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Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress

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Amendment Proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, to the amendment of Mr. Edmunds, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Amendment Proposed by Mr. Randall, viz: Add to Mr. Hale's amendment the following: Amendment Proposed by Mr. Banks, viz: Amendment Proposed by Mr. James A. Garfield, viz: Strike out all after "decide" in line 6, and insert the following: (H.R. 3010)

Amendments of the Senate to the bill (H R. 1192) making appropriations far the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and far fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1873, and for other purposes.-Ordered to be printed. The Committee on Appropriations, to whom the bill (H.R. 1192) ... (H.R. 1192)

Committed to a Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of the Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike Company. (H.R. 1939)

Considered as in Committee of the Whole, amended, and ordered to be printed as amended. Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Relating to proposals and contracts for transportation of the mails, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1930)

The House non-concur in the amendments of the Senate, and ask for a committee of conference thereon. Ordered, That the bill be printed with Senate amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in ... (H.R. 2116)

Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Marshall, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners of the steamer Clara Dolson. (H.R. 4067)

Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1535) to abolish the tribal relations of the Miami Indians, and for other purposes, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 1535)

Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was recommitted the bill (H.R. 2247) giving the approval and sanction of Congress to the termini and route of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad, and to regulate its construction and operation, reported it with the following amendments. Amendments. Strike out all after the ... (H.R. 2247)

Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 555) for the relief of sufferers by fire at Chicago, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 555)

Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was recommitted the bill (H.R. 555) for the relief of sufferers by fire at Chicago, reported it with an amendment. Amendment Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 555)

Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 555) for the relief of sufferers by fire at Chicago, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 555)

On the second reading, morning hour expired. Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the internal-revenue laws. (H.R. 2368)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Mr. Samuel Hooper, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported the following bill: A Bill To prohibit the issue of unauthorized circulation. (H.R. 3713)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department. Mr. Lynch, from the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, reported the following bill: A Bill To relieve Francis E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United States. (H.R. 3250)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Packard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To enforce the stipulations of the convention with Venezuela, of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the payment of adjudicated claims. (H.R. 3252)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Wood, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Attorney-General to examine into the claims of certain insurance companies for losses, and so forth. (H.R. 3132)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Coburn, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to ascertain the amount of expense incurred by the territorial authorities of Dakota for arms, equipments, military stores, supplies, and all other ... (H.R. 3499)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Mines and Mining. Amendment Reported by Mr. Alcorn to the bill (H.R. 1016) to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 1016)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Territories. Amendment Reported by Mr. Shoemaker, from the Committee on the Territories, in the nature of a substitute, to the bill (H.R. 2473) granting the right of way through the public lands, for the construction of a railroad and telegraph line, to the Utah, Idaho and Montana ... (H.R. 2473)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Amendment In the nature of a substitute, reported by Mr. Shanks, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to the bill (H.R. 183) to authorize the circuit court of the United States for the district of Indiana to make partition of the reservation to Me-shin-go-me-sia, a Miami Indian, viz: Strike out all after the ... (H.R. 183)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Concerning the balance of the Chinese indemnity fund. (H.R. 2849)

Ordered to be printed and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Negley to a bill (H.R. 654) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam," approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 654)

Ordered to be printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. A Bill To establish a consular service for the United States of America, and to amend and consolidate sundry acts of Congress relating to the powers of consular officers. (H.R. 4073)

Ordered to be printed with Senate amendments. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act To authorize the construction of [six] ten steam vessels of war, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3010)

Ordered to be printed with Senate amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1191)

Ordered to be printed with Senate amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of additional clerks and messengers in the Pension Office, and for other purposes. (H.R. 19)

Ordered to be printed with Senate amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act To authorize the appointment of shipping-commissioners by the several circuit courts of the United States to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen engaged in merchant ships belonging to the United States, and for ... (H.R. 2044)

Ordered to be printed with Senate amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Relating to proposals and contracts for transportation of the mails, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1930)

Ordered to be printed with Senate amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To revise, consolidate, and amend the laws relating to pensions. (H.R. 2312)

Ordered to be printed with the amendments of the House of Representatives, viz: Strike out the parts underscored, and insert the parts printed in small capitals. Note.--Bill as passed the House of Representatives printed in roman type. Amended by the Senate as follows, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in ... (H.R. 2989)

Ordered to be printed with the Senate amendments: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act To revise, consolidate, and amend the laws relating to pensions. (H.R. 2312)

Ordered to be printed. A Bill For the further reduction of taxes and the encouragement of commerce. (H.R. 2322)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment In the nature of a substitute intended to be proposed by Mr. Shoemaker to the bill (H.R. 2117) to secure the public lands to actual settlers. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 2117)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment In the nature of a substitute to be proposed by Mr. Willard to the bill (H.R. 320) to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 320)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. B. F. Butler to the bill (H.R. 243,) for the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth census. (H.R. 243)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Holman to the bill (H.R. 2117) to secure the public lands to actual settlers, viz: (H.R. 2117)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. James A. Garfield to the bill (H.R. 1070) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, when next in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union: (H.R. 1070)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Kerr to the bill (H.R. 2116) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 2116)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2705)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morton, to the amendment reported by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H.R. 173) to repeal the duties upon salt, viz: Insert as an additional section the following: (H.R. 173)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sawyer to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending "June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert after line 1434, on page 59, the following: (H.R. 2705)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sawyer to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: On page 6, after line 132, insert as follows: (H.R. 2705)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sawyer, to the amendment reported by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H.R. 173) to repeal the duties upon salt, viz: (H.R. 173)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sherman to the bill (H.R. 3010) to authorize the construction of six steam vessels of war, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as additional sections the following: (H.R. 3010)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sprague, to the bill (H.R. 174) repealing the duty on tea and coffee, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 174)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Wilson to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2705)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Mr. Shellabarger made the following amendment to the bill (H.R. 320) to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Strike out the second, third, and fourth sections of the bill, and insert in lieu thereof the following sections: (H.R. 320)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Carpenter to the amendment proposed by Mr. Sumner to the bill (H.R 380) for the removal of legal and political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States, viz: Strike out after the word "that" in the first line of Mr. ... (H.R. 380)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Carpenter to the amendment proposed by Mr. Sumner to the bill (H.R. 380) for the removal of legal and political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States, viz: Strike out after the word "that" in the first line of Mr. ... (H.R. 380)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Clagett to the bill (H.R. 3108) to promote education in the several Territories of the Union, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 3108)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Edmunds to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Holman as a substitute to the bill (H.R. 1665) to enable honorably-discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the United States. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 1665)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Lowe to the bill (H.R. 1043) to establish an educational fund, and to apply the proceeds of the public lands to the education of the people. (H.R. 1043)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Morril, of Vermont, to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as an ... (H.R. 1654)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, to the amendment reported by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H.R. 555) for the relief of sufferers by fire at Chicago, viz: (H.R. 555)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as an ... (H.R. 1654)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: On page 62, at the end of line 1524, insert: (H.R. 2991)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Randall as a substitute to the bill (H.R. 3010) to authorize the construction of ten steam vessels of war, and for other purposes. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 3010)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Shanks to the bill (H.R. 148) to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government for the admission of said State into the Union on an equal footing with original States, viz: Add the following: (H.R. 148)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Stewart to the bill (H.R. 2989) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as an ... (H.R. 2989)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Sumner to the bill (H.R. 380) for the removal of legal and political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States, viz: Add the following as additional sections: (H.R. 380)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Wells to the bill (H.R. 2635) for the better protection of the Indian tribes, and their consolidation under a civil government, to be called the Territory of Oklahoma, viz: Add the following as additional sections: (H.R. 2635)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. William, H. Hooper, to the bill (H.R. 148) to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government for the admission of said State into the Union on an equal footing with original States. (H.R. 148)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Windom, from the Committee on Appropriations, to the amendment heretofore reported by that committee to the bill (H.R. 1070) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, viz: (H.R. 1070)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed to be offered by Mr. Holman, by authority of the Committee on Commerce, to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3922)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed to be submitted by Mr. Cook to the bill of the House H.R. 320. (H.R. 320)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed by Mr. Negley to the bill (H.R. 3852) to adjust the salaries of the executive, judicial, and legislative departments of the Government, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3852)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Wilson to the bill (H.R. 374) to provide for the appointment of a commission on the subject of the wages and hoars of labor and the division of profits between labor and capital in the United States, as reported to the Senate, January seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, by ... (H.R. 374)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Hill to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, to the amendment reported from the Committee on Finance to the bill (H.R. 555) for the relief of sufferers by fire at Chicago, viz: (H.R. 555)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Robertson to the bill (H.R. 2991)making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments To be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1043) to establish an educational fund, and to apply the proceeds of the public lands to the education of the people. Amendment To be proposed by Mr. Goodrich: Amend section 4 by adding thereto the following: (H.R. 1043)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments To be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1043) to establish an educational fund, and to apply the proceeds of the public lands to the education of the people. Amendment To be proposed by Mr. R. R. Butler: (H.R. 1043)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments To the bill (H.R. 809) to provide for the retirement of worn and mutilated national bank notes. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Lynch. (H.R. 809)

Ordered to be printed. Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stewart to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Amend by adding the following proviso to the end of line 1245, on page 51: (H.R. 2705)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hooper proposes to introduce the following bill: A Bill To promote the collection of internal revenue. (H.R. 1)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Appropriations, made the following Report: The Committee on Appropriations, to whom the bill (H.R. 2989) "making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June 30, ... (H.R. 2989)

Ordered to be printed. Report. The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2116) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," approved February ... (H.R. 2116)

Ordered to be printed. Report. The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, having met, ... (H.R. 1060)

Ordered to be printed. Report. The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments to the bill (H.R. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen ... (H.R. 1192)

Ordered to be printed. Report. The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments to the bill (H.R. 2989) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1874, and for other ... (H.R. 2989)

Ordered to be printed. Senate amendments in italics; House amendments thereto in Roman. Amendments Of the Senate, with the amendments of the House, to bill (H.R. 2991,) making appropriations for the legislative executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other ... (H.R. 2991)

Ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Amendments To be proposed by Mr. Burchard to the bill of the House (H.R. 320) to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 320)

Ordered to be printed. The Committee on Appropriations, to whom the bill (H.R. 2991) "making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes," together with the amendments of the Senate thereto, was referred, having ... (H.R. 2991)

Ordered, That the amendments of the House of Representatives to the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3274) to establish certain post-roads be referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and be printed. Note.--House bill printed within [brackets,] Senate amendments printed in italics, amendments of the House of Representatives ... (H.R. 3274)

Ordered, That the bill be printed as it passed the Senate. An Act To reduce existing taxes. (H.R. 1537)

Pending the motion to lay the bill upon the table the morning hour expired. Ordered to be printed. A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act to protect all citizens of the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means for their vindication," passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 1647)

Pending the reading, the morning hour expired. Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction and maintenance of a bridge over the Mississippi River, between Carroll or Whitesides County Illinois, and Jackson or Clinton County, ... (H.R. 1388)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to place certain condemned cannon at the disposal of "The Pennsylvania Military Legion of the city of Philadelphia." (H.R. 386)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act Declaring a post route in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 427)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act For convening the next legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, and for other purposes. (H.R. 426)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act Relating to the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Whereas the Central Pacific Railroad, the western link in the chain of railroads connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is now completed to Oakland, opposite San Francisco, and it is important that the western terminus of said railroad should be as ... (H.R. 1553)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act To authorize the issuing of a certificate of registry to the brig "Michael & Anna." (H.R. 213)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the name of the ship "William F. Storer." (H.R. 322)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to give Wisewell Barracks to the Beulah Baptist Church. (H.R. 425)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act To establish certain Post-roads. (H.R. 428)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act To issue an American register to the brig "A. L. Palmer." (H.R. 330)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act To repeal the duties on salt. (H.R. 170)

Read and passed to a second reading. Read the second time. Referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Sherman, with amendments and recommitted to the Committee on Finance. Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To repeal the duties on salt. (H.R. 173)

