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Serial set 2460 | Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 6, 1886, preceded by a list of papers, with an analysis of their contents, and followed by an alphabetical index of subjects. | 1 |
Serial set 2461 | Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. In four volumes. Volume I. | 1 |
Serial set 2462 | Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. In four volumes. Volume II. Part 1. | 1 |
Serial set 2463 | Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. In four volumes. Volume II. Part 2. | 1 |
Serial set 2464 | Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. In four volumes. Volume II. Part 3. | 1 |
Serial set 2465 | Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. In four volumes. Volume III. | 1 |
Serial set 2466 | Report of the Secretary of the Navy; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. | 1 |
Serial set 2467 | Report of the Secretary of the Interior; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. In five volumes. Volume I. | 1 |
Serial set 2468 | Report of the Secretary of the Interior; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. In five volumes. Volume II | 1 |
Serial set 2469 | Report of the Secretary of the Interior; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. In five volumes. Volume III. | 1 |
Serial set 2470 | Report of the Secretary of the Interior; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. In five volumes. Volume IV | 1 |
Serial set 2471 | Annual report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1886. | 1 |
Serial set 2472 | Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1886. In two volumes. Volume I: Finance. | 1 |
Serial set 2473 |
Annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress of the United States. December 4, 1886. Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. |
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Serial set 2474 |
Expenditures and business of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General transmitting reports of expenditures and of the business of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. December 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888. Deficiency estimates. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting deficiency estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, and for prior years. January 17, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. |
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Serial set 2475 | Treasury Department. Annual report and statements of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on the commerce and navigation of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. Part I: Foreign commerce, immigration, and tonnage. | 1 |
Serial set 2476 | Treasury Department. Report on the internal commerce of the United States, by Wm. F. Switzler, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department. Submitted December 20, 1886. Part II of Commerce and Navigation. The commercial, industrial, transportation, and other interests of the Southern states. | 1 |
Serial set 2477 |
Revenue taxes illegally collected. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a schedule of claims for refunding internal revenue taxes illegally collected, re-examined and certified by the First Comptroller, as required by the Deficiency Act of August 4, 1886, (24 Stat., pp. 289 and 298). December 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and of the salaries and incidental expenses paid at each agency in the Indian service during said period, showing the appropriations from which paid and the number of Indians at each agency. Annual report of the Attorney General of the United States for the year 1886. December 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Map of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of the Director of the Geological Survey for engraving sheets of the map of the United States. December 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Resources and disbursements of Public Printer. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Public Printer; also a statement of resources and disbursements of his Office for the first allotment period of the current fiscal year. December 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Refunds of Customs duties for the year ending June 30, 1886. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a detailed statement of refunds of Customs duties for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. December 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. East wing Interior Department Building -- reconstruction. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting detailed estimate and plan of the proposed reconstruction of the east wing of Interior Department Building. December 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Unexpended balances, rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, a tabulated statement of unexpended balances for river and harbor works, November 1, 1886. December 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Money accounts of disbursing officers of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of inspection of money accounts of disbursing officers of the Army. December 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Rights of American fishermen in British North American waters. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of State, accompanied by the correspondence relating to the rights of American fishermen in British North American waters. December 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriations, Attorney General's Office. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting a statement of the condition of appropriations December 4, 1886, under control of the Attorney General. December 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Subsidiary silver coin. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Director of the Mint inclosing a draft of and recommending the passage of a joint resolution for the issue of subsidiary silver coin. December 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and ordered to be printed. Volunteer disabled soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the President of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Volunteer Disabled Soldiers, inclosing a statement of the expenses of that Board for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. December 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. District of Columbia estimates. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting detailed statements in explanation of estimates for improvement of streets, school buildings, and teachers. December 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures and business of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General transmitting reports of expenditures and of the business of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. December 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. |
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Serial set 2478 |
Re-examination of excepted claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Second Comptroller, submitting statements of facts relative to certain claims re-examined as required by the provisions of the deficiency act of August 4, 1886. December 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Improvement of Tennessee River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, a report of the condition of the work of improvement of the Tennessee River at Big Mussel Shoals, Little Mussel Shoals, and Elk River Shoals. December 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Expenditures in the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the contingent expenses of that Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. December 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Work of the Mississippi River Commission. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the operations of the Mississippi River Commission from July 1, 1886, to November 30, 1886, with financial statements relating to appropriations. December 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Treasurer's accounts. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copies of accounts rendered to and settled with the First Comptroller for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. December 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures in the State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting detailed statements of expenditures of the contingent fund and of all disbursements by the disbursing clerk of that Department. December 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department and ordered to be printed. |
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Serial set 2479 |
Lighthouse, Bush's Bluff, Virginia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Lighthouse Board asking an additional appropriation for substructure of lighthouse on Bush's Bluff, Virginia. January 5, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Augustus G. Ruggles. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, a letter from the Third Auditor relative to the discrepancy between the amount of judgment in favor of Augustus G. Ruggles against the United States and the amount appropriated therefor in the deficiency appropriation act of August 4, 1886. January 6, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Recoinage of gold and silver coins. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Treasurer, with inclosure, and submitting a deficiency estimate for recoinage of gold and silver coins, present fiscal year. December 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. War Department employes. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting lists of employes in that Department, and stating that all are usefully employed, and that the services of none of them can be dispensed with. December 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Contingent fund, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the expenditures of the contingent fund, War Department, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. December 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Contingent fund, military establishment. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of expenditures from the contingent fund of the military establishment for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. December 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures, Springfield Armory. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of expenditures at the Springfield Armory, and of arms fabricated, altered, and repaired at that armory, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. December 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. International copyright. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, inclosing correspondence which has passed between the Department of State and the governments of Switzerland and France on the subject of international copyright since July 9, 1886. December 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Silver certificate paper. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of an appropriation to supply deficiency in appropriation for paper for silver certificates, present fiscal year. December 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pittsburgh Bridge Company's account for iron plates for Pension Building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, with inclosures, submitting the account of the Pittsburgh Bridge Company for iron plates furnished for the Pension Office Building. December 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annex, Army Medical Museum and Library. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Surgeon General recommending an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill making an appropriation for an annex to the Army Medical Museum and Library. December 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Vermont's indebtedness for arms furnished by the general government. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of War, with inclosures, relating to the alleged indebtedness of the State of Vermont for arms furnished by the government in the years 1863 and 1864. December 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates, Signal Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with a letter from the Secretary of War, deficiency estimates for the Signal Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887. December 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Sainte Marie River railroad bridge. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, a report relating to the construction of a railroad bridge across the Sainte Marie River, and recommending an amendment to the act authorizing said bridge. December 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Employes, State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the employes in that Department, stating the time actually employed, and that they are usefully employed, and that their services cannot be dispensed with. January 8, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department and ordered to be printed. French spoliation claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Attorney General of an additional appropriation for continuing the investigation of French spoliation claims. January 8, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Final report United States Geological Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosure, estimates from the Secretary of the Interior, of appropriations for the publication of volume 3, book 2, of the final report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. January 8, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. O.M. Laraway, postmaster. Letter from the Postmaster General, with inclosures, recommending that the account of O.M. Laraway, postmaster, Minneapolis, Minn., be credited with amount of loss by burglary, and that an appropriation be made therefor. January 8, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Indian depredation claims. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, with a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a schedule of Indian depredation claims examined prior to January 1, 1887, with the determination of the Departments thereon. January 8, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Baltimore Harbor. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with inclosures, an estimate from the Chief of Engineers of the cost of widening Baltimore Harbor. January 7, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Dam site, Herr's Island, Allegheny River. Letter from the Secretary of War, with inclosures recommending legislation authorizing the purchase of land for a dam site at Herr's Island, Allegheny River. January 7, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Patrick Corr. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with inclosures, a letter from the Adjutant General, recommending that the salary of Patrick Corr, general-service clerk, be increased to $1,200 per annum. January 7, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. International Exhibition, Australia. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report from the Secretary of State relating to the International Exhibition to be held at Adelaide, South Australia, in 1887. December 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Reform School, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney General in relation to the insufficiency of the appropriation for family building and brick tank-house for the Reform School of the District of Columbia. December 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Flowage damage, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. Letter from the Attorney General in response to a resolution of the House calling for a report of the amounts due the commissioners to ascertain the flowage damages caused by improvements on the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. January 5, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Missouri River Commission annual report. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the annual report of the Missouri River Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. December 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Kansas Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, an amendment to the estimate for fulfilling treaties with the Kansas Indians for 1888, (Book of Estimates, page 137). December 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. The Mississippi River Commission annual report. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the annual report of the Mississippi River Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. December 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Saint Mary's River, Michigan. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with inclosures, an estimate from the Chief of Engineers of cost of improving Saint Mary's River, Michigan, and of continuiug [i.e., continuing] work on new lock. January 7, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Surveys of Wisconsin River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, a report from the Board of Engineers upon the examination and surveys of Wisconsin River from portage to its mouth. January 7, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Mississippi River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Mississippi River Commission in reference to the works of protection to the banks of that river; also to the failure to make provision for the expenses of the Commission. January 7, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Distribution of minor coins. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Director of the Mint, suggesting amendments to the Revised Statutes relative to the issue and redemption of minor coin. January 4, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and ordered to be printed. Louisville and Portland Canal -- drainage rights. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Chief of Engineers, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information relative to the right of the City of Louisville to drainage into the Louisville and Portland Canal. January 5, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Navy hospital, Widow's Island, Maine. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate by the Surgeon General of the Navy of an appropriation to erect a permanent hospital for the Navy at Widow's Island, Maine. January 5, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Adjudications of suspended land entries. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a list of adjudications of suspended entries of public lands for the year ended June 30, 1886. January 5, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Engraving and Printing sewer. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in relation to an increase in the appropriation required for construction of a sewer from the building of that Bureau. January 5, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Condition and commerce of Nicargaua [i.e., Nicaragua], Honduras, and Salvador. Message from the President of the United States, submitting a special report by Commissioner Thomas C. Reynolds on the condition and commerce of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Salvador. January 5, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Foreign Customs duties. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing statements of the Customs duties levied by foreign nations upon the produce and manufactures of the United States. January 5, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Account of J.W. Jacobs. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, an estimate from the Attorney General of an appropriation to pay J.W. Jacobs, sheriff of Keokuk County, Iowa, for services in arresting persons concerned in the burglary of the post office, Webster City, Iowa. January 6, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Account of W.W. Johnson. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, an estimate from the Attorney General of an appropriation to pay W.W. Johnson for services in prosecuting Jessie H. Roberson for embezzlement of United States post office funds and letters. January 6, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Account of Patrick H. Winston, Jr. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, an estimate from the Attorney General of an appropriation to pay Patrick H. Winston, Jr., for legal services in defense of Tom Hill, captain of police, Nez Perce Agency. January 6, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. American fisheries. Reply of the Secretary of the Treasury to the resolution of the House of Representatives of December 14, 1886, calling for an interpretation of the tariff law respecting the duties on fish. January 10, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Statistics relating to surgical operations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, an estimate by the Commissioner of Pensions of an appropriation for the collection of statistics relative to the influence of surgical operations. January 6, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Legation and consulates in Corea. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, a letter from the Secretary of State in relation to the establishment of United States legation and consulates in Corea. January 7, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Salaries and expenses Internal Revenue service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and asking an immediate additional appropriation for "salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue," current fiscal year, required to execute provisions of the oleomargarine act and of the act in relation to the inspection of exported tobacco. January 7, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules of claims allowed by accounting officers under appropriations, balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund. December 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. War Department contracts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of contracts made by the War Department and its bureaus for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. January 7, 1887. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed, and the accompanying papers referred to the said Committee. Army supplies. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports received by the Quartermaster General of purchases for the use of the Army for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886. December 15, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed and with the accompanying papers referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department Additional force, General Land Office. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with letters from the Secretary of the Interior, additional estimates for clerical force in the General Land Office. December 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed |
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