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Serial set 1544 | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the third session of the Forty-second Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 2, 1872, in the ninety-seventh year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
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Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of December 5th, a report from the Secretary of State. December 10, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed Message from the President of the United States, returning the act (S. 161) for the relief of those suffering from the destruction of the salt works near Manchester, Kentucky, pursuant to the orders of Major-General Carlos Buell. February 12, 1873. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 14, 1873, copies of reports of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad Companies and a copy of the report of the directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. January 15, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, information in relation to quarantine on the southern and Gulf coasts. December 9, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the execution of an amendment to an act entitled "An Act To Establish and Protect National Cemeteries," approved February 22, 1867. December 9, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, papers relative to the canal at the falls of the Ohio River known as the Louisville and Portland Canal. December 2, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending the passage of an act for the reversion of an island in the Missouri River to the public domain. December 2, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, an account of property belonging to the United States in the possession of that Department. December 2, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 13, 1873, information concerning the number of lakes in the land states, the quantity of land covered by them, &c. January 28, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 20, 1873, submitting a statement of the operations of the Department of Justice for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872. January 29, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 490) "For the Relief of the East Tennessee University," with his objections. January 31, 1873. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to a resolution of the Senate of January 16, 1873, relative to the Central Pacific, the Union Pacific, or other railroad companies. February 3, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanying a report of the superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park for the year 1872. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a Senate resolution of February 7, 1873, calling for information regarding the net earnings of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad Companies for the years 1870 and 1871. February 10, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, returning the Senate resolution of January 29, 1873, in relation to enlisting a company of Indian scouts to serve in prosecuting the Modoc Indian war. February 10, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying information called for by a resolution of the Senate of January 6, 1873, relative to the Du Luth harbor. February 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in relation to the condition of affairs in the Territory of Utah. February 14, 1873. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanying reports of the Surveyor General of New Mexico on private land claims Nos. 71 and 72. February 14, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying a communication from the Quartermaster General of the Army, calling attention to the omission in the Army appropriation bill of a provision for the manufacture of clothing during this fiscal year. February 15, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 28, 1873, relative to the amount of fines, compromises, forfeitures, and seizures paid to the officers of Customs and others. February 21, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, in relation to deficiencies in the appropriation for the ninth census. December 5, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending such an amendment to the act of Congress entitled "An Act To Authorize the Sale of Certain Public Property," approved June 10, 1872, as will establish a minimum price for the property to be sold. December 5, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending that authority be granted for the exhumation of the remains of Major-General James Wilkinson, and their transfer to the National Cemetery in the City of Mexico. December 5, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, regarding animals stolen by Indians at San Antonio, Texas. December 5, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating additional information in relation to "An Act To Authorize the Sale of Certain Public Property," approved June 10, 1872. December 10, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers showing the necessity for telegraphic communication between the military stations in Arizona. December 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 25, 1872, a report of the supervising surgeon of marine hospitals upon the necessity of a marine hospital at San Francisco, California, and as to the fitness of Saint Mary's College building for the purpose. December 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending a reduction of the limits of the military reservation of Fort Fetterman, Wyoming Territory. December 17, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending the abandonment of the military reservation at Fort Ransom, Dakota Territory. December 19, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of Major J.W. Barlow, who accompanied a surveying party of the Northern Pacific Railroad, in relation to Indian interference with that road. January 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending a re-appropriation of such part of the one hundred and fifty thousand dollars granted last year for the manufacture of arms at the national armory as may remain unexpended at the expiration of the present fiscal year. January 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting, in obedience to law, a statement of expenditures at the Springfield armory during the year ended June 30, 1872. January 8, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, reports of improvements of certain rivers and harbors. January 14, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 6, 1873, information regarding allowances made to disbursing officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. January 15, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, inviting attention to the condition of affairs in the State of Louisiana. February 25, 1873. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying information relating to the expediency of erecting a light-house at the mouth of the Umpqua River, Oregon. February 28, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, in reply to a resolution of the Senate in relation to cases authorized to be brought, or that are pending, in the United States Court of Claims to settle the title to lands in the Hot Springs reservation, Arkansas. March 1, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanying the report of the surveyor general of New Mexico on the grant to Pedro Martin, being private land claim reported as No. 73. March 1, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying a letter addressed to him by the Third Auditor of the Treasury, in reply to statements made by Lieutenant Thomas H. Bradley to the Secretary of War. March 1, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of February 20, 1873, the report of the Chief of Engineers upon the channel between Staten Island and New Jersey. March 1, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending the enactment of a law authorizing the administration of oaths to witnesses before boards of survey in the Army. January 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 5, 1872, a list of officers of the regular Army who have been retired under the provisions of the 32d section of the act approved July 28, 1866. January 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of War, under the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1871, for the care, support, and medical treatment of sixty transient paupers in the City of Washington. January 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 16, 1872, information in regard to the government works in the harbor of Du Luth. January 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to surgical apparatus and appliances for the relief of persons disabled in the military and naval service of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying information called for by the Senate resolution of May 10, 1872, relative to the expediency of preserving Goat Island for military purposes. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 6, 1873, reports relative to expenses incurred by the territories of Washington and Oregon in the suppression of Indian hostilities in the year 1856. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, accompanying a letter from the Superintendent of the Census, relative to unpaid claims for services rendered at the eighth census by persons unable to prove their loyalty, as required by the act of June 24, 1870. January 15, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, accompanying information called for by the Senate resolution of January 8, 1873, relative to the Modoc and other Indian tribes in Northern California. January 16, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, the report of the Surveyor General of New Mexico on the land grant to Antonio Sandoval. February 10, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 7, 1873, information relative to Port Orford, Oregon, as a harbor of refuge. February 11, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, two reports of the Surveyor General of New Mexico, concerning certain private land claims in that territory. February 7, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. |