Read the first and second times. An Act Authorizing the construction of a public building at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the use of the post-office and United States courts in said city. (H.R. 2850)

Read the first and second times. An Act For the construction of a public building at Chicago, Illinois. (H.R. 459)

Read the first and second times. An Act For the relief of Benjamin W. Reynolds. (H.R. 1634)

Read the first and second times. An Act For the relief of sufferers by fire at Chicago. (H.R. 555)

Read the first and second times. An Act For the removal of legal and political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 1050)

Read the first and second times. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near St. Joseph, Missouri. (H.R. 383)

Read the first and second times. An Act To incorporate the Great Salt Lake and Colorado River Railway Company, and to grant to said Company a right of way through the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 2199)

Read the first and second times. An Act To prescribe the time for holding the election for choosing electors for President and Vice-President in the State of Louisiana for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 351)

Read the first and second times. An Act To remove political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of the amendments of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2761)

Read the first and second times. Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Reported by Mr. Kelly with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near St. Joseph, Missouri. (H.R. 383)

read the first and second times. Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To confirm the action of the board of aldermen and common council of the city of Washington, designating a depot site for the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2187)

Read the first time. An Act For the better security of bank reserves, and to facilitate bank clearing-house exchanges. (H.R. 1869)

Read the first time. An Act For the relief of A. G. Booth, late assistant assessor in the twenty-first revenue-district of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 1241)

Read the first time. An Act For the relief of Lucy A. Baker and Mary A. Baker, children of John M. Baker, deceased. (H.R. 2948)

Read the first time. An Act For the relief of Martin P. Hardin, of Pontotoc County, Mississippi. (H.R. 1457)

Read the first time. An Act To extend the time for two years to all pre-emptors on the public lands in the State of Minnesota and the Territory of Dakota to make final payment of same. (H.R. 3975)

Read the first time. An Act To restore a part of the Round Valley Indian reservation, in California, to the public lands, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4058)

Read three times, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce internal taxes and to abolish the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. (H.R. 634)

Read three times, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the name of the schooner Lois to that of Sea Witch. (H.R. 635)

Read twice and ordered to be on the table. An Act To authorize the construction of bridges across the Ohio River, and to prescribe the dimensions of the same. (H.R. 827)

Read twice and ordered to be printed with pending amendments. Mr. Scofield, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of ten steam vessels of war, and for other purposes. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Hale, viz: Add the following: (H.R. 3010)

Read twice and ordered to lie on the table. An Act For the relief of settlers on the Osage lands in the State of Kansas. (H.R. 873)

Read twice and ordered to lie on the table. An Act To perfect navigation on the Mississippi River. (H.R. 1027)

Read twice and ordered to lie on the table. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Chandler with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To authorize the construction of bridges across the Ohio River, and to prescribe the dimensions of the same. (H.R. 827)

Read twice and referred to the Committee of Claims. Reported back by Mr. Frye without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James A. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Norman Wiard. (H.R. 334)

Read twice and referred to the Committee of Claims. Reported back by Mr. H. Boardman Smith with an amendment, ordered to be printed, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and made the order of the day for to-morrow on private calendar. Strike out the part in [brackets.] Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill ... (H.R. 309)

Read twice and referred to the Committee of Claims. Reported back by Mr. H. Boardman Smith without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jane Allen Birckhead and Virginia Campbell, sole heirs at law of Alexander Watson, deceased. (H.R. 400)

Read twice and referred to the Committee of Claims. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Strong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the State of Connecticut and other States. Whereas the Treasury Department has decided that vouchers presented by the State of Connecticut for ... (H.R. 2709)

