcher Perkins and William McMahon, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 2, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 338.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph W. Dyer, Ansel L. Dyer, and William W. Dyer, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 349.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom were referred the resolution of the Senate and the memorial of the owners of the ship John H. Jarvis, praying that provision may be made by which the said vessel, captured by the rebels and recaptured by the United States, may be restored to the owners, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes submitted the following report. The Committee on the District of Columbia, instructed by resolution of the Senate of the 18th of February, 1862, "to inquire into the condition and management of the jail in the City of Washington, and to report such measures as in their opinion may be necessary in relation thereto," have performed the duty assigned to them, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Latham made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 205.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Mr. Perry McD. Collins, asking the aid of Congress "that a survey may be made of the North Pacific Ocean, in view of overland telegraphic communication with Europe, via Asiatic Russia," would respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Browning made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 109.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of the legal representatives of J.E. Martin, deceased, late acting consul of the United States at Lisbon, praying compensation for diplomatic services, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1852 [i.e., 1862]. -- Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a resolution for the expulsion from the Senate of Waldo P. Johnson, a Senator from the State of Missouri, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nesmith made the following report. (To accompany J.R. No. 25.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Joint Resolution No. 25, fixing the time from which interest shall be allowed on the awards of the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department in payment of the Oregon and Washington Territory war debt, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, relative to the employment of George D. Morgan, of New York, to purchase vessels for the government, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution No. 43.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles Hunter, a lieutenant in the Navy of the United States, on the leave of absence list, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1862. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the credentials of Benjamin Stark, as a senator from the State of Oregon; with the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and, without expressing any opinion as to the effect of the papers before them upon any subsequent proceedings in the case, they report the following resolution... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Othniel Preston, praying a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of California, praying that a pension may be granted to the widow of Captain R.B. Cunningham, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the passage of a law authorizing the authorities of said state to locate lands, in lieu of sections 16 and 36, reserved for public uses or taken by private claims, upon any unappropriated public lands in said state, except mineral lands, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Smith, John Smith, and Sarah Meredith, surviving heirs of William Smith, deceased, praying that the pension granted to their father for services in the Revolutionary War may be continued to them, respectfully beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lane, of Indiana, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 321.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate, "to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for just and proper compensation to officers and soldiers who sustained losses of baggage and other property at Hatteras Inlet," &c., having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Sidney A. Harrison, widow of Major Thomas Harrison, praying a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jane McAllister, praying a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eugene E.T. Smith, praying for an increase of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cowan made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 346.) 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, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cowan submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of John H. Merrill, of Washington, D.C., report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 314.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred a Bill (S. No. 314) for the relief of the Wyandott Indians, agreeably to certain treaty stipulations, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 353.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of James F. Simmons, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 16, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 356.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Isaac R. Diller, late United States consul at the port of Bremen, Germany, praying compensation for moneys expended by him while in the discharge of his official duties, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. June 24, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 368.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Andrew Ten Broeck [i.e., Brook], late consul of the United States at Munich, in the kingdom of Bavaria, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 208.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Bill S. 208, "Making a Donation of Lands to the States of Wisconsin and Michigan To Aid Them in Making a Military Road and Telegraph Line in Said States," and amendments thereto proposed by the Committee on Military Affairs, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 318.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred a "Bill for Relief in the Land Claims in California, Known as Claims of Francisco Soberanes, to a Tract of Land Known as 'Saujon de Santa Rita,' and of Joseph S. Alemany to the Mission 'San Francisco Solano,'" beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Collamer made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 373.) The Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of the trustees of A.G. Sloo, contractor for carrying the mails between New York, New Orleans, Havana, and Chagres, praying compensation for extra mail service on that route, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 2, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 377.) 