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List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session for the Forty-fifth Congress. April 17, 1878. In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Appropriations be, and it is hereby, instructed to report, as soon as may be, a bill making adequate provision for the employment of such additional clerical force in the Pension Office and in the Office of the Surgeon General... List of committees for the special session of the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1877. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the first session of the Forty-fifth Congress, October 15, 1877. In the Senate of the United States. October 18, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Whereas there appear to be material differences, alterations, and discrepancies in the official finance reports of the Treasury Department as to the annual expenditures... Memorial of the Board of Trade of Kansas City, Missouri, praying for the repeal of the resumption act. October 22, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland, praying for compensation for services rendered to the United States during the late Civil War. October 25, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. October 22, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. November 1, 1877. -- Reported without amendment. November 1, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed with amendment proposed by Mr. Hoar. Mr. Morrill submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate be, and he hereby is, instructed and directed to cause the proper officers under him,... In the Senate of the United States. November 6, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be, and he is hereby, requested to communicate to the Senate, if not incompatible with public interest, any facts in his possession touching on alleged unlawful and forcible rescue, by an armed band organized in the Republic of Mexico... In the Senate of the United States. November 6, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to communicate to the Senate a statement of the number of miles of railroad completed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company under and in pursuance of the acts and resolutions of Congress making grants of land to such company... In the Senate of the United States. November 8, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee submitted the following resolution: Whereas Congress did provide in the act of July 1, 1862, being an act entitled "An Act To Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to Secure to the Government the Use of the Same for Postal, Military, and Other Purposes;"... In the Senate of the United States. November 9, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior cause to be prepared and reported to the Senate a statement, arranged in alphabetical order, showing... In the Senate of the United States. November 12, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs is hereby instructed to inquire into the expediency and propriety of a system of defensive works on the Rio Grande frontier of the United States... Petition and papers relating to the claim of the heirs and legal representatives of Francois Cazeau, for supplies furnished to the Army during the Revolutionary War. November 15, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 305. In the Senate of the United States. November 26, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Attorney-General be, and he hereby is, directed to communicate to the Senate, as soon as may be, a list of all criminal prosecutions commenced in the courts of the United States in the District of South Carolina... Letter from the Commissioner of Pensions, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, in relation to the number of survivors of the Seminole, Black Hawk, and Florida wars, and of the Mexican War. November 26, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to the printed. In the Senate of the United States. November 30, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Paddock submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is alleged that the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its branch companies have heretofore neglected and still do neglect and refuse to operate their roads in accordance with the acts of Congress under which their construction was authorized... Petition of George T. Angell, president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and others, praying for the passage of the law for the better regulation in the transportation of live stock upon railroads. December 1, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate from July 1, 1876, to June 30, 1877; and also a statement of property in his possession belonging to the United States December 3, 1877. December 3, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of property in his possession belonging to the United States, December 3, 1877. December 3, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and ordered to be printed. Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of all judgments rendered by said Court for the year ending December 3, 1877. December 3, 1877. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 6, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Matthews submitted the following resolution: Whereas, by the act entitled "An Act To Strengthen the Public Credit," approved March 18, 1869, it was provided and declared that the faith of the United States was thereby solemnly pledged to the payment in coin or its equivalent of all the interest-bearing obligations of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller submitted the following resolution: Whereas an agreement was made on the 13th day of September, 1873, between the United States and the confederate band of the Ute Nation for the cession of certain lands in Colorado... Annual report of A.N. Damrell, Captain of Engineers, U.S.A., upon the work of improving Mobile Bay for the years 1876 and 1877, and recommending an appropriation for the continuance of said work. December 7, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of delegates and agents of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, remonstrating against the passage of Senate Bill No. 107, to enable Indians to become citizens. December 10, 1877. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Whereas section 1625 of the Revised Statutes provides that "every able-bodied male citizen of the respective states, resident therein, who is the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years, shall be enrolled in the militia,"... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee submitted the following as an amendment to the resolution submitted by Mr. Matthews December 6, 1877: Strike out all after the resolving clause of the resolution and insert... In the Senate of the United States. December 13, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that it is of the highest importance that the financial credit of the government be maintained; and, in order to do so, the government itself, in all its departments, should in good faith keep all its contracts and obligations entered into with its own citizens. Report of the Special Commission on Railway Mail Transportation. December 14, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1877. In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on Monday next, at one o'clock, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the Calendar... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following resolution: Whereas thousands of the women of the United States have petitioned Congress for an amendment to the Constitution allowing women the right of suffrage... Petition of citizens of New Haven, Conn., praying the coinage of silver dollars of 420 grains standard silver, to be made a legal tender for sums not exceeding $20, except in payment of private contracts for gold and the bonded debt of the United States; and the establishment of an international commission to fix the relative value of silver and gold in foreign and domestic exchanges. January 10, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the following be one of the standing rules of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following resolution: Whereas there are at the present time in the United States not to exceed three hundred thousand Indians, and for whose occupation, use, and benefit there have been set apart, and are for such purpose now held, over three hundred million acres of the public lands of the United States, including the Indian Territory... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs are hereby instructed to inquire whether any, and, if any, what, legislation is necessary or expedient for the following purposes... Remonstrance of the Seminole and Creek delegates against the passage of Senate Bill No. 107, to enable Indians to become citizens of the United States. January 14, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual report of the Public Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, etc., for nine months ending June 30, 1877. 1878, January 17. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Views of the late Oliver P. Morton on the character, extent, and effect of Chinese immigration to the United States. January 17, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed, to accompany Senate Report No. 689, second session 44th Congress. In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is of the highest importance in the present depressed condition of the industries of the people that taxation should be reduced to the lowest point consistent with a faithful discharge of the obligations of the government and an economical administration of its affairs... Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of December 14, 1877, information in relation to the repair and improvement of streets in said district. January 21, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Librarian of Congress for the year 1877. January 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to a removal of Kickapoo Indians. January 28, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to Hon. A.S. Paddock, United States Senate, inclosing communications from Rear Admiral John Rodgers and others, on the subject of a branch naval observatory at some point in the interior of the country west of the Mississippi River. January 30, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed, to accompany Joint Resolution H.R. 16. Resolution of the Legislature of Maine, against the remonetization of silver. January 31, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of James D. Williams, Governor of Indiana, asking, on behalf of that state, an appropriation for the payment, to states entitled thereto, of the unpaid balances of actual expenses incurred by them, respectively, for enrolling, arming, equipping, and supplying troops to aid in the suppression of the late rebellion. January 31, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Arguments before the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, January 24, 1878, relative to increased postal facilities in the Southern states, and the establishment of steamship mail service with South America, Central America, and the West Indies. February 4, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on Monday next, at one o'clock, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the Calendar, and bills that are not objected to shall be taken up in their order... Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to Hon. S.J. Kirkwood, United States Senate, inclosing letters from the Commissioners of Pensions relating to the examination of claimants for pensions, appointment of a corps of examining surgeons, and the regulation of fees to attorneys for prosecuting pension claims. February 15, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolution of the Senate of the United States, directing the Committee on the Judiciary to procure certain information in regard to certain bonds alleged to have been issued by certain railroad companies on certain contingent land grants of the lands of the Indians of the Indian Territory... In the Senate of the United States. October 19, 1877. -- Mr. Morrill submitted the following resolution, which was considered and agreed to: "Resolved, that the Committee on Pensions be instructed to report, by bill or otherwise, reducing and properly adjusting the salaries and fees of pension agents, and that they also inquire into the expediency of abolishing all pension agencies, and providing hereafter for the payment of pensions at the Treasury of the United States." February 18, 1878. -- Papers presented by Mr. Withers to accompany the resolution referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. |
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Proceedings of the Committee on Public Lands, United States Senate, having under consideration for the memorial of Wm. McGarrahan, praying the passage of a law to authorize the perfecting of a patent issued to him by the United States for certain lands in California. Letter from the President of the Capitol, North O Street, and South Washington Railway Company, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 31, 1878, a statement of the amount of the capital stock, the amount of indebtedness, the gross and net earnings, operating expenses, &c., of said company. June 12, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Argument of Joseph C.G. Kennedy adverse to the Bills (409 and 477) "To Restrict the Immigration of the Chinese to the United States," and "To Regulate Chinese Immigration," introduced December 10, 1877, and January 10, 1878. -- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. February 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb submitted the following resolution: Whereas it appears from the report of the government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company for the year 1877, communicated to the Senate on the 25th day of October, 1877, by the Secretary of the Interior, that... Petition of William Patton and other citizens of New Haven, Conn., praying for an investigation into the manner of the passage of the act of 1873 demonetizing silver. February 25, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorials of the Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington, N.C., and New River Canal Company, asking the government to purchase the free use of an inland canal and water route between Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, and Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. February 27, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed, to accompany Bill S. 820. In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Submitted, referred to the Committee on Rules, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Blaine submitted the following resolution proposing an additional rule: Resolved, that the following be added to the rules of the Senate: All motions relating to the priority of business shall be decided without debate. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 20, 1878, information in relation to the assessment of taxes against, and the collection of taxes from, the several street-railroads in said district. June 4, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, from the Committee on Territories, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that for the purpose of completing the inquiry ordered by the following resolution of the Senate... Letter from the President of the Columbia Railway Company, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 31, a statement of the amount of the capital stock, the amount of the indebtedness, gross and net earnings, operating expenses, &c., of said company. June 7, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the President Anacostia and Potomac River Railway Company, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 31, 1878, a statement of the amount of the capital stock, the amount of the indebtedness, gross and net earnings, operating expenses, &c., of said company. June 7, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested, if not incompatible with the public interest, to inform the Senate whether W.R. Whittaker, who recently presided in the superior criminal court of the Parish of Orleans... Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in relation to the Bill (S. No. 600) relative to an assessment for special improvements in said district, and suggesting certain amendments thereto. March 25, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Whereas on the 18th day of February, 1871, the Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives adopted December 13, 1870, made a statement (Ex. Doc. 140, 3d sess. 41st Cong.) showing balances due from collectors of internal revenue who were out of office on the 30th day of June, 1870... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on Wednesday next, at one o'clock, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the Calendar, and continue such consideration from day to day until the same shall have been gone through with... Memorial of the Missouri and Niobrara Valley Railroad Company, praying for such legislation as will authorize the President to designate the company to construct the north branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, as provided for by the act of July 2, 1864. April 18, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Railroads. April 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the American Society of Civil Engineers, praying an appropriation for continuing the triangulations of the Coast Survey in states where the legislature thereof shall make provision for them. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Alex. Brown & Sons. Thos. Whitridge and Co., Robert A. Fisher & Co., W.W. Spence, Hugh Jenkins & Co., Spence, Montague & Co., and other merchants, and other citizens of Baltimore, Md., protesting against the proposed subsidy to a line of steamships from the United States to Brazil. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, in order that all the facts connected with the presidential election of 1876, and the result thereof which was finally reached, may be made fully known to the American people, that a select committee of eight senators be appointed and instructed to inquire into and investigate all charges of fraud, illegality, intimidation, violence, and other obstacles to free and honest suffrage occurring at said election in the States of South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, and also into all similar charges which said committee may deem of sufficient gravity concerning the said election in Alabama, Mississippi, Oregon, or any other state... In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford submitted the following resolution: Whereas House Bill No. 805, "A Bill To Repeal All That Part of the Act Approved January 14, 1875, Known as the Resumption Act, Which Authorized the Secretary of the Treasury To Dispose of United States Bonds, and Redeem and Cancel the Greenback Currency," was referred to the Finance Committee of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eaton submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is alleged that Benjamin Noyes, a citizen of the United States and of the State of Connecticut, was, on the 11th day of March, 1878, in the City of Washington, arrested and imprisoned without due process of law, in violation of the rights of the citizen... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Pensions be instructed to report a bill to this body making provision for placing the names of the surviving soldiers of the Mexican War... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blaine submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that any radical change in our present tariff laws would, in the judgment of the Senate, be inopportune, would needlessly derange the business interests of the country, and would seriously retard that return to prosperity for which all should earnestly cooperate... Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, praying for a grant of land to aid in the construction of the Tennessee and Warrior Rivers Railroad. April 23, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed, to accompany Bill S. 1123. Memorial of the Portland, Salt Lake and South Pass Railroad Company, remonstrating against the passage, without amendment, of the Bill S. 238. April 23, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed, to accompany Bill S. 238. Memorial of the Choctaw Nation, asking for a settlement of their claims arising under the treaty of 1855. May 1, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. May 2, 1878. -- Oerdred [i.e., Ordered] to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Rules of the Senate are instructed to prepare and report to the Senate a rule which shall relieve the Committee on Patents from considering any bill, resolution, or petition for the extension of any patent. Statement of the clerk of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in answer to questions relating to special assessments made by the late Board of Public Works on property adjoining streets and avenues in the City of Washington. May 6, 1878. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the Joint Resolution (S. 20) relative to Chinese immigration, reported the following... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolutions: Concurrent resolutions touching the relations of the United States of America with the Republic of Mexico... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. May 9, 1878. -- Reported with amendments and ordered to be printed. Strike out the part within brackets and insert the parts printed in italics... Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that there be printed three hundred thousand copies of the Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture... Communication from the Chamber of Commerce, Charleston, S.C., addressed to the Committee on Commerce, in relation to an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at that place. May 10, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls offered the following amendment to rule 43 of the senate, relating to adjournment... Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting a copy of a report of a commission appointed in pursuance of law to appraise certain lands in the Indian Territory lying west of the 96th degree of west longitude. May 15, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Merchants' Exchange of Saint Louis, Mo., in favor of the adoption of such legislation as will prevent unjust combinations between the Union Pacific and other railroad companies. May 16, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee to Investigate the Finance Reports, Books, and Accounts of the Treasury Department, appointed under resolution of the Senate of November 19, 1877, in addition to the powers conferred by said resolution, have leave to continue its investigation and sit during the vacation or recess of the Senate. Letter from H.D. Jarves, suggesting certain amendments to the pension laws. May 20, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Letter from surfmen of lifesaving stations Nos. 1 and 2, coast of Delaware, to Hon. Eli Saulsbury, remonstrating against the transfer of the Life-Saving Service from the Treasury Department to that of the Navy. March 4, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of citizens of the State of Missouri, praying that no contraction of the currency may take place and for the passage of the bill appended to the petition. March 7, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a convention held at Jacksonville, Florida, asking the establishment of an effective system of quarantine on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. March 11, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Certified copy of an act of the Legislative Assembly of New Mexico, entitled "An Act To Incorporate the Society of the Jesuit Fathers of New Mexico." March 11, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that a subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia be, and the same are hereby, authorized to sit during the recess of Congress to consider and examine into various plans for the improvement of the system of sewerage and the sanitary condition of the District of Columbia... Memorial of delegates from the Indian Territory, protesting against the passage of the bill to organize the Territory of Oklahoma. June 12, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Mary F. Eastman, Henrietta L.T. Woolcott, and others, officers of the Association for the Advancement of Women, praying that the tenth census may contain a just enumeration of women as laborers and producers. June 15, 1878. -- Referred to the Select Committee to make Provision for Taking the Tenth Census, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, to Hon. George F. Hoar, of the Committee on Claims, in relation to the claim of Michael Fentenheime for property alleged to have been appropriated by the United States authorities on Morris Island, South Carolina, during the late rebellion. June 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dorsey submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the District of Columbia be directed to ascertain the financial standing of the insurance companies chartered by acts of Congress or incorporated under the provisions of the general law or the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia, or transacting business therein, and report whether such companies have complied with such incorporation acts... Letter from the President of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 31, 1878, a statement of the amount of the capital stock, the amount of the indebtedness, the gross and net earnings, operating expenses, &c., of said company. June 18, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of John Cowdon, of Memphis, Tennessee, on the subject of the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River and the reclamation of the low lands of the Mississippi Valley. June 18, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, to accompany Bill S. No. 1412. June 19, 1878. -- Committee discharged, and referred to the Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Joseph M. Wilson, of Washington City, D.C., asking that a portion of the amount received from the sales of public lands be appropriated for the encouragement and support of industrial education in the public schools of our country. May 14, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 8, 1878, exhibits of church property in default for taxes. May 14, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the views and recommendations embraced in the report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations touching the award made by the Fisheries Commission at Halifax are hereby approved. Address delivered by Mrs. Matilda Fletcher before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, on presenting bills for the introduction of industrial, moral, and social science into the public schools of the District of Columbia. April 9, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bills S. 1061 and S. 1062. |
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| Serial set 1787 | United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part V. Report of the Commissioner for 1877. A. -- Inquiry into the decrease of food fishes. B. -- The propagation of food fishes in the waters of the United States. | 1 |
| Serial set 1788 | Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the Senate and House of Representatives, in support of, and suggesting amendments to, the Bills (S. No. 300 and H.R. 1612) to amend the statutes in relation to patents, and for other purposes. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. | 1 |
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In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 196.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 196) to further define the rights of persons with respect to homestead entries on the public domain, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 328.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 328) granting a pension to Mrs. Esther A. George, widow of George W. George, late a second lieutenant in Company I, Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Infantry, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 148.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 148) to confirm the term, for the period of seventeen years from the date of its original grant, of the patent of Thomas A. Weston, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 874.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Alfred Richardson, asking that his name be placed on the pension rolls, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 76.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 76) granting a pension to Mary Ann McFarland, widow of Peter McFarland, late captain Company C, First Kansas Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, having considered the petition of Maria I. Streeter, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 998.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition of George R. Dennis and a bill for his relief, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 1, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submited [sic] the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom were referred the credentials of James B. Eustis, for a seat in the Senate of the United States from the State of Louisiana, for the term of six years commencing March 4, 1873, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1000.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of George M. Hazen, of Tennessee, have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1878. -- 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 Capt. William Chandler, late of the United States Navy, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 686.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Emma Baptist, having had the same under consideration report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 594.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 594) for the relief of William W. Spiers, late assistant surgeon United States Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1878. -- 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 Daniel B. Smith and Rebecca Smith... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 187.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 187) for the relief of S.V. Benet, having considered the same, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. October 31, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of T. Worthington, having carefully examined the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. October 31, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill No. S. 171.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Enoch Totten, administrator of William A. Lloyd, deceased, with accompanying papers, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. November 6, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Paddock, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 53.) That on the night of the 25th of October, A.D. 1869, the post office building at Beatrice, Nebr., was entered by burglars, and United States postage-stamps to the amount of $175 and other property were stolen therefrom... In the Senate of the United States. November 6, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 225.) The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred Bill S. 225, report... In the Senate of the United States. November 8, 1877. -- 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 Christian C. Bowers, administratrix of the estate of Giles Bowers, deceased, of Euchee Anna, Walton County, Florida, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. November 8, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 99.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 99) for the relief of the estate of Amos Ireland, deceased, have duly examined the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. November 8, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 83.) 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. November 9, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a claim of Augustin Gachot, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. November 13, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 149.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 149) for the relief of Charles B. Varney, with accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and find that for more than two years, in 1867, 1868, and 1869, the superintendent in charge of the construction of the Custom-house and post-office buildings in Portland, Me... In the Senate of the United States. November 14, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 290.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James D. Holman, of Portland, Oreg., praying compensation for improvements made by him as a settler upon the public lands, and included within the military reservation of Fort Canby, at Cape Disappointment, (now known as Cape Hancock,) then Oregon, now Washington, Territory... In the Senate of the United States. November 14, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 91.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 91) for the relief of Gallus Kerchner, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. November 15, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legatees of Asbury Dickins, deceased, praying compensation for services rendered by him as Acting Secretary of the Treasury and Acting Secretary of State, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. November 16, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the memorial of Mary Jane Pyle, widow of Jesse F. Pyle, late private in Company D, Eleventh Regiment Kansas Volunteers, report... In the Senate of the United States. November 19, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Paddock, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 145.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 145) for the relief of Edwin A. Clifford, having considered the same, unanimously report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. November 21, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 32.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 32) for the relief of J.M. Micow and others, have duly considered the same so far as it relates to J.M. Micow, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. November 26, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom were referred the credentials of William Pitt Kellogg and the credentials of Henry M. Spofford, for the same seat in the Senate of the United States, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. November 26, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the New Orleans Gas-Light Company, praying that certain moneys now in the Treasury of the United States may be paid over to them, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. November 26, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill (S. 346) referring the claim of Benjamin Holladay... In the Senate of the United States. November 26, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 127, granting a pension to Silas [i.e., Selar] B. Decker.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 127) granting a pension to Silas [i.e., Selar] B. Decker, late contract-nurse, United States Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. November 30, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill (S. 10) for the relief of James Glover, of Pennsylvania.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of James Glover, praying compensation for the destruction of certain property owned by him and situated in Catahoula Parish, in the State of Louisiana, present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. November 30, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill (S. 135) for the relief of Edwin Fairfax Gray.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 135) for the relief of Edwin Fairfax Gray, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. November 30, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill (S. 363) granting a pension to James Newcomb.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Newcomb, a citizen of the United States residing at Carmel, County of Penobscot, in the State of Maine, asking that his name be placed on the pension roll, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. December 1, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill (S. 364) for the relief of Peasley & McClary, of Nashua, New Hampshire.) 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. December 1, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill (S. 365) for the relief of Francis Guilbeau.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Francis Guilbeau, with the accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Archibald McDonald, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1877. -- 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 Daniel Smith, of Rush County, Kansas, late of Company L, Twelfth New York Cavalry, praying that he may be allowed a pension, have examined the papers and evidence in the case, and find that the affidavits filed to sustain the application originally made to the Pension Office were suspected to be forgeries... In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 212.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 212) granting a pension to Charles H. Frederick, late lieutenant-colonel of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, United States Infantry, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 167.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 167, granting a pension to William S. Grow, having examined all the papers in the case, find that the applicant was an assistant provost marshal, who claims a pension on account of disease contracted in the service resulting in permanent injury to vision... In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry E. Sizer, of Mississippi, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Lawrence H. Broyle, praying that his name be placed on the pension roll, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1877. -- 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 Mrs. Sue Partee, of Lauderdale County, Tennessee, praying compensation for the burning and destruction of her building in said County of Lauderdale by United States troops during the late Civil War, have considered said petition, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 662.) Mr. Maxey, on behalf of the Committee on Military Affairs, to which was submitted the communication of the War Department of December 8, 1877, in respect to commutation of quarters, submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 26.