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Serial set 496	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: Being the second session of the Twenty-ninth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 7, 1846. In the seventy-first year of independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 497	Estimates of appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1848 [i.e., 1847]. Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Twenty-ninth Congress. December 8, 1846. Read, and ordered that 15,000 extra copies of the message and documents be printed. Contingent expenses House of Representatives. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting statements of the expenditures of the appropriation for the contingent expenses of said House for the year 1846. December 7, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. list of reports to be made to Congress at the second session of the Twenty-ninth Congress by public officers. Prepared, in obedience to a standing order of the House by the Clerk of the House of Representatives U.S. December 7, 1846.	4
Serial set 498	Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. December 10, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Treasurer's accounts. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting copies of accounts with the United States for the 3d and 4th quarters of 1845, and the 1st and 2d quarters of 1846. December 10, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Coast Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of that work. December 10, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Finances. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his annual report on the state of the finances. December 10, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Contingent expenses of the State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report of the contingent expenses of that Department, for the fiscal year ending on the 30th June, 1846. December 10, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Receipts and expenditures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an account of the receipts and expenditures of the government for the year ending June 30, 1846. December 10, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Commerce and navigation. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report from the Register of the Treasury relative to the commerce and navigation between the United States and foreign countries, &c. December 10, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table.	7
Serial set 499	Annexation of Texas. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, relative to the annexation of Texas, and the encroachment of the slave power. December 29, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table Weighers, gaugers, and measurers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the employment of weighers, gaugers, and measurers; in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant. December 30, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Lands in Missouri and Arkansas. Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, praying for a grant of certain lands in Missouri and Arkansas for draining the Great Swamp. January 2, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Extinction of slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, relative to slavery in the District of Columbia and territories belonging or which may hereafter belong to the United States. December 29, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table Louis W. Tinelli. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a memorial of Louis W. Tinelli, consul of the United States at Oporto, in Portugal. December 28, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Consular system. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report upon the consular system of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th August, 1846. December 15, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Inundated lands in Missouri and Arkansas. Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, relative to the inundated lands in Missouri and Arkansas. January 25, 1847. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Pay of volunteers. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, relative to the pay of volunteers for the Mexican War. January 25, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Increase of the Army of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the increase of the Army of the United States, and the appointment of a general officer to serve during the war. January 4, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Clerk's office -- clerks and others employed therein. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting his annual statement of the officers, &c, employed in his office. January 7, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Contingent expenses War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of expenditures from the contingent funds of the War Department, &c. January 7, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Obstructions in the Savannah River. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Savannah, and other citizens, relative to the obstructions in the Savannah River. January 8, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Exploring Expedition. Memorial of the officers of the Exploring Expedition, relative to personal accusations against said officers. January 11, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Library. Public moneys in deposite. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the amount of public moneys in deposite according to the latest returns, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th instant. January 14, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Military forces on the frontiers of Iowa and Wisconsin. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from the Adjutant General, relative to the military forces on the frontiers of Iowa and Wisconsin, and the cause for the disbanding of the mounted volunteers stationed at Fort Atkinson; in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d instant. January 14, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Des Moines and Rock River rapids. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from the Colonel of Topographical Engineers, relative to the improvement of the Des Moines and Rock River rapids, &c. January 14, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Persons employed in the Indian Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of persons employed in the Indian Department. January 14, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Clerks and others employed in the State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, relative to clerks and others employed in the State Department. January 14, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. Letter from the Commissioner of Public Buildings, transmitting his annual report of expenditures, &c. January 14, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Clerks and others employed in the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting his annual statement relative to clerks and others employed in the Post Office Department. January 14, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Clerks and others employed in the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement showing the names of the clerks and other persons employed in all the branches of that Department. January 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Expenses of national armories. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the officer in charge of the Ordnance Bureau, exhibiting the expenses of the national armories, and the arms manufactured therein, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1846. January 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Volunteers received into the service of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from the Adjutant General of the Army of the United States relative to the volunteers received into the service, &c., in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d instant. January 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. The coast and coasting trade. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report from the Register of the Treasury relative to the coast and coasting trade. January 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Penitentiary District of Columbia. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Inspectors of the Penitentiary of the District of Columbia for the year 1846. January 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Estimates for the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, submitting specific estimates of sums of money expected to be required for the service of the Department during the fiscal year commencing the first of July, 1847. January 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of contracts made under authority of that Department during the year 1846. January 19, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Captain L.C.F. Fatio. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the correspondence relative to the case of L.C.F. Fatio, late captain in the Revenue Marine. January 19, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Volunteers -- terms of service, &c. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Adjutant General of the Army relative to the volunteers, terms of service, &c., in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant. January 19, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Inundated lands in Missouri and Arkansas. Memorial of the General Assembly of Missouri, relative to the inundated lands in Missouri and Arkansas. January 20, 1847. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Constitution of Wisconsin. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the constitution adopted by the delegates of the people of the Territory of Wisconsin. January 21, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Public lands appropriated for internal improvement. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report from the Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office, relative to the public lands appropriated by alternate sections in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Arkansas, for internal improvements, &c. January 23, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents. Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the year 1846. January 23, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Patents. Mexican war. January 23, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Paupers and criminals. Memorial of the Corporation of the City of New York, relative to the exportation from abroad of paupers and criminals. January 25, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. School lands. Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, relative to the 16th sections, or school lands. January 25, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Mail facilities. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Missouri, relative to the extension of the mail facilities in that state. January 25, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Contingent expenses -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditure of the contingent fund of the Treasury Department for the year ending 30th September, 1846. January 27, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Rejected pension claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report from the Commissioner of Pensions relative to the rejected pension claims. December 30, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. Letter from the Commissioner of Public Buildings, transmitting copies of contracts, &c. December 15, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Constitution of Iowa. Proclamation of the Governor of Iowa, declaring the adoption of the constitution by the electors of the Territory of Iowa. December 15, 1846. Read, and referred to the Committee on Territories. Pilot system. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, respecting the pilot system of the United States. December 16, 1846. Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Revenue Marine Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual report of the officer charged with the superintendence of the United States Revenue Marine Service and boats. December 21, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Seth M. Leavenworth. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting his decision in the case of Seth M. Leavenworth, a mail contractor on route 2,504. December 21, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Occupation of Mexican territory. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant, relative to the occupation of the Mexican territory. December 22, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Contingent expenses of Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the usual annual statement of the contingent expenses of that Department. December 28, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table. Contracts for stationery. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting a statement of the manner in which he entered into contracts for stationary. December 28, 1846. Read, and laid upon the table.	47
Serial set 500	Registered seamen. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting an abstract of American registered seamen in each port of entry of the United States during the year ending the 30th of September last. March 1, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Appropriations -- new offices, &c. Report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives U.S., in compliance with the Act To Authorize the Appointment of Additional Paymasters, and for Other Purposes, passed July 4, 1836. April 12, 1847. Unsold public lands near the Mississippi River. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, relative to the unsold lands near the Mississippi River; in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d of January last. February 1, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Changes in the public service. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to changes in the public service; in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th of August last. February 1, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. New territory -- acquisition of. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, relative to the acquisition of new territory. February 6, 1847. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union Mexican War, and slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Vermont, relative to slavery and the Mexican War. February 9, 1847. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union Tariff, slavery, Mexican War, &c. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, relative to the tariff, slavery, Mexican War, &c. February 10, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table Offers for carrying the United States mail. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a copy of the abstract of offers for carrying the mails of the United States for the year preceding the 1st of July, 1836 [i.e., 1846]. March 1, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Mississippi River and lake harbors. Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, relative to the improvement of the Mississippi River and the lake harbors. February 9, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mexican War. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the Mexican War, and measures for its vigorous prosecution. February 13, 1847. Read, and referred as follows, viz: So much as relates to an increase of military officers, to the Committee on Military Affairs; so much as relates to additional impost, to the Committee of Ways and Means; so much as relates to the war with Mexico, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and so much as relates to the public lands, to the Committee of Ways and Means. Clerks and others employed in the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report and statements showing the number of clerks and other persons employed in that Department, the compensation of each, and the residence of each at the time of his appointment. January 27, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Memorial of J.W. Nye. January 5, 1847. Referred to the Committee of Claims. March 1, 1847. The committee ask to be discharged, and that the memorial, and papers accompanying the same, be laid upon the table and printed. Mexican War. Resolutions of the House of Delegates of Virginia, relative to the Mexican War. February 20, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Sick and disabled seamen. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 631. ) January 23, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Contingent expenses of the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the annual statement of the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Navy, &c. January 27, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Contracts -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statements of all contracts made by the several bureaus of that Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1847. January 27, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Clerks and others employed in the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement showing the names of clerks and other persons employed in the Navy Department. January 27, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Postages of the Executive departments. Message from the President of the United States, relative to postages paid at the Treasury during the year ending 30th June, 1846; in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th instant. January 27, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Balances of appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the annual statement of the Second Comptroller, showing the balances of appropriations on the 1st of July, 1845, &c. January 27, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Cumberland Road. Resolution of the Legislature of Illinois, relative to the Cumberland Road. January 27, 1847. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Public libraries. Resolution of the Legislature of Illinois, relative to donation of lands to establish public libraries in townships in said state. January 27, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. The Mint and its branches. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the annual report of the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, and the branch Mints, for the year 1846. February 8, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Texas Indians -- report of Messrs. Butler and Lewis. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of Messrs. Butler and Lewis relative to the Indians of Texas and the southwestern prairies. February 8, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Appropriations for the naval service, 1846. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the appropriations for the naval service. February 8, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Contingent fund -- Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting an exhibit of all payments from the contingent fund of the Post Office Department during the calendar year 1846. February 8, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Expenses of collecting revenue from Customs. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the expenses of collecting the revenue from Customs during the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1846. February 8, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Secret inspectors of the Customs. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to secret inspectors of the Customs, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th December last. February 8, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Persons employed in the ranging service. Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, relative to persons employed in the ranging service of the United States during the last war with Great Britain. February 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Public lands -- reduction of prices, cession, &c. Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, relative to the reduction of the price of public lands, and the cession of the same to the states in which they lie, &c. February 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Expenses for compiling Tariff of 1846. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the expenses incurred in compiling the Tariff of 1846; in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st of December last. February 11, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Contingent expenses military establishment. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement showing the expenditures made from the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the military establishment during the year 1846. February 11, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Exclusion of slavery in territory to be annexed to the United States. Joint resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Ohio, relative to excluding slavery from Oregon territory, and any other territory which may hereafter be annexed to the United States. February 15, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Generals Taylor and Scott. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Ohio, relative to Generals Taylor and Scott. February 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Volunteers in the Mexican War. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Ohio, relative to an increase of pay of volunteers who have served in the Mexican War. February 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Mexican War. Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, relative to the vigorous prosecution of the Mexican War. February 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Extension of slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, relative to the extension of slavery in any territory that may be annexed to the United States. February 26, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Bank returns. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the returns of the banks throughout the Union, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, adopted July 10, 1832. March 1, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Correspondence with General Taylor. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the correspondence with General Taylor since the commencement of hostilities with Mexico, not already published. March 1, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Report from the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Clerk of the House, of the letting of the printing for the 30th Congress, under the joint resolution of the 3d August 1846, and the contracts relating to the same. March 2, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Balances on books of Second, Third, and Fourth Auditors, and Register of the Treasury. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of balances on the books of the Second, Third, and Fourth Auditors, and the Register of the Treasury, which have remained unsettled more than three years. March 3, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Members of Congress holding offices. Message from the President of the United States, relative to members of Congress appointed to office; in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th of January last. February 1, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Elections. Chickasaw fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting annual statement of credits and expenditures made on account of fund appropriated to carry into effect the treaties concluded by Chickasaw Indians on the 20th October, 1832, and 24th May, 1834. February 17, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Productions, trade, and commerce of the Oriental nations. Letter from the Secretary of State, relative to the productions, trade, and commerce of the oriental nations with which the United States have not made treaties; in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th instant. February 17, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Passengers arriving in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statements of the number and designation of passengers arriving in the United States during the year ending 30th September last. February 23, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Bankruptcy. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statements showing proceedings under the Bankrupt Act. February 23, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Comanche and other Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, accompanied by a report relative to the Comanche and other Indians of Texas and the southwestern prairies. February 24, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Abstract of the returns of the militia of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an abstract of the returns of the militia of all the states and territories, in compliance with an act passed March 2, 1803. February 1, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Militia. Judges of United States courts. Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, relative to the tenure by which the United States judges hold their offices. February 16, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table.	48
Serial set 501	Three per cent. fund to certain states. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 690.) February 24, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Potomac Bridge. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 633.) January 25, 1847. Mail route from Blountsville to Knoxville. February 16, 1847. Edward Quinn. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 666.) February 16, 1847. Noah A. Phelps. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 673.) February 24, 1847. Churchill Gibbs. March 3, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. John P. Skinner and others. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 614.) January 20, 1847. Sophia Albrecht. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Hannah Jane Wick. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Jesse Roberts. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Joseph De la Francia. (To accompany Bill S. No. 62.) February 24, 1847. Jesse Rose. February 24, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Michael Hogan -- administrator of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 695.) March 3, 1847. Jonathan Brown. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 681.) February 24, 1847. Edward D. Baker and Thomas W. Newton. February 26, 1847. Oregon territory. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 658.) February 16, 1847. William Culver. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 598.) January 11, 1847. Smithsonian Institution. February 16, 1847. George Alford. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Titian R. Peale. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 663.) February 16, 1847. Nicholas Siscoe. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. William Via. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Eleanor Wills. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Lucy Clark. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Freelove Waid. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Nancy Armstrong. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Sarah Knight. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Nancy Martin. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Alanson Bills. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Lyddal Estes. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Magdalena Moore. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Elisha H. Holmes. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 667.) February 16, 1847. David Pugh. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Robert Allison -- heirs of. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. John Stout. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. James Green. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Grace Hudnut. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. John Blair Findley. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Mary Andrews. January 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. David Thomas. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 607.) January 20, 1847. Ann B. Cox. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 608.) January 20, 1847. Archibald Loughrey. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 611.) January 20, 1847. Nancy Haggard. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 615.) January 20, 1847. Samuel Graves. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 617.) January 20, 1847. Stephen Champlin. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 618.) January 20, 1847. Joseph Bryan. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 620.) January 20, 1847. Uriah Brown. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 621.) January 20, 1847. Thomas Cooper -- executor of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 625.) January 20, 1847. Francois Gramillion -- heirs of. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 626.) January 20, 1847. Papers of Thomas Jefferson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 627.) January 20, 1847. Mary Hicks. January 20, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Jane Degraff -- heir of. January 20, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Polly Thomas. January 20, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. John Smith. January 20, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Samuel Ferguson. January 20, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Adah Smith. January 20, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Hannah Stevenson. January 20, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. George Brent -- administrator of. January 20, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. New Hampshire claim. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 582.) January 20, 1847. Continuation of Fremont's reconnoissance from the boundary of Missouri to Terre Haute, Indiana. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 558.) January 20, 1847. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 634.) January 25, 1847. Marine Corps of the United States. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 646.) February 6, 1847. Statistics, etc., of the Indian tribes. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 649.) February 9, 1847. Barclay and Livingston, and Smith, Thurgar & Co. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 636.) February 16, 1847. William Greer. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 693.) March 1, 1847. James G. Carson. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 642.) February 4, 1847. William Triplett. (To accompany Bill H.R. No 659.) February 16, 1847. Enlistments in the Army, &c. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 662.) February 16, 1847. Thomas Ap Catesby Jones. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 665.) February 16, 1847. J. Melville Gilliss. (To accompany Joint Resolution H.R. No. 56.) February 16, 1847. H. Carrington, executor of Paulina Legrand [i.e., Le Grand]. February 17, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Fire-proof building at Nantucket. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 675.) February 24, 1847. George B. Didlake. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 678.) February 24, 1847. President's message. February 24, 1847. Flora Boyt [i.e., Boyd]. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 682.) February 24, 1847. Silas Waterman. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 683.) February 24, 1847. E.G. Smith. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 686.) February 24, 1847. Nicholas E. Thouron. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 688.) February 24, 1847. Nathaniel Tracy. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 689.) February 24, 1847. George Galphin -- executor of. (To accompany Bill S. No. 88.) February 24, 1847. Samuel W. Bell. (To accompany Bill S. No. 83.) February 24, 1847. John Millett. February 24, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Martha Norton -- heirs of. February 24, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Lawrence Van Dyck and others. February 24, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. School fund in Alabama and Mississippi. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 684.) February 24, 1847. Secret inspectors. March 3, 1847. Elisha F. Richards. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 581.) December 29, 1846. Lieut. James Glynn. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 578.) December 29, 1846. George Parsons. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 580.) December 29, 1846. Deaf and dumb. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 670.) February 17, 1847	90
Serial set 502	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America: being the first session of the Thirtieth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 6, 1847, in the seventy-second year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 503	Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirtieth Congress. December 7, 1847. Read, and ordered that 25,000 copies of the message, and 2,000 copies of the message with the accompanying documents, in addition to the usual number, be printed for the use of the Senate.	1
Serial set 504	Report of the Secretary of War, communicating a report from the Topographical Bureau, in relation to the commerce, navigation, and means of defence of the western lakes and rivers. December 13, 1847. Ordered to be printed. December 14, 1847. Ordered that 2,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate, and that the report be referred to the Committee on Commerce. Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, communicating the annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. December 13, 1847. Read, and ordered that 500 copies, in addition to the usual number, be printed for the use of the General Land Office. Report of the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, of Treasury notes issued and redeemed under the act of January 28, 1847. December 13, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report of the Register of the Treasury, of the commerce and navigation of the United States, for the year ending 30th June, 1847. December 14, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed, and that 5,500 additional copies be printed, 500 of which are for the Treasury Department.	4