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 to the United States during the Revolutionary War, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, instructed by resolution of the Senate of June 30, 1862, to "inquire if the superintendent of the Naval Academy..." In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ten Eyck submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a resolution for the expulsion of James F. Simmons, a senator of the United States from the State of Rhode Island, have had the same under consideration, and, after full deliberation, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1861. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rice made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 77.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 77, "To Abolish the Distinction Now Existing Between the Regular and Volunteer Forces of the United States," having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. (To accompany Bill S. No. 116.) December 18, 1861. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner made the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred so much of the President's message as relates to any claim of the British government on account of the detention of the ship Perthshire, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1862. -- Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ten Eyck made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate for the expulsion of Trusten Polk, a senator from the State of Missouri, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rice submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the claim of Dexter R. Crocker for compensation for transporting the mail from Canyonville, Oregon, to Yreka, California, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. Mr. Howard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 208.) April 30, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the Bill S. 208, "Making a Donation of Lands to the States of Wisconsin and Michigan To Aid Them in Making a Military Road and Telegraph Line in Said States," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 299.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial of Edward Harte, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1862. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Mr. Howard submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 23d ultimo, "to inquire if any general of the Army of the United States, before Yorktown, has exhibited himself drunk in the face of the enemy, on duty; and if so, if any measures have been taken for the trial and punishment of such officer," having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 309.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial and papers in relation to the claim of J.W. Nye for furnishing horses and carryalls for the service of the House of Representatives for the 28th Congress, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Samuel Noah, a soldier of the War of 1812, praying for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charlotte Crane, widow of Colonel Ichabod B. Crane, late of United States Army, praying for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of William R. Combs, a soldier of the War of 1812, praying for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Eunice Church, formerly widow of Joshua Lambert, a seaman, who died in the service of the United States, praying for a revival of her pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers relating to the claim of Erastus Hutchins, an invalid pensioner, for arrears of pension, and also for an increase of the same, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill No. 219.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Hugh H. Howard, a soldier in the Oregon War, praying for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 220.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Pool, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Summer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 225.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred a message from the President of the United States, transmitting a correspondence concerning the seizure of the Spanish bark "Providencia," having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred the memorial of citizens of the State of Michigan, the memorial of the county officers of Saginaw County, Michigan, the memorial of the supervisors of Saginaw County, Michigan, and the petition of citizens of the State of Michigan, praying the location of a naval depot on the Saginaw River... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jesse Ellis, praying that he may be exempt from periodical examination by physicians, he being an invalid pensioner, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of John R. Joy, praying arrears of and additional pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Appleton, praying arrears of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Elizabeth Smoot, one of the heirs of Robert Speiden, a soldier in the War of 1812, praying to be allowed a pension and bounty land, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 177.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred Senate Bill 177, a bill for the relief of Sylvester Crooks, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of John Carter, late a soldier in the service of the United States, praying a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Mrs. Harriet B. Macomb, praying arrears of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Antoine Du Nord, praying for a pension and bounty land, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 106.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the petition of Pedro Chaboya, praying Congress to authorize the Supreme Court of the United States to adjudicate and decide upon his claim to a tract of land in California called "La Posa de San Juan Bautista," with the Senate Bill 106, which accompanied it, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred resolution of the Senate, dated March 14, 1862, inquiring into the expediency of taking measures to facilitate the surveys of public lands in the State of Kansas and Territory of Nebraska, have had the same under consideration, and, after a full investigation, cannot recommend any additional appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the report of the Court of Claims in the case of Constance Bateman, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of David Moriarty, asking for an increase of pension, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lane, of Indiana, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 236.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred S. Bill No. 236, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Latham submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Weyand and John D. Roddy, securities of Harvey C. Marks, late postmaster at Somerset, Pennsylvania, praying relief from a judgment obtained against them in the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, beg leave to report adversely, and for reasons fully stated in a letter of the Auditor of the Post Office Department to the Committee, a copy of which is hereto annexed... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Latham submitted the following report. The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Harvey C. Marks, late postmaster at Somerset, Pennsylvania, praying relief from a judgment obtained against him in the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, beg leave to report adverse to the petition, and for reasons fully stated in the letter of the Auditor of the Post Office Department, a copy of which is hereto annexed... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Motion to print five thousand additional copies of the report without the documents referred to the Committee on Printing. Mr. Hale submitted the following report. The select committee of the Senate, appointed by resolution of the 25th of July, 1861, "to inquire into the circumstances attending the surrender of the Navy yard at Pensacola, and the destruction of the property of the United States at the Navy yard at Norfolk, and at the armory at Harper's Ferry..." In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark submitted the following report. The select committee to whom were referred "the papers relating to the loyalty of Benjamin Stark, a senator from Oregon," report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomas made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 282.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William N. Wood, of the State of New Jersey, ask leave to report...	68
Serial set 1126	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 2, 1861, in the eighty-sixth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1127	In relation to captured Africans. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 16th instant, requesting information as to contracts for returning and subsistence of captured Africans. December 18, 1861. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed Asiatic coolie trade. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of 13th July last, in relation to the "Asiatic coolie trade." December 23, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Blockade, privateering, &c. Message of the President of the United States, in reply to a resolution of the House of July 13, 1861, in regard to the blockade, privateering, and the recognition of the so-called Southern Confederacy. December 5, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Trade and commerce with foreign nations. Message of the President of the United States, in reply to a resolution of the House of July 31, 1861, upon the subject of increasing trade and commerce with foreign nations. December 5, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Intervention of European powers in the affairs of Mexico. Message from the President of the United States in reply to a resolution of the House, of the 4th instant, in relation to intervention of European powers in the affairs of Mexico. December 11, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Armed flotilla on the western waters. Communication from the Secretary of War, on the subject of the armed flotilla on the western rivers. December 11, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Estimates for fortifications. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting additional estimates for fortifications now in the course of construction, temporary and field fortifications, bridge and siege trains, for the second half of the year 1862 and for the year 1863. December 12, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Completing the defences of Washington. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to an early appropriation for "completing the defences of Washington." December 12, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Enlistments of the eleven regiments in addition to the regular Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolutions of the House of the 23d December, 1861, asking for a statement of the number of men enlisted in each of the eleven regiments added to the regular Army, &c. January 2, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Ball's Bluff. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th instant, in relation to the disaster at Ball's Bluff. January 10, 1862. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Conduct of the War, and ordered to be printed. Abstract of registered seamen. Communication from the Secretary of State, transmitting abstract of returns showing the number of registered seamen in the ports of the United States, for the year ending September 30, 1861. December 16, 1861. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Estimate of the medical and hospital department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of the Surgeon General for the medical and hospital department of the regular Army for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1862, and ending June 30, 1863. December 16, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Movement of troops at Ball's Bluff. Letter from the Secretary of War, in reply to resolution of the House, of 3d instant, in relation to affair at Ball's Bluff. December 16, 1861. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Surrender of Fort Fillmore. Letter from the Secretary of War, in reply to resolution of the 4th instant in relation to the surrender of Fort Fillmore. December 16, 1861. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting annual statement of the contingent expenses of that Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861. December 18, 1861. -- Laid on the table, and ordered [to] be printed. Fortification of the sea-coast and lakes. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the correspondence on the subject of fortification of the sea-coast and lakes with the Governor of the State of Maine. December 19, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Industrial exhibition in London. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting letter, memorial, &c., from the committee appointed to represent the interest of those American citizens who may desire to become exhibitors at the industrial exhibition to be held in London in 1862. December 20, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Estimates for Surgeon General's and Paymaster General's offices. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting estimates for expenses of the building corner of F and 15th streets, occupied by the Surgeon General's and Paymaster General's offices. December 26, 1861. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Transportation of troops. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House, of 19th instant, in reference to the transportation of troops and munitions of war by railroad, &c. December 30, 1861. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriation. Letters from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting estimates of additional appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862; and also estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863. Increase of clerks in the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the increase of clerical force in the several bureaus of the War Department. January 2, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Transportation of arms, &c. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of December 19, asking for information as to the cost of transportation of arms, &c., to the country west of the Alleghanies. January 2, 1862. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the National Armory, and ordered to be printed. Feeding disabled horses. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 2, 1861, relative to feeding disabled horses during the winter. January 6, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Iron steam battery. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report of the board of examiners on the iron steam battery constructing at Hoboken. January 6, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Annual statement of pay, etc., of the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of June 14, 1848, requiring annual statement of pay and allowances of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. January 6, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Industrial exhibition in London. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting correspondence in relation to conveying articles for exhibition at the "industrial exhibition in London." January 7, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. George W. Johnson. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to resolution of the House of February 11, 1861, transmitting a report of the Surveyor General of Washington Territory, in relation to damages suffered by George W. Johnson in consequence of the occupancy of his lands by the War Department. January 7, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed.	27
Serial set 1128	Treasurer's accounts. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting copies of the Treasurer's accounts with the United States for the third and fourth quarters of the year 1860, and the first and second quarters of the year 1861. January 14, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Accounts of Brigham Young, superintendent of Indian Affairs in Utah Territory. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the investigation of the acts of Governor Young, ex officio superintendent of Indian Affairs in Utah Territory. January 15, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed Railway to Baltimore. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House in relation to survey of railroad from the City of Washington to Baltimore. January 20, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Removal of dead horses. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House in regard to removal of dead horses. January 20, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Deductions and fines for mail failures. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of all fines and deductions for failures to deliver the mails for the year ending June 30, 1861. January 21, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Treasurer's accounts for the service of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting the Treasurer's accounts for the service of the Post Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1861. January 21, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Disbursements -- contingent fund of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement showing the manner of the disbursements of the contingent fund of the Treasury Department for fiscal year ending June 30, 1861. January 23, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.	7
Serial set 1129	Army Register. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting two hundred copies of the official Army Register for the present year, 1862. January 27, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Fort Ridgely and South Pass wagon road. Report from the Secretary of the Interior, in compliance with act of March, 1861, making appropriations for the Army, communicating results of examination into the accounts of the late superintendent of the Fort Ridgely and South Pass wagon road. January 24, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Receipts and expenditures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting annual statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, as required by the standing order of the House of Representatives of December 30, 1791, and the act of August 26, 1842. January 27, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Spanish bark "Providencia." Message from the President of the United States, transmitting correspondence in relation to the capture of the Spanish bark "Providencia." January 28, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to [be] printed. Disbursements -- contingent fund of the State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statement of disbursements of contingent fund, balances of appropriations on hand, and a precise and analytical statement of all moneys disbursed by the State Department. January 29, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Clerks and other persons employed in the Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of State, in relation to clerks and other persons employed in the Department of State. January 29, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Estimates for the service of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting estimates for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863. January 29, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Clerks and other persons employed in the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a list of clerks and other persons employed in the Post Office Department. January 29, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Appropriations in aid of agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 20th instant, in relation to appropriations in aid of agriculture. January 30, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. British steamer Trent. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting correspondence between the governments of the United States and Great Britain in relation to the British mail steamer Trent. January 31, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Floating debt. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to resolution of the House of the 8th instant, in relation to the floating debt of the United States. January 31, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Officers in new regiments of regular Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of January 8, transmitting Army Register, with the information required. February 4, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Arms for volunteer regiments from New York. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of January 2, in relation to arming certain volunteer regiments from New York. February 4, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Saline lands in Nebraska. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to saline lands in the Territory of Nebraska. February 4, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Transportation of troops, &c. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of January 8, 1861, relative to payments made for transportation of troops, &c. February 12, 1862. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Government Contracts, and ordered to be printed. Treaty for the abolition of stade dues to the Kingdom of Hanover. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copy of a special treaty between the King of Hanover and the United States for the abolition of the stade dues. February 14, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the military establishment for the year 1861. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the contingent expenses of the military establishment for the year 1861. February 13, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.	17
