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Serial set 1658	Alien claims. February 10, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on War Claims.	1
Serial set 1659	Anthony A. Laws. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Georgiana Parker. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. James A. Forgey. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Matilda Leipsker. February 20, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Anderson Davis. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Continuation of certain pensions. February 18, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. David Salsbury. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Oklahoma. February 16, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Surplus of the Chinese Indemnity Fund. February 16, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Arms and munitions of war taken from the State of Maryland. February 16, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. James J. Waring. February 16, 1875. -- Committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Samuel and Mary F. Mercer. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Aaron Taylor. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Henry Hoyle. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary T. Morrison. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Sophia Green. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Elizabeth Thomas. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles A. Draher. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Richard G. Mobley. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Dwight A. Barrett. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah Maynard. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Elizabeth Hull. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary Bailey. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Germain Dettweiler. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Susan Ross. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Alvah W. Hicks. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Kezia Zoller. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Samuel Sheaffer. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Elisha B. Knapp. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas Allcock. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. John H. Bell. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Elizabeth A. Neibling. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mercy E. Scattergood. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. John McKinley. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Sheridan vs. Pinchback. February 24, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. L.C. Gause vs. Asa Hodges. February 24, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Vicksburgh troubles. February 27, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Select Committee to Visit Vicksburgh and ordered to be printed. John C. Cox. February 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary Ann McDonald. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Coleman Simms. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Margaret Pattison. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Elizabeth Lanning. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Heila C. [i.e., A.] Cooksey. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Ruth Ellen Grelaud. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Joseph L. Neeley. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Susan Giles. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Ansel Thayer. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Robert Cavanaugh. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Ruth B. Brown. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Ann Jones. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Catherine Knierim. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. J. Lyle McCullough. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Maria W. Sanders. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. George W. Leamy. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Edward Hanley [i.e., Hanly]. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. W.B. Harlan. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Josephine O. Likens. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Wilhelmina Bossert. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. James R. Porter. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. William Brunt. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. John H. Looby. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Micajah Stout. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Samuel Purcell. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Nancy Tipton. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Levina Berrall. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Ellen Morrow. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. William C. Edmondson. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions of the war with Mexico. February 18, 1875. -- Committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Arkansas affairs. February 19, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Select Committee on Arkansas Affairs and ordered to be printed. Public buildings in Baltimore. February 19, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Modoc War. February 19, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Charles Dougherty. February 20, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Thomas Plant. February 20, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Harper P. Hunt. February 20, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. J.W. and C. Rowland. February 20, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Jacob Kaufman. February 20, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. George C. Wedderburn. February 20, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Marie Louise Perrin and Trautmann [i.e., Trautman] Perrin. February 20, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Henry B. Ryder. February 20, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Lafayette Briggs. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah A. Woodworth. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Emillia O. Black. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Ruth Isabelle Naylor. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Ferdinand Monti. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Annie Farley. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Abraanna L. Dunn. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Sallie T. Lee. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. George P. Bowen. February 18, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Forty-first Parallel Railroad Company. February 18, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Railways and Canals and ordered to be printed. William Lyon. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Betsey A. Eaton. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Emmett Langston. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Col. F. Young. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. G.W. La Pointe. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Herman Nettlefield. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. James Wilkinson. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Sidney J. Wood. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Harriet L. Bowman. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Elvira Kidd. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Woodson Powers. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Patrick Glackin. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Barbara Patti. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Nancy Harrell. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah Mackey. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Henry L. Kaiser. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Fannie M. Herron. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah B. Howe and Mary Cranston. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles H. Bugbee. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Catharine Ferry. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Taxes in the Sixth Collection District of Michigan. February 22, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Susan C. Clark. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Obediah P. Reams. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Condace McMillan. February 18, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed	113
Serial set 1660	Condition of the South. February 23, 1875. -- Recommitted to the select committee on that portion of the President's message relating to the condition of the South and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 1661	Affairs in Alabama. February 23, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Select Committee on Affairs in Alabama and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 1662	Deficiency appropriation bill. March 1, 1875. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Harvey & Livesey. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. John Fletcher. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Finance. March 3, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Washington and Ohio Railroad. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary A. McComb. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Eliza Howard Powers. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Indian appropriation bill. February 27, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Texas and Pacific Railway. February 27, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. China mail service. February 27, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means. Lawrence vs. Sypher. February 27, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Whitelaw Reid. March 2, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Western District of North Carolina. March 2, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Henry Meynell. March 2, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Southern Maryland Railroad Company. March 1, 1875. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Railways and Canals and ordered to be printed. Peter Wright & Sons. March 1, 1875. -- Committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Pottawatomie Indians of Kansas. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary E. Meline. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Jackson T. Sorrells. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. J.M. Roane. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary McMillen. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. James Atkins. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Roman Catholic clergymen of Maryland. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. William D. Stryker. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. George W. Bradley. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Nicholas Whitehall. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Samuel A. Knox. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Robert E. Bryant. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Samuel Hoyt. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered [to be printed.] San Francisco Land Association of Philadelphia. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Margaret Janet Burleson. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. John S. Wood. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. James G. Williams. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Eliza Potter. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Isaac Taylor. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. War claims of New Mexico. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Martha J. Coston. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Cherrie [i.e., Cheme] M. Levy. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Hannah M. Daley. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Washington Market Company. March 3, 1875. -- Committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Department of Justice. March 3, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Major N.H. McLean. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. District libel law. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Joseph J. Brown. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles O. Shepard. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. John J. Anderson. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Butler, Miller & Co. and Hawk, Miller & Co. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. James Lindsay. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Turner Merritt. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Priscilla and Armstead [i.e., Armistead] Burwell. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Rosanna Hogan. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. James F. Blount. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas Weeks. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Lucinda McGuire. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Elizabeth Gillock. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. J.E. Robertson & Co. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Jonathan L. Jones. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas Mitchell. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Indians in Washington Territory. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Jackson Lavenburg. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Bishop and Company. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Osceola C. Green. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. John T.K. Hayward and others. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. E.G. Allen. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Dixon Shinault and others. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Bartholomew County Agricultural Society. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Sterling A. Martin. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. N.J. Bigley. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Hall Colby. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Benjamin W. Reynolds. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. William Phillips. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Silas Reed. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Gustavus A. Scroggs. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. John W. Hickey. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Sugg Fort. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Jacob Bloomstein. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. W.R. Boice. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Silas M. Norton. March 3, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. A.G. Bachelder and another. March 2, 1875. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed	80
Serial set 1663	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 6, 1875, in the one hundredth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1664	Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Adjutant General in the case of Benjamin F. Pope, assistant surgeon, United States Army. April 26, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 16, 1876, a report of the Director of the Mint, showing the production of gold and silver in the United States and in other countries of the world from 1845 to 1875, inclusive. May 19, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a joint resolution embodying his views upon the failure of Congress to provide the necessary means to continue all the functions of government. June 17, 1876. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the Chief of Engineers in relation to a clause in the river and harbor bill which affects the works at the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River. August 8, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting information in connection with Senate Bill 144, "To Provide for the Construction of a Telegraph-line from Fort Canby, via Fort Stevens and Astoria, to Portland, Oreg." March 6, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the commanding general, Department of the Columbia, of his tour in Alaska Territory in June, 1875. January 6, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying a statement of the Chief of Ordnance in relation to an omission in the revised statutes not enumerated in his letter of August 17, 1875. February 28, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the disposition of tolls collected from the bridge across the North Platte River at or near Fort Laramie. February 17, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, accompanying a statement of Maj. John J. Upham, in relation to Indians being excepted from the penalty of introducing intoxicating liquors into the Indian Territory. March 7, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of February 9, 1876, a report of S.T. Abert on the survey of a line to connect the waters of the Cape Fear and Neuse Rivers, and for a connection by water between Norfolk Harbor and Cape Fear River. March 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 6, 1876, communicating information in relation to fraudulent bids for carrying the United States mails. March 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating information in relation to delays in the passage of tows through the Louisville and Portland Canal. April 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning, with his objections, the bill for the relief of G.B. Tyler and E.H. Luckett, assignees of William T. Cheatham. April 4, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, an abstract of the organized and unorganized militia force of the United States. April 4, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of April 18, 1876, a copy of the report of Prof. Walter P. Jenney upon the agriculture, climate, and resources of the Black Hills. April 24, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. April 25, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 7, 1876, information in relation to military arrests in the Territory of Alaska during the past five years. March 6, 1876. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of December 13, 1875, information in relation to the practicability of improving the channel of entrance to Cumberland Sound. May 5, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of April 24, 1876, a statement showing the average and taxable capital, the average and taxable deposits, and the tax assessed for collection on capital and deposits of savings banks in each state and territory for the six months ending May 31, 1875. May 6, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating information in relation to an appropriation for the Freedmen's Branch of the Adjutant General's Office, for the "collection and payment of bounties," &c. May 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of April 18, 1876, information in relation to the improvement of the harbor of Brunswick, Ga. May 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 23, 1876, in relation to the amount required to execute House Bill No. 2454, as reported with amendments by the Senate Committee on Pensions. May 9, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning, with his objections, Senate Bill No. 172, entitled "An Act Fixing the Salary of the President of the United States." April 19, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying a recommendation of the Paymaster General that mounted pay be allowed to all officers assigned to duty requiring them to be mounted. April 20, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a report of the President of the Centennial Commission upon the ceremonies to be observed at the opening of the exhibition, and extending an invitation to senators and representatives to be present on that occasion. May 2, 1876. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 6, 1876, accompanying information in relation to the expenditures of the Indian Bureau and the number of Indians provided for at the expense of the government. May 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying an estimate of the sum required to pay rent during the next fiscal year for the building now occupied by the Quartermaster General. May 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to an increase of the appropriation for the construction of a snag boat for use on the western rivers. May 22, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 27, 1876, communicating information in relation to money in the Department of State to the credit of the awards of the mixed commission under the treaty between the United States and Venezuela, April 25, 1866. May 22, 1876. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the loan of tents to the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War. May 31, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a Senate resolution of April 27, 1876, communicating information in relation to the cost of the Signal Service Corps, and as to the appropriation from which such cost is paid. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the petition of Capt. J.M. Hamilton, praying that the date of his commission be changed from June 6, 1867, to July 28, 1866. June 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a note from the British minister, in relation to alleged defects in the laws of the United States respecting the shipment of dangerous goods on different classes of vessels. June 5, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of the board appointed to test iron, steel, and other metals, in accordance with the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1875. June 8, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 165) for the relief of Michael W. Brock, of Meigs County, Tennessee, late a private in Company D, Tenth Tennessee Volunteers, with his objections. June 12, 1876. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of April 26, 1876, information in relation to claims upon which judgments have been rendered, or that may be now pending before the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, arising from captures by the rebel cruiser Shenandoah. June 16, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a remonstrance of leading men of the Osage Nation against the establishment of a territorial government over the Indian country. June 17, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of Major Cyrus B. Comstock, Corps of Engineers, of his inspection of the South Pass improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River. June 20, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Adjutant-General in relation to the proposed relinquishment of the garden tract at Camp Verde, Ariz. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of July 24, 1876, a statement of the number of civil officers employed by the Department of Justice from 1859 to 1875, inclusive. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of July 24, 1876, a statement of the number of civil officers employed by the Post Office Department from 1859 to 1875, inclusive. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating the offer of the State of Texas and the International and Great Northern Railway Company to donate to the United States the land upon which Fort Elliott is built. July 28, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of July 20, 1876, information in relation to the slaughter of American citizens at Hamburgh, S.C. August 1, 1876. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in answer to a Senate resolution of July 24, 1876, a statement of the number of civil officers employed by the War Department from 1859 to 1875, inclusive. August 1, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of July 24, 1876, a statement of the number of civil officers employed by the Interior Department from 1859 to 1875, inclusive. August 3, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 15, 1876, transmitting the report of a special agent on the Territory of Alaska and the collection of the Customs revenue therein. March 20, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 1, 1876, communicating information in relation to the cost of land required to complete the east front of the Treasury building. March 20, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of February 3, 1876, a copy of the report of Major William P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers, on the condition of the aqueduct bridge at Georgetown. March 20, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a request of the Commissary General of Subsistence for an early appropriation on account of subsistence of the Army for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1876. March 27, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information in relation to the reduction of the pay of second lieutenants. March 27, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating information in relation to the survey of the mouth of the Nehalem River and of Alsea River and Bar, Oregon. March 31, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in relation to the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed in Washington on the 9th day of August, 1842. June 21, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 19, 1876, a copy of the report of George Davidson, Assistant of the Coast Survey, on the methods employed in irrigating land in India and Southern Europe. May 31, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. June 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed, with 150 extra copies for distribution by the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of July 7, 1876, information in relation to the hostile demonstrations of the Sioux Indians, and the disaster to the forces under General Custer. July 13, 1876. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying a statement showing the aggregate number of the organized militia of the several states. February 10, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information in relation to the deficiency of supplies at the Red Cloud agency, Nebraska. February 29, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, reports of the Surveyor General of New Mexico on private land claims Nos. 105 and 108. March 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 16, 1876, information in relation to the practicability of deepening the inside passage between Cumberland Sound and Saint Simon's Sound. May 5, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating information in relation to the Bill (S. 637) to provide for the payment of bounties, &c., to colored soldiers and their heirs. April 11, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, a report of Maj. C.B. Comstock, Corps of Engineers, showing the progress made in the improvement of the South Pass of the Mississippi River. April 11, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information in relation of Alaska and its resources, the Alaska Commercial Company, the conduct of Mr. Bryant at Saint Paul's and Saint George's Islands, and the colonization of Icelanders. April 12, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of April 19, 1876, a copy of the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to the present situation of Indian disturbances in the Sioux reservation. April 26, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of April 11, 1876, a report of the Quartermaster General in relation to the Western and Atlantic Railroad. May 4, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating information in relation to the encroachments of the sea upon the site of Fort Stevens, Oregon. May 4, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of General O.O. Howard, in relation to Senate Bill No. 453, "To Authorize the Vancouver Water Company to Lay Water-pipes Through the Fort Vancouver Military Reservation," and Senate Bill No. 536, "Granting the Right of Way Through the Public Lands Over the Blue Mountains in the State of Oregon." June 29, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, the report of the commissioners appointed to investigate the affairs of the Osage Indian agency, together with the evidence taken by the board, and the separate findings of the individual members thereof. December 20, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report on the transportation route along the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, in the State of Wisconsin, between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan. By Gouverneur K. Warren, Major of Engineers and Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army. Report of the Secretary of War, in relation to the preparation of the Union and Confederate records of the war of the rebellion. January 5, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 21, 1875, a report of the Chief of Engineers in relation to the amounts appropriated and expended, since the year eighteen hundred and seventy, for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River, Forts Jackson and Saint Philip. January 5, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, inviting attention to his letter of December 18, 1872, in relation to the military reservation at Fort Ransom, Dak. January 5, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, inviting attention to his letter of December 20, 1873, in relation to the military reservations at Camp Crittenden and Old Camp Grant, Ariz. January 5, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the Senate resolution of February 27, 1875, information in relation to the establishment of a branch mint in the western states or the Mississippi Valley. January 6, 1876. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of December 14, 1875, information in relation to the treatment of United States prisoners confined in state penitentiaries. January 6, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of the expenditures and operations of the Springfield armory, for the year ending June 30, 1875. January 10, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 10, 1876, transmitting information in relation to captive Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians. January 13, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th ultimo, statements showing names of Indian agents who have complied with section 10 of the act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department for the year ending June 30, 1876, by sending to the Office of Indian Affairs abstracts of quarterly expenditures on account of Indian service. January 18, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the petition of Benjamin C. Card, praying that the date of his commission as major and quartermaster in the United States Army be corrected. February 2, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of State, transmitting, in obedience to law, a statement of the expenses attending the visit of the King of the Hawaiian Islands and suite to the United States. December 9, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of State, transmitting, in obedience to law, a statement of consular officers, not citizens of the United States, to whom salaries were paid during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875. December 9, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of State, submitting, in obedience to law, a statement of fees collected and accounted for by various diplomatic and consular officers during the year ended December 31, 1874. December 9, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, stating, in answer to a Senate resolution of February 3, 1876, that Maj. William P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers, will be detailed to examine the aqueduct bridge over the Potomac River at Georgetown, D.C. February 7, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 6, 1876, transmitting information in relation to the harbor of Charlevoix, Michigan. January 24, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, an inventory of property belonging to the United States in the Department of the Interior, December 1, 1875. December 7, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 19, 1876, information in relation to the fitness of the Capital University building and grounds at Columbus, Ohio, for the purposes of a mint. February 3, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 26, 1876, information in relation to propositions made by the Pacific Railroad companies for the creation of a sinking fund for the redemption of government mortgages, the action of the government thereon, and the reasons therefor. February 7, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 31, 1876, information in relation to the taxation of lands granted to states and corporations. February 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a report of the Chief of Engineers relative to the removal of obstructions to navigation of the Mississippi River at or near the towns of Fort Madison and Burlington, Iowa. February 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of January 20, 1876, information in relation to the condition of suits between the United States and the Pacific Railroad companies, under the second section of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Act of 1873. February 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, the report of Maj. C.B. Comstock, Corps of Engineers, of his recent inspection of the work of improvement of the South Pass of the Mississippi River. December 14, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of July 24, 1876, a statement of the number of civil officers employed by the Navy Department from 1859 to 1875, inclusive. August 9, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, recommending an increase of the Army to provide for contingencies that may arise in the Indian country. August 11, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of July 24, 1876, a statement of the number of civil officers employed by the Treasury Department from 1859 to 1875, inclusive. August 14, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a statement from the Secretary of State, in answer to a Senate resolution of July 24, 1876, of the number of civil officers employed by the Department of State from 1859 to 1875, inclusive. August 15, 1876. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning, with his objections, Bill (S. 561) for the relief of Major Junius T. Turner. August 15, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 20, 1876, a statement of his action under the act of Congress providing for the collection of moneys due the United States from the Pacific Railroad companies, approved June 22, 1874. January 26, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.	94
Serial set 1665	compilation of the laws of the United States, showing the changes in the "domestic rates of postage" and in the "franking privilege," from 1789 until the present time, and also showing the amount of receipts and expenditures of ninety of the principal post offices of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. April 11, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, asking an appropriation to improve the navigation of the Chippewa River. February 21, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the town councils of Beaufort and Port Royal, South Carolina, remonstrating against the removal of the naval station from Port Royal to Tybee Roads. May 31, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, asking an increase of mail service between Durand and Pepin, in that state. February 28, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of delegates of the Wyandotte Indians, praying that provision be made for the payment of all moneys due to said tribe under and by virtue of existing treaty; also, letter of the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to the amount due the said Wyandotte Indians. June 16, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be requested to furnish to the Senate, at an early day, a statement showing the public debt... Letter from the President of the United States Centennial Commission, inviting the Senate to attend the commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1876. July 1, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of exempting that state from the operation of "A Bill To Restore the Lands, Conditionally Granted, the Conditions of Which Have Lapsed, to the Public Domain." February 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 motion shall be decided without debate. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, asking the establishment of a mail route between Kiel and Memee post office in that state. February 28, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the reports in the Congressional Record shall be an accurate transcript of the proceedings and the debates of the two Houses of Congress... Notes in relation to the names and location of the avenues of the City of Washington. February 17, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 463. Resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky, in favor of legislation in aid of the Texas Pacific Railway. February 17, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky, in relation to pensions to soldiers of the Mexican War. February 17, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Maine, in favor of prohibiting the exaction of compulsory pilotage in the ports of the United States. February 17, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chippewa Indians of Turtle Mountain, Dakota Territory, praying for the segregation and confirmation of a certain tract of their land to them, and that certain provisions be made for their protection. February 23, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the following be added to the rules of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the fifth and sixth joint rules of the two Houses be, and the same are hereby, amended so that they will read... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, directed to adjourn their respective Houses... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against William W. Belknap, late Secretary of War. Forty-fourth Congress, first session... Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of an amendment to the pension law. April 26, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Kansas City Board of Trade, asking for the passage of a bill to establish terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the western district of Missouri at Kansas City. April 6, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of California, settlers upon certain of the lands granted to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, praying that said grant may be declared forfeited, and said lands restored to the public domain and made subject to entry as other public lands. February 15, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. April 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in relation to the unsuitableness of the present location of the Pension Office. May 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, in relation to a proposed removal of the old jail to the reservation on which the alms house stands. May 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Governor of Vermont to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, informing him that a statue of Col. Ethan Allen has been delivered to the Architect of the Capitol. May 12, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of the release of Edward O'Meagher Condon from confinement in Portland, England. May 12, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States sitting for the trial of William W. Belknap upon articles of impeachment. Replication of the House of Representatives to the plea of William W. Belknap to articles of impeachment. April 19, 1876. -- Ordered, that the replication of the House of Representatives to the plea of William W. Belknap to articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Senate recommends to the President that he cause negotiations to be entered upon with the Chinese government to effect such change in the existing treaty between the United States and China as will lawfully permit the application of restrictions upon the great influx of Chinese subjects to this country... Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of payment for losses sustained by citizens of that state through depredations committed by guerrilla bands during the year 1861 and thereafter. April 27, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New York, asking legislation to protect emigrants, and to prevent their becoming a charge upon the cities, towns, and counties of that state. April 28, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of A.M. Clapp, Congressional Printer, asking the naming of a committee to investigate the manner in which he has performed the duties of his office. May 22, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress. May 25, 1876. In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. April 25, 1876. -- Reported by Mr. Sherman, with amendments, and ordered to be printed. (Strike out the words in brackets and insert those in italics.) Mr. Sherman submitted the following resolution: Concurrent resolution proposing a common unit of money and accounts for the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland... Memorial of the Creek delegation, in relation to funds due the "Creek orphans," under the Creek treaty of 1832 and the act of March 3, 1837. May 25, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Comparative statement showing the force employed, the business transacted, and the annual rate of increase in the Office of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, from 1864 to 1875, inclusive. May 25, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, submitting the draught of a bill to readjust the rates of pension for specific and other serious disabilities. May 31, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 875. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, asking legislation providing for a just measure of taxation upon property within said district. May 31, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, transmitting a note, received from the French Minister, announcing the institution of measures by the French government for a universal exhibition to be held in Paris in the year 1878, and inviting the co-operation of the United States in the proposed undertaking. June 1, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey submitted the following resolutions: Resolved by the Senate of the United States, that the Committee on the Judiciary be, and they are hereby, instructed to ascertain whether or not the railroad corporations, or any of them, mentioned under acts... Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 2, 1876, information in relation to the management of the public schools of said district. May 12, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. June 7, 1876. -- Committee discharged, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to Hon. William B. Allison, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and draught of bill to authorize the use of a portion of the funds belonging to the Great and Little Osage Indians; also copies of letters in relation thereto. June 7, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 906. Letter from the Commissioner of Pensions to the Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, in relation to the effect of House Bill 2454, and of the amendments proposed by the Senate committee. June 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of June 2, 1876, a copy of the contract entered into with the National Republican newspaper for the publication of the list of delinquent tax-payers for the year 1876. June 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the mayor and common council of Racine, Wisconsin, asking an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of that city. July 26, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, to the Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads of the House of Representatives, in relation to the substitution of iron ships for wooden ships in the China mail service; also memorandum and brief of the agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, relating to the same subject. August 1, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed, to accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 22. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Chief of Engineers, in relation to the failure of appropriation in the sundry civil bill for surveys and reconnaissances in military divisions and departments, and recommending the passage of an act making available the unexpended balance appropriated by the act of February 10, 1875. August 2, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Resolution by the House of Representatives to appoint a commission to inquire into the change which has taken place in the relative value of gold and silver, and the causes thereof, the policy of restoring the double standard in this country, and of continuing greenbacks concurrently with the metallic standards. August 7, 1876. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of condolence of the Legislature of Texas, in relation to the massacre of General G.A. Custer and his men. August 7, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Attorney General to Hon. Powell Clayton, communicating information in relation to the treatment of United States prisoners in the penitentiary in Georgia. March 14, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking the passage of a certain act for the protection of public highways. March 15, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking the adjustment and settlement of certain claims arising from Indian depredations. March 15, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking the right of way through the Indian Territory for two certain lines of railroads. March 15, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 6, 1876, information in relation to the soil and climate adapted to the growth of sea-island cotton. March 10, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of the introduction of the metric system of weights and measures. March 27, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New York, remonstrating against a repeal of the resumption act, and in favor of such legislation as may be needed to give full force and credit to the pledge contained in said act. March 29, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring), that the following be added to the joint rules of the two Houses... Letter from C.P. Huntington, vice-president of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, to Hon. George F. Edmunds, United States Senate, in relation to a bill to create a sinking-fund for the liquidation of the government bonds advanced to the Central and Western Pacific Railroad Companies. April 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Railroads and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 687. Statement of receipts and disbursements of the United States government from January 1, 1834, to June 30, 1875. June 27, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Petition of the German Veteran Union of District of Columbia, praying an amendment to the Senate Bill No. 875 for the re-adjustment of the rate of pension for specific disabilities. June 28, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eaton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of War be directed to forthwith report to the Senate the number of United States troops of the various arms of the service now on duty in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the mayor of the City of Saint Louis, asking an appropriation to secure the bank of the Mississippi River opposite the City of Saint Louis... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the proceedings and debates of the Senate shall be printed in the Congressional Record as actually taken down by the official reporter... Letter from the Postmaster General, to the Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, regarding the general subjects of classification and expenses connected with the transportation of mail matter. February 10, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the establishment of a mail route between Osceola Mills and Alden. February 11, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, to Hon. Powell Clayton, United States Senator, transmitting correspondence in relation to the unfitness of the penitentiary at Little Rock, Ark., for the confinement of United States prisoners. February 14, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 435. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, relating to lands conveyed to that state in aid of a certain railroad, and which have subsequently reverted to the United States. February 14, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Railroads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the passage of an act for the relief of settlers upon certain lands in that state. March 2, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, asking an amendment to the pre-emption laws of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the improvement of the Minnesota River. February 21, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, to Hon. Powell Clayton, in relation to the removal of United States prisoners from the penitentiary at Little Rock. February 25, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New York, relative to the granting of subsidies in aid of the Texas Pacific Railroad and other internal improvements. February 25, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Railroads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Congressional Printer, asking legislation to enable him to conduct the business of his office without further embarrassment from want of funds, and for the appointment of a disbursing officer for said office. April 13, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, in relation to abolishing the office of supervisor of internal revenue. April 18, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed to accompany Bill H.R. 1585. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, communicating information in relation to the present condition of the Apache Indians in New Mexico. April 18, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of April 10, 1876, a copy of a report of the commissioners of the sinking fund of the district of the amount of certificates of indebtedness issued by virtue of acts of the assembly of the District of Columbia and of Congress, and the amount of assessments made in pursuance of said acts to secure the payment of said certificates. May 18, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the police commissioners of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of June 26, 1876, information in relation to the appointment of persons on the police force of said district. June 30, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of June 12, 1876, information in relation to costs and charges paid by property owners within the district prior to the publication of the list of delinquent tax-payers for or on account of the publication thereof. July 1, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following concurrent resolution: Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to guide the United States of America safely through one hundred years of national life, and to crown our nation with the highest blessings of civil and religious liberty... Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1875. In the Senate of the United States. January 5, 1876. Referred to the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dorsey submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard be, and the same is hereby, directed to inquire and report whether the interests of the general government do not demand that a complete hydrographic survey be made of that portion of the Arkansas River between Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas, and Pueblo, in the Territory of Colorado... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is well known that large sums of money are annually expended for the administration of justice in the Western District of Arkansas... Memorial of the Legislature of Arkansas, asking an appropriation for the improvement of the navigation of White River. January 7, 1876. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Arkansas, asking the construction of national levees to reclaim the alluvial lands of the Mississippi River. January 7, 1876. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River and ordered to be printed. Petition of the heirs of William K. Sebastian, deceased, late a senator from Arkansas, praying for the pay, perquisites, and emoluments of which he was deprived by being expelled from the Senate. December 1, 1875. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. December 16, 1875. -- Additional papers referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. January 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following resolutions. (Note. -- The first and second resolutions were unanimously agreed to.) 1. Resolved, that the tenure of a president pro tempore of the Senate elected at one session does not expire at the meeting of Congress after the first recess, the Vice-President not having appeared to take the chair... In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1875. -- Submitted by Mr. Edmunds and referred to the Select Committee on Revision of the Rules. January 10, 1876. -- Reported by Mr. Hamlin with an amendment, viz: After the word "Resolved" insert "by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring.)" Reported amendment agreed to. Resolution. Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the people of the several states, acting in their highest sovereign capacity as free and independent states, adopted the federal Constitution and established a form of government in the nature of a confederated republic... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Conover submitted the following resolutions: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that in compliance with the will of the people, the precedents of history, the best established principles of international law, the precepts of Christian rule and morality, and the requirements of the commercial and political interests of the United States, and taking into consideration the relations existing between the United States and Spain... Memorial of the Legislature of Arkansas, asking the donation of unsold public land in that state for educational purposes. January 10, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Librarian of Congress for the year 1875. January 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Choctaw Nation, praying the settlement of its claim arising under the treaty of 1855. January 6, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. January 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Whereas there appear to be material alterations and discrepancies in the official finance reports of the Treasury Department as to the annual expenditures, receipts of the government, and public debt... Report of the commissioners of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, statements showing the balance due on the assets of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company at the time of their transfer, the action taken to collect the same, and their present status; also, the receipts and expenditures from July 13, 1874, to December 31, 1875. -- January 18, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1876. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the Committees on Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, instructed to examine, and, after conference, to report, what amendments, if any, should be made in the present joint rules of the two Houses... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the Committees on Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, instructed to examine, and after conference, to report whether any, and what, legislation is expedient in regard to the matters considered in the twenty-second joint rule of the last session. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the admission of gilling twine free of duty. December 8, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a survey of a ship canal from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie. December 8, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of pensions to soldiers (and the widows of soldiers) of the War of 1812 who have been honorably discharged after five days' service. December 8, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of so amending the law for the entry of homestead lands as to permit soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphans, to make entry of such lands through agents. December 8, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the erection of a Customhouse, a post office, and other public buildings at Green Bay, Wisconsin. February 7, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, and report of committee on Japanese Indemnity Fund. February 7, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that the people of the United States constitute a nation, and are one people in the sense of national unity... In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is alleged that the late election in Mississippi for members of Congress, state officers, and members of the legislature was characterized by great frauds, violence, and intimidation, whereby the freedom of the ballot was in a great measure destroyed... In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested to furnish the Senate, if not incompatible with the public service, with a statement of the number of military arrests made in the Territory of Alaska during the past five years... In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1875. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Whereas, since the last session of the Senate, the Vice-President of the United States has deceased... Resolutions of citizens of Montour County, Pennsylvania, in favor of a guarantee of interest on bonds of the Texas Pacific Railway. January 24, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Railroads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of women, citizens of the United States, asking for the establishment of a government in the District of Columbia which shall secure to women the right to vote. January 25, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of Arkansas, remonstrating against the establishment of a United States court in the Indian Territory. January 27, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate from July 1, 1874, to June 30, 1875. December 7, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating a statement of property belonging to the United States in his possession December 6, 1875. December 7, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual report of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, communicating a statement of the property belonging to the United States in his possession December 6, 1875. December 7, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. 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 6, 1875. December 7, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the United States Centennial Commission and the Centennial Board of Finance, praying an appropriation of one and a half million of dollars with which to complete all preparations, and open the exhibition on the 10th of May, 1876, without debt. December 8, 1875. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, in favor of the passage of a bill limiting the value of household furniture to be admitted free of duty. February 4, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 62. Memorial of the Board of Trade of New York, remonstrating against the immediate resumption of specie payments. February 7, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New Hampshire, in favor of the resumption of specie payments. February 7, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of relieving the several states from liability on account of the respective amounts deposited with them in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress of June 23, 1836. February 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial and joint resolution of the State of Iowa, asking legislation by Congress in favor of a commercial highway by water between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan via the valleys of the Fox and Wisconsin River. February 3, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of so amending the law in reference to homestead entries of lands by soldiers and sailors, as to allow soldiers and sailors disabled by the loss of limb or other equivalent disability to have the benefit of entering such lands without settlement thereon, as now required. December 8, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, etc. December 8, 1875. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, in favor of amendments to the pension laws which shall permit persons now excluded from the operation of said laws to share in their benefits. December 9, 1875. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 13, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Whereas by the 2d section of the act of Congress entitled "An Act Further To Amend the Several Acts for the Establishment and Regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments," approved March 3, 1809... Memorial of Pottawatomie Indians, praying payment, as provided by treaty, for depredations committed upon their reservation in Kansas. December 13, 1875. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, in relation to the acceptance by Hon. George P. Marsh, minister of the United States at Rome, of certain presents offered to him by the Swiss and Italian governments. December 13, 1875. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 62. In the Senate of the United States. December 13, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. December 14, 1875. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Whereas by the 2d section of the act of Congress entitled "An Act Further To Amend the Several Acts for the Establishment and Regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments," approved March 3, 1809, (2 Statutes at Large, 536,) it was enacted... Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee of Indian Affairs, calling attention to the provisions of the tenth section of the act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the year ending June 30, 1876, and suggesting an amendment thereto so as to include all Indian agents and subagents in its provisions. December 14, 1875. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 79. Annual statement of the National Savings Bank of the District of Columbia, for the year ending December 31, 1875. August 10, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following resolution: Whereas by a general law of the State of California, approved May 20, 1861, it is enacted that any number of persons, not less than ten, either in this state or through any portion of the territories of the United States contiguous to this state, being subscribers to the stock of any contemplated railroad... Views of certain state senators of Louisiana, in relation to the election of Hon. James B. Eustis as United States senator from that state. January 26, 1876. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed.	130
Serial set 1666	Report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1875-'76. May 31, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	1
