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| Serial set 928 | Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1857. Agriculture. | 1 |
| Serial set 929 |
Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, the report of J. Ross Browne, on the late Indian war in Oregon and Washington Territories. January 26, 1858. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 31. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating a statement of the expenses of the armories, and of the number of arms and appendages made and altered thereat during the year ending 30th June, 1857. February 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 31, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating the report of Lieutenant Colonel J.D. Graham for the year 1857, containing the information called for by the resolutions of the Senate of the 4th, 5th, and 26th of January. February 10, 1858. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 31, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report of E.F. Beale of his exploration for a wagon road from Fort Defiance, in New Mexico, to the western borders of California. March 30, 1858. -- Read. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. April 7, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate for information in relation to the publication of the results of the United States naval exploring and surveying expedition to the North Pacific Ocean and China Seas, and also of the results of the United States naval expedition to the La Plata River. April 16, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. May 3, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, concerning the outrages lately committed against the family of Mr. Dickson, an American citizen residing at Jaffa, in Palestine. May 4, 1858. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 6, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for a copy of the contract made with Russell, Majors & Waddell for beef cattle; and also a statement of contracts made by the department, or under its authority, during the present session of Congress, in connexion with the Utah expedition, without public notice. April 19, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, made in conformity to law, upon claims for depredations by Indians in the Territory of New Mexico. May 12, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a report of the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, requesting information in regard to measures which may have been adopted for the protection of American commerce in the ports of Mexico. May 14, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, requesting information as to the measures taken for the establishment of a naval depot on Blythe Island, Georgia. May 14, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for the amount annually paid during the last five years for printing for the Executive departments. April 27, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating lists of persons employed in that Department, other than among officers, during the year 1857. February 10, 1858. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committed on Printing. March 30, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate in relation to the progress of the report of Major Emory on the United States and Mexican boundary survey. March 25, 1858. -- Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 30, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, the number and tonnage of government vessels employed in the Pacific Ocean, also private vessels employed by the government in transporting coal or other supplies for the United States, and the annual expense thereof. February 9, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 30, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a statement showing what officers of the Army belonging to the several regiments in service in the field, or at remote or frontier stations, are now absent from duty, and the cause of such absence in each case. February 24, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 30, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating a letter from the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, with an abstract of offers for furnishing articles falling under the cognizance of that Bureau. January 4, 1858. -- Read. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the sale of the military reservation at Fort Crawford. April 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Interior in answer to a resolution of the Senate relative to the United States reserved sections in township 89, range 47, in the State of Iowa. April 30, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and printed. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the condition of the United States ship Susquehanna, on her arrival at the island of Jamaica, and the reception and assistance extended to her officers and crew by the British authorities at that island. April 22, 1858. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, reports of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers, in relation to the African slave trade. April 23, 1858. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a copy of instructions which have been given to William B. Reed, the Commissioner of the United States to China. April 21, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. |
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| Serial set 930 |
Message of the President of the United States, calling the attention of Congress to the condition of the Treasury; also recommending Congress to postpone the day of adjournment. June 12, 1858. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information as to the time at which each of the vessels of the Navy were built, the original cost thereof, the cost of repairs, and their present condition, &c. June 11, 1858. -- Read; motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 12, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information in relation to the fees or charges that the Consul General for Canada is authorized to make and receive on goods or articles imported into the United States from Canada. June 11, 1858. -- Read. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 12, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate respecting the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. June 11, 1858. -- Read. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 12, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate relative to the claim of the St. Regis Indians to land in Kansas. June 14, 1858. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information relative to the seizure, in the valley of Sitana, in Peru, by the authorities of Chile, of the proceeds of the cargo of the brig Macedonian, the property of citizens of the United States. April 30, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. May 12, 1858. -- Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 18, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the present condition of the finances of the government. May 19, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, papers in regard to the seizure of the American barque Panchita on the coast of Africa. May 3, 1858. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 2, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to Report of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate requesting information concerning the pay of the retired naval officers whose cases were acted upon by the late naval courts of inquiry and the President, and who have been advanced to a higher grade or position as to pay, though not restored to the active list, than that assigned them by the late "retiring board," together with a list of such officers, with the positions assigned them by the said board and those now held by them. May 31, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 2, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate, the correspondence in relation to the arrest of William Walker by the naval forces under the command of Commodore Paulding. May 28, 1858. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 2, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate in relation to the appointment and compensation of Alexander G. Penn and Emile La Sere, as disbursing agents at New Orleans. May 28, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 4, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Report of the Postmaster General in answer to a resolution of the Senate relative to the lists of Post Offices, regulations, &c., published by George S. Gideon in 1855, and by John C. Rives in 1857. June 4, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Postmaster General, relative to the authority of a postmaster to refuse to deliver letters to a person authorized to receive them by the person to whom the letters are addressed. June 4, 1858. -- Submitted from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a report of the Secretary of State, and the documents that accompanied it, in answer to a resolution of the Senate on the subject of guano. June 8, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a despatch from Governor Cumming, relative to the termination of the difficulties with the Territory of Utah. June 10, 1858. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, information concerning the recent search or seizure of American vessels by foreign armed cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico. May 19, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed Report of the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant, calling for copies of the instructions given to Commodore McCauley, while recently and temporarily in command of the home squadron. March 10, 1856. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. June 15, 1856. -- Ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 931 | Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report from the Register of the Treasury, of the commerce and navigation of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1857. | 1 |
| Serial set 932 | Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the Survey during the year 1857. | 1 |
| Serial set 933 | Letter of the Secretary of State, transmitting a statement of the commercial relations of the United States with foreign nations, for the year ending September 30, 1857. | 1 |
| Serial set 934 |
In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Hannah Weaver vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Aymar & Co. vs. the United States... Resolution of the Legislature of California, in behalf of General A.M. Winn. December 9, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of the establishment of certain mail routes. December 9, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of the speedy construction of a national railroad from the valley of the Mississippi to some point in California. December 9, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in behalf of William Grove Deal. December 10, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of a uniform rate of postage throughout the United States, and the payment by the government for all "free postage matter," or the abolition of the "franking privilege." December 10, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of an additional allowance to the officers and men of the Army while serving in the Pacific Division, and also to the officers connected with the Light-house Board of that coast. December 10, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of members of the Board of Education of the State of Michigan and of the faculty of the Agricultural College of that state, praying a donation of land for the Agricultural College. December 10, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 10, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Mary Pierce vs. the United States... List of committees of the Senate of the United States, for the first session of the Thirty-fifth Congress. December 16, 1857. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in relation to the claim of that state against the United States for militia services during the last war with Great Britain. December 17, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Joshua R. Jewett vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Abraham King, Administrator of Mandeville, vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Stephen Hayden vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Frederick Griffing vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Ann W. Butler, adm'x vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Ralph Richardson vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...J.C. Buckles vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Michel Musy and Andre Galtier vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Henry Miller vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Ezra T. Marnay, adm'r., vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Arnold Harris, adm'r, vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Jeremiah M. Williams and others vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Hugh Hughes vs. the United States... Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, for an appropriation of public lands to build a railroad from Springfield, in Greene County, to or near Gillis' Bluff, in said state, on the Cairo and Fulton railroad. December 17, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. December 18, 1857. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, praying that the unsurveyed swamp lands may be patented to that state without being surveyed. December 17, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. December 18, 1857. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in relation to foreign paupers and criminals. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in relation to the bounty of cod fisheries. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in relation to claims of citizens of the United States to indemnity for spoliations by French cruisers prior to 1800. December 18, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of the recognition of Hayti and Liberia as sovereign and independent states. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: The Court of Claims respectfully presents the following documents as the report in the case of Cornelius Boyle... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Ferdinand Coxe vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December, 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...James Mc. McIntosh vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Charner T. Scaife, administrator of Gilbert Stalker, deceased, vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled...in the case of Neal Smith, administrator of Wm. Turvin... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Ann B. Johnson vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Polly Booth vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committe [sic] of Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Mary Grant vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Mary Ann Hooper vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Sarah Loomis vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Hannah Menzies vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Rebecca P. Nourse vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Phebe Polly vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...William H. Russell vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Almira Reniff vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Sarah Weed vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Jane Martin vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Elizabeth Morgan vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Robert C. Thompson and another vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Llewellyn Jones vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report....T.S.J. Johnson vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...J.H. King, administrator of James Greer vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...R.L. Page, administrator of W.B. Page vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. June 14, 1858. -- Committee discharged. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Alexander H. Cook vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Lucretia Wilcox vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1857. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Cortlandt Palmer, receiver, &c. vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...J.K. Rogers vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...John M. Thorne vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims and referred to the Committe [sic] on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Egleston & Battell vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...John Michel vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Atkinson, Rollins & Co. vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Margaret Taylor vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Wolfe & Co. vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Mary Robbins vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Geo. W. Wales vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Samuel A. Way vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...J.D. & M. Williams vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Alfred Atkins vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Udolpho Wolfe vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Mercy Armstrong vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Mary Burt vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Ann Clark vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Tempy Connelly vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report. Nancy Madison vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Anna Parrot vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Rosamond Robinson vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Esther Stevens vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Stanwood & Reed vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...T.B. Wales & Co. vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...David Wood vs. the United States... Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in relation to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Dred Scott. December 18, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Received and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Lavinia Tipton vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Melinda Durkee vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Anna Hill vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...James Thompson vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Robert Harrison vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Sarah Eaton vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1857. -- Received from the court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Benjamin L. McAtee and J.N. Eastham vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Temperance Childress vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Lydia Clapp vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Nancy Ittig vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received from the Court of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Elizabeth King vs. the United States... |
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In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Michael Nourse vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1856. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Court of Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...John C. Hale vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Court of Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report. Shepherd Knapp vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Court of Claims [Committee on Claims.] The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Louis G. Thomas and others vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. July 23, 1856. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...William Neil and others vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1856. -- Read and referred to the Committee of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Letitia Humphreys, adm'x vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Robert S. Garnett vs. the United States.. In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Joseph Stokely and others vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Daniel Vanwinkle vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Christiana Dener vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Abraham R. Wooley [i.e., Woolley] vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. April 17, 1856. -- Committee discharged and referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Cyrus H. McCormick vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Nathaniel Williams vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Joseph Loranger vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Augustin Demers and others, administrators of Francis Chandolet, vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...George W. Dow and John H. Ditmas vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Francis Picard, administrator of Pierre Ayott, vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Eliza Shaffer vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Ellen Martin vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Robert Roberts vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1857. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Crittenden submitted for consideration the following resolution. Resolved by the Senate, that in consideration of the financial condition of the country and its industrial interests, as well as of the wants and embarrassments of the Treasury of the United States, the rates of duty levied under the tariff act of the 3d of March, 1857, ought to be materially increased... Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, in regard to Wolf Island, the jurisdiction of which is in dispute between that state and Kentucky, praying that the land may be sold, so that the purchasers may test the question of jurisdiction in the federal courts. December 22, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the division of the state into two judicial districts. December 22, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Texas, in favor of the incorporation of Captain John G. Tod into the Navy of the United States. January 5, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Senate, showing the names of the persons employed in his office during the year 1857, and the sums received by them. January 5, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Missouri, in favor of the construction of a building for the accommodation of the United States courts and the post office at Jefferson City. January 11, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Henry O'Rielly [i.e., O'Reilly] concerning military highways or "stockade routes" for protecting travelers and settlers, facilitating mail and telegraph communication through vast interior territories, and rendering the United States independent of foreign countries for trnasmitting [i.e., transmitting] mails between the Atlantic and Pacific states. January 12, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Memorial of Henry O'Rielly [i.e., O'Reilly], John J. Speed, and Tal. P. Shaffner, concerning the completion of telegraph lines to Fort Laramie and Salt Lake. January 2, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, relative to Kansas affairs. January 27, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Alabama, in favor of the establishment of an armory for the manufacture of cannon and other arms in that state. February 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... John Etheridge vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Benjamin H. Springer vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Illinois Central Railroad Company vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. February 3, 1858. -- Discharged and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Claimants Brig General Armstrong vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1856. -- Received from the Court of Claims and referred to the Committee on Claims. August 8, 1856. -- Bill S. 440 and report. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Ernest Fiedler vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... John Robb vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Asbury Dickins vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Stephen C. Phillips vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... E.B. Chamberlain and others vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1856. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...J.D. Holman, executor, vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Henry G. Carson, administrator of Curtis Grubb, vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...David Myerle vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...H.L. Thistle vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1856. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Susan Decatur vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1857. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...J. Boyd vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1856. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Cassius M. Clay vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Samuel M. Puckett vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Francis Nadeau vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... David Noble vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1857. -- Received. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Philip Lamoy and others vs. the United States... |
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In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Rebekah Heald vs. the United States... Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, instructing the senators, and requesting the representatives of that state, in Congress, to oppose the admission of Kansas into the Union as a state under the Lecompton Constitution. February 4, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of weekly or semi-weekly mail service from Dyersville to Decorah, in that state. February 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretary of the Senate, showing the payments from the contingent fund of the Senate during the year ending December 6, 1857. January 19, 1858. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. February 9, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Resolution of the Legislature of Tennessee, in favor of the passage of a bill granting a pension to the soldiers of the War of 1812 and of the various Indian wars. February 9, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of granting bounty lands to the volunteers of the Spirit Lake expedition, in March, 1857. February 9, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submits the following report... Jacob Bigelow, administrator of Francis [i.e., Francois] Cazeau, vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Charles D. Arfwedson vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... N. and B. Goddard, executors of Nathaniel Goddard, vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Benjamin Cozzens, trustee, vs. the United States... Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, in relation to the erection of a building at Trenton for the accommodation of the United States courts and the offices of the collector and postmaster. March 8, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of the erection of a marine hospital, Custom-house, and post office in Muscatine, in that state. March 8, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolves of the Legislature of the State of Maine, requesting the senators and representatives of that state in Congress to use their influence to prevent the repeal of the law allowing bounties to vessels engaged in the cod fisheries. March 12, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of California, requesting the senators and representatives of that state in Congress to take measures to prevent the removal of the Sebastian Indian reservation from its present location. March 12, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of California, in relation to school lands in that state. March 30, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the Territory of Washington, relative to the construction of a national railroad across the continent from the Atlantic States to the Pacific Ocean. March 30, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, praying a donation of land for the purpose of establishing scientific agricultural schools in that state. March 17, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, praying the adoption of such measures as will secure to that state the amount due from the sale of public lands therein. March 19, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, in favor of the enactment of a law to provide for the final settlement and payment of the half pay for life which was promised by the Continental Congress to the officers of the Revolutionary Army. April 5, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, in favor of the advancement of Lieutenant M.F. Maury to that position in the Navy to which his distinguished services entitle him. April 5, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of appropriations for the better preservation of life and property in cases of shipwreck, and for the more effective working of the government apparatus on the coast of New Jersey. April 5, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, in favor of a donation of public lands to that state, in common with the other states of the Union, for the founding and maintaining of agricultural colleges therein. April 5, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Virginia, in favor of the final settlement of half-pay to officers of the Revolutionary War, promised by resolutions of the Continental Congress. April 28, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of an appropriation of money for a double track railroad around the lower rapids in the Mississippi, on the Iowa or west side thereof. April 16, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the American Telegraph Company, in answer to the memorial of the Magnetic Telegraph Company and the New England Union Telegraph Company, and remonstrating against the prayer of their memorial being granted. April 22, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 4, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... J.L. Wirt vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...William Davenport vs. the United States... Letter of the Delegate of the Territory of Utah in Congress, enclosing the memorial of delegates of the convention which assembled in Great Salt Lake City, and adopted a constitution with a view to the admission of Utah into the Union as a state, together with a copy of that constitution. April 20, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States, April 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment proposed by Mr. Houston to his resolution of February 16, 1858, viz: strike out all after the word "whereas" and insert the following: the events connected with the numerous efforts of the people of Mexico to establish an orderly system of self-government... Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of certain harbors. February 11, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of an appropriation for the repair of the St. Mary's Falls ship canal. February 11, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, relative to a Northern Pacific railroad. February 15, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of a donation of land for the endowment of the Michigan Agricultural College. February 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Joint resolutions of the Legislature of Texas, instructing their senators and requesting their representatives to have all the charges against John C. Watrous, Judge of the United States District Court, investigated by Congress during the present session. February 15, 1858. -- Read and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. (To accompany Bill S. 77.) Mr. Allen submitted the following letter from the Secretary of the Treasury. February 18, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, respecting pensions to soldiers of the Revolution and the War of 1812. February 18, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Memorial and joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of additional mail facilities in that state. February 23, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Joint memorial of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, praying a grant of land for McGregor, St. Peter's, and Missouri River Railroad. February 23, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Tennessee, instructing the senators and requesting the representatives of that state in Congress to vote for the admission of Kansas as an independent state, under what is termed the Lecompton Constitution. February 23, 1858. -- Read and ordered to be printed Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, for land grands to aid in the construction of the Lansing, Northern Iowa, and Southern Minnesota railroad. February 24, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Marysville to Forest City. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from San Bernardino to Fort Yuma. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the establishment of mail-routes from Auburn to Nevada City, from Sacramento City to Cacheville, and from Sacramento City to Stockton. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Resolutions of the Legislature of the Territory of Washington, relative to the proclamation of martial law by Isaac I. Stevens, late Governor of that territory. March 1, 1858. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of restricting the sale of the public lands to actual settlers. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of the erection of a post office, United States court-house, and Custom-house at Burlington. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from the northern boundary of Iowa, at a point where the St. Paul and Minneapolis railroad intersects said boundary, to Sioux City, on the Missouri River. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the enactment of a law granting land to actual settlers in that state. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the establishment of a territorial government in Carson Valley. March 1, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution and memorial of the Legislature of the Territory of Nebraska, praying that an appropriation be made to bridge the Platte River. March 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in favor of a donation of public lands to the several states and territories to aid and encourage scientific education in agriculture and the mechanic arts. March 4, 1858. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in favor of the distribution of a portion of the public lands among the several states for educational purposes. March 4, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial and joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of the establishing of a mail route from the City of Des Moines, in that state, to White Cloud, in Kansas. March 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Texas, in relation to Kansas affairs. March 9, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, in behalf of the claims of John Shaw to pay for services as a spy or scout in the War of 1812, and for remuneration for losses sustained in furnishing supplies for the Missouri and Illinois mounted rangers during said war. March 11, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Lawrence Kearny, a captain in the United States Navy, praying compensation for certain expenses incurred and services rendered. March 17, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 30, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered and agreed to. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Mexico, relative to the organization of the Territory of Arizona and the removal of the wild Indians from the Territory of New Mexico. March 19, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. March 30, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, in relation to the admission of Minnesota into the Union as a state. March 30, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Arthur Edwards and others vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Joseph Ratcliff vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Oliver Dubois vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Dennis Cronan vs. the United States... Resolution of the Legislature of the State of New York, relative to the admission of Kansas into the Union as a state. March 24, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, in favor of the restoration of the ports of Jersey City and Camden to that state, and, if necessary, of making them ports of entry; also the estaablishing [sic] ports of entry at Tom's River and Atlantic City, and a modification of the laws relating to the coasting trade. April 5, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Douglas submitted the following document. (To accompany Bill S. 239.) The preamble, constitution, and schedule adopted by the people of the Territory of Oregon, preparatory to admission into the Union of the states... In the Senate of the United States. (To accompany Bill S. 210.) Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, enclosing a communication from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with an opinion as to the practicability and necessity for creating additional land districts in California. March 25, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Magnetic Telegraph Company and of the New England Union Telegraph Company, praying the enactment of a law which will prevent combinations between citizens or companies in the United States and monopolists or companies out of the United States for the purpose of oppressing telegraph companies and monopolizing the business of telegraphing in the United States, and will enable all telegraph lines in the United States to form connexions with all telegraph lines approaching their borders on terms of perfect equality. March 31, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. April 7, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, relative to the admission of Kansas into the Union as a state, under the Lecompton Constitution. April 14, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the establishment of a weekly mail route in certain counties in that state, and the location of certain post offices therein. April 14, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the establishment of a weekly mail from Weaverville, via the mouth of Canon Creek, to Canon City, in that state. April 14, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relative to the admission of Kansas into the Union as a state. April 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of the repeal of the duty on sugar. April 16, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...J.H. Waggaman vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submit the following report...William B. Fitzgerald vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submit the following report...Logan Hunton vs. the United States... Resolution of the Legislature of the State of New York, requesting the senators and representatives of that state in Congress to use all honorable means to obtain the promotion of Lieutenant Maury to such rank in the Navy as his eminent services and merits entitle him. April 26, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Connecticut, instructing the senators and requesting the representatives of that state in Congress to vote against the admission of another slaveholding state into the Union. March 8, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, relative to the extension of slavery. February 17, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in relation to Kansas and slavery. March 25, 1858. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relative to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Scott versus Sandford. April 15, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, praying that a grant of land be made to the Territory of Nebraska, to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Missouri River, via the South Pass, to some point in Washington Territory. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, in favor of the erection of a light-house at the mouth of Kewannee River. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial and resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, asking that the state may be indemnified for expenses incurred in consequence of the hostile invasion of the Sioux Indians in March, 1857. February 9, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the members and officers of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, setting forth their grievances, and praying Congress to reconsider the course already taken, to respect their constitutional rights, withdraw the troops, and give them a voice in the selection of their rulers. March 17, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the establishment of mail routes from the Town of Union to Orleans Bar, and from the Town of Union to San Francisco. March 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the establishment of a mail route from Dunleith, Illinois, to Prarie du Chien, Wisconsin. February 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1858. -- Received from the Court of Claims and referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Peter Parker vs. the United States... Petition of Samuel Gardiner, Jr., that Congress will purchase his patent for lighting gas, &c., by electricity. April 5, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, instructing the senators and requesting the representatives of that state in Congress to vote against the admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton Constitution. February 8, 1858. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, asking Congress for a grant of land to aid in the construction of the Prairie du Chien and Mankota railroad. February 24, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial and joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in behalf of James B. Thomas and family, sufferers by Indian depredations. February 24, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of a donation of land to the Territory of Nebraska, to aid in the construction of railroads. February 24, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Texas, requesting the senators and representatives of that state in Congress to use every exertion in their power to obtain the enactment of a law to authorize the payment to that state of the balance of the appropriation made by the act of 28th February, 1855, providing for the payment of a certain portion of the public debt of Texas... Resolution of the Legislature of the State of New York, instructing the senators and requesting the representatives of that state in Congress to use their influence to procure the enactment of a law granting a pension to the surviving soldiers of the Indian wars from 1791 to 1795, and to the widows of those deceased. March 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, instructing the senators and requesting the representatives of that state in Congress to urge the enactment of a law granting to the militia of the states arms and equipments of the greatest efficiency, and in greatly increased numbers; and also the enactment of a law to improve the organization of the militia. March 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, asking Congress to divert the grant of lands to said state, for public buildings, to an agricultural college. April 16, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial and resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in relation to the five percent school fund. April 16, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial and resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in relation to the grant of land by Congress for the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines River. April 16, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of certain additional mail facilities. April 16, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in relation to the pension of Catharine [i.e., Catherine] Dickerson. April 16, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, in relation to the admission of Kansas into the Union as a state. April 21, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...A.O.P. Nicholson vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Joshua J. Guppey, county judge of Columbia County, Wisconsin, as trustee for the settlers and occupants of "Portage City," vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submits the following report...Joseph Clymer vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...C. Ansart's heirs vs. the United States... |
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In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. May 5, 1858. -- Discharged, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The Court of Claims submitted the following report... Jonas P. Levy vs. the United States... Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, in favor of a donation of land to aid in the construction of a ship canal around the Falls of Niagara. May 10, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, praying a grant of land to aid in the construction of the Mineral Point and Portage City railroad. May 10, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1857. Letter of W. Re Kyan Bey [i.e., Hekekyan Bey], to Edwin De Leon, United States Consul General in Egypt, on the treatment and use of the dromedary. June 11, 1858. -- Motion to print, referred to the Committee on Printing. June 12, 1858. -- Resolved, that there be printed for the use of the Senate, in addition to the usual number, two thousand copies of the letter of W. Re Kyan Bey [i.e., Hekekyan Bey] to Edward De Leon, Esq., Consul General of the United States in Egypt, on the treatment and use of the dromedary. In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submit the following report...Charles Wilkes vs. the United States... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submit the following report...J.L. Worden vs. the United States... Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the interposition of the general government for the release of J.M. Ainsa, an American citizen, held in captivity at Sonora, in Mexico. May 15, 1858. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1858. -- Received from the Court of Claims. May 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. The Court of Claims submitted the following report...Richard Fitzpatrick vs. the United States... Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, in favor of the enactment of a law granting pensions to the surviving soldiers of the Indian wars from 1791 to 1795, and to the widows of those deceased. May 17, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, in favor of a donation of land for the construction of a ship canal around the Falls of Niagara. May 17, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, in relation to the public lands. May 17, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Tal. P. Shaffner, of Kentucky, praying for an amendment of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1857, entitled "An Act To Expedite Telegraphic Communication for the Uses of the Government in its Foreign Intercourse," so that the subsidy granted by the said act shall be general in its application to all Atlantic Ocean telegraph lines. May 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 18, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing the memorial, without the map, submitted, considered, and agreed to. Committee on the Judiciary discharged, and the memorial referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, relative to the Pacific railroad. May 19, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, against the enactment of any law which may remove the charge of the light-house system from the custody of the present board. May 19, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions passed at a meeting of the citizens of Georgetown, D.C., protesting against the prayer of citizens residing on the Heights of that town to be excluded from the corporate limits thereof. May 25, 1858. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 2, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Resolutions of the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of the Corporation of Georgetown, D.C., protesting against the receding of any portion of that town to the County of Washington. May 26, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 2, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Memorial of citizens of Georgetown, D.C., some of whom reside on the "Heights," remonstrating against the prayer of certain citizens of that town to have a portion thereof excluded from the corporate limits. May 26, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 2, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Papers in relation to a cargo of guano received by Schuyler Livingston in the barque Evadne, which was libelled by the Peruvian Minister, sold, and the proceeds deposited in the United States Trust Company, to abide the decision of the court. June 2, 1858 -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. June 4, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. Appropriations, new officers, &c. Statements showing I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Thirty-fifth Congress. II. Officers created and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period. August 12, 1858. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of the construction of a breakwater at San Louis Obispo in that state. May 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of California, in favor of a donation of land to each of the states and territories of the Union for the endowment and maintenance of colleges for instruction in such branches of education as pertain to agriculture, the mechanic arts, and natural history. May 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, recommending augmented rates for surveying public lands in Washington Territory. May 27, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 329. |