Read twice and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the repeal of the tax on illuminating gas: (H.R. 234)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. An Act Amendatory of an act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agricultural and mechanic arts," passed July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and acts amendatory thereto. (H.R. 1297)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. An Act To prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transportation within the United States. (H.R. 694)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Chandler to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: On page 16, after line 360, insert the ... (H.R. 2705)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act For the relief of the late firm of Dempsey and O'Toole. (H.R. 2945)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act In relation to the embassy from Japan. (H.R. 1186)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making a transfer of a person appropriation from one fund to another. (H.R. 2937)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making an appropriation to defray the expenses of the American and British claims commission. (H.R. 3617)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of the Joint Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States. (H.R. 484)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3921)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2705)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the construction, preservation, and repairs of certain fortifications, and other works of defense. (H.R. 1671)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the construction, preservation, and repairs of certain fortifications, and other works of defense. (H.R. 3352)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3258)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1323)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2989)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1192)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2991)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1060)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3351)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1191)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. (H.R. 2990)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. (H.R. 1071)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1873. (H.R. 1070)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. (H.R. 3850)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1541)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. (H.R. 3737)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. (H.R. 1661)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriations for salaries and contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department for the current fiscal year. (H.R. 625)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3131)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4051)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1654)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Relative to the purchase of articles for the Government. (H.R. 2855)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act To provide for a deficiency in the appropriations for the expenses of taking the ninth census of the United States. (H.R. 612)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act To provide for the expenses of the commission to enquire into depredations on the frontiers of the State of Texas. (H.R. 3257)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Passed the Senate with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Resolved, That the House concur in the amendments numbered 2, 3, and 5, and non-concur in the remainder. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the ... (H.R. 3921)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in (brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1191)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other ... (H.R. 2705)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for ... (H.R. 1323)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1654)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other ... (H.R. 3921)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3351)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of additional clerks and messengers in the Pension Office, and for other purposes. (H.R. 19)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 4051)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the ... (H.R. 1192)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Cole, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1060)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Edmunds with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act In relation to estimates of appropriations and appropriation accounts. (H.R. 178)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Edmunds with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Sawyer, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in ... (H.R. 178)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Edmunds with amendments. Recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Sawyer with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes in relation to estimates ... (H.R. 178)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, ... (H.R. 3258)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 2991)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Sprague with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the construction, preservation, and repairs of certain fortifications, and other works of defense, for the year ending June thirtieth, ... (H.R. 3352)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Sprague with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. (H.R. 1661)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. West with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. (H.R. 3850)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. West with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1541)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. West with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. (H.R. 3737)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Windom with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1873. (H.R. 1070)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Windom, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for ... (H.R. 2989)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund certain moneys to James O. P. Burnside. (H.R. 309)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For payment for services performed by William J. McIntyre. (H.R. 1655)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the benefit of the Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike Company. (H.R. 1939)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relied of Charles A. Weidner. (H.R. 1094)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Abraham Palmer. (H.R. 3879)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Alexander McArthur, of the city of Corunna, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1382)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Alonzo Snyder, of Livingston County, New York. (H.R. 2212)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Alpheus Fobes, late pension-agent in the city of New York. (H.R. 2037)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Amherst H. Wilder. (H.R. 2659)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Anna E. Peale. (H.R. 3877)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Asa M. Trimble. (H.R. 535)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Augustine Bacon. (H.R. 528)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of B. C. Bailey. (H.R. 2033)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of B. F. Speedy, late first lieutenant Second Battalion Six Months' Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 1963)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Battelle and Evans. (H.R. 1700)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Benjamin Crawford. (H.R. 3874)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Benjamin Gratz. (H.R. 3854)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Benjamin Vanniman. (H.R. 73)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Burke and Kunkel. (H.R. 2952)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of C. C. Spaids. (H.R. 2897)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of certain loyal creditors whose moneys were confiscated by the confederate congress, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 2985)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Charles F. Carr, of Boston. (H.R. 2899)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Charles H. Mallory and Company, of New York. (H.R. 1418)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Charles H. Thompson, of New Orleans, Lousiana. (H.R. 2029)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Charles Hipp, of St. Mary's, Auglaize County, Ohio. (H.R. 1262)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Charles Richards. (H.R. 2802)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Charles W. Denton, of Oregon. (H.R. 2901)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Christopher Green and Hugh C. Trainor. (H.R. 2794)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Christopher Weidner, Henry Hegwer, Moise Bellmard, Louis Pashall, Aaron Grigsby, Harvey L. Bickford and Thomas Stanley, composing the firm of Bickford and Stanley. (H.R. 3875)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of College of William and Mary, in Virginia. (H.R. 3973)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of D. G. Farrell, of Peoria, Illinois. Whereas it is alleged that the distillery, together with distillery bonded warehouse number six, of D. C. Farrell, in the fifth collection district of Illinois, were destroyed by fire on the twenty-seventh day of July, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 1942)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Daniel M. Page, late first lieutenant of the Thirty-eighth United States Infantry. (H.R. 692)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Doctor John H. McQuown, of Illinois. (H.R. 2032)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Dr. W. J. C. Duhamel. (H.R. 3513)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Dwight J. McCann. (H.R. 2890)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of E.W. Whitaker, of Hartford, Connecticut. (H.R. 1945)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Edmund Jussen. (H.R. 2291)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Edward C. Garlick. (H.R. 2373)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Edward T. Gates, postmaster at Thomaston, Connecticut. (H.R. 1944)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Ethan A. Sawyer. (H.R. 2732)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of F. and E. Reed, of Bath, Maine. (H.R. 1420)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of F. B. Brayton. (H.R. 101)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Fannie M. Jackson, of Tennessee. (H.R. 2042)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Frances A. Robinson, administratrix of the estate of John M. Robinson, deceased. (H.R. 2896)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Frederick Pech. Whereas Professor Pech presented to the United States a large botanical collection of rare and valuable specimens of plants collected in the Western States and Territories, which was accepted by joint resolution of Congress approved May twenty-sixth, ... (H.R. 2941)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of G. S. Baker, of Maryville, Missouri, for the re-issue of a certain bond. (H.R. 112)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Galen E. Green. (H.R. 2792)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George D. Blakey, late collector of the second district of Kentucky. (H.R. 1707)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George F. Tracy, postmaster at Bridgeport, Connecticut. (H.R. 2795)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George H. Rupp. (H.R. 1546)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George J. Mortimer. (H.R. 3939)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George Reber. (H.R. 2904)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George S. Wright, administrator of John T. Wright, deceased. (H.R. 3515)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George W. Sturtevant. (H.R. 1310)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George Washington, and Sallie Washington, his wife, of Alexandria, Virginia. (H.R. 3945)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Haas and Powell, of Chicago, Illinois. Whereas it is alleged that the distillery and distillery bonded warehouse number one of Haas and Powell, in the first collection district of the State of Illinois, were, on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, ... (H.R. 1941)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Harlow J. Phelps and Company. (H.R. 2787)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Henry A. F. Worth. (H.R. 2781)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Henry A. Messenger. (H.R. 1547)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Henry Goldhammer. (H.R. 3315)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Henry H. Stafford, late receiver of public moneys at Marquette, Michigan. (H.R. 2824)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Henry N. Galpin, postmaster at Berlin, Connecticut. (H.R. 1786)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Horace B. Shepard, of Indiana. (H.R. 357)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of J. George Harris. (H.R. 3857)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of J. T. Newcomer. (H.R. 2805)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Jacob H. Ela. (H.R. 1549)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Jacob R. Davis, of Richmond County, Georgia. (H.R. 1187)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of James A. Bell. (H.R. 2036)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of James A. Drew and others. (H.R. 2786)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of James Coats, of Jackson, Mississippi. (H.R. 3511)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of James F. Casey, collector of the port of New Orleans. (H.R. 2903)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of James M. Hagar. (H.R. 2259)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of James McGinnis. (H.R. 1383)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Jane A. Green. (H.R. 639)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Jane Allen Birckhead and Virginia Campbell, sole heirs at law of Alexander Watson, deceased. (H.R. 400)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Jesse E. Peyton. (H.R. 3516)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John Ahern. (H.R. 3863)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John C. Conner. Whereas the Honorable John C. Conner was served with notice of a contest for a seat in the Forty-first Congress after the expiration of the time allowed by law for service of such notice; and Whereas said contest was entertained by the Committee of ... (H.R. 1481)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John Clinton, of Brownsville, Tennessee. (H.R. 2892)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John H. Norman and Samuel Facer, of Sandusky, Ohio. (H.R. 2906)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John J. Smith. (H.R. 2789)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John McMath. (H.R. 2905)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John Miller. (H.R. 3506)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John Milone, postmaster at Uhricksville, Ohio. (H.R. 2885)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John O'Kelley. (H.R. 3509)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John Paine. (H.R. 3512)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John T. Watson, of Cincinnati, Ohio. (H.R. 1548)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John W. Phelps, of Vermont. (H.R. 2898)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Joseph A. Clay, of Philadelphia. Whereas under the treaty of indemnity between the United States and Spain, concluded at Madrid on the seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and under the award of the commissioner appointed to adjudicate upon claims ... (H.R. 40)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Joseph B. Rotchild, of Findlay, Ohio. (H.R. 3941)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Joseph Dawson. (H.R. 2804)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Joseph L. Haywood and others. (H.R. 2909)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Joseph Wescott, of Portland, Maine. (H.R. 2039)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Josiah Morris and J. F. Johnson. (H.R. 3855)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Jehu F. Wotring, a resident of the State of Michigan. (H.R. 4009)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Margaret Fillebrown. (H.R. 2886)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Mark Davis. Whereas it appears that the military authorities of the United States in command of the city of New Orleans, on the twenty-third day of February, 1863, demanded and received at the said city of New Orleans, from the agent of Mark Davis, a loyal citizen of the ... (H.R. 3870)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Martin Watkins, of East Windsor, Connecticut. (H.R. 1544)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Mary Love. (H.R. 2893)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Michael F. Gannett. (H.R. 1419)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Moritz Augenstein. (H.R. 2911)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Ann Marble, (now Strong,) administratrix. (H.R. 3872)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Emma A. Porch. (H.R. 3858)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Louisa Eldis. (H.R. 3878)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Naomi A. Stevens, of Jackson County, Michigan. (H.R. 1545)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Nicholas Jose Merrimet. (H.R. 2894)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Orville J. Jennings. (H.R. 2910)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Peck, Van Horn and Company. (H.R. 2031)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Peter Dunn and others. (H.R. 3846)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Peter J. Burchell. (H.R. 2912)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of R. Nelson Gere. (H.R. 1228)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Rafael Madrazo. (H.R. 2972)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Redick McKee. (H.R. 2040)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Richard R. Bolling. (H.R. 2788)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Richard T. Morsell, of Washington, D. C. (H.R. 2806)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Robert B. Williamson. (H.R. 2807)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Robert Brigham, late postmaster at Franklin, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 2808)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Robert Williams, jr., collector third district, Ohio. (H.R. 1943)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of S. B. Mitchell, George W. Mitchell, John W. Mitchell. (H.R. 1551)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of S. D. Cochran. (H.R. 2900)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Samuel Black and Albert R. Cooper. (H.R. 887)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Samuel S. Potter. (H.R. 2803)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Simeon Stansifer. (H.R. 2888)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Sluman S. Bailey, collector of internal revenue for the fourth district of Michigan. (H.R. 1288)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Spurck and Spier. Whereas it is alleged that the distillery and bonded warehouse, number two, of Spurck and Spier, in the fifth collection-district of the State of Illinois, were, on the twenty-seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy destroyed by fire, without ... (H.R. 2793)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of T. P. Robb, of Savannah, Georgia. (H.R. 2162)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the children of John M. Baker. (H.R. 2041)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the estate of Dr. John F. Hanks. (H.R. 1550)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the estates of Abel Gilbert and William Gerrish, late copartners in business under the style of Gilber and Gerrish. (H.R. 2902)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs and next of kin of Col. William Northedge, deceased. (H.R. 3862)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs at law and next of kin of James B. Armstrong, deceased. (H.R. 3864)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Henry Fulenwider, deceased. (H.R. 3856)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant Colonel Humphrey M. Woodyard, late of the Twenty-first Missouri Infantry. Whereas in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three stoppage was made against the pay of officers of the Twenty-first Regiment Missouri Infantry Volunteers by Major H. V. ... (H.R. 114)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Seth Lamb. (H.R. 3510)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the Omaha National Bank. (H.R. 2907)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the owners of the schooner "Robert Corson." (H.R. 2895)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the State of Connecticut and other States. Whereas the Treasury Department has decided that