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In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Morton submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the Senate of the United States have received with joy the intelligence that the republican government of Spain have abolished slavery in the island of Porto Rico and raised the colored people of that island from the condition of slaves to the rights and privileges of citizens of the Spanish Republic... Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to Hon. James Harlan, transmitting copies of correspondence in relation to a treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations or tribes of Indians, concluded April 28, 1866. March 1, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 1650 In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the 47th rule of the Senate be amended by inserting after the words "Heads of Departments" the words: "and such of their assistants as are designated by law, or by the President, to act in their absence;" so that, if amended, it will read as follows... Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in relation to the settlement of certain Indian lands in that state. February 25, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that during the present session it shall be in order at any time to move a recess, and, pending an appropriation bill, to move to confine debate on amendments thereto to five minutes by any senator on the pending motion, and such motions shall be decided without debate... Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, asking a donation to the State of Oregon of the unfinished building intended for a branch mint at Dalles City, in that state. January 8, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Report of the Comptroller of the Currency upon the condition of the savings banks of the District of Columbia. February 25, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New York remonstrating against any reduction of the pay or pension of certain veteran soldiers. February 12, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nebraska, in favor of establishing a wagon road from North Platte, in that state, to the White River Indian reservation. February 15, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of South Carolina, protesting against John J. Patterson being seated as senator from that state. March 3, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the progress of the Library during the year ended December 1, 1872. December 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. December 17, 1872. -- Ordered that 500 additional copies with covers be printed for the use of the Librarian. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory, asking an appropriation for a military wagon road in the valley of the Red River of the North. January 24, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of North Carolina, remonstrating against the repeal of the bankrupt law. January 31, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rice submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is alleged that in the late general election in the State of Arkansas, and during the campaign preceding said election, frauds unparalleled in the history of any country were resorted to by the party in power in that state... Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the erection of certain public buildings at Topeka. February 25, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. December 2, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy submitted the following resolution: Resolved, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the twenty-first joint rule be, and the same is hereby, suspended for the present session... In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on Monday next, at 1 o'clock, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the calendar, and bills that are not objected to shall be taken up in their order... Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting, in obedience to law, a statement of all judgments rendered by said Court for the year ending December 2, 1872. December 2, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1873. -- Submitted. March 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be directed to inquire what measure or measures can be adopted by the government which shall give to the country a currency convertible into gold at the will of the holder... List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the special session of the Senate. March 26, 1873. Letter from the Secretary of War, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, transmitting two reports from Major O.M. Poe, United States Engineers, in charge of the construction of a canal around the Falls of Saint Mary's River, Michigan. January 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 1453. Resolution of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in favor of devoting the Chinese Indemnity Fund to the uses of education and science in China. January 30, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Senate, accompanying a statement showing the action of the Senate and House of Representatives relative to examining and counting the electoral votes for President and Vice-President of the United States from 1789 to 1869. January 30, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory, asking a grant of land to aid in the construction of the Dakota Central Railroad. January 31, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Kansas, relative to Indian outrages committed in that state. February 3, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi, Wisconsin, and Fox Rivers. February 3, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Correspondence between the legation of the United States at Paris and the French government, relative to the duties imposed in France upon agricultural implements manufactured in the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of North Carolina, concerning Indian tribes. February 5, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of Senate Bill No. 1257 for the relief of settlers on the Cherokee Neutral Lands. February 10, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the passage of an act setting apart a portion of the Island of Mackinac, within the State of Michigan, as a national park. February 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Missouri, in favor of appropriations for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and their tributaries. February 13, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Annual statement of the National Savings Bank of the District of Columbia for the year ending December 31, 1872. February 13, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in relation to the time of payment for certain Indian lands within that state known as the Cherokee Strip. February 14, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the passage of the "bounty land bill." February 15, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Attorney General be directed to procure and report to the Senate at its next December session complete information of the amounts of the salaries, compensations, and emoluments of the marshals, clerks, registers, and assignees, and also the established fee-bills in bankruptcy proceedings... Memorial of citizens of Utah Territory, remonstrating against legislation asked for in a recent memorial of members of the legal profession, and asking the appointment of a commission to investigate all matters of complaint relating to that territory. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Arguments before the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate for and against the Bill (H.R. 1553) to lease Goat Island for a railway terminus. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany House Bill 1553. Petition of Jonthan S. Tayloe, praying to be allowed a pension. February 17, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nebraska, in favor of the establishment of a postal telegraph system. February 18, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. February 20, 1873. -- Committee discharged, and ordered to be printed with the memorial of Gardiner G. Hubbard. Resolution of the Legislature of South Carolina, remonstrating against the withdrawal of the United States troops from that state. February 21, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of an improvement of the harbor at the mouth of the Menomonee River. February 21, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office to Hon. William M. Stewart, United States Senator, relative to the present clerical force in his office. February 21, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 718. Resolutions of the Legislature of Vermont, in relation to the civil service, and in favor of the abolition of the franking privilege. December 5, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, against a division of that state into two or more judicial districts. December 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following resolution: Whereas the productions of our country have increased much more rapidly than the means of transportation... Letter from the Secretary of the Senate, communicating in obedience to law a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate from December 5, 1871, to June 30, 1872. December 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. December 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, in relation to per cent. claims of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois now pending before Congress. December 16, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Report of the Board on the Improvements of the Harbors of Washington and Georgetown, of the District of Columbia. December 17, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to the request of the Cherokee Nation in regard to the application of funds due or that may accrue to that nation from the sale of certain lands. December 17, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, relative to a survey of the line dividing the Creek ceded lands from the Creek reservation, and recommending legislation to authorize negotiations with the Creek Indians for the cession of a portion of their reservation occupied by friendly Indians. December 18, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 1274. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the increase of compensation of the deputy collector of Customs at Saint Paul, Minnesota. December 19, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed to accompany Bill S. 1279. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the third session of the Forty-second Congress, January 6, 1873. In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Privileges and Elections is directed to inquire and report to the Senate whether the recent election of electors for President and Vice-President has been conducted, in the States of Louisiana and Arkansas... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Privileges and Elections be instructed to examine and report, at the next session of Congress, upon the best and most practicable mode of electing the President and Vice-President... Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, in relation to an appropriation for the repair of the lake survey steamer Search. January 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Oregon, in favor of a speedy confirmation of the title of that state to the swamp and overflowed lands to which that state is entitled under the acts of Congress. January 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, in favor of the bill to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads. January 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Common Council and Chamber of Commerce of the City of Du Luth, Minnesota, in relation to Du Luth harbor. January 8, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, asking a change of the northern boundary of the State of Oregon so that it will conform to the boundary described in its constitution. January 8, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, asking an appropriation to construct a breakwater at Port Orford, in Oregon. January 8, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, asking that a new collection district be established in Southern Oregon, with a port of entry at Coos Bay. January 8, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolved, that the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated out of the contingent fund of the Senate to defray the expenses to be incurred by the Committee on Privileges and Elections in making the investigations required by the resolution... Letter from the Governor of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in obedience to law, a report of the committee appointed to make a valuation of all real estate in said district belonging to the United States. January 13, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Dakota asking a grant of land for railroad purposes. January 15, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1873. -- Submitted. January 21, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into, and report to the Senate as soon as practicable upon, the cost of construction and present market value of existing telegraph lines now in successful operation within the United States... Letter of Thomas Foster, of Minnesota, in relation to the proper management and civilization of the Indian tribes. January 21, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required to pay for transportation furnished by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company to certain Cherokee Indians. January 21, 1873 -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required to pay the Osage Indians the annual interest on the net proceeds of sales of the Osage trust and diminished reserve lands. January 21, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans, La., asking that the national government assume the construction and care of the levees of the Mississippi River. January 22, 1873. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting to the Committee on Commerce the report of Major C.B. Comstock, of the Corps of Engineers, in relation to the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Governor and Board of Public Works of the District of Columbia, asking the United States to pay for the interest of the district in the city-hall building in Washington, now used entirely for United States purposes. February 24, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the Kansas, asking a new survey of the boundary line between Missouri and that state. February 25, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of artists and others, asking the establishment of a national art academy. February 25, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Petition of Alexander McLeod, of South Carolina, praying to be paid for cotton seized by authority of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of Allan Rutherford, J.J.S. Hassler, et al., of New York, claiming recognition as the originators of the first organized movement to raise volunteers to aid in suppressing the late rebellion. February 11, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. February 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, addressed to Hon. J.A. Garfield, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, in relation to the increase of the salaries of assistant secretaries of state and examiner of claims in the Department of State. February 27, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed, to accompany proposed amendment to the Bill H.R. 3921. Resolution of the Legislature of Missouri, exonerating Hon. Louis V. Bogy from all suspicion of having used corrupt means to secure his election to the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Francis W. Sykes, of Alabama, setting forth his claim to a seat in the Senate as a senator from Alabama. February 28, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of legislation to secure relief to settlers in good faith upon the Osage ceded lands. March 1, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Nevada, in relation to public lands in that state. March 1, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, in favor of the establishment of a postal telegraph system. March 1, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Nevada, in relation to saline, borax, and soda lands in that state. March 1, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the National Academy of Sciences. March 1, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1872. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rice submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to furnish to the Senate information in regard to a recent application for United States troops to be sent to the State of Arkansas... Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, asking an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of the Manistique River. March 3, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Credentials of W.L. McMillen, claiming a seat in the Senate as senator from the State of Louisiana. March 7, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Commerce be authorized and directed to sit during the recess, and to investigate and report upon the subject of subsidies to steamship lines... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Whereas at the last session of the Senate a resolution was reported from the select committee on evidence affecting certain members of the Senate, "That James W. Patterson be, and he is hereby, expelled from his seat as a member of the Senate"... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Revision of the Rules be instructed to inquire into the propriety of so amending the rules as to provide... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. West submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River be authorized to sit during the recess, and to investigate and report upon the condition of the levees of the Mississippi River... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard be authorized to sit at such places as they may designate during the recess, and to investigate and report upon the subject of transportation between the interior and the seaboard... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the following be added to the rules of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard be directed to inquire and report to the Senate, at its next session, as to the nature and extent of the obligations subsisting between the railroad companies and the postal service of the country... Memorial of the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company, asking an increase of mail service between New York and Rio de Janeiro. January 7, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Report of the commission created by law to examine and report in relation to the railroad track in front of the western entrance to the Capitol. January 7, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory, asking an appropriation to remove obstructions to the navigation of the Red River of the North. January 24, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory, asking for a scientific exploration of that territory. January 24, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the governors of the New England states, asking an appropriation to defray the expenses of the American Department of the International Exhibition at Vienna, Austria, in 1873. January 9, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, remonstrating against the passage of the bill which provides that the names of battles with fellow citizens shall not be continued in the Army Register, or placed on regimental colors of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, in relation to the James River and Kanawha Canal. January 16, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, in relation to the erection of a monument to the memory of the Union soldiers who died at Salisbury, North Carolina. January 16, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 1384. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, in regard to the public lands of that state. February 11, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in relation to outrages perpetrated by Sioux and Arapaho Indians in that state. February 11, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in relation to the Fort Harker reservation. February 11, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office in relation to a Bill (S. 1422) "For the Protection of Settlers on the Public Lands of the United States"; also, a Bill (S. 1385) "To Establish a United States Land Office at the Crossing of the Northern Pacific Railroad on the Upper Missouri River, in the Territory of Dakota." February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory, asking that Yankton be made a port of entry. February 7, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Nebraska, asking early action on the proposition of the Otoe and Missouria Indians to sell their lands. February 7, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Kansas, asking that the Fort Harker military reservation be donated to that state for the purpose of an industrial normal school. February 6, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Dakota, asking that an additional land district be created in the northern portion of that territory. January 24, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of underwriters of the City of Baltimore, remonstrating against being excluded from a participation in the damages awarded by the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration. February 18, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the construction of a railroad from the Mississippi River, through the Arkansas Valley and the Rocky Mountains, to San Francisco. February 20, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Nevada, asking an appropriation to extend the public surveys in that state. 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In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 938.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 938, "Conferring Jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims To Hear and Determine an Informer's Moiety Case," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3833.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill (H.R. 3833) increasing the pension of Helen M. Stansbury, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2514.) Petition and corroborating proofs show that William A. Hoon was assistant engineer on the steamer Champion, No. 3, employed in United States service, and that he was killed on Red River, April 27, 1864, by the blowing up of the boat while attempting to pass batteries of the enemy while engaged in the Red River expedition, said deceased at the time acting as assistant engineer... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1092.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1092 granting a pension to Agnes Ellen Kleiss, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2515.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2515) granting a pension to Catherine Ross, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2478.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2478) granting a pension to Sarah Baird, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2521.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2521) granting a pension to John Greenwalt, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 836.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill 836, entitled "A Bill Declaring the True Intent of a Statute," respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2762.) The Joint Committee on the Library, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2762, entitled "An Act Providing for a Life-size Marble Statue of the Late Senator Edward Dickinson Baker," have attentively considered the same and report that... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of the Northwest Fur Company for supplies furnished Indians at Fort Union, Dakota Territory, in March, 1866, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 692.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 692 for the relief of Daniel M. Page, late first lieutenant of the Thirty-eight United States Infantry, have considered the same, and submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1465.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred a bill for the extension of a patent to Alexander Douglas, of New York, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1523.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Ann Green and Mrs. Maria Bohrer, of the District of Columbia, asking to be allowed the arrears of half-pay claimed to be due to Lieutenant Colonel Uriah Forrest, of the Maryland Line of the Revolutionary War, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2792.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2792) for the relief of Galen E. Green, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2509.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 1487, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2894.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2894) for the relief of Nicholas Jose Merrimet, have examined the same, and beg leave to bring in the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1127.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1127) for the relief of Charles W. Willey, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1052.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1052) referring the claim of John H. Russell to the Court of Claims, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2993.