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In the Senate of the United States. December 22, 1857. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 28.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Alexander J. Atocha praying that his claims against Mexico, disallowed by the commissioners under the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, may be investigated, and, if found just, paid by the United States, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. December 22, 1857. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of George P. Marsh, late minister resident of the United States to the Ottoman Porte, praying compensation for extra duties performed by him on a special mission to Greece, and for judicial services, under the act of August 11, 1848, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 67.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Jonas P. Keller, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 52.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William B. Trotter... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 61.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Frederick A. Beelen, Secretary of the United States legation to Chili, praying to be allowed the difference between his present salary, $1,500 per annum, and $2,000 per annum, from July 1, 1855, to January 1, 1857, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 35.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Michael Kinney, praying to be allowed a pension, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 10.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred "A Bill Repealing All Laws, or Parts of Laws, Allowing Bounties to Vessels Employed in the Bank or Other Cod Fisheries," and a "resolution of the Legislature of the State of Maine in relation to the bounty on cod fisheries," report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 68.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial and accompanying papers of Elias Hall, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Biggs made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 70.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to which was referred the petition of John Dick, praying that a patent may be issued to him for land settled by him under permit granted by the register of the land office at St. Augustine, Florida, have had the same under consideration and adopt and concur in the following report, heretofore made by this Committee... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kennedy made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 71.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the "memorial of Joseph Menard, praying to be allowed to relocate certain warrants for land granted to the late Marquis de Lafayette, of which he is the assignee," have had the same under consideration, and adopt and concur in the following report heretofore made by this Committee... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kennedy made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 72.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred S. Bill 595, "A Bill for the Relief of Daniel Whitney," have had the same under consideration, and concur in and adopt the following report, heretofore made by this Committee... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Biggs made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 73.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Jane Smith, praying to be allowed a pre-emption right to certain lands, concurring in the report made by the Committee on Public Lands, February 2, 1857, upon this memorial, adopt the same and make it their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 46.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Senate Bill No. 46, "to grant the right of pre-emption in certain lands to the Indiana yearly meeting of the Society of Friends," has had the same under consideration, and recommends its passage... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 81.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the "Petition of Laurent Millaudon, praying confirmation of his title to certain lands in Alabama," have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1858. -- Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the protest against the election of the Hon. Graham N. Fitch and the Hon. Jesse D. Bright as senators in Congress from the State of Indiana, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 85.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States, dated the 7th of January instant, in answer to the resolution of the Senate calling for the "correspondence, instructions, and orders to the United States naval forces on the coast of Central America, connected with the arrest of Walker and his associates, at or near the Port of San Juan de Nicaragua," have had the same, with the documents accompanying, under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following adverse report. (To accompany Bill S.C.C. 93.) The Committee of Claims, having had under consideration the claim of Nahum Ward, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Douglas made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 86.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the message of the President communicating a copy of the constitution of Minnesota, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 30.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Montgomery, daughter of Captain Hugh Montgomery, praying relief, beg leave to adopt their former report, as heretofore made at the last session of Congress, which is as follows, to wit... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 100.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the "petition of H.W. Benham, administrator of the estate of the late John McNiel, praying a confirmation of the title of said McNiel to certain lands," report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 101.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Agatha O'Brien, widow of Brevet Major J.P.J. O'Brien, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Nathaniel Champe, heir of Sergeant Major John Champe, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 102.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Phoenix, Jr., having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 104.) The select committee appointed under a resolution of the Senate of 17th December last "to examine into the condition of the corporations or associations acting as banks of deposit, discount, and issue in the District of Columbia, and the authority under which said corporations or associations assume to transact the business of banking; also to inquire whether any, and what, further legislation is necessary to regulate and control banks of deposit, circulation, and issue in the District of Columbia," ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 107.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ephraim Hunt, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following adverse report. (To accompany Bill S. (C. of C.) 108.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the opinion of the Court of Claims in the case of O.H. Berryman and others, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 53.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition and papers of John McVey, asking for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thompson, of New Jersey, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Albert G. Hopper et al., heirs-at-law of Garnett A. Hopper, deceased, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Wentworth, praying that his present pension may be made to commence from the date of his discharge from the service, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Hughes, praying to be allowed a pension on account of injuries received while serving in a privateer during the War of 1812, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Pope, a captain in the Navy, praying to be allowed the difference between the pay he received, and that Commodore Abbott [i.e., Abbot] would have received had he not died, for the time he discharged the duties of commander of the squadron, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of William H. Kennon, late purser in the Navy, praying for the same compensation as has been allowed to his predecessor and successor on board the United States steam frigate Mississippi, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 123.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Hubbard, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 120.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the case of David Myerle, reported from the Court of Claims, unanimously report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 125.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the legal representatives of James Bell, late of Chambly, in the province of Lower Canada, deceased, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Crittenden made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 45.) The select committee to whom was referred the bill "To Provide for the Ascertainment and Satisfaction of Claims of American Citizens for Spoliations Committed by the French Prior to the Thirty-fifth day of July One Thousand Eight Hundred and One," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 128.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George Phelps, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Biggs made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 126). The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Chains (i.e., Chaires), executor of B. Chains (i.e., Chaires), deceased, and Gad Humphreys, and Pedro Mirando (i.e., Miranda), "praying the passage of a law directing the survey of their confirmed title to a tract of land, agreeably to the boundaries in the original grant to Joseph Arredondo,"... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Douglas submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations having taken into consideration the subject of that portion of the President's annual message relative to our difficulties with Paraguay, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 129.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of F.A. Underwood and H.A. Crane, heirs of Jehu Underwood, praying confirmation of their title to a certain tract of land, between the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit a former report of this Committee as their present report in this case... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 130.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jennett H. McCall, only child of Col. James McCall, of the Revolutionary War, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 131.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel V. Niles, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Johnson... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 186.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the claim of B.E. Edwards to certain land in New Mexico, have had the same under consideration, and adopt and submit the following report, heretofore made by the committee upon this case... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 187.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A.W. McPherson, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 41.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill "For the Relief of Manuel Lisa, Joachim Lisa, and Others, and to Provide for the Location of Certain Private Land Claims," have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 196.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the "Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States," and also the petition of Edson Sherwood and twenty-four others, praying for the confirmation to the above named society of its title to a certain tract of land in the state of Wisconsin, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 202.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of Major Jeremiah Y. Dashiell, a paymaster in the United States Army, praying relief, have considered the same, and now present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Doolittle made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 21.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of David Gordon, in behalf of himself and others, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 206.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred the petition of lieutenants in the United States revenue marine service, who were attached to the United States naval squadron in the West Indies during the Florida war in 1836, 1837, 1838, and 1839, praying to be allowed the same compensation as officers of like grade in the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs of Colonel Samuel Hammond, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Jane M. Kean, Mary A. Reynolds, and Catharine E. Kean, heirs of Roger Kean, deceased, having examined the same, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 203.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of Charles Porterfield, deceased, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to adopt a former report made at the last session of Congress, by Mr. Evans, which is as follows, to wit... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 205.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Susannah Hayne Pinckney, sole heir of Captain Richard Shubrick, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 207.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial and papers in the case of John Hastings, have carefully considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 216.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of George M. Weston, the Commissioner of the State of Maine, have had the subject under consideration and now report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 56.