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Serial set 1356	Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, published under direction of the Secretary of State by authority of the Senate of the United States. Edited by William P. Blake, Commissioner of the State of California. Volume VI.	1
Serial set 1357	The quiet land titles in Missouri. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 237.) May 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Appropriation for repair of certain public works, &c. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1046.) May 27, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Lighting the hall. April 4, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Accounts. Switzler vs. Anderson. March 23, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Joseph Gales. May 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Destruction of United States bonds. March 12, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Retrenchment. Rev. John McMahon. (To accompany House Resolution No. 137.) January 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Reconstruction. January 14, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Town sites in Utah. January 15, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Samuel E. Smith vs. John Young Brown. January 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Gettysburg lottery. January 22, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and the further consideration postponed till tomorrow. J.H. Ellis. February 29, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Agriculture -- estimate. January 16, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed, and so much of the estimates as are within referred to referred to the Committee of Claims. Rights of American citizens. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 584.) January 27, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. International copyright. February 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. New jail in the District of Columbia. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 784.) February 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. R.R. Butler. February 25, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Abelard Guthrie. February 26, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. Custody and expenditure of public moneys. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 500.) February 4, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Admission of Alabama. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 904.) March 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Bureau of Freedman and Refugees. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 598.) March 10, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Whiskey frauds. March 12, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Retrenchment. Homesteads. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 934.) March 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Samuel McKee vs. John D. Young. March 23, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Geo. D. Blakey vs. J.S. Golladay. December 2, 1867. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Kentucky members of Congress. December 3, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. Southern railroads. December 11, 1867. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. James H. Burch. December 18, 1867. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Soldiers' bounties. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 331.) December 19, 1867. -- Ordered to be printed. G.G. Symes vs. L.S. Trimble. January 7, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Southern railroads. February 7, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Select Committee on Southern Railroads. Winona and St. Peters Railroad. March 19, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. William Carroll. March 19, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Artificial limbs. April 30, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. William McGarrahan. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 65.) May 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Treaty stipulations with Indian tribes. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1073.) May 14, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Ronana Evans. May 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. James E. Wharton. May 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Little B. Madding. May 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Delano vs. Morgan. May 25, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad, eastern division. May 25, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Impeachment managers' investigation. May 25, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Right to certain parties under treaties and laws of the United States. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 923.) May 26, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Treaty with Russia. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1096.) May 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Captain Thomas H. Stevens. (To accompany H. Res. No. 172.) March 11, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Naval Affairs Benevolent Institutions in District of Columbia. (To accompany Bills H.R. Nos. 541 and 859.) May 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed	46
Serial set 1358	Raising of money to be used in impeachment. July 3, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. James A. Anderson. June 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Exemptions from internal tax. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1327.) July 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Pay department. July 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Contingent fund of the House. July 24, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Patrick Smith. June 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Regulation and control of railroads. June 9, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. McKee vs. Young. June 17, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Capture of Jefferson Davis. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1277.) June 17, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Claims. J.P.L. Strong and others. June 17, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Hogan vs. Pile. June 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Osage Indian treaty. June 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed with documents. The protective policy and the warehousing system. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1308.) June 22, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Leonidas Smith. June 26, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Pueblo of Santa Anna. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1343.) July 1, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Land claims in New Mexico. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1344.) July 1, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Land claims in Missouri. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1204.) July 1, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Treaty with Choctaw Indians. (To accompany H.R. 1195.) July 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Jose Sutton. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1075.) May 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Civil service of the United States. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 948.) May 25, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Washburne -- Donnelly. June 1, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. McKee vs. Young. June 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Sutro Tunnel. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1153.) June 3, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of certain officers of the Army. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 288.) June 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mary Ann Ward. June 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. John Madden. June 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary Taife. June 6, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Sale of iron-clads. June 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Retrenchment. Ventilation of the hall of the House of Representatives. June 20, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds; and the maps accompanying the same to be referred to the Committee on Printing. L. Merchant and Peter Rosecrantz. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1320.) June 27, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Tax on the interest of United States bonds. (To accompany H.R. No. 1350.) July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Dr. Benjamin Malone. July 2, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Removal of disabilities. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 135.) July 3, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Encouragement of emigration. July 3, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Dent, Vantine & Co. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1374.) July 8, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. McGrorty vs. Hooper. July 9, 1868. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Post office building in New York. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1214.) June 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads	37