Serial set 505	Report of the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, stating the reasons which prevented a compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 11th February, 1846, in relation to overflowed lands. December 29, 1847. Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, in relation to the occupation of Fort Armstrong as a military post. January 3, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating a report from the Commissioner of Pensions, with lists of pension claims rejected during the past year. January 3, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. By W.H. Emory, Brevet Major, Corps Topographical Engineers. Made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the "Army of the West." Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, communicating the report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of that work. December 15, 1847. Read, and ordered that 1,250 copies, in addition to the usual number, be printed; 250 of which are for the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a report from the Secretary of the Navy in relation to the construction of floating dry docks at Pensacola, Philadelphia, and Kittery. December 23, 1847. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. January 6, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed in connexion with all communications heretofore received from the Executive on the subject.	6
Serial set 506	Message from the President of the United States, communicating a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence of Mr. Wise, late United States minister to Brazil, in relation to the slave trade. March 3, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed Report of the Secretary of War, submitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with a report from the commissioner appointed to investigate whether the Seneca Indians have sustained losses through a late sub-agent of the United States. January 19, 1848. -- Read. March 29, 1848. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a report from the Secretary of War, with information in relation to forced contributions in Mexico, called for by a resolution of the Senate. January 24, 1848. Read, and ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating the correspondence of Mr. Wise, late minister to Brazil, in relation to the imprisonment of Lieutenant Davis, of the Navy, and three American seamen, by the police authority at Rio de Janiero. March 22, 1848. Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate respecting duties laid on goods and merchandise exported by citizens of the United States to Mexico. February 11, 1848. Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Solicitor of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, calling for a copy of the award of the arbitrator and other papers, in the case of the Pea Patch Island. February 4, 1848. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. February 15, 1848. -- 1,000 extra copies ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information covering the promotion of cadets. February 16, 1848. Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Postmaster General, in relation to the failures of the mail to and from New Orleans. February 16, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the appropriations for the service of the War Department from July 1st, 1846, to June 30th, 1847. February 18, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. Message from the President, communicating the correspondence between the United States minister at London and authorities of the British government, in relation to a postal arrangement between the two countries. March 27, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State in relation to the claim of John Black for compensation for diplomatic services performed while United States consul at the City of Mexico. January 13, 1848. Submitted from the Committee on Foreign Relations (with Bill S. 82) and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in relation to the services of Samuel Leech. January 13, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, with the Bill S. No. 85. January 17, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the expenditures for the contingent expenses of the military establishment during the year 1847. January 27, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. Report of the Secretary of State, with an abstract of returns of American seamen registered during the year ending the 30th September, 1847. January 27, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a report from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of Senate calling for copies of the letters, reports, or other communications, referred to in General Taylor's letter, dated at New Orleans, July 20, 1845, as containing his views as to the line proper to be occupied at that time by the United States troops; and any similar communication from any officer of the Army on the subject. January 3, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President, communicating a report from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information in relation to General Orders No. 376, issued by General Scott. January 31, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President, communicating the report of the Director of the Mint, showing the operations of the Mint and branch mints for the year 1847. January 31, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a report from the Secretary of State in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information in relation to the negotiation between the American and Mexican commissioners, during the suspension of hostilities after the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. February 2, 1848. Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, respecting lands granted for military bounties in the State of Illinois. February 9, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report and map of the examination of New Mexico, made by Lieutenant J.W. Abert, of the Topographical Corps. February 10, 1848. -- Ordered, that the report and map be printed, and that 2,000 copies, in addition to the usual number, be printed for the use of the Senate.	20
Serial set 507	Message from the President of the United States, communicating the correspondence between the Secretary of State and the Brazilian charge d'affaires at Washington. April 10, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a despatch from the American minister at Paris, announcing the overthrow of the French monarchy, and the establishment of a provisional government based on republican principles. April 3, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating the proceedings of the court martial in the trial of Lieutenant Colonel Fremont. April 7, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, in relation to the land reserved at Fort Snelling for military purposes. April 10, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, showing the number of troops in the service of the United States in Mexico since the commencement of the war, the killed and wounded, &c. April 10, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, respecting certain surveys in the State of Florida. April 12, 1848. -- Submitted, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands with Bill S. 216. April 13, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. April 18, 1848. Submitted by Mr. Breese, from the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. No. 202.) Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, communicating an abstract of permits granted under the acts for the armed occupation of Florida. April 28, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed, and that 1,500 additional copies be printed for the General Land Office. Message from the President of the United States, with communications from the government of Yucatan, representing the state of suffering to which that country is reduced by an insurrection of the Indians, imploring the protection of the United States, and offering, in case it should be granted, to transfer the dominion and sovereignty of the peninsula to the United States. April 29, 1848. Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.	9
Serial set 508	Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury of scientific investigations in relation to sugar and hydrometers, made, under the superintendence of Professor A.D. Bache, by Professor McCulloh. Revised edition, by order of the Senate. Report of the Secretary of State, in relation to the claim of A.A. Frazier and A. Baker, to indemnify for the seizure of the brig Douglass by a British cruiser. May 12, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in relation to the Indian difficulties in Oregon. March 29, 1848. Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information called for by the resolution of the Senate, of 30th May, 1848, in relation to the existing condition of Yucatan. May 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in answer to the resolution of the Senate, of 22d January, 1847. April 11, 1848. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. May 3, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 1,500 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Message from the President of the United States, with the correspondence between the Secretary of State and Don Justo Sierra, the representative of Yucatan, called for by a resolution of the Senate. May 5, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, with information in relation to Yucatan, called for by a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant. May 9, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, with copies of orders given for the protection of the white population of Yucatan. May 15, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, showing the quantity and value of sugar imported into the United States during the years 1844, 1845, 1846, and 1847. May 18, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, of accounts of persons charged with the disbursement of moneys, &c., for the benefit of the Indians. May 30, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed.	10
Serial set 509	Message from the President of the United States, communicating the correspondence (not heretofore communicated) of the United States minister at Paris, since the recent change in the government of France. June 12, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed, and that 5,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a report of the Secretary of State, in relation to the claim of the owners of the ship Miles, of Warren, Rhode Island, against the government of Portugal. July 31, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the delay in the erection of a light-house on Execution Rocks. June 2, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. The treaty between the United States and Mexico, the proceedings of the Senate thereon, and message of the President and documents communicated therewith; the messages, with correspondence between the Executive Department, General Scott and Mr. Trist, and other papers and proceedings of the Senate in relation thereto, from which the injunction of secresy has been removed. Report of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information in relation to armories, arms, &c. June 12, 1848. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. June 14, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for a list of the Creek Indian warriors who were killed, wounded, or died in the service of the United States during the late war in Florida, with a statement of the arrears of pay due them. June 15, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a statement of the imports of iron and coal, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate. July 18, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for a statement of the money collected and expended for the relief of sick and disabled seamen. June 21, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report of a geological reconnoissance of the Chippewa land district of Wisconsin, and the northern part of Iowa, by David Dale Owen. June 22, 1848. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. June 24, 1848. -- Reconsidered, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. July 3, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 2,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Communication from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, recommending the extension of the act of August 3d, 1846, for the adjustment of suspended pre-emption land claims. July 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information as to the manner in which the interest on the public debt has been paid. July 5, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a copy of the treaty with the Mexican Republic, of February 2, 1848, and of the correspondence in relation thereto, and recommending measures for carrying the same into effect. July 6, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed, and that 5,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate; and that so much of the message as appropriately belongs to the Committees on Foreign Relations, Finance, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Public Lands, Judiciary, and Territories, be referred thereto. Report of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information as to the necessity of a fortification at Proctor's Landing, Louisiana. July 6, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, calling for the proceedings of the court of inquiry convened at Saltillo, Mexico, January 12, 1848, for the purpose of obtaining full information relative to an alleged mutiny at Buena Vista, about the 15th August, 1847. July 12, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed.	14
Serial set 510	Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate respecting the importations of sugar into the United States. August 7, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the proceedings of the two courts of inquiry in the case of Major General Pillow. August 2, 1848. Ordered to be printed, and that 3,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating copies of returns of punishments in the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate. July 28, 1848. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. July 29, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed. Communication from the Secretary of the Navy, in relation to the organization of the Marine Corps. August 4, 1848. Ordered to be printed to accompany Bill S. No. 341. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for the number of officers employed about the Custom-house in Baltimore, &c. July 24, 1848. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. August 7, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, documents in relation to the difficulties which took place at the payment of the Sac and Fox annuities, last fall. August 9, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of State, transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, reports of the commissioners under the treaty of Washington, of August 9, 1842. August 8, 1848. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. August 10, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 2000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, papers in relation to the seizure of the American ship Admittance. August 10, 1845. Read, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating the report of the Superintendent of the construction of standard weights and measures. August 12, 1848. Ordered to be printed, and that 500 additional copies be printed for the Superintendent of Weights and Measures.	9
