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Serial set 2748 | Survey of water-way from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, with a copy of a report from an officer of the Corps of Engineers upon the survey of a water-way from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. March 11, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. | 1 |
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Regular supplies, Quartermaster's Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Quartermaster-General, inclosing a proviso relative to certain equipments for the enlisted men of the Army, which he recommends to be inserted under the head of "Regular Supplies, Quartermaster's Department," in the Army Appropriation Bill. March 20, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Indian school, Carlisle, Pa. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior, for buildings for the Indian school, Carlisle, Pa. March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887. Persons arrested for murder, manslaughter, etc., in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a report of the number and names of persons arrested in the District of Columbia charged with murder, manslaughter, etc., in answer to resolution of the House of Representatives, February 24, 1890. March 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Salaries of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Assistant Commissioner, and financial clerk of the Indian Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, urging an increase of the salaries of the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the financial clerk of the Indian Office, and enclosing a bill to effect these objects. March 11, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in Interior Department. Permanent and indefinite appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning House Bill 3823 to repeal laws relating to permanent and indefinite appropriations. March 14, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Expenses of collecting the revenue from Customs. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of the expenses of collecting the revenue from Customs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, showing the number of employes and the salaries required for each collection district. March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Floods in the Mississippi River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to so much of the resolution of the House of the 15th instant, in regard to floods in the Mississippi, as requests the Secretary to report "if there is reason to apprehend unusual danger to human life," a report from the Chief Signal Officer... March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Government ownership of first-mortgage securities of Pacific railroads. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a reply to the resolution of the House of the 15th inst., inquiring whether the government is the owner of any of the first-mortgage securities of any of the Pacific railroads that were aided by the government, etc. March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroads. Commission to negotiate with Utes of Southern Colorado. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the Southern Ute Commission. March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Sioux reservations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior for expenses of surveying the Sioux reservations. March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Initial monuments, mineral surveys. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior for an appropriation for initial monuments for mineral surveys. March 20, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Floods upon the Mississippi River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, with a report from the President of the Mississippi River Commission, in further response to the House resolution of the 15th instant, relating to the floods upon the Mississippi River. March 20, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Washington Aqueduct Tunnel. Letter from the Secretary of War, replying to the resolution of the House of the 10th inst., relative to the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, the liabilities of certain contractors engaged in the construction thereof, and the action of the Department in relation thereto. March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Zuni Indian Agency, New Mexico. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations from the Secretary of the Interior for support of Indians and pay of agent at the Zuni Agency, N. Mex. March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Repair upon government building at Sitka. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a copy of a letter from the United States Marshal for Alaska, making estimate of the cost of repairs upon the government building at Sitka, with accompanying papers. March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Salaries of clerks adjusting accounts of Soldiers' Home. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Second Comptroller recommending an increase in the salaries of clerks in his Office engaged in adjusting accounts of the Soldiers' Home. March 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Increase of pay of general non-commissioned staff officers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petition of Thomas Kimball, Commissary-Sergeant, and George Eppert, Quartermaster-Sergeant, U.S.A., praying for favorable action on House Bill 4588, "To Fix the Pay of Non-Commissioned Staff Officers of the United States Army." March 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Binding manuscript papers, Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of State for an additional appropriation of $6,000 for binding manuscript papers belonging to that department. March 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Navy yard, Portsmouth, N.H. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Navy for reconstruction of buildings and machinery destroyed by fire at the Navy yard, Portsmouth, N.H. March 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Light and fog-signal at Seul Choix Point, Mich. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending an additional appropriation for the establishment of a light and fog-signal at Seul Choix Point, Mich. March 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Process of welding by electricity. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th instant, a copy of the report of a board of officers of the Navy on the process of welding by the Thomson Electric Welding Company, of Boston, Mass. March 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Lights at Doller's Point and on Hog Island Wharf, James River. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending an appropriation for the establishment of proper lights at Doller's Point and on Hog Island Wharf, James River, Virginia. March 13, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Abandoned military reservation, Fort Lyon, Colorado. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior to pay the salary of the custodian of the abandoned military reservation at Fort Lyon, Colo., for the fiscal year 1891. March 13, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an increased estimate from the Secretary of the Interior for telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies for the fiscal year 1891. March 13, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Light at cut-off channel, Baltimore Harbor, Maryland. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending an appropriation for the establishment of a light-station at or near the mouth of the new cut-off channel, Baltimore Harbor, Maryland. March 13, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Cheboygan (Michigan) River light range. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending an appropriation for the purchase of additional land for the Cheboygan (Michigan) River range light station. March 13, 1890.. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Fog-signal at Cuckolds Island, Townsend Harbor, Booth Bay, Me. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending an appropriation for the establishment of a fog-signal at or near the Cuckolds Island, in Townsend Harbor, Booth Bay, Me. March 13, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Navy yard, League Island. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in compliance with the resolution of the House of the 10th instant, copy of the report of the Board as to the availability of the Navy yard, League Island, as a naval station and shipbuilding yard. March 13, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Purchase of tents. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the draught of a bill "Authorizing the Purchase of Tents for Certain Purposes, and Making Appropriations Therefor," with report of the Quartermaster-General of the Army in relation thereto. March 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. |