vouchers presented by the State of Connecticut for reimbursement, under the act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, of amounts paid to second assistant and other ... (H.R. 2709)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Theodore Adams. (H.R. 2046)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Thomas D. West, of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio. (H.R. 1261)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Thomas E. Tutt & Co. (H.R. 3861)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Thomas F. Spencer, of Indiana. (H.R. 1274)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Thomas Foster, a citizen of Louisiana. (H.R. 1751)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of W. T. Bowers. (H.R. 1899)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William Andrews. (H.R. 1940)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William G. Barnard, late a clerk in the customhouse in the city of New York. (H.R. 1559)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William Howard. (H.R. 2027)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William Ivers, of Santa Fe, New Mexico. (H.R. 1242)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William J. Clark, administrator of Gad E. Upson, deceased. (H.R. 2791)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William Johnson, of Ripley County, Indiana. (H.R. 2887)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William M. Stafford, late acting district attorney for Montana Territory. (H.R. 2038)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William Rutherford, of Washington. (H.R. 3860)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William Schilling and Company, of Baltimore, Maryland. (H.R. 3514)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William Selden. (H.R. 3859)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William Stoddard, late A. Q. M. United States Volunteers. (H.R. 2028)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of William Zigler, Norris Harer, William T. Ashbell, and Courtney Holmes. (H.R. 3873)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Wylly Woodbridge. (H.R. 2030)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of claims reported allowed by the commissioners of claims under the act of Congress of March 3,1871. (H.R. 2582)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of claims reported allowed by the commissioners of claims under the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 3583)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act Referring the claim of the heirs and legal representatives of Colonel Francis Vigo, deceased, to the Court of Claims for adjustment. (H.R. 1421)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To appropriate to Henry Clay Williams a sum of money found due him on the adjustment of his accounts. (H.R. 752)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To authorize the commissioners of claims to appoint special commissioners to take testimony, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1149)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To extend for four years the act establishing the board of commissioners of claims, and the acts relating thereto. (H.R. 3088)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To provide for the examination and payment of the claim of Albert Grant. (H.R. 2035)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To re-imburse Robert Clarke, of Petersburgh, Virginia, for rent of stables by the United States Government. (H.R. 798)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To refund to Silas F. Field certain moneys belonging to him. (H.R. 2889)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To refund to Thomas C. Magruder certain moneys stolen from him in eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. (H.R. 2908)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To reimburse the State of Kansas for moneys expended for the United States in enrolling, equipping, and provisioning militia forces to aid in suppressing the rebellion. (H.R. 1063)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To settle for the inventions and patents of William Wheeler Hubbell. (H.R. 3853)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Committee discharged and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Wright with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act For the relief of James A. Bell. (H.R. 2036)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of W. C. Goodwin and Company. Whereas W. C. Goodwin and Company, distillers, in the third collection-district of South Carolina, are charged at the Treasury Department with a deficiency of tax of one ... (H.R. 2931)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Boreman with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Joseph Dawson. (H.R. 2804)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Davis with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the relief of the heirs at law and next of kin of James B. Armstrong, deceased. (H.R. 3864)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Davis with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Thomas E. Tutt & Co. (H.R. 3861)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Howe with amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Peter Dunn and others. (H.R. 3846)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Howe with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets.] No recommendation. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of claims reported allowed by the commissioners of claims under the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 3583)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Howe with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To extend for four years the act establishing the board of commissioners of claims and the acts relating thereto. (H.R. 3088)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Howe, accompanied by report No. 166, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of S. B. Mitchell, George W. Mitchell, John W. Mitchell. (H.R. 1551)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Machen with an amendment, (see Report No. 305,) viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] the and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund certain moneys to James O. P. Burnside. (H.R. 309)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Pratt with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. (H.R. 1419)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Pratt with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Mark Davis. Whereas it appears that the military authorities of the United States in command of the city of New Orleans, on the twenty-third day of ... (H.R. 3870)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Pratt with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Jesse E. Peyton. (H.R. 3516)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Pratt with an amendment, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Joseph L. Haywood and others. (H.R. 2909)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Scott with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act For the benefit of the Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike Company. (H.R. 1939)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Scott with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Charles Hipp, of St. Mary's, Auglaize County, Ohio. (H.R. 1262)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Scott with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of E. Nelson Gere. (H.R. 1228)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Scott with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Theodore Adams. (H.R. 2046)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Wright with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To authorize the commissioners of claims to appoint special commissioners to take testimony, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1149)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Robert Williams, jr., collector third district, Ohio. (H.R. 1943)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Authorizing an American register to the British brig "Isadora," owned by Edwin M. Fowle, of Newton, Massachusetts. (H.R. 1669)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Authorizing an American register to the Dutch bark "Alice Tarlton." (H.R. 2043)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Authorizing the appropriation for the employment of surfmen at alternate life-saving stations on the New Jersey coast, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to be expended in employing crews at such stations, and for such periods, and at such ... (H.R. 501)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 4033)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Defining the rights of part owners of vessels in certain cases. (H.R. 1213)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act For the relief of James De Long, late United States consul at Aux Cayes, Hayti. (H.R. 2622)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act For the relief of John Black, late consul of the United States at the city of Mexico. (H.R. 2568)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act For the relief of T. H. Holderness, owner of the British ship Duke of Edinburgh. (H.R. 2570)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Further regulating the construction of bridges across the Mississippi River. (H.R. 2866)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Granting to the Davenport and St. Paul Railroad Company the right of way. (H.R. 1672)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2208)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3922)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Supplementary to the act entitled "An act to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska." (H.R. 1342)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To abolish the office of surveyor at the port of Chester, in Pennsylvania, and for other purposes. (H.R. 446)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To allow the pleasure yacht "Red Hot" to take the name of "Addie Parker," and be registered under that name. (H.R. 2341)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of shipping-commissioners, &c.," approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3619)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 2116)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. (H.R. 2186)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States," approved August 18, 1856. (H.R. 837)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To amend section second, act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, in relation to the transportation and exportation of imported goods, wares, and merchandise in bond through certain ports in the State of Texas. (H.R. 1657)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To amend the law requiring consular officers to collect three months' extra pay for seamen in certain cases. (H.R. 3735)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To authorize the appointment of shipping-commissioners by the several circuit courts of the United States to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen engaged in merchant ships belonging to the United States, and for the further protection of seamen. (H.R. 2044)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To authorize the city of Buffalo, New York, to construct a tunnel under Niagara River, and to erect and maintain an inlet-pier therefrom, for the purpose of supplying the city of Buffalo with pure water. (H.R. 1958)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To authorize the employment of keepers and crews of surf-men for the life-saving stations on the coasts of Cape Cod and Block Island, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3122)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War to lease certain swamp or low lands belonging to the Government, lying on Niagara River and Lake Erie, in the city of Buffalo, New York. (H.R. 1756)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of the old post-office property in Chicago. (H.R. 4034)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To change the boundaries of the collection district of Brazos de Santiago, in the State of Texas. (H.R. 131)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To change the name of the pleasure yacht "Lois" to that of "Sea-Witch." (H.R. 635)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To change the name of the pleasure-yacht Ellie, of Boston, Massachusetts. (H.R. 2340)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To create a port of delivery at La Crosse, in Wisconsin, and to provide for a surveyor of customs thereat. (H.R. 862)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To establish a port of entry and delivery at the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 1049)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To fix the compensation of gaugers and measurers at the port of Boston. (H.R. 2865)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To grant an American register to the Hawaiian bark "Florence." (H.R. 2093)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To improve the navigation of the Ohio River and its tributaries. (H.R. 2203)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To incorporate the Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company. (H.R. 772)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To prescribe the duties of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. (H.R. 3950)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To provide for the establishment of life-saving stations on the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. (H.R. 3710)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To provide for the sale of a part of the light-house reservation at Fort Gratiot, Port Huron, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 171)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To provide for the survey of the harbor and river at Washington, District of Columbia. (H.R. 1074)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of entry and delivery at the city of Covington, Kentucky, in the sixth congressional district. (H.R. 233)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the office of surveyor at the port of Chester, Pennsylvania, and for other purposes. (H.R. 169)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Buckingham with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To authorize the appointment of shipping-commissioners by the several circuit courts of the United States to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen ... (H.R. 2044)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Chandler with amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the appropriation for the employment of surfmen at alternate life-saving stations on the New Jersey coast, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to be ... (H.R. 501)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Chandler with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2208)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Chandler with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3922)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Corbett with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," ... (H.R. 2116)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Vickers with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Granting to the Davenport and St. Paul Railroad Company the right of way. (H.R. 1672)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. An Act To establish an educational fund, and to apply the proceeds of the public lands to the education of the people. (H.R. 1043)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. An Act To extend the time for providing a college under an act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved July 2, 1862, in the State of Indiana, to March 1, ... (H.R. 1898)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. An Act To provide for the appointment of a commission on the subject of the wages and hours of labor and the division of profits between labor and capital in the United States. (H.R. 374)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. Reported by Mr. Sawyer with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act To provide for the appointment of a commission on the subject of the wages and hoars of labor and the division of profits between labor and capital in the ... (H.R. 374)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. Reported by Mr. Sawyer with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets) and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To establish an educational fund, and to apply the proceeds of the public lands to the education of the people. (H.R. 1043)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Amendatory of an act setting aside certain proceeds of internal revenue for the erection of penitentiaries in the Territories of Nebraska, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and Dakota," approved January 22d, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 2629)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Authorizing the exchange of registered bonds for coupon-bonds. (H.R. 3130)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Authorizing the First National Bank of Newnan to change its location and name. (H.R. 1812)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund duties paid on the chime of bells and clock imported for Saint Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo, New York. (H.R. 1957)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the differential duty on articles actually on shipboard in French vessels destined for the United States on the fifth of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3789)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Authorizing the Warren National Bank of South Danvers, in the State of Massachusetts, to change its name to the Warren National Bank of Peabody, Massachusetts. (H.R. 1663)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Defining and limiting the appropriation of certain moneys for the preparation, issue, and re-issue of the securities of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2690)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Explanatory of the internal revenue act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, amended by the act of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in relation to syrups, jellies, mustards, sauces, and canned and preserved fruits, vegetables, and meats, enumerated and taxed ... (H.R. 1760)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For cancellation of bonds for manufactured tobacco lost on steamer Geo. P. Upton between the cities of Richmond and New York. (H.R. 2719)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the reduction of officers and expenses of the internal revenue. (H.R. 2994)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of Anthony Lawson and Thomas A. Brewis, and their heirs. (H.R. 4003)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of Cathron and Maguire, bankers and brokers, of the city of Rome, Georgia. (H.R. 2253)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of Edmund Jussen. (H.R. 3443)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of H. Clay Elliott, of Henderson, Kentucky. (H.R. 3425)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of Herman Raster, collector of internal revenue for the first district Illinois. Whereas the great conflagration in the city of Chicago, on the eighth and ninth days of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, destroyed the custom-house and post-office building in said ... (H.R. 1936)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of Jacob Weart, collector of internal revenue, fifth district of New Jersey. (H.R. 898)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of James A. McCullah, late collector of the fifth district of Missouri. (H.R. 2852)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of John Colter. (H.R. 2286)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of Scales and Manning, of Nashville, Tennessee. (H.R. 3129)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of the sufferers by fire in Boston. (H.R. 2993)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of the sureties of the late Jesse J. Simpkins, deceased. (H.R. 1390)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of Tinsley, Van Horn and Company, Glenn, Overall, and Clark and J. N. Henderson; and Company, of Louisiana, Missouri. (H.R. 847)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the remission of taxes on certain distilled spirits destroyed by the great fire at Chicago. Whereas certain distilled spirits, while in bonded warehouse in the city of Chicago, were destroyed by the great fire of the eighth and ninth of October last: Therefore, (H.R. 1662)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act In relation to refunding duties paid on tea and coffee in bond. (H.R. 2932)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Revising and amending the laws relative to the mints, assay-offices, and coinage of the United States. (H.R. 2934)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To admit certain machinery imported from foreign countries free of duty (H.R. 1062)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act relative to collection-districts in North Carolina," approved February 25th, 1867. (H.R. 1804)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce duties on imports and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4057)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce duties on imports and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, as to allow producers of tobacco to sell a limited quantity of tobacco produced