Serial set 1359	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the third session of the Fortieth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 7, 1868, in the ninety-second year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1360	Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, asking the appointment of a committee to investigate into and report upon the administration of said Bureau from its organization to its prospective discontinuance. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting a draught of a resolution declaring the collection of a penalty of 50 per centum of direct tax in certain cases illegal. January 21, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to printing maps and illustrations accompanying the annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. January 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, correspondence and papers relative to the case of the United States vs. Vicente P. Gomez, involving the claims to the land called "Panoche Grande." February 15, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a copy of a letter from Major General George H. Thomas to Brevet Brigadier General Benjamin S. Roberts, relative to a statement affecting the latter officer, contained in a letter written by General William B. Franklin. February 3, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a copy of the report of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel M.V. Sheridan, upon the extremely destitute condition of the Osage Indians. February 4, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of the report of Brevet Major General Harney upon the Sioux Indians on the Upper Missouri. January 7, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 15th instant, a statement of the tracts of land selected by members of the Grand River band of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, under treaty of July 31, 1855. January 26, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in obedience to law, a copy of certain regulations for the consular courts in China. January 27, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, suggesting further legislation for the erection of penitentiaries in certain territories. January 28, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 18, 1868, information in relation to the character of the Indians killed or captured by United States troops under the command of General George A. Custer. February 1, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 30th ultimo, information in relation to the quantity of land certified to states and corporations to aid in the construction of railroads, wagon roads, and canals. February 2, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 21st ultimo, information in relation to the report of Brevet Major General William S. Harney upon the Sioux and other Indians congregated under treaties made with them by the special peace commission. February 2, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating copies of reports upon Indian affairs in the military division of the Missouri. February 4, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in relation to the encroachments of the agents of the Hudson's Bay Company upon the trade and territory of Alaska. February 5, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating correspondence relative to contemplated arrangements for the temporary subsistence of the native population of the islands St. Paul and St. George, Alaska. February 5, 1869. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of the 30th ultimo, information in relation to the docks at the Pensacola Navy yard. February 8, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating contracts made by officers of the corps of engineers and others on engineer duty during the year 1868. February 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 21st ultimo, information in relation to establishment of the Robert College at Constantinople. February 13, 1869. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, returning Bill S. No. 609, entitled "An Act Transferring the Duties of Trustees of Colored Schools of Washington and Georgetown," with his objections. February 13, 1869. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating correspondence in relation to the use of passports by citizens of the United States in France. February 20, 1869. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to a contract with the Commercial Navigation Company of New York for carrying the mails between New York and Bremen. February 23, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, information in relation to the discontinuance of proceedings against persons in New York charged with a violation of the internal revenue laws. February 23, 1869. -- Read twice, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, information in relation to persons convicted for violating the revenue laws, and for counterfeiting. February 23, 1869. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in relation to points upon the coasts of Oregon, Washington Territory, and Alaska, for light-houses. February 24, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of this date, a copy of the report of the special commissioners upon the Central Pacific Railroad of California. February 27, 1869. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information concerning the remnant of the tribe of the Seminole Indians in South Florida. March 3, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating the report of the trustees of colored schools of the cities of Washington and Georgetown. March 3, 1869. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. March 5, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of June 25, 1868, a statement of government supplies lost in transit by the sinking of or injury to steamboats on the Missouri River below Omaha, during the years 1866, 1867, and 1868. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, ordering the payment of certain sums to the defendants in a suit against the English schooner Sybil, libelled as prize of war, and recommending an appropriation for the payment of the same. December 14, 1868. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, the report of Jesse L. Williams, Esq., government director of the Union Pacific Railroad, on the condition of said railroad. December 16, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, information concerning recent transactions in the region of the La Plata, affecting the political relations of the United States with Paraguay, the Argentine Republic, Uruguay, and Brazil. December 17, 1868. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of July 10, 1868, a description of the Presidio reservation, including Black Point, lying upon the Bay of San Francisco. January 5, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1868, a statement in relation to the number of troops employed in connection with Indian hostilities in protecting the Missouri River traffic and the Union Pacific Railroad. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th ultimo, information in regard to the Territory of Alaska and the fur interests therein. January 6, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 21st ultimo, a list of the Indian superintendents and agents, and designating the absentees from their posts. January 6, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, the annual reports of the several Pacific Railroad companies. January 7, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, transmitting, a report from the Secretary of State in relation to the resolution of Congress approved July 20, 1867, "Declaring Sympathy With the Suffering People of Crete." January 7, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th ultimo, information in relation to the late battle of the Washita River. January 7, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 15th ultimo, information in regard to the action of the mixed commission for the adjustment of claims by citizens of the United States against the government of Venezuela. January 7, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating an estimate of appropriations for the Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Indians at Lake Traverse and Devil's Lake, Dakota Territory. January 7, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of December 14, 1868, reports in relation to recent disturbances in Louisiana. January 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of December 21, 1868, information in relation to furnishing certain post offices with postal balances under the act of July 27, 1868. January 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1868, information in relation to the late Indian battle on the Washita River. January 11, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in obedience to law, a copy of eight rules agreed upon between the Chinese imperial government and the minister of the United States and those of other foreign powers accredited to that government. January 12, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 17th ultimo, information concerning the exercise or claim by consuls of the United States in Japan of judicial powers in cases arising between American citizens and citizens of any foreign nation other than Japan. January 12, 1869. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the application of Hugh McCormick for additional allowance for his services as disbursing clerk in the Patent Office. January 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, correspondence relating to supplies of stationery of the Patent Office, and the contract for the same. January 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 21, 1868, the report of the Superintendent of United States Weights and Measures in relation to furnishing one set of the standard weights and measures of the metric system for the use of the states respectively. January 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating an estimate of appropriations required for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the northern Cheyenne and northern Arapaho Indians under treaty of May 10, 1868. January 19, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, a copy of proclamation granting pardon and amnesty to all persons engaged in the late rebellion. January 19, 1869.--Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1868, information in reference to the payment of rent for the use of the building known as Libby Prison, in Richmond, Virginia. January 20, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating an estimate of appropriation required to pay the expenses of a special agent to take the census of the North Carolina Cherokees, in accordance with the act of July 27, 1868. January 20, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the outstanding indebtedness that has been accruing for several years on account of Indian service in California. January 20, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, recommending a repeat of so much of the sixty-first article of war as provides that officers having brevets may take place in courts-martial and on detachments, when composed of different corps, according to the rank given them in their brevets. January 20, 1869. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a statement of contracts and purchases of the Ordnance Department during the year 1868. January 21, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating an estimate of appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the Sioux of Dakota, Arickarees, Gros-Ventres, and Mandans, Crows, and Yanktons. January 21, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.	57
Serial set 1361	Resolutions of the convention held in Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, November 10, 1868, for the improvement of the navigation of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. January 14, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. January 30, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Vienna to Eytchinson's in said state. February 4, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Petition of doctors of medicine in the District of Columbia, praying that certain crude foreign drugs may be placed upon the free list. January 22, 1869. -- Referred to Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the views of the Director of the Mint in relation to a law permitting the Mint and its branches to exchange unparted bars for refined bullion. January 22, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, to accompany Bill S. 824, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of laws for the protection of bona fide settlers on the Cherokee neutral lands. February 1, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, against the ratification of the treaty with the Osage Indians. February 1, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of a law authorizing and permitting all persons who have taken less than 160-acre homesteads, under provisions of the laws of the United States, to extend their privileges so as to permit them to claim, take, prove up, and hold enough more to make their homestead 160 acres. February 1, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Indiana, in favor of an appropriation to complete the harbor of Michigan City. February 1, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the payment of claims for depredations committed by the Indians in that state. February 1, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of an appropriation for the construction of a United States court-house and post office at Topeka, and a Custom-house and post office at Leavenworth, in that state. February 3, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the appointment of commissioners to audit the claims of citizens of that state for property destroyed and taken by raiders into that state under the command of Quantrell and others. February 3, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Topeka to Muscota, in said state. February 4, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the early passage of the House bill appropriating money for the improvement of the harbors within that state. February 4, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Executive Committee of the late National Convention of the Colored Men of the Country, praying the right of suffrage be granted to all citizens without regard to race, color, or previous condition. February 5, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of George Fowler and the administrators of the estate of De Grass Fowler, deceased, praying an extension of the patent for an improvement in machinery for punching metal. February 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents, with Bill S. No. 891. In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution. Whereas the question of whether the State of Georgia has become and is entitled to representation in the two Houses of Congress... Petition of M.B. Hewson, praying the establishment of an Atlantic transportation and express line of steamships, for passengers and mails. February 10, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of an appropriation for the payment of the claims of citizens of that state for depredations committed by the Indians. February 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of a tri-weekly mail route on the route from Manhattan to Lake Sibley, in said state. February 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of granting to each honorably discharged soldier the full benefit of the Homestead Law by one year's actual residence upon the land which he may claim under the provisions of the homestead acts. February 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Carthage, Missouri, to Jacksonville Kansas. February 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Pomeroy submitted the following resolution... Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of granting a pension to George A. Schreiner. February 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of granting to the central branch of the Union Pacific Railway and the St. Joseph and Denver City Railway a subsidy in money and bonds equal in amount to that granted to the Central Branch Union Pacific Railway. February 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of an increase of the mail service on the mail route from Fort Scott to Oswego, in said state. February 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of dropping the names of certain Indians from the roll of their respective tribes, and that their lands may be subject to taxation. February 17, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Clara Barton, praying the passage of an act for the purpose of remedying any defect in the existing laws in relation to the payment of bounties, back pay, and pensions. February 25, 1869. -- Motion to print 1,606 additional copies, referred to the Committee on Printing. February 26, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 1,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Memorial of citizens of Tennessee, praying an appropriation for the improvement of the Tennessee River. December 8, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the third session of the Fortieth Congress. December 10, 1868. Memorial of a committee of the Union League Club of the City of New York, praying the appointment of a special committee to investigate the naturalization and election frauds and irregularities perpetrated in the recent election in the City and State of New York. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Oregon, in favor of granting and confirming to said state the southeast quarter of section seventeen, township nine south, range forty east of the Willamette meridian, with full power to said state to convey the land to Royal Augustus Pearce, resident on said land. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Roseburg to Randolph, in said state. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of Oregon, in favor of the appointment of a commission to investigate and take proof as to losses sustained by citizens of said state by depredations of the Indians. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Resolutions adopted by a convention of the Republican Party of Mississippi, in relation to the state government of Mississippi, and in favor of the readmission of that state into the Union. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Tennessee, in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the Tennessee River. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the American Missionary Association, praying the adoption of measures for the protection of loyal persons in the South in the enjoyment of their civil rights. December 15, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1868. -- Submitted, and referred to the Committee on Finance. December 15, 1868. -- Reported without amendment. Mr. Willey submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Senate, properly cherishing and upholding the good faith and honor of the nation, do hereby utterly disapprove of and condemn the sentiments and proposition contained in so much of the late annual message of the President of the United States as reads as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, reported the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, that neither public policy nor the good faith of the nation will allow the redemption of the five-twenty bonds... Letter from the Commissioner of Patents, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement showing the amount of expenditures in the United States Patent Office from the 20th of July to the 30th of November, 1868, inclusive, and a statement of moneys received from the 1st day of July to the 30th day of November, 1868, inclusive. December 8, 1868. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. December 10, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents. December 19, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed to accompany Bill S. 713. Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, asking an appropriation to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Willamette River to the Columbia River. December 19, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, asking an appropriation to the Oregon and Washington Navigation Improvement Company for the improvement of the navigation of the Columbia River. December 19, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana, relative to the death of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, member of Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, and tendering the sympathy of the General Assembly to the many friends and relatives of the deceased. December 19, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a detailed statement of the payments from the contingent fund of the Senate for the year ending December 6, 1868. December 21, 1868. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Librarian of Congress, showing the condition of the Library during the year ending December 1, 1868. December 21, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. List of private claims brought before the Senate of the United States from the commencement of the Fourteenth to the close of the Thirty-ninth Congress, prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, pursuant to the orders of the Senate of April 9, 1840; February 27, 1841; February 8, 1849; March 3, 1855; and March 16, 1866; and the act of July 20,1868, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1869. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Idaho, praying an appropriation for the construction of an assay office at Boise City, in that territory. January 7, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of the United States, praying the appointment of a commissioner to investigate the methods now used in Europe for the extraction of the precious metals from their ores. January 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the passage of the bill for the relief of the copper mining interest of the country. January 11, 1869. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of headmen and people of the North Carolina or Eastern Cherokees, protesting against the ratification of the treaty concluded on the 9th day of July, 1868, between the United States and the Cherokees residing west of the Mississippi River. January 14, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of delegates of the Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw Indians, protesting against the passage of the bill to restore the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Department of War. January 14, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. January 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg submitted the following resolution... Memorial of Marshall F. Moore, governor of Washington Territory, and other citizens of said territory, remonstrating against any recognition of the claims of Great Britain to the Haro Archipelago and to San Juan Island. January 19, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the House of Representatives of the Treasury of New Mexico, in favor of an appropriation for the relief of translators in the employ of said territory. January 21, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the transfer of the control and management of the Indians from the Interior to the War Department. January 21, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution. Resolution in favor of cheap ocean postage. Whereas the inland postage on a letter throughout the United States is three cents, while the ocean postage on a similar letter to Great Britain, under a recent convention, is 12 cents, and on a letter to France is 30 cents... Report of receipts and expenditures of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from June, 1857, to July 1, 1868. December 15, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed	57
Serial set 1362	In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 815.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill S. No. 815, granting a pension to Julia Whistler, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany H.R. No. 1326.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred H.R. No. 1326 for the relief of Anthony Bucher, submit this as their report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 288.) The first serious question that arises in opposition to the passage of Joint Resolution H.R. 288 is, shall a non-commissioned officer and private draw pay while exercising illegal authority, and while all his acts were void, as would be necessarily the case to enable him to draw pay under the resolution... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 902.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of J.R. Callahan, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 943.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Almira Scott, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1869. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 768.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred for investigation the claim of Mrs. Jane Northridge, widow of William Northridge, deceased, late colonel of the 59th Regiment New York State Volunteers, beg leave respectfully to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1869.) Bill H.R. No. 1869 grants the pay of captain from September 15, 1863, to August 16, 1865, to George C. Haynie, who claims to have been appointed captain under authority of General Burnside, granting authority to Colonel Kutz to recruit the 2d North Carolina Mounted Infantry... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the credentials of Joshua Hill, claiming to be senator elect from Georgia, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Drake made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 845.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the "Memorial of Abbott Q. Ross, asking compensation for the use of an improved mode of using hot water and steam as a weapon in naval engagements, for extintinguishing [i.e., extinguishing] fires, and for other purposes," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs having, by resolution of the Senate passed December 16, 1868, been "directed to inquire into the practicability, expediency and probable cost of deepening the entrance to the harbor of Midway Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, so as to afford a safe rendezvous and port of refuge and resort for the naval and merchant vessels of the United States," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1869. Mr. Morton made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 661.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of Lieutenant Colonel John W. Davidson, of the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1869. Mr. Drake made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 172.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred House Joint Resolution No. 172, authorizing the President of the United States to "Nominate for Advancement, and, By and With the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to Advance Captain Thomas H. Stevens, Not Exceeding Twenty-one Members on the List of Captains in the Navy, for Gallant, Faithful, and Efficient Services During the War of the Rebellionas follows..." In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 196.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Joint Resolution No. 196, "Granting a Pension to Mrs. Mary Lincoln, Widow of the Late President of the United States, Who was Killed During the War of the Rebellion," have had the same under consideration and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1869. Mr. Ferry made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1345.