Serial set 1130	Letter of the Secretary of State, transmitting a report of the commercial relations of the United States with foreign nations, for the year ending September 30, 1861.	1
Serial set 1131	Gradual abolishment of slavery. Message from the President of the United States, in relation to co-operating with any state for the gradual abolishment of slavery. March 6, 1862. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed Sale and grant of public lands. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to resolution of the House of 20th January last, transmitting statement of the quantity of public lands disposed of by grant and sale since June 30, 1857. March 3, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Clerks and other persons employed in the Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the names of clerks and other persons employed in that Department. February 26, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Salary, fees, and perquisites of collector, surveyor, and naval officer of New York. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to a resolution of the House of January 31, calling for a statement of the salary, fees, and perquisites received by the late and present collectors, naval officers, and surveyors at the port of New York. February 19, 1862. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Postal service in seceded states. Letter from the Postmaster General in relation to the discontinuance of postal service on mail-routes in seceded states. February 19, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Patent Office report for the year 1861 -- mechanical. Letter from the Commissioner of Patents, transmitting the mechanical report of the Patent Office for the year 1861. February 14, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. June 5, 1862. -- Resolved, that twenty thousand extra copies of the mechanical part of the Patent Office report for 1861 be printed for the use of the House, and ten thousand copies for the use of the Patent Office. Report of the Governor of Colorado Territory. Letter from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 19th instant, transmitting report of the Governor of Colorado Territory, with accompanying documents. February 24, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Militia of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting returns of the militia of the United States, their arms and accoutrements, and ammunition for the year 1861. February 28, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Engagement at Drainesville. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 20th of January, transmitting report of the engagement at Drainesville. March 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Conduct of the War, and ordered to be printed. Purchase of horses for Pennsylvania cavalry. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of January 17, transmitting copies of papers on file in Quartermaster General's Bureau, in relation to purchase of horses for Colonel Williams's regiment of Pennsylvania cavalry. March 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Government Contracts, and ordered to be printed. Feeding disabled horses. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 2d December, 1861, transmitting additional papers to those furnished on the 3d of January, in relation to feeding disabled horses. March 3, 1862. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Government Contracts, and ordered to be printed. Volunteer companies from Ohio and other states. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House, of January 20, in relation to volunteers from Ohio and other states failing to receive commissions except by the Governor of Pennsylvania. March 3, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the War Department for the year ending June 30, 1861. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of contingent expenses of the War Department for the year ending June 30, 1861. March 3, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Captain Louis M. Goldsborough. Message from the President of the United States, recommending that Captain Louis M. Goldsborough receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his services and gallantry displayed in the attack of Roanoke Island, &c. March 4, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Assignment of officers in the Army to duty. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d January last, in relation to the assignment of the officers of the Army to duty. March 4, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Purchase of arms. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 23, 1861, in relation to the purchase of small arms from February 12, 1861, to February 1, 1862; and correspondence in reference to the purchase of arms by Major General John C. Fremont. March 5, 1862. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Government Contracts, and ordered to be printed. Expenditures on account of the Coast Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to a resolution of the House of January 17, 1862, in relation to expenditures on account of the Coast Survey for the year ending June 30, 1861. March 6, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. March 11, 1862. -- Resolved, that five hundred extra copies of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to the resolution of the House, calling for information regarding the expenses of the Coast Survey, be printed for the use of the House. Appropriations for service of War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of appropriations applicable to the service of the War Department, for the fiscal year 1860-'61. March 12, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Regimental bands. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 31, 1862, in relation to regimental bands in Army service. March 13, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Transportation, naval supplies, &c., to Pacific coast. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to resolution of the House in relation to transportation of naval supplies, munitions of war, &c., to the Pacific coast. March 13, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Names of clerks and other persons employed in the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the names of the clerks and other persons employed in the Navy Department during the year 1861. March 13, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Central guard-house. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of the 13th instant, making inquiry as to the treatment of prisoners in the central guard-house. March 17, 1862. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Expenditures of the contingent fund of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting an account of the expenditures of the contingent fund of the Post Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1861. March 17, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Compensation of clerks and other persons employed in the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of the clerks and other persons employed in the Treasury Department for the year ending December 31, 1861. March 18, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 17th instant, transmitting correspondence with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in relation to additional routes between Washington and New York. March 20, 1862. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Danish bark Jurgen Lorentzen. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting correspondence concerning the case of the Danish bark Jurgen Lorentzen, seized on her voyage from Rio Janeiro to Havana by the United States ship Morning Light. March 19, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed.	26