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 26) to donate a portion of the military reservation of Fort Harker, Kansas, to the State of Kansas, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 703.) The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the petition of Melvina A. Maltby, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 704.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Grace Aikins, widow of William R. Aikins, late a private in Company A, Eleventh Regiment Iowa Volunteers, for a pension, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ellen Truesdell for a pension, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The case of William Kearney is not one requiring special legislation, but is provided for by the pension laws... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Invalid Pensions have had under consideration the petition of John B. Dunbar, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1878. -- 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 Mary A. Blackwelder, of Bradford County, Florida, praying for compensation for cotton taken by the military authorities of the United States, under the captured and abandoned property acts, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 205.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 205, granting an increase of pension to William Winans... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 697.) The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the petition of Anna L. Robbins for pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 560.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 560) for the relief of William A. Hammond, late surgeon general of the Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 771.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ebenezer Walker, late postmaster at Okemos, Ingham County, Michigan, asking for relief, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred resolution of the Senate instructing the Committee to inquire and report whether, since July 28, 1866, any person has been appointed to any position in the Army contrary to provisions of section 28, act of that date... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 927.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 927) for the relief of James W. Glover, postmaster at Oxford, in the State of New York, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 195.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 195) to declare certain lands subject to taxation, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 819.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Rosa Vertner Jeffrey, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 493.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom the Bill (S. 493) to provide for the removal of the Naval Observatory was referred, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, 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 William Moss, of Arkansas, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the petition of William W. Handlin, of New Orleans, La., praying for the passage of a law allowing him compensation for services as judge of the Third District Court of New Orleans, from the year 1864 to the year 1868, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 252.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 252) for the relief of W.D. Rollyson, of West Virginia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 376.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 376) entitled "An Act for Payment to the Officers and Soldiers of the Mexican War," &c., have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 217.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 217) for the relief of John A. Shaw, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 256.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 256) for the relief of Israel Yount, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 388.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Burt, Austin Burt, Solon Burt, Wells Burt, and William A. Burt, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Herrford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 101.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 101) for the relief of Susan J. Berry, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 33.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the (S. Bill 33) for the relief of J.A. Henry and others, have duly considered the same so far as the rights of Mrs. Henry are affected, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, from the Committee on Territories, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 144.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 144) to establish the Territory of Lincoln and provide a temporary government therefor, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to submit the following report, with the accompanying bill as a substitute... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 930.) Wills [i.e., Wells] R. Marsh entered the military service June 22, 1861, as surgeon Second Iowa Infantry Volunteers, and was mustered out of service July 12, 1865... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 931.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Shields, late brigadier general United States Army, praying an increase of pension, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Sarah B.F. Mayo for arrears of pension, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 221.) The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the Bill (S. 221) granting a pension of fifty dollars a month to Mary Kirby Smith Eaton during her widowhood, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grover, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 753.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 753) to confirm a certain private land claim in the Territory of New Mexico, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 712.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 712) granting a pension to William Loudon, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 989.) The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the Bill (H.R. 989) granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza A. Semple, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 687.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 687) granting a pension to William H. Bagley, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 547.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 547) granting a pension to Caroline M. Egbert, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 61.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 61) for the relief of the Richmond Female Institute, of Richmond, Va., have considered the same, and report that it ought to pass... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 333.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 333) "For the Relief of Thomas J. Choate, Erastus Foster, Milton Ladd, Clarence E. Haney, William A. Hill, Kneeland F. Huckaby, and William Blackburn, Late Privates in Company F, Third Regiment Arkansas Cavalry Volunteers," have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 312.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 312) for the relief of Robert Coles, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 847.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 847) for the relief of Susan Robb, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 306.) The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 306, entitled "A Bill Amendatory of the Act Entitled 'An Act Granting Lands To Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from Portland to Astoria and McMinnville, in the State of Oregon,'" having had the same under consideration, submit an amendment in the nature of a substitute, and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 436.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 436) granting a pension to Adam Stinson, late a private in Company I, Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, find that the said soldier was regularly enlisted and served during the Mexican War, was in hospital suffering with an attack of low fever, during the progress of which an ulcer of the leg was developed, the testimony of the regimental surgeon, Dr. Wm. Truett, establishing this fact, and also that the ulcer remained unhealed at the time of his discharge from service... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1256.) The Committee on Pensions have examined House Bill 1256, and the petition of Rebecca B. Remick, and the accompanying papers referred to them, and find that the petitioner is the daughter of Samuel Remick, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who served faithfully and gallantly and was wounded in battle... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Matthews, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 404, S. 440, S. 942.) The Committee on Railroads, to whom were referred the Senate Bills Nos. 404 and 440, after consideration thereof, beg leave to report back the same with a substitute therefore, and recommend the passage of the latter... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions have considered the petition of Mrs. Mary C.J. Budlong, praying to be allowed a pension, with arrears from the month of April, 1855, the date of the death of her husband, a soldier in the War of 1812, on account of whose services she asks a pension... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- 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 Nicholas Struit, Company I, Tenth Iowa Volunteers, and the accompanying papers, find that the claimant asks a pension on account of loss of right leg, which he alleges occurred in consequence of hernia contracted in the service... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- 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 Boley S. Pate, late private Company D, Second Kansas Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- 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 Edward Perry... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 913.) 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, for the appearance of one B.F. Rhodes, to answer a criminal charge preferred against him, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2096.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2096) for the relief of James Fishback, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 954.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the two petitions and accompanying papers of T.A. Walker, late register of the United States land office, at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, have carefully considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 955.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 271) for the relief of the estate of John Waters, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 956.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the papers of W.B. Gosa, of Pine Bluff, Ark., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 957.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of Michael Callahan, of Huntsville, Ala., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1878. -- 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 Isaac Bloom... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred Senate resolution to pay John Ray and William L. McMillan compensation and mileage, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conover, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 292.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, in the matter of Howard D. Potts, assistant engineer of the United States Navy, having considered the facts submitted by the claimant for relief, is of the opinion that the naval retiring board which placed Mr. Potts upon furlough pay in 1874 had every opportunity to impartially and fairly examine into the merits of the claim... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 923.) The Committee on Foreign Affairs report back with amendments House Bill No. 923, supplementary to an act entitled "An Act To Carry into Effect the Convention between the United States and China, Concluded on the 8th Day of November, 1858, at Shanghai," approved March 3, 1859, and to give the Court of Claims jurisdiction in certain cases, and adopt the report of the House Committee, which is as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 281.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 281) for the relief of Capt. Gaines Lawson of the United States Army, has duly considered the same and submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 644.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the accompanying Bill (S. 644) for the relief of Dwight W. Hakes, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 713.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the accompanying Bill (S. 713) for the relief of Martin Clark, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 801.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 801) to amend Section 2403 of the Revised Statutes, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 859.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the accompanying Bill (S. 859) for the relief of Charles L. Davenport, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 741.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the case of Capt. C.H. McNally, a retired officer of the United States Army, who asks Congress to have his rank on the retired list increased, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 260.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 260) for the relief of H.A. Myers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 334.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 334) for the relief of William Bowlin, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 454.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 454) granting a pension to Stephen C. Herndon, of Ozark, Mo., have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 55.) John W. Douglas was collector of the Nineteenth Internal Revenue District of Pennsylvania from 1862 to April, 1869, having his main office in the City of Erie... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 161.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 161) for the relief of Charles W. Biese, late second lieutenant Eighty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteers, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 604.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 604) for the relief of John Bowles, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 342.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 342) for the relief of Phoebe Henrietta Grossbeck, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 471.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 471) for the relief of Miles S. Draughon, of Tennessee, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1224.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1224) for the relief of Will R. Hervey, have fully considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 378.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 378) for the relief of William L. Hickam, of Missouri, have had the same under consideration, and report the bill with amendments, and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 997.) 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. March 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 999.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Eliza E. Hebert, of Louisiana, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 246.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 246) to correct commencement of renewal of pension of Anna Brasel, widow of David Brasel, &c., have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 536.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House Bill 536, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2293 [i.e., 2291].) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2291) for the relief of Thomas W. Collier, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2884.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2884) for the relief of Samuel Canfield, postmaster at Seymour, Conn., having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 142.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. George McCoy, acting assistant surgeon of the United States Army, praying that a pension be allowed him, submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eaton, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following report: On the 24th day of January, 1878, the following resolution was adopted by the Senate: Resolved, that the Committee on Appropriations be directed to examine into the affairs of the Freedmen's Hospital of the District of Columbia, and ascertain its condition and general management... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 199.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 199) for the relief of L.H. and G.C. Schneider, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1878. -- 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 Angeline Logan, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 633.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 633) for the relief of R.W. Corbin and others, have duly considered the same, so far as the rights of Robert Stevenson are affected, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 634.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 33) for the relief of R.W. Corbin and others, have duly considered the same, so far as the rights of L.T. Green are affected, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1878. -- 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 Elisha Basse, praying compensation for injury done to his property near Brownsville, Tex., by the military authorities of the United States between November, 1863, and April 12, 1867, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 82.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 82) for the relief of Gustav A. Hesselberger, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 17 and S. 198.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the Bills (S. 17 and S. 198) amending the laws granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the War of 1812 and their widows, together with sundry petitions and memorials on the same subject, have given the same careful consideration, and submit the accompanying bill and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 323, granting a pension to Elizabeth Totten, widow of the late Commodore Benjamin J. Totten, United States Navy, find, on examination, that no application for a pension has ever been made to the Pension Bureau, and, in accordance with the custom of the Committee in similar cases, ask that the application be referred to the Commissioner of Pension. In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 647.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Lieut. William B. Whitting, United States Navy, with the papers accompanying, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 413.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 413, providing for an increase of the pension of Laurena [i.e., Laura (Laurina)] C.P. Haskins... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1104.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1104) for the relief of John Pulford, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 694.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 694) for the relief of William H. Needham, late second lieutenant Company D, Twenty-second Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 104.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the Bill (S. 104) amending section 1661, Title XVI (the Militia), of the Revised Statutes, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1142.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1142) for the relief of Charles W. Wood late of Company E, First Battalion, Thirteenth Regiment United States Infantry, present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1878. -- 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 Mrs. Jane Dulany ... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, having considered the petition of Catherine T. Campbell, and the accompanying papers in the case referred to them, present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Nicholas Vedder, together with the accompanying papers, for the relief of said Vedder, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. 62.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Joint Resolution (H.R. 62) appropriating $200 to defray expenses of transferring the remains of Pancoast Loose, a deceased soldier, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 262.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 262) to authorize the President of the United States to promote and retire First Lieut. David I. Ezekiel, of the Fourth Regiment of Infantry, United States Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 241.) The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the Bill (S. 244) granting a pension to Frederick Banker, late private in Company E, Seventeenth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 286.) David Torpey enlisted... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 132.) The petition of Joseph Grigsby for the restoration of his name to the pension rolls does not present a case for the favorable consideration of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 23.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 23) for the relief of Major and Brevet Colonel Joseph B. Collins, &c., having had the same under consideration, ask leave to present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 119.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 119) to remove the charges against Lieut. Charles Wilkinson, late of Company K, One Hundred and Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, on file in the War Department, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 162.) The Committee on Military Affairs, having considered the Bill (S. 162) for the relief of James Cliff [i.e., Clift], present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 18.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial and bill presented by the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 429 and S. 495.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 429) for the relief of Isabella R. McGunnigle, widow of Lieut. Com. Wilson McGunnigle, United States Navy, and the Bill (S. 495) for the relief of Thornton A. Jenkins, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 632.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 632) for the relief of William H. Cornell, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 235.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 235) for the relief of Joseph Kinney, administrator of the estate of David Ballentine, deceased, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 685.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 33) for the relief of R.W. Corbin and others, have duly considered the same, so far as the rights of Mr. Boyden are affected, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 724.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy E. McClelland, widow of James D. McClelland, late second lieutenant of Company B, First Tennessee Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 725.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was submitted the letter of the Secretary of War, communicating a letter from Maj. Gen. W.S. Hancock, suggesting a change in the one hundred and fourth Article of War, and also the report of Judge Advocate General Dunn, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 372.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 372) granting a pension to Adelia K. Clark, widow of Capt. R.B. Clark, late assistant surgeon of the Forty-first Regiment of Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3072.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3072) entitled "An Act To Authorize a Special Term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi, To Be Held at Scranton, in Jackson County," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William McCartney, late a private in Company F, Fifteenth Maine Volunteer Regiment, United States Army, praying that his name be restored to the pension rolls, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 340.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 340) for the relief of William F. Grove, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 401.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 401) for the relief of Charles H. Mosely, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 458.) The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 458) to authorize and equip an expedition to the Arctic Seas, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1878. -- 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 William C. Shimoneck, Third Regiment United States Infantry, asking an increase of pension because of disability resulting from hypertrophy of the heart, find on examination that the applicant is now enjoying a pension of $6 per month... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1878. -- 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 Mrs. Ema J. Crain, daughter of George Smith, late a private Company C, Ninety-fourth Illinois Regiment, find, on examination, that the petitioner claims as the daughter of said Smith, who died in service in 1862... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 97.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 97) authorizing the Secretary of War to grant permission to the proprietors of salmon fisheries now located on Three Tree Point military reservation, on the Columbia River in Washington Territory, to remain on said reservation, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 527.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 527) granting a pension to Morris B. Slosson, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 755.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Martha C. Kendall for a pension, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 420.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred S. 420, "A Bill for the Relief of Maj. P.P.G. Hall," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 287.) The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the Bill (S. 287) granting an increase of pension to John C. Hughes, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 15.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 15, entitled "A Bill To Alter and Amend the Act Entitled 'An Act To Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph-line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and To Secure to the Government the Use of the Same for Postal, Military, and Other Purposes,'" approved July first... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 501.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 501) for the relief of John C. Birdsell, have considered the same, and heard evidence in support thereof, and report that the same ought to pass... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 659.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to which was referred the Bill (S. 659) for the relief of Josiah H. Pillsbury, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Augustus Sprauge, praying for the repayment of money expended by him for a substitute in the military service, have considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 300.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred Bill S. 300, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3296.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred S. 356 for the relief of Capt. William L. Foulk, and H.R. 3296 for the relief of same, have duly considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2108.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred H.R. 2108, "An Act for the Relief of William A. Hammond, Late Surgeon General of the Army," passed the House of Representatives February 27, 1878, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1254.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred (H.R. 1254) for the relief of John A. Darling, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 386.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 386) to extend the time for presenting claims for collecting, drilling, or organizing volunteers for the war of the rebellion, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 850 and S. 352.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 352) to authorize the restoration of George A. Armes to the Army, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 20.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 20) authorizing the citizens of Colorado, California, and Nevada, and the Territories, to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining and domestic purposes, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report, accompanied with a substitute for said bill, and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 766.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 766) to legalize certain patents issued to members of the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1878. -- 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 Warren Mitchell... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grover, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 520.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 520) to authorize claimants to certain lands in Santa Barbara County, California, to submit their claims to the United States district court for that state for adjudication, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Matthews, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 512.) The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 512, a bill in relation to the Pacific railroads, report the same back, with a substitute therefor, recommending the passage of the latter... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 561.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 561) granting a pension to William H. Nims, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3104.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3104, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 871.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Emerson, late a private in Company A, First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 873.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Hannah Street, widow of John William Street, asking that her name and the names of her children be placed on the pension rolls, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 535.) Theodore Gardner, late sergeant of the First Kansas Battery, asks that his present pension of $4 per month be increased to $8 per month... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 455.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 455) for the relief of Patrick Sullivan, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 394.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 394) to place the name of Daniel H. Kelly upon the muster roll of Company F, Second Tennessee Infantry, together with the petition of Delilah Kelly, widow of Daniel H. Kelly, praying for the relief provided by the bill, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 800.) The passage of the accompany bill for the relief of the heirs of Maj. D.C. Smith was recommended by this Committee and the Military Committee of the House of the Forty-fourth Congress, in consonance with the favorable reports of General Cockrell, and Mr. MacDougall, of the House Committee... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 902.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Carl Jussen, late adjutant Twenty-third Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 754.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred Senate Bill No. 754 and accompanying petition, asking that a pension be granted to Richard O'Neale, late an officer of the United States Navy during the War of 1812, having examined all the papers in the case, find no evidence whatever to sustain the claim... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- 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 Samuel Faulkner... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom the petition of O.P. Shiras and sundry citizens of Dubuque, Iowa, was referred, who pray for an increase of pensions to the officers and soldiers of the War of 1812, having duly considered the same, would respectfully ask that the further consideration of the same be indefinitely postponed. In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom the petition of Richard T. Horner, formerly a soldier of the War of 1812, was referred, find that no record or parol evidence can be found establishing the fact of service, and, though the petition is very numerously signed by citizens of Delaware County, Indiana, who bear testimony to the general good character and necessitous condition of the petitioner, the Committee cannot, in the absence of all proof of service, report favorably... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Catharine Middleton, widow of a soldier of the War of 1812, and the petition of Arcadius Pettingill, of Wayne, Maine, a soldier of the War of 1812, each asking to be allowed a pension, find that these applicants are provided for by Senate Bill No. 17, which has recently been enacted into a law... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 740.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 740) to authorize the Secretary of War to relinquish and turn over to the Interior Department certain parts of the Camp Douglas military reservation, in the Territory of Utah, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 426.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 426) for the relief of the Masonic Hall Company of Atlanta, Ga., have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1888.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1888, entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Macon, Ga.," have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 909.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of War (Ex. Doc. No. 2, Forty-fifth Congress, second session), recommending an amendment to Section 3736 of the Revised Statutes, so as to authorize the Secretary of War to accept an absolute gift or grant of land, when the same is necessary for military purposes and the gift unencumbered with provisions, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 910.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, a corporation at Nashville, Tenn., have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 158.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 158) granting a pension to Joseph Roleau... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1878. -- 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 Angeline Raish, mother of Oliver Raish, late private Company G, Seventeenth Wisconsin Volunteers, asking to be allowed arrears of pension, having examined the petition and accompanying papers, find that the petitioner is now in receipt of a pension of eight dollars per month, commencing from the date of filing the last essential evidence by which the claim was established... In the Senate of the United States. December 1, 1877. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that James B. Eustis is lawfully entitled to a seat in the Senate of the United States from the State of Louisiana, from the 12th day of January, 1876, for the term ending March 3, 1879... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 250.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 250) for the relief of the National Bank of Western Arkansas, has had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... |
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In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 780.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 780) to provide for indemnity due to the several states under the acts of Congress approved March 2, 1855, and March 3, 1857, relating to swamp and overflowed lands, having had the same under consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1206.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Emily Hughes, asking a pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 66.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 66) for the relief of John Thorns, of Fayette County, Kentucky, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1164.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of David Dimmock, have examined the same, and find the application was rejected at the Pension Bureau on account of insufficient service... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William J. Marshall, executor of the estate of John G. Holloway, deceased, praying that the United States purchase the Camp Chase, Ohio, burial lot, &c., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 231.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 231) for the relief of Herman E. Davidson and the heirs of Charles H. Davidson, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 959.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 959) for the protection of homestead settlers on the public lands, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blaine, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following report: The Committee on Rules ask leave to report a series of joint rules, to be proposed to the House of Representatives... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4373.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined House Bill 4373, granting a pension to Mary I. Lebow, and the papers accompanying the same... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 636.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom House Bill 636, with accompanying papers, was referred, granting a pension to Oliver H. Irons, sergeant Company D, Twenty-third Michigan Volunteers, report that during his term of service he was treated in hospital at different times for pneumonia and typhoid fever, and subsequently for chronic diarrhea, from which he suffered at the time of his discharge... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 19.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 19) for the relief of Capt. James M. Beeber, late Company D, Seventy-third Regiment Indiana Volunteers, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 941.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred H.R. 941, "An Act Granting a Pension to George Grove," report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3107.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3107) granting a pension to Louisa J. [i.e., S.] Guthrie and others, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1930.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the Bill (H.R. 1930) granting a pension to Elizabeth Winters, and the accompanying papers, find that the applicant is the widow of Jacob Winters, who was mustered into service July 15, 1861, and was accidentally drowned December 18, 1861, while returning home on furlough... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany amendment to Bill H.R. 4246.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, respectfully recommend the subjoined amendment to the Bill (H.R. 4246) making appropriations for the postal service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1496.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1496) for the relief of George H. Giddings, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 485.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 485) to repeal certain provisions of the acts of Congress making appropriations for the support of the Army, approved June 16, 1874, and March 3, 1875, respectively, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 830.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 830) for the relief of Francis O. Wyse, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 726.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of Henry E. Sizer, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 532.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 532) granting a pension to John Frey, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1073.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, approved February 26, 1877, asking the passage of a law by Congress "granting to the State of Minnesota other lands within said state in lieu of lands of said state designated and known as 'salt spring lands,' in which and to which there are any adverse claims, by pre-emption filings, homestead, cash, or scrip entries," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 72.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 72) 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 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph Segar, asking for payment of his salary and mileage as senator from December 8, A.D. 1864, to March 4, 1869, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1896.) The Committee on Private Lands Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1896) for the relief of Nancy A. Herrick, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1778.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 1778, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1308.) The Committee on Pensions having examined House Bill 1308, for the relief of Daniel Small, a soldier of the War of 1812, and the papers submitted therewith, find that the facts in the case are set forth with substantial accuracy in the report of the House Committee... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3059.) The Committee on Pensions, having duly considered the Bill (H.R. 3059) granting a pension to Jacob F. Ruth, and the accompanying papers, find that the applicant, while in service in Fairfax, Va., and on duty, on the 2d day of June, 1865... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3579.) Philip Henry, late a private in Company G, Third Regiment Delaware Volunteers, while on duty with his regiment at Camden, in the State of Delaware, guarding the Baltimore, Wilmington and Philadelphia Railroad, applied for and received a pass to be absent from his command a few hours that he might make arrangements to send a part of his pay to his mother in Philadelphia... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1175.) George Silvers was a private in Company E, in the Fifty-seventh Regiment of United States Colored Troops... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 710.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 710, finding that the report made by the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of Representatives contains a full showing of the facts in this case, have adopted the same, which is as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1918.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1918) for the relief of Milton B. Cushing, paymaster United States Navy, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4424.) The Committee on pensions, having duly considered the Bill (H.R. 4424) granting a pension to Derrick F. Hambink, together with the accompanying papers, find that the applicant is now receiving a pension at the rate of $25 per month for the loss of a leg while holding the rank of major... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1551.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1551) for the relief of Mrs. Emma A. Porch, of Centre Town, Mo., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Education and Labor, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H. Res. 176.) The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom was referred the Joint Resolution (H. Res. 176) to provide for the enforcement of the eight-hour law, have to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Education and Labor, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 941.) The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 941), entitled "A Bill To Regulate the Hours of Labor," ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the same, for the reasons stated in their report upon House Resolution No. 176, and recommend indefinite postponement of the bill. In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1306.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Perry E. Brocchus, administrator of the estate of Augustin Maurin, deceased, praying the passage of a law authorizing payment of the amount of a draft for $500, drawn by Col. John B. Grayson, acting commissary of subsistence, United States Army, at Santa Fe, N. Mex., May 4, 1861... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4376.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4376) granting a pension to James G. Williams, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3817.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the Bill (H.R. 3817) granting a pension to Annie Farley, and the papers accompanying the same, find that no application for a pension has been made to the Pension Bureau... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 31.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of the Interior (Ex. Doc. H.R. No. 12, 44th Cong., 1st sess.) transmitting a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office on the private land claim of Anna M. Clark, of Florida, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1309.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Isabella H. Silvey, widow of Maj. William Silvey, late of the United States Army, asking an increase of pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1310.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Edmund R. Bachelder, late private Company B, Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4387.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 4387, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Barnum, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 339.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, having had under consideration the Bill (S. 339) for the relief of William Bowen, of the District of Columbia, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1332.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1332) for the relief of John G. Merritt, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1434.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 1434, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1352.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the Legislature of South Carolina, praying the restoration to the State of the possession of the property in Charleston known as the State Military Academy of South Carolina, and also compensation for the use and occupancy of the same by the United States military authorities during and since the war, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1347.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1347) to aid in the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River, from the military reservation of Fort Snelling in the State of Minnesota, and granting the right of way through said reservation, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1268.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1268) to authorize the Secretary of War to convey to Jacob A.T. Wendell, Henry Van Allen, and John R. Bailey a part of the military reservation of Fort Mackinac, have considered the same, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1285.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1285) to amend the act entitled "An Act To Provide for Furnishing Trusses to Disabled Soldiers," approved May 28, 1872, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 627.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 627, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1090.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1090) for the relief of Lawrence A. Williams, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Frank Soule, late collector of internal revenue for the First District of California, together with the Bill (S. 2) for the relief of his sureties, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- 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 John Edwards, late brigadier general United States volunteer service, praying to be placed on the retired list, after due consideration submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 739.) The military Committee, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 739) for the relief of Henry Plowman, have had the same under consideration, and report the same back to the Senate, with the accompanying papers, with the recommendation that it do pass... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Ann Jones, for an extension of the patent to Alfred C. Jones, for an improved pipe coupling, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1365.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of War and accompanying papers, Ex. Doc. No. 83, present session, embracing among other things the petition of Lewis Leffman, ordnance sergeant, United States Army, asking, for reasons therein stated, to be retired with the full pay and allowance of his grade of ordnance sergeant, have carefully considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1366.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Robert Spaugh, of Indiana, have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1183.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1183) to authorize the extension of the patent of Levin P. Clark, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 762.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 762) for the relief of C.T. Eubanks, successor of the firm of Eubanks & Anthony, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dorsey, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1238.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the Bill S. 1238, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1226.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of B.F. Overton, governor of the Chickasaw Nation, relating to the arrears of interest due on trust funds held by the United States for that nation, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3257.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3257) for the relief of William H. Merritt, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 694.) The Committee on the District of Columbia... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: The Committee on Patents, to which was referred the petition of George W. Hunt, administrator of the estate of Walter Hunt, deceased, for the extension of reissue No. 5109 of the letters patent of said Walter Hunt, for an improvement in shirt collars, beg leave to make the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 112.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 112) "To Make an Additional Article of War," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1855.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred H.R. 1855, "An Act for the Relief of John C. Ray," report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 963) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 963) to correct the record of a naval officer, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 430.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 430) authorizing the appointment of Acting Passed Assistant Surgeon Francis V. Green as surgeon in the Navy, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 537.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 537) for the relief of Naval Constructor Theodore D. Wilson, of the Navy, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 507.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 507) for the relief of Dr. Edward Evers, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 33) for the relief of Henry Halfin and others, have duly considered the same, so far as the rights of Mr. Halfin, administrator of E. Rouff, are affected, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1033.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James C. McBurney, late collector of internal revenue for the Second District of Georgia, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 864.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 864) to provide for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a military telegraph in Dakota and Montana Territories, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 592.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 592) for the restoration of Capt. P.A. Owen to the Army, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 762.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 762) granting a pension to John S. Hall, of West Virginia, have considered said bill, and the evidence submitted in support thereof, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 308.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 308) for the relief of Joseph N. Lewis, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on the District, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3690.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3690) to relieve the churches of the District of Columbia and to clear the title of the trustees to such property, has had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3859.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3859) for the relief of Silas M. Norton, postmaster at Bristol, Conn., have to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3969.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3969) regulating the appointment of justices of the peace, commissioners of deeds, and constables within and for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 27.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 27) for the relief of Amos B. Ferguson, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1096.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Samson Goliath, late a private Company A, Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Colored Regiment, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 785.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 785) to provide for building a military post for the protection of the citizens of the Black Hills region, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 757.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 757) to provide for the construction of a military post for the protection of the northern frontier of Montana, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 744.) The Committee on Pension, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah McCooey, mother of John McCooey, late private Company F, Fourteenth United States Infantry, praying for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 932.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill S. 932 granting a pension to Cornelius Le Ray, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 524.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 524) directing that the name of Lemuel L. Lawrence, late second lieutenant of Company B, Sixth Regiment of Illinois Cavalry, be placed on the pension rolls, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1975.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1975) entitled "An Act To Amend an Act Granting a Pension to William Haffords, of South Yarmouth, Mass., Approved May 8, 1874," have had the same under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 849.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 849) directing the name of James C. Downer, late captain of Company E, Sixth Regiment Louisiana (Mexican War) Volunteers, to be placed on the roll of invalid pensioners, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 978.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 978) granting a pension to Hiram M. Kuhn, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 387.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred Senate Bill No. 387, and the accompanying memorial of Landon C. Easton, Stewart Van Vliet, Asher R. Eddy, Rufus Saxton, Judson D. Bingham, Alexander J. Perry, and Henry C. Hodges, having considered the same, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- 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 Phebe Wilson, praying to be allowed a pension on account of the services of her husband, William Wilson, in the War of 1812, having examined the same, together with the accompanying papers, report that the claimant, being entitled to a pension under the act of March 9, 1878, they deem further action by Congress unnecessary, and ask to be relieved from further consideration of this case. In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- 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 Otho W. Beall for a pension, by reason of service in the Army of the United States during the War of 1812, having examined the same... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conkling, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary having been instructed by the following resolution of the Senate -- Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire for what purposes the post office building in the City of New York may lawfully be used... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1114.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1114) to amend the one hundred and third Article of War, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 969.) Mrs. Nancy E. Belrichards, widow of James R. Belrichards, applies for pension on account of the death of her husband from disease contracted while he was in the military service of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1163.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary E. Parker, window of Solomon M. Parker, asking that her name and the names of her two children shall be placed on the roll of pensioners, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2132.) The Committee on Finance, having had under consideration the Bill (H.R. 2132) providing for the payment of clerical services and extraordinary expenses under the seventh section of the act of August 18, 1856, in the Pawnee land district in Kansas, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 989.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 989) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Settlers on the Public Lands, and To Provide for the Repayment of Certain Fees and Commissions Paid on Void Entries of Public Lands," have considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 605.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 605) for the relief of William M. Kendall, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1165.) Mrs. Mary McAdams is the mother of Robert J. McAdams, who was a private in the First Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, and was killed in battle in front of Richmond, Va., in 1862... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1627.) The Committee on Pensions, having considered the Bill (H.R. 1627) granting a pension to Jacob M. Groce, late sergeant Company D, Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Artillery, together with the papers filed in the case... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 734.) The Pension Committee, having examined the Bill (H.R. 734) granting a pension to Syvert A. Anderson, late a private in Company B, Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, together with the accompanying papers, find that the applicant received a gunshot wound of the left foot and left knee on the __day of December, 1862... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 134.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 134) granting a pension to Jacob G. Croman, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3103.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3103) granting a pension to Oliver Yake, of Sanilac County, Michigan, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3440.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3440) granting a pension to George Fritz, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4384.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4384) granting a pension to Daniel Donnelly, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2936.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 2936, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 618.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of Frank P. Haywood, Sr., for compensation for cotton alleged to have been burned and destroyed by the Federal troops, and for the use and occupation by the United States of a dwelling house owned by the petitioner, together with a bill for his relief, have had the same under consideration, and submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1275.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Charles Black, late colonel of the Thirty-seventh Illinois Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- 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 David Hardie, passed assistant engineer, United States Navy, praying that the benefits of the acts of July 16, 1862, and July 15, 1870, may inure to his benefit, so as to allow him the benefit of his sea service in the line of promotion, and that he may be considered as being on the retired list as a first assistant engineer, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report: In the matter of the dismissal of Alexander Warner from the Brooklyn Navy yard, the Committee on Naval Affairs make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1335.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Vance and Brother, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4556.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4556) for the relief of F.W. Golladay, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 984.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 984) for the relief of William H. Merritt, of the State of Iowa, have had the same under consideration, and submit the report of the Committee of Claims to the House of Representatives on a bill pending therein on the same subject, as part of their report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 774.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 774) authorizing the Solicitor of the Treasury, by and with the consent of the Secretary of War, to cancel certain contracts for the sale of lots of land made at Harper's Ferry in the year 1869, and resell the same... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 615.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 615) for the relief of the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1146.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1146) for the relief of Monroe Donoho, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 210.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 210) for the relief of J.A. Stevenson, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 632.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 632) for the relief of William H. Cornell, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 786.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the Jeffersonville and Louisville Ferry Company, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 230.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 230) entitled "A Bill To Authorize and Enable the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians to Institute and Prosecute a Suit in the Court of Claims Against the Cherokee Nation," respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1201.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1201) for the relief of Drury Bynum, have had the same under consideration, and report it back and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 613.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 613) entitled "An Act Subjecting the Fort Wayne Military Reservation, in the State of Arkansas, to Entry as Other Public Lands in Said State..." In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4420.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4420) for the relief of Horace E. Mullan, late lieutenant commander in the Navy of the United States, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3289.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3289) for the relief of William J. Alexander, of Bloomington, Ind., have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 530.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 530) for the relief of Alexander Davis, of Arkansas, for compensation for supplies alleged to have been taken from him by the Army of the United States, having had the same under consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 720.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 720) for the relief of John Eaton, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.B. [i.e., H.R.] 2396.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2396) entitled "An Act for the Relief of John E. Williamson," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1192.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1192) to authorize the leasing of a portion of the military reservation of New San Diego, in the State of California, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1244.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1244) for the relief of George Williams, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3576.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3576) entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Catherine D. Hunt," have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1341.) The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1341) to declare the true intent and meaning of Title II, Chapter 1, Section 14 of the Revised Statutes, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 752.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 752) for the relief of William H. Newman and Lewis [i.e., Louis] A. Van Hoffman, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4075.) The Pension Committee, having examined House Bill No. 4075 and the papers accompanying, granting a pension to Ezra O. Nye, Company K, Nineteenth Michigan Volunteers, are of opinion that the evidence... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 213.) The Committee on Railroads, to which was referred Senate Bill 213, entitled "A Bill To Survey the Austin-Topolovampo Pacific Route," having had the same under consideration, report it back favorably and recommend its passage for the following reasons... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 40.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 40) "To Authorize the President To Restore George W. Smith to His Former Rank in the Army," has duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 215.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 629) for the relief of Sidney S. McLane, has duly considered the same and submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 51.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 51) for the relief of Albert Towle, postmaster at Beatrice, Nebr., respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2287.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2287) to authorize the Secretary of War to prescribe rules and regulations to be observed in the preparation, submission, and opening of bids for contracts under the War Department, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Charles J. Whiting, late lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth United States Cavalry, praying that he be restored to his former rank, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 824.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 824) establishing the rank of the senior Inspector General, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1385.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1385) for the relief of the minor heirs of John H. Evans, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 156.) In the case of Maj. John M. Goodhue, praying for restoration to the Army on the retired list, your Committee have to report that said Goodhue originally entered the service as adjutant of the Third Battalion Massachusetts Rifles, on April 19, 1861... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1135.) It appears to the satisfaction of the Committee that in the year A.D. 1832 the Brothertown Indians purchased from the United States a township of land, containing 23,040 acres, lying on the east side of Lake Winnebago, in the Territory of Wisconsin... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 487.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 487) for the relief of Mrs. Maria B. Wolfe, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 907.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 907) granting a pension to Louis Koerth, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 337.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 337) for the relief of Thomas H. Halsey, paymaster, United States Army, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 622.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 622) entitled "An Act for the Relief of Workmen Employed in the Construction of Poverty Island Lighthouse, Lake Michigan," have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 889.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 889) granting a pension to John Etzell, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 288.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 288, for the relief of Gibbes & Co., having carefully examined the facts, and finding the report adopted by the Committee at the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress fully sustained, adopt the same, as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Anthony Schworer, late private Company G, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry for a pension, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- 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 Edward Perry, late private Company A, Sixth Connecticut Volunteers, asking arrearage of pension, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 319.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 319) for the relief of the Metropolitan Police force, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 478.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 478) authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to extend the patent to Horace A. Stone for improvement in the manufacture of cheese, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 134.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 134) making further appropriations for continuing the improvements of Galveston Harbor, and for continuing the work in Galveston Bay, State of Texas, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Herford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1038.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jesse Turner and others, asking to be relieved from liability as sureties on bond of Geo. W. Clarke, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 238.) The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 238, entitled "A Bill To Extend the Time for the Construction and Completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad..." In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 88.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 88) for the relief of James W. Richard and J.S. Brown and brother, of Denver, Colo., report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 602.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 602) for the relief of John R. Bond, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1780.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1780) granting a pension to William S. Davis, late private Company E, Thirty-first Illinois Volunteers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1066.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Messrs. Doughty & Card, attorneys at laws, of Lake City, Minn., with the accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1067.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of Thomas M. Simmons, with the accompanying papers, having carefully examined the same, adopt the following report, made to the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1068.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of T.B. Kelly, asking "pay as a second lieutenant from April 4, 1863, to September 15, 1864, less pay received for such time as a private soldier," have considered the same, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, having considered the petition of Theodore Higgins, who calls himself "captain," submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1878. -- 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 John G. Morgan, of the City of New York, late assistant surgeon United States Army, praying for arrearage of pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 379.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 379) for the relief of William Wheeler Hubbell, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1071, substitute for Bills S. 152 and 385.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 152) for the relief of certain settlers upon homestead and pre-emption lands, and the Bill (S. 385) for the relief of settlers on the public lands, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 238.) The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 238, entitled "A Bill To Extend the Time for the Construction and Completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad"... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 241.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 241) for the relief of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va., report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1112.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Claude H. Masten, surviving partner of the firm of Le Vert & Masten, of Mobile, Ala., for himself and in behalf of Octavia Le Vert and her two children, widow and heirs of his deceased partner, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 588.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 588) to advance the rank of Robert C. Buchanan, now borne on the retired list of the Army as colonel, to that of major general on the retired list, to date from July 1, 1877, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Lieutenants Marcus W. Lyon, Frank Heath, Daniel M. Taylor, D.A. Lyle, James Rockwell, Jr., W.B. Weir, and J.C. Ayres, officers of the Ordnance Corps, praying legislation authorizing the Secretary of War to amend the relative rank of certain first lieutenants of the Ordnance Corps, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Albert Ivers, late captain Company C, Eighty-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 827.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 827, to provide for the sale of certain portions of the Fort Leavenworth military reservation, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1121 und [i.e., and] 1122.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the communication of the Secretary of War to the President of the Senate, dated 12th instant, accompanied by a communication of the General of the Army, under date 8th instant, recommending certain amendments of Sections 1216 and 1285 Revised Statutes, have fully considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1131.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 32) for the relief of J.M. Micou [i.e., Micow] and others, have duly considered the same, so far as the rights of Mr. E.C. Clements are affected, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1878. -- 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 Casper Wolf, late captain Fifteenth New York Artillery, praying for relief, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany bill S. 1132.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Lieutenant-Commander Sands, praying to be advanced ten numbers in his grade, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 80.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred S. Bill No. 80, having had the same under consideration, do make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 973.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 973) for the relief of Charles O. Allibone, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1133.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of William Gibson, with the accompanying papers, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1878. -- 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 Mrs. Mary Dove (colored), praying for compensation for the use and occupation by the military authorities of the United States of certain premises owned by her, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1173.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 33) for the relief of R.W. Corbin and others, having duly considered the same so far as the rights of Mr. Corbin are affected, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 714.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 714) for the relief of Joseph E. Moore, having examined the same, with all the evidence submitted, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 965.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 965) for the relief of Eunice J. Stockwell, and accompanying papers, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 367.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 367) for the relief of Louisa Albertson, of Dallas, Texas, have considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1174.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Nannie Hall, of Yazoo County, Mississippi, asking for such legislation as will compensate her for the loss of a large quantity of cotton seized by the forces of the United States, part of which was destroyed and part of which was sold and the proceeds paid into the Treasury, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1044.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1044, "Granting a Site for a Dry Dock in the City of Baltimore, upon Certain Conditions," respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 300.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred an act (H.R. 300) granting a pension to Dudley A. Fish, late captain in the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 518.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 518) for the relief of William Smitha, of Alabama, for damages for the taking of his property by the United States Army in 1865, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 97.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 97) granting a pension to William A. Miller, late private Company K, Twenty-fourth New York Cavalry Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 325.) The Committee on Patents, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 325) for the relief of Thomas Poultney, and the petition of said Poultney asking for the relief provided by said bill, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 430.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 430) for the relief of John Clinton, postmaster at Brownsville, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 962.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 962) granting a pension to William Criddle, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1040.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1040) granting a pension to Richard Middleton, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1044.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1044) granting a pension to A.M. Tinsley, of Trousdale County, Tennessee, late of the First Regiment Tennessee Volunteers in the Mexican War, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 439.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 439) granting a pension to Jonathan R. Titman, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3113.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 3113, "An Act Granting a Pension to Mrs. Emily H. Lyford," have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1188.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Harmon Vaun for a pension, have considered the same, and submit their report, as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3570.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the House Bill 3570, "An Act Granting an Increase of Pension to John Murphy, Late Private Company F, Fifth Regiment United States Infantry," have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3098.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3098) granting a pension to Joseph L. Young, late a private in Company E, Eleventh Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1059.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1059) granting a pension to Jacob S. Hunt, late captain of Company G, Fifth Regiment of Iowa Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 996.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 996) granting an increase of pension to Edmund Woog, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1077.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 1077, granting a pension to Mrs. Narcissa Powell, widow of Patrick Rainey, and directing the arrears to be paid to her from the date of the death of her husband to the date of her marriage to Rufus C. Powell, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1189.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ellen Devlin, widow of Patrick Devlin, asking that a pension be granted to her, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3115.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3115) granting a pension to Elizabeth Totten, widow of the late Commodore Benjamin J. Totten, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, 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 of Joseph Williams, asking that he be paid the sum of ten thousand dollars for extra work upon the "Jefferson School Building," having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 862.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 862) granting a pension to George Foster, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3730.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3730, having had the same under consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 531.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 531) restoring the name of Thomas Brown to the pension rolls, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 852.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 852) granting a pension to Mary E. Pauley, widow of James Pauley, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, 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 William H. Shultis, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 526.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 526) granting a pension to James McDonald, having considered the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committees on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2711.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2711) granting a pension to Thomas Burroughs, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 490.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 490) granting a pension to Rose Miller... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3568.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3568) granting a pension to Mary T. Thompson, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2334.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2334) for the relief of Joseph Wilson, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the same back and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 567.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 567) for the relief of William Caruthers, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 981.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 981) for the relief of Howell H. Trask, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of John Harrison, of Illinois, present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 934.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 934) for the relief of Henry M. Billingsley, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1205.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Treadwell S. Ayers for compensation for the use and occupation of certain premises by the United States military authorities, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1098.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1098) to transfer Paymaster Robert Burton Rodney from the retired list to the active list of the Navy, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- 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 Thomas M. Redd, late of Paducah, Ky., praying compensation for the loss of his house and contents, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 8.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 8) for the relief of Othniel P. Hollis, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3569.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a Bill (H.R. 3569) granting a pension to Ovid H. Clark, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3731.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3731) granting a pension to Rebecca T. Scott, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 486.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 486) relative to the distribution of prize money, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 241.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and bill for the relief of George V. Hebb, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 351.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 351) for the relief of the domestic and Indian missions and Sunday-school board of the Southern Baptist Convention, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1206.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 1029) for the relief of John M. Lord, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 570.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the application of Moses Marshall for the extension of a patent for an improvement in knitting machines, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 896.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 896) to authorize the extension of the patent of Gilbert Jessup, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1228.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 32) for the relief of Mrs. M.J. Donahoe and others, have duly considered the same, so far as the rights of Mrs. Donahoe are affected, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2026.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2026) granting a pension to Mrs. Julia S.W. Evans, widow of Henry D. Evans, late first lieutenant Company B, Thirteenth Missouri Volunteers, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 482.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 482) for the relief of William H. Nessle, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 553.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 553) for the relief of William H. Akins and Jacob D. Felthousen, their heirs and assigns, having considered the same, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1892.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1892) for the relief of Mrs. Amanda Rains, having had the same under consideration, adopt the following report of the House Committee on Claims, finding the same fully sustained by the evidence... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 362.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 362) granting a pension to A.G. Ege, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 849.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 849) for the relief of Abraham Alstead, late a second lieutenant of Company A, Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1949.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1949) granting a pension to Benjamin C. Webster, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1878. -- 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 Peter Stoub, of Tennessee, praying compensation for the use and occupation of certain real estate in Knoxville, Tenn., have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 735.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 735) granting a pension to James H. Thew, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4389.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4389) granting an increase of pension to Jerry Robinson, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4362.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4362) granting a pension to Cynthia A. Mizelle, dependent mother of Zedekiah M. Mizelle, late a private in Company C, First Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 793.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill S. 793, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones of Florida, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 813.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 813) for the relief of the administratrix of Joseph Wheaton, deceased, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1060.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1060) directing the Secretary of War to erect headstones over the graves of soldiers interred in the cemetery at Mound City, Kansas, have considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1242.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the letter of the Secretary of War, recommending the repeal of Section 1233 of the Revised Statutes, relating to company cooks in the Army, have, after careful consideration, decided to report a bill repealing said section... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 742.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 742, entitled "A Bill in Relation to the Japanese Indemnity Fund," submit to the Senate the following report, and recommend the passage of said bill, with amendment... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3119.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3119) for the relief of John I. Thomas, having considered the same, adopt the following report of the House Committee of Claims made at the present session... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1065.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 1065, with the petition and papers of the Rev. Toussaint Mesplie, asking compensation for services as chaplain in the Army for twenty-three years, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 964.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 964) for the relief of the owner of the bark Grapeshot, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 789.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 789) for the relief of Michael Fentenheime, a citizen of France, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 233.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 233) for the relief of John E. Catlett, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 29.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 29) for the relief of Robert McRae, and also a petition praying for relief to said McRae and others, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1136.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1136) for the relief of Miguel D. Eslava, have considered the same, and have also examined and considered the evidence submitted in support of the claims, and report on said bill as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1253.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1253, respectfully make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 844.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 844) granting a pension to Mary Martin, mother, by adoption, of James R. Martin, late a private in the Fifth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 971.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 991) granting a pension to William Leibig, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 519.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 519) granting a pension to the widow of Edwin R. Foster, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2534.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2534) for the relief of Robert W. Livingston, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1328.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to which was referred the message of the President, together with the letter of the Secretary of State, and the papers transmitted therewith, relating to the award of the Fisheries Commission, submit the following report with accompanying resolution and bill... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 127.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 127) granting a pension to Daniel Compton, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3284.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3284) for the relief of James Johnson, late collector of the Port of Savannah, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 773.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 773) making a pre-emption grant to the heirs of Jean Baptiste Beaubien, deceased, for a part of Fort Dearborn reservation at Chicago, Ill., and to confirm purchasers of other parts in their titles, and to convey to the City of Chicago the streets and alleys of said reservation, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 109.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 109) defining the manner in which certain land scrip may be assigned and located or applied by actual settlers, and providing for the issue of patents in the name of the locator or his legal representatives, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4374.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4374) granting a pension to Sarah J. Goss, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1380.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jonah Kellogg, late a private in Company G, Forty-sixth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1141.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1141) "Granting the Right of Way Through the Military Reservation at Fort Yuma to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1348.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1348) for the benefit of Jesse Stallings, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 477.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 477) granting a pension to Anna Koeniger, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 837.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 837) for the relief of the officers and privates of New Mexico mounted volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on the Library Commission, submitted the following report: The Commission named in the act to constitute a commission to consider and report a plan for providing enlarged accommodations for the Library of Congress, approved April 3, 1878, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 758.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 758) for the relief of citizens of Montana who served with the United States troops in the War with the Nez Perces, and for the relief of the heirs of such as were killed in such service, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Paddock, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1164.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1164) for the relief of Peter G. Mills, respectfully report the following facts... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 882.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 882) to authorize the proper accounting officer of the Treasury to audit and pay the claim of the State of Tennessee for keeping the United States military prison, having had the same under consideration, make the following report, and amend the bill as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3733.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3733) for the relief of Hanson Harmon, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1390.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George W. Saulpaw, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1371.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1371) for the relief of John W. Skiles, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 295.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 295) for the relief of William C. Edmonston, have considered the same with care, and report as follows, copying the House report on same subject... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1391.) 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 marshal of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, in pursuance of a decree and order of the United States district court for said district, under the confiscation act, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2791.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2791) granting additional pension to Mrs. Margaret J. Lovell, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany amendment to Bill S. 26.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 26) to provide for the sale of the Fort Harker military reservation in Kansas, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1394.) 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 submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Angeline C. Pusey, widow of Lea Pusey, deceased, for the extension of a patent granted decedent for an improved arrangement of railroad platform scales, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1395.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1395) for the relief of George W. Hubbard, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 888.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 888) for the relief of James McGregor, has considered the same, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 503.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 503) for the relief of F.G. Schwatka, Sr., have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1878. -- 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 Mrs. M.A. McClannahan, of Knoxville, Tenn., claiming rent for the use and occupation by the military authorities of the United States of a certain gristmill owned by her, and situate at Knoxville, Tenn., from November 15, 1863, to February 24, 1864, has considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3106.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the Bill (H.R. 3106) granting a pension to Daniel W. Martin, and finding that the report of the House Committee on Invalid Pensions fully sets forth the facts, have adopted that report, which is as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1688.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1688) restoring the name of Hamilton Ryne to the pension rolls, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3578.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3578) granting a pension to Julia Wheeler, widow of Eber J. Wheeler [i.e., Eben G.], late a sergeant in Company B, Sixteenth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4382.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4382) granting a pension to Jonathan Roberts, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dorsey, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2057.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, having had under consideration Bill H.R. 2057, beg leave to report the same back with a recommendation that it pass... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4834.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4874) for the relief of the sureties of John McNellis, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 408.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 408) for the restoration of Charles Brewster to his former position in the Army, having considered the same, would report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1120.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1120) for the relief of Samuel Lowery, respectfully submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: In the case of William S. Benjamin, who asks for back pay and also for bounty, your Committee have to report that the petitioner was reported as a private of the First New York Marine Artillery at the muster of that regiment, April 30, 1862... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 834.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 834) for the relief of Mrs. Margaret A. Spencer, have duly considered the same and the accompanying papers, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4383.) The Committee on Pensions, having considered the Bill (H.R. 4383) granting a pension to Stephen L. George, and the accompanying papers, find that his application is now pending before the Commissioner of Pensions; and in accordance with the precedent established by this Committee... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 522.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 522) granting a pension to James B. Gillespie, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Miriam L. 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In the Senate of the United States. June 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 99.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 99) granting a pension to Charles Slawson, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1398.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Benjamin Holladay, praying compensation for spoliations by Indians on his property while carrying the mails of the United States, and for damages and expenses incurred in consequence of the changing of his mail route in compliance with military orders, and for property taken and used by the military forces of the United States, having again had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ransom, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 899.) The Committee on Railroads have considered Senate Bill No. 899... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1330.) The material facts connected with this measure, and justify its provisions, are, namely... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. Res. 12.) The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the resolution (S. Res. 12) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and certain petitions for and remonstrances against the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4370.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4370) granting a pension to Catharine Harris, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1625.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1625) granting a pension to Abram V. Miller, late a lieutenant in the One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, having examined the evidence on file, and finding that the report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of Representatives presents an accurate summary of the testimony, adopt the same, which is as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2421.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2421) entitled "An Act for the Relief of H.H. Lemon, Member of the Capitol Police Force, for Injuries Received While in the Discharge of His Duties in the Year 1870," have considered the said bill, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3117.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3117) granting a pension to Susan L. Watson, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4421.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4421) granting a pension to August Mellon, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3565.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3565) granting a pension to Dr. P.F. Reuss, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John H. Perkins, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1399.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Frances A. Robinson, administratrix of the estate of John M. Robinson, deceased, of Independence, Mo., having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- 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 Clarissa Bishop, praying compensation for property alleged to have been taken from her by the United States Army in 1862, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2242.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2242) for the relief of William T. Malster, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of William B. Webb, administrator of the estate of James Le Caze, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3861.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3861) to reimburse Richard Joseph for money paid on forged vouchers, with accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 191.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 191) for the relief of John Fletcher, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United Sates. June 14, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the following resolution -- In Senate of the United States, January 23, 1878. On motion by Mr. Conkling, Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the alleged reinstatement or restoration of Lemuel J. Draper to the position formerly held by him in the medical corps of the Navy... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- 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 Samuel Marshall, late private of Company E, Second North Carolina Mounted Infantry Volunteers, praying correction of his record, &c., have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1304.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1304) for the relief of Robert C. Walker, late paymaster United States Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of James T. Shelly, praying to be reimbursed for amount of certain money expended by him in recruiting, organizing, and drilling troops for the United States Army during the late war, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 537.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 537) for the relief of William P. Hazard, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 129.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 129) donating the military reservation at Fort Smith, Ark., to the City of Fort Smith for free schools, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1405.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William H. Morgan, praying for the payment of bounty money claimed to be due him, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 947.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 947) for relief of Maj. Jacob E. Burbank, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3856.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3856, have considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 658.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 658) to authorize the restoration of Michael O'Brien to the rank of first lieutenant in the Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate authorizing said committee to investigate and report upon charges that the election of La Fayette Grover, as a senator from the State of Oregon, was procured by bribery... In the Senate of the United States. June 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3110.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred (H.R. 3110) granting a pension to Mary McNamara, having examined the evidence and finding the report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions to the House of Representatives to contain an accurate summary of the facts in the case, adopt the recommendation contained therein in the following words... In the Senate of the United States. June 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3435.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3435) to construct a road to the national cemetery at Vicksburg, Miss., having had the same under consideration, report the same back as amended, and recommend the passage of the bill as amended, so as to appropriate the sum of $7,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 629.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 629) granting a pension to Thomas Hewitt, report... In the Senate of the United States. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4985.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4985) granting a pension to George Denney, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1023.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1023) to remove the political disabilities of John H. Moore, submit the following report... |
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| Serial set 1792 | Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the second session of the Forty-fifth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 3, 1877, in the one hundred and second year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
| Serial set 1793 | Papers relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 3, 1877. | 1 |
| Serial set 1794 | 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 second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume I. | 1 |
| Serial set 1795 | 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 second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. | 1 |
| Serial set 1796 | 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 second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume II, Part II. | 1 |
| Serial set 1797 | 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 second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. | 1 |
| Serial set 1798 | 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 second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume IV. | 1 |
| Serial set 1799 | Report of the Secretary of the Navy; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. | 1 |
| Serial set 1800 | Report of the Secretary of the Interior; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume I. | 1 |
| Serial set 1801 | Report of the Secretary of the Interior; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume II. | 1 |
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Certain deficiencies in the appropriations for the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of appropriations for certain deficiencies in the appropriations for the Army. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Attorney General of the United States. The metrical system. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of chiefs of bureaus upon the adoption of the metrical system, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives. December 7, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Expenditure of State Department contingent fund. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statement of expenditure of contingent fund for the Department. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State and ordered to be printed. Security of public buildings against fire. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of the commission appointed to examine into the security of the public buildings in the City of Washington against fire. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Repavement of Pennsylvania Avenue. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of commissioners upon the repavement of Pennsylvania Avenue. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. George A. Armes. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the Adjutant General in the case of George A. Armes. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency for the contingent expenses of the General Land Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, concerning deficiency for contingent expenses of the General Land Office. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Site for a military post in Texas. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the donation of land as a site for a military post in Texas. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Repairs on the Speiden Building. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation to repair the "Speiden Building." December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. List of clerks in the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a list of the clerks employed in the War Department. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Commutation of quarters, fuel, and forage. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an amendment of the statutes in relation to commutation of quarters, fuel, and forage. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Land grant railroads. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to a decision of the Supreme Court upon the matter of payments of land grant railroads. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Military roads in Arizona. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to certain military roads in Arizona. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Improvement of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Chief of Engineers upon the necessity for the improvement of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Assistant Surgeon W.J. Wilson, U.S.A. Letter from the Secretary of War, concerning a decoration conferred upon Assistant Surgeon Wilson, United States Army, by the Khedive of Egypt. December 10, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Forestry. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a special report upon the subject of forestry by the Commissioner of Agriculture. December 14, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Fourth annual report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, embracing the period from November 30, 1876, to November 1, 1877. Investigation of the Customs service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting papers relative to the investigation of the Customs service. December 14, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. January 11, 1878. -- Recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Payments to informers for fiscal year ending June 30, 1877. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a detailed report of the sums allowed as compensation to officers of Customs and informers for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877. December 14, 1877. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. January 11, 1878. -- Recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations for payment of claims due prior to July 1, 1875. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriations for payment of claims originating prior to July 1, 1875, under Sections 3687 and 3689, Revised Statutes. January 11, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Sanitary report of surgeon at West Point, N.Y. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter of advice from the surgeon at West Point, N.Y. January 11, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Civil employes [sic] in Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a list of civil employes [sic] in that Department for the year ended December 31, 1877. January 11, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The Venezuelan Mixed Claims Commission. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting the recent correspondence between the governments of Venezuela and the United States in relation to the Venezuelan Mixed Claims Commission. January 14, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed under act of July 4, 1864. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting list of claims allowed under the act of July 4, 1864. January 15, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Operation of the Union Pacific Railroad and its branches. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting a report by the Attorney General of the United States upon the operation of the Union Pacific Railroad and its branches. January 21, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Dismal Swamp Canal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reference to the interest of the government in the Dismal Swamp Canal. January 21, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals and ordered to be printed. Location of Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific Railroads. Letter from the Secretary of War, concerning the location of the Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific Railroads through Fort Yuma reservation and across the Colorado River. January 21, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1803 | Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1877. | 1 |
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Annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the second session of the Forty-fifth Congress of the United States. December 3, 1877. Annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1877. |
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