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2993) entitled "An Act for the Relief of the Sufferers by Fire in Boston," which act is as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1257.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 1213, "For the Relief of Settlers on the Cherokee Neutral Lands in Kansas," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2446.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 2446 granting a pension to Benjamin Clark, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1452.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Jesse Warren and Joseph A. Moore, of Nashville, Tennessee, praying compensation for a building destroyed by the Army, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles D. Arter, praying compensation for use and destruction of property at Cairo, Illinois, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1478.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of William D. Ludlow for relief, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Birdsall, Jr. praying payment of arrearages of pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the "petition of De Witt C. Chipman, praying the payment of moneys withheld from him to cover uncollected revenue tax during his incumbency of office," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2979.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Robert K. Enbody praying for relief, having had the same under consideration, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 46.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred House Resolution No. 23, to enable the Secretary of War to pay the expenses incurred in suppressing the Indian hostilities in the Territory of Montana in the year 1867, having had the same under consideration, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 693.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 693) for the relief of Charles Trichler, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2508.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 2508 granting a pension to Eliza J. Fracker, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2524.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 2524 giving a pension to Flora D. McKay, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2420.) The committee to whom was referred House Bill 2420 granting a pension to Margaret A. Renshaw, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2470.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2470 granting a pension to Robert H. Brown, late assistant surgeon Twenty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, have had the same under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2556.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2556 granting a pension to Jane Thompson and Margaret Thompson, minor children of John Thompson, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2468.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2468 granting a pension to Samuel B. Davis, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2412.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Helen M. Smith, widow of Preston D. Smith, praying for a pension, and House Bill 2412, being an act for the relief of Helen M. Smith, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1418.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1418) for the relief of Charles H. Mallory and Company, of New York, have had the same, together with the accompanying papers and evidence, under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2259.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of James M. Hagar, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: Daniel D. Leary, as appears by the petition and papers filed in this case, was the owner of steamer John Farrow, of about two hundred and fifty tons burden... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 987.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 987) for the relief of Henry Warren, &c., have examined the same, and beg leave to bring in the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2902.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Isaac Watts, administrator of the estate of William Gerrish, asking damages on account of an annulment of a contract of Abel Gilbert, of the firm of Gilbert & Gerrish, have considered the same, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of B.F. Rittenhouse for relief, have examined the same, and bring in the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William F. Walsh, of New Orleans, praying payment of a certain judgment, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 141.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 141 for the relief of Alstorphius Weininger, Sr., have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2805.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill 2805, "An Act for the Relief of J.T. Newcomer," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2864.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred House Bill 2864, being an act for the relief of John W. Mears, administrator of the estate of Henry D. Mears, deceased, and of William Moulton, Jr., respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the Legislature of California in favor of the passage of an act for the relief of the settlers on the Suscol Rancho, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1471.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1471, being a bill for the relief of Josiah George Jennings, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3135.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred House Bill 3135, being an act for the relief of Thomas Warker, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Patents, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 1516.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the memorial of A.G. Batchelder and Mrs. Alsie M. Thompson for an extension of the patent for an improvement in railroad car brakes, granted July 6, 1852, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the "petition of merchants of New York, praying the enactment of a law of facilitate the discharge of cargoes of West India green fruit," report the same back adversely, for the reasons given in the following letter of the Secretary of the Treasury... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1224.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1224 for the relief of Howard F. Moffatt, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1522.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of E.P. Torrey and William B. Tilton for an extension of their patent for an improvement in door springs, granted September 8, 1857, and re-issued February 10, 1863, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1524.) Your committee, to whom was referred the claim of John H. Pendery for five hundred dollars, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1526.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William W. Low, a captain on the active list of the Navy of the United States, praying that the act of January 16, 1857, may be so modified that he may be allowed the difference between the pay he received and the pay of a lieutenant from the 14th day of September, 1855, to January 16, 1858, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 840.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of Anson Atwood, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 586.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill 586 for the relief of Ellen Call Long, the only child and heir of Richard K. Long, deceased, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1446.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1446) for the relief of Nathaniel McKay, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1339.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1339) for the relief of George W. Lawrence, Damariscotta, Maine, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1340.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1340) for the relief of Larrabee & Allen, of Bath, Maine, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2552.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2552, being an act granting a pension to James McAlfee, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2518.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2518, an act granting a pension to George W. Swartz, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2534.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 2534) granting a pension to Cornelia C. Dougherty, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2527.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2527) granting a pension to Deborah Witham, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2522.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2522) granting a pension to Judith Dunham, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2431.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2431) granting a pension to John Davis, corporal of the night-watch on board the United States ship Octorora, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2523.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was submitted the Bill (H.R. 2523) granting a pension to Henry Riemann, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2520.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2520) granting a pension to Thomas Lunney, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2469.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2469 granting a pension to Peter Brewer, late a private in Company F, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2471.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2471 granting a pension to John Heddinger, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2557.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2557) granting a pension to William D. Boyd, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2558.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2558) granting a pension to Elizabeth Jones, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2559.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2559) granting a pension to Henry A. White, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2561.) The Senate Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2561) granting a pension to Edward F. Tucker, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2545.) Mrs. Cross is a widow, the mother of nine children, four of whom served in the war of the rebellion, and three out of the four were killed in battle... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2550.) The Committee report that petitioner is the widow of Thomas Maynard, who was murdered in October, 1864, while recruiting for the Kentucky state service... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2551.) Committee report that there is no evidence whatever to support the claim of the petitioner except his own statement. By his own neglect, he cut himself off from arrears of pension, and presents no real excuse... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1576.) The principles and facts in this case are similar to those involved in the Senate Bills Nos. 1209, 1210, and 1260... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1338.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1338) "For the Relief of the Portland Company," having considered the same, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1260.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of Miles Greenwood, ask leave to present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3484.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 3484 granting a pension to Asenath Stephenson, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2988.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill (No. 2089) granting an increase of pension to Jedediah Gray, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pool submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1582.