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1345, entitled "An Act To Amend an Act Entitled 'An Act To Confirm Certain Private Land Claims in the Territory of New Mexico,'" beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1869. Mr. Willey made the following report (To accompany Bill S. No. 875.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Miss Mathilda Victor, asking relief for damages done to her property in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and for rent for use thereof, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1869. Mr. Drake made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 836.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 836) for the relief of Celestia P. Hartt, have had the same under consideration, and after examining the papers connected therewith, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1869. Mr. Howard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 889.) The Joint Select Committee on Ordnance, to whom was referred the petition of Horatio Ames for compensation for the construction of eleven wrought-iron guns, furnished to the Navy Department of the United States in pursuance of contract, having examined upon oath the witnesses called by the petitioner, and documentary evidence furnished by the department, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1869. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 264.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 264, entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Henry C. Noyes," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1869. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 893.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Polly Hunt, administratrix, and George W. Hunt, administrator of Walter Hunt, deceased, praying to be allowed a rehearing before the Commissioner of Patents of their application for an extension of patents for improvements in manufacturing paper collars, beg leave to make the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ellen J. Broseman [i.e., Brossman], asking compensation for property she alleges was taken from her by order of the provost marshal general of the Army of the Potomac, made the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 900.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition asking for a pension for Wm. B. Looney, of Alabama, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 901.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Otis Hemenway, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 903.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Horace Peck, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 904.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Indiana, praying that a pension be granted to Benjamin T. Raines, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 905.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Clark Hall, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 906.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 907.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eliza Whiting, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report, (To accompany S. Bill No. 846.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of Charlotte Crane, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grimes, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the "Memorial of S.R. Franklin, Commander United States Navy, praying to be restored to his original position on the Navy Register," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1869. Mr. Doolittle made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 335.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred House Resolution 335, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 937.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of several citizens of New Hampshire asking a pension for Daniel B. Lewis, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 938.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Hodgson, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 939.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Agnes Ellen Kleiss, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 940.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Augustus W. Punchard, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 941.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin C. Stone, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 942.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of sundry citizens of Wayne County, Iowa, for a pension for Sarah E. Haines, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 944.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a memorial of Roswell W. Silsbee, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 945.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eliza Shelton and others, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 910.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 910, having had the same under consideration, report: The bill in this case provides that the pension of $15 per month heretofore paid to Mrs. Josephine Slocum... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 790.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 790) "for the Benefit of Mrs. Sarah E. Brooker," having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1869. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1868.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of H.A. White, of Madison County, North Carolina, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1869. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1872.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the case of Captain Golman Bryson, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a copy of a proclamation of the President, dated December 25, 1868, purporting to extend pardon and amnesty to a class of persons guilty of treason, &c., respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1869. Mr. Grimes, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William A. Parker, captain United States Navy, praying to be restored to the active list, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. Mr. Stewart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 899.) The undersigned, a majority of the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, beg leave to say, that when it was determined in committee to report to the Senate, Bill No. 899, granting aid to the Northern Pacific and other railroads, it was not understood that the bill should be presented with a report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1130.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 1130, for the relief of H.G. Aukeny, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1255.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred H.R. 1255, for the relief of Champe Carter, Jr., ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. Mr. Ferry made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 842.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 842, together with the petition of John Titus, in aid of the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 957.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the matter of S. & H. Sayles, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 958.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Judson A. Mosman, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed, and that one thousand additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report. The Committee on Printing, instructed by the Senate "to examine and report the cost of each and all documents annually published for distribution.... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report. The Joint Committee on Public Printing, to whom was referred the publication of the actual proceedings and debates in Congress, by the third section of the act approved July, 20, 1868, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Osborn, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents, having considered the petition of Horace L. Emery, of Albany, New York, praying for an act of Congress to authorize the Commissioner of Patents to receive and consider such application in the same manner as if it had been regularly filed in its proper time, for the endless-chain horse-power, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 965.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Mathys, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 966.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anna E. Frei, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 375.) The Committee on Commerce, having had under consideration the Bill H.R. 375, entitled "An Act To Repeal an Act Approved March 2, 1867, Entitled 'An Act To Regulate the Disposition of Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures Received Under the Laws Relating to the Customs, and for Other Purposes,' and To Amend Certain Acts for the Prevention and Punishment of Frauds on the Revenue, and for the Prevention of Smuggling," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1280.) Bill H.R. 1280, passed the House of Representatives for the relief of Lieutenant L. Smith, for pay, ten months and twenty-nine days, as quartermaster 22d Indiana Regiment, is favorably recommended by the War Department, and its passage or concurrence in by the Senate is recommended... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1871.) Bill H.R. 1871 designs pay to Daniel Boarden, late captain and assistant adjutant general, for commutation of quarters and fuel and three months' extra pay, or $1,058, the difference between the pay of a provost marshal and an assistant adjutant general. Boarden was commissioned assistant adjutant general March 24, 1862; May 1, 1862, appointed by the President to be provost marshal; May 9 relieved of duty as assistant adjutant general; May 16, accepted the appointment of provost marshal... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1876.) Bill H.R. No. 1876 is intended to enable private Samuel H. Moore, Company G, 57th Ohio Volunteers, to draw $300 veteran bounty and $100 government bounty from the Treasury, and to that end seeks to have the charge of desertion removed... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1838.) The House of Representatives have passed House Bill No. 1838, for relief of W.F. Scott, adjutant 4th Iowa Cavalry. It gives him the difference between the pay of a sergeant major and an adjutant for a part of the time he performed the duties of adjutant, until he was mustered as adjutant... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1870.) Bill H.R. No. 1870. Lieutenant Ulio's pay was stopped for amount of post and regimental funds stolen from his trunk... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1869. Mr. Williams made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 65.) The undersigned, of the Committee on Private Land Claims, respectfully submit the following report as to House Bill No. 65, entitled "A Bill for the Relief of William McGarrahan:"... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1869. Mr. Grimes made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 225.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the "Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to Place a Vessel at the Disposal of the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections of the City of New York, to be Used for the Purposes of a Nautical School," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1869. Mr. Howard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 970.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Joshua Hill for compensation for eleven bales of cotton, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1869. Mr. Howard made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1063.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1063, "for the Relief of Henry Barricklew," having had the same under careful consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1869. Mr. Howard made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 971.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Samuel Miller, of Campbell County, Virginia, asking reimbursement of certain moneys in the Treasury, proceeds of certain bonds of the State of Indiana, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1869. February 25, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed, and that two thousand additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Howard, from the Joint Committee on Ordnance, submitted the following report. The joint committee appointed under the resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the 30th of March, 1867, to investigate the purchases, contracts, and experiments of the Ordnance Department... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1873.) Bill H.R. No. 1873 proposes to give Jefferson W. Davis, first sergeant Company H, 64th Regiment New York Volunteers, the pay of a first lieutenant from the 1st of June... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1869. Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Claims, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 975.) This is a claim presented by Margaret Riddle, executrix and devisee of George Read Riddle, deceased, for Army supplies taken from the farm of the deceased during the late rebellion... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1869. Mr. Grimes made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 241.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the "Joint Resolution To Restore R.L. May to the Navy," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1869. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 269.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial and evidence of John Wightman of Pennsylvania, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred "the petition of Jonathan Elliot, late commercial agent of the United States at San Domingo and Porto Plata, praying compensation for services rendered, and reimbursements for money expended in negotiating a treaty with the Dominican Republic in 1856," have had the same under consideration and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. March 3, 1869. -- Ordered that 2,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Buckalew, from the Select Committee on Representative Reform, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 772.) In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom were referred Senate resolutions in relation to the price of gas and the business of the gas company in the District of Columbia, have had the same under consideration, and have elicited the information contained in the appended communication from said company, which is hereto attached and made a part of this report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, submitted the following report. The Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment having been directed by the concurrent resolution of the two houses adopted in March, 1867, to make the investigations therein named, as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1868. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 704.) John Young, in the year 1848, obtained a patent for "an improvement in washing machines"... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Abbott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 780.) The petition recites that William Putnam and David Putnam, of Ohio, became sureties on the bond of Major Isaac N. Cook, paymaster, in the sum of $20,000; that said Cook became entangled with gamblers, by whom he lost $220,000 of the government funds... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report (To accompany Bill S. No. 908.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Ohio, praying for a pension for Colonel J.B.W. Haynes, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 655.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 655) granting a pension to Paulina Jones, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1869. Mr. Van Winkle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 909.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anna [i.e., Ann] R. Voorhees, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1869. Mr. Grimes, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the "memorial of Abraham D. Harrell, a captain in the Navy on the retired list, praying to be restored to his position on the active list," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1869. Mr. Willey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 923.) The Committee on Claims, having considered the petition of James Kelley, captain of the 34th United States infantry, asking pay as captain in the United States Army from July 1, 1864, to September 16, 1867, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1869. Mr. Osborn made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 759.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred Bill (S. 759) to extend the patent granted to G.S. Blodgett and P.T. Sweet, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of John H. Russell, praying for relief as to the Hot Springs reservation, in Arkansas, respectfully report...	84
Serial set 1363	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the third session of the Fortieth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 7, 1868, in the ninety-third year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1364	Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the Fortieth Congress. Part I.	1
Serial set 1365	Message of the President of the United States, with accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the third session of the Fortieth Congress. Part II.	1
Serial set 1366	Message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the Fortieth Congress	1
Serial set 1367	Message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the Fortieth Congress.	1
Serial set 1368	Message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the Fortieth Congress.	1
Serial set 1369	Message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the Fortieth Congress.	1
Serial set 1370	Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1868. Letters from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of additional appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869, and previous years; and also estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870.	2
Serial set 1371	Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on the operations of the internal revenue system for the year ending June 30, 1868. Letter from the Comptroller of the Currency, transmitting his annual report for the year 1868. December 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed.	2