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Furnishing of certain public buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, calling attention to the necessity for an immediate appropriation of $142,000 for furnishing certain specified public buildings. April 4, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Relief of certain Indian agents. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian setting forth the claims of certain Indian agents for pay for a part of their terms of service, heretofore suspended by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department in the settlement of their accounts, together with a draught of a bill for their relief. March 25, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Change of plumbing in cadet hospital, West Point, N.Y. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of appropriation to change the plumbing in the cadet hospital at West Point, N.Y. April 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Repairs on old Custom-house building, St. Louis, Mo. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting an appropriation for certain repairs on the old Custom-house building at St. Louis, Mo. April 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Preservation of cell building at Utah Penitentiary. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney-General submitting an estimate of an appropriation to preserve the cell-building at the Utah Penitentiary. May 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Transfer of Bureau of Pensions. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, replying to the resolution of the House of Representatives requesting the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior to inform the House what saving, if any, of public expenditure can be made by transferring the bureau of Pensions from the Interior Department to the War Department. March 24, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Statement of expenditures of the Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of State, submitting, in pursuance of the requirements of sections 193 and 209 of the Revised Statutes, statements of the manner of expenditure of the contingent fund of the Department of State for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889, of the expenditures for the expenses of foreign intercourse for the same time, and a precise analytical statement of all moneys disbursed by the disbursing clerk of the department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889. April 12, 1890. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. George H. Owen. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in relation to a bill to credit George H. Owen, late United States Consul at Messina, with a certain sum expended by him for clerk hire, etc., by authority of the State Department, but not heretofore allowed in his accounts. May 5, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Re-imbursement of crew of Muskeget (Mass.) lifesaving station. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a letter from the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, and accompanying papers, looking to an appropriation to re-imburse the crew of the lifesaving station at Muskeget, Mass., for the loss of their personal property at the time of the burning of the station, December 27, 1889. May 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Investigation as to the re-rating of pensions. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of March 21, 1890, a copy of the evidence and report of the Committee appointed in July, 1889, to investigate the action of the Pension Office in re-rating pensions. May 1, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Protecting the public lands. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior increasing the estimate on page 230 of the Book of Estimates for the fiscal year 1891 for "protecting the public lands." April 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, a preliminary report upon the location of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, in compliance with a provision of the river and harbor Act of August 11, 1888. April 9, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Employment of Indian Scouts. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the employment of Indian Scouts. March 25, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Amendments to laws taxing manufacturers of cigars. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue (with inclosures) recommending certain amendments to existing laws taxing manufacturers of cigars. May 2, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. The pension system. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives passed March 18, 1890, information in regard to pensions. May 1, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Soldiers' home at Dayton, Ohio. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, submitting an estimate of appropriation to improve the sewerage system at the central branch of the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Dayton, Ohio. April 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Amendment of legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions requesting that the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation for the ensuing fiscal year, now pending, be so amended as to include the thirty medical examiners provided for by Joint Resolution now pending in the Senate. April 17, 1890. -- Referred to Committee on Appropriations. Repair on road from Willet's Point to Whitestone, N.Y. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of an appropriation for repairing the roadway from Willet's Point to Whitestone, N.Y. April 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Salaries in office of Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication of the Civil Service Commission submitting a supplemental estimate for salaries, etc., in the office of the Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. March 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Report of the Director of the Mint upon the production of the precious metals in he United States during the calendar year 1889. Expenses of irrigation branch of Geological Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimates made by the directors of the Geological Survey of estimates of necessary expenses of irrigation branch of the survey for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891; and also calling attention to the report of the director, made last December. April 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Channel, Lake Ontario and Irondequoit Bay. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report in response to the House Resolution of the 5th instant, relating to the project for a channel between Lake Ontario and Irondequoit Bay. April 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Compulsory school attendance in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting with approval a copy of a bill prepared by the Commissioner of Education providing for enforcing regular attendance at the government schools in the Territory of Alaska, together with certain letters stating the necessity of such legislation. April 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Territories. Printing and binding in the Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, accompanied by a letter from the Chief of Division of Stationery, Printing, and Blanks, of the Treasury Department, calling attention to the urgent necessity for the additional appropriation for printing and binding for the department for the current year. April 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Pay of non-commissioned officers of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petitions from certain non-commissioned staff officers at Fort Apache, Ariz.; Fort Washakie, Wyo.; Fort Douglas, Utah; Fort Sully, S. Dak., and Fort Maginnis, Mont., praying for the passage of H.R. 4588, "To Fix the Pay of Non-Commissioned Staff Officers of the United States Army." April 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Compensation of the district attorney for the Southern District of New York. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, calling attention to the compensation allowed to the district attorney for the southern District of New York and recommending that the provisions of law regulating the said compensation be made more definite. April 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice. Light and steam fog-whistle, New London, Conn. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending the establishment of a light and steam fog-whistle at New London, Conn. April 7, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Claims allowed by accounting officers of the Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th instant, a list of all claims allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, enumerated in House Ex. Docs. Nos. 55 and 153, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, for which appropriations have not been made. April 8, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. Tunneling Detroit River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, a report of a Board of Engineers on the practicability and approximate cost of tunneling the Detroit River, at or near Detroit, Mich., in compliance with the Joint Resolution of April 19, 1890. May 8, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Pay of clerks in Post-Office Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Postmaster-General requesting an appropriation for the pay of twenty clerks. May 9, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Claim of A.T. Dickerman Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs inclosing certain affidavits relating to a depredation claim of A.T. Dickerman, which was transmitted to Congress January 5, 1887. May 9, 1890. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Deficiency for printing in the Department of Justice. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney General... Relief of Joseph Montanari. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in relation to an appropriation required for the relief of Joseph Montanari, United States vice-consul at Port Mahon. May 13, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Roadway from Atlanta, to Fort McPherson, Ga. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of an appropriation for commencing the construction of a public roadway from Atlanta to Fort McPherson, Ga. May 14, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Report on the inland navigation and Sea-Ports of France, with list of canals and canalized-river in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers and a copy of a report of Lieut. Col. Merrill, of the Corps of Engineers, with copies of accompanying papers, including two maps, concerning the International Congress of Engineers, interested in the utilization of water, which was convened under the auspices of the Government of France; and recommending that the same be printed. May 14, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Claim of Mrs. Susannah [i.e., Susanna] George. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Light-House Board, with accompanying papers, relative to the claim of Mrs. Susannah [i.e., Susanna] George for compensation due her husband for services and expenses incurred by him while light-house keeper at Plum Island light-station, Massachusetts. May 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Water pool at Rock Island Arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, for the information of the Committee on Appropriations, a letter from the Chief of Ordnance and a copy of House Ex. Doc. No. 306, Fiftieth Congress, first session, being a special estimate of $101,000 for the further development of the water-power pool at the Rock Island Arsenal. May 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Account of Edward Mitchell, U.S. Attorney, New York. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in relation to the account of Edward Mitchell, United States Attorney at New York, and requesting that an appropriation be made for the payment of said account. May 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Deficiency in the appropriation for printing. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Public Printer submitting an estimate of deficiency in appropriation for public printing and binding for the last quarter of the current fiscal year. May 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Payment of Villanova, Hermanos & Co., of Barcelona. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of State, requesting an appropriation to enable him to pay Messrs. Villanova, Hermanos & Co., of Barcelona, the balance due them for expenses incurred in taking down and removing the American section of the exposition in that place. May 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Objection to lineal promotion in the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the officers of the Fourth Cavalry presenting their views in opposition to the system of lineal promotion in the Army, and inviting attention to the remarks of the Major General commanding the Army contained in the fourth indorsement thereon. May 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Deficiency in appropriation for certain consular officers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in relation to the necessity for an immediate appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for "salaries of consular officers not citizens of the United States," for the current fiscal year. May 20, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Non-commissioned officers of the staff. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petitions and recommendations submitted by the Adjutant-General of the commissary-sergeants and post-quartermaster sergeants stationed at Benicia Barracks and San Diego Barracks, California, for an increase in the pay of non-commissioned officers of the staff. March 22, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Transfer of Pension Bureau to War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, replying to the resolution of the House of Representatives requesting that the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior inform the House what saving of public expenditure, if any, can be made by transferring the Bureau of Pensions to the War Department. March 25, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Additional appropriation for employes of Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, asking for an additional appropriation for the compensation of employes of said bureau on account of overtime work. March 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Steam fog-whistle at Warwick Point, R.I. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, conveying a recommendation that a steam fog-whistle be established at Warwick Point, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. April 4, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Lights on Thames River, between New London and Norwich, Conn. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, recommending that there be included in the clause of the general appropriation bill providing for the lighting of rivers provision for twelve post lights on the Thames River, between New London and Norwich, Conn. April 4, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. The Aqueduct Tunnel. Letter from the Secretary of War, inclosing copy of a letter from the Attorney-General of the United States, touching the matter of the prosecution of the contractors for the lining of the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, in connection with the War Department letter of the 18th instant, on the subject, and in further response to the resolution dated March 10, 1890. March 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Emoluments of Customs officers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an abstract of the official emoluments of officers of the Customs servics [services] received by them during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889, prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Customs in accordance with section 2639 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. March 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Rock Island Bridge and Watertown Arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of War of the 27th instant, submitting additional estimates by the Ordnance Department of the Army for appropriations for Rock Island Bridge, Rock Island, Ill., and Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Mass. March 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Unpaid judgments due the United States. April 1, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Launching ways and granite slips at New York and Norfolk Navy-yards. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting an estimate of appropriation for extending the launching ways and making alterations in the granite slips at the Navy-yards at New York and Norfolk. April 9, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Improvement of American cemetery at Acapulco, Mexico. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, of the 8th instant, submitting a request for an appropriation of $1,500, for improving and placing in proper condition the American cemetery at Acapulco, Mexico. April 10, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Standard measures for certain states. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, submitting an estimate for the construction of standard gallons and their subdivisions, for the use of states and territories which have not received the same, under the act of June 14, 1836, providing for the distribution of weights and measures. April 10, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Retired list for privates. Letter from The Secretary of War, transmitting petitions of certain non-commissioned officers and enlisted men of the U.S. Army, praying for a reduction in the limit of thirty years for retirement under the provisions of the act of February 14, 1885. April 10, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Supplemental estimate for Indian schools. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a supplemental estimate of the amount required for the enlargement and support of schools upon Indian reservations for the ensuing fiscal year. April 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Judgment in cases against the United States. Letter from the Attorney-General, submitting a report in accordance with section 11 of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to Provide for the Bringing of Suits Against the Government of the United States," and calling attention to accompanying exhibits. April 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Deficiencies submitted by Attorney-General. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Attorney-General submitting deficiencies in the appropriations for expenses of the United States courts, ascertained and estimated for the fiscal years 1888, 1889, and 1890. April 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Right of way of vessels in channel in and from Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the draught of a bill to regulate the right of way by vessels within the limits of the channel in and from Chesapeake Bay to the City of Baltimore, and an accompanying letter from the Chief of Engineers. April 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce Claim of the Seneca Indians. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for an appropriation to pay the claim of the Seneca Indians for land taken by the United States. April 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Injurious deposits in harbor and adjacent waters of New York City. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers and the draught of a bill to amend the act entitled "An Act to Prevent Obstructive and Injurious Deposits Within the Harbor and Adjacent Waters of New York City, by Dumping and Otherwise, and to Punish and Prevent Such Offenses." April 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Affairs in the overflowed Districts of Louisiana. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of a telegram of the 9th instant from the Deputy Quartermaster-General in charge of the Quartermaster General's Office, to the quarter-master at New Orleans, and a copy of his reply thereto, of the 12th instant, together with a copy of his report of the 14th instant in regard to the condition of affairs in the overflowed District of St. James and Ascension Parishes, La. April 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Deficiency appropriation -- contingent expenses in Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for "contingent expenses in the Navy Department." April 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Compensation of W.H. Arnoux. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Navy requesting an appropriation for compensating W.H. Arnoux for his services as counsel during the Congressional investigation into the facts connected with the Jeannette arctic expedition. April 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Public building at Frankfort, Ky. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting that an appropriation may be made for the payment of certain sums due for labor and material supplied in the construction of the public building at Frankfort, Ky. April 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Dredging eastern branch of the Potomac. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of letters from the Secretary of the Navy, and their accompanying papers, suggesting the importance of dredging the channel of the eastern branch of the Potomac River to the depth of twenty feet from the Navy yard to Giesboro Point. April 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Office of Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the necessity of providing for additional space for the engineering and draughting division office of the Supervising Architect, as recommended in the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury. March 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Education of children. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an increase in the estimate for education of children in Alaska, as submitted by the Secretary of the Interior, for the fiscal year 1891. March 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Additional estimate for irrigation branch of Geological Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an additional estimate of appropriation from the Director of the Geological Survey for the necessary expenses of the irrigation branch of the service. April 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Yellowstone Park. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of an estimate from the Acting Superintendent of the Yellowstone Park of the amount necessary to carry into effect the requirements of the bill now before Congress affecting said park. April 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Expenses of United States courts. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Attorney-General submitting additional estimates of deficiencies in certain appropriations for expenses of United States courts, together with statements of accounts and exhibits in each case. April 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Education of Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation for the education of the Sioux Indians. April 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Terms of civil officers of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a draught of a bill "To Limit and Define the Term of all Civil Officers of the United States Appointed for a Fixed Term," and recommending the same to be enacted into law. April 18, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Range lights in Beaufort Harbor. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, calling attention to the recommendation of the Light-House Board that range lights be established for guiding into the entrance of Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina. April 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting letter of Secretary of State accompanied by certain correspondence in regard to the seizure of the schooner Rebecca by the Mexican Customs authorities at Tampico in February, 1884. April 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Repairs on Barge Office, New York City. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting that the sum of $20,000 be appropriated immediately to cover the cost of repairs on the United States Barge Office at New York, said sum to be placed to the credit of the appropriation "For Repairs and Preservation of Public Buildings, 1890." April 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Deficiency in appropriation for pay, etc., of Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of a deficiency in the appropriation for "pay, etc., of the Army," for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890. April 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Expenditures for repairs and preservation of public buildings. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an itemized statement of the expenditures from the appropriation for "Repairs and Preservation of Public Buildings, 1889." April 25, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. City of Ogden, Utah. Message from the President of the United States, returning, with his objections, the Bill (H.R. 7170) to authorize the City of Ogden, Utah, to assume an increased indebtedness. April 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories. Deposit of funds pertaining to the Soldiers' Home. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from General Schofield, commanding the Army, president of the Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers' Home, requesting legislation which will authorize the treasurer of the Soldiers' Home to deposit the funds received by him pertaining to the home with the treasurer of the United States. April 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Expenses of Mississippi River Commission. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of a letter from the President of the Mississippi River Commission suggesting an amendment to the present river and harbor bill to provide for the payment of office, clerical, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission. April 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Public building at Dallas, Tex. Message from the President of the United States, relating to House Bill (H.R. 848) to authorize the construction of an addition to the public building in Dallas, Tex. April 30, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Estimates of expenses of United States courts. Letter from the Acting Attorney-General, calling the attention of the Committee on Appropriations to certain estimates in relation to expenses of the United States courts which may be misunderstood. May 1, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Storing archives of the Paris consulate-general. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State with, its accompanying papers, in relation to certain expenses incurred by the late George Walter, consul-general at Paris, for storage of archives of the consulate-general, said expenses having been authorized by the Department of State but disallowed by the First Comptroller. May 3, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Provisions and clothing in the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, making an estimate of a deficiency in the appropriation for provisions and clothing for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889. May 3, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Claim of United States Deputy Marshal Wyatt. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Attorney-General, submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay the claim of Daniel F. Wyatt. Deputy United States Marshal, for services in connection with the opening of Oklahoma. May 7, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Employment of Post Office inspectors. Letter from the Postmaster General, submitting a reply to the House resolution of March 28, 1890, calling upon the Postmaster General for a "statement of what Post Office inspectors or special agents, it any, have been employed or directed to investigate or to have investigated the standing and claims of rival applicants for appointments as postmasters, and if so, when, where, and in what cases reports have been made by such inspectors or special agents, either under the direction of the Postmaster General, or by any officer of the Department under his control," etc. May 10, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Printing, engraving, and binding for the Eleventh Census. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation for printing, engraving, and binding for the Eleventh Census during the half of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. May 10, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Road from Antietam to the National Cemetery. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting for the consideration of Congress a communication from the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of an appropriation for the completion of the road from Antietam to the National Cemetery, Maryland. May 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Green and Barren rivers. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, inclosing copy of an act recommended for passage by the Chief of Engineers as applicable to the Green and Barren rivers. May 22, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Expenses of military courts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication of the Acting Judge-Advocate-General of the Army relative to the item in the Army appropriation bill making provision for expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry. March 24, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Deficiencies in Department of Justice. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a consolidated and revised statement of the deficiencies, forwarded for the action of Congress during the present session, to defray the expenses of the United States courts, and of minor appropriations placed under the control of the Attorney-General, to take the place of previous estimates. May 8, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Town sites in Oklahoma. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation of $15,000 to carry into effect Public Act No. 114. May 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Compensation of J.B. Allen, U.S. Attorney. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of letter of the Attorney General submitting an amended estimate to compensate J.B. Allen, etc., in lieu of the original. May 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Public building at Winona, Minn. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, calling attention to the necessity for an additional appropriation to complete the public building at Winona, Minn., as authorized by law. April 2, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Purchase of machine guns for the Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation for machine guns of small arms caliber. May 14, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. |
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Serial set 2751 | Fifth annual report of the Commissioner of Labor. 1889. | 1 |