Serial set 1132	Patent Office report for the year 1861 -- mechanical. Letter from the Commissioner of Patents, transmitting the mechanical report of the Patent Office for the year 1861. February 14, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. June 5, 1862. -- Resolved, that twenty thousand extra copies of the mechanical part of the Patent Office report for 1861 be printed for the use of the House, and ten thousand copies for the use of the Patent Office.	1
Serial set 1133	Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1861. Arts and manufactures. Illustrations. Volume II.	1
Serial set 1134	Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the Survey during the year 1861.	1
Serial set 1135	Africans in Fort Monroe military district. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House, transmitting a report of Major General Wool, on the number, age, and condition of the Africans in his district. March 25, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed Military protection to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 22, 1862, relative to military protection to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. April 3, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mileage and per diem charged by the marshal and district attorney of the northern district of New York. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 17th instant, in relation to mileage and per diem charged by the marshal and district attorney of the northern district of New York of late years, &c. March 21, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Transportation of troops between the Missouri River and Pacific Coast. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of the 19th instant, inquiring as to the cost of transportation of troops between the Missouri River and Pacific Coast. March 20, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Captain Samuel F. DuPont. Message from the President of the United States, recommending a vote of thanks by Congress to Captain Samuel F. DuPont, for his services and gallantry displayed in the capture, since the 21st December, 1861, of various points on the coast of Georgia and Florida. March 24, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Names of persons employed in the Coast Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of the number and names of persons employed in the Coast Survey, and expenditures, during the year ending June 30, 1861. March 25, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Chaplains in the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 11th instant, transmitting the names of all the chaplains on the rolls on file in the Office of the Adjutant General. March 25, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Expenditure of the contingent fund in the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, with a detailed statement of the expenditure of contingent fund of the Navy Department for the year ending June 30, 1861. March 25, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Transports for the Army of the Potomac. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 17th instant, transmitting information in relation to transports furnished for the Army of the Potomac. March 26, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Charges for examination of invalid pensioners. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to resolution of the House of 14th instant, in relation to charges for periodical examinations of invalid pensioners. March 26, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Military and naval defences. House of Representatives, U.S., March 26, 1862. Resolved, that fifteen hundred and fifty copies of Executive document No. 243, 1st session 24th Congress, Executive document No. 206, 1st session 26th Congress, and Executive document No. 5, 1st session 32d Congress, on fortifications, floating batteries, and other means of defence, be printed for the use of the House. Mary A. Berault, administratrix of the late Joseph Wheaton. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 14th instant, relative to the claim of Mary A. Berault, administratrix of Joseph Wheaton. March 28, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and ordered to be printed. Medical department of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of February 10, relative to the efficiency of the medical department of the Army. March 28, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Gas and coal consumed by restaurants. Letter from the Commissioner of Public Buildings, in answer to resolution of the House of 26th instant, in relation to the consumption of gas and coal by restaurants in the Capitol. March 28, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Paymasters in the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of 12th December, 1861, relative to paymasters in the Army. April 1, 1862. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Government Contracts, and ordered to be printed. War claims at St. Louis. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the final report made by the commission on war claims at St. Louis. April 2, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Signal supplies. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates for signal supplies, &c. April 4, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Indian department property in Utah Territory. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to resolution of the House of 24th March, furnishing the evidence called for in relation to Indian department property in Utah Territory. April 4, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Pensions to wounded and disabled volunteers. Letter from the Acting Attorney General, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 1st instant, transmitting a copy of the opinion of the Attorney General relative to the laws conferring pensions on wounded and disabled soldiers, &c. April 4, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. System of revenue and finance in foreign countries. Message from the President of the United States in answer to resolution of the House of the 4th instant, in relation to existing system of revenue and finance in any foreign country. April 9, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.	20