Serial set 1667	In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 and accompanying papers of Arthur Middleton Blake, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Lyman Guinnip, praying for relief, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 309.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of William L. Nance, of Nashville, Tenn., having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Davenport and twenty-five others, citizens of Richmond, Va., having considered the same, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of John Y. Worthington, of Fairfax County, Virginia, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1580.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill granting pension to Almon P. Graves, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 477.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Hans W. Phillips, Clark Hanes, and John Bean, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 101.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the petition of William Ballantyne, Henry Dickson, and William King, have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 206.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 206) granting a pension to Catharine Ferry, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas P. Jordan, praying compensation for corn taken by the military authorities, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah E. Bowden, widow of Lorenzo D. Bowden, late private Company K, Sixteenth Regiment Maine Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1876. -- 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 were referred the papers relating to the election of J.B. Eustis to a seat in this body, by the Legislature of the State of Louisiana, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1876. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the following concurrent resolution: Concurrent resolution proposing a common unit of money and accounts for the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Annie E. Paige, who claims, as widow and executrix of the late D.H. Paige, for the value of twenty-nine bales of cotton destroyed by fire while in possession of the United States government, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers of Cyrus W. Threlkeld, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 144.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 144) to provide for the construction of a telegraph line from Fort Canby, via Fort Stevens and Astoria, to Portland, Oreg., have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 43.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 43) granting a pension to Elizabeth A. Neibling, widow of James M. Neibling, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Leslie Combs, a captain in the War of 1812, for arrearages of pension and increase of same, report adversely to prayer of the petitioner... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Christiancy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 678.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ephraim P. Abbott, to be allowed to purchase a tract of about eighty acres of land in the County of Wayne, Michigan, in the rear of private land claim No. 667, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conover, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following as the views of the minority on the Bill (S. 841) for the relief of Bayse N. Westcott, reported from the committee with the recommendation that the bill do not pass... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Josiah Wardwell, of Penobscot, Me., have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Warren Mitchell, of Louisville, Ky., praying to be refunded the amount of proceeds of certain cotton seized and sold by the government of the United States, and covered into the Treasury, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of P.A. Ahl & Brother, of Newville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, praying for compensation for pig-iron, claimed to have been appropriated and used by the United States military authorities at Harper's Ferry, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 John Reid, of Cincinnati, Ohio, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Christopher Stucke, have examined the same, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James R. Roche, late disbursing clerk of the War Department, from the 1st of July, 1871, to the 31st of March, 1875, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 165.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of M.W. Brock, praying to be relieved from liability for certain government property alleged to have been taken possession of by him during the late war, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 163.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 163) for the relief of J.M. Thompson, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 349.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 349) for the relief of Evin Hughes, with the accompany petition, after careful consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 246.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Miss Lizzie Dickson, administratrix of the estate of the late Archibald D. Palmer, asking permission to submit claim to the United States Court of Claims for cotton alleged to have been captured and sold by the United States, having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frederick A. Holden, asking remuneration for property destroyed in West Virginia, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 and accompanying papers of Wakeman W. Edwards, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of James A. Harrold, praying compensation for property taken by the United States troops during the late war, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Alexander C. Crawford, of Galveston, Texas, praying compensation for the use and occupancy of his property in Galveston by United States forces during the late war, have considered the said petition, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 199.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 199) for the relief of the estate of the late paymaster, Maj. John S. Walker, United States Army, providing that the proper officers of the Treasury be directed to credit the accounts of the late John S. Walker, paymaster... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 292.) The Committee on Military Affairs, having duly considered the Bill (S. 292) for the relief of Thomas Belew, asking the pay and allowances of a captain of cavalry from April 10, 1863, to October 26, 1863, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 443.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the petition and papers in the case of Alstorpheus Werninger, late of the Sixth Regiment West Virginia Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hitchcock submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 229.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 229) to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of the said state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 446.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom the memorial of Daniel Stickney, of Presque Isle, in the State of Maine, was referred, having examined into the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Isaac H. Tower, of Dedham, in the County of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Glover & Mather, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of John L. Sheppard, praying compensation as damages for imprisonment as the supposed murderer of Horace Metcalf, late a deputy marshal of the United States for the Western District of Missouri, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 260.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 260) for the relief of Mrs. Mary A. Thayer, of Washington, District of Columbia, have fully considered the same, and carefully examined all the evidence produced, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth O'Neil, the mother of John O'Neil, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Williamson County, Illinois, praying for a pension to Eliza Mandrel, having considered the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of A.A. Haynes and others, praying for an amendment to the laws relating to pensions approved March 3, 1873, to extend the time for limitation of arrears, would respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of J.S. Fennimore, praying that the act of February 14, 1871, be so amended as to allow petitioner to receive a pension as a soldier in the War of 1812... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jonathan G. Lang, late private Company B, First Regiment United States Dragoons, and Company D, Thirteenth Regiment Kansas Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jules L. Williams, Fourth Michigan Volunteers, &c., have had the same under consideration, and make the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John McFarland, late a private of Company E, Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Infantry, praying for an honorable discharge from said regiment, and for pay and allowances while a prisoner of war at Andersonville, Ga., have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Josephina [i.e., Josephine] Stephens, praying compensation for steamer Grey Cloud, seized by and appropriated to the use of the United States, having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Reuben S. Denny, of Pulaski County, Kentucky, for compensation for house and ferry boats destroyed by order of Colonel Hoskins, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George Hubbell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, praying compensation for a stock of goods, wares, and merchandise, burned at Charleston, W. Va., on September 13, 1862, have carefully considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of William S. Mitchell, claiming a balance alleged to be due for goods furnished, &c., have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 239.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 239) authorizing the Secretary of War to correct an Army officer's record, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 464.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2305.) It appears from the testimony presented, that Melville H. Hudson, aged sixteen years and upward, enlisted with Capt. William R. Allen, recruiting officer for Third Kansas Volunteers, as drummer... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 479.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the case of William L. Adams, late collector of Customs at the port of Astoria, Oreg., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 490.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Hibben & Co., dealers in tobacco at Chicago, Ill., praying for a refund of certain taxes assessed and collected upon certain tobacco belonging to them, upon which a previous tax had been paid, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Anton Tschudi, having considered the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1596.) The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the Bill (H.R. 1596) granting a pension to Ruth Ellen Greelaud, having considered the same respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 375.) The Committee on Invalid Pensions [i.e., Committee on Pensions], to whom Senate Bill No. 375 was referred, find, on investigation, the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James J. Ritchie, of Scott County, Mississippi, praying for compensation for property and supplies taken by the United States Army in 1864, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 560.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition for the relief of Benjamin L. Cornish, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 111.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of John Montgomery, of Pennsylvania, for property used and damaged by United States troops in the State of Virginia, having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition of the estate of Joseph S. Hubbard, late of Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Russell, praying that his claim may be re-referred to the Commissioners of Southern Claims, or that Congress may grant him relief, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The petition of Thomas H. Coates, having been recommitted, has been further examined by your Committee, and they submit... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 294.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 294) for the relief of Charles E. Hedges, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the claim of John E. Woodward, of Kentucky, to have certain moneys refunded to him out of the United States Treasury, being the proceeds of the sale of certain tobacco seized by order of General Paine, commanding the United States forces at Paducah, Ky... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Charles M. Briggs, asking that his claim for the proceeds of certain cotton be referred to the Court of Claims, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The petitioner, Alexander Montgomery, entered the service of the United States from West Point as a brevet second lieutenant, United States Army, on the 1st of July, 1834... In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Edwards, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 384.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 384) and petition of Mrs. Eliza Potter, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 and accompanying papers of Miss Jennie L. Wall, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Strelter, praying compensation for property seized by the United States forces at Memphis during the late war, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of John Birkett, praying compensation for losses sustained by the burning of his residence and store house, at Beverly, W. Va., during the late war, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- 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 stockholders of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company, praying compensation for the use and occupancy of their railroad by the United States authorities during the late war, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 471.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 471) to re-open the lands of the Fort Sedgwick military reservation to settlement and occupation as public lands, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George S. Kausler, of the City of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, claiming the payment of $41,698.43, for rent of certain real estate in New Orleans occupied by the military forces of the United States, in the years 1862, 1863, and 1864, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Christiancy, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Messrs. Segar & Willard for the value of the Hygeia Hotel and out-buildings erected at Old Point Comfort on grounds belonging to the United States connected with Fortress Monroe, and which were removad by the order of General Dix, approved by General McClellan, by General Halleck, and the Secretary of War, December, 1862, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1808.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1808) for the relief of Daniel Wormer, of Albany, N.Y., have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 105.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 105) for the relief of Dickson [i.e., Dixon] Shinault, late assistant keeper of the light vessel at Wolf Trap light station, in the State of Virginia, have considered the same, and submit the following report, to wit... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 685.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Delilah Kelly, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report, which was submitted in the Forty-third Congress to the same petition, and recommend the passage of the accompanying bill... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 495.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 495) for the relief of William H. Smallwood, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 527.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 527) for the relief of Nicholas Vedder, together with his petition and accompanying papers, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Christiancy, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Robert Lowry, asking compensation for the value of a dwelling house, furniture, wearing apparel, &c., burned under the proper military orders of the United States, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 637.) The Committee on Military Affairs have had under consideration a petition of colored citizens of Arkansas, soldiers in the late war, praying the repeal of certain laws relating to the manner of paying bounties to colored soldiers, and the enactment of such laws as will place the colored soldiers upon the same footing as to the manner of paying bounties as white soldiers, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gordon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 177.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 177, report the substitute which accompanies this report, and recommend that the substitute pass... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers of Dr. Joseph Robbins, of Quincy, Ill., praying for additional compensation for services rendered the United States by him as examining-surgeon of applicants for invalid pensions, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Jesse Warren and Joseph A. Moore, of Nashville, Tenn., praying compensation for a brick building and a stone foundation of a building alleged to have been destroyed by the United States Army, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Dittoe, daughter and heir of John Manley, a corporal of the Revolutionary Army... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was recommitted the memorial of Walker Pierce [i.e., Pearce], praying additional compensation for services performed as registrar in -- County, North Carolina, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying vouchers of Capt. Duane M. Greene, late captain Company E, Sixth Regiment California Volunteers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Thomas N. Poullain, with accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Z. Lambert, have duly considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Maria H. Granger, widow of the late Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eugene O. Sullivan for increase of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2309.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2309) granting a pension to Catharine Johnson, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1189.) The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred House Bill (H.R. 1189) granting a pension to William J. Drake, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1656.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1656, granting a pension to Aaron Buchanan, formerly a private in Company C, Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry, have carefully examined the voluminous papers submitted in the case, and feel constrained to report adversely on the claim... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2162.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2162) granting pension to Clara Brosch, mother of Joseph Brosch, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2307.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2307) granting a pension to Mary Bell Decker, infant daughter of James W. Decker, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1179.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1179) granting a pension to James Riley, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 11.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 11) granting a pension to Eliza J. Blumer, widow of Henry Blumer, having examined the same, submit the following report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of Representatives, which your committee has adopted... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 sufferers from the raid upon Washington in July, 1864, for compensation for the loss of their property, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 167.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 167) with accompanying papers, for the relief of Sarah E. Wedelstedt, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 361.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 361) to reduce to area of the military reservation of Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory, have duly considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 532.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 532) to authorize the restoration of Nathan D.A. Sawyer to the rank of captain and assistant quartermaster in the Army, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 189.) In case of Col. C.G. Freudenberg there can be nothing but an adverse report of the case made, in view of the act of March 3, 1875... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 817.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Albert Fuller for the extension of a patent, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 724.) The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred Senate Bill 724, "Granting Arrears of Increase of Pension to Francis A. Liebschutz," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Alice E. De Groot and Theodore B.B. De Groot, administrators of the estate of William H. De Groot, deceased, having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States, returning, with his objections, the Bill (S. 489) for the relief of G.B. Tyler and E.H. Luckett, assignees of William T. Cheatham, having duly considered the same, beg respectfully to report the said bill back to the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Timothy Newhall, a citizen of Lynn, Essex County, Mass., have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 619.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 619) to provide for carrying out, in part, the provisions of the act of 3d of March, 1873, entitled "An Act To Abolish the Tribal Relations of the Miami Indians, and for Other Purposes," (see Statutes, Vol. 17, p. 633,) have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims submit the following report in the matter of the claim of Haskins & Bridgford, for compensation for use of a wharf at Rockett's Landing, Virginia... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of Francis J. Comstock, praying compensation for hay used by the United States Army in 1865, had had the same under consideration, and begs respectfully to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Martha I. McQueen, administratrix of John W. McQueen, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Walker Pearce, having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 628.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Anderson & White, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 626.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom were referred the resolutions and the report of the Committee on Foreign Commerce of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of New York, in reference to the Japanese Indemnity Fund... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 627.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition for the relief of Butler, Miller & Co., and Hawkes, Miller & Co., of Ohio, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1988.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Hermann Kreismann, United States consul general at Berlin, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 251.