Serial set 1372	Receipts and expenditures of the Patent Office. Letter from the Commissioner of Patents, transmitting an account of the receipts and expenditures of his office from July 20, 1868, to December 1, 1868. December 8, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Sale of Fort Snelling reservation. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers relative to the sale of the Fort Snelling reservation. December 10, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Bridge between Boston and East Boston. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting report of a commission appointed to examine Boston Harbor relative to the construction of a bridge between Boston and East Boston. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for Crow Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimates required to fulfil treaty stipulations with the Crow Indians. January 12, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad. Letter from The Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 30th ultimo, transmitting report of the President of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. February 4, 1869.--Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Columbia Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement by Surgeon General Barnes, of expenditures made for the Columbia Hospital. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting estimates for the service of that department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Alabama claims. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 7th instant, transmitting correspondence with American minister at London concerning the so-called Alabama claims. December 14, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Overland mail. Letter from the Postmaster General, in answer to a resolution of the House of 7th instant relative to the contract for carrying the overland mail. December 16, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad. Letter from the Secretary of the interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 13th instant, transmitting copies of papers in relation to the Union Pacific Railroad. December 18, 1868.--Referred to the Committee on the Union Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Disbursements in the War Department. Report from the Secretary of War, by request of the Committee of Ways and Means, relative to the expenditures in the War Department. December [?] -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Revenue. Report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue for the year 1868. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. League Island. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in relation to League Island. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Surveyors general of Louisiana and Florida. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to compensation of surveyors general for Louisiana and Florida, &c. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Paraguay difficulties. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 14, relative to the disposition of the American squadron at Rio Janeiro, and the Paraguay difficulties. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Bridge over the Missouri River at Kansas City. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House, of 16th ultimo, relative to a bridge over the Missouri River at Kansas City. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Improvement of the Des Moines Rapids. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 15th ultimo, relative to the improvements of the Des Moines Rapids. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Employees of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives relative to a reduction of the force in that Department. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. National banking associations. Letter from the Comptroller of the Currency, in answer to a resolution of the House relative to dividends declared by national banking associations, &c. January 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 16th ultimo, relative to report of special commissioners to examine the work on the Union Pacific Railroad. January 5, 1869.--Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad, eastern division. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of December 5, 1868, transmitting report of special commissioner, relative to the examination of that road and the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad. January 6, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. United States bonds. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement required by act of April 12, 1866, relative to the issue, conversion, and purchase of United States bonds. January 7, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Obstructions at Hell Gate. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 14th ultimo, relative to the removal of obstructions to navigation at Hell Gate. January 7, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Washington Territory. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing estimates of current expenses of the legislative assembly, &c., of Washington Territory. January 8, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claim for salvage against United States steamer Leviathan. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the claim of the officers and crews of the United States gunboat De Soto and transport Crescent for salvage against the United States steamer Leviathan. January 8, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Postage stamps. Letter from the Postmaster General, in answer to a resolution of the House, of 14th ultimo, transmitting advertisements of proposals, contract, and correspondence relative to postage stamps. January 8, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase of land at Omaha. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting correspondence relative to purchase of land at Omaha for military purposes. January 9, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Postal telegraph. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of G.G. Hubbard, Esq., of Boston, relative to the establishment of a cheap system of postal telegraph. January 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Commercial relations with the Dominion of Canada. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report of the Hon. Israel T. Hatch upon the commercial relations of the United States with the Dominion of Canada. January 12, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Naval Academy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting communication from Vice-Admiral Porter, relative to the necessity for the purchase of additional grounds for the Naval Academy. January 12, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for Sac and Fox Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimates of appropriations required to fill treaty stipulations with Sac and Fox Indians. January 12, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pay of the agent for Crow Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimates of appropriations for agent of Crow Indians. January 12, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Branch Mint at Carson City. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, asking for an additional appropriation for machinery, &c., required for the branch Mint at Carson City, Nevada. January 12, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reduction of employe[e]s in the State Department. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 16th of December, relative to a reduction of employe[e]s in the Department of State. January 12, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for Ute Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs with estimates for appropriations for Ute Indians. January 13, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Superintendent of Exports and Drawbacks. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 6th instant, relative to postponing the time of the discontinuance of the offices of Superintendent of Exports and Drawbacks at the ports of New York and the ports of the United States. January 14, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Engraving and printing bureau of the Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th instant, report relative to the condition of the engraving and printing bureau of the Treasury. January 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for Seneca and Shawnee Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimates for treaty stipulations with the Shawnee and Seneca Indians. January 18, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reduction of expenses of War Department in New York. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the Quartermaster General relative to the manner of reducing the expenses of the War Department at and in the vicinity of New York. January 18, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Tonnage duties in West India Islands. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting correspondence relative to discriminating tonnage duties on vessels of the United States in the West India Islands. January 19, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Reduction of employes in Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of 10th ultimo, stating what reduction can be made in the number of officers and employes in that Department. January 20, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for the Creek Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimate of appropriations required for carrying out treaty stipulations with the Creek Indians. January 8, 1869. Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.	42
Serial set 1373	Message from the President of the United States, relative to the execution of the treaty with China for the settlement of claims. February 21, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. January 7, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 1374	Buildings occupied by War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of 23d ultimo, relative to buildings occupied by the War Department. February 10, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Officers, civilians, and men in military service at New York. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 18th ultimo, relative to the number of Army officers, civilians, and enlisted men in military service at and near New York City. January 29, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Paraguay difficulties. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 2d instant, transmitting correspondence relative to the Paraguay difficulties. February 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Veterinary surgeons in the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 19th instant, relative to the employment of Alexander Dunbar to instruct veterinary surgeons of the United States Army. January 29, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. J.E. Clarke and John T. Peabody. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Board of Claims, in the War Department, relative to claims of J.E. Clarke, late marshal, and John T. Peabody, deceased, late clerk of the United States provisional court of Louisiana, for funds expended by them. February 4, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. February 6, 1869. -- Ordered to be printed. Buildings under lease in Washington. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House, of the 23d instant, in relation to buildings in the City of Washington, held and occupied by the Department of the Interior, under lease for rent. January 25, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Exchange of bonds by the banks. Letter from the Comptroller of the Currency, in answer to a resolution of the House of 18th instant relative to exchange of Pacific Railroad bonds. January 26, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. Gold medal to George Peabody. Message from the President of the United States, in relation to the gold medal presented to Mr. George Peabody. January 27, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Cost of Mint at Carson City. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 13th instant, relative to cost of the Mint at Carson City, Nevada. January 27, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Buildings occupied under lease by Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 23d instant, relative to buildings occupied by that Department under lease, &c. January 27, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Buildings under lease occupied by Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of 23d instant, relative to buildings held and occupied by that Department. January 27, 1869. -- Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Gaugers' fees. Letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 25th instant, relative to gaugers' fees for gauging and inspecting liquors. January 28, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. National Mechanics and Farmers' Bank of Albany. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 5th instant, a report of the Comptroller of the currency relative to the condition of the National Mechanics and Farmers' Bank of Albany, New York. January 28, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. Pottawatomie claims. Letter from The Secretary of the Interior, submitting a report of commissioners under the Pottawatomie Treaty of August 7, 1868, to examine the claims of said tribe. January 18, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Ship canal through Maumee Bay. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th instant, transmitting report by General Cram upon the proposed ship canal through Maumee Bay to Lake Eric. January 29, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Costello and Warren. Message from the President of the United States, relative to Messrs. Costello and Warren, naturalized citizens of the United States, imprisoned in Great Britain. February 2, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed, with leave to report at any time. Property occupied by the departments. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a statement of the buildings or premises held and occupied by the several departments. February 2, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Clothing for disabled soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to furnishing clothing to inmates of homes for disabled soldiers. February 2, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. American citizens in Paraguay. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the arrest of American citizens in Paraguay. February 4, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. William T. Harris. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of 23d ultimo, relative to the claim of William T. Harris, a citizen of the United States, for property withheld by the Brazilian government. February 5, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Delaware breakwater. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 4th instant, relative to the Delaware breakwater, the erection of a pier, &c. February 6, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Modification of the oath of office. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the modification of the act of July 2, 1862, prescribing an oath of office. February 8, 1869. -- Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Colonial trade and fisheries -- coast of British provinces. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 5th instant, transmitting report of E.H. Derby, relative to the fisheries on the coast of the British provinces. February 8, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. International metric system. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting report from Mr. E.B. Elliott upon the subject of the international metrical system of coinage. February 9, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Removal of Customs officers in Philadelphia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 1st instant, relative to the removal of certain persons from the collector's office in Philadelphia. February 9, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Thomas H. Dowling. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, on request of the Committee on the Public Lands, papers relative to the claim of Thomas H. Dowling, of California, to the island of Yerba Buena. February 11, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. National armory at Springfield. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the account of the expenses of the national armory at Springfield, and of arms manufactured during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868. February 12, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Captured and abandoned property. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 6th instant, relative to money arising from sales of captured and abandoned property, whether covered into the Treasury. February 13, 1869. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Delaware breakwater. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information relative to surveys for a harbor at the Delaware breakwater. February 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Pottawatomie Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the division of the tribal funds of the Pottawatomie Indians. February 15, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditure -- contingent fund -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditure of the contingent fund of the Navy Department, &c., for the year ending June 30, 1868. January 20, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Expenditures in the Navy Department, and ordered to be printed. Disbursements -- contingent fund State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statements of the disbursements of contingent fund of the State Department, balances unexpended, &c. January 21, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on the Expenditures of the State Department and ordered to be printed. Mineral resources of the states and territories. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the report of Rossiter W. Raymond on the mineral resources of the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains. January 21, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed.	33
Serial set 1375	Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1868. January 21, 1869. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents and ordered to be printed.	1

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