by them, at retail, directly to ... (H.R. 3825)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July 14th, 1870. (H.R. 2691)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July fourteenth, 1870. (H.R. 3947)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend section thirty-five of an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes." (H.R. 1333)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend the thirty-second section of an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1330)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize the examination of certain banks. (H.R. 3183)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize the National Bank of Springfield, Missouri, to change its name. (H.R. 3310)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize the payment of duplicate checks of disbursing officers. (H.R. 1061)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize the Reverend Jeremiah Moynihan, of New Orleans, to import one set of marble altars free of duty. (H.R. 1854)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to determine the material, devices, and so forth, of stamps required by the laws relating to internal revenue. (H.R. 182)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to allow the printing of impressions of currency-notes and bonds, &c., for the use of Heath & Co.'s Counterfeit Detector. (H.R. 1762)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To change the location of the First National Bank of Seneca, State of Illinois, to the city of Morris, Illinois. (H.R. 1664)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To dispense with informers in the internal-revenue service. (H.R. 2188)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To permit the importation, free of duty, of certain Highland kilts and uniforms for the Seventy-ninth Regiment of Highlanders, of the National Guard, State of New York. (H.R. 1789)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To provide for obtaining information of the condition of banks organized under State laws. (H.R. 3399)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To provide for the admission of photographs for exhibition free of duty. (H.R. 1260)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To provide for the issue of bonds in lieu of destroyed or defaced bonds of the United States. (H.R. 2565)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To reduce duties on imports and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2322)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To regulate the collection of taxes on fermented liquors. (H.R. 2881)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To remit the excise taxes upon alcohol used by universities and colleges for scientific purposes. (H.R. 2620)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To repeal existing duties on tea and coffee. (H.R. 1537)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Committee discharged and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Conkling with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the relief of the sureties of the late Jesse J. Simpkins, deceased. (H.R. 1390)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Tinsley, Van Horn and Company; Glenn, Overall and Clark; and J. N. Henderson and Company, of Louisiana, Missouri. (H.R. 847)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Sherman with amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics, and strike out the words included within [brackets.] An Act For the relief of the sufferers by fire in Boston. (H.R. 2993)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Sherman with amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the exchange of registered bonds for coupon-bonds. (H.R. 3130)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Sherman with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To provide for the issue of bonds in lieu of destroyed or defaced bonds of the United States. (H.R. 2565)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Sherman with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the reduction of officers and expenses of the internal revenue. (H.R. 2994)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Sherman with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To amend the thirty-second section of an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1330)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Wright with an amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Edmund Jussen. (H.R. 3443)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Morgan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas C. Martin, Emilia E. Martin, Jane G. Martin, and Leonor Martin, children of J. E. Martin, deceased. (H.R. 620)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to the acts to prohibit the cooly trade. (H.R. 382)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to settle with F. M. Cordeiro. (H.R. 301)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee, of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. M. S. Morse, administratrix and widow of Isaac E. Morse, ... (H.R. 333)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act Authorizing the survey and marking of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain, from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains. (H.R. 1056)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act Directing the proper officers in the Treasury Department to credit John Seys, of Ohio, with the sum therein mentioned. (H.R. 1194)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act For the relief of Mrs. M. S. Morse, administratrix and widow of Isaac E. Morse, deceased. (H.R. 333)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act For the relief of Thomas C. Martin, Emilia E. Martin, Jane G. Martin, and Leonor Martin, children of J. E. Martin, deceased. (H.R. 620)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act Making appropriations for expenses incurred under articles twelve to seventeen, inclusive, of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concluded at Washington, May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 489)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act Making appropriations for expenses that may be incurred under articles one to nine, inclusive, of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concluded at Washington May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 487)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act Providing for the payment to the government of Japan, from the indemnity fund, the sum due on account of rents for lands and buildings occupied by the diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States to Japan, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2797)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act Relating to telegraphic communication between the United States and foreign countries. (H.R. 2853)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act Relative to the Centennial International exhibition, to be held in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, in the year 1876. Whereas Congress did provide by an act entitled "An act to provide for celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary of American Independence by ... (H.R. 2708)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize protection to be given to citizens of the United States who may discover deposits of guano," approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. (H.R. 166)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to appoint one or more commissioners to represent the Government of the United States at the international exposition of agriculture, industry, and fine arts, to be held at Vienna in 1873. (H.R. 2800)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To authorize the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to settle with F. M. Cordeiro. (H.R. 301)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To encourage and promote telegraphic communication between America and Asia. (H.R. 2388)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To enforce the stipulations of the convention with Venezuela of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the payment of adjudicated claims. (H.R. 3252)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To grant a pecuniary allowance to the families of diplomatic and consular officers who die abroad. (H.R. 1121)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To provide for the appointment of a commission to complete the boundary line between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain not completed under the act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to carry into effect the first article of ... (H.R. 3253)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To provide for the appointment of a secretary of legation at the court of Japan, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2799)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To regulate the salary of the consul at Tien-Tsin, China. (H.R. 1055)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To release the government of Japan from the payment of the balance of the indemnity fund remaining unpaid, amounting to three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, under the convention of October 22, 1864. (H.R. 2798)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Mr. Cameron with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets.] An Act To enforce the stipulations of the convention with Venezuela of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the payment of adjudicated claims. (H.R. 3252)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Mr. Schurz with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Mrs. M. S. Morse, administratrix and widow of Isaac E. Morse, deceased. (H.R. 333)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported, by Mr. Cameron with amendments; viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Providing for the payment to the government of Japan, from the indemnity-fund, the sum due on account of rents for lands and buildings occupied by the ... (H.R. 2797)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act Authorizing the removal of restrictions upon the alienation of certain Miami Indian lands in the State of Kansas. (H.R. 1841)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make certain negotiations with the Ute Indians in Colorado. (H.R. 1862)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act For the relief of Charles F. Tracy. (H.R. 546)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act For the relief of Erastus S. Joslyn, of Washington Territory. (H.R. 1499)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act For the relief of Red Bear, a chief of Pembina band of Chippewa Indians. Whereas provision is made in the ninth article of a treaty with the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Chippewa Indians, concluded October second, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for setting apart, out of the ... (H.R. 2636)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act Regulating the mode of making private contracts with Indians. (H.R. 2290)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act Relative to private contracts or agreements made with Indians. (H.R. 3953)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To abolish the tribal relations of the Miami Indians, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1535)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To authorize the Cattaraugus and Alleghany Indians in New York to lease lands and confirm leases. (H.R. 2264)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to negotiate with the Creek Indians for a cession of a portion of their reservation. Whereas by the third article of the treaty concluded with the Creek Indians, June fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, said Indians ... (H.R. 3923)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make partition of the reservation to Me-shin-go-me-sia, a Miami Indian. (H.R. 183)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the chiefs and head-men of the Shoshone and Bannock tribes of Indians for the relinquishment of a portion of their reservation in Wyoming Territory. (H.R. 1914)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to open negotiations with Indian nations, tribes, or individuals, for the purpose of commuting all annuities now payable in kind, and to report his doings to Congress for its adoption, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1469)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To carry into effect the fourth article of the treaty of February twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, with the Seneca, Shawnee, Quapaw, and other Indians. Whereas, by the fourth article of the treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, with the ... (H.R. 757)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To carry out certain provisions of the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for the relief of settlers on the Cherokee lands in the State of Kansas. Whereas in order that certain provisions of the treaty of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, between ... (H.R. 1496)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To confirm to the Great and Little Osage Indians a reservation in the Indian Territory. Whereas by the treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, said nation ceded to the United States all its lands west of the ninety-sixth ... (H.R. 2334)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To provide for the removal of the Flathead and other Indians from the Bitter Root Valley, in the Territory of Montana. (H.R. 2623)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To provide for the revision of the treaties with the Indian tribes. (H.R. 3793)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To provide for the sale of certain New York Indian lands in Kansas. (H.R. 872)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To secure a more efficient administration of Indian affairs. (H.R. 3734)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported back by Mr. Averill, without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles F. Tracy. (H.R. 546)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Caldwell with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the removal of restrictions upon the alienation of certain Miami Indian lands in the State of Kansas. (H.R. 1841)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Caldwell with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To provide for the sale of certain New York Indian lands in Kansas. (H.R. 872)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Caldwell with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act To confirm to the Great and Little Osage Indians a reservation in the Indian Territory. Whereas by the treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of ... (H.R. 2334)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Harlan with amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act To carry into effect the fourth article of the treaty of February twenty-three eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, with the Seneca, Shawnee, Quapaw, and other Indians. Whereas, by the fourth article of ... (H.R. 757)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Harlan with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act [To authorize the Cattaraugus and Alleghany Indians in New York to lease lands and confirm leases.] To quiet title to lands belonging to the Seneca Indians in the ... (H.R. 2264)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Harlan with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To provide for the revision of the treaties with the Indian tribes. (H.R. 3793)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to give to George A. Armes, late captain Tenth United States Cavalry, and honorable discharge, to date the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 3372)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver condemned ordnance to certain organizations for monumental purposes. (H.R. 4019)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver condemned ordnance to certain soldiers' monumental associations. (H.R. 1781)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to expend certain moneys for the purpose of sinking an artesian well on the Fort D. A. Russell military reservation, in Wyoming Territory. (H.R. 1513)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish a duplicate certificate of discharge where the same has been lost. (H.R. 2703)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to release twenty-five acres of the lands of the United States at Plattsburgh, New York, to the New York and Canada Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2858)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to sell the grounds and tenements in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, now used as a United States quartermaster's depot. (H.R. 3373)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Authorizing the superintendent of the Military Academy to convene general courts-martial. (H.R. 4015)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Declaring the lands constituting the Fort Collins military reservation, in the Territory of Colorado, subject to pre-emption and homestead entry, as provided for in existing laws. (H.R. 1776)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Directing the payment to Robert McKee of pay, allowances, and bounty now withheld from him. (H.R. 861)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Donating condemned cannon and cannon-balls to certain organizations for monumental purposes. (H.R. 2700)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Donating condemned cannon and cannon-balls to the Wyoming County Soldier's Monument Association. (H.R. 3615)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Aaron B. Fryrear. (H.R. 4025)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Andrew J. Jemison. (H.R. 1773)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Black Beaver. (H.R. 3371)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Captain Charles McClure. (H.R. 3783)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Charles E. H. Holmes, late sergeant Company E, Sixth Regiment Maryland Volunteers. (H.R. 4029)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Charles Trichler, of the county of Adams, Ohio. (H.R. 693)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Charles W. Berry, late private of the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. (H.R. 3686)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Doctor Theodore A. Telikampf. (H.R. 2676)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of E. H. Jarrett. (H.R. 3368)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Eliza Webb. (H.R. 1780)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Emma E. Gardner, the widow of Lieutenant W. F. Gardner. (H.R. 3367)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of F. W. Fee, late lieutenant of the First Kentucky Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 2079)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of G. W. Standefer. (H.R. 1777)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of George C. Haynie. (H.R. 206)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of George S. Gustin, late a private of Company D, seventy-four Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 3369)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of H. G. Aukeny, late captain Fourth Iowa Infantry. (H.R. 2861)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Henry B. Mears. (H.R. 3366)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Isaac B. Kinkead. (H.R. 1670)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Jackson Roberts. (H.R. 3375)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of James C. Livingston, late a private in Company E, Third Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 3683)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of John L. Bullard. (H.R. 1428)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of John McLaughlin and William South, late privates in Company H, Twenty-sixth Regiment of Missouri Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 4017)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Jonathan L. Mann. (H.R. 3374)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Joseph B. Eaton. (H.R. 4022)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Julia P. Lynde, minor child of R. D. Lynde, late surgeon of United States volunteers, deceased. (H.R. 3981)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Kitty Ann Smith, widow of Thomas Smith, and James A. Stevens, of the Cromwell Home Guards, of Ohio County, Kentucky. (H.R. 1775)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Kreel and Miller. (H.R. 1526)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of L. S. Campbell. (H.R. 4013)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Lance-Sergeant John R. Williams, United States Army. (H.R. 3376)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Lynch. (H.R. 468)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Major John W. Todd. (H.R. 1709)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Margaret Merklein. (H.R. 4014)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Philip Pendleton. (H.R. 3940)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Reuben H. Bishop. (H.R. 1772)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Robert K. Enbody. (H.R. 2979)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Robert L. D. Burchfield. (H.R. 207)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of S. P. Jocelyn. (H.R. 2704)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Samuel Gruk, father of Caleb H. Gruk, late a private in the First Regiment of Michigan Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 