Serial set 511	In Senate of the United States. December 15, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Calhoun submitted for consideration the following resolutions: Resolved, That to conquer Mexico, and to hold it either as a province or to incorporate it in our Union, would be inconsistent with the avowed object for which the war has been prosecuted... Resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut, in relation to slavery. December 20, 1847. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution. January 6, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in favor of relief to the widows and orphans of those who lost their lives in the war with Mexico. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the territory of Oregon, praying the confirmation of the land titles of the settlers in that territory, and for the adoption of measures for the promotion of education, and for facilitating the navigation of the Columbia River. December 8, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of a select committee of the House of Representatives, made March 9, 1846, in relation to the purchase and publication of the Madison Papers. December 23, 1847. Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 31. Memorial of importing merchants of the City of St. Louis, praying to be relieved from the operations of certain restrictions imposed by the existing tariff on merchandise imported into that city through the port of New Orleans. March 16, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, in relation to a mail route from Bellville to Lebanon. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New York, in relation to the pensions of widows and orphans [of officers and soldiers] who fall in battle or die of wounds received. April 11, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Winsborough to Monroe. April 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, in favor of the passage of a law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding states to recover slaves when escaping into the non slaveholding states. December 20, 1847. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of Tennessee, in favor of the construction of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean, on the plan proposed by Mr. Asa Whitney. January 17, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in favor of the graduation of the price of the public lands in that state. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 3, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benton submitted for consideration the following resolutions: Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the Senate, ___ copies of the tour, or memoir, of Dr. Wislizenus through the northern parts of Mexico... Memoir. A tour to northern Mexico, connected with Col. Doniphan's expedition, in 1846 and 1847. By A. Wislizenus, M.D. (with a scientific appendix and three maps.) January 13, 1848. -- Ordered that 5,000 copies be printed for the use of the Senate, and 200 additional for Dr. Wislizenus Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, in relation to the payment for depredations committed by the Indians during the Black Hawk War. February 11, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, on the subject of reducing the price of the public lands. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, in relation to the inlets on the coast of that state. February 23, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Petition of officers of the United States Army in Mexico, praying an amendment of the pension law for widows and orphans of officers and soldiers of the Army. December 20, 1847. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the reimbursement of money paid for the purchase of certain land records. April 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, in favor of the sale of the residue of the lands in the saline reservation in that state. December 29, 1847. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the extension of the port of Shieldsborough, and the erection of lighthouses on Ship Island and Proctor's Shell Bank. April 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Alexandre Vattemare, a citizen of France, relative to his plan of international literary and scientific exchanges. February 9, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in favor of relief to citizens of that state who suffered by Indian depredations during the Seminole War. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in relation to school lands in that state. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Santa Rosas County, Florida, in relation to the disposition of the public lands. February 11, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Ohio yearly meeting of Friends, held at Salem, praying for an immediate termination of the war. February 14, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of Robert Mills, respecting a new route to the Pacific Ocean, with a plan for the transportation of despatches to Astoria in fifteen days. February 15, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 18, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin submitted for consideration the following resolutions: Resolved, That the amount collected by the Army of the United States in Mexico from the revenues of that republic, and from the contributions levied on the people thereof, by order of the President of the United States, for the support of the Army, ought to be applied to the payment pro rata of the awards in favor of claimants under the convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic of the 11th of April, 1839... Petition of the heirs and legal representatives of John H. Piatt, deceased, late Army contractor, praying payment of a balance due them by the government. February 23, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of R.F. Pinkney, a lieutenant in the Navy, in relation to an alleged injustice done him in the [narrative] of the Exploring Expedition printed by order of Congress. February 23, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland, in favor of a light boat on Seven-foot knoll, and light-houses on Greenbury's Point and Flat Cap. February 23, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Georgia, in favor of Whitney's plan for the construction of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific. February 24, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Georgia, in relation to the Military Academy at West Point. February 24, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, against the repeal of the pilot law of March 2, 1837. February 28, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Memorial and resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in favor of a grant of land for the erection of a court-house at Tampa. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Florida, in relation to draining the Everglades. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in relation to pre-emption rights in that state. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in favor of the removal of the land office from Newnansville to Ocala. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Florida, in favor of a law for the survey of private land claims in that state. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in relation to lands which have, under the armed occupation act, reverted to the United States, and relating to the eight sections granted for a seat of government. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Florida, in relation to the Indians in that state. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, in relation to the war with Mexico. February 29, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of incorporating the Texan navy into that of the United States. February 29, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, in relation to the residence of the United States district judge for the district of Texas. February 29, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Memorial and resolution of the Legislature of Florida, in relation to the mode of transporting the mail on the route from Chattahoochie to Pensacola. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Mayor and City Council of the City of St. Louis, praying an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of that city. March 21, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Response of the Legislature of Alabama, in answer to the resolutions of the State of Vermont on the subject of slavery and the war with Mexico. March 21, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Response of the Legislature of Alabama, to the Legislature of Rhode Island, on the subject of the tariff, and the war with Mexico. March 21, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, praying a change in the system of transporting the mail. March 22, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, praying the cession of certain lands for the improvement of the Big Black River. March 22, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, on the subject of a treaty with the Menomonie Indians for the lands north of Fox River. March 22, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Maine and Massachusetts, praying that lumber manufactured in New Brunswick, from timber grown in Maine, may be admitted into the United States free of duty. March 22, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Nathan Cummings and others, citizens of the United States, and owners of lands within the former limits of the State of Maine, which were given up, by the Treaty of Washington, to Great Britain, praying the adoption of some mode of relief to indemnify them against loss. March 22, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a law granting the right of way to the St. Mary's Canal Company. March 23, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, against the renewal of a patent for Jethro Wood's plough. March 23, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a donation of land for the erection of state asylums for the insane, and the deaf, dumb, and blind. March 27, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a grant of land for public works in that state. March 27, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in relation to the reimbursement of expenses incurred by that state in fitting out a regiment of volunteers. March 27, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in relation to the construction of a military road from Green Bay, Lake Michigan, to Keewawenon Bay, Lake Superior. March 27, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of the United States, residing within the limits of the territory of Minnesota as defined in the bill before Congress at the last session, in relation to the boundary of that territory. March 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of Tennessee, praying an appropriation to repair the breach in the dam at the head of Cumberland Island, in the Ohio River. March 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of the reimbursement of expenses incurred by Wm. Napton and Alexander F. Arnold, in raising volunteers for the war with Mexico. March 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to bounty land warrants. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to increasing the clothing pay of volunteers. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, on the subject of locating land warrants. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, asking aid of the general government for the American Colonization Society. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, for the reduction of the price of public lands in the great Miami reserve. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to the reduction of postage on newspapers and periodicals. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to a marsh and wet tract of land in Jay and Adams Counties. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, in relation to the improvement of the Iroquois and Kankakee Rivers. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, in relation to a mail route from Brownstown to David Bowman's and Nashville. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to the national road. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, to postpone the public sales of land in the Miami reserves. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, in relation to volunteers who have settled on government land in the Miami Reserve. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to a mail route from Salem to Bloomington. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, in relation to the Miami Indians. March 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, concerning the Saut de Ste. Marie. April 7, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of the reimbursement of expenses incurred by volunteers of that state in going to their places of rendezvous. April 10, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Memorial of J.S. Skinner, praying the establishment of an Agricultural Department of government. April 11, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Thomas W. Chinn and others, praying to be released from a judgment against them as sureties of Thomas G. Morgan, late collector at New Orleans. April 17, 1848. Referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of the establishment of a line of military posts between Red River and the Rio Grande, and the adoption of measures for preserving the friendly relations between the Indian tribes and the people of that state. April 17, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of the passage of an act, extending the jurisdiction of that state over the Sabine Pass, the Sabine Lake, and the Sabine River. April 17, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of the construction of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean, on the plan of Asa Whitney. April 17, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. In Senate of the United States. April 19, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott submitted for consideration the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be instructed to bring in a bill repealing "An Act Concerning Tonnage Duty of Spanish Vessels,"... Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, on the subject of the Mexican War. April 20, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Memorial of the Cherokee delegation, protesting against the settlement proposed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under the treaty of 6th August, 1846. June 13, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Geographical memoir upon Upper California, in illustration of his map of Oregon and California, by John Charles Fremont; addressed to the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the Chicago Convention, in favor of the improvement of harbors and rivers by the general government. June 19, 1848. Referred to a select committee, (consisting of Messrs. Webster, Davis of Mississippi, Breese, Johnson of Maryland, and Borland,) and ordered to be printed. Memorial of B. Marshall, Tuckahatchee Mico, G.W. Stedham, and Geo. Scott, delegates of the Creek Nation, praying Congress to pass an act for the adjustment of their unsettled business. June 19, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. July 18, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason submitted for consideration the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be authorized to employ a clerk, annually... Memorial of R.R. Gurley, pray[ing] the purchase of Catlin's collection of paintings and curiosities illustrative of the manners and customs of the North American Indians. July 10, 1848. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library. July 18, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed. Extract from the report of the Choctaw Board of Commissioners, dated June 16, 1845, to the President of the United States. June 19, 1848. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, with Resolution S. No. 25. June 23, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of D.L. Dix, praying a grant of land for the relief and support of the indigent curable and incurable insane in the United States. June 27, 1848. Referred to a select committee, and ordered to be printed, and that 5,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Statement showing: 1st. Appropriations made during the first session of the 30th Congress; 2d. The officers created, and the salaries thereof; 3d. The offices, the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period. September 16, 1848. Prepared by the Secretary of the Senate, in pursuance of the 6th section of the act of July 4, 1836, to authorize the appointment of additional paymasters, and for other purposes. In Senate of the United States. December 14, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dickinson submitted for consideration the following resolutions... Petition of Frederick Dawson, James Schott, and Elisha Dana Whitney, praying payment for certain vessels, &c., furnished Texas, and given up by Texas to the United States on the annexation of Texas. January 13, 1848. Referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Asa Whitney, praying for a grant of land to enable him to construct a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean. January 17, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 17, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron submitted for consideration the following resolution: Whereas a defalcation is reported to have occurred in the United States Mint at Philadelphia... In Senate of the United States. January 18, 1848. Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to communicate to the Senate the following statements... In Senate of the United States. January 18, 1848. Read, and ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Mr. Bagby submitted for consideration the following resolutions: Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States is a compact between co-equal sovereigns, by which they, and each of them, delegate certain specified powers to form a general government for the common benefit of all the parties to said compact, and such as might become parties to it... Petition of importing merchants of Boston, praying for an amendment of the proviso of the eighth section of the Tariff Act of July 30, 1846. January 24, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 25, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bagby submitted for consideration the following resolutions: 1. Resolved, That Congress has no constitutional power to abolish or to prohibit slavery in any state or territory in this Union... Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, in relation to the franking privilege and the postage on newspapers. January 25, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 27, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr Bagby submitted for consideration the following resolution: Resolved, That neither the people nor the legislature of a territory have any constitutional power to exclude slavery from such territory... Resolution of the Legislature of Rhode Island, against a duty on tea and coffee. January 28, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 2, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benton submitted for consideration the following resolution: Resolved, That the President be requested to cause the Senate to be informed of the order, or law, by virtue of which the following words in relation to the promotion of cadets... Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of granting land to volunteers for service in the war with Mexico. February 2, 1848. Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana, in relation to the school lands in that state. February 2, 1848. Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Louisiana, in relation to school lands in that state. February 2, 1848. Read, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Indiana, in relation to the claim of Francis Vigo, deceased. February 8, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the General Assembly of Iowa, in relation to a railroad from Dubuque to Keokuk. March 1, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, in favor of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific, on the plan proposed by Mr. Whitney. March 1, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of the construction of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific, on the plan proposed by Mr. Whitney. March 3, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in relation to internal improvements. March 6, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Petition of James F. Haliday and others, praying the establishment of a national printing office at the seat of government. March 6, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Mary Ann W. Van Ness, praying an extension of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, so as to allow her an appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia. March 9, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, recommending an appropriation of land for the construction of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Oregon Territory, on the plan proposed by Mr. Whitney. December 8, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, in favor of the repeal of certain provisions in the law regulating the franking privilege and the postage on letters and newspapers. December 8, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, in favor of Whitney's plan for a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific. December 9, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in favor of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific, on the plan proposed by Mr. Whitney. December 13, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States, for the first session of the Thirtieth Congress -- 1847-'48. December 14, 1847. Report of the Secretary of the Senate, of disbursements from the contingent fund of the Senate. December 16, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Petition of Leslie Combs, praying the payment of certain securities issued by the late Republic of Texas. December 20, 1847. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Petition of officers of the United States Army in Mexico, praying the passage of a law providing for the retirement of old and disabled officers. December 20, 1847. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, in relation to the franking privilege, and the postage on newspapers. December 20, 1847. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, in favor of the removal of the terms of the United States circuit and district courts from Exeter to Concord. December 20, 1847. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, in relation to slavery. December 20, 1847. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut, in favor of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific, on the plan proposed by Mr. Whitney. December 20, 1847. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 20, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hannegan submitted for consideration the following resolution: Resolved, That a select committee be appointed to inquire whether it may be necessary to adopt any measures for the future construction and preservation of the monuments to the memory of deceased members of the Senate... Ordinance of the City Council of St. Louis, in relation to the improvement of the harbor of St. Louis. February 10, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memoir, geographical, political, and commercial, on the present state, productive resources, and capabilities for commerce, of Siberia, Manchuria, and the Asiatic islands of the northern Pacific Ocean; and on the importance of opening commercial intercourse with those countries, &c. Addressed to his Excellency James K. Polk, President of the United States, by Aaron H. Palmer, counsellor of the Supreme Court of the United States, corresponding member of the National Institute, Washington, &c. March 8, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. January 10, 1848. Read, made the special order of the day for Monday, January 24th, 1848, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hannegan submitted for consideration the following resolutions: Resolved, That no treaty of peace can be made with Mexico... Petition of the pilots of Charleston, S.C., praying that the power to regulate pilotage may remain with the state legislatures. January 10, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of the United States, praying the purchase of Mount Vernon by the government. March 10, 1848. Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, commendatory of Pope Pius IX, and in favor of the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome. April 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the adoption of measures to prevent the deterioration of the sugar cane. April 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the establishment of a Navy yard in that state. April 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the removal of obstructions in the Sabine River. April 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the erection of light-houses at the mouth of the Sabine, and on the west end of Last Island. April 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the extension of the jurisdiction of that state to the western bank of the Sabine. April 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Oregon, praying that the laws of the United States may be extended over that territory, &c. May 8, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, in relation to French spoliation claims prior to 1800. May 8, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Document in relation to the claim of David Myerle. May 13, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Senate, on the cause of delay in printing the documents relating to the arbitration in the case of Pea Patch Island. May 16, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial and resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of a reduction of the rates of postage. May 17, 1848. Ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of the Parish of Natchitoches, La., praying the improvement of the navigation of the Red River. May 18, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Petition of Johnson Price and Alexander R. McKee, praying a grant of land in Oregon, on condition that they cause it to be settled. May 18, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of J. Quinn Thornton, praying the establishment of a territorial government in Oregon, and for appropriations for various projects. May 25, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Memorial of judges and members of the bar of New Orleans, with a report of a committee of the Louisiana Bar, praying that the practice in the circuit and district courts of the United States, in the State of Louisiana, in all civil cases, may be made to conform to that of the district courts of that state. May 30, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed; also, the resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana on the subject. Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in relation to the Mexican War. July 31, 1848. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the improvement of the harbors upon the western shores of Lake Michigan. August 7, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. February 3, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin submitted for consideration the following resolutions: Resolved, That if any territory shall hereafter be acquired by the United States, or annexed thereto, the act by which said territory is acquired or annexed, whatever such act may be, should contain an unalterable fundamental article or provision whereby slavery... Memorial of the Society of Friends in North Carolina, at a yearly meeting at New Garden, praying the adoption of measures to bring the war with Mexico to an immediate termination. December 20, 1847. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana, in favor of the indemnification of the sufferers by French spoliations prior to 1800. February 2, 1848. Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.	155
Serial set 512	In Senate of the United States. December 21, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 23.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mary L. Keen, alleging herself to be the administratrix of Elisha L. Keen... In Senate of the United States. December 29, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 40.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Milledge Galphin, heir and legal representative of George Galphin, deceased, report... In Senate of the United States. December 30, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Atchison made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 45.)...The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Talbot and others, find, from the petition and other papers presented, the following facts clearly made out... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Petty, report... In Senate of the United States. March 2, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Herrick Aicken, praying an extension of his patent for "an improvement in the saw-set," &c., report... In Senate of the United States. December 29, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Luther Blake, claiming to be assignee of Lemuel B. Nichols, by his agent, William Stewart, report... In Senate of the United States. January 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 3.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred a "Joint Resolution Relating to Errors and Defective Returns in Certain Surveys, Plats, and Field-notes," respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. February 2, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Francis O. and Andrew G. [i.e., C.] Dorr, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. April 11, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bradbury made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 211.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Williams and others, praying compensation for a vessel lost while in the service of the United States, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. April 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Richard G. Dove, beg leave to report... In Senate of the United States. May 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee of Claims, made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 65.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 65, for the relief of Charles Reeder, &c., report... In Senate of the United States. May 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 237.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred House Bill No. 237, entitled "An Act for the Relief of John Morgan," report... In Senate of the United States. July 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 168.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill S. 168, to provide for the unpaid claims of the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state and continental lines of the Revolutionary Army, report... In Senate of the United States. July 14, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution respecting the extra compensation allowed by law to the district judge of the United States for the State of Louisiana, report... In Senate of the United States. May 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed, and 10,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Butler made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 239.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred certain resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, "in favor of the passage of a law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding states to recover slaves, when escaping into non-slaveholding states," have had the same under consideration... In Senate of the United States. March 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the representatives of Reuben Lassiter, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. May 3, 1848. -- Submitted. May 11, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a petition of the citizens of western Pennsylvania... In Senate of the United States. April 11, 1848. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hannegan made the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 18.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the case of Mrs. Ann Chase, report... In Senate of the United States. January 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 64.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Maria L. Nourse, window of Joseph Nourse... In Senate of the United States. June 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 98.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the House Bill No. 98, entitled an "Act for the Relief of H.D. Johnson"... In Senate of the United States. July 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Borland made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 306.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the "petition of citizens of Arkansas, praying an additional section of land for common schools in each township... In Senate of the United States. January 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Watson, now deceased, and of Camilta Coddington, for herself and the other heirs of the deceased... In Senate of the United States. July 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mehitable Gibbs, widow of Jabez Gibbs... In Senate of the United States. August 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of La., made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elijah Buchanan, report... In Senate of the United States. January 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 92.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thompson Hutchinson, only son of Thomas Hutchinson, deceased, report... In Senate of the United States. March 6, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 161.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Grice, asking indemnification for losses sustained by his failure to deliver a quantity of live oak timber under a contract with the Navy Department, and which failure resulted from the seizure of his boat by an officer of the Army of the United States, and its detention in the military service, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. February 15, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Davenport, report... In Senate of the United States. April 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: (To accompany Bills S. Nos. 197 and 198.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred the documents relative to the claim of T.S. Wendell, and the resolution of the 17th of February, 1848, instructing said Committee "to enquire into the present condition of the fund arising from the sale of the lands ceded by the treaty of January 14, 1837, with the Saginaw band of the Chippewa Indians..." In Senate of the United States. March 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 172.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of D.A. Watterston, praying payment for services as a clerk to the Surveyor General of Louisiana, have had the same under consideration... In Senate of the United States. February 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 127.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Hugh W. Dobbin... In Senate of the United States. February 4, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bradley made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 129.) The Committee of Claims, to whom were referred the petition of James F. Sothoron, praying for indemnity for property destroyed by the enemy during the late war with Great Britain... In Senate of the United States. February 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 147 [i.e., 148].) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Devlin, report... In Senate of the United States. January 25, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 107.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George Center, report... In Senate of the United States. January 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Atchison made the following report: (To accompany Joint R.S. No. 7.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Jonathan Lewis, make the following report... In Senate of the United States. December 29, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Phelps made the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry Simpson, administrator of George Simpson, deceased, report... In Senate of the United States. January 31, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 117.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "petition of William H. Prentiss for additional compensation as assistant messenger in the Department of State..." In Senate of the United States. March 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of Leslie Combs, of the State of Kentucky, report... In Senate of the United States. March 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 174.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of David Myerle, praying compensation for sacrifices and losses sustained by his efforts, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, to introduce the process of water-rotting hemp in the western states, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. February 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 144 [i.e., 145]. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Clark, report... In Senate of the United States. February 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 145 [i.e., 146].) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred, on the 5th January, the memorial of William Woodbridge and Henry Chipman, report... In Senate of the United States. February 17, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 150.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Patrick Walker, submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. February 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 151.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of J.W. Nye, assignee of Peter Bargy, Jr., and Hugh Stewart, praying further remuneration for losses sustained in macadamizing Pennsylvania Avenue in 1832, report... In Senate of the United States. February 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turney made the following report: The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Aaron Carmon, have had the same under consideration, and made the following report... In Senate of the United States. February 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom has been recommitted the petition of J. Bigelow, administrator of Francis Cazeau, deceased, and the report No. 52, (and Bill No. 123, accompanying the same,) made in said case by same Committee, report... In Senate of the United States. February 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred, on the 5th of January, the memorials of Susan Randall, and of C. Chauncey, and other citizens of Pennsylvania, report... In Senate of the United States. February 23, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 7.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 7) to amend the act entitled "An Act for the Regulation of Seamen on Board the Public and Private Vessels of the United States," passed the 3rd March, 1813... California claims. In Senate of the United States. February 23, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed, and that 20,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Cass made the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the memorial of John Charles Fremont, praying an investigation of the claims of citizens of California against the United States, for money and supplies furnished by them for the use of the United States... In Senate of the United States. February 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bradbury made the following report: (To accompany S. Bill No. 153.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Richmond... In Senate of the United States. February 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Asahel Kingsley, submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. February 29, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 155.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Bethiah Healy, widow of George Healy, report... In Senate of the United States. February 29, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brease made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 157.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of David H. Leeper, submit the following communication... In Senate of the United States. March 17, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 171.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles M. Gibson, praying compensation for the loss of a wagon and horses, which were captured and destroyed by the Seminole Indians during the war in Florida, in the year 1839, the same being then in the military service of the United States, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. March 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 173.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Columbus Alexander and Theodore Barnard, praying indemnity for loss by the violation, on the part of the government, of their contract for executing the printing of the Navy Department, during the year commencing the 1st of July, 1843, and ending the 30th of June, 1844, having had the same under consideration, report... In Senate of the United States. March 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 175.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John H. White and other children of Moses White, deceased, praying that a certain amount of invalid pension money may be refunded, report... In Senate of the United States. March 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 176.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William W. Wall, of Wilkerson County, State of Mississippi, report... In Senate of the United States. March 21, 1848. Submitted, considered, and agreed to. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report : The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the Very Rev. Benedict Madeore, vicar general of the Catholics of Florida, and pastor of the Catholic church of St. Augustine, in Florida; and to whom was also referred the memorial of the trustees and members of the Catholic church of St. Augustine, report... In Senate of the United States. March 22, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 179.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Polly Taylor, report... In Senate of the United States. March 27, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred "the memorial of Joshua Shaw, praying an additional allowance for the use of his inventions by the United States,"... In Senate of the United States. March 27, 1848. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 28.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Calvin Emmons, praying a renewal and extension of his patent for a threshing machine... In Senate of the United States. March 27, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 185.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James G. Carson, report... In Senate of the United States. March 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 187.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of David Wilkinson, praying remuneration for inventions made by him, and for which he received no pecuniary benefit... In Senate of the United States. March 30, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 189.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of H. Fredien, M. Vercher, and others, citizens of Louisiana, claiming the privilege of making pre-emption entries on lands covered by certain claims, known as the "Bowie titles," have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. April 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 40.) The Committee of Claims, to which was referred House Bill No. 40, entitled "An Act for the Relief of William Hogan, Administrator of Michael Hogan, Deceased," report... In Senate of the United States. April 6, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 195.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of William Wynn, report... In Senate of the United States. April 6, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pearce made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 194.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of John Lorimer Graham, formerly postmaster of New York, report... In Senate of the United States. April 6, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee of Claims, made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John J. Sanchez, report... In Senate of the United States. April 6, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upham made the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Russworm [i.e., Russwurm], deceased, an officer of the Army of the Revolution, praying the be allowed interest on commutation pay, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. April 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upham made the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom the petition and papers of Nancy Haggard were referred, report... In Senate of the United States. April 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upham made the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Robert Piatt, son of Daniel Piatt, deceased, an officer in the Army of the Revolution, praying for a balance of seven years' half-pay claimed to be due for the services of his father... In Senate of the United States. April 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 199.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the claim of the legal representatives of James Le Caze, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report as follows... In Senate of the United States. April 7, 1848. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 162.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 162) for the relief of Charles Waldron, report... In Senate of the United States. April 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Hubbard, (widow,) praying indemnity for property taken and destroyed by the Saginaw tribe of the Chippewa Indians, after the surrender of Detroit, in 1812, report... In Senate of the United States. April 10, 1848. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 119.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom has been referred the act which passed the House of Representatives, on the third instant, for the relief of Anthony Bessee, have had the subject under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. April 11, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 54.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred an act passed by the House of Representatives at its present session, entitled "An Act for the Relief of William Ralston," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. April 11, 1848. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "petition of James Edwards, for payment for losses by the destruction of property during the Seminole War," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. April 11, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bell made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 212.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Findlay, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In Senate of the United States. April 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upham made the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Nathan Lamme's executor, praying for the allowance of commutation pay by reason of the Revolutionary services of the said Nathan, report... In Senate of the United States. April 13, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth McDougall, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. April 13, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 217.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was recommitted for further consideration the memorial of Francis O. Dorr and Andrew C. Dorr, brothers of Gustavus Dorr, late captain of the Sixth Regiment of the United States Infantry, now, and for two years past, confined in the insane asylum at Somerville, Massachusetts, praying for a pension in his behalf on the ground of disability incurred in the public service... In Senate of the United States. April 14, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Atchison made the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 19.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John A. Bryan, report... In Senate of the United States. April 14, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 218.) The Judiciary Committee, to whom was referred the memorial of the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, ask leave to report... In Senate of the United States. April 17, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 221.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Betsey Anderson, Alvina Severence, Alphonso L. Anderson, and Almasa Denton, of Hardwicke, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, report... In Senate of the United States. April 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 223.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "memorial of John M. McIntosh, praying the settlement of the accounts of John Clute [i.e., Clutes] and Jacob Hart on duplicate certificates, the originals being lost, and that the amounts found due may be paid to him as their assignee," have had the same under consideration and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. April 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 224.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of A.H. Cote, of Florida, asking payment of his claims as a suttler [i.e., sutler] in Florida, which stand to the credit of the respective soldiers at the Treasury Department, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. April 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 225.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas C. Sheldon, late receiver of public moneys at Kalamazoo, in the State of Michigan, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. April 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 226.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the "memorial of Robert C. Rogers, praying indemnity for losses and expenses incurred during his captivity in Mexico, and in effecting his escape," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. April 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 227.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Abraham Edwards, register of the land office at Kalamazoo, in the State of Michigan, respectfully report as follows... In Senate of the United States. April 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dix made the following report: The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of G.R. Cox, and ninety-four others, passengers on board steamboat Yorktown, on the Mississippi River, March 17, 1848, report... In Senate of the United States. April 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Harris, of Rhode Island, report... In Senate of the United States. April 25, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 20.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States relative to "Colt's repeating fire arms," dated April 14, 1848, and the documents accompanying the same, report... In Senate of the United States. April 25, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upham made the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 45, entitled "An Act for the Relief of the Heirs and Legal Representatives of Rignal, alias Nick Hilliary," and accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. June 2, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed, and that 500 copies, in addition to the usual number, be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Webster made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 8.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the bill to be entitled "An Act Further To Carry into Effect the Provisions and Stipulations of the Ninth Article of the Florida Treaty with Respect to Certain Losses of Spanish Subjects in West Florida," and the memorial of certain citizens of West Florida praying for the passage thereof, and sundry documents accompanying the same, report... In Senate of the United States. June 8, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pearce made the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 22.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate, directing them to inquire whether any and what legislation is necessary to secure the more regular and speedy transmission of the great northern and southern mail... In Senate of the United States. June 8, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 278.) The Joint Committee on the Library, to whom the memorial of Thomas J. Randolph was referred, praying that Congress would purchase the manuscript papers of the late Thomas Jefferson... In Senate of the United States. June 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 279.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Leroy [i.e., Le Roy], submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. June 13, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report : The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Thomas F. Gordon, report... In Senate of the United States. June 14, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 10.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred the Bill S. 10, for the relief of John Bryan, administrator of Isaac Garretson, deceased, late a purser in the United States Navy, and the petition of the administrator of said Garretson, report... In Senate of the United States. June 15, 1848. Submitted from the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. No. 193.) Communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and other documents, in relation to the Indians in Texas. In Senate of the United States. June 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ann B. Cox, widow and executrix of the late Nathaniel Cox, navy agent at New Orleans, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. June 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 282.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the six several memorials of the people of Louisiana, residing north of Red River, in said state, for a separate United States court in that part of the state, report... In Senate of the United States. June 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 283.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred the petition of Orville B. Dibble and George C. Bates, asking for the right of way, together with a grant of land to aid in the construction of a canal around the falls of St. Mary's... In Senate of the United States. June 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bradbury made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 284.