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of William White for the sum of $3,977.14 for services as deputy surveyor, under a contract with the Surveyor General of New Mexico, having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 247.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 247) for the relief of James M. Coffinbery [i.e., Coffinberry], of the City of Cleveland, State of Ohio, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Harvey & Levisey [i.e., Livesey], having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1876. -- 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 Consider Parish, of Hinds County, Mississippi, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 372.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 373 [i.e., 372]) for the relief of J.L. Re Qua, S.B. Hubbard, and others, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 784.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 784) for the relief of Enoch Totten, administrator of William A. Lloyd, deceased, with accompanying petition and papers, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Durant H.L. Bell, claiming compensation for property destroyed by United States forces during the late war, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2693.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2693) for the relief of Joseph Anderson, of Nashville, Tenn., having considered the same and the papers filed in support thereof, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 823.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John G. Taylor, of Annapolis, Md., having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 824.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Hannah L. Lloyd, asking for remuneration for property seized and sold by the United States, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2467.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2467) granting a pension to Sarah J., widow of James E. King, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2310.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a Bill (H.R. 2310) granting a pension to Emanuel B. Herr, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 767.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 767) granting a pension to Theodore Gardner, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boutwell, from the Select Committee to Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service, submitted the following report: The select committee appointed by the Senate to examine the several branches of the civil service with a view of the re-organization of the departments, report, for the information of the Senate, the correspondence between the said committee and the heads of the several executive departments of the government... In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eden H. Fisher, late first lieutenant Company A, Twenty-first Indiana Volunteers, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2586.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2586) providing a pension for John L. Bartley, late a corporal in Company C, Second North Carolina Mounted Infantry, respectfully represent that an examination of the bill and accompanying papers exhibits the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 796.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Sheldon S. Hartshorn for extension of patent, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of J.M. Irwin, praying to be re-imbursed for amount of moneys paid by him for two pieces of land purchased by him near Memphis, Tenn., which were sold by the United States authorities for non-payment of direct taxes, have considered said petition, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 808.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 21st of February last, instructing them to inquire what, if any, sum of money may be due to Charles B. Varney, of Portland, Me., for rent and use of lands in said city for the years 1867 and 1868, and a part of 1869... In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 809.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of George E. Payne, of the parish of Saint Charles, in the State of Louisiana, for damages for the seizure and occupation of his plantation by the government during the war of the rebellion, has had the same under consideration, and begs respectfully to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 811.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 811) for the relief of Cawan & Dickinson, who pray compensation for the loss of 256 bales of cotton, seized by order of General Burnside, on the 17th and 18th days of November, 1863, and used for strengthening the defenses of Knoxville, make the following report upon said claim... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 509.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 509) for the relief of John A. Shaw, with the accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 548.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 548) for the relief of the heirs of Maj. D.C. Smith, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1600.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1600) granting a pension to Jane A. Harris, have considered the same, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 591.) The Committee on Finance report a Bill (S. 591) to regulate the transportation of bonded merchandise withdrawn from warehouse upon the letters and papers hereto annexed and made a part of this report... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Patrick Eagin, in his own right and as administrator of the estate of William Donnelly, deceased, asking payment for 441 bales of cotton said to have been taken by the military authorities of the United States at Wilmington, N.C.... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1809.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1809) granting a pension to John A. Stewart, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 393.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 393) for the relief of William J. Anderson, of Pickensville, Ala., have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Patrick J. Kennedy, Company D, Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry Volunteers, with accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Mills, praying to be granted a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 608.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Harvey Lull for an extension of his letters-patent for a self-locking shutter hinge, having examined the evidence submitted, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 378.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 378) for the relief of Sidney S. McLane, with accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Henry M. Naglee, with the accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1347.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1347) granting a pension to Hattie D. McKain, widow of William A. McKain, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conkling submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 726.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 726) to change the name of the steamboat Charles W. Mead, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1589.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the Bill H.R. 1589 and the Bill S. 422, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Lovel Moore, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Osceola C. Green, administrator de bonis non, and one of the heirs of Uriah Forrest... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Rebecca Frances Bailey, only child and heir at law of Lieut. Edward Lloyd, deceased, of the continental line, for half-pay for life due said Lloyd, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Wade Hopkins, of Mississippi, sole surviving heir of Col. David Hopkins, late of South Carolina, deceased, praying for commutation of half-pay as officer in the Revolutionary War, and for re-imbursement of certain moneys advanced by said Col. David Hopkins... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was submitted the petition of Capt. Samuel H. Leavitt, late of Company C, Eighty-sixth New York Volunteers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 445.) Report of the Committee on Public Lands in relation to Bill S. 445... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 828.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 828) to correct an error of enrollment, have considered the same, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1810.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1810) granting a pension to Elizabeth R. Hull, widow of William Hull, Seventh Kentucky Cavalry, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1992.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1992) granting pension to Mary P. Abeel, widow of James P. [i.e., S.] Abeel, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 183.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 183) granting an increase of pension to John Wunderlin, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 539.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 539) to provide for an increase of pension in favor of Martin Kelly, having examined the same, submit as their report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2306.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom House Bill No. 2306 referred, which provides for a pension to John McIntire, Company A, Fourteenth Regiment Kentucky Cavalry, have examined the papers in connection with the case, and find the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 933.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 933) granting a pension to William D. Cobaugh, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bogy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 178.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 178) to extend the provisions of the act entitled "An Act for the Final Adjustment of Private Land Claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for Other Purposes," approved June 22, 1860, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 253.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 253) granting a pension to Joseph B. Lane, formerly second lieutenant Company G, Eighty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteers, having carefully examined all the papers connected with the case, find the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 118.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 118) granting arrearages of pension to James H. Woodard, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 675.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Horace S. Emery, having considered the same, and the accompanying evidence, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Dalton, having considered the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, having had under consideration the petition of Max Rosemberg, submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 485.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 485) for the relief of Julie E. Seelye [i.e., Seeley], postmaster at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, report that they have had the same under consideration, and find... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 38.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 38) granting a pension to Charles C. Daniels, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1455.) granting a pension to Griffin Chavers, late a private in Company C, Ninth Regiment of United States Heavy Artillery, (colored,) submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dorsey submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 680.) On February 15, 1876, the Senate passed the following resolution... In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 377.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 377) for the relief of the widow of Henry Hensley, would most respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 389.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 389) for the relief of Edward Corselius and seven other persons, late members of the First Michigan Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, and the accompanying petition, have duly considered the same and beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph A. Ketting, administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Hunt, deceased, praying that the claim of said Elizabeth Hunt of arrearages of pension be allowed, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2312.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom the Bill (H.R. 2312) granting a pension to Nicholas Strite was referred, find, on examination of the records, the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2294.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2294) granting a pension to Gilbert Reed, late second lieutenant Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry, have examined the bill, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2297.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2297) granting a pension to Jane N. Willard, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 682.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 682) granting a pension to Morris Dwight, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1811.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1811) granting a pension to Fannie E. Records, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2298.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2298) granting a pension to Emma A. Tuttle, widow of Charles H. Tuttle, late a private in Company I, Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 20.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 20) for the relief of Hortensia H. Cook, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the following report: The Joint Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the memorial of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, appealing from the action of the Chairman of that Committee in stopping the work of publishing the report of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Eunice Tripler, widow of the late Dr. Charles S. Tripler, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 425.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of the Rev. Emanuel Slifer, asking a pension for James Eli Butts and Malinda F. Butts, minor heirs of Joseph Butts, deceased, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of J.S. Collins, of Hancock County, Maine, for pension for service in the War of 1812, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 431.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Thomas, praying that she may be granted a pension, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 75.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill S. 75, have fully considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 23.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 23) for the relief of Edwin Fairfax Gray, late lieutenant in the Texan Navy, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Annie Wallingford, praying for remuneration for property alleged to have been taken by the Army of the United States during the late war, having considered the same, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Mason, of Taunton, Massachusetts, praying an appropriation for the amount of damages sustained by him by reason of breach of contract made with him by the United States, in January, 1862, for the manufacture of arms, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 545.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Abraham Ellis, of Kansas, praying to be placed upon the pension rolls, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas W. Phelps, late seaman United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 104.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom the Bill (H.R. 104) granting a pension to Edward C. Wheelock was referred, ascertain, from an examination of the papers in the case, the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1599.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1599) granting a pension to France D. Elliott, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Amos Chapman, asking to be allowed a pension for wounds received in action while acting as a scout in the employ of the United States service in the Indian Territory and Texas, in the year 1874, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of William Cash, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 366.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 366) to fix the date of entry into the military service of Col. and Bvt. Maj. Gen. Benjamin H. Grierson, United States Army, and to correct his record on the Army Register, have had the said bill under consideration, and report the same without amendment, and submit to the Senate the following evidence... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 387.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Friend, praying remuneration for property taken from him by the Comanche Indians in Texas, in 1867 and 1868, have considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 110.) The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 110) to ratify and confirm the paving, parking, and foot-ways, as now constructed by the Board of Public Works, at the intersection of Sixteenth and K Streets, northwest, Washington, D.C., and for other purposes, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1876.. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 137.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 137) to provide for the settlement of the claims of the officers of the Revolutionary Army, and of the widows and children of those who died in the service, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah E. Weston, widow of William K. Weston, deceased, George H. Weston, and Imogene Weston Rolfe, the sole surviving children of said William K. Weston, deceased, praying compensation for damages sustained by said William K. Weston... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 40.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elmira E. Cravath, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 504.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy True, for a pension as the dependent mother of Samuel F. True, late first lieutenant of the Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 391.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 391) to authorize the Secretary of War to purchase, for the use of the United States, a parcel of land at Key West, Fla., have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 575.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Charles E. Hovey, of Washington, D.C., having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 333.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 333) for the relief of Maj. Foster A. Hixon, late a paymaster in the Army, have had the same under consideration, and beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred Senate Resolution No. 10, to pay Francis W. Sykes the compensation and mileage of a senator from the 4th day of March, 1873, to the 28th day of May, 1874, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Eaton G. Horner, praying compensation for services rendered by him to the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department in the year 1867 submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 816.) The Committee on Pensions have had under consideration the petition of Laura M. Knowlton, widow of Thomas J. Knowlton, and find that her application for pension was filed in the Pension Office on the 15th day of September, 1865... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 708.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Joint Resolution (H.R. 53) in favor of John M. English, of North Carolina, find and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 709.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Hans C. Peterson, New Ulm, Brown County, Minnesota, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 17.) The Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 17) entitled "A Bill in Aid of the Commerce of the North Pacific Coast, by the Construction of a Canal and Locks at the Cascades of the Columbia River," having had the same under consideration, beg respectfully to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 720.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles B. Philips [i.e., Phillips], praying to be allowed a moiety of the value of the one-third part of the wharf boat "D.G. Fowler," forfeited to the United States under the act of Congress of August 6, 1861, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2572.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2572,) entitled "An Act To Protect Witnesses who shall be Required to Testify in Certain Cases," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2018.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2018) to authorize the Exchange National Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to improve certain real estate, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Paddock submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 727.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of Albert Towle, postmaster at Beatrice, Nebr., praying for relief for the loss by burglary of postage stamps, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 728.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Martha J. Coston, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1876. -- 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 Turner Merritt, claiming compensation for certain cotton alleged to have been taken by the United States Army for the construction of fortifications at Port Hudson, Miss., during the late war, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 112, S. 173, and S. 426.