4021)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Samuel Hitchcock. (H.R. 1779)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Selah V. Reeve, late quartermaster-sergeant of the Fourth Michigan Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 475)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Seth M. Whitten, late private of the Fourth Regiment Michigan Infantry. (H.R. 575)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of States and Territories for issues of arms and ordnance stores made them for the maintenance and preservation of the Union. (H.R. 4026)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Susan L. Galloway. (H.R. 4027)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of the widow and heirs of David Shelton, sr., deceased. (H.R. 3370)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of W. A. Howard. (H.R. 2860)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Walter J. Lee. (H.R. 122)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of William H. Carmen, Company E, 32d Illinois Volunteers. (H.R. 4020)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of William Phillips and others, heirs of Stephen Phillips, deceased. (H.R. 3377)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of William Rood, late a private of the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. (H.R. 3685)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of William Vails, late a private in Company A, Third Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Cavalry. (H.R. 1275)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the settlements of the account of Major Abram Beeler, late paymaster of United States volunteers. (H.R. 1829)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act In relation to bounties. (H.R. 1782)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Providing for the completion of the military road from Santa Fe to Taos, in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 2747)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Relating to brevet appointments. (H.R. 4024)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Relative to retired officers of the Army. (H.R. 2697)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Restoring Captain Alonzo J. Marsh to his position in the Army, and that he be honorably mastered out of the service as of the date of the mustering-out of his regiment. (H.R. 882)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To aid in the erection of a monument to the memory of Major-General George H. Thomas. (H.R. 3302)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of War to release twenty-five acres of the lands of the United States at Plattsburgh, New York, to the New York and Canada Railroad Company, and for other purposes," passed June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3970)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act in relation to bounties," approved April 22, A. D. 1872. (H.R. 4011)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act making appropriation for the support of the Army for the year ending June 30, 1870," approved March 3, 1969. (H.R. 3999)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for year ending June 30, 1872," approved March 3, 1871. (H.R. 4062)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the sale of certain public property," approved June 10, 1872. (H.R. 3279)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the sale of certain public property," approved June 10, 1872. (H.R. 3971)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to establish and protect national cemeteries," approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 2699)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to establish and to protect national cemeteries," approved February 22, 1867. (H.R. 1272)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate a national military and naval asylum for the relief of the totally-disabled officers and men of the volunteer forces of the United States," approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1952)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the disposition of useless military reservations," approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 2706)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend section two of an act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes, and the acts amendatory thereof. (H.R. 3938)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend the first section of an act entitled "An act to provide for the disposition of useless military reservations," approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 1303)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend the thirty-first section of an act entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national militia, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1863. (H.R. 1467)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To authorize an appointment in the Inspector General's Department. (H.R. 2136)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To authorize the and direct the Secretary of War to distribute arms and military equipments under the act of April 23, 1808, and the acts amendatory thereof. (H.R. 2969)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To authorize the issue of a supply of arms to the authorities of the Territory of Montana. (H.R. 2567)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to ascertain the amount of expense incurred by the territorial authorities of Dakota for arms, equipments, military stores, supplies, and all other expenses of the volunteer forces of the Indian war of 1862. (H.R. 3499)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish the State of Minnesota with five hundred stand of arms. (H.R. 2702)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to release the right of way to the Bay Ridge and Sea-Shore Railroad Company of Long Island over the military reservation at Fort Hamilton, in the State of New York. (H.R. 3645)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to survey, plat, and sell the present cemetery grounds upon the Fort Gratiot military reservation in Michigan, and for other purposes. (H.R. 119)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To confirm the purchase by the executive department, on the eighth September, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, of a certain tract of land at Omaha, Nebraska. (H.R. 4008)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To correct the muster of H. H. Hinds, late captain 57th Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 4023)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To extend the provisions of the twenty-fifth section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army," and so forth, approved July 15, 1870, to the relatives of deceased officers and soldiers, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2983)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 3687)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty, under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 1180)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To extend the time for the completion of the military road from Fort Wilkins, at Copper Harbor, in the State of Michigan, to Fort Howard, at Green Bay, in the State of Wisconsin. (H.R. 578)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To limit the time for the presentation to, and decision of claims by, the Commissary-General of Subsistence, under the act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and for other purposes, approved July 4, 1864. (H.R. 3432)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To pay Charles Probst, of New Mexico, for supplies furnished the New Mexico militia during the late rebellion. (H.R. 4030)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for headstones in the national military cemeteries. (H.R. 4007)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the better care and protection of subsistence supplies. (H.R. 3452)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the establishment of a large arsenal of construction and repair, a powder-depot, and a proving ground at suitable points east of the Alleghany Mountains, and for the discontinuance and disposal of some of the smaller arsenals. (H.R. 3434)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the establishment of a military prison, and for its government. (H.R. 2692)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the inspection of the disbursements of appropriations made by officers of the Army. (H.R. 4006)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the Military Academy band, and to fix the pay of its members. (H.R. 4010)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the payment for certain property taken by the Government for the extension of the military reservation at Camp Mohave, in the Territory of Arizona. (H.R. 2698)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the printing, at the Government Printing Office, of one thousand copies of the Descriptive Anatomical Catalogue of the Army Medical Museum. (H.R. 3453)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the purchase, by the Secretary of War, of lands for the United States in the State of Texas, for the sites of forts and military posts. (H.R. 1130)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the restoration of the records of the proceedings of the court of inquiry concerning the operation of the army under the command of General Don Carlos Buell, in Kentucky and Tennessee. Whereas it appears in the matter of the investigation made by the court of ... (H.R. 2851)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide that minors shall not be enlisted in the military service of the United States without the consent of parents or guardians. (H.R. 838)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide that no person shall be promoted in the Army who is addicted to the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors or drugs. (H.R. 3609)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To purchase five acres of land for the enlargement of the post cemetery, Key West, Florida. (H.R. 4005)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To reduce the area of the military reservation of Fort Sanders, in the Territory of Wyoming, and providing for the survey of said reservation as reduced. (H.R. 161)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To regulate the employment of engineer soldiers on extra duty. (H.R. 2227)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To remove the charge of desertion against Daniel Orner, late private in Company H, Ninety-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Whereas Daniel Orner, late a private in Company H, Ninety-first Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, stands charged on the records of the Adjutant ... (H.R. 1238)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To remove the charge of desertion in the War Department against Joseph H. Moore, late private Company A, Eightieth Regiment Ohio Volunteers. (H.R. 4018)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To sell a vacated soldiers' burial-ground near Cumberland, Maryland, to the Hebrew congregation of that city, to enlarge their graveyard. (H.R. 3794)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize bounties to soldiers of the late war. (H.R. 250)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize bounties of soldiers who served in the late war for the Union. (H.R. 240)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported by Mr. Blair, with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in Italics. An Act To reduce the area of the military reservation of Fort Sanders, in the Territory of Wyoming, and providing for the survey of said reservation as reduced. (H.R. 161)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported by Mr. Logan with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets.] An Act For the relief of Emma E. Gardner, the widow of Lieutenant W. F. Gardner. (H.R. 3367)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported by Mr. Logan, with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish a duplicate certificate of discharge where the same has been lost. (H.R. 2703)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported by Mr. Wilson with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act In relation to bounties. (H.R. 1782)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining. An Act To promote the development of the mining resources of the United States. (H.R. 1016)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act Authorizing the nomination and appointment to the retired list of the Navy of certain volunteers on the active list of the Navy, who are disabled in consequence of wounds received during the late war. (H.R. 2053)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act Authorizing the President to appoint C. W. Cronk a first assistant engineer in the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 2317)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act Authorizing the President to permit Frank M. Ashton, late second assistant engineer of the Navy of the United States, to withdraw his resignation of that office. (H.R. 2873)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the payment of R. M. Green for the use of his patent by the Government. (H.R. 2206)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of George A. Stevens, of the United States Navy. (H.R. 903)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of H. C. Christopher, G. W. Beard, C. A. Uber, Edward Stiles, and N. H. Lamdin. (H.R. 2055)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of J. H. Underhill. (H.R. 2050)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of J. S. Underhill. (H.R. 2050)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of John C. Beaumont. (H.R. 2876)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of Martin Freeman. (H.R. 2869)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of Mrs. R. A. Kennedy. (H.R. 2326)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of Norman Wiard. (H.R. 334)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of Robert A. Mayo, of Richmond, Virginia. (H.R. 2048)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of the officers and cres of the United States ship Wyoming. (H.R. 3736)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of the widow of Alexander F. Crossman, deceased, late commander United States Navy. (H.R. 3721)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of William B. Muse. (H.R. 2949)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To abolish the grades of Admiral and Vice-Admiral in the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 2871)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To authorize the advancement of Chief Engineer John W. Moore on the list of chief engineers in the Navy. Whereas on the memorable occasion when the Federal fleet passed Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, to the capture of New Orleans, the ships were protected from serious injury, if not ... (H.R. 2052)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To authorize the construction of six steam vessels of war, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3010)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To authorize the President of appoint Frederick E. Upton, of Bath, Maine, a master in the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 2870)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To authorize the President to appoint George Plunkett a paymaster in the Navy. (H.R. 435)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts, certain land for the use of a street. (H.R. 3946)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To prevent the employment of officers on the retired list. (H.R. 2875)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To promote the securing of efficient seamen for the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 930)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To restore Absalom Kirby as second assistant engineer in the Navy. (H.R. 2874)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To restore Captains Lewis C. Sartori, George H. Preble, George H. Cooper, and Commander R. F. R. Lewis, of the United States Navy, to their original positions on the Navy Register. (H.R. 3847)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore Henry Hoover, late a naval constructor, to the place from which he was dismissed. (H.R. 54)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported back by Mr. Hays without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to promotion in the Navy to grades of commodore and rear-admiral, and pay of retired officers. (H.R. 518)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported by Mr. Cragin with amendments, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the President to permit Frank M. Ashton, late second assistant engineer of the Navy of the United States, to withdraw his resignation of that ... (H.R. 2873)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported by Mr. Cragin with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act To authorize the construction of six steam vessels of war, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3010)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported by Mr. Cragin with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act To prevent the employment of officers on the retired list. (H.R. 2875)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported by Mr. Cragin with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the nomination and appointment to the retired list of the Navy of certain volunteers on the active list of the Navy who are disabled in consequence of ... (H.R. 2053)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Albert W. Gray. (H.R. 1416)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Alexander Smith and Halcyon Skinner. (H.R. 1340)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Charles P. S. Wardwell. (H.R. 904)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Chester C. Tolman. (H.R. 1339)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Frederick M. Norcross, administrator of the estate of Nicholas G. Norcross. (H.R. 3136)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of George W. Morse. (H.R. 1417)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Hugh McCormick. (H.R. 3137)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Ira Buckman, junior. (H.R. 897)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of James C. Cooke. (H.R. 2997)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of John W. Mears, administrator of the estate of Henry D. Mears, deceased, and of William Moulton, junior. (H.R. 2864)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Levi Bissell. (H.R. 1335)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Rebecca A. Marcher, widow of Robert Marcher, deceased. (H.R. 3134)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Samuel A. Duncan. (H.R. 1785)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Sarah S. Trapp, executrix of William Trapp, deceased. (H.R. 924)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of the heirs of William A. Graham. Whereas it appears that William A. Graham, in the year anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, filed his application in due form for letters-patent for a certain invention or discovery of a novel method of or means for extinguishing ... (H.R. 1370)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Thomas Warker. (H.R. 3135)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of William B. Ward. (H.R. 1336)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act To authorize William C. Jardine to make application to the Commissioner of Patents for the issue of a patent for his improvement in brake and rest for carts. Whereas William C. Jardine's application for improvement in brake and rest for carts was passed for issue September eleventh, ... (H.R. 1337)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act To enable Joseph Fox to make application to the Commissioner of Patents for the extension of letters-patent for machine for making crackers. (H.R. 3133)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act To enable William Sellers and Coleman Sellers to make application to the Commissioner of Patents for the extension of letters-patent for an improvement in coupling for shafting. (H.R. 896)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. Reported by Mr. Ferrey, of Connecticut, with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Thomas Warker. (H.R. 3135)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions, An Act Granting a pension to Margaret C. Gibson. (H.R. 2397)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Fixing the time from which pensions heretofore granted, or which may be hereafter granted, shall commence, and extending the time for the filing of applications for the same. (H.R. 511)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief Anne Penny. (H.R. 2476)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Captain J. W. Quinn. (H.R. 1334)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth Zluhan. Whereas Jonathan Zluhan, late a private in the Ninety-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Voluntees, in his lifetime, established his right, under act of June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, to an artificial arm, by reason of the loss of the left ... (H.R. 2484)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Frederick Walter, Company A, Fourth United States Artillery. (H.R. 2539)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Jennie B. Savage. (H.R. 2554)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Jesse McCoy. (H.R. 2712)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Mary C. Griffin. (H.R. 2456)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Ruth A. Maxiner. (H.R. 2025)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Sally