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "petition of the legal representatives of John G. Mackall, deceased, praying indemnity for the destruction of a house during the last war with Great Britain," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. June 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 321.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 321, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Thomas B. Graham"... In Senate of the United States. June 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 232.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 232, entitled, "A Bill for the Relief of Gamaliel Taylor, Late Marshal of the District of Indiana, and His Sureties," report... Communication from the Hon. James S. Green and Willard P. Hall, representatives in Congress from the State of Missouri, in relation to Bill S. 248, granting the right of way and land for the St. Joseph and Hannibal Railroad. June 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States. June 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 239.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 239, entitled "An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of James Porterfield, Deceased," report... In Senate of the United States. June 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "petition of Arnold Naudain, for compensation for superintending the construction of floating lights, while collector of the Customs for the District of Delaware,"... In Senate of the United States. June 20,1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 213.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 213, 1st session 30th Congress, entitled an "Act for the Relief of Mrs. Mary B. Renner," have had the same under consideration and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. June 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 361.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 361, for the relief of Almedus Scott, report... In Senate of the United States. June 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 402.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred Bill H.R. No. 402, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Eleanora B. Watkins, Widow of Gassaway Watkins," report... In Senate of the United States. June 20, 1848. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 403.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 403, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Samuel A. Grier," report... In Senate of the United States. July 15, 1848. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 290.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill from the House of Representatives, No. 290, entitled "An Act To Change the Times for Holding the District Courts of the United States in the Western District of Virginia, and for Other Purposes,"... In Senate of the United States. July 17, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of Agnes Slacke and the heirs of De Repentigny, praying the confirmation of title to certain lands in Michigan, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. July 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Coleman, widow of Daniel Coleman... In Senate of the United States. July 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 325.)The Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred the petition of the citizens of Sault de Ste. Marie, in the State of Michigan, praying that commissioners may be appointed to adjust the land claims of the settlers of that place... In Senate of the United States. June 21, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of John B. Luce, report... In Senate of the United States. June 21, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 287.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the "petition of the heirs and legal representatives of George Gibson, deceased, praying commutation pay," have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. June 21, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Berrien made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 288.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of James Chapman, administrator of Thomas Chapman, ask leave to submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. June 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Mary M. Foot, widow of the late Lyman Foot, report... In Senate of the United States. June 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Levi Wells, report... In Senate of the United States. June 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of the Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga Indians, praying the reimbursement of expenses incurred in an ineffectual attempt to emigrate to the territory assigned to them... In Senate of the United States. June 26, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Borland made the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 29.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of Asa Whitney, relative to the construction of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. June 26, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 296.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition and papers of Robert W. Richards, praying that a patent may issue to him for a certain tract of land, report... In Senate of the United States. June 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Davenport, praying for a pension, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. June 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 298.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "petition of George Poindexter, praying remuneration for injury done to his property while occupied by the United States volunteers for Mexico," have had the same under consideration and report... In Senate of the United States. June 29, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 31.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom were referred the report of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and sundry documents, respecting the claims of the Rev. Benedict Madeore, Vicar General of the Catholic Church of Florida, and of the Catholic congregation of St. Augustine, Florida, to certain lots or tracts of land in or near said city, report... In Senate of the United States. June 30, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 301.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas W. Chinn and M. Courtney, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. June 30, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clarke, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 302.) The Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom was referred the memorial of the legal representatives of Moses Shepherd, for payment for work done by him upon the Cumberland Road, report... In Senate of the United States. December 29, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Breese made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 11.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill and accompanying papers to compensate John M. Moore... In Senate of the United States. January 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 19.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 19) to divide the State of Arkansas into two judicial districts, report... In Senate of the United States. January 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 48.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the petition of Peter Capella, administrator of Andrew Capella, deceased; and the petition of John Caps; and also the petition of Elijah Pelty and Hannah Pelty, his wife, heirs of John Beardon, deceased, report... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of William M. Glendy, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 76.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill, introduced on leave, for the relief of Fernando Fellanny, report... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 77.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the documents relating to the claim of Peter Engles [i.e., Engels], senior, for a pension, report... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 78.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the documents relating to the claim of Elizabeth Pistole... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 81.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the forward officers of the late exploring expedition... In Senate of the United States. January 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Abner L. Duncan, report... In Senate of the United States. January 17, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 87.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Abigail Garland, widow of Jacob Garland... In Senate of the United States. January 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Hugh McLean, representing that he was baptized Hugh Monro McLean, and praying for the payment of three lost loan-office certificates... In Senate of the United States. January 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 91.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Jones, and the other children of John Carr, deceased, report... In Senate of the United States. January 19, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, from the Committee on Pensions, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Searing, one of the children of Mary Allen, deceased, who was widow of the late John Allen, report... In Senate of the United States. January 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Don Carlos Buell, adjutant of the 3d Regiment of Infantry, report... In Senate of the United States. January 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 43.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "Bill (S. No. 43) for the Relief of Jeanette C. Huntington, Widow and Sole Executrix of William D. Cheever, Deceased"... In Senate of the United States. January 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Breese made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 95.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill granting to the State of Illinois the right of way and a donation of public lands, for making a railroad connecting the upper and lower Mississippi with the chain of northern lakes, at Chicago, have given it the most careful examination, and respectfully ask leave to report... In Senate of the United States. January 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 102.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred the petition of John Millikin, and others, have had the same, together with the accompanying documents, under consideration... In Senate of the United States. January 25, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 106.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry Washington, praying redress for damages sustained in consequence of the rescinding of a contract entered into by him with the Surveyor General to survey certain public lands in Florida, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. January 26, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of William H. Bassett, late marshal of the United States for the western district of Louisiana, report... In Senate of the United States. January 27, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 111.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Reynolds May... In Senate of the United States. January 31, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany S.R. No. 8.) [Senate Joint Resolution No. 8]. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "memorial of Clements, Bryan & Co., praying indemnification for losses sustained by the rescinding of a contract for furnishing supplies," have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. January 31, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 116.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Balie Peyton, report... In Senate of the United States. February 2, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 122.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph De la Francia, report.. In Senate of the United States. February 2, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wescott [i.e., Westcott], made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 123.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Jacob Bigelow, administrator of Francis [i.e., Francois] Cazeau, report... In Senate of the United States. February 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph Burchard, of New York, report... In Senate of the United States. February 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Miller made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 126.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Anna J. Hassler, widow of Charles A. Hassler, late surgeon in the Navy, for a pension... In Senate of the United States. February 9, 1848. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 131.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of William Grayson, report... In Senate of the United States. February 9, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 133.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Welcome Parmeter... In Senate of the United States. February 9, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 134.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of David Currier, report... In Senate of the United States. March 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 169.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of Frederick Dawson, James Schott and Elisha D. Whitney, report... In Senate of the United States. January 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bradbury made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom were referred the memorials of George Hervey, agent for the owners and consignees of the English ship James Mitchell, praying for the payment of a balance of $1,350.55, due on an appropriation made by Congress, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. March 4, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: The Committee of Claims have had under consideration the memorial of Wm. G. Davis and Mary Ann Davis, and beg leave to report... In Senate of the United States. March 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sturgeon made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 162.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of George V. Mitchell, report... In Senate of the United States. January 11, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 25.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 25) for the relief of Susan E. Gordon, report thereon... In Senate of the United States. December 29, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany S. Bill No. 39.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, who were instructed to inquire whether any modifications of the present laws relating to patents and the Patent Office be expedient, report... In Senate of the United States. December 30, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Corwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 44.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of Cadwallader Wallace, praying compensation for certain Virginia military bounty land warrants, the lands appropriated by said warrants having been sold... In Senate of the United States. December 21, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 21.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "petition of Robert Purkis, praying remuneration for recapturing a merchant vessel during the last war..." In Senate of the United States. December 21, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fairfield made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 2.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of Joseph Wilson, ask leave to report... In Senate of the United States. December 21, 1847. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fairfield made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 24.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of Walter R. Johnson... In Senate of the United States. January 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 97.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel W. Bell, a native of the Cherokee nation, submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. January 20, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of David Whelply, report... In Senate of the United States. January 24, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upham made the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the widow and heirs of Doctor Gustavus B. Horner, late a surgeon's mate in the Army of the Revolution, praying for the allowance of commutation pay, report... In Senate of the United States. February 10, 1848. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 135.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of David N. Smith, report... In Senate of the United States. February 11, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 146 [i.e., 147].) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom were referred the memorials of Adelaide Snyder and Henriette [i.e., Henrietta] Pensoneau, heirs of Jean F. Perry, deceased; John Bleakley, William Bleakley, Nicholas Badiger, and Juliana Bleakley, heirs of Josiah Bleakley; James L.D. Morrison, John M. Morrison, and R. F. Morrison, heirs of Robert Morrison, deceased, and Rital Jarrot and others, heirs of Nicholas Jarrot, deceased, report... In Senate of the United States. February 11, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 139.