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Montgomery, heir of Hugh Montgomery, having had the same under consideration, and concurring in the views of this Committee at last session of the 34th Congress, as explained in their report of that session, adopt that report as their own at the present session; and they accordingly report the bill back to the Senate without amendment, and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2554.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2554) granting a pension to Jennie E. Savage, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2562.) The Senate Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill (H.R. 2562) granting a pension to John Fink, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2563.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2563) granting a pension to William E. Farley and John M. Farley, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2533.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2533, granting a pension to James W. Wharton, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2130.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2130) granting a pension to Simeon Farnsworth, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2440.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 2440, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2530.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2530) granting a pension to Mrs. A.D. Brooks, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3799.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2612) for the relief of Antoine Brossa, of Company I, Eighty-third Regiment New York Volunteers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1588.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Ann E. Boyle, widow of the late Commodore Junius J. Boyle, praying to be placed on the naval pension roll, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1499.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1499) for the relief of Erastus S. Joslyn, of Washington Territory, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1592.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Hiram Prather, of North Vernon, Indiana, late lieutenant colonel of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2887.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2887) for relief of William Johnston, of Ripley County, Indiana, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Catherine [i.e., Catharine] Harris, praying to be placed on the pension-roll, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1375.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Eva, Etta, Henry, and Guy Carleton, heirs of General James H. Carleton, deceased, late of the United States Army, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3855.) The Committee on Claims, to whom this bill was referred, after a full examination of the case, concur in the report of the House Committee of Claims, and recommend the passage of the bill, and ask that the report of the House committee be printed for the use of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1246.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Siloma Dick [i.e., Deck], widow of Philip H. Dick [i.e., Deck], praying to be re-imbursed for losses sustained in consequence of the depredations of the Sioux Indians in Minnesota, in 1862, with the accompanying papers, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Committee of Claims of the House of Representatives, to accompany Bill H.R. 1242. The Committee have had before them the case of William Ivers, a citizen of the Territory of New Mexico, who claims to be paid by the Government $1,500 for the destruction of his building, rented by him to the Quartermaster's Department as a store-house for the public stores of the United States Army at Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1862... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3860.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3860) for the relief of William Rutherford, of Washington, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. West submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 98.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Shelton, late lieutenant Company E, Second North Carolina Mounted Infantry, praying to be allowed pay, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3513.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3513) "for the Relief of Dr. W.J.C. Duhamel," according to order, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. 1777.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of G.W. Standifer, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1774.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of J.W. Holiday, having had the same under consideration, would submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1428.) John L. Bullard, late captain and commissary of subsistence, United States Volunteers, in his account with the government stands charged with an unexplained balance of $9,690.50... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, sub[mitted] the following report: On the 11th day of May, 1872, the Senate adopted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Privileges and Elections be authorized to investigate the election of Senator S.C. Pomeroy, by the Legislature of Kansas, in 1867, and the election of Senator Alexander Caldwell in 1871... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2899.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2899) for the relief of Charles F. Carr, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom were referred the petitions of bankers and merchants for the removal of all taxes whatever on state and national banking institutions, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3877.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, praying compensation to Anna Peale, on account of the benefits derived by the United States from the discoveries, inventions, and improvements in the processes and machinery used in the Mint of the United States, introduced and perfected by her father, Franklin Peale, deceased, and also the Bill (H.R. 3877) for the relief of Anna E. Peale, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2484.) This is an application of Elizabeth Zluhan, widow of Jonathan Zluhan, late private Company K, Ninety-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, for commutation money allowed her late husband in lieu of artificial arm... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2480.) This is an application of John Tuell, father of Daniel Tuell, late private Company D, Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry, for pension... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1207.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 1207, giving an increase of pension to Warren Raymond, a soldier of the War of 1812, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2443.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 2443, granting a pension to Wesley Hensley, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 855.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 855, granting a pension to John S. Corlett, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2444.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 2444, granting a pension to Mrs. Margaret S. Fair, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2426.) The committee to whom was referred House Bill 2426, granting a pension to Mary A. Diamond, mother of Thomas Diamond, late a private in Fourteenth United States Infantry, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2436.) The petition of Mollie L. Roberts sets forth that she is the widow of John S. Roberts, late first lieutenant Twenty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteers... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2435.) The proof satisfies the committee that Ann C. Butler is the mother of Charles F. Butler, private in Company F, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers... In the Senate of the United States. December 13, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Winslow J. Fries, praying to be allowed a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of certain citizens of West Virginia praying that compensation may be made to Henry Garrett, of Carolina County, Virginia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 341.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was recommitted "A Bill To Reduce the Rates of Correspondence by Telegraph, and To Connect the Telegraph with the Postal Service," report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom has been referred the petition of John R. Graton, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2442.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 2442 granting a pension to Charles B. Fairchild, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2445.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2445 granting a pension to Susan Schofield, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2892.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 2892 for the relief of John Clinton, of Brownsville, Tennessee, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2904.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 2904 for the relief of George Reber, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2463.) The facts, as they appear from the papers is this case, are briefly these: That in the year 1863 a certain William Cleft undertook to raise a regiment, to be called the Seventh Tennessee, within the lines of the Confederate forces... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2465.) The papers in this case allege that James C. Cooksy, husband of Hilla A. Cooksy, had been in the military service and was discharged on account of bad health in April, 1863... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2466.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2466 granting a pension to Angelica Hammond, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2453.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2453, being an act granting a pension to Rosa Wollaner, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2455.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2455, being an act granting a pension to Jerome E. Pampell, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 705.) The committee find, on investigation, that John Cleghorn was register of land office at Sioux City, State of Iowa, from July 17, 1867, till July 19, 1871... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1187.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 1187, "For the Relief of Jacob R. Davis, of Richmond County, Georgia," have examined the same, and beg leave to bring in the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1291.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Orich, guardian of the minor children of John C. Orich, who was a private in the First Regiment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2477.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill (H.R. 2477) granting a pension to John S. Hall, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Marcus Walker praying compensation, &c., beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Gurden Chapin praying relief, &c., have considered the same and beg leave to bring in the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2496.) The facts appearing by the papers accompanying the Bill (H.R. 2496) granting a pension to Almon P. Gram, are succinctly these... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2498.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2498) granting a pension to Amelia S. Parsons, widow of Nathan A. Parsons, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2464.) The papers accompanying the bill granting a pension to Evan Johnson, (H.R. 2464,) show that he was a soldier belonging to Company I, Forty-seventh Regiment of Illinois Volunteers... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2495.) John Nolan, it appears from the papers accompanying the Bill (H.R. 2495), was never in the military service but was a drafted man, and wounded in 1864 while detained by the enrolling board at Quincy, Illinois... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2516.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2516) granting a pension to Ivory F. Snow, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2893.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Miss Mary Love, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2787.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill (No. 2787) "For the Relief of Harlow J. Phelps and Company," have examined the same, and beg leave to bring in the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1275.) It appears from the papers and evidence in this case that William Vials [i.e., Vails], late a private of Company A, Third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, served his first term, was honorably discharged, and re-enlisted as a veteran, and served until the close of the war... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. The Committee on Finance, in obedience to the resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, as follows: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be directed to inquire whether the Secretary of the Treasury has power, under existing law, to issue United States notes in lieu of the forty-four million dollars of notes retired and canceled under the act of April 12, 1866... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 861.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom House Bill 861 has been referred, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 122.) Walter J. Lee, late second lieutenant, Company D, Twenty-eighth Regiment Michigan Volunteers, was commissioned and mustered in September 22, 1864, having previously been honorably discharged from First Regiment Michigan Sharpshooters... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1722 [i.e., 1772].) In the case of Reuben H. Bishop, late a private in Company G, Twenty-first Ohio Volunteers and Mississippi Marine Brigade, the committee, after examination, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2505.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2505) to increase the pension of Mrs. Hannah W. Sumner, widow of Major-General Edwin V. Sumner, deceased, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2539.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill (H.R. 2539) for the relief of Frederick Walter, Company A, Fourth United States Artillery, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2958.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2958) granting a pension to Joseph Greer, late private Company G, First West Virginia Cavalry Volunteers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2510.) The committee find that Amos Farley enlisted in Company G, First Regiment Michigan Sharp-shooters, July 7, 1863... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2546.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2546, being an act granting a pension to Daniel Wooden, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2487.) William L. Black, private Company K, Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, died in the service at Jackson United States general hospital, North Carolina, on the 28th March, 1865, of swamp-fever, leaving the applicant, Elizabeth Black, his widow, to survive him... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2978.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2978) for the relief of Francis B. Stewart, postmaster at Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2529.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2529) granting a pension to Martha P. Greenlee, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2526.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2526) granting a pension to Christiana W. Murry, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2528.) The committee, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2528) granting a pension to Joseph Cressey, have had the same under consideration and cannot recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2525.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2525) granting a pension to Lucinda Thomson, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2499.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2499) granting a pension to Mary A. Miller, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2511.) It appears by evidence from Adjutant General's office, that applicant entered service as a recruit at Camp Chase, Ohio, February 15, 1864, Company I, Forty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and was mustered out July 13, 1865... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2452.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Abagail Stuckey for a pension, having examined and considered the case, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2513.) In this case the papers show that Walter O'Donald, late private Company A, Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, enlisted September 23, 1861, and was accidentally killed by the explosion of a shell July 9, 1864, near Petersburgh, Virginia... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2512.) Application of Susan W. Mecham, widow of Abel F. Mecham, surgeon United States Army, deceased... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 762.) Application of John W. Crawford, late private Company H, Fifth Kansas Cavalry Volunteers, to be restored to the pension-roll... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, made the following report: The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of F.W. Swift, postmaster at Detroit, Michigan, praying that Congress will authorize the Postmaster General to relieve him from the liability under which he is placed to refund the amount of $2,463, embezzled by William H. Gregor, a dishonest clerk in his office, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Richard Barnett, late postmaster at Vicksburgh, Mississippi, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 940.) The Committee on Claims, to whom the above case was referred, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill of Vermont, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1417.) The memorial of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, through their committee, Thomas C. Hand and others, referred to the Committee on Finance, represents... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1427.) The Committee on Finance, being instructed by the following Senate resolution, to wit... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, having had under consideration the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury of January 6, 1873, in relation to the payment of $250,000 in bonds of the United States to the Choctaw Indians, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Albert F. Watson, guardian of Hendrick S. Carter and Emma J. Carter, minor children of Samuel M. Carter, deceased, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2535.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2535) for the relief of the minor children of Captain William E. Scherr, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2957.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2957) granting a pension to Mary E. Cochrane, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2439.) Petitioner is the mother of D.C. Mumford, late captain Company G, Nineteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, who was killed in action at Prospect Hill, Virginia, May 31, 1864... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2438.) The applicant is the widow of Charles B. Davis, late captain Company F, Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers, who was killed on the 9th June, 1863, in action at Beverley Ford... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2437.) Petitioner was a member of Company E, Second Regiment of the brigade known as Washington Guards, of the City of Philadelphia, commanded in the early part of 1861 by Brigadier General William F. Small, who testifies that he was ordered by the then Secretary of War... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1802.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1802) granting a pension to John Nichman, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2536.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2536) granting a pension to Maria L. Lee, widow of Abel H. Lee, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1549.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William H. Vesey praying to be relived of a certain loss sustained while consul at Havre, France, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas F. Bowler for relief, &c., have considered the same, and bring in the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Clavin Bronson praying that the tax on tobacco alleged by him to have been illegally collected may be refunded, have had the same under considered, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1442.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Henry E. Janes, late private in Company B, Third Regiment Virginia Volunteers, and afterward a private in Company B, Sixth Regiment West Virginia Cavalry, the service having been changed by consolidation... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1443.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers of the heirs at law of Thomas Lawson, deceased, late Surgeon General of the United States, praying payment of a balance of rent claimed to be due them from the United States for the use and occupation of certain property in the City of Washington, D.C., have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. West submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1775.) In this case, which contains the petitions of Kitty Ann Smith, widow of Thomas A. Smith, and of James A. Stevens, both of the Home Guards, of Ohio County, Kentucky, the committee submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2910.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2910) for the relief of Orville J. Jennings, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2507.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2507) granting a pension to Mary Petrie, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2537.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2537) granting a pension to Charles Lynch, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2476.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the Bill (H.R. 2476) for the relief of Anne Penny, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2497.) The evidence to sustain the claim of Armstine [i.e., Armstead] Goodlow to favorable consideration is very meager. He alleges in his petition that he was in the service, which is proved by the papers... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2543.) The petition and accompanying papers show that petitioner Jerusha A. Goodrich, widow of Colonel Luther Goodrich, deceased, is now drawing a pension of eight dollars per month for self, and has been drawing two dollars per month for two children... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2542.) This is a petition by Johanna Lusky, widow of William Lusky, late private in the militia company of Captain Dellaughter, of Minnesota, for pension... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1380.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jane Humphrey praying for a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2538.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2538) granting a pension to Mary A. Chute, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 309.