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Frederick F. Baury, (S. 173.) the memorial of Henry S. Wetmore, (S. 112,) the memorial of William F. Pratt, and Bill (S. 426) for the relief of Elias D. Bruner, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of Frances E. Stewart, administratrix of Michael S. Stewart, deceased, praying compensation for wood cut under contract with the United States government, having considered the same, beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Nathan Braustetter, guardian of Louisa White, for pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom the petition of David H. Sims and accompanying papers were referred, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 458.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 458) for the relief of Jesse McCoy, step-son and executor of Susan McCoy, deceased, widow of William McCoy, a pensioner of the Revolutionary War, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1989.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a Bill (H.R. 1989) granting a pension to Robert Cavanaugh, late a private in Company D, Ninety-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1598.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1598,) granting pension to William R. Duncan, have considered the same, and have adopted the report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of Representatives. In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2303.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2303) granting a pension to Mary S. Greenlee, have had the same under consideration, and have adopted the following report of the House Committee on Invalid Pensions... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1440.) The Committee on Patents, to whom were referred the Bill (H.R. 1440) providing that Charles H. Fonde may apply to the Commissioner of Patents for an extension of letters patent, and the accompanying papers, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2290.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2290) granting a pension to Frederick Hoeh, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 735.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Martha Irwin, widow of John Irwin, alias Samuel West, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 736.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary M. Josephine Frank for pension on account of services rendered by her late husband, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 737.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Harrison H. Dodds, private in Company C, Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, praying for pension, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2459.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Theodore F. Miller, late private Company G, Third Regiment Iowa Cavalry Volunteers, praying bounty, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 586.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 586) for the relief of Henry A. Kelly, with the petition and accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, having under consideration the question of the allowance proper to be made to P.B.S. Pinchback, late a contestant for a seat in the Senate from the State of Louisiana, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 176.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 176) relating to the improvement of the Oconto River in the State of Wisconsin, have considered the same, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1118.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1118) granting pension to Mrs. Jane Dulaney [i.e., Dulany], have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 121.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 121) granting a pension to John Pierson, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 111.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 111) granting a pension to David I. Garrett, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2304.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2304) granting a pension to Philip J. Shaw, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1876. -- Agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition for the relief of Elizabeth Rice, widow of Marcus B. Rice, deceased, a private in Company M, Seventh Kentucky Volunteers, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 641.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Julia Scroggin, widow of Humphrey Scroggin, deceased, a soldier in the Georgia Volunteers, in the War of 1812, for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 258.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 258) granting a pension to William H.H. Anderson, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 39.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom Bill H.R. 39 was referred, having carefully examined all the papers submitted with the same, find... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 780.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the Richmond Female Institute, through its trustees and treasurer, Wellington Goddin, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 915.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and Bill (H.R. 915) for the relief of T.M. Blount, of Chicago, Ill., have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 770.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred, with accompanying papers, the Bill (S. 770) for the relief of Judson S. Post, late disbursing officer of the United States Navy, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 805.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 805) relating to indemnity school selections in the State of California, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2160.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 103) for the relief of Lewis Goodwin, late keeper of the light-vessel at Brant Island Shoal, in the State of North Carolina, and to whom also was referred the Bill (H.R. 2160) for the relief of Lewis Goodwin, have considered the said bills, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 129.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 129) for the relief of the heirs of Asbury Dickins, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McCreery submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 454.) The Committee on Indian Affairs have considered a bill for the relief of the sureties of J.W.P. Huntington, deceased, late Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Peter Welch, of Mineral County, West Virginia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Edward Welch, of Mineral County, West Virginia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1876. -- 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 Elizabeth Mannion, of Mineral County, West Virginia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 37.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 37) for the relief of William H. Nessle, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the report: The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to which was referred the petition of Matthew Callaghan, praying compensation for having originated and furnished the Post Office Department with the plan now in use for the return to the writer of letters not delivered to the person addressed, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1944.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1944) granting a pension to Niram W. Pratt, late a private in Capt. A.J. Millard's Independent Company of Sioux City, Iowa, Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 104.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 104) for the relief of John W. Watson, have had the same under consideration and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 22.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of James H. Burgess, of Frederick County, in the State of Virginia, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of R.B. Markle, a citizen of Oregon, praying payment of five years' full pay for services rendered by his grandfather, Charles Markle, as a captain in Armand's Legion during the Revolutionary War, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 788.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of R.N. Eddy, late second lieutenant Company K, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 795.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the application of Moses Marshall for the extension of a patent for improvement in knitting machines, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2302.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2302) granting a pension to Nancy Tipton, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 369.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 369) to exempt all vessels engaged in the navigation of the Mississippi River and its tributaries above the Port of New Orleans from entries and clearances, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1178.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1178) granting a pension to John Gropper, late of Company I, Thirteenth Kentucky Infantry, find, on examination of the papers accompanying the bill, that said Gropper petitions for a pension on account of disease of the eyes, contracted while in the service and line of duty in 1864... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition, with accompanying papers, of Nathaniel W. Hays, of Bradley County, Tennessee, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1875. -- 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 following resolution, to wit: Whereas, since the last session of the Senate, the Vice-President of the United States has deceased... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 192.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Caroline M. Purviance and Francis Wyeth, praying compensation for the use and occupation, as well as for the destruction, of their property at Saint Joseph, Mo., by the military authorities of the United States, having considered the same, beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Christiancy, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 191.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Peasley & McClary, for transporting the mails and mail agent from the depot of the Worcester and Nashua Railroad to that of the Wilton Railroad in the City of Nashua, N.H., having considered the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of W.H.H. Crandall, praying to be allowed a pension, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Lafayette Elder, of Owensborough Ky., praying compensation for a wharf-boat destroyed August 26, 1864, by Confederate troops, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of L. Madison Day, of New Orleans, La., have considered the same, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 44.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 44) granting a pension to Jacob Nix, have examined the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, 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, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 237.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frances A. Robinson, administratrix of John M. Robinson, late of Independence, State of Missouri, deceased, having had the same under consideration, beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers of P.W. Woodlief, praying compensation for property taken by the government in 1863 at New Orleans, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 76.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of David Ogden, and other ship owners of New York, praying the return of certain moneys paid as "permit money" on the entrance of ships at the port of New York, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John E. Kirwan, of Matthews County, Virginia, have considered the same and make the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Laban Heath, praying compensation for damages arising to him by reason of certain defective printing of steel-plate illustrations of bank notes, &c., by the Treasury Department, under a contract in 1868 and 1869, have had the same under consideration and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thaddeus S. Steward, have had the same under consideration, and beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Emily L. Herron, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 223.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 223) granting a pension to Ira Foster, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report: The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers of Messrs. Clarke and Given, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Simon Wagenhauser, of Brooklyn, N.Y., have examined the case, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs have investigated the petition of Nathan Kunkle, referred to said Committee, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1875. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Thomas W. White, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1875. -- 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 Thomas H. Coates, praying compensation for property taken for the use of the armies of the United States, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 160.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 160) for the relief of S.K. Thompson, late second lieutenant Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 168.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin and accompanying papers, asking the removal of the charge of desertion from George Schwartz, late a private in Company F, Fifth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 41 and S. 254.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the Bills (S. 41 and S. 254) granting increase of pension to Frank Kendrick, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 58.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 58) to pay the First National Bank of Saint Albans, in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont, the value of certain United States Treasury notes held by said bank and financial agent of the United States, and forcibly taken therefrom by raiders from Canada, in October, 1864, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 227.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John M. Dorsey, together with Senate Bill No. 227, for the relief of John M. Dorsey and William Shepeard, have had the same under consideration and beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 93.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William G. Ford, of the City of Memphis, for compensation for the use of certain premises in said city by the military forces of the United States, and the bill for his relief, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 238.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 238) to restore Julius S. Bohrer to the Navy of the United States, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Daniel Duffy, a pilot of the Mississippi fleet, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Susan L. Harvey and others, heirs of Augustus Ford, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John N. Curtis, praying the passage of an act authorizing and directing the Southern Claims Commissioners to re-open and reconsider his claim for property taken and appropriated by the Union Army, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Christiancy, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William G. Ford, of Memphis, Tennessee, for the proceeds of certain cotton, alleged to have been seized by the agents of government in Mobile in May, 1865, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Louis Steine, of the City of Boston, Mass., asking compensation for his losses and services in connection with the collection of the internal revenue and the legislation in relation thereto, have considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Albrecht & Plagge, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Salvador Costa, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Henry C. Watterson, of Pennsylvania, praying to have refunded the amount paid for certain internal revenue stamps used by him, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 398.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Luther Hall, of Boston, praying that an act be passed authorizing the extension of the letters-patent hereinafter mentioned, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Abraham Sellers, administrator of Frederick Vincent, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 130.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 130) to relinquish the interest of the United States in certain lands to the City and County of San Francisco, in the State of California, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Nolan S. Williams, executor of Alfred A. Williams, deceased, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 89.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom Senate Bill No. 89 was referred, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 188.) The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the Bill (S. 188) granting a pension to Patterson McNutt, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 123.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 123) for the relief of Philip S. Wales, a medical inspector in the United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 205.) The Committee on Pensions, who have had Senate Bill No. 205 under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Cunningham, who asks a pension on account of the services of his son, James Cunningham, late a private in Company B, First United States Cavalry, respectfully state... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petitions of Fleming Crump and William Williamson, surviving soldiers of the Yellowstone Expedition of 1824, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 29, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1595.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1595) for the relief of John T. Burchell, of Knoxville, Tenn., for services rendered in a small-pox hospital, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1204.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1204) granting a pension to Henry H. Wharff, corporal Company C, Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, submit the following... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bogy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 294.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 294) for the relief of Chas. E. Hedges, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bogy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 669.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 669) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to set aside a reservation for the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians, and for other purposes, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 684.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred "the letter from the Secretary of War," accompanying "a statement of the Chief of Ordnance in relation to an omission in the Revised Statutes not enumerated in his letter of August 17, 1875," have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...	328