Serial set 1136	Forts and other means of defence. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of the 15th instant, in relation to the construction of forts and other means of defence. April 28, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Insurgent privateers in foreign ports. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to resolution of the House of the 24th of February last, in regard in insurgent privateers in foreign ports. April 28, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. The present condition of Mexico. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to resolution of the House of the 3d of March last, transmitting report from the Department of State regarding the present condition of Mexico. April 15, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Contracts -- War Department for the year 1861. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements showing the contracts made under the authority of the War Department during the year 1861. April 24, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Alteration of bridges across the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of the 1st instant, relative to an alteration of bridges across the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Georgetown. April 24, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.	5
Serial set 1137	Private land claims in New Mexico. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the reports of the Surveyor General and papers in four private land claims in New Mexico. May 16, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Payments to railroads for transportation of troops. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 7th of February last in relation to the payments to railroads for the transportation of troops. May 19, 1862. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Government Contracts, and ordered to be printed. Change of materials and construction of forts. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of April 15, in relation to the changes which may have become necessary in materials and construction of forts, &c. May 19, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating a preliminary report on the eighth census. May 21, 1862. -- Referred to the Joint Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Indemnity for maltreatment of American missionaries' agent in Egypt. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to resolution of the House of 20th instant, in regard to indemnity obtained for the maltreatment of an agent of the American missionaries in Egypt. May 23, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Police force in Baltimore. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting communication from General John A. Dix in relation to maintaining a small police force in Baltimore, Maryland. May 23, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Estimates for additional appropriations for War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates for additional appropriations for the War Department for the present and fiscal year ending June 30, 1863. May 23, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mexican affairs. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to resolution of the House of the 22d instant, calling for further correspondence relative to Mexican affairs. May 27, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. National debt. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to resolution of the House of May 28, 1862, transmitting statement of the particulars of the national debt on the 29th day of May, 1862. June 4, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Military governor of North Carolina. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 2d of June, in relation to the authority and action of the Hon. Edward Stanly, Military Governor of North Carolina. June 6, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Exchange of prisoners of war. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting correspondence had by Major General John E. Wool in relation to the exchange of prisoners of war. June 11, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Stevens's battery. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in relation to the expenditure of the appropriation for the completion of "Stevens's steam battery." May 28, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Homicide of Robert E. Scott. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 8th instant, in relation to the homicide of Robert E. Scott, of Virginia. May 16, 1862. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Reports of the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 28th ultimo, calling for reports of commanders of the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee. May 7, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Revolving batteries and river and harbor defence. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of 29th ultimo, transmitting letter of George Vander Heyden in relation to revolving batteries and river and harbor defences. May 7, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Passengers arriving in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, enclosing statement of the number of passengers arriving in the United States on shipboard during the year ending December 31, 1861. May 12, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Appointments to the rank of brigadier general. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House, of the 21st instant, enclosing a list of the appointments of the rank of brigadier general for the year ending April 1, 1862. April 29, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Evacuation of Jacksonville, Florida. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of the 4th instant, in regard to the evacuation of Jacksonville, Florida, by the forces of the United States. April 29, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Contracts for labor at the Custom-house, New York. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to resolution of the House of the 31st ultimo, transmitting copies of contracts for the necessary labor at the New York Custom-house. April 30, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Purchase and distribution of cotton seed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to resolution of the House of the 14th instant, in relation to the purchase and distribution of cotton seed. April 30, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.	20