Clark, widow of Joseph L. Clark, deceased, a soldier of the war of 1812. (H.R. 2818)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of the minor children of Captain William E. Scherr. Whereas by special act of Congress dated March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, Sarah A. Scherr, widow of William E. Scherr, late captain of Company B, Twenty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, was granted a ... (H.R. 2535)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension the Elizabeth H. Morgan. (H.R. 624)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to A. Schuyler Sutton. (H.R. 2411)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Aaron B. Hughes, late a musician in Company E, One hundred and third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 3160)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Abigail Stukey. (H.R. 2452)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Abraham Cooper. (H.R. 2417)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ada H. McDonald. (H.R. 2399)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ada Lois Harrison. (H.R. 3797)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Aidy A. Autry. (H.R. 2467)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Almon P. Graves. (H.R. 2496)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Amelia S. Parsons, widow of Nathan A. Parsons. (H.R. 2498)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Amos Farling. (H.R. 2510)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Anderson W. Scott. (H.R. 3810)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Andrew Reinfort. (H.R. 2416)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Angelica Hammond. (H.R. 2466)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ann C. Butler. (H.R. 2435)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ann G. Barker, widow of Thomas Barker. (H.R. 1067)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ann Hensley. (H.R. 3827)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ann Hunter. (H.R. 1198)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ann Woods. (H.R. 3812)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Anna Butterfield, mother of A. B. Butterfield. (H.R. 1057)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Annie Bagley. (H.R. 2441)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Annie Marie Bailey. (H.R. 2479)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Antoine Brossa. (H.R. 3799)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ardella D. Warfield and Lindsley N. Warfield. (H.R. 2767)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Armstive Goodlow. (H.R. 2497)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Armstrong O'Hara. (H.R. 2531)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Asenath Stephenson. (H.R. 3484)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Belinda Craig. (H.R. 621)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Benjamin Clark. (H.R. 2446)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Benjamin F. Berkley. (H.R. 1619)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Captain Henry M. Scott. (H.R. 1197)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Catherine Boss. (H.R. 2515)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Chancy J. Poore. (H.R. 3808)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Charles B. Fairchild. (H.R. 2442)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Charlotte Crane. (H.R. 1199)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Christiana W. Murray. (H.R. 2526)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Clarinda Butcher. (H.R. 2517)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Colonel William C. Kise. (H.R. 2483)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Cordelia G. Dougherty. (H.R. 2534)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Daniel Beatty. (H.R. 2432)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Daniel Wooden. (H.R. 2546)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Dean A. Wills, of Indiana. (H.R. 2462)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Deborah Witham. (H.R. 2527)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Delilah Robertson. (H.R. 1208)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Durant T. Hunt. (H.R. 3832)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Edward G. Hunt. (H.R. 2532)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Eleanor K. Fillis. (H.R. 2421)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza B. Anderson. (H.R. 2879)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza Civille. (H.R. 2560)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza J. Fracker. (H.R. 2508)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza Webb. (H.R. 2434)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Black. (H.R. 2487)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Cupp. (H.R. 2407)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Harding. (H.R. 1946)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth J. Ewing, of Sparta, Illinois. (H.R. 2577)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Jones. (H.R. 2558)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Kenyon. (H.R. 893)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth O. Neile. (H.R. 2404)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth York. Whereas, by special act number eighteen, approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, granting a pension to Mrs. Elizabeth York, widow of Shubal York, deceased, late surgeon of the Fifty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry; and ... (H.R. 557)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ellen Collins. (H.R. 3831)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ellen M. Cummings. (H.R. 3838)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ellen W. P. Carter. (H.R. 2463)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Emily Booth. (H.R. 3796)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ephriam Hunt. (H.R. 3719)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Evan Johnson. (H.R. 2464)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Flora D. McKay. (H.R. 2524)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Frances W. Evans. (H.R. 2519)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Frederick A. Garlick, of Cortland County New York. (H.R. 497)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Garrett Flemming. (H.R. 2511)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to George G. Gardner. (H.R. 2403)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to George J. St. Louis. (H.R. 1209)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to George W. Bradley. (H.R. 3817)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to George W. Parris. (H.R. 2413)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to George W. Swartz. (H.R. 2518)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Hannah E. Currie. (H.R. 2408)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Harper Smith. (H.R. 3841)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Harriet W. Wilkinson. (H.R. 3818)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Helen M. Smith. (H.R. 2412)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Henry A. White. (H.R. 2559)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Henry H. Kaiser. (H.R. 3809)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Henry Riemann. (H.R. 2523)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Henry T. Schutt. (H.R. 2430)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Herman J. Ehle. (H.R. 2572)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Hetty M. Kepner, and others. (H.R. 2454)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Hila A. Cooksy. (H.R. 2465)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Hugh Wallace. (H.R. 2425)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ivory F. Snow. (H.R. 2516)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to James A. Sanders. (H.R. 3798)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to James C. Bates, Indiana. (H.R. 3803)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to James McAlfee. (H.R. 2552)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to James McKean. (H.R. 3811)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to James P. Rader. (H.R. 3815)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to James Supple. (H.R. 2423)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to James W. Wharton, late a private in Company G, First Pennsylvania Rifles. Whereas on the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, James W. Wharton enlisted in Company G, First Pennsylvania Rifles, to serve for three years; and Whereas the said James W. ... (H.R. 2533)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Jane D. Mumford. (H.R. 2439)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Jane Thompson and Margaret Thompson. (H.R. 2556)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Jerome E. Pampell. (H.R. 2455)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Jerusha A. Goodrich. (H.R. 2543)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Job S. Goff. (H.R. 3800)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Johanna Lusky. (H.R. 2542)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John A. Crozier, of Indiana. (H.R. 2460)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Condlin. (H.R. 2553)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Davis, corporal of the night-watch on board the United States ship "Octorara." (H.R. 2431)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Fink. (H.R. 2562)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Greenwalt. (H.R. 2521)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Heddinger. (H.R. 2471)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Nichman. (H.R. 1802)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Nolan. (H.R. 2495)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Oliver, Louisa Oliver, Robert Oliver, and Martha A. Oliver. (H.R. 2451)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John S. Corlett. (H.R. 855)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John S. Hall. (H.R. 2477)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Tuell. (H.R. 2480)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Joseph Bryant. (H.R. 623)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Joseph Cressey. (H.R. 2528)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Joseph Geer. (H.R. 2958)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Joseph Montgomery. (H.R. 894)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Josiah Wilson, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 3720)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Judith Dunham. (H.R. 2522)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Julia Cosgrove. (H.R. 2765)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Julia Whistler. (H.R. 2405)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Juliet E. Hall, daughter of William Hall, late colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of Iowa Infantry. (H.R. 2502)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Justus F. Jones. (H.R. 2492)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Kitty A. Smith. (H.R. 2491)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Laura Baker. (H.R. 3836)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Leta Gibbs and Lucinda Gibbs. (H.R. 3829)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Lorenzo D. Hogle. (H.R. 2461)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Lucinda Thompson. (H.R. 2525)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Lucretia B. Galloway. (H.R. 2450)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret Coggins, widow of Philip Coggins. (H.R. 1058)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret Coldwell. (H.R. 2401)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret Conyers. (H.R. 3823)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret J. Boyd, Rachel D. McIlvaine, and William L. McIlvaine. (H.R. 2458)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret Lee. (H.R. 892)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret Miller. (H.R. 2490)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret Riley. (H.R. 2406)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Margarett A. Renshaw. (H.R. 2420)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Maria Clark. (H.R. 2486)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Maria D. C. Bache. (H.R. 3826)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Maria L. Lee. (H.R. 2536)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha A. Brooks. (H.R. 2402)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha A. Gallaher, widow of William A. Gallaher, deceased, late a private in Company G, One hundred and thirty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 3843)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha A. Jones. (H.R. 1065)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha B. Williams. (H.R. 1068)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha Elwell. (H.R. 1203)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha G. Rudolph. (H.R. 2398)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha M. B. McCulloch. (H.R. 2427)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha P. Greenlee. (H.R. 2529)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha R. White. (H.R. 2396)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha Tillotson. (H.R. 3805)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Chute. (H.R. 2538)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Diamond. (H.R. 2426)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Dodd. (H.R. 2768)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Miller. (H.R. 2499)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Shoemaker. (H.R. 2409)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Shultz. (H.R. 2481)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary E. Barton. (H.R. 2541)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary E. Cochran. (H.R. 2957)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary E. Foster. (H.R. 3801)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary E. Grosvenor. (H.R. 3589)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary E. Shelton. (H.R. 2770)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary E. Snively and Mavilla S. Snively. (H.R. 2509)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary H. Bartlett. (H.R. 2449)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Hand. (H.R. 3842)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary J. Morse. (H.R. 2951)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Jane Stone, widow of William J. Stone, late second lieutenant, Thirty-seventh Kentucky Infantry. (H.R. 1201)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Mullins. (H.R. 3821)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Wade, mother of Jennie Wade. (H.R. 1066)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Whalen. (H.R. 2766)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Melissa Rankin, mother of Oliver S. Rankin. (H.R. 1195)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Millie A. Powell. (H.R. 3806)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Minerva McFadden. (H.R. 3837)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Abigail Chaplin. (H.R. 2414)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a Pension to Mrs. Alme D. Brooks. (H.R. 2530)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Ann M. Wood, widow of Robert C. Wood, late assistant surgeon-general of the United States Army, and daughter of Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States. (H.R. 3824)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza Hicks. (H.R. 2488)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Jane Dulany. (H.R. 1196)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Margaret Webber. (H.R. 2049)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Margarett S. Fair. (H.R. 2444)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Mary Davis, of Philadelphia. (H.R. 2438)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Mollie L. Roberts. (H.R. 2436)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Nancy E. Pugh. (H.R. 2418)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Nancy A. Lawrence. (H.R. 2489)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Nancy Ann Spurgeon, widow of Josiah Spurgeon, of Lewis County, Missouri. (H.R. 115)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Nancy Goddard. (H.R. 2540)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Nancy Mason. (H.R. 2547)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Nancy Osborn. (H.R. 2494)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Nathan Morgan. (H.R. 1210)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Obadiah Whiston. (H.R. 3802)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Peter Brewer. (H.R. 2469)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Phebe Ann Elderkin. (H.R. 2422)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Phebe Hascall, widow of Sidney Smith. (H.R. 1059)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Priscilla Harrison. (H.R. 2433)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Reverend William H. Rogers. (H.R. 1200)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Richard B. Crawford. (H.R. 2503)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Richard B. Crawford. (H.R. 622)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Robert G. Wilson. (H.R. 2544)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Robert H. Brown, of Adair County, Missouri. (H.R. 2470)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Rosa F. Morsell. (H.R. 3839)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Rosa Hoon. (H.R. 2514)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Rosa Wollauer. (H.R. 2453)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Rosana Allison. (H.R. 3834)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Rosanna Quinn. (H.R. 368)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Samuel B. Davis. (H.R. 2468)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Samuel Barnett. (H.R. 3813)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Samuel R. Allen. (H.R. 3814)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Samuel Shaffer, late a private in Company I, Seventy-eighth Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 2428)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Samuel Shuler, late a private in Company E, Sixty-first Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 1800)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Baird. (H.R. 2478)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah P. Wing. (H.R. 2429)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Pond. (H.R. 2339)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Reynolds. (H.R. 2447)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah S. Cooper. (H.R. 2457)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Whiting. (H.R. 1073)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Simeon Farnsworth, of Danville, Vermont. (H.R. 2130)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Susan Davis, dependent mother of William W. Davis, deceased, late a private in Company E, One hundred and third Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 1444)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Susan E. Alger. (H.R. 3840)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Susan Schofield. (H.R. 2445)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Susan W. Mechem. (H.R. 2512)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the minor children of Benjamin Franklin Browne. (H.R. 2410)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow of Colonel Gustavus A. Loomis. (H.R. 2500)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Thomas Lunney. (H.R. 2520)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Thomas R. Hardwick. (H.R. 3820)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Thomas Smith. (H.R. 3819)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Timothy Paige. (H.R. 1206)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Unity Welsh, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 2482)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Virginia M. F. Cusack. (H.R. 2493)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Washington Frisbee. (H.R. 2485)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Wesley Hensley. (H.R. 2443)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William B. Lilly. (H.R. 2424)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William B. Taylor. (H.R. 2400)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William D. Boyd. (H.R. 2557)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William D. Tomlinson. (H.R. 3807)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William E. Farley and John M. Farley. (H.R. 2563)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William H. Bridges. (H.R. 712)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William H. Nunamaker. (H.R. 3835)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William P. Calvert. (H.R. 2504)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Zenas Bradley, of Allegany County, New York. (H.R. 2138)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an annuity to Mary Swift, daughter of Thomas Truxton, deceased, late commodore in the United States Navy. (H.R. 4055)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hannah Cross, a dependent mother. (H.R. 2545)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James H. Hogan, of Batavia, in the State of New York. (H.R. 1205)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jedediah Gray. (H.R. 2988)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Maria Louisa Craven. (H.R. 3830)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Warren Raymond, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1207)