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 56, entitled "A Bill Explanatory of an Act Entitled 'An Act in Addition to Certain Acts Granting Bounty Land to Certain Officers and Soldiers Who Have Been Engaged in the Military Service of the United States,' Approved March 3, 1855," have had the same under consideration and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Devlin, late an officer in the Marine Corps, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William R. Brownlee, have had same under consideration and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of seamen on board the United States steamer Missouri, destroyed by fire at Gibraltar, in 1843, praying remuneration for the loss of their clothing, lost by the burning of that vessel, have had the same under consideration and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 23.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 23, for the relief Robert Dickson, together with other papers, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of W.W. Bassett, late master in the United States Navy, praying to be allowed the difference of pay between the grades of master and lieutenant during the time he acted as lieutenant, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of J.H. Carter, for himself, J.W. Bennett, and R.B. Lowry, lieutenants in the Navy, praying to be allowed the difference of pay between the grades of master and lieutenant, during the time they served as acting lieutenants in the East India Squadron, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William Reynolds, praying to be allowed the amount of the value of one hundred pairs of stockings, which were stolen from the storeship Fredonia, while he was acting purser and storekeeper aboard the same, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration the claim of Seth Belknap, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foot made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 223.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Frances Ann Macauley, widow of Daniel S. Macauley, late United States Consul General at Alexandria, in Egypt, praying compensation for judicial duties performed by her husband under the act of August 11, 1848, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 224.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom were referred papers in relation to the claim of Edward Ingersoll, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 208.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Fabius Stanley [i.e., Stanly], a lieutenant in the Navy of the United States, praying to be allowed the difference between the pay of lieutenant and that of commander during the time he was actually attached to the Navy yard at Mare Island, California, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 212.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph C.G. Kennedy, in relation to his compensation as superintending clerk of the census, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 237.) The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of Arnold Harris and Samuel F. Butterworth, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 132.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Edward D. Reynolds, purser, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report and resolution. (Resolution printed as agreed to.) The Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to whom was referred a resolution in the following words, viz: "resolved, that the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Cornelius Wendell, out of the contingent fund of the Senate, the sum of fifteen cents per hundred pages for twenty thousand copies of the Opinions of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Case of Dred Scott vs. John F.A. Sandford," have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report and resolution. (Resolution printed as agreed to.) The Committee To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to whom was referred a resolution in the following words, viz: "resolved, that the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Cornelius Wendell, out of the contingent fund of the Senate, the sum of fifteen cents per hundred pages for twenty thousand copies of the Opinions of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Case of Dred Scott vs. John F.A. Sandford," have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 18.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate instructing them to inquire "whether it is in the contemplation of the Government of Turkey to send to this country an officer of rank in their navy with a view to obtain information concerning American improvements in naval architecture and equipment, and to superintend the construction of one or more vessels of war for the Turkish navy at the ship yards of this country; and in such case, whether any, and what, steps should be taken by this government to manifest its good will towards the government of Turkey, by giving to such officer an appropriate reception, and otherwise to further the objects of his mission," have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 134.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of J.E. Martin, Esq., acting consul of the United States at Lisbon, praying compensation for diplomatic services, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 135.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of W.Y. Hansell, William H. Underwood, and Samuel T. Beecker, administrator of Samuel Rockwell, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 137.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Nason and others, legal representatives of John Lord, deceased, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 136.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred the petition and papers of John B. Hand, of Mississippi, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee to whom was referred the petition of Jane Baker, widow of Thomas Baker, deceased, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 140.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of George W. Lippett, United States consul at Vienna, praying compensation for diplomatic services alleged to have been rendered by him, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 145.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of Brevet Major James L. Donaldson, assistant quartermaster of the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 148.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Suddard, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 149.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George H. Howell, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 144.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Commodore Charles G. Ridgely, praying remuneration for various necessary expenditures incurred by him, as commanding officer of the naval forces of the United States on the South American station, in 1820-'21, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1858. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 153.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Joshua D. Todd, United States Navy, asking to be allowed the difference of compensation between the grade of a passed midshipman and master for the time he acted as master, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 154.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Dr. William F. Carrington, passed assistant surgeon United States Navy, praying to be allowed compensation as such while he acted in that capacity prior to his examination, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 155.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Robert Carter, passed assistant surgeon United States Navy, praying the difference of pay between assistant surgeon and passed assistant surgeon from the time at which he was entitled to his examination to the time at which he was actually examined, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 156.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Joshua Shaw, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown submitted the following report. The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the memorial of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science at Washington City... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 159.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas J. Page, Commander United States Navy, praying that he may be credited with the amount of losses sustained by and charged against him in the settlement of his accounts as acting purser, while in command of the expedition for the "exploration and survey of 'La Plata' and its tributaries," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 160.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas J. Page, Lieutenant (now Commander) in the Navy, United States, for compensation for services performed as a purser, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Green made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 161.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the message of the President, communicating a constitution for Kansas as a state, adopted by the convention which met at Lecompton, on Monday, the 4th of September, 1857, having had the same under consideration, instruct me to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 162.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of the land office at Augusta, Mississippi, praying extra compensation for locating Choctaw scrip and lands for the Ohio and Mobile railroad, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1858. -- Ordered to the printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 42.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred "A Bill to Provide for the Construction of a Custom-House, Court-House, and Post Office in Trenton, in the State of New Jersey," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 49.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred "A Bill To Provide for the Construction of a Custom-house, Court-house, and Post Office in Apalachicola, in the State of Florida," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 163.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Eliza A. Merchant, widow of Brevet Captain Charles G. Merchant, praying Congress to grant her a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 158.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Anthony S. Robinson, only surviving son and heir of Doctor John H. Robinson, deceased, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 168.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the memorial of the Corporation of Georgetown, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following adverse report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 14.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred (H.R. 14) "An Act To Authorize the Secretary of the Treasury To Issue a Register or Enrolment to the Vessel Called the James McIndoe, Now Owned by Thomas Coatsworth, James G. Coatsworth, and William Coatsworth, of Buffalo, New York," have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 171.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Otway H. Berryman, praying to be allowed the amount of money paid by him in the adjustment of his accounts as purser, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 172.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of William D. Moseley, asking relief from a contract to furnish live-oak for a sloop-of-war, which he assumed as surety, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 173.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Petery, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Dowd, late a private in the Army of the United States, having had the same under consideration, do now respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 177.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Marvin, praying confirmation of his title to certain lands in Florida, claimed under a Spanish grant, have had the same under consideration, and adopt and submit the following report heretofore made by this committee... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 80.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Oliver Landry, of the State of Louisiana, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fitch made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 181.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Anson Dart, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee submitted the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Henderson, asking to be allowed the right to enter a certain tract of land in the State of Michigan, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Biggs submitted the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Camille St. Amand and others, praying the passage of an act reinstating their entries of certain lands in the State of Louisiana, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hammond made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution No. 20.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Lieutenant William F. Lovell, of the United States Navy, praying that additional compensation may be paid to the officers and seamen who accompanied the expedition in search of Dr. Kane, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. (C. of C.) 183.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the report of the Court of Claims in favor of the claim of Charner T. Scaife, administrator of Gilbert Stalker, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. (C. of C.) No. 184.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the report of the Court of Claims in the case of John Robb, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following report. The Senate referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, on the 25th ultimo, the following resolution: resolved, that the question of the admission of James Shields to a seat in this body... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fessenden made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 188.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Edward N. Kent, with the accompanying papers, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 189.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Rufus Dwinel, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Taylor County, in the State of Iowa, praying to be allowed to enter certain lands on which they had settled, at the minimum price, have instructed me to report that they have had the same under consideration, and have conferred with the Commissioner of the General Land Office in relation thereto, (whose letter is hereto appended and made a part of this report,) from which it will appear that no legislation on the subject is at present necessary... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Durkee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 190.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Whitney, of Green Bay, State of Wisconsin, praying the confirmation of his title to a certain tract of land, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 191.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom were referred various memorials and petitions from the corporate authorities, the trustees of the public schools, and citizens of the City of Washington, praying congressional aid for the public schools in said city, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of Alexander Hays, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 209.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and papers of Joseph C.G. Kennedy, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, the whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Jabez B. Rooker, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ann Mathieson, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 232.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred a resolution of the Senate, instructing them "to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the establishment, under the authority and control of the government of the United States, of an efficient police in the City of Washington," have carefully considered the subject and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 211.