Serial set 1138	South Carolina volunteers. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of June 9, 1862, transmitting correspondence of Major General Hunter, in relation to arming South Carolina volunteers -- fugitive slaves. July 2, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed Captain Andrew H. Foote. Message from the President of the United States, recommending a vote of thanks to Captain A.H. Foote, of the United States Navy, for his eminent services in organizing the western flotilla and conducting operations in the western waters. June 2, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, with leave to report at any time, and ordered to be printed. Payments to clerks and messengers of Mexican military contribution accounts, &c. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolutions of the House of 20th December, 1861, and 20th January, 1862, calling for information as to amount of money paid clerks and others connected with Mexican military contribution accounts over and above their salaries. June 12, 1862. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Durfee's submarine gun. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to resolution of the House of 9th instant in relation to the propriety of an appropriation for testing Durfee's submarine gun. June 12, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Prisoners in Penitentiary of the District of Columbia by sentence of courts-martial. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to resolution of the House of 11th instant, transmitting a list of prisoners confined in the Penitentiary in the District of Columbia by sentence of courts-martial. June 12, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Enlargement of the locks of the Erie and Oswego Canals. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a memorial in behalf of the State of New York on the subject of the enlargement of the locks of the Erie and Oswego Canals. June 13, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. United States circuit court for California. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to resolution of the House of 9th instant, concerning the interruption of business in the circuit court of the United States for the State of California. June 16, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Reorganization of the enlisted force of the Ordnance Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting a communication from the Chief of the Ordnance Department in relation to a reorganization of the enlisted force of that Department. June 16, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Increase of clerical force in the Paymaster's Department of the United States Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, enclosing a communication from the Paymaster General of the United States Army, asking for an increase of the clerical force in his bureau. June 16, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Relief to Indian refugees in southern Kansas. Letter from J.P. Usher, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, in answer to resolution of the House of 28th ultimo relative to mode and amount of relief extended to Indian refugees in southern Kansas. June 16, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. South Carolina volunteers. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 9th instant, in relation to the organization of South Carolina volunteers, composed of black men -- fugitive slaves. June 17, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed Reorganization of the medical department of the Army. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to resolution of the House of the 9th instant, in reference to further legislation to perfect the reorganization of the medical department of the Army. June 19, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. White House on Pamunky River. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 16th instant in relation to the occupation of the White House on the Pamunky River. June 20, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Regimental chaplains. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 16th instant in relation to the number of regimental chaplains in service under pay, &c. June 20, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Milo Sutliff and Levi H. Case. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 330.) Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 9th instant, transmitting his report and evidence in relation to the claim for damages of Milo Sutliff and Levi H. Case. June 26, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Wreck of steamer Governor and search for United States ship Vermont. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to resolution of the House of 11th instant, transmitting reports of the wreck of the transport steamer Governor and search for United States ship Vermont by the frigate Sabine. June 27, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Prisoners taken on the sloop Velma. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of 28th April, relative to release of the prisoners taken on the sloop Velma. June 30, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Blanks for soldiers' back pay, bounty, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to resolutions of the House of April 21 and June 23, in relation to blanks for soldiers' back pay, bounty, &c. July 2, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Proceedings of the courts of inquiry and courts-martial in the case of Justus McKinstry. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 24th June, transmitting copies of all the proceedings of the courts of inquiry and courts-martial in the case of Justus McKinstry. July 9, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Occupation of the "White House," in Virginia. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 2d instant, on the subject of the occupation by the troops under command of General McClellan of the "White House," in Virginia. July 9, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Relations between the United States and northwest British America. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of 20th May last on the subject of relations with northwest British America, "particularly the central districts of the Red River of the North and the Saskatchewan." July 11, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Thanks of Congress to naval officers. Message from the President of the United States, recommending a vote of thanks by Congress to naval officers named therein. July 12, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Relations between the United States and foreign powers. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 9th ultimo, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State on that subject. July 12, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Commercial intercourse with Canada. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to resolution of the House of April 7 in relation to commercial intercourse with Canada. July 12, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Contracts made with bureaus connected with the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statement of all the contracts made by the different bureaus connected with the Navy Department. July 15, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Interest of members of Congress in government contracts. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant, in relation to any interest of members of Congress in government contracts. July 17, 1862. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.	26
Serial set 1139	Abstract of offers for carrying the mails, &c. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting an abstract of the offers and contracts for carrying the mails; a statement of the additional allowances to contractors; and also a statement of the curtailment of the mail service during the year ending June 30, 1861. June 24, 1862. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.	1

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