Serial set 1668	In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 933.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Ezra G. Cone, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 231 [i.e., H.R. 231].) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 231) for the relief of Robert Erwin, together with the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 940.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 940) for the relief of Edwin Ebert, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 15, 1876. -- Adverse, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Nancy J. Turk, of Tennessee, asking compensation for value of buildings destroyed at Knoxville, Tenn., by order of Major-General Burnside, having considered the same, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2838.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2838) granting increase of pension to Thomas H. Martin, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2079.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2079) granting a pension to Henry H. Kaiser, late a private Company H, Eight Regiment United States Veteran Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 928 and Joint Resolution S.R. 8.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Joint Resolution (S.R. 8) restoring Albert W. Preston to his late rank of colonel on the retired list of the United States Army, with the accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Charles M. Briggs, asking that his claim for the proceeds of certain cotton be referred to the Court of Claims, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2867.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2867) to amend section 2958 of the Revised Statutes, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 792.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 792) granting a pension to Peter Harder, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2846.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2846, find, on examination of the papers submitted, that the applicant, Lovina Adeline Bowker, is the step-mother of Wilbur F. Bowker, formerly a private in Company H, Eighth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, who was killed in action May 27, 1863, at Port Hudson, La... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 855.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Fenton & Brother, of Memphis, Tenn., praying compensation for the use and occupation of lot No. 59 of the Memphis Navy-yard from June 6, 1862, to August 20, 1866, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections beg leave to submit the following report: On the 16th day of December, 1875, the Senate adopted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Privileges and Elections be hereby instructed to investigate into and inquire whether, in the election of George E. Spencer as a senator in Congress from the State of Alabama... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1460.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1460) granting a pension to Lydia A. Morris, widow of J.K. Morris, late of Company A, Fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 648.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 648) for the relief of Andrew J. Barrett, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2161.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2161) for the relief of Richard H. Buckner, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Key submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2849.) The Committee of the Senate on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 881) for relief of William Rule, postmaster at Knoxville, Tenn., having duly considered the same, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Key submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 755.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 755) for the relief of Jackson T. Sorrells, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Merritt Lewis, late a private of Company K, Seventh Michigan Cavalry, praying an increase of pension, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Melissa E. Banks, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 535.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 535) granting pension to Armstead Goodlow, late private in Company E, Twenty-third Regiment United States Colored Troops, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. West submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 687 and S. 870.) The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 687, submit the following report and bills for settlement with the Union and Central Pacific Railroad Companies... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2292.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2292) granting a pension to Thomas Shannon, late private Company B, Tenth United States Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 715.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 715) for the relief of Samuel H. Canfield, postmaster at Seymour, Conn., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 424.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 424) for the relief of Rev. Erastus Lathrop, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 74.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 74) for the relief of Mark W. Delahay, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 848.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 848) for the relief of William Battersby, accompanied with a petition, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Dr. Moody Mansur, praying compensation for services rendered as surgeon in the United States Army during the Florida war, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Margaret Knight, of Meigs County, Tennessee, with accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Thomas H. Yeatman, praying for the payment of certain vouchers issued by the Quartermaster's Department, and purchased by him from a former owner, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Mrs. Angela Dauzat, wife a Eugene Brochard, praying compensation for thirty-three bales of cotton taken by the Federal fleet under command of Rear-Admiral Porter, near Fort DeRussey, on the Red River, in Louisiana, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. 2836.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2836) for the relief of Joseph Wilson, of Bourbon County, Kentucky, with the accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 688.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 688) referring the claim of John H. Russell to the accounting officers of the Treasury of the United States for adjudication, have considered the said bill, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 845.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of W.H. Woodward, with the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 599.) The Committee on Pensions have had under consideration the bill granting a pension of $50 a month to Catharine A. Winslow, widow of the late Rear-Admiral John A. Winslow, United States Navy, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2288.) Application for pension was field at the Pension Office June 28, 1871, and rejected December 18, 1873, on the ground that there was no law providing pension to the widow of any person who had died of disease contracted in time of peace... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John W. Edwards, of Brown County, Kansas, late captain of Company A, Third Regiment of North Carolina Mounted Infantry, praying to be re-imbursed certain moneys alleged to have been expended by him for supplies purchased for United States troops... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 S.H. Kettlewell, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred papers relative to the claim of Minerva Tilley, for services rendered by her late husband, now dead, for administering the amnesty oath, submit... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 406.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 406) for the relief of Harden W. Reynolds, together with petition and accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 341.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred Senate Bill 341, "For the Relief of John Wightman, a Contractor for Carrying the Mail in Pennsylvania," with accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 216.) The petition states that the applicant was mustered into the United States service on the 3d day of January, 1847, as a private in the company and regiment of which John Humphreys was captain and John W. Geary colonel... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2705.) The petitioner claims to be the widow of Charles Buery, who enlisted in Company D, Ninety-fifth New York Volunteers, November 1, 1861, and died of small-pox at Blackwell's Island, February 12, 1862... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2465.) Major Schwartz was wounded in the right leg below the knee at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and continued in the service till September 21, 1864, when he was honorably discharged... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 882.) The Committee on Pensions have had under consideration petition of Stillman E. Dix, late private of Company H, Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, for pension under the pension laws... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 883.) The committee have had under consideration petition of William H. Oliver, of Company D, Fifth Regiment Tennessee Infantry, and find that Oliver was mustered as a private in said company and regiment in March, 1862, and that in April, 1862, he contracted the disease of measles, from which he did not recover, and was discharged from the service... In the Senate of the United States. June 2, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Michael Mayers, of Sebastian County, Arkansas, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 890.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Logan and W.L. Shadwick, with accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 198.) Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill, S. 198, "A Bill Providing for the Adjudication and Issue of Patents in Mission Land Cases in the State of Oregon and the Territories of Washington, Idaho, and Montana,"... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 374.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 374) for the adjudication of titles to lands claimed by Jose Apis and Pablo Apis in the State of California, submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of George Whittaker, late private Company C, Twelfth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Cheme M. Levy, have considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance, pursuant to instructions of the Senate by its resolution of the 24th of January last, "that the Committee on Finance be instructed to investigate the books and accounts of the Treasury Department, particularly with reference to discrepancies and alterations in amounts and figures that have been made in them..." In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1034.) for the relief of James G. Harrison, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1348.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1348) granting a pension to Ruth Isabelle Naylor, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 593 and 594.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the Bills (S. 593 and S. 594) for the relief of the heirs of James S. Ham and the heirs of John W. Vose, respectively, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 562.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 562) for the relief of Joseph E. Moore, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 907.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Michael Granery, Nicholas Ware, and Moline Lange, praying to have refunded to them $500 each, being for the amount collected from them, respectively, on a bond given to the provost marshal of the District of Baton Rouge, La., in 1863... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Andrew B. Battelle and George D. Evans, praying compensation for hides and tallow of certain beef cattle furnished the United States Army in May and June, 1862, having considered the same, beg respectfully to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 803.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 803,) repealing the act of January 28, 1873, granting a pension to Mary H. Bartlett, widow of E.W. Bartlett, late steersman of the steam-ram Monarch, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Butler County, Pennsylvania, asking that a pension be granted to Hamilton Gillespie, of Franklin, in that county, late private Company E, Third Regiment Provisional Cavalry, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2701.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2701) granting a pension to Nancy H. Blacknall, widow of Thomas Y. Blacknall, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2295.) The applicant claims that his disability results from chronic diarrhea contracted in 1862. He was discharged August 7, 1864, by reason of expiration of term of service, in good health, so far as the records show... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1936.) The Claim of Haley was rejected by the Commissioner because it appears from the evidence on file that he fell through the scuttle in the floor of a house in Memphis, Tenn., and broke his leg, which is the injury for which he asks to be pensioned... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1680.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1680) granting a pension to Mrs. Henrietta J. Foust, state... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Key submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3495.) Your committee, having carefully considered this bill, beg leave to submit the following report thereon: The McMinnville and Manchester Railroad extends from Tullahoma, on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, to McMinnville, Tenn., a distance of thirty -five miles... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2620.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2620) granting a pension to Jonas A. Bigelow, Fourteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 910.) The Joint Committee on the Library of Congress ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1807.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of Anthony Lawson, surviving partner of the firm of Lawson & Brewis, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 830.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 830) for the relief of Joseph W. Parish, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 604.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 604) for the relief of James L. High, with accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3182.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3182) for the relief of Albert Grant, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 579.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 579) for the relief of Joseph Kinney, administrator of David Ballentine, of Missouri, with the accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 Andrew D. Worman, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 852.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 852) for the relief of Elisha E. Rice, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 431.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 431) for the relief of the heirs of William A. Graham, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 924.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas M. Redd, with accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3192.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3192) for the relief of William Wheeler Hubbell, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 925.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Henry S. Van de Carr and Elise M. Reynolds, administrators of the estate of Rensselaer Reynolds, deceased, and Gordon B. Reynolds, praying for the extension of a patent granted to said decedent on "brakes for power-looms," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 61.) The Committee on Patents have had under consideration the Bill (S. 61) for the relief of John R. Harrington, together with the memorial and accompanying papers, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 723.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill S. 723, for the relief of Nannie Hall, with petition and accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1337.) The Committee on Military Affairs, having under consideration the Bill (H.R. 1337) for the relief of Nelson Tiffany, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 763.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 763) to change the date of commission of Henry Romeyn, first lieutenant Fifth United States Infantry, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report, to wit... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of E.C. Burdorff, late private Company H, Thirty-fifth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, have considered the same, and submit the following report, to wit... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of R.K. Byrd, late colonel First Tennessee Volunteers, with the accompanying papers, have duly considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 McKnight & Richardson, with accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Capt. J.M. Keeler, asking for re-imbursement of amount paid for transportation of himself, servant, baggage, &c., from New York to Salem, Oreg., in 1863, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 29, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 354.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 354) for the relief of Moore N. Falls, with accompanying petition and papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 436.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 436) for the relief of William S. Robinson, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 29, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 890.) (44th Congress, 1st session. House of Representatives. Report No. 434.) April 21, 1876. -- Committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mr. James Wilson, from the Committee on War Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on War Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 890) for the relief of Randall Brown, of Nashville, Tenn., having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 18, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 807.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 807) for the relief of John E. Catlett, of Hannibal, Mo., have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 18, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3849.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 3849, with the petition of James W. Harvey and James Livesey, doing business under the firm name and style of Harvey & Livesey, praying compensation for work done and materials furnished to the United States for the railroad and wagon bridge over the Mississippi River at Rock Island, Ill., in the year 1869, after due consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 18, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 705.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the memorial of Albert Towle, postmaster at Beatrice, Neb., praying for relief for the loss by burglary of revenue stamps, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 18, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 995.) The Committee on Public Lands, to which was referred the following resolution... In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 221.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 221) to refund to the State of North Carolina certain moneys therein named, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 946.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 946) for the relief of Gibbes & Co., of Charleston, S.C., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1931.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1931) granting a pension to John J. Partello [i.e., Partillo], submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2468.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of David McComb, praying that a naval pension be granted him, respectfully resport [i.e., report]... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1876. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John D. Thorne, with accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 750.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 750) granting a pension to Thomas B. Murdock, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 859.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 859) for the relief of certain claimants under the donation land-law of Oregon, approved September 27, 1850, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3178.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred an act (H.R. 3178) granting a pension to Thomas Galloway, late captain Company C, First Regiment Maryland Volunteer Cavalry, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2707.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2707) granting a pension to Mary F. Hall, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2837.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2837, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1001.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Oregon, asking Congress to grant to the State of Oregon, for the purpose of a state insane asylum, the lands and buildings known as The Dalles military reservation, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2844.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 605) granting a pension to Levi Hayward, have had the same under consideration, and have adopted the following report of the House committee thereon... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1183.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1183) for the relief of David W. Stockstill, of Sidney, Ohio, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. 3041.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3041) granting a pension to James Ruffin Wood, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 980.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the application of Mrs. Irene Garrett, widow of William H. Garrett, late captain of Company K, One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteers, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 828.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 828, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 370.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 370) to amend an act entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Capt. Henry M. Scott," &c., have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1236.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1236) granting a pension to Harris B. Lovell, late private Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1499.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1499) granting a pension to Mrs. Lydia Johnson, mother of Joel Johnson, late a private of Company I, Thirty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 24, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, 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 petition of Robert S. Gorlet, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1876. -- Agreed to and 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 B.D. Carpenter, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2311.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2311) granting a pension to Daniel Wilhoit [i.e., Willhoit], late sergeant Company L, Eighth Tennessee Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Christiancy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1005.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial and other papers in reference to the claim of the Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's Catholic Church, at Chattanooga, Tenn., respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3504.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3504) for the relief of Thomas Day, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 917.