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred "An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury To Refund Certain Moneys to James O.P. Burnside," passed the House of Representatives April 9, 1872, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William L. Anderson, praying compensation, &c., have examined the same and bring in the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2951.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2951) granting a pension to Mary J. Morse, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1402.) The Committee on Claims, to whom this case was referred, report that it appears from the proofs in the case that on the 15th of September, 1861, the fairgrounds of the Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Lexington, Kentucky, were taken possession of by the United States troops, then under Colonel Grigsby, and his troops encamped thereon... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thaddeus C. Hubbell for relief, &c., have considered the same, and beg leave to bring in the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1403.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Dr. A.B. Sellars, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2572.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2572) granting a pension to Herman J. Ehle, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1556.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Spence, praying compensation for property taken and used by the Army of the United States in the years 1862 and 1863, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2909.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2909) for the relief of Joseph L. Haywood and others, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Gardiner praying for the payment of a balance which he claims to be due him from the government of the United States, said balance being for compensation for personal services in putting up gas lighting apparatus in new dome of the Capitol, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: On the 7th of January, 1873, the Senate adopted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Privileges and Elections is directed to inquire and report to the Senate whether the recent election of electors for President and Vice-President has been conducted, in the States of Louisiana and Arkansas, in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Committee of Claims of the House of Representatives. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3859.) The Committee to whom was referred the petition of William Selden, late United States marshal of the District of Columbia, asking an additional allowance at the hands of Congress for his maintenance and support of public prisoners confined in the jail of said district, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 13.) The Joint Committee on Public Printing, to whom was referred the reporting and publication of the debates in Congress, by the third session of the act approved April 2, 1872, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2547.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2547) granting a pension to Nancy Mason, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2485.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2485) for the relief of Washington Frisbie, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2039.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was recommitted Bill H.R. 2039, "An Act for the Relief of Joseph Wescott, of Portland, Maine," have again had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3514.) On the 28th of October, 1868, Willie A. Wysory, collector at Baltimore, collected from the firm of William Shillings & Co. $925.50, tax on 1,851 gallons of spirits, or whisky... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Alcorn submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1337.) The Committee on Mines and Mining, having had under consideration Senate Bill 1337, report the same with amendments and with a written report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1475.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of Daniel S. Mershon, Jr., have examined the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 1210, S. 1209, and S. 1260.) This Bill (S. 1210) proposes to allow the claim of Nathaniel McKay for additional compensation as a contractor for the war vessel Squando and her machinery to be presented to the Court of Claims for examination and adjudication... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 315.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 315 for the relief of John M. Lamb, with his accompanying petition, have considered the same, and submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, from the Joint Committee on the Library, submitted the following report: The Joint Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the resolution directing them to inquire into the practicability of securing to authors the benefit of international copyright, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1481.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1481) for the relief of John C. Conner, have had the same under consideration and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 1349 and H.R. 3382.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred House Bill 3382 and Senate Bill 1349, to reimburse John E. Woodward for certain moneys paid by him, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the message of the President of the United States of June 1, 1872, returning to the Senate without his approval "An Act for the Relief of J. Milton Best," having considered the same, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2467.) The facts in this case appearing in the papers accompanying the bill are these: Abraham E. Autry was a corporal in Company K, Thirty-seventh Kentucky Infantry... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2345) for the relief of Daniel O. Cleveland, postmaster at Broadalbin, in the State of New York, beg leave to submit the following report... |
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In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2808.) The Committee on Claims find, upon examination of the papers in this case, that petitioner, as postmaster at Franklin, Pennsylvania, had authority to deposit funds belonging to the government in the Venango National Bank of Franklin, which has been designated as a depository of public funds by the Secretary of the Treasury... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3941.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3941) for the relief of Joseph B. Rothchild, of Findley, Ohio, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3820.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3820) granting a pension to Thomas R. Hardwick, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3870.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3870) for the relief of Mark Davis, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3874.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3874) for the relief of Benjamin Crawford, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1800.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 1800) granting a pension to Samuel Schuler, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1665.) The committee to whom was referred House Bill 1665, entitled, "An Act To Enable Honorably Discharged Soldiers and Sailors, their Widows and Orphan Children, to Acquire Homesteads on the Public Lands of the United States," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following adverse report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3836.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was submitted the Bill (H.R. 3836) granting a pension to Laura Baker, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3809.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3809) granting a pension to Henry H. Kaiser, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1195.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 1195, granting a pension to Melissa Rankin, mother of Oliver S. Rankin, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1624.) This is an application by Joseph A. Chambers, father of John W. Chambers, late a private in the Thirty-second Regiment Maine Volunteers, for back pay and bounty due his said son... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1619.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin F. Berkley, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1444.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 1444) granting a pension to Susan Davis, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3731.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3731) entitled "An Act To Confirm Certain Land Titles in the State of Missouri," report the same with the following amendments... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2767.) The committee to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2767) granting a pension to Ardella D. Warfield and Lindsley N. Warfield, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2768.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2768) granting a pension to Mary A. Dodd, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2481.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom the petition of Mary E. Shultz has been referred, finds the following facts in this case... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. 1068.) In the case of Martha B. Williams, mother of Captain John F. Caven, late captain Company G, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1065.) The Committee on Pensions to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1065) granting a pension to Charles J. Hanson, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3817.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3817) granting a pension to George W. Bradley, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3803.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3803) granting a pension to James C. Bates, of Indiana, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3819) granting a pension to Thomas Smith, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2138.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 2138) granting a pension to Zenas Bradley, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vickers, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report: A majority of the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate to inquire into the expediency of regulating by Congressional legislation the rates of freight on railroads having continuous lines running into or through two or more states, and to report by bill or otherwise, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3815.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3815) granting a pension to James P. Rader, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3800.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3800) granting a pension to Job S. Goff, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3797.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3797) granting a pension to Ada Lois Harrison, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3798.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3798) granting a pension to James A. Sanders, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3796.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3796) granting a pension to Emily Booth, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1592.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred petitions of several officers of the Navy, praying a modification of the act of January 16, 1857, that they may receive the pay of their actual rank, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2766.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2766) granting a pension to Mary Whalen, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1513.