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Penalty for obstructing internal revenue officers in line of duty. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing copy of letter of Commissioner of Internal Revenue recommending amendment to Section 5447, Revised Statutes, according to draught inclosed, providing penalty for obstructing storekeeper or gauger in his duty. May 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Additional clerical force for the second auditor's office. Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication for the Second Auditor recommending an appropriation for ten additional clerks, class 1, on account of recent pension legislation. July 7, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Improvements in Galveston Harbor, Texas. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of War, transmitting copy of the report of the engineers in charge of the improvements in Galveston Harbor, Texas, in response to a House Resolution, dated August 1, 1890. August 5, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Message from the President of the United States, relating to the importation of breadstuffs and provisions. A report from the Secretary of State on the subject. May 9, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Ordnance and ordnance stores for the State of Maine. Letter from the Secretary of War, calling attention to Public Act No. 116, May 14, 1890, relating to ordnance and ordnance stores for the State of Maine, that no appropriation has been made to carry the act into effect. May 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mileage for officers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letter of Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard, remonstrating against the omission from deficiency bill item for mileage for officers for journeys in last fiscal year. May 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Message from the President of the United States, relative to an item of appropriation to enable the President to continue negotiations with the Cherokee Indians. May 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Letter from the Attorney-General, requesting that provision by made for the employment of counsel, etc., in the prosecution of a suit in behalf of the United States against the State of Texas. May 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Attorney-General submitting revised estimates for the expenses of the United States courts for the fiscal year 1891. May 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Attorney General in reference to the expenses of G.T. Larkin, late deputy marshal, Eastern District of Tennessee. May 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting an appropriation of three thousand dollars for the improvement of the grounds around the customhouse at Rockland, Me. May 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Indian appropriation bill. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, inviting attention to the necessity for the early passage of the Indian Appropriation Bill. June 3, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. United States court-house, post-office, etc., at Keokuk, Iowa. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting an appropriation of $7,500, for additions to the United States court-house, post-office, etc., building at Keokuk, Iowa. June 3, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Estimate of appropriations to complete work of the International American Congress. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, submitting estimates of appropriations to complete the work of the International American Conference. June 4, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and also a copy of a report by United States Indian Agent William McKusick, Sisseton Agency, S. Dak., relative to the destitute condition of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians. July 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Report upon the sewerage of the District of Columbia. Rudolph Hering, Samuel M. Gray, Frederic P. Stearns, Board of Sanitary Engineers. June, 1890. Claim of the State of Missouri under Public Act No. 72. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of the report of the Third Auditor, of the amount found due the State of Missouri, (namely, $996.37), in pursuance of an act of Congress, Public No. 72, approved April 17, 1890. July 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Claim of George C. Foulk. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, submitting for an appropriation the claim of George C. Foulk, late a lieutenant in the United States Navy and naval attache to the legation of the United States at Seoul, Corea. July 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Seal fisheries of Behring Sea. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, touching the subjects in dispute between the government of the United States and the government of Great Britain in the Behring Sea, including all communications since March 4, 1889. July 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Trade-dollar bullion. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting a report of the Director of the Mint in reply to the House resolution of the 23d instant, inquiring why the "trade-dollar bullion" so called has not been recoined into standard silver dollars or subsidiary coin, as required by section 2 of the act of March 3, 1887. July 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. Public building at Dayton, Ohio. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing a letter from the Supervising Architect, requesting that an appropriation of $10,000 on account of the public building at Dayton, Ohio, may be included in the deficiency bill. August 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Public building at Key West, Florida. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing a letter from the Supervising Architect requesting that an appropriation of $10,000 on account of the public building at Key West, Fla., may be included in the deficiency bill. August 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Public building at Winona, Minn. Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing a letter from the Supervising Architect requesting an appropriation of $10,000 on account of a public building at Winona, Minn., may be included in the deficiency bill. August 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Additional clerical force for the Third and Fourth Auditors of the Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting application from the Third and Fourth Auditors for increased clerical force in consequence of the recent pension legislation. July 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Increase of force in Kittery navy-yard. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of August 5, 1890, relative to an increase of force at the Kittery navy-yard. August 27, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules. Compilation of undelivered land patents. Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with certain inclosures, in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th instant, requesting information as to the persons or firms who had compiled a list of the original undelivered land patents... Increased clerical force in War Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of War of the 25th instant, submitting additional estimates of appropriations for increased clerical force, etc., required by the Record and Pension Division, War Department. June 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. June 27, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Additional estimates of deficiencies in appropriation for the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting additional estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for the service of the District of Columbia for 1890 and prior years, as submitted by the Commissioners, amounting to $27,796.31. June 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Communication from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers containing the final report of Capt. W.L. Marshall, Corps of Engineers, upon the location, plans, and estimates of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal in further compliance with certain provisions of the river and harbor acts of August 11, 1888. June 28, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Pay of Army, etc., for 1889. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for "Pay, etc., of the Army, 1889," amounting to $3,513.83. June 30, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Daniel Donovan. Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in relation to an appropriation to pay the balance of a judgment rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of Daniel Donovan... Richard H. Tuthill vs. The United States. Letter from the Attorney-General, in the case of Richard H. Tuthill vs. The United States, which case was not included in his report of April 18, 1890. July 7, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Additional force necessary to meet payments under new pension legislation. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, submitting an estimate of the additional force required to properly transact the increased business under the new pension legislation. July 7, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Additional judgments against the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia transmitting for appropriation an additional list of judgments rendered against the District of Columbia. July 10, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Claim of Isaac S. Lyon. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney-General, submitting for an appropriation the claim of Isaac S. Lyon for $1563.05. July 10, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Estimates for the United States courts. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication of the Attorney General, submitting estimates of appropriations to defray expenses of the United States courts for the fiscal year 1890 and for prior years. July 31, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Land patents to the Union Pacific Railway Company. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting in response to a resolution of July 21, 1890, information relative to the issuing of patents for land within the limits of the grant to the Union Pacific Railway Company, etc. July 31, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Bills for the specific action of Congress. Letter from Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Attorney-General recommending the payment of certain bills amounting to $8,965.15 on file in the Department of Justice, which do not fall within any appropriation under its control. August 6, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Enrollment of Cherokee freedmen, Delawares, and Shawnees. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the estimates of the Secretary of the Interior for an additional sum of $10,000, to carry into effect the provisions of the act of March 2, 1889, for the "Enrollment of the Cherokee Freedmen, Delawares, and Shawnees." August 9, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Pension to Nancy Smith. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Pensions recommending that a special act of Congress be passed authorizing the War Department to change its records so as to give a discharge pro forma to George W. Smith... Contracts for foreign mails. Communication from the Postmaster-General, transmitting information in response to a House resolution passed August 7, 1890, asking for contracts, conditions, and rate of payments for carrying the mails of the United States to foreign countries. August 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. E.E. Chapin. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney-General submitting for an appropriation the claim of E.E. Chapin, assistant attorney for the eastern and western districts of Wisconsin, amounting to $787.50. July 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Maps of Chickamauga battle-field. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate submitted by the Secretary of War for an appropriation of $3,000 for maps of Chickamauga battle-field. July 15, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Appointments at large to United States Military Academy. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petitions from officers of the U.S. Army praying that the number of appointments at large to the United States Military Academy be increased to twenty, and that such appointments be restricted to the sons of officers and soldiers and the lineal descendants of officers of the volunteer forces of the late war. July 18, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Public building at Baltimore. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting an appropriation of $20,000 for United States post-office, court-house, etc., building at Baltimore to complete building and approaches. May 24, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Messenger in First Comptroller's office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy, with inclosure, of letter of First Comptroller asking for appropriation to pay messenger in his office for extra services. May 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Lighthouse at Lubec Narrows, Maine. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, calling attention to the necessity for an appropriation of fifteen-thousand five-hundred dollars, for the completion of the Lubec Narrows, Maine, lighthouse. June 6, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Survey of public lands in Montana. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 7th instant, submitting an increase in the estimate of appropriation for surveying the public lands for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, in the sum of $60,000, to be applied to expenses of surveys of public lands in Montana. June 10, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. United States district clerk's office at Sioux City, Iowa. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a copy of a letter from the marshal of the northern District of Iowa respecting the renting of an office at Sioux City, Iowa, for the United States district clerk at that place. June 11, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting an appropriation of $8,000 for the United States post-office, court-house, etc., building at Wichita, Kans., for heating apparatus, elevator, and the completion of the building. June 11, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. State claims. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury transmitting the report of the Third Auditor and Second Comptroller, making allowances to the State of Massachusetts of $26,228.44, and the State of Pennsylvania of $7,546.83... and to the State of Texas $148,615.97... June 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Expenses of United States courts. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney-General, submitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations on account of expenses of United States courts. June 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Transcripts of records and files of private land claims. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 10th instant, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, for transcripts of records and files of private land claims in New Mexico, $2,000. June 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Undelivered patents in Arkansas and Mississippi. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a copy of the report of the Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office giving an approximate estimate of the number of undelivered patents for lands in the States of Arkansas and Mississippi, in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives dated April 29, 1890. June 14, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Claim for ante bellum mail service and claims of Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad and Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury... a list of claims for ante bellum mail service, together with a report thereon by the Auditor for the Treasury for the Post Office Department. June 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. Deficiency appropriation for Army and Navy pensions. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriations for Army and Navy pensions for the current fiscal year, and urging immediate action thereon. June 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Landing emigrants in violation of contract-labor laws. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing a letter from the collector of the port of New York, and certain other papers, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives inquiring into the action of the Cunard Steamship Company refusing to obey the order of the officers of the United States to give return-passage to certain emigrants landed at New York by said company in violation of the contract labor laws; and also looking to a thorough enforcement by the Department of the laws prohibiting the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States. June 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Compensation of United States marshals for services in Oklahoma Territory. Letter from the Attorney-General, inclosing copy of a letter from W.P. Hackney, of Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, and copies of various other letters and petitions, also certificates of United States Marshals Jones and Walker, of Kansas, to the services performed by their deputies as police officers for the people of the Territory; and asking that suitable remuneration by made them by Congress. June 20, 1890. -- referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Message from the President of the United States, relating to House Bill (H.R. 3934) to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County, Ariz., to issue certain bonds in aid of the construction of a certain railroad. June 20, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories. Appropriation for North Dakota agricultural experiment station. Communication from the acting Secretary of Agriculture, in reference to a deficiency in the appropriation for the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and stating that said appropriation should be made. June 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Lineal promotion in the line of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from Second Lieut. Edwin A. Root on the subject of lineal promotion in the line of the Army, as proposed by H.R. 8202 and Senate Bill 3716, of the present Congress, with indorsement of the Major General Commanding and also of the Secretary of War. June 25, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. William Slusher. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and also affidavits relation to the depredation claim of William Slusher. September 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Thomas E. Owen. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and also affidavits relative to the depredation claim of Thomas E. Owen. September 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting in answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of August 20, 1890, concerning the enforcement of proscriptive edicts against the Jews in Russia, a report from the Secretary of State upon the subject. October 1, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Fees and expenses of examining surgeons. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate submitted by the Secretary of the Interior of the "Fees and Expenses of Examining Surgeons" for the fiscal year 1890, $150,000. September 8, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. La Fayette Monument. A communication from the Secretary of War and Chairman of the commission on the erection of a monument to general La Fayette, requesting that an appropriation be made to enable the commission to carry into effect the provisions of the concurrent resolution of Congress, passed August 28, 1890, changing the site of said monument. September 10, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Repeal of a provision of the sundry civil act. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting recommendations by the Second Comptroller and Second and Third Auditors that the provisions of the sundry civil act which require that all accounts resulting from the disbursements of the appropriations for the Signal Service or Corps shall be audited by the Third Auditor and Second Comptroller of the Treasury be repealed. September 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Additional expenses of the United States Courts. Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of deficiencies for the expenses of the United States Courts. September 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Accounts of disbursing officers of the Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a communication from the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and other inclosures, in reference to the proper construction to be put upon Section 3622, Revised Statutes, in relation to the rendition of accounts by disbursing officers, and recommending a modification of the same. He also strongly recommends that the inclosed draught of an item for the modification of said section be incorporated in the pending Indian appropriation bill. June 14, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Regimental bands for the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, inclosing a letter from Chief Musician Charles Lamar, Twenty-first Infantry, and a petition from the members of the band of that regiment, asking that the provisions of House Bill No. 5944, "To Reorganize the Band of the United States Military Academy," may be extended so as to apply to the regimental bands of the Army. July 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Frauds upon the Post Office department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting facts and papers in answer to House resolution of August 16, 1890, reciting that frauds were charged to have been practiced upon the Post Office Department by one Alexander J. Wedderburn. August 29, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Additional estimate for printing and binding for Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from Secretary of State submitting an estimate of deficiency for printing and binding for Department of State of $5,000, requesting immediate action. May 26, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Claim of James H. Saville. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in relation to a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of James H. Saville for $1,260. July 19, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Additional estimate for pensions. Communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting additional estimates, transmitted by the Commissioner of Pensions, for the prompt execution of the act, entitled "An Act Granting Pensions to Soldiers and Sailors Who are Incapacitated for the Performance of Manual Labor, and Providing for Pensions to Widows... |
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Serial set 2753 | Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Universal Exposition of 1889 at Paris. Published under direction of the Secretary of State by authority of Congress. Volume I. Report of the Commissioner-General with accompanying documents including reports of officers of the commission, official regulations, classification, lists of exhibitors, awards, etc. | 1 |
Serial set 2754 | Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Universal Exposition of 1889 at Paris. Published under direction of the Secretary of State by authority of Congress. Volume II. Fine arts; education and liberal arts; furniture; textile fabrics and wearing apparel; extractive arts, raw and manufactured products; hygiene. | 1 |
Serial set 2755 | Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Universal Exposition of 1889 at Paris. Published under direction of the Secretary of State by authority of Congress. Volume III. Apparatus and processes of mechanical industries, civil engineering, etc. Sixth group. Edited by Charles B. Richards, M.A., United States Expert Commission for Sixth Group. | 1 |
Serial set 2756 | Report of the United States Commissioners to the Universal Exposition of 1889 at Paris. Published under direction of the Secretary of State by authority of Congress. Volume IV. Electricity, military and life-saving material, alimentary products, horticulture. | 1 |
Serial set 2757 | Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Universal Exposition of 1889 at Paris. Published under direction of the Secretary of State by authority of Congress. Volume V. Agriculture. Edited by C.V. Riley, Ph. D., United States Expert Commissioner for the Eighth Group and Representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. | 1 |
Serial set 2758 | Treasurer's accounts, 1889. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copies of accounts settled with the First Comptroller for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. | 1 |
Serial set 2759 | Commercial relations of the United States with foreign countries during the years 1887 and 1888. (Annual reports from the consuls of the United States on the commerce, manufactures, industries, etc., of their several districts for the above years.) | 1 |
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Sloops Union and Packet. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting conclusions of fact and of law by the Court of Claims in spoliation claims, in the matter of the sloop Union and in the matter of the sloop Packet. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. J.L. Johnston, guardian. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of fact by the Court of Claims in the case of J.L. Johnston, guardian of Elizabeth M. Johnston vs. The United States. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. The Brig Polly and the Brig Little Sam. Letter transmitting conclusions of fact and of law by the Court of Claims in the respective matters of the Brig Polly and of the Brig Little Sam. January 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Expenditures of clerk's office, House of Representatives. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, showing expenditures from July 1, 1889, to December 2, 1889. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Thomas M. Barksdale. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact by the court in the case of Thomas M. Barksdale V. The United States. December 18, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles H. Wording. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of that court in the case of Charles H. Wooding [i.e., Wording] ngainst [i.e., against] the United States. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Public documents in folding room. Letter from the Doorkeeper, transmitting a list of public documents in the folding room of the House of Representatives. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by Court of Claims. Report from the Clerk of the Court of Claims of the judgments rendered by that court for the year ended November 30, 1889. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Inventory of property belonging to the United States in the possession of the clerk of the House of Representatives. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Sales of waste paper. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Report from the doorkeeper of the House of Representatives of sales of waste paper from the commencement of the second session of the Fiftieth Congress to the commencement of the first session of the Fifty-first Congress. Property in possession of the doorkeeper. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Expenditures of clerk's office, House of Representatives. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, submitting a report of expenditures by him for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Testimony in relation to investigation of office of Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives. December 9, 1889. -- Ordered to be printed. John W. Hopkins. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of loyalty and of fact in the case of John W. Hopkins against the United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Alfred Poffinberger. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Alfred Poffinberger vs. the United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. James S. Coleman, executor. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the case of James S. Coleman, executor, etc., vs. The United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. Elias Eakle. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings by the Court of Claims in the case of Elias Eakle vs. The United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Thomas Stewart. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings by the Court of Claims in the case of Thomas Stewart vs. the United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Question of privilege. December 12, 1889. -- Referred to the special committee appointed to investigate the Ohio ballot-box contract and ordered to be printed. Craven E. Silcott. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Special Committee on Investigation of the Sergeant-at-Arms' Office and ordered to be printed. Resolution of inquiry relating to the census. January 6, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Eleventh Census and ordered to be printed. Disabled volunteer soldiers. Letter from the President, Board of Managers National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, submitting a deficiency estimate of $44,272.39 in the appropriation for the fiscal year 1889 for expenses of disabled soldiers and sailors in state homes. January 6, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Duty on wool manufacturing industry. January 6, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Removal of the duty on raw wool. January 6, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Damage claims of S.F. Tolsma. January 6, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Seal fisheries of Alaska. January 6, 1890. -- Referred to the Committed to Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Smiley N. Chambers and others, Indiana. January 7, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. List of members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and their places of residence, during the Fifty-first Congress. (First session.) Commencing December 2, 1889. Alphabetical list of members and delegates of the House of Representatives, and the Standing and Select Committees of which they are members. Fifty-first Congress, first session. Commencing Monday, December 2, 1889. Annual report of the Commissioner of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company to the first session of the Fifty-first Congress for the year ended December 2, 1889. Victor H. Newcomer. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Victor H. Newcomer, executor of John G. Miller, deceased, vs. the United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William Shifler. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the case of William Shifler v. The United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary Sydenstricker. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Mary Sydenstricker vs. the United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Robert and Dennis M. Kilmer, administrators. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Robert Kilmer and Dennis M. Kilmer, administrators, vs. The United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ann E. Graves, administratrix, etc. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings by the Court of Claims in the case of Ann E. Graves, administratrix, etc., against the United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Tilghman Hilliary, Jr. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Tilghman Hilliary, Jr., vs. The United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Broussais Coman, administrator. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Broussais Coman, administrator, etc., against the United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lewis D. Allen. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, trasmitting [sic] findings by the Court of Claims in the case of Lewis D. Allen vs. the United States. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Samuel S. Gloyd. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of fact by the Court of Claims in the case of Samuel S. Gloyd vs. The United States. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William H. Borders. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact by the Court of Claims in the case of William H. Borders vs. the United States. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. R.W. Montgomery, administrator. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of fact by the Court of Claims in the case of R.W. Montgomery, administrator of Benjamin C. Embry vs. The United States. John W. Kimbrough, administrator. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings and opinion of the Court of Claims in the case of John W. Kimbrough, administrator of Thomas V. Stirman, vs. The United States. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Printing of president's message. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. F.M. Davis and Josiah E. Davis, executors. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of fact by the Court of Claims in the case of F.M. Davis and Josiah E. Davis, as executors of Eliza Davis, and Josiah E. Davis and J.H. Davis, vs. the United States. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Expenditures of the Bureau of Labor. Letter from the Commissioner of Labor, submitting a statement of moneys expended by him during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment to the rules. December 17, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Evidence and report in the Tanner Investigation. December 20, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Duty on lead ores. December 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for international exchanges, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditures of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, under the appropriations by Congress for "International exchanges, National Museum and North American Ethnology." December 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Standing and select committees. House of Representatives, Fifty-first Congress, first session. Third annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission. December 1, 1889. Cases submitted under provisions of the Bowman Act. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a list of cases submitted under the provisions of the Bowman Act which have been dismissed for failure of proof of loyalty. January 16, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John T. Jones and others. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings by the Court of Claims in the case of John T. Jones against the United States. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John B. McGhee. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings by the court in the case of John B. McGhee, administrator of Ann E. McGhee, against the United States. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. A.T. Sneuffer. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings by the Court of Claims in the case of A.T. Sneuffer, administrator of Richard Thomas, vs. The United States. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Brig Juno. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting conclusions of law and fact in the spoliation case in the matter of the brig Juno. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Robert D. Salmon and others. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Robert D. Salmon and others against the United States. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles W. Wood. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings by the Court of Claims in the case of Charles W. Wood vs. The United States. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Thornton O. Wyndham. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings by the Court of Claims in the case of Thornton O. Wyndham vs. The United States. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Betty B. Reilly. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings by the Court of Claims in the case of Betty B. Reilly vs. The United States. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Alfred M. Belt and others. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings by the Court of Claims in the case of Alfred M. Belt and others, administrators of John L. Belt, vs. the United States. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Court of Claims cases. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in the following-named cases. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Court of Claims cases. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of the Court of Claims in case of Edward Tearney, administrator of Samuel Ridenour, vs. The United States; Jacob Friend, executor of Henry Friend, deceased, vs. The United States; William B. Grover, administrator of Emily J. Grover, deceased, vs. The United States. January 18, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Allie V. Askew. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the order of the Court of Claims, setting aside former findings and granting a new trial in the case of Allie V. Askew, administratrix of W.W. Neely, v. The United States. January 18, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. Zoological Park Commission. January 18, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution transmitting a report of the Zoological Park Commission. Preamble and resolution relating to the Silcott matter. January 18, 1890. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Investigation of Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives, and ordered to be printed. Public Printer's response relative to annual report of the Chief of Engineers. Letter from the Public Printer, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information respecting the delay in printing the annual report of the Chief of Engineers, relating to the improvement of rivers and harbors, and the reports of the Mississippi and Missouri River Commissions. January 21, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Short method of spelling. January 13, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. April 2, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Schooner Commerce. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting conclusions of fact and of law by the court in the spoliation claim in the matter of the schooner Commerce. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Spoliation claims. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting conclusions of fact and law in certain spoliation cases. January 17, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. |
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Serial set 2761 | The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Western Theater: Vicksburg Campaign and Siege; January-August 1863; Series 1, Vol. 24, Chapter 36, Part 1] | 1 |
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Serial set 2763 | The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Western Theater: Vicksburg Campaign and Siege; January-August 1863; Series 1, Vol. 24, Chapter 36, Part 3] | 1 |
Serial set 2764 | Official Register of the United States, containing a list of the officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1889; together with a list of vessels belonging to the United States. Volume I. Legislative, executive, judicial. | 1 |
Serial set 2765 | Official Register of the United States, containing a list of the officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1889; together with a list of vessels belonging to the United States. Volume II. The Post Office Department and the postal service. | 1 |
Serial set 2766 | The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Eastern Theater: Chancellorsville Campaign/Cavalry Operations along the Rappahannock; January-June 1863; Series 1, Vol. 25, Chapter 37, Part 1] | 1 |
Serial set 2767 | The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Eastern Theater: Chancellorsville Campaign/Cavalry Operations along the Rappahannock; January-June 1863; Series 1, Vol. 25, Chapter 37, Part 2] | 1 |