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred Senate Bill 917, having had the same under consideration, are of opinion it ought to pass, and submit the following reasons... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2159.) The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2159) granting a pension to Aaron H. Miller, formerly private of Company G, Twenty-ninth Regiment Indian Volunteers have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2704.) The Pension Committee have examined the bill of the House No. 2704, granting a pension to Joshua W. Black, referred to them for action... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3180.) The Committee on Pensions respectfully report the following facts in connection with House Bill No. 3027, granting a pension to Oscar S. Collins, which has been referred to them for examination... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2078.) The Committee on Pensions have had under consideration House Bill No. 2078, granting a pension to George M.D. Thornton, late a private in Company C, One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment Illinois Infantry... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2840.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom House Bill No. 2840 was referred for examination, find that the applicant, William Thomas, now a pensioner in receipt of $24 a month for loss of thigh, claims an increase of pension for loss of an eye, occasioned by an accidental fall while in the line of duty... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 128.) The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 128) granting a pension to Frederick Vogel... In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3392.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3392, have had the same under consideration, and are of opinion that it ought to pass for the following reasons... In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3503.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3503) for the relief of Philip Rohr, of Virginia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Mrs. Anna M. Orne, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1496.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1496) granting a pension to Mrs. Mary A. Allen, widow of George B. Allen, sometime private of Company G, Fourth Michigan Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the petition of Charles P. Sebastian, Edward L. Sebastian, Clara, (the widow of W.P. Walker,) and Lizzie, (the wife of West Harris,) the children and only surviving heirs of the Hon. William K. Sebastian, deceased, late a senator of the United States from the State of Arkansas, report... In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 405.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of William S. Morris and others, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 511.) The Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 511) appropriating money to compensate Fiske Mills, sculptor, for a plaster model of General Rawlins, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 901.) The Committee of Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 901) for the relief of J.E. Robertson & Co., report... In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1018.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the Union Bank Of Louisiana, praying compensation for losses sustained by reason of the illegal seizure by General Banks, in 1863, of certain deposits in their hands, have examined the same, and beg leave to bring in the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2835.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of R.J. Henderson, of Newton County, Missouri, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report.. In the Senate of the United States. August 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1997.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1997) entitled "An Act To Grant Title to Certain Lands to the Heirs of Caleb L. Brayton," have considered the same and the testimony produced in support of the same, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. August 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 288.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 288) granting the right of way to the Birmingham and Saint Louis Railroad Company through the public domain, and for other purposes, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 109.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of the estate of J.M. Micow, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 4, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred a joint resolution of the Legislature of Michigan "asking Congress to amend the homestead law so as to give soldiers and sailors disabled by the loss of a limb, or other equivalent disability, the amount of land to which they would be entitled, without settlement upon the same..." In the Senate of the United States. August 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1033.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph N. Lewis, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, submitted the following report: The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred the memorial of the common council of Fredericksburgh, Va., in regard to the erection of a monument at Yorktown, report... In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 994.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 994) to amend section 2931 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, so as to allow repayment by the Secretary of the Treasury of the tonnage-tax where it has been exacted in contravention of treaty provisions, beg leave to report back the bill, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1034.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred a memorial of Louis Rose, asking compensation for the value of certain wharf property in San Diego, California, and also Senate Bill No. 154, for the relief of Louis Rose and others, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 26, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 731.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 731) to limit and fix the signal service, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3273.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3273) for the relief of Mrs. Ellen J. Brosman, submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1876. -- 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 the Hon. A.M. Clapp, Congressional Printer, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Gallus Kerchner, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1668.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1668) for the relief of James Atkins, late collector of internal revenue for the Fourth Collection District of the State of Georgia, respectfully submit the following... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jackson Tebbetts and others, praying that they may be paid the price of their labor expended on certain government work, out of what was due certain contractors, but which was forfeited to the government, have had the same under consideration and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 210.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 210) granting an increase of pension to Austin R. Mills, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 832.) The Committee on Pensions have considered the Bill (S. 832) referred to them, and find that it provides an increase of pension to Helen M. Stansbury, widow of Howard Stansbury, late a major in the Corps of Topographical Engineers of the United States Army... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 897.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 897) granting an increase of pension to Andrew Evarts, late private in Company B, Fourth Ohio Volunteers, having examined the evidence, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 691.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Edward A. Leland, praying the passage of an act authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to hear and decide an application for the extension of his patent, with a proposed law for that purpose, being Senate Bill 691, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 10, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 215.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom were referred a memorial of the San Francisco Land Association of Philadelphia, and also a Bill (S. 215) relative to the Santillan grant, a private land claim in the State of California, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 11, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 185.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 185) declaring the effect of permits to purchase products of the insurrectionary states in certain cases granted by the President of the United States, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 738.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 738) for the relief of Withenburg & Doyle, with accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 984.) The Committee on the Judiciary, who were instructed by a resolution of the Senate, adopted January 6, 1876, "to inquire what legislation, if any, is necessary to secure indemnity to the United States for advances of interest paid and to be paid by the government on account of subsidy bonds issued to the several Pacific Railroad Companies..." In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 56.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 56) for the relief of loyal citizens of Loudoun County, Virginia, therein named, have considered the same, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1713.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1713) for the relief of Berthold Lowenthal, of Chicago, Ill., have had the same under consideration, and return the same to the Senate with the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 986.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Girard Wright, administrator of the estate of Samuel T. Anderson, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Ritzell, a citizen of the State of West Virginia, praying compensation for property destroyed and injured, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Marie Louise Perrin and Trautman Perrin, praying for compensation for the destruction of property by the bombardment of Greytown, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Key, 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 petition of John L. Divine, and of J.C. Edmondson, guardian of the minor heirs of W.E. Kennedy, of Chattanooga, Tenn., have investigated the facts and law of the case, and beg leave to make the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas S. Whitenack, for an extension of his patent for improvement in rakes for harvesters, have had the same under consideration and are of the opinion it ought not to pass. In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 781.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of Margaret Ireland, widow of Amos Ireland, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bogy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 623.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 623) for the relief of settlers on certain lands in the State of California, together with the accompanying petition of settlers upon the rancho Rio de Santa Clara, praying for a resurvey of said rancho, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2952.) The Committed on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2952) authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to rehear the application of Stephen V. Benet for patent for cartridges, have had the same under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 722.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Charles F. Chandler, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 280.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Jacob A. Conover, for extension of his letters-patent, with Senate Bill 280, report that they have had the same under consideration, and are of opinion it ought not to pass... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 383.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was committed the Bill (S. 383) for the relief of Ingalls B. Andrews, having considered the same, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 931.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of H.H. Mathis, praying compensation for cotton taken and appropriated by United States troops during the late war, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 932.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of Capt. David De Haven, of the State of Missouri, for the loss of the steamer Alonzo Child, beg leave to report that they have had the matter under consideration, and have carefully examined the evidence submitted in support of said claim and find the following facts fully established... In the Senate of the United States. June 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 419.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of William H. Ward, for the extension of his bullet and shell molding machine patents, as also for compensation for the use of the same by the government of the United States during the lifetime of said patents, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2602.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2602) granting a pension to Eleanor Douglass, find the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1896.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1896) granting a pension to Benjamin F. Hickey, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2081.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom the Bill (H.R. 2081) granting a pension to William McLay, late a private in Company G, Twelfth Illinois Volunteers, was referred, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2804.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2804) granting pension to Harriet C. Dunham, widow of Charles A. Dunham, late private in Company A, One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 833.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 833) granting pension to Joanna Luskey [i.e., Johanna Lusky], widow of William Luskey [i.e., Lusky]... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 947.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Jacob Senseney, deceased, praying compensation for the occupancy of certain buildings in the town of Winchester, Va., have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 948.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas M. Simmons, with the accompanying papers, have duly considered the same; and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Christiancy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 949.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A.M. Garoutte, Assistant Quartermaster United States Army, for relief, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Christiancy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 719.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 719) for the relief of the heirs of William Stevens, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 1, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 429.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles C. Campbell, of Virginia, praying compensation for certain property taken by United States forces during the war, together with the House Bill No. 429, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. July 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 944.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 944) for the relief of Gilderoy M. Hardy, guardian, &c., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 735.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 735) for the relief of Philip Pendleton, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3486.) The Committee on Finance, to whom were referred the petition and memorial, together with the Bill (H.R. 3486) for the relief of James F. Buckner, collector of the Fifth District of Kentucky, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. July 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Caperton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 969.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of T.T. Garrard and others, proprietors and lessees of the salt-works near Manchester, in the State of Kentucky, praying compensation for the destruction of their salt and injuries committed upon their works by troops of the United States, in the year 1862, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 3, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 938.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 938) for the relief of George T. Olmsted, Jr., having duly considered the same, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 904.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 904) for the relief of William C. Nichols, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 974.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Francis Guilbeau, with accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 820.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 820) for the relief of James Tebault and others, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 852 [i.e., 882].) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 882) for the relief of Mrs. James K. Polk, of Nashville, Tenn., have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 973.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Carson, praying compensation for subsistence furnished to prisoners confined in the Bourbon County jail, in Kentucky, by order of the military authorities of the United States, from August, 1862, to the latter part of 1865, having considered the same, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. July 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1186 [i.e., 186].) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 186) to provide for compensation to owners of certain lands ceded by the United States to Great Britain in and by the treaty of Washington of July 9, 1842, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 571.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 571) extending the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims of the United States, and for other purposes, report... In the Senate of the United States. July 15, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 991.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Edwin Rogers, postmaster at North Adams, Mass., for relief, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. August 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 791.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 791) for the relief of Ethan Ray Clarke and Samuel Ward Clarke, report... In the Senate of the United States. August 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2524.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2524) for the relief of certain soldiers of the Eighth Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, having considered the same, recommend that it be indefinitely postponed for the reasons set forth... In the Senate of the United States. August 8, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 998.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 998) for the pardon of deserters from the United States Army, having considered the same, beg leave to report, and recommend... In the Senate of the United States. August 14, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 355.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 355) for the relief of James Milinger, having had the same under consideration, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 14, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 147.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of William Watts, and accompanying papers, having considered the same, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. August 14, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2832.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2832) for the relief of Mrs. Eliza E. Hebert, of Louisiana, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 433.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 433) directing the transfer of certain amounts from the naval pension fund, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 916.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of L. Madison Day, of Louisiana, praying for the return of the purchase money of certain real estate sold to him by the marshal of the United States for the District of Louisiana, in pursuance of a decree of said court under the act of Congress of July 17, 1862, known as the Confiscation Act, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following report: Standing rules for conducting business in the Senate of the United States...	205
Serial set 1669	Mississippi in 1875. Report of the select committee to inquire into the Mississippi election of 1875, with the testimony and documentary evidence. In two volumes. Vol. I	1
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Serial set 1671	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 6, 1875, in the one hundredth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1672	Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress with the annual message of the President, December 6, 1875. Preceded by a list of papers and followed by an index of persons and subjects.	1
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Serial set 1674	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 first session of the Forty-fourth Congress. Volume I.	1
Serial set 1675	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 first session of the Forty-fourth Congress. Volume II, Part I.	1
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