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John P. Baldwin... In Senate of the United States. March 2, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report : The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial of Hezekiah L. Thistle, complaining of the course of the Commissioner of Patents with respect to an application by said Thistle for a patent, and praying for relief by special act, &c., report... In Senate of the United States. January 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 55.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of Richard S. Coxe, report... In Senate of the United States. January 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 65.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Edward Bolon... In Senate of the United States. January 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 28, for the relief of G.S. Gaines, with the accompanying petition, report... In Senate of the United States. January 10, 1848. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 63.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Walter Loomis and Abel Gay... In Senate of the United States. January 11, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 73.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Jones and Boker, report... In Senate of the United States. March 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Atchison made the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution S. No. 13.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred the petition and papers of H.B. Gaither, report... In Senate of the United States. March 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 165.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Gilbert Stalker and N.B. Hill, praying compensation for a steamboat lost in the public service, report... In Senate of the United States. March 14, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 68.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred Bill No. 68, authorizing the Secretary of War to surrender certain bonds of the State of Indiana, (held by the United States,) to the "agent of state, for said State of Indiana,"... In Senate of the United States. March 14, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to which was referred the petition of Isabella Cole, executrix of William Cole, deceased, report... In Senate of the United States. March 14, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Volney E. Howard, Bainbridge Howard, and David Skelton, report... In Senate of the United States. April 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 238.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Gad Humphreys, praying indemnity for property destroyed in Florida, by order of a United States officer... In Senate of the United States. April 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 237.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Eugene Van Ness and John N. Brush, executors of Nehemiah Brush, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. May 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Phelps made the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the memorial of John W. Leuchs, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. May 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 318.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 318) for the relief of Joseph Johnson, report... In Senate of the United States. May 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Claims, made the following report : (To accompany Bill S. No. 240.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the executive committee of the American Colonization Society, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. May 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Francis Martin, report... In Senate of the United States. May 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of John L. Worden, submit to the Senate the following report from the Fourth Auditor in regard to this claim, and ask to be discharged from its further consideration. In Senate of the United States. May 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John H. Williams, report... In Senate of the United States. May 9, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 257.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Calvin Reed praying the payment for pine trees sold to the United States for the erection of a fort at Mandarin, Florida, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. May 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 259.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nehemiah Brush, praying a pension for injuries received in the military service of the United States, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. May 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 260.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Pittman, report... In Senate of the United States. May 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 264.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Bancroft Woodcock, report... In Senate of the United States. May 15, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Westcott made the following report : (To accompany Bill S. No. 265.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Obed Hussey, report... In Senate of the United States. May 16, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niles made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 266.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of S.W. Chilson, made the following report... In Senate of the United States. May 17, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers in the case of Hugh Wallace Wormley, report... In Senate of the United States. May 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 267.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the representatives of Benjamin F. Hart, deceased, report... In Senate of the United States. May 18, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niles made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 268.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of L.P. Sanger, report... In Senate of the United States. May 25, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niles made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 273.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Frink and Haddock, report... In Senate of the United States. May 29, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Baldwin, report... In Senate of the United States. May 29, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Ericsson, report... In Senate of the United States. May 29, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr.Yulee made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Ann Kelly, report... In Senate of the United States. May 29, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred S.B. 214, in addition to an act for the more equitable distribution of the Navy Pension Fund, report... In Senate of the United States. May 29, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Abel Gregg, report... In Senate of the United States. July 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Atchinson made the following report: The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Rusk, William Tyler, and George S. Gains, late Choctaw commissioners, praying the allowance of mileage, report... In Senate of the United States. July 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Rochester, New York, in behalf of the Tonawanda band of the Seneca Indians, report... In Senate of the United States. July 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 309.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Ward & Smith, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States. July 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 164.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the bill from the House of Representatives, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Elisha F. Richards," having had the same under consideration, report... In Senate of the United States. July 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed Mr. Felch made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 318.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Nathan Worthen, praying for the payment to the heirs of Judith Worthen, deceased, of a pension, to which she was entitled as the widow of Isaac Worthen, deceased, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. July 13, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Borland, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 253.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred "A Bill To Grant the State of Arkansas Certain Unsold Lands Subject to Overflow, for Purposes of Internal Improvement, Education, and Other Purposes, in Said State," report... In Senate of the United States. July 22, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Henrietta Bedinger, submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. July 22, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of La., made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Leonard Gray... In Senate of the United States. July 25, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Atchison made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 329.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Benjamin Marshall, Tuckabatcha Micco, G.W. Slidham, and George Scott, delegates of the Creek Nation of Indians, report, in part... In Senate of the United States. July 25, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 319.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom the bill to facilitate the entry of pre-emptive claims was referred, respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. July 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foote made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 333.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom were referred the memorial of Morgan McAffee, and the accompanying documents, report... In Senate of the United States. July 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright made the following report: The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of H.M. Salomon... In Senate of the United States. July 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Hector St. John Beetley, report... In Senate of the United States. July 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jedediah Gray, report... In Senate of the United States. July 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Amos Doughty... In Senate of the United States. July 28, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 332.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of George L. Brent and Joseph Graham, praying compensation for services as special agents to Paraguay... In Senate of the United States. July 29, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 335.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the "petition of the heirs of David Noble, an officer of the Revolution, praying seven years' half pay," &c., have had the same under consideration and report... In Senate of the United States. July 31, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: The Select Committee, to whom was referred the memorial of H. Tudor Brownell, on behalf of the "Hartford Argillo Manufacturing Company," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In Senate of the United States. July 31, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Hair... In Senate of the United States. August 1, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Breese made the following report: The Select Committee, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate to inquire into the expediency of providing for the publication of the result of the late exploring expedition of J.C. Fremont to California and Oregon... In Senate of the United States. August 1, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Littleton D. Teacle [i.e., Teackle], praying a settlement of his accounts for materials furnished for the public buildings in the City of Washington in the year 1805, having had the same under consideration, report... In Senate of the United States. August 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy Jellson, widow of the late Oliver Jellson... In Senate of the United States. August 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Tyler, widow of the late James Tyler, report... In Senate of the United States. August 5, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Stanert, report... In Senate of the United States. August 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benton made the following report: The Select Committee of the Senate, on the publication of the debates and proceedings of Congress... In Senate of the United States. August 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Barclay, report... In Senate of the United States. August 7, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Reuben M. Gibbs, report... In Senate of the United States. August 8, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 42) for the relief of the legal representatives of Amelia Brereton... In Senate of the United States. August 9, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niles made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 346.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel F. Butterworth... In Senate of the United States. August 9, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Corwin made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 347.) The select committee, to whom was referred the memorial of William Darby, praying compensation for his labors in surveying and exploring the territory of the United States west of the Mississippi, in the years 1812 and 1813, report... In Senate of the United States. August 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron made the following report: The Committee on Printing, to whom was referred a resolution of inquiry on the 21st ultimo... In Senate of the United States. August 10, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 348.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph K. Boyd, one of the petty officers of the ketch Intrepid under the command of Captain Stephen Decatur, at the time of the destruction of the frigate Philadelphia, in the harbor of Tripoli, on the night of the 16th February, 1804, report... In Senate of the United States. August 11, 1848. Submitted, considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of C.T. Browne, administrator of Robert B. Carter, deceased... In Senate of the United States. August 11, 1848. Submitted, considered by unanimous consent and agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, made the following report: The Committee on Commerce, having had under their consideration various memorials and documents referred to them, concerning the loss of life and property in the use of steamers, submit the following report... In Senate of the United States. August 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Breese made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 338.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Bill No. 338, "To Authorize the Draining of the Ever Glades, in the State of Florida..." In Senate of the United States. August 12, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bradbury made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the "memorial of E.P. Calkin & Co., of Galveston, Texas, praying indemnity for goods alleged to have been illegally seized by the collector at Galveston..." In Senate of the United States. July 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Downs made the following report: The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred four petitions of the settlers and claimants of the reservation of land in the County of Lee, Iowa, praying the enactment of laws to grant their titles, report...	244
Serial set 513	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: being the first session of the Thirtieth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 6, 1847, in the seventy-second year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 514	Estimates of appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of additional appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1848, and for fiscal year ending 30th June, 1849. December 6, 1847. Finances. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his annual report on the state of the finances. December 9, 1847. Read and laid upon the table, and 10,000 additional copies ordered to be printed for the use of the House. Treasurer's accounts. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting copies of accounts with the United States. December 9, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. list of reports to be made to Congress, at the first session of the Thirtieth Congress, by public officers. Prepared, in obedience to a standing order of the House, by the Clerk of the House of Representatives U.S. December 6, 1847. Contingent expenses -- State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State transmitting annual statement of the contingent expenses of the Department of State, &c., &c. December 9, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Expenditures of the Department of State. Disbursements to the Indians. Letter from the Second Auditor of the Treasury, transmitting copies of the accounts of persons charged with the disbursement of money, goods, or effects, for the Indians, &c. December 9, 1847. Receipts and expenditures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an account of the receipts and expenditures of the government for the year ending June 30, 1847. December 14, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table.	7
Serial set 515	Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirtieth Congress. January 8, 1848. Ordered to be printed.	1

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