Read twice and referred to the committee on Pensions. An Act Granting arrearages of pension to Walter Bradley. (H.R. 2551)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting increase of pension to Robert S. Dumont. (H.R. 2555)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting increase of pension to William T. Simms. (H.R. 2415)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act In amendment of an act granting pensions to the survivors of the war of 1812, approved February 14, 1871, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3795)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Increasing a pension of Helen M. Stansbury. (H.R. 3833)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Increasing the pension of Caroline H. Miller. (H.R. 2440)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Increasing the pension of H. Louise Gates. (H.R. 2549)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Increasing the pension of Mrs. Jane W. McKee. (H.R. 2395)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Providing for the relief of certain invalid pensioners. Whereas by section one of an act entitled "An act supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, certain soldiers who were entitled to, and were drawing invalid ... (H.R. 991)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Repealing an act entitled "An act granting a pension to Joanna L. Shaw." (H.R. 2506)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Restoring the names of certain persons to the pension-rolls, and in amendment of an act entitled "An act granting pensions to the survivors of the war of 1812," approved February 14, 1871. (H.R. 3503)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Restoring to the pension-rolls the name of Margaret L. Bybee. (H.R. 2459)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To amend "An act granting pensions to the survivors of the war of 1812 who served sixty days, and to their widows," approved February 14,1871. (H.R. 2571)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of Lieutenant Herman Tuerk," approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. (H.R. 3349)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act granting a pension to Phoebe Sofield, widow of Lewis Sofield." (H.R. 1271)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To amend an act for the relief of Charles M. Pott. (H.R. 3828)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To amend an act granting a pension to William C. Pickens. (H.R. 1064)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To amend certain provisions of the pension-laws. (H.R. 3520)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To amend section six of the act of July four, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. (H.R. 4016)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to place the name of Mary A. Morris, widow of Major General William W. Morris, upon the pension-rolls, at the rate of fifty dollars per month. (H.R. 1872)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To grant a pension to Edward Tucker. (H.R. 2561)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To grant a pension to Martin Zeeb. (H.R. 2437)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To grant a pension to Mary Petrie. (H.R. 2507)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To grant a pension to Sarah A. Wharton. (H.R. 2501)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To grant a pension to Sarah Maynard. (H.R. 2550)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To grant a pension to William Freshone. (H.R. 2419)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To increase the pension of Mrs. Hannah W. Sumner, widow of Major General Edwin V. Sumner, who died March 21, 1863, while in command of the Department of the West. (H.R. 2505)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To increase the pension of Susan T. E. Williamson. (H.R. 2548)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To place on the naval pension-roll the names of the widows and minor children of Newton H. Adams and John Rudenstein. (H.R. 457)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To repeal that part of section six of the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to grant pensions,'" as limits the time in which claims for pension may be granted, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3751)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To restore to the pension-roll Nancy Cloud, widow of William Cloud, a revolutionary pensioner. (H.R. 1243)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To revise, consolidate, and amend the laws relating to pensions. (H.R. 2312)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported adversely and postponed indefinitely. Vote to indefinitely postpone reconsidered; bill recommitted to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Pratt with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to John ... (H.R. 2431)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, with amendments, viz: Insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Zenas Bradley, of Allegany County, New York. (H.R. 2138)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Cordelia C. Dougherty. (H.R. 2534)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Hill with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Restoring to the pension-rolls the name of Margaret L. Bybee. (H.R. 2459)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Logan with amendments, viz: Strike out the part within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act granting a pension to Phoebe Sofield, widow of Lewis Sofield." (H.R. 1271)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Pratt with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To revise, consolidate, and amend the laws relating to pensions. (H.R. 2312)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Pratt with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. Accompanied by report No. 67. An Act Granting a pension to Hannah Gray. (H.R. 895)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Pratt with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. Accompanied by Senate Report No. 233. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Warren Raymond, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1207)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Pratt with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] clause and insert the part printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Henry Riemann. (H.R. 2523)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post Roads An Act To establish certain post-roads. (H.R. 2935)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads An Act To further amend the postal laws. (H.R. 3675)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, An Act For the relief of H. H. Meredith, late postmaster at Wade, Bedford County, Virginia. (H.R. 1803)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River at Van Buren, Arkansas. (H.R. 3948)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act Authorizing the Postmaster General to issue one-cent correspondence or post cards for transmission in the United States mails. (H.R. 2256)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act Authorizing the transfer of safes from the War Department to the Post-Office Department for use in the transportation of registered mails. (H.R. 4049)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act Establishing a post-route in Pennsylvania. (H.R. 2968)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act Establishing certain post-roads in Vermont. (H.R. 1076)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act Establishing post-routes in the State of Maine. (H.R. 3350)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the benefit of Charles Cosby, late postmaster at Uptonville, Hardin County, Kentucky. Whereas Charles Cosby, late postmaster at Uptonville, Hardin County, Kentucky, was robbed of eighty-seven dollars and forty cents in postage-stamps, and there being satisfactory ... (H.R. 1704)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the relief of Captain Brice X. Blair, postmaster at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Whereas the post-office at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, was broken into on the night of October twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the safe therein blown open and postage-stamps ... (H.R. 1562)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the relief of Daniel O. Cleveland, postmaster at Broadalbin, in the State of New York. (H.R. 2345)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the relief of Francis A. Eastman, postmaster at Chicago, Illinois. (H.R. 1529)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the relief of Francis B. Stewart, postmaster at Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 2978)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the relief of John S. Horner. Whereas an examination of all the papers in the case shows that injustice was done to John S. Horner, of Helena, Arkansas, in the judgment for four hundred and forty-four dollars and ninety-seven cents, pronounced against him by the ... (H.R. 3726)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the relief of Jonathan Diehl and George Blymer, sureties on the bond of Josiah S. Diehl, late contractor for carrying the United States mails on post-route numbered four thousand two hundred and forty-nine. (H.R. 4002)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the relief of Thomas Burke, of Virginia. (H.R. 2672)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the relief of W. H. Kirk. (H.R. 2255)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act For the relief of William F. Barker, postmaster at Northville, Fulton County, New York. (H.R. 1564)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1874. (H.R. 3498)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act Relating to proposals and contracts for transportation of the mails, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1930)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To abolish the franking privilege, and to provide for the transmission of official documents and other public matter. (H.R. 2982)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To amend the one hundred and thirty-third and one hundred and thirty-fourth sections of an act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post-Office Department." (H.R. 3248)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge, and to establish the same as a post-road. (H.R. 2207)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To establish a mail-route. (H.R. 2713)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To establish a post-road from Milton Mills to Horne's Mills, New Hampshire. (H.R. 3378)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To establish a post-road. (H.R. 3256)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To establish a post-road. (H.R. 3505)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on post-offices and Post-roads. An Act To establish certain post routes in West Virginia. (H.R. 184)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To establish certain post-roads. (H.R. 1666)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To establish certain post-roads. (H.R. 2940)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To establish certain post-routes. (H.R. 1658)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An Act To establish certain post-routes. (H.R. 2854)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on post-offices and Post-roads. An Act To establish post routes. (H.R. 181)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Reported by Mr. Cole with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1874. (H.R. 3498)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on post-offices and Post-roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, namely: Insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To establish post routes. (H.R. 181)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River at Van Buren, Arkansas. (H.R. 3948)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River, at Fort Madison, Iowa, and to establish the same as a post-road. (H.R. 2207)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To establish certain post-roads. (H.R. 1666)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To establish certain-roads. (H.R. 2935)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To establish certain post-roads. (H.R. 3274)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on post-offices and Post-roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey without amendment. An Act To establish certain post routes in the State of Iowa. (H.R. 434)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads.An Act To establish certain post-roads. (H.R. 3274)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act To provide for the exchange and transfer of two small parcels of land in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Whereas the United States Marine Hospital grounds, situated in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, lie adjoining lands of John G. Woerner, upon an angular line of division; ... (H.R. 2047)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims. An Act For the relief of Isabella Orange. Whereas Isabella Orange, widow of John C. Orange, late a private Company D, Seventh Regiment West Virginia Volunteers, purchased and came into possession of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-five, township four, ... (H.R. 2771)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims. An Act For the relief of Thomas B. Valentine. (H.R. 1024)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims. An Act To confirm certain land-titles in the State of Missouri. Whereas the Baron of Carondelet, governor-general of the Territory of Louisiana, did, on the fifteen day of March, anno Domini seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, instruct Zenon Trudeau, lieutenant-governor of said ... (H.R. 3731)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims. An Act To confirm to William Marvin the title to seven thousand acres of land in the State of Florida. Whereas under the act of Congress, approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled "An act for the final adjustment of private land-claims in the States of Florida, ... (H.R. 3593)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims. Reported by Mr. Thurman with amendments, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act To confirm to William Marvin the title to seven thousand acres of land in the State of Florida. Whereas under the act of Congress, approved June twenty second, eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled ... (H.R. 3593)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims. Reported by Mr. Thurman with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To confirm certain land-titles in the State of Missouri. Whereas the Baron of Carondelet, governor-general of the Territory of Louisiana, did, on the ... (H.R. 3731)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. An Act Fixing the time for the election of Representatives from the State of California to the Forty-fourth Congress. (H.R. 3324)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. An Act Supplemental to and amendatory of an act entitled "An act to prescribe the mode of obtaining evidence in cases of contested elections," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. (H.R. 1048)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. An Act To pay William P. Preston the sum therein mentioned. (H.R. 284)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. An Act To remove the legal and political disabilities of Sion H. Rogers. (H.R. 2617)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Reported with amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Supplemental to and amendatory of an act entitled "An act to prescribe the mode of obtaining evidence in cases of contested elections," approved February nineteenth, ... (H.R. 1048)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Building's and Grounds. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to United States court-rooms, post-office, and customhouse in the city of Covington, Kentucky. (H.R. 232)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act Authorizing the construction of a public building at Fall River, in the State of Massachusetts. (H.R. 2682)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act Authorizing the erection of a public building in Rockland, Maine. (H.R. 2616)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the custom-house property at Plymouth, North Carolina. (H.R. 3628)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act For a public building at Atlanta, Georgia. (H.R. 2880)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act For the construction of a custom-house, bonded warehouse, and post-office at Port Huron, Michigan. (H.R. 2942)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act For the construction of an addition to the United States court-house and post-office building in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for the purchase of additional ground adjoining the site of said building. (H.R. 1538)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act Making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at San Francisco. (H.R. 2764)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act Making an appropriation for the repairs, furnishing, and ornamentation of the United States custom-house and post-office at Bath, Maine. (H.R. 902)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act Providing for a life-size marble statue of the late Senator Edward Dickinson Baker. (H.R. 2762)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To authorize the construction of a fire-proof building at Albany, New York. (H.R. 1534)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To authorize the erection of a public building at Evansville, Indiana. (H.R. 2987)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To authorize the purchase of a site for a public building at Cincinnati, Ohio. (H.R. 1540)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To pay the county on Ontario, in the State of New York, the sum of twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. (H.R. 2878)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To provide a building suited to the use of the custom-house, post-office, the pension and revenue officers, and the judicial officers of the United States, in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. (H.R. 2763)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To provide for a building for the use of the post-office, custom-house, pension-office, United States circuit and district courts, and internal-revenue offices at Hartford, Connecticut. (H.R. 1539)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To provide for the erection of a public building at Nashville, Tennessee. (H.R. 2943)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To provide for the erection of a public building at Quincy, Illinois, for the accommodation of the post-office, custom-house, and other public offices. (H.R. 1543)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To provide for the removal of the wooden buildings on Judiciary Square. (H.R. 3476)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act To purchase a site for a public building in Pittsburgh. (H.R. 2984)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Appropriating money for the purchase of a suitable site, and erecting a building thereon, in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, to be used for the purposes of a custom-house, post-office, and other Federal offices. (H.R. 619)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for a Government building, to be used as a post-office, court-house, and bonded warehouse, at Lynchburg, in the State of Virginia. (H.R. 197)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, with amendments, viz: Insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Appropriating money for the purchase of a suitable site, and erecting a building thereon, in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, to be used for the purposes of a ... (H.R. 619)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act [To provide a building suited to the use of the custom-house, post-office, the pension and revenue officers, and the judicials ... (H.R. 2763)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To provide for a building for the use of the post-office, custom-house, pension-office, United States circuit and district courts, and ... (H.R. 1539)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act Making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at San Francisco. (H.R. 2764)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, with an amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the words printed in italics. An Act For a public building at Atlanta, Georgia. (H.R. 2880)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands An Act For the relief of George Graves. (H.R. 1281)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Authorizing joint entry by pre-emption settlers, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2202)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Authorizing the award to the Vincennes University of certain vacant and abandoned lands in Knox County, Indiana. Whereas it is alleged that there are certain parcels of abandoned lands in Knox County, Indiana, which are covered by old Vincennes donation claims, which have become ... (H.R. 239)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Authorizing the President of the United States to re-establish the Monroe land district in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 437)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Confirming to the Port Huron and Lake Michigan Railroad Company the lands heretofore granted to the State of Michigan to aid in the construction of a railroad from Grand Haven to Flint, and thence to Port Huron, and providing for the manner of issuing patents therefor, and for other ... (H.R. 255)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Creating an additional land-district in the Territory of Arizona. (H.R. 2689)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Directing that a bounty-land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land be issued to Elisha Franklin for military services in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1576)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Extending the time for the completion of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship-Canal. (H.R. 1761)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the extension of time to the Winona and Saint Peter Railroad Company for the completion of its road. (H.R. 3005)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Addison Goodell, of Illinois. (H.R. 2104)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of aged or infirm pre-emption settlers. (H.R. 1022)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of certain homestead settlers on the public lands. (H.R. 2785)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of certain settlers on the public lands in Iowa under the provisions of the homestead laws. (H.R. 590)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of pre-emption settlers in the State of California. (H.R. 1021)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of the estate of Eli Moore. (H.R. 1298)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of the inhabitants of the town of Arcata, in Humboldt County, California. Whereas the town of Arcata, in Humboldt County, California, was allowed to enter three hundred and twenty acres of land for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of said town, under the act of ... (H.R. 3325)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of the widow and children of George Jones, deceased, of Daviess County, Kentucky. (H.R. 2970)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Granting rights of way to railroad companies in the several Territories. (H.R. 3709)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Granting the right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon. (H.R. 2124)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Granting the right of way through the public lands to the Utah Northern Railroad Company. (H.R. 1158)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Granting the right of way to the Dakota Grand Trunk Railway Company. (H.R. 2592)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Granting the right of way to the Missouri Valley Railroad Company. (H.R. 2784)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Providing for the sale of timbered lands to settlers upon, and owners of, untimbered lands. (H.R. 3101)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Relating to certain lands in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 2195)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Restoring the right of homestead entry to certain soldiers and sailors of the late war of the rebellion. Whereas by the act approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, amendatory of the homestead act, the privilege is given to such person as may have had an actual ... (H.R. 2981)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Supplemental to an act entitled "An act granting the right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon," approved April twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3622)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To amend the town-site laws of the United States, and for the relief of the inhabitants of the cities or towns of Black Hawk, Central City, and Georgetown, in the Territory of Colorado, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2194)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To authorize the building of the Wyoming and Montana Railway. (H.R. 3360)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To authorize the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company to change their projected line of railway in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1766)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To authorize the issuance of college-scrip to the State of Arkansas. Whereas the State of Arkansas has complied with all the provisions and requirements of an act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of ... (H.R. 2109)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To confirm certain entries of lands therein named. (H.R. 1626)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To confirm the purchase by the Executive Department of three acres of land, more or less, in the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee, known as the site of Fort Houston, and to donate and convey the same to the Fisk University, for educational purposes. (H.R. 2862)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To confirm the title of John Boyer to certain lands therein described. (H.R. 1720)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To confirm title to certain lands in Washington Territory. (H.R. 1500)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To create an additional land district in the State of Nevada. (H.R. 436)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To create an additional land-district in the State of Minnesota. (H.R. 1182)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To create an additional land-district in the State of Minnesota. (H.R. 1324)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To create the Linkton land-district, in the State of Oregon. (H.R. 1638)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 1665)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To enable the city of Denver to purchase certain lands in Colorado for a cemetery. (H.R. 2627)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To establish an additional land-district in the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 2685)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To extend the time of payment for their lands by persons holding pre-emptions on the public lands in the State of Minnesota. (H.R. 864)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To prohibit certain persons from entering public lands. (H.R. 2193)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To quiet the title to certain lands in the State of Missouri. Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States, approved on the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, the State of Missouri, with other States, acquired title to all swamp and overflowed lands ... (H.R. 845)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To withdraw from settlement and sale a certain section of land in Wyoming Territory. (H.R. 2631)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Osborn with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act To authorize the issuance of college-scrip to the State of Arkansas. Whereas the State of Arkansas has complied with all the provisions and requirