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Serial set 1983	Pliny Jewett. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. William Boone. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Pleuropneumonia among cattle. February 28, 1881. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Clara A. Thompson. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Jonas B. Hopper. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth Albright. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Agnes Commesser. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Edward Farr. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John N. Payne. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Richard L. Whitman. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Caroline Lauffer. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Verlinda Davis. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John Morley Hudson. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mary Rose. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John Cowan. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Solomon Yewell. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Ann Easto. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. James A. Lee. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. George W. Wilson. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Thomas Hall. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Patrick Droney. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Stephen M. Gupton. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Stafford Palmer. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Adeline A. Turner. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Alexander W. Rowell. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Reuben H. Fitts. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Edmund W. Whitney. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Freeman N. Hall. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Dennis Sullivan. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Elbridge G. Savage. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Adam Poertner. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Coronna, Faussig [i.e., Taussig] & Co. and others. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Survey of certain public lands in the State of Ohio. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. General deficiency bill. March 1, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Merchant and Hebert vs. Acklen. March 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Final judgments of the Court of Claims. March 1, 1881. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. M.C. Fisher. March 1, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Anonymous letter to Hon. William M. Springer. March 3, 1881. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Department of Agriculture. March 3, 1881. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Anna Ella Carroll. March 3, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Duty on freshwater fish. March 3, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Abuse of the franking privilege. March 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed, with the views of the minority. The Monroe Doctrine. March 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. John B. Trainer. March 3, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Henry H. Watts. March 3, 1881. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Codification of the land laws. March 3, 1881. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Pension bureau. March 3, 1881. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Payment of Pensions, Bounty, and Back Pay. Maria Goodrich. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth Vernor Henry. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. George Quarrel. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Compilation of laws affecting public printing. March 3, 1881. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Proceedings of the Hot Springs Commission. March 3, 1881. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. William A. Gardner. February 28, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Nicaraguan claim. March 3, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Furnishing the daily Congressional Record to representatives of foreign governments in Washington, D.C. March 3, 1881. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. George C. Ellison. March 3, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Charles W. Button. March 3, 1881. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed	57
Serial set 1984	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the session specially called Monday, October 10, 1881, and the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 5, 1881, in the one hundred and sixth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1985	Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of the Secretary of State in response to Senate resolution of the 14th October, 1881, with accompanying document, relative to the projected interoceanic canal at Panama. October 24, 1881. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 21st of October, 1881, a copy of the report of Jas. F. Meline et al., with accompanying statements of Mr. J.K. Upton and J.T. Power. October 24, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Proceedings of the International Sanitary Conference provided for by joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives in the early part of 1881. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 19, 1881, a list of the names of officers, clerks, and other employes [sic] of the Department of Justice. October 14, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of the 14th instant, the decision of the First Comptroller of the Treasury relative to the compensation of the members, officers, clerks, and employes [sic] of the Senate, pending the vacancy in the Office of Secretary of the Senate, &c. October 21, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitted in compliance with Senate resolution of the 24th of March, calling upon executive departments for lists of all books, reports, documents, and pamphlets issued, printed, or published by their respective departments, &c. October 22, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	6
Serial set 1986	Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 12, 1881, a report from the Secretary of State, touching the proposed modification of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of April 19, 1850, between the United States and Great Britain. December 15, 1881. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Attorney General of the United States for the year 1881. December 7, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of a report of Brig. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, dated September ---, 1881, of an inspection of forts Coeur d'Alene and Colville, and Camp Spokane, Washington Territory, with the indorsement of the General of the Army, in which he recommends an appropriation of $40,000 for a permanent military post in Northern Washington Territory, &c. December 7, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report relative to the employment of additional clerks in the Surgeon General's office, &c. December 7, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with law, a "report of the condition of the fortification, and what number of them, if any, can be dispensed with." December 7, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of May 19, 1881, a list showing the names of all officers, clerks, and other employes [sic] borne upon the rolls of the Department. December 8, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 17, 1881, a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, touching the Geneva Convention for the relief of the wounded in war. December 12, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of May 17, 1881, a copy of the report of Capt. O.H. Ernst, Corps of Engineers, upon the survey of the Osage River between the mouth of Rainey Creek and Tuscumbia. December 12, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting information, in compliance with Senate resolution of April 12, 1881, relative to alternation, if any, in the relative rank of graduates of the Naval Academy as originally established under the provisions of Sections 1483 and 1521 of the Revised Statutes, &c. December 13, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 13th instant, covering copies of reports from Capt. A.N. Damrell, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations and surveys of Holmes Creek, Chipola, Finholloway, East Bay, and Blackwater, Ocolockonnee, Aucilla, and Wacissa rivers, in the State of Florida. December 15, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 13th instant, and accompanying copy of report from Maj. Henry M. Robert, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of the mouth of Cedar River, &c. December 15, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 13th instant, covering copy of report from Maj. S.M. Mansfield, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of Matagorda Bay, at the mouth of Saint Mary's Bayou, Texas. December 15, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to the printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, in reference to the applications of the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central, and the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Companies, for a right of way across the lands of the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory. December 15, 1881. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Railroads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 13th instant, covering copy of report of Maj. W.E. Merrill, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Clarion River from its mouth to Ridgway, Pa. December 16, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a communication dated 14th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying draft of a bill to accept and ratify an agreement with the Crow Indians for sale of western portion of their reservation in Montana Territory. December 16, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to b[e] printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in response to Senate resolution of the 13th of October, 1881, calling for the papers in relation to the seizure of one Vicenzo Rebello, an Italian, in the City of New Orleans, in June, 1881, &c. December 19, 1881. -- Read and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State in relation to the necessity of modifying the present system of consular jurisdiction of the United States in the countries of the East. December 19, 1881. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in response to Senate resolution of May 19, 1881, giving a list of the names of all officers, clerks, and other employes [sic] of that Department not required to be confirmed by the Senate. December 19, 1881. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 14th instant, covering copy of report from Maj. J.A. Smith, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey for a harbor of refuge at New Buffalo, Mich. December 19, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 14th instant, covering copy of report, with accompanying maps, from Maj. John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of Maumee Bay for a straight channel from Toledo, Ohio, to the waters of Lake Erie. December 19, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of the 14th instant, copy of report of Lieut. Col. G.K. Warren, Corps of Engineers, dated December 7, 1881, in regard to the condition of the government's wharf and docks at Block Island, Rhode Island. December 19, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Director of the United States Geological Survey to that department, relative to rent of building for use of the survey, under act June 16, 1880. December 19, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying statement showing disposition of clothing purchased from appropriation, not specifically appropriated for under treaties with various tribes. December 14, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. December 20, 1881. -- Reported back by Mr. Dawes, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to same committee. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 17th instant, covering copy of report from Maj. Walter McFarland, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of Sackett's Harbor, New York. December 20, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of the 15th instant, a copy of the report of the Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D., upon the condition of education in Alaska. December 20, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of December 6, 1881, concerning instructions to and reports of certain examiners of national banks, &c. December 21, 1881. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 19th instant, covering copy of a report from Capt. Thomas H. Handbury, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Little Red River, Arkansas. December 21, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of report from Lieut. Col. Q.A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of Indian River, Florida, with a view to opening a passage to Mosquito Lagoon, by way of the Haulover. January 5, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 23d ultimo, covering copy of report from Lieut. Col. G.H. Mendell, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Mokelumne River, California. January 5, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 3d instant, covering copies of reports from Maj. G.L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations of the harbor of Port Henry, Lake Champlain, and of the channel between the islands of North Hero and South Hero. January 5, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of report from Capt. C.J. Allen, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Cannon River, Minnesota, with a view that it may be added to the reservoir system of the Upper Mississippi. January 5, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, for the consideration of Congress, a copy of Senate Ex. Doc., No. 149, 46th Congress, 2d session, transmitted in response to Senate resolution of April 9th, 1880, relative to the action taken by that department in adopting Sawyer's improved canister, and as to the justice of compensating for same. December 15, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with law, a progress report of the Mississippi River Commission, dated November 25, 1881. December 15, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting in compliance with Senate resolution of May 19, 1881, a list giving the names of clerks and other employes [sic] in that Department not required to be confirmed by the Senate, &c. December 16, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 14th inst., covering copy of report from Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers, with accompanying map, upon the completion of the survey of Harlem River, New York, and through Harlem Kills to the East River, New York. December 19, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of May 19, 1881, lists showing the names of all officers, clerks, and other employes [sic] borne upon the rolls of that Department, not required to be confirmed by the Senate. December 12, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	36
Serial set 1987	List of officers, clerks, and other employees of the Post Office Department not required to be confirmed by the Senate, communicated in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of May 19, 1881. January 6, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, recommending a renewal of the appropriation of ten thousand dollars heretofore made for defraying the expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners. January 18, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, a complete list of all books, reports, documents, and pamphlets issued, printed, or published by the Navy Department. January 5, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of 16th of December, 1881, a report from the Chief of Engineers dated 3d instant, relating to the construction of a ship canal across the peninsula of Florida, including estimates of cost of work. January 6, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a list of clerks and other persons employed in that Department, and offices thereof, from December 1, 1880, to November 30, 1881, in compliance with Section 194 of the Revised Statutes. January 6, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the late Postmaster General, relative to the limited period for the reception of bids under the existing advertisement laws, &c. January 6, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of May 19, 1881, a statement giving the names of the clerks and other employes [sic] in that Department. January 6, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with accompanying papers, in reference to the bill of Choctaw council, approved November 10, 1881, granting a right of way through the Choctaw Nation to the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company, &c. January 9, 1882. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with Section 1665, Revised Statutes, a statement exhibiting the expenditures at the Springfield Armory, Mass., and of the arms, components of arms, and appendages fabricated, altered, and repaired during the year ending June 30, 1881. January 10, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated 7th instant, covering copies of reports from Col. George Thom, Corps of Engineers, upon surveys of Harrisecket River, Maine, harbor of Brunswick on Androscoggin River, Merrimac River, Massachusetts, and Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts. January 10, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of report from Capt. James Mercur, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of the bar at the mouth of Winyah Bay, near Georgetown, S.C. January 12, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, reports of the publications, &c., of the respective bureaus of the War Department from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1881. January 12, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 19, 1881, calling for information respecting the organization of a special court for the trial of Customs cases, &c., a copy of a printed circular dated June 15, 1881; also a letter from Acting Secretary of Treasury of November 12, 1881, &c. January 16, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to the requirement of Section 2452, Revised Statutes, a list of the cases of suspended land entries acted on during the year ending June 30, 1881. January 16, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in compliance with Section 229 of the Revised Statutes, statements showing the contracts made by the bureaus of that Department, on behalf of the United States, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881. January 12, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. January 17, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior with draft of bill providing for the improvement of the condition of Indians occupying reservations. January 18, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill, in reference to the settlement of the estates of deceased Kickapoo Indians in the State of Kansas. January 18, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior in relation to proposed legislation for the sale of the Otoe and Missouria Indian reservation in the states of Nebraska and Kansas. January 18, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill to appropriate money to meet deficiency in the Indian service for the year ending June 30, 1882. January 18, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior with draft of a bill to create the office of medical inspector for the United States Indian service. January 18, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, copies of papers relating to the improvement of the Mississippi River levee in front of New Orleans. January 18, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 21, 1881, information in relation to the present rates of duties imposed by France, Germany, and Mexico on the manufactures of the United States when imported into those countries. January 18, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 7, 1881, information in relation to the government works on the Fox and Wisconsin rivers improvement at Menasha and Appleton, Wisconsin. January 18, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with a draft of a bill to accept and ratify an agreement with the Crow Indians for the sale of a portion of their reservation in the Territory of Montana required for the Northern Pacific Railroad. January 18, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, a copy of the report of the engineers heretofore required to examine and report upon the location of a harbor of refuge on the Pacific Coast. January 18, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of War, inclosing a copy of one from the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, dated the 11th instant, setting forth the necessity for additional room for the Signal Office. January 19, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, dated 14th instant, and accompanying letter from the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, recommending the passage of a joint resolution authorizing the printing and binding of ten thousand additional copies of the latter's annual report for 1881. January 19, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting information in relation to Senate resolution of January 12, 1882, calling for a certain decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the opinion of the Attorney General relating to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, &c. January 19, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, with accompanying papers, recommending an appropriation for the purchase of a site and the erection of a fire-proof building to contain the records, library, and museum of the Surgeon General's office. January 19, 1882. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of report from Capt. W.H. Heuer, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Sabine Pass, Texas, through Sabine Lake and River to Orange, and Sabine Lake and the Neches River to Beaumont. January 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of January 18, 1882, covering copies of reports from Lieut. Col. W.P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations and surveys of Broad Creek, Corsica Creek, Tangier Sound, Skipton Creek, and Bush River. January 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of reports from Maj. W.H.H. Benyaurd, Corps of Engineers, upon examination of Bear Creek, running into Yazoo River, and of Big Black River, Mississippi. January 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 6, 1882, the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office upon the survey of the United States and Texas Boundary Commission. January 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed.	33
Serial set 1988	Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey showing the progress of the work during the fiscal year ending with June, 1881. January 16, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 1989	Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State of February 3, 1882, with accompanying papers, in response to Senate resolution of 12th ultimo calling for certain correspondence in the case of claim of Antonio Pelletier against the government of Hayti. February 3, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the Army of January 25, 1882, and accompanying copy of report from Capt. O.H. Ernst, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of Fish Bend, in the Mississippi River, near Fort Chartres. January 29, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the Army, dated January 25, 1882, and accompanying copy of report from Maj. G.L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of the waters of New York Bay. January 30, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, the report and opinion of the U.S. Surveyor General of the Territory of Arizona, on private land claim No. 13, known as "Rancho de Otero and house lot." January 30, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, of the 27th ultimo, with accompanying papers, on the subject of the confirmation of the homestead entries of certain lands in the Marquette District, Michigan, made by Hugh Foster and John Waishkey, Jr. February 3, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the Army, dated January 24, 1882, covering copy of report from Maj. G.J. Lydecker, Corps of Engineers, upon survey of the Calumet River. January 27, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in further compliance with Senate resolution of December 12, 1881, the remainder of the correspondence touching the desired modification of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. January 27, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with accompanying statement, in response to Senate resolution of December 14, 1881, calling for statement in relation to the sale of plantations in South Carolina. February 1, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of January 16, 1882, the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with copies of papers containing charges complaints, and reports concerning irregularities in the collection of internal revenue in the Sixth District of North Carolina. February 2, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of reports from Maj. J.W. Barlow, Corps of Engineers, upon surveys made of harbor of Madison, Connecticut; harbor of Clinton, Connecticut; Greenport Harbor, New York; harbor of Mamaroneck, New York; for a breakwater and harbor of refuge at Milford, Conn. February 2, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, the report and opinion of the Surveyor General of the Territory of New Mexico on private land claim No. 124, "Ojo De La Cabra," also report of Commissioner of General Land Office. February 2, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in further response to Senate resolution of March 18, 1881, a report of the Secretary of State, touching the capitulations of the Ottoman Empire. February 2, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting papers relating to the War in South America, and attempts to bring about a peace, submitted to the Senate, January 26, 1882, in reply to the resolution of that body of December 13, 1881, and of the House of Representatives of January 24, 1882, calling for correspondence touching the efforts of this government to bring about peace between Chili, and Peru and Bolivia, and touching claims against or contracts respecting either of the belligerent governments, with an abstract of their contents. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 18, 1882, the reports of Capt. L.A. Beardslee, United States Navy, relating to affairs in the Territory of Alaska, and the operations of the U.S. ship Jamestown, under his command, while in the waters of that territory. January 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of bill for the per capita distribution of the sum of two thousand dollars to the band of Eastern Shawnee Indians at Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory. January 24, 1882. -- Read, Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of bill to increase the salary of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and to create the offices of Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office and inspectors of surveyors general and district land offices. January 24, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill authorizing the sale of certain pine timber cut upon the Menomonee reservation in Wisconsin, with accompanying papers. January 24, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of bill and accompanying papers, in reference to the proposition of the Creek Nation of Indians for the cession of certain of their lands in the Indian Territory occupied by the Seminole Indians. January 24, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed.	18
Serial set 1990	Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements from the Quartermaster General and others in reference to Senate resolution of January 24, 1882, calling for information in relation to the cost to the government of the Indian wars during each of the past ten years, &c. March 6, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting information in compliance with Senate resolution of March 30, 1882, relative to the ownership of certain lands on Virginia and Maryland shores, opposite Conn's Island, above Great Falls, in the Potomac River. April 6, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 10, 1882, a letter from the Chief of Engineers and accompanying copy of report from Maj. W.H.H. Benyaurd, Corps of Engineers, relating to an estimate of the expense of permanently closing Alban's, Hervey's, Sale and Murphy's, and Kountz's canals, outlets of the Red River, Louisiana. April 12, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 28th instant, a copy of the Attorney General's letter of the 18th instant to Dallas Sanders, Esq., assistant counsel to the United States Attorney for South Carolina, and copy of Sanders's reply thereto. March 31, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports from the Commissary General of Subsistence and Quartermaster General of the Army, in response to Senate resolution of the 22d instant, relative to amount of supplies, tents, and transportation furnished the several states for relief of sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi River. March 30, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from Maj. W.H.H. Benyaurd, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana, and in the vicinity of Grand Bayou Cut-off from Black Hawk Landing on the Mississippi, across the neck of land between the Red and the Mississippi rivers. April 17, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with the draft of a bill to prevent timber depredations on Indian reservations. February 3, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of report from Lieut. Col. Q.A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey made for the further improvements necessary in Savannah River and harbor. February 6, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of reports of Maj. W.R. King, Corps of Engineers, upon examination of Bear Creek and of Little Tennessee River. February 6, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the Army, dated the 2d instant, and accompanying copy of report from Maj. C.R. Suter, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of the Missouri River at and near Arrow Rock, Mo. February 6, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter form the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement in response to Senate resolution of March 3, 1881, calling for a detailed statement of all fees and costs collected under the laws of the United States from American shipping during the year 1881. February 7, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information regarding the improvement of the lock at the mouth of Bayou Plaquemine, La., in response to Senate resolution of December 15, 1881, calling for same. February 7, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, inclosing copies of papers relating to the site of Fort Bliss, at El Paso, Tex., with especial reference to certain errors contained in the deeds conveying the land to the United States. February 8, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of 1st instant from the Secretary of the Interior covering information respecting the lands granted to the State of Oregon for the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road Company. February 8, 1882. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of March 9, 1882, and accompanying copies of reports from Maj. W.R. King, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations and surveys of Cumberland River at Smith's Shoals, Kentucky, and Chattahoochee River, Georgia, between West Point and Bolton, on the Western and Atlantic Railroad. March 13, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 9, 1882, a list of the places at which the free delivery of mail matter has been established of a less population than 20,000. Act of February 21, 1879 (U.S. Statute 20, page 317, section 5). March 13, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 9, 1882, a communication from the Chief of Engineers of March 8, 1882, and accompanying report of Maj. G. Weitzel, Corps of Engineers, relative to the necessary additional works at the Falls of the Ohio River, to complete the improvements thereof in a manner to serve to interests of the commerce of the Ohio River. March 10, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports from the United States engineer officer, showing the maintenance of the channel at South Pass, Mississippi River, during the quarters ending May 9, 1881, August 13, 1881, November 13, 1881, and February 13, 1882. March 10, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi River and Tributaries and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of March 8, 1882, and accompanying copies of reports from Capt. A.N. Damrell, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations and surveys of Dog Island Harbor and Crooked River, harbor of Key West, Crystal River, La Grange Bayou up to Freeport, and Manatee River in Florida; Tombigbee River from Fulton to Warren's Mill, outlet of harbor of Ship Island, harbor at Biloxi, harbor at Pascagoula, and Old Town Creek in Mississippi. March 10, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with Section 232 of the Revised Statutes, an abstract of the militia force of the United States. February 13, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the Army, of yesterday's date, covering copies of reports from Capt. C.J. Allen, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations of Beaver Bay, Grand Portage Bay, and Waus-wau-goning Bay, Minnesota. February 13, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the Army, dated February 10, 1882, covering copy of a report from Lieut. Col. G.K. Warren, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations and surveys of Buzzard's and Barnstable bays, Massachnsetts [i.e., Massachusetts]. February 14, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Pensions, giving information in response to Senate resolution of the 6th ultimo, calling for certain information relating to the payment of pensions. February 14, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting in response to Senate resolution of February 10, 1882, the report of the Treasury Cattle Commission on the lung plague of cattle, or contagious pleuro-pneumonia. February 15, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from Capt. William Ludlow, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Frankford Creek, from its mouth in the Delaware River to Frankford Avenue. February 15, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter form the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication from Attorney General and report of Commissioner of General Land Office, also report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in response to Senate resolution of January 10, 1882, calling for information touching the opening for settlement under the pre-emption laws of the United States of part of the Ute reservation in Colorado. February 15, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication, with accompanying papers, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in response to Senate resolution of January 24, 1882, calling for information relating to amounts expended for the education of Indian children, &c. February 21, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers, requesting a special appropriation for payment of the claim of Isaac A. Sylvester. February 21, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing one from the Commissioner of Pensions, in which he recommends that more adequate provisions be made for the payment of the expenses of obtaining evidence of the disability of pensioners and applicants for pension who reside in foreign countries. February 21, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, of the 16th instant, relative to the necessity for a deficiency appropriation for the payment of salaries of clerks and laborers in the Patent Office during the present fiscal year. February 21, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, and accompanying papers, in which he recommends that authority be given for the payment of certain damages which unexpectedly occurred to the property of private persons on the government reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in consequence of work performed under the direction of the superintendent in the performance of his duty. February 21, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of communication from the Lighthouse Board, dated 31st ultimo, in response to Senate resolution of the 6th ultimo, requesting information in regard to the Pintsch lighted buoy in operation at the entrance of the harbor of New York, during the past summer, &c. February 23, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 19, 1882, the official report of C.C. Lancaster, Jr., in relation to the conduct of judicial officers and their accounts in Alabama. February 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 23d instant, with accompanying papers, in response to Senate resolution of the 30th ultimo, calling for certain information in relation to the Malheur Indian Reservation in the State of Oregon. February 28, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the Adjutant General, dated the 15th instant, inclosing copies of reports from the commanding generals of the divisions of the Missouri and the Pacific, giving the desired information called for in Senate resolution of January 30, 1882, calling for the number of Indians held as prisoners, under orders from the War Department, &c. March 1, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 19, 1881, a communication, with accompanying papers, from the Secretary of State, respecting the collection by consular officers of certain official fees in connection with the authentication of invoices, and the compensation of such officers. March 1, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with the provisions of Section 194 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, a list embracing the names of the clerks and other persons employed in the several bureaus in this Department during the calendar year ended December 31, 1881. March 20, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 9th instant, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relating to the alleged imprisonment by the British government of Daniel McSweeney, a citizen of the United States. March 20, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the 14th instant, and accompanying copies of reports from Mr. S.T. Abert, United States civil engineer, upon examinations of Staunton River, from Brook Neal, in Campbell County, to the mouth of Pig River, Virginia; of Upper Machodoc Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River; of Urbana Creek, a tributary of the Rappahannock; and of a survey of Roanoke River. March 20, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, a full and complete inventory of all property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by the Interior Department and under its charge. March 23, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 28th ultimo, the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office concerning a tract of land in Colorado patented to Charles Beaubien. March 29, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 5, 1882, a statement from the Commissioner of Pensions, giving the desired information called for. April 12, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. May 12, 1882. -- Resolved, that there be printed for the use of the Senate 500 extra copies of Executive Document No. 152, with corrections. Message form the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, of the 6th instant, together with plans and estimates for barracks and quarters in the Military Division of the Pacific and at Fort Monroe, Virginia. February 8, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from Lieut. Col. G.K. Warren, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of Edgartown Harbor and South Beach, Massachusetts. February 9, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of a report from Capt. Thomas Turtle, Corps of Engineers, of surveys across the Peninsula of Maryland and Delaware to connect by canal the waters of the Delaware and Chesapeake bays. February 9, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting information, with report dated the 4th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in response to Senate resolution of the 26th ultimo, calling for the action taken by that department to ascertain the damages resulting from the raid of Northern Cheyenne Indians through the western portion of the Indian Territory and the states of Kansas and Nebraska in 1878. February 9, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of amounts required to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for buildings and grounds in this city, for the current fiscal year. February 10, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, transmitting plans and estimates for the erection of a large military post at Fort Selden, New Mexico. March 3, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of March 24, 1882, and accompanying reports from Captain William Ludlow, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations and surveys of Maurice River, Salem and Cohansey rivers, Mantua Creek, Newton Creek, of New Jersey, mouth of Mispillion and Murderkill creeks, Delaware. March 7, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated March 4, 1882, and accompanying copy of report from Capt. A. Mackenzie, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey for a harbor of refuge in Lake Pepin, at Stockholm, Wis., and Lake City, Minn. March 7, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of S.T. Abert, United States civil engineer, upon a survey of the Potomac River in the vicinity of Washington, with reference to the improvement of navigation, the establishment of harbor lines, and the raising of the flats; also the preliminary report of a Board of Engineer officers on the same subject. March 9, 1882. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Potomac Flats and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, with letter from the Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, and draft of a bill, recommending an increase of five hundred enlisted men for the naval service. March 9, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 26, 1882, a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of the 9th instant, relating to the amount of indebtedness by the Kansas tribe of Indians to individuals represented by certificates issued by any officer of the government, &c. March 14, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 13, 1882, a report from the Chief of Ordnance, relating to the number and character of cannon now owned by the United States which have been condemned or are deemed unfit for use, &c. March 15, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 8, 1882, a communication from the Lighthouse Board of the 9th instant, inclosing copies of reports of the board and its officers regarding the merits of systems for lighting harbors, &c., by compressed gas; also, regarding the working of the invention of John M. Foster, with publications and drawings illustrative of the same, &c. March 15, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the Army, of February 15, 1882, and accompanying copy of report from Maj. J.W. Cuyler, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Licking River, from its mouth to Falmouth, Ky. February 17, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of February 7, 1882, copy of report of the Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office of April 25, 1881, in reference to the right of occupation by settlers of any portion of the Indian Territory. February 17, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, of February 16, 1882, and accompanying copies of reports from Capt. C.F. Powell, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations and surveys of Young's, Lewis and Clarke's, and Skipanon rivers, Oregon; Snake River, Idaho; entrance to Gray's Harbor, Washington Territory; Chehalis River, Washington Territory; between Baker's Bay and Shoalwater Bay, Washington Territory. February 20, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from Lieut. Col. G.K. Warren, Corps of Engineers, in response to Senate resolution of the 17th instant calling for estimates of the cost of increasing the main ship channel of Providence River and Harbor. March 30, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of 29th instant, and accompanying copy of report from Lieut. Col. W.P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of James River, Virginia. March 31, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from Maj. Amos Stickney, Corps of Engineers, as containing the information called for by Senate resolution of March 15, 1882, relative to bayous Courtableau, Teche, and Terrebonne, Louisiana. April 3, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 71) entitled "An Act To Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations Relating to Chinese," with his objections thereto. April 4, 1882. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 29, 1882, the report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relating to the arrest and confinement in Ireland of certain citizens of the United States. April 5, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 2, 1882, calling for "an estimate of the expense of clearing the wrecks and other obstructions to navigation at the mouth of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana, a report from Maj. Amos Stickney, Corps of Engineers, containing the information." April 10, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. C.R. Suter, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of Nishnabotana River, from Hamburg, Iowa, to its junction with the Missouri. April 11, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 6, 1882, a copy of a report of Hon. O.B. Thomas, Special Assistant Attorney General in relation to the amount of awards, &c., for damages occasioned by the erection of dams on the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, &c. April 12, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in response to Senate resolution of January 31, 1882, touching the relations of the United States with Guatemala and Mexico, &c. February 17, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. April 14, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 15, 1882, a letter from the Chief of Engineers and report of Maj. Amos Stickney, Corps of Engineers, giving information in connection with the construction of a bridge by the New Orleans and Northeastern Railway Company across Lake Pontchartrain from Pointe-aux-Herbes to Bonfouca, La. April 17, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General of the United States, transmitting a list embracing all the publications of that department, in compliance with Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, calling for same. February 17, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, dated the 6th instant, with accompanying papers from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and draft of a bill to amend Section 2135 Revised Statutes. March 9, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.	70
Serial set 1991	Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to a Senate resolution of December 21, 1881, a letter from the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics and its inclosures regarding the rates of wages paid in the United States, in Great Britain, in France, in Germany, and in Mexico. May 11, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication and estimate from the Director of the United States Geological Survey, giving desired information called for in Senate resolution of April, 1882, relating to the progress made by the United States Geological Survey of the Territories towards an examination into the mineral and agricultural and other economic resources of that region known as Alaska, &c. May 4, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, of May 4, 1882, and accompanying copies of reports from Capt. James Mercur, Corps of Engineers, upon examination and surveys of Meherrin, White Oak, and New Rivers, North Carolina, &c. May 8, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting an accession of the United States to the convention concluded at Geneva on the 22d August, 1864, between various powers, for the amelioration of the wounded of armies in the field, and to the additional articles thereto, signed at Geneva on the 20th October, 1868. March 3, 1882. -- Read; accession read the first time, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and, together with the message, ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate. March 16, 1882. -- Ratified and injunction of secrecy removed therefrom. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers relating to the necessary enlargement of the military reservation of Fort Missoula, Mont. May 4, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 26, 1882, a statement prepared by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, showing the total amount of tax collected on raw cotton, &c. May 4, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office submitting an estimate of $3,200 for completing an exhibit of all the private land claims in the State of Louisiana. May 9, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a letter from the Superintendent of Census, submitting an estimate for an appropriation of $80,000 to defray the expenses of the Census Office during the remainder of the present year. May 9, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a copy of a letter from the governor of Arizona, requesting an appropriation of $2,000 for the contingent expenses of the territory for the next fiscal year. May 11, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, of the 24th instant, with accompanying papers, submitting the draft of a proposed clause for insertion in one of the pending appropriation bills, to provide for the payment of certain legal services rendered to the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, in 1881 amounting to $150. June 6, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, submitted in response to Senate resolution of the 21st of March last, requesting a copy of instructions given Mr. George F. Seward, when minister to China, concerning Chinese immigration, &c., and dispatches on that subject, &c. May 15, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Board on Heavy Ordnance and Projectiles appointed in conformity with the act of Congress approved March 3, 1881, by general orders, No. 48, A.G.O., May 16, 1881, for the purpose of "making examinations of all inventions of heavy ordnance and improvements of heavy ordnance and projectiles; and making a detailed report to the Secretary of War, for transmission to Congress, of such examinations with recommendation as to what inventions are worthy of actual test and the estimated cost of such test." May 29, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table. May 31, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 15th instant, and accompanying copy of report from Capt. William Ludlow, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Indian River, Delaware. May 17, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting in response to Senate resolution of the 7th June, 1882, lists of the judgments or awards rendered against the United States, in what are called "The Flowage Cases" in Wisconsin, &c. June 12, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, and its accompanying papers, concerning the Smoke Abatement Exhibition which was held at South Kensington, London, last winter. June 16, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 5, 1882, a report from the Secretary of State submitting copies of the full correspondence between that department and the Hon. William Henry Trescot, special envoy extraordinary to the republics of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia, and Walker Blaine, Third Assistant Secretary of State. June 14, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee of Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, a list of all books, reports, documents, and pamphlets printed or published by this Department from 1789 to 1881. June 14, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the 21st instant, and the accompanying copy of the report of Capt. Charles F. Powell, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of the Columbia River at The Dalles, in Oregon. July 25, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 22d instant, a statement of the sums of money paid to the Ponca Indians since 1871, and under what treaty obligation. July 29, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of July 22, 1882, information relating to the issuing of pension certificates for a double pension to Ward B. Burnett, &c. August 2, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter, dated the 29th ultimo, from the Secretary of War, inclosing copy of a communication from the Mississippi River Commission, in which the commission recommends that an appropriation may be made of $1,010,000 for "closing existing gaps in levees," in addition to the like sum for which an estimate has already been submitted. April 18, 1882. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, and its accompanying papers, containing the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea. April 18, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of report, dated 15th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying papers, in response to Senate resolution of March 13, 1882, "requesting list of all Indian reservations upon which troops are stationed; also such information as may be on file in that Department touching the destruction and inordinate consumption of timber by the troops upon such reservations," &c. April 19, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 4th instant, copies of certain papers relating to the construction of a bridge over the Willamette River at Portland, Oreg., &c. April 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in response to Senate resolution of April 5, 1882, a letter from the Chief of Engineers of yesterday's date, and the accompanying copy of a report from Lieut. T.W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, embracing all the information in this department respecting the navigable waters of the Upper Columbia River and its tributaries, and of the country adjacent thereto. April 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a petition from First Lieut. G.S. Jennings, U.S.A., retired, for such legislation as will give him the rank and pay of colonel on the retired list from date of retirement from active service, &c. April 26, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of June 16, 1882, estimates of the amounts required to pay the claims referred to, &c. June 22, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers dated June 23, 1882, and the accompanying copy of report from Maj. Amos Stickney, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey for a breakwater in Lake Pontchartrain, in the vicinity of the New Canal outlet near New Orleans. June 26, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, dated the 9th instant, and accompanying copy of a telegram from the general commanding the Military Division of the Pacific and Department of California, relative to the construction of additional quarters, &c., within the limits of the Military Department of Arizona. June 26, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 23, 1882, certified copies of all the oaths which were taken by the directors of the national banks in Richmond, Va., which were on file in the Comptroller's Office during the years 1879 and 1880. June 28, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, with report from Lieut. Col. Q.A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers, upon survey made with the view of opening a steamboat communication from Saint John's River, Florida, by way of Topokalija Lake to Charlotte Harbor or Peace Creek. June 5, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. July 1, 1882. -- Ordered printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from Capt. James Mercur, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. July 6, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from Maj. Amos Stickney, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of Pass Manchac and Bayou Manchac, Louisiana, from its mouth to the Mississippi River. July 10, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and the Monroe Doctrine. A letter from the Secretary of State to the Minister of the United States at London dated May 8, 1882, with sundry papers and documents explanatory of the same, selected from the archives of the Department of State. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 25, 1882, a communication, with accompanying papers, from the Secretary of the Navy, in relation to the title by which the United States holds the land now occupied as a Navy-yard at Boston, Mass. August 5, 1882. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 18, 1882, a report of the Secretary of State, with copies of certain diplomatic correspondence with Spain in 1876. May 3, 1882. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of May 8, 1882, and accompanying copies of reports from Maj. Amos Stickney, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations and surveys of Atchafalaya River and of Bayous Grand Caillou and Little Caillou, Louisiana. May 10, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	37