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1513, to carry out certain Indian treaties of 1866, and to organize the Territory of Oklahoma, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3801.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2735) granting a pension to Mary E. Foster, of Chillicothe, Missouri, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report: The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of H.M. Barnes, postmaster at Pioche, in the State of Nevada, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Window submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3134.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the application of Rebecca A. Marcher for relief, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3137.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Hugh McCormick for relief, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3864.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition, papers, and House Bill 3864, for the relief of the heirs-at-law of James B. Armstrong, deceased... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1785.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred House Bill 1785, being an act for the relief of Samuel A. Duncan, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4009.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred H.R. 4009, for the relief of Lieutenant John F. Wotring, having considered the same, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3516.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3516) for the relief of Jesse E. Peyton, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4002.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4002) for the relief of Jonathan Diehl and George Blymer, sureties, &c., report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3812.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3812) granting a pension to Ann Woods, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3807.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3807) granting a pension to William D. Tomlinson, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3810) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3810) granting a pension to Anderson W. Scott, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2479.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2479) granting a pension to Annie Maria Bailey, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3856.) The Committee on Claims have considered memorial, claim, and House Bill 3856, for relief of Henry Fulenwider, deceased, of Alabama, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3802.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3802) granting a pension to Obadiah Whiston, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial and papers of Wells, Fargo & Co., (mail sub-contractors,) for loss of property, &c., by Indians, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1559.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1559) for the relief of William G. Barnard, late a clerk in the Custom-house in the City of New York, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2412.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2412, granting a pension to Helen M. Smith, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3840) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3840) granting a pension to Susan E. Alger, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3841.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3841) granting a pension to Harper Smith, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the committee to inquire into certain allegations against Hon. Powell Clayton, submitted the following report: The undersigned select committee, to whom was assigned the duty of inquiring into certain charges against the Hon. Powell Clayton, a member of this body from the State of Arkansas, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following final report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1240.) About the 28th of May, 1862, General N.P. Banks, in command of a portion of the Army of the United States, retired from Charlestown, in Jefferson County, Virginia, to Harper's Ferry... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3511.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3511) for the relief of James Coats, of Jackson, Mississippi, have examined the same, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3853.) The committee, to whom was referred the memorial of William Wheeler Hubbell, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2555.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2555) granting a pension to Robert S. Dumont, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3831.) Mark Collins enlisted as a private in Company B, Fifty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, September 17, 1861, and was honorably discharged September 16, 1864, having served three years. He returned home with a bad cough and in feeble health, unable to work, and grew worse until his death, July 21, 1866. His widow now applies for a pension... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1233.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1233, "To Prevent an Appropriation Therein Mentioned from Lapsing Because of Delay in the Adjustment," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, from the Select committee on Evidence Affecting Certain Members of the Senate, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Machen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4003.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 4003, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1704.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1704) for the benefit of Charles Cosby, late postmaster at Uptonville, Hardia County, Kentucky, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen, from the select committee to inquire into certain allegations against Hon. S.C. Pomeroy, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the memorial of thirty-seven members of the Legislature of Missouri in regard to the election of Lewis V. Bogy to the Senate of the United States from that state, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Lanman, praying compensation for loss and damage sustained by alleged infringements, by order of Congress, of his copyright of a work entitled "Dictionary of Congress," of which he is the author, have, according to order, had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2804.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill 2804, for the relief of Joseph Dawson, have, according to order, had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3838.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3838) granting a pension to Ellen M. Cummings, submit the following report... |
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Serial set 1551 | Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the third session of the Forty-second Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 2, 1872, in the ninety-seventh year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
Serial set 1552 | Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress with the annual message of the President, December 2, 1872, preceded by a synoptical list of papers and followed by an alphabetical index of persons and subjects | 1 |
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Serial set 1554 | Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress with the annual message of the President, December 2, 1872. Part II. | 1 |
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Serial set 1558 | Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-second Congress. Volume I. | 1 |
Serial set 1559 | Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-second Congress. Volume II. | 1 |
Serial set 1560 | Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-second Congress. Volume I. | 1 |
Serial set 1561 | Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-second Congress. Volume II | 1 |
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Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1872. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-second Congress. |
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Annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the third session of the Forty-second Congress of the United States, December 2, 1872. Annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on the operations of the internal revenue system for the year 1872. Public property in State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting inventory of the public property in charge of that Department. December 2, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief and protection of American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting, under the act of May 28, 1796, a report of relief and protection to American seamen during the year ended September 30, 1872. December 12, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Drawback and reduction of duties on damaged goods. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of April 12, 1872, transmitting a statement of the amount of drawback or reduction of duties allowed on goods and merchandise imported into New York in a damaged condition from the Pacific. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Maps to illustrate volumes of ninth census. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the importance of illustrating the three quarto volumes of the ninth census. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Net proceeds claim, Choctaw Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the claim of the Choctaw Indians known as the "net proceeds claim." December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Indian depredation claims now pending. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to pay certain Indian depredation claims now pending before Congress. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Agreement with Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of an agreement dated September 20, 1872, between the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians and United States Indian agents, in conformity with law. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Depredations on the Texas frontier. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to depredations on the Texas frontier. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Lance-Sergeant John R. Williams. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting draught of a bill for the relief of Lance-Sergeant John R. Williams, United States Army. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Aged destitute persons in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the disbursement of the $12,000 appropriated by an act of Congress approved April 20, 1871, for the relief of aged destitute persons of the District of Columbia. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief of Company H, Second Cavalry. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to a bill for the relief of certain members of Company H, Second Cavalry, for loss of clothing. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Surgical appliances. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to an appropriation for providing surgical appliances for certain classes of disabled persons. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Clothing to certain enlisted men. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending the passage of an act authorizing issue of clothing to enlisted men of Battery F, First Artillery, and Company B, First Infantry. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Claim of the New-Yorker Demokrat. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the claim of the New-Yorker Demokrat for publishing certain advertisements of the War Department. December 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. |
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