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry O'Rielly, John J. Speed, and Tal. P. Shaffner, proposing to establish telegraphic communication between the Army of Utah and the War Department, by erecting a line from the westerly terminus of the Missouri River line to Utah, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kennedy made the following report. (To accompany Act H.R. 212.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred "An Act for the Relief of N.C. Weems, of Louisiana, (H.R. No. 212,) have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hammond submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Martin Hubbard, praying indemnity for the loss of a vessel owned by him, which was run into and sunk by the United States steamer Engineer, Captain Lovell, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of John Caris and others, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Lucretia Bell, heir of Jane Van Deen, widow of Abram Van Buskirk, praying a pension, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas R. Carman, praying a pension, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of John M. Hinton, praying additional compensation to indemnify him for losses in consequence of the yellow fever at Norfolk, in 1855, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 242.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Brest, asking an increase of his pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 243.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Virginia Rose, for herself and the other heirs of Captain Alexander Rose, of the Revolutionary War, praying to be allowed commutation pay, have considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 165.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred "A Bill Authorizing the Construction of a Dry Dock for the Naval Service," have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 245.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of George Jewett, executor of Luther Jewett, late collector of the districts of Portland and Falmouth, praying an allowance for certain money, &c., have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial and accompanying papers of Mrs. Nannie Denman, widow of First Lieutenant Frederick J. Denman, deceased, late of the United States Army, asking a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Paul, asking to be allowed a pension, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 5, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 29.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom were referred the petitions of William K. Jennings and Aphia Jennings, Henry A. Wise, Ann Robinson, Edward Rudd, Mary Martin, and Benjamin Hodges, severally asking compensation for slaves taken and carried away by the British during the War of 1812... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 113.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Lieutenant Nathan Weeks, for seven years' half-pay, and the back pay due to him at the time of his death, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 114.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred so much of the message of the President of the United States as relates to the claim made by the government of Spain of certain Spanish subjects in the case of the schooner Amistad, and recommending that provision be made by law for its payment, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 47.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the "Bill Confirming Locations of Land Warrants Under Certain Circumstances," report that they have examined the same, and recommend the bill accompanying this report as a substitute therefor, to conform to the suggestions contained in the letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, accompanying this report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 92.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George A. O'Brien, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Allen, asking for an increase of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S.C.C. 121.) The Committee on Claims to whom was referred the report of the Court of Claims in the case of Sturgess, Bennett & Co., report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Smith Stafford, only daughter of James B. Stafford, an officer in the Navy of the Revolution, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 185.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Anna M.E. Ring, praying that a land warrant may be issued to herself and sisters in lieu of one issued to her father, has had the same under consideration, and asks leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 38.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to which was referred the "memorial of John R. Temple, praying a confirmation of his title to a tract of land within the Bastrop grant," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry Volcker, praying a confirmation of his title to a tract of land in New Mexico, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 116.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jeremiah Pendergast, praying for an increase of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 118.) The Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of John Scott, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Blauvelt, for the pension to which his father as a Revolutionary soldier would have been entitled, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elijah Roath, asking for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of William Moss, praying additional compensation for carrying the mail on route No. 7600, from Washington, in Arkansas, to Clarksville, in Texas report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representative of George Mayo, deceased, praying compensation for services performed by said Mayo as an extra clerk in the General Post Office Department, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 164.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Jane M. McCrabb, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Jane Stoneham, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clarke made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 166.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Eleazer Williams, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 198.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Hardy and Alton Long, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mary B. Renner, have had the subject under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of William F. Russell, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Robert A. Wainwright, a captain in the Ordnance Department of the Army of the United States, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 59.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the petitions of Lieutenant James G. Benton, Brevet Majors E.B. Babbit and James Longstreet, of the United States Army, having had them under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 99.) The committee to whom was referred the memorial of the directors of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, and of sundry citizens of the District of Columbia, praying for the aid of Congress to said institution, have had the same under consideration and ask leave to report in part... |
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In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims have had the claim of Richard G. Dove under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. King made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 294.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lemuel Worster, praying for a pension on account of a disability incurred while employed as a waiter to an officer in the service of the United States during the last war with Great Britain, having had the same under consideration, do now report... In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 295.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of David D. Porter, a lieutenant in the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of O.H. Browne, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William L.S. Dearing, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 33.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of the Navy of the 21st inst., and the correspondence accompanying it, containing information of the condition of the United States ship Susquehanna on her late arrival at Port Royal, in the island of Jamaica, having the yellow fever on board, and of the reception and assistance extended to the officers and crew by the British naval authorities of that island, communicated to the Senate pursuant to their resolution of the 19th April, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 298.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Catharine Jacobs, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 222.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Jeremiah Moors, with a bill accompanying the same, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 306.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel H. Taylor, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 308.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of M.C. Gritzner, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Thomas Watts, a pensioner, praying to be allowed back pay, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Grampp, praying that his pension may be made to commence from the date of his discharge, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Daniel J. Browne, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of John Frink, praying the remission of certain fines and deductions made from his compensation for carrying the mails under a contract with the Post Office Department, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of S. Van Sickell, J.R. Bellerjeau, and George C. Leidy, post route agents upon third class route from New York to Philadelphia, praying an increase of compensation, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 324.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of R.W. Clarke, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 325.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Ann P. Derrick, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 326.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the resolution of the legislature of Iowa, in relation to the pension of Catherine Dickerson, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 274.) The Committee on Patent and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial Randall Pegg, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report (To accompany Bill S. 275.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the memorial of Jeremiah Pendergast, present the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Haynes, praying to be allowed arrears of pension, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 334.) The petitioner is the surviving partner of the firm Benjamin & Thomas Laurent, British subjects, and merchants in the City of Mexico in 1847, where they were tenants in occupancy of house No. 1 Third Street of San Francisco, the property of the Convent of Purissima Conception... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 224.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom were referred the papers in relation to the claim of Edward Ingersoll, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 335.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the papers relative to the claim of Abner Merrill, for increase of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fessenden made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 338.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Caleb Sherman, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 288.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Miles Divine [i.e, Devine], report... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Louis F. Tasistro, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 340.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ann L. Rogers, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fessenden made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 106.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 106) for the relief of Elijah F. Smith, Gilman H. Perkins, and Charles F. Smith, composing the firm of Smith, Perkins & Co., report... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. King made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 292.) The petition and proofs of James A. Glanding, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for an invalid pension, have been considered by the committee, and they report... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 293.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Franklin Peale, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Riggs & Co., have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charlotte Taylor, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of George T. Parry, "praying that the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to purchase his patent for an instrument, the object of which is to abolish the friction attending the thrust of propellers," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Reynall Coates, praying compensation for losses sustained and services rendered while with the scientific corps of the South Sea Exploring Expedition, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1858. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the papers in the case of Dr. James A. Mott, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom the petition and papers of Charles Kohler were referred, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 450.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Hiram McCullough, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 420.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Senate Bill No. 420, "For the Relief of James Collier," together with papers in relation to the claim of James Collier, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 452.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of John R. Nourse, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 454.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of George B. Bacon, late acting purser of the United States sloop-of-war Portsmouth, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 274.) Supplemental report upon the memorial and bill for the relief of Randall Pegg, recommitted to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 455.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of Marshall O. Roberts and others, trustees of A.G. Sloo, contractor for carrying the mails between New York, New Orleans, Havana, and Chagres, praying compensation for extra mail facilities on that route, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 457.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Henry M. Fleury, of Louisiana, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pearce made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 456.) The Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the joint resolution "to grant to the judges and solicitor of the Court of Claims the use of the Congressional Library, and for other purposes," report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. The Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate "that the binders of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for the 34th Congress be paid the same price per volume as is allowed by law for binding the same for the 35th Congress," report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Alexander B. Hagner and Daniel R. Hagner, guardians of the infant children of the late Major J.R. Hagner, of the United States Army, praying for a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles West, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of James Purvis, praying for commutation, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1858. -- Agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of John A. and Hiram A. Pitts, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1858. -- Agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Bancroft Woodcock, praying an extension of the patent for certain improvements on the plough, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1858. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report: report [sic]. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Ambrose Whitlock, have had the same under consideration and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1858. -- Agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the widow of Rinaldo Johnson, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 255.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anthony Caslo or Castle, a soldier in the last war with Great Britain, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. King, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 256.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of Alexander Randall, executor of D. Randall, deceased, having had the same under consideration, report... In Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 259.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Agnes Slack and the heirs of M. Repentigny, praying confirmation of title to certain lands... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth A. Middleton, praying to be allowed a sum of money expended by her father, Captain Belair Posey, during the Revolutionary War, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy Hammond, daughter of James Dennison, an officer in the Army of the Revolution, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims to whom was referred the petition of Catharine Lydia McLeod, only surviving heir of Ebenezer Markham, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the "petition of Doct. Adam Hays, for arrears of pension from the disbanding of the Army the 15th June, 1815, to the 30th of January, 1838, when his pension was first received," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the "memorial of citizens of Michigan, praying that the pension granted to the Hon. Thomas Fitzgerald be extended to his children," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin submitted the following report. The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jacob Washington Morse, "praying to be placed on the Navy pension roll as an invalid pensioner for wounds and disabilities in the War of 1812," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 260.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of William Cruikshank and others, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fitch made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 262.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the papers in the matter of the application of Daniel S. Ryan and Benjamin C. Wiley, administrators of R.D. Rowland, deceased and of James M. Crook, to have refunded to them the amount paid for certain lands bought of the United States, of which the purchasers have been legally deprived by an Indian claim, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 264.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Alexander Copeland for confirmation of title to four hundred and eighty acres of land in Sonora [sic] County, California, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 222 [i.e., 301].) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Etting, a purser in the United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 34.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of James H. Frost and Eliza A. Johnson, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. King made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 302.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Smith, now in Washington, praying to be allowed a pension, have considered the same, and ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 303.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Isaac Varn, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 267.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of G. Alonzo Breast, having had the same under consideration, do now report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 268.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the memorial of Aaron Haight Palmer, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slidell, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 270.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of T. Hart Hyatt, United States Consul at Amoy, in China, praying compensation for judicial services performed under the act of Congress of August 11, 1848, have had the same under consideration and now report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Doolittle made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 181.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was recommitted the "Bill (S. 181) for the Relief of Anson Dart," late Superintendent of Indian Affairs, in Oregon, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the papers in support of the claim of Adam Sener to a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Francis D. Pons, have given the same due consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of the democratic members of the Legislature of the State of Ohio, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 328.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of John Pickell, asking a pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 330.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Stephen R. Rowan, after mature consideration thereof, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 331.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of P.S. Duval & Co., of Philadelphia, having had the same under consideration, report... In Senate of the United States. May 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 332.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Auton [i.e., Anton] L.C. Portman, praying compensation for his services as Dutch interpreter for Commodore M.C. Perry, while conducting his late negotiation with the authorities of Japan... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 40.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 40, entitled "An Act to Settle Doubts in Relation to the Title of Certain Common Field Lots in the State of Missouri, Heretofore Granted to the Inhabitants of the City of St. Louis, for the Support of Schools," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale made the following report (To accompany Bill S. 277.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Albert G. Allen, late Navy agent at Washington, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 282.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Bernard M. Byrne, a surgeon in the United States Army, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 283.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of James Maccaboy, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 284.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of C.E. Habicht, administrator of J. [i.e., I.] W.P. Lewis, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 287.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Sherlock & Sherley, contractors for carrying the mail from Louisville, Kentucky, to St. Louis, Missouri, praying to be relieved from certain fines alleged to have been unjustly imposed on them, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. King made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 291.) The committee have considered the application of Webster S. Steele, of Evanston, Illinois, for an invalid pension, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 368.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Eliza E. Ogden, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 371.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Anthony W. Bayard, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 373.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the reports of the Court of Claims, in the cases of Letitia Humphreys, administratrix of Andrew Atkinson, deceased, and of Robert Harrison; and also the memorial of the said Harrison to Congress, praying, in behalf of himself and other claimants, the full and faithful execution of the 9th article of the treaty of 1819 with Spain, by the payment of the residue of the decrees made by the United States judges in their favor, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 374.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the case of George J. Knight, has looked into the same, and referring to reports heretofore made the Senate and House of Representatives, in favor of the petitioner, which they adopt, the committee report a bill for the relief of the petitioner for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 370.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Dona Guadalupe Estudillo de Arguello, have had the same under consideration and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1858. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigler submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of John Wightman, a contractor for carrying the mail on route No. 3366, from Meadville to Clarion, in the State of Pennsylvania, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 380.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of George M. Weston, Commissioner of the State of Maine, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 225.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. No. 225, entitled "An Act to Increase the Pension of John Richmond," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomson, of New Jersey, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 230.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Hay, of Illinois, for compensation for services as pension agent, and also a Bill (S. 230) for the relief of the legal representatives of David Hay, deceased, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 339.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Vance, a soldier in the War of 1812, and also Senate Bill No. 339, "Granting a Pension to Joseph Vance," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 385.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of Marice Genard, sole heir of John Hudry, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 388.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the claim of the legal representatives of John Forsyth, having maturely considered the same, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Green submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a resolution of the Senate, directing them "to inquire into the expediency of conferring on the district courts of California, in the investigation of facts relating to cases pending on appeal from the United States land commissioners, the powers given to the courts of the United States by the Judiciary Act of 1789, in regard to the taking of depositions," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Doolittle submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred the memorial and joint resolution of the State of Iowa, in behalf of James B. Thomas and family, sufferers by Indian depredations, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigler submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Noah Miller, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 394.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Edson Fessenden, of Hartford, Connecticut, conservator of the person and estate of William Crompton, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Bromburg [i.e., Bromberg], late United States Consul at Hamburg, praying compensation for diplomatic and extra services, have had the same under consideration and now report... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 400.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of the president and directors of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sebastian made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 403.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the "memorial of George Stealey, praying compensation for his services and remuneration for expenses while on a mission to the Indian tribes in the northern portion of the State of California, under the authority of the Indian commissioners," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh made the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the credentials of Graham N. Fitch and Jesse D. Bright, senators from the State of Indiana, together with the documents and testimony relative to that subject, have had the same under consideration, and report, by resolution, as follow... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 407.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Miles Judson, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph G. Heaton, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution No. 45.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Uber, who ask the amount of pension that her mother, who died in 1857, might have obtained under act of July 4, 1836, as widow of Philip Wirt, who was an ensign in the Revolutionary Army... In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 410.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the City of New Orleans, asking confirmation of title to one-half of certain lands devised by John McDonough to that city, as tenant, in common with the City of Baltimore, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 411.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ebenezer Ricker, of Lanford, in the State of Maine, praying for a pension on account of a wound received while in the military service of the United States, having had the same under consideration, do now report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the "memorial of William A. Vaughan, John Smith, Wm. D. Little, and Nathaniel Dennet, Jr., praying that compensation may be made to them for time that they were employed as inspectors of the port of Portsmouth, N.H.," have had the same under consideration, and report against the prayer of the memorialists for the reasons set forth in the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, dated May 24, 1858, which they present as part of their report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the papers relating to the claim of Eldridge Lawton, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate instructing them "to inquire whether any legislation is necessary to enable the President of the United States to protect American vessels against British aggression in the Gulf of Mexico or elsewhere," and to whom has also been referred "the message of the President of the United States communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, information concerning the recent search or seizure of American vessels by foreign armed cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico," have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George W. Bluford, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 418.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Captain John B. Montgomery, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 327.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 327, to affirm certain entries of land in the state of Louisiana, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed, with papers. Mr. Stuart submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred the memorials of Thomas D.W. Yonley, Thomas E. Bassett, Joseph B. Biggerstaff, Elizur D. Parsons, Thomas E. Turney, and James H. Birch, Jr., with the documents communicated to the Senate by the Secretary of the Interior, in obedience to a resolution adopted the 8th of March, 1858, has fully examined the same, and asks leave now to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Leach, of the City of Washington, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 2, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 422.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John R. Bartlett, late United States Commissioner on the Mexican Boundary, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ebenezer Ballard and Rishworth Jordan, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims have examined the case of Michael Nourse... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Vinson, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Anna M. McKenney, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 395.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 395, to authorize the increase of invalid pensions in certain cases, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 428.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Meyer, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 429.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jane J. Wingerd, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (Accompanied by an amendment to Bill S. 410.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Claude Samory, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 22 and 220.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred the "Bill for the Relief of the Citizens and Owners of Property in the City of Omaha, Nebraska Territory, and Sioux City, State of Iowa," and the "Bill for the Relief of Certain Citizens of Sioux City, State of Iowa," with the "petition of 111 residents of Sioux City, Iowa, asking for the passage of an act authorizing the entry of a portion of the lands on which said town is situated," have carefully considered the subject to which they relate, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 54.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill to revive and extend an act entitled "An Act for the Relief of the Representatives of John Donnelson, Stephen Heard, and Others," approved May 24, 1824, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 434.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Theresa Dardenne, praying indemnity for losses sustained in consequence of an erroneous sale of land by the land officers at Little Rock, to her late husband, Abraham Dardenne, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom were referred "two memorials of merchants and others, citizens of New York and Brooklyn, praying the adoption of measures for ascertaining the correctness of certain alleged discoveries of guano on Jarvis and Baker's Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, the quality of the guano and its accessibility to merchant vessels," have had the same under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 34.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 34, entitled "A Bill Explanatory of an Act Entitled 'An Act To Settle Certain Accounts between the United States and the State of Mississippi, and Other States,' approved 3d March, 1857;" also the memorial and resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa in relation to the five per cent. school fund, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 442.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the papers in the case of J.M. Pammores, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 445.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Ferdinand Coxe, late Secretary of the United States legation at Rio de Janeiro, praying compensation for diplomatic services, have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 446.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of John H. Wheeler, late United States Minister to Nicaragua, have had the same under consideration and now report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the memorial of the Magnetic Telegraph Company and of the New England Union Telegraph Company praying the enactment of a law which will prevent combinations between citizens or companies in the United States, and monopolists or companies out of the United States, for the purpose of oppressing telegraph companies and monopolizing the business of telegraphing in the United States; and also the memorial of the American Telegraph Company in answer thereto, and a further memorial of the Magnetic and New England Telegraph Company by way of reply, varying the prayer of their first memorial, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1858. -- Unanimously adopted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 15th ultimo, to inquire into certain charges made by citizens of Iowa against Henry M. Rice, a Senator from Minnesota, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigler submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of the president and stockholders of "The Florida Steam-Packet Company," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Hezekiah Miller, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 652.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred a bill from the House of Representatives, No. 652, entitled "An Act To Repeal the Second Section of the Act Entitled 'An Act To Establish Certain Post Roads,'" approved June 14, 1858, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Nathan Scholfield, for the renewal of a patent, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Hendebert, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Yulee submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 447.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of Daniel B. Hibbard, of Michigan, praying an appropriation in payment of his account for carrying the United States mail on special contract with the deputy postmaster at St. John's, in the State of Michigan, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave respectfully to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 435.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James T.V. Thompson, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 250.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of George M. Weston, Commissioner of the State of Maine, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1858. Agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel James, Ignatius Lucas, Charles Lilley, and Thomas S. Bingey, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Seward made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 254.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Townsend Harris, Consul General of the United States in Japan, praying for compensation for his services in negotiating a treaty of commerce between the Kingdom of Siam and the United States, have had the same under consideration and now report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Blake, asking for arrears of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mason made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 273.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the report from the Court of Claims in the case of the "claimants of the brig General Armstrong, against the United Slates [sic]," have had the same under consideration, and now report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John W. Pray, one of the heirs of John Pray, an officer in the Revolution, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom were referred the papers in support of the claim of Catharine Kellar to a pension, on account of the services of her husband, Conrad Kellar, having examined the same, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans submitted the following report. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Mason and others, heirs of Jeremiah Gilman, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 252.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles McCormick, an assistant surgeon in the Army, praying compensation for certain extra services, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stuart made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 249.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of the Milwaukie and Mississippi Railroad Company, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mallory made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 253.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of F.M. Gunnell, passed assistant surgeon in the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Simmons made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 436.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Nathaniel Hayward, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 438.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Joseph Clymer, have had the same under consideration, and now beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Iverson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 439.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles M. Perry, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 309.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John B. Miller, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard made the following adverse report. (To accompany Bill S. 234.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 234, for the remission of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 276.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Senate Bill No. 276, for the relief of Mrs. Ambroise Bron [i.e., Brou], report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Bowne & Curry, praying to be allowed a portion of the money paid as duties on certain coal raised from a submerged wrecked vessel have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the "memorial of Beverly Diggs, late an officer in the Revenue Service, praying relief," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clark made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 38.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Grayson, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 367.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the payment of claims favorably reported upon by the board of Army officers, (appointed under the sixth section of the act approved August 31, 1852,) in their report to Congress dated December 5, 1854, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Green submitted the following report. The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the memorial of Giles S. Isham, praying a grant of land in the proposed Territory of Arizona for the purpose of establishing a colony of industrious farmers, mechanics, and artizans, have considered the same, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 322.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred S. Bill 322, for the relief of purchasers of public lands within the timber reserve opposite Fort Kearny, and for the settlers within the Winnebago agency reservation, the Fort Atkinson reservation, and the timber reserve opposite Fort Crawford, all in the State of Iowa, have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Polk made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 398.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William Money, report... |
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| Serial set 940 | Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: being the first session of the Thirty-fifth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 7, 1857. In the eighty-second year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
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Estimates of appropriations. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1859. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the finances, for the year ending June 30, 1857. American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting an abstract of returns of registered American seamen for the year ending September 30, 1857. December 8, 1857. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the contingent expenses of that Department. December 8, 1857. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. National armories -- manufacture of arms at. Letter from the Secretary of War, asking that an appropriation may be made to supply the deficiency in the appropriation for the manufacture of arms at the national armories, caused by the omission of the appropriation in the Army appropriation act of the last session. December 10, 1857. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Hall of the House of Representatives. Letter from the Secretary of War, stating that the new hall of the House of Representatives is ready for occupation. December 10, 1857. -- Referred to the select committee heretofore appointed on the subject of the new hall of the House of Representatives. China -- regulations for the Consular Courts. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of the regulations adopted by the United States Commissioner for the government of the Consular Courts in China. December 15, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Balances of appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the balances of the appropriations standing to the credit of the Interior Department on the 1st of July, 1857. December 15, 1857. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a statement of the contingent expenses of the State Department. December 8, 1857. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 942 | Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-fifth Congress. December 8, 1857. -- Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed | 1 |
| Serial set 943 | Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-fifth Congress. December 8, 1857. -- Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed. December 16, 1857. -- Resolved, that there be printed, for the use of the members of the House of Representatives, twenty thousand extra copies of the President's annual message and accompanying documents. | 1 |
| Serial set 944 | Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-fifth Congress. December 8, 1857. -- Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed. December 16, 1856. -- Resolved, that there be printed, for the use of the members of the House of Representatives, twenty thousand extra copies of the President's annual message and accompanying documents. | 1 |
| Serial set 945 | [Maps to accompany the State of the Union message -- 35th Congress, first session.] | 1 |
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Estimate -- Diplomatic Correspondence. Letter from the Secretary of State, asking for an appropriation for the purchase of five hundred copies of the Diplomatic Correspondence from 1776 to 1783, for the use of his Department. December 18, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Balances against disbursing officers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of January 17, 1857, a list of the names of officers and other persons charged with the disbursement of public moneys, against whom there are unadjusted balances standing over for more than twelve months. December 19, 1857. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Claim of Michael Papprenitza, an Austrian subject. Letter from the Secretary of State, in reference to the claim of Michael Papprenitza, an Austrian subject. January 4, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement showing the manner wherein the contingent funds of that Department have been expended. January 4, 1858. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. Names and number of persons employed in the Coast Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report from the general disbursing agent of the Coast Survey, showing the number and names of persons employed on the Coast Survey. January 5, 1858. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. Offers at Bureau of Yards and Docks. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of offers received at the Bureau of Yards and Docks. January 6, 1857 [i.e., 1858]. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Treasurer's accounts. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting his accounts for the year ending June 30, 1857. December 16, 1857. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Balances outstanding more than three years prior to July 1, 1857. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the balances outstanding more than three years prior to July 1, 1857, on the books of the Second, Third, and Fourth Auditors, and the Register of the Treasury. December 16, 1857. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 947 | Receipts and expenditures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1857. December 18, 1857. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. | 1 |