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January 6, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Pensions, reported the following resolution. (To accompany the report of the Committee on Pensions in the case of Cornelia A. Shultz.) Resolved, that the petition of Cornelia A. Shultz for a pension be denied... Evidence taken before the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, in relation to the Bill (H.R. 6529) making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and for other purposes. February 2, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the experience of mankind has demonstrated the necessity of the use of both gold and silver as a circulating medium; that the destruction of the money faculty of silver is in the interest of a few only, and not calculated to benefit the great mass of mankind... Letter from John D. Defrees, public printer, on the subject of the delay in issuing the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture. December 20, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Pensions are hereby instructed to report on Senate Bill __, granting a pension to the survivors of the Mexican and Indian Wars prior to the year 1848. In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1882. -- Submitted. March 23, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. March 30, 1882. -- Reported with amendments and ordered to be printed. Omit the parts in brackets, and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, that increasing commercial intercourse between the people of Mexico and of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. October 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the standing committees of the Senate as they were constituted at the close of the last session of the Senate be continued for the present session... Letter from R.B. Nixon, financial clerk of the Senate, transmitting report of receipts and expenditures of the Senate from July 1, 1880, to July 3, 1881; also statement of account from July 4, 1881, to August 6, 1881, with certificates of the closing of the accounts of Hon. John C. Burch, late Secretary of the Senate; and also an inventory of the property of the United States in possession of the late Secretary on the 28th day of July, 1881. October 11, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. October 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Finance Committee of the Senate be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to investigate the accounts for the expenditure of the several appropriations for contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, since July 1, 1871, including the methods of making such disbursements... In the Senate of the United States. October 27, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be instructed to inquire into the expediency and propriety of some measures for the immediate removal of the railroad depot and track on Sixth Street of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad... In the Senate of the United States. October 27, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the following letter from Hon. Alfred H. Colquitt, Governor of Georgia, and President of the Atlanta Exposition... In the Senate of the United States. October 29, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, of Georgia, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that appointments to offices under the federal government ought not to be made to control or influence elections in the several states, and appointments made with such intent are unwise, unpatriotic, and contrary to the spirit of our political institutions... In the Senate of the United States. December 6, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that in the opinion of the Senate it is expedient to reduce the revenue of the government by abolishing all existing internal revenue taxes, except those imposed upon high wines and distilled spirits. In the Senate of the United States. December 6, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Constitution of the United States provides, "In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice-President..." In the Senate of the United States. December 6, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be, and is hereby, instructed to inquire what legislation, if any, is necessary to carry into effect the provision of the Constitution in case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office... In the Senate of the United States. December 8, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the recommendations contained in the President's message in favor of the repeal of the act authorizing the coinage of silver... In the Senate of the United States. December 13, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to furnish to the Senate, at as early a date as practicable, a statement showing: 1. What frauds, if any, have been discovered in the payment of pensions... Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia transmitting, in obedience to an act approved February 23, 1881, a report upon a proper site for a union depot in the City of Washington. December 13, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, that the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, requested to communicate to the Senate, in as concise a form as possible, all information or evidence or facts on file in the war office relating to the construction of a ship canal across the peninsula of Florida... Report of the Commissioner of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. December 15, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Mayor and City Council of Paris, Texas, in favor of the ratification by Congress of the act of the Choctaw Nation granting to the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company the right of way through that nation. December 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be laid on the table and printed. Letter from Hon. W.W. Corcoran, Chairman of the Joint Commission for the Completion of the Washington Monument, transmitting the annual report of said commission, in compliance with the law for its creation. December 19, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report of Theodore F. Dwight on the papers of Benjamin Franklin offered for sale by Mr. Henry Stevens, and recommending their purchase by Congress. December 20, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in reply to a resolution of the Senate, December 20, 1881, directing them to report "the reasons for obstructing the New York and Massachusetts avenues at their intersection," &c. January 5, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate whether further legislation is necessary to open for settlement, under the pre-emption laws of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to communicate to the Senate the decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office declaring the land grant made to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company lapsed, under the operation of the law granting the same... Memorial of Gen. Wm. T. Sherman and others, asking Congress to recognize in a suitable manner the eminent services of the late Carlile P. Patterson, Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. January 9, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, praying for an appropriation by Congress for the construction of harbor defenses at the entrance to the bay of San Francisco. (With accompanying papers.) January 9, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting the report of Lieut. F.V. Greene on the work of filling up the old canal in Washington City. January 9, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Statement of Mr. R.O. Holtzman, concerning the property embraced within squares numbered 633, 634, 635, 636, 685, 686, 689, and 690, adjoining the Capitol grounds in the City of Washington, D.C. January 10, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the Secretary of War be directed to transmit to the Senate a full report of the action of the mixed board on ordnance, selected to "examine the inventions in relation to ordnance, and to report what inventions are worthy of test, as well as the estimated cost of such tests," up to the present time... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rollins submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, directed to transmit, as soon as may be, to the Senate a statement showing the date when the retail liquor licenses for the last license year expired... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following resolution: Whereas, publication has been widely made by the public press of the United States of certain alleged commercial contracts between certain companies and copartnerships of individuals relative to the exports of guano and nitrates from Peru... Memorial of the National Relief Association, in favor of the passage of a bill to increase the efficiency of the Life-Saving Service. February 24, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the Committee on Foreign Relations be, and it hereby is, instructed to inquire into all the circumstances concerning the alleged loss or abstraction from the office of the Secretary of State of certain papers and documents mentioned in the message of the President sent to the Senate on the 26th day of January, A.D. 1882, and report thereon with such recommendations as may appear to it proper in the premises... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg submitted the following resolution: Whereas the prosperity and happiness of the people, the preservation of liberty and of the republican from of government depend upon mental discipline and the general diffusion of knowledge, which in their turn depend upon the education of the masses of the community... Letter from the Secretary of War, to Hon. F.M. Cockrell, of the United States Senate, transmitting a report on the claim of Joseph R. Shannon for the value of the steamer A.W. Quarrier. March 1, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from Major General M.C. Meigs, in response to questions from the Joint Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library, touching the proposed plan for raising the dome of the Capitol in order to secure additional space. March 16, 1882. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mahone submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States (the House of Representatives concurring), that in the event of any reduction in the tax on tobacco manufactured in the United States... In the Senate of the United States. Protest of bondholders of Yankton County, Dakota, against the admission of said territory as a state. March 21, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of American residents in Japan in favor of further legislation for their government as such residents. January 5, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. March 22, 1882. -- Reported. Ordered to be printed without the names and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Letter from the Governor of New York, transmitting a resolution of the legislature of that state in favor of the bill granting pensions to Union soldiers who were confined in southern prisons in the late war for the Union. March 27, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 29, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh submitted the following resolutions: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), first, that it is the imperative duty of Congress at its present session to revise the existing tariff laws and reduce and readjust the rates of duty on imports, so as to secure justice, equality, uniformity, and permanence in our revenue system... In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a committee of five senators be appointed by the Chair, whose duty it shall be to investigate and ascertain whether any corrupt or improper influences have been brought to bear on any member of this body in regard to House Bill No. 5656... Letter from the Secretary of State, addressed to Hon. Wm. Windom, Chairman Committee on Foreign Relations, and other papers, relative to the exercise of judicial extraterritorial rights conferred upon the United States. May 4, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 1828. Memorial of Fitz-John Porter, in favor of such action by Congress as will restore him to the positions of which he was deprived by the action of a court-martial. May 8, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that Senate Bill 420, now under consideration, be committed again to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to said Committee to prepare and report, with all convenient speed, a bill to establish a court of appeals, inferior to the Supreme Court, which shall be composed of not exceeding nine circuit judges in addition to the nine circuit judges who are now in office... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Whereas all branches of business connected with the production and consumption of distilled spirits are depressed and embarrassed by the uncertainty which prevails relative to the action of Congress on the subject... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Whereas charges have been filed with the Department of Justice against the integrity of government officers and ex-government officers in Alabama concerning their conduct in office... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Whereas printed circulars are being sent to officers, clerks, and employes [sic] in the United States service, stating, among other things... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Whereas the records in the General Land Office show great abuses and frauds in the surveys allowed by deposits under Sections 2401, 2402, add [i.e., and] 2403 of the Revised Statutes... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate be, and he is hereby, directed to appoint a messenger for each of the following named committees, to wit... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the good faith of the United States of America requires the execution of the obligations imposed by the treaty between the United States and Spain... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that immediately after half-past one o'clock, the unfinished business of the preceding day and the calendar of special orders, if any, for that day, shall be taken up and disposed of, and after that, or if there shall be no unfinished business of the preceding day or no special orders for that day... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, submitted the following resolution: Whereas the cost of collecting the internal revenue tax in the Sixth Collection District of North Carolina is near sixty per cent., being greater than that of any other district in the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interest, to inform the Senate whether there has been any representation made by the diplomatic representative of the United States at Chili that the United States would regard with indifference or consent to the dismemberment of Peru by the cession of any part of her territory to Chili under existing circumstances, and whether any authority has been given by the government to such representative to make such a statement. Memorial of a committee of a mass meeting held at Gunnison, Colo., in favor of the late Ute reservation being opened for settlement. March 7, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Mr. F.A. Pike for the reduction of the taxes on the coasting vessels of the United States. (To accompany Bill S. 1402.) March 7, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, that the President of the United States be requested to bring to the attention of the Emperor of Brazil the claim of Helen M. Fiedler, executrix of Ernest Fiedler, deceased, against the government of Brazil... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lapham, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that there be allowed and paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate to Maria G. Underwood, administratrix of John C. Underwood, deceased... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the just exercise of the power granted to Congress in Section 8, Article 1, of the Constitution... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that the Acting Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of the miscellaneous items of the contingent fund of the Senate... Letter from the Second Auditor of the Treasury to Hon. John A. Logan, Chairman Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, relative to changes needed in existing laws to enable the widows and heirs of deceased soldiers to receive the benefit of bounties due to said soldiers while living, and remaining unpaid at the time of their decease. February 16, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1882. -- Submitted. February 3, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. February 8, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that, in the opinion of the Senate, the act of January 25, 1879, commonly known as the "Arrears of Pension Act," ought not to be repealed... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that Article VI of the Constitution declares that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the interests of peace between nations, the obligations and rights which are reciprocal between the United States of America and all the other peoples and governments of the Americas, as well as the commercial interests of the people of the United States... Report of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from November 16, 1880, to the close of the year 1881. February 23, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Arguments of the woman suffrage delegates before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate, January 23, 1880. March 30, 1882. -- Reported from the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, ordered to be printed for the use of the Committee, and recommitted. In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the conduct of the State Department of this government in relation to the arrest and imprisonment of Daniel McSweeney and other American citizens by the authorities of Great Britain... Memorial of R.B. Williamson, inviting attention to his apparatus for purifying the air in public halls, &c. April 3, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Omaha Indians in relation to lands sold by the United States to the Winnebagoes, and to certain accounts with the government. April 4, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Tabular statement of distilled spirits produced, consumed, &c., from 1863 to 1881. April 11, 1882. -- Reported by Mr. Beck, from the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed for the use of that committee. In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to forward to the Senate, for its information, a statement showing... Letter from the Postmaster General, with accompanying papers, addressed to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, having reference to additional accommodations for the Post Office Department and the city post office of Washington. April 17, 1882. -- Reported from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, ordered to be printed for the use of the committee, and recommitted. Papers from the President of the United States in relation to the executive mansion. April 19, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Judiciary Committee be instructed to inquire if any legislation is necessary, and, if so, what, to secure a fair and impartial determination of cases triable in the federal courts of the various states, and more especially the states of the South... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that during the 26th day of April, 1882, while the Senate is proceeding with business under the Anthony rule, the provision limiting debate to five minutes, and that a Senator shall not speak more than once, shall be suspended. In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the special rule of the Senate for the consideration of matters on the Calendar be, and the same is hereby, abolished. In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the resolution known as the Anthony rule shall not hereafter be so construed as to authorize the consideration of any measure under a limitation of debate to five minutes, or to speaking but once by each Senator after objection. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress. July 7, 1882. In the Senate of the United States. December 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the standing and select committees of the Senate as they existed at the close of the last session of the Senate be revived and continued for the present session of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. December 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a special committee of seven senators be appointed by the Chair to take into consideration the mode of voting for President and Vice-President of the United States... Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Senate, transmitting a full and complete account of all property belonging to the United States in the possession of F.E. Shober, Acting Secretary of the Senate. December 5, 1881. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, transmitting a full and complete account of all the property belonging to the United States in his possession. December 5, 1881. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Public Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, etc., for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881. December 5, 1881. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, on the subject of polygamy. January 11, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the members of the Omaha Tribe of Indians, for a grant of land in severalty. January 11, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from Mr. Fred. Law Olmstead [i.e., Olmsted], Landscape Architect of the Capitol Grounds, to Hon. E.H. Rollins, Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. January 11, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that each senator who does not, as chairman of a committee, have a clerk, be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ a clerk at a salary of $1,200 per annum... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the committee on "the extension of suffrage to women, or the removal of their disabilities," be directed to examine into the state of the law regulating the right of suffrage in the Territory of Utah... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that at the conclusion of the morning business for each day, unless, upon motion, the Senate shall at any time otherwise order, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the calendar, and continue such consideration until half past one o'clock... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that it is inexpedient and unwise to contract the currency by the withdrawal from circulation of what are known as silver certificates, or to discontinue or further restrict the coinage of silver... Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, proposing certain amendments to the act of March 3, 1881, making appropriations for the District of Columbia. January 12, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the 6th instant, information relative to assessments against the several street railroad companies of Washington and Georgetown for the pavement of the carriage-way. January 16, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the condition and progress of the library during the calendar year 1881. January 31, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. October 12, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State be directed to transmit to the Senate all papers on file in his office relating to the seizure of one Vicenzo Rebello, an Italian, in the City of New Orleans, in June, 1881, by one James Mooney... In the Senate of the United States. October 13, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamar submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested, if not in his judgment incompatible with the public interest, to advise the Senate whether any action has been taken by the government since the adjournment of the last Congress towards protecting the rights and interests of the United States in the projected interoceanic canal at Panama. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the special session United States Senate. October 17, 1881. Notes of the hearing before the Committees on Education and Labor of the two Houses of Congress, given to a committee of the National Educational Association, appointed to urge national aid to public school education, Friday, March 24, 1882. March 27, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States, that the murders and outrages lately committed on citizens of the United States in Arizona by the Apache Indians... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized to furnish such mail facilities, on any public highway... In the Senate of the United States. December 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh submitted the following resolution. (As a substitute for the resolution offered by Mr. Edmunds on the same subject.) Resolved, that the President of the Senate be, and is hereby, authorized to decide whether the committees of the Senate shall be equally or otherwise divided between the two political parties represented in the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. December 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Patents hereby is instructed to consider and report, by bill or otherwise, such proposed legislation as shall effectually protect all innocent purchasers and users of any device, invention, or article, patented under the laws of the United States...	107
Serial set 1994	In the Senate of the United States. June 26, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following memoranda: Memoranda relating to the legislative appropriation Bill (H.R. 6244), submitted by Mr. Allison on reporting the bill to the Senate from the Committee on Appropriations, June 26, 1882... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to inform the Senate what amounts of public land are found by the records of the land department to have been embraced in grants of land made by Congress in aid of the construction of the following railroads... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Whereas there remains only a fraction of a month before the commencement of the next fiscal year, and under existing provisions of law advertisements for at least four weeks must be made before contracts for provisions, clothing, &c... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton submitted the following resolution: That the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire whether any attempt is being made to levy and collect assessments for political partisan purposes from any employes [sic] of the government in Washington... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Plumb to the resolution by Mr. Pendleton, relative to political assessments. Add at the close: And what legislation, if any, is necessary to protect such employes [sic] from paying such amounts as they may desire for the promotion of political objects. In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Plumb to the resolution by Mr. Van Wyck, relative to political assessments. And whether the persons to whom said circulars are sent are in need of protection to prevent their making voluntary contributions for political purposes. Letter from the public printer in response to a resolution of the Senate of June 5, 1882, relative to certain organizations and their relations to the Public Printing Office. June 8, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of citizens of Hood County, Texas, praying that the law be so amended that process of the United States courts issued against citizens of that country be made returnable to Graham instead of Waco. June 20, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, to the Chairman Joint Committee on the Library, transmitting a copy of a dispatch from the charge d'affaires ad interim of the United States at Peking, of April the 5th last, in relation to a work on Chinese literature, by Jesuit missionaries at Shanghai. June 15, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Letter from Hon. J.C. Bancroft Davis, Acting Secretary of State, to Hon. David Davis, Acting Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, relative to moneys in the custody of the Secretary of State. June 23, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Petition, &c., of John M. Robinson, President of the Baltimore Steam Navigation Company, Maryland, praying that an appropriation be made to satisfy the allowance made by the Quartermaster General for keeping open the channel at Cedar Point during the rebellion. June 26, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Forty-seventh Congress. (First session.) Congressional Directory, compiled for the use of Congress by Ben: Perley Poore, clerk of printing records. Third edition. Corrected to June 28, 1882. In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that a select committee of seven senators be appointed by the Chair to take into consideration the subject of labor strikes in the United States... Petition of trustees and others of the Church Orphanage Association of Saint John's Church, Washington, D.C. July 7, 1882. -- Reported from the Committee on the District of Columbia, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and 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 1881. In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that Rule IV be amended so as to read as follows...	16
Serial set 1995	United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. A. -- Inquiry into the decrease of food-fishes. B. -- The propagation of food-fishes in the waters of the United States. June 21, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	1
Serial set 1996	In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Attorney General be directed to furnish the Senate with copies of memoranda made by the Solicitor General and submitted to the Attorney General June 15, 1881, in regard to the pension claim of Ward B. Burnett... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley submitted the following amendment to the rules, which was referred to the Committee on Rules... Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Vol. I, for 1881. Letter and accompanying documents transmitted by the Secretary of Interior, in response to inquiries of the Committee on Education and Labor as to existence of lands in the Indian Territory available for settlement by the colored population. July 15, 1882. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. July 15, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a select committee of five senators, to consist of the chairmen of the Committees of Military Affairs and of Naval Affairs, and three other senators, to be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate from said Committees, be raised, with instructions to take into consideration the subject of heavy ordnance and projectiles for the armament of the Navy and the seacoast defenses... Memorial of Wm. Hughes, late of the capitol police, asking that he be granted the pay and allowances of which he was wrongfully deprived by being removed from said police force and imprisoned on a false charge. July 18, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to inform the Senate whether he has ordered the issue of pension certificates for a double pension, one under the general law and one under special act, to Ward B. Burnett, and when such order was made... In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, directed to report to the Senate at the earliest practicable time the expenditures in each state and territory for rivers and harbors from 1789 to June 30, 1882... Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Hon. E.H. Rollins, transmitting a statement showing the names of all officers on the retired list of the United States Navy, their present rank, rank when retired, pay, &c. July 21, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. July 22, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. George submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Pensions be directed to report a bill giving a pension of $8 per month to soldiers who served in the Mexican War and who were honorably discharged... In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Tariff Commission, from its headquarters at Long Branch, on two occasions has imploringly appealed to the public for information and no response been made thereto... In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a special committee of the Senate, to be composed of seven senators, be appointed by the President of the Senate, to consider the subject of the measures expedient to be adopted for the revival of American shipping... In the Senate of the United States. Testimony before the Senate Special Committee To Investigate the Administration of the Collection of Internal Revenue in the Sixth District of North Carolina, appointed April 21, 1882. July 7, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following amendment to the rules, which was referred to the Committee on Rules... Testimony before the select committee of the Senate appointed to investigate and report as to the condition of the Potomac River front of Washington.	15
Serial set 1997	James A. Garfield. Memorial address pronounced in the Hall of Representatives, February 27, 1882, before the departments of the government of the United States, by James G. Blaine, in response to an invitation from the two Houses of Congress.	1
Serial set 1998	United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Director of the U.S. National Museum and a staff of associates. Section I.	1
Serial set 1999	United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of associates. Section II.	1
Serial set 2000	United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of associates. Section III.	1
Serial set 2001	United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of associates. Section V, Volume I.	1
Serial set 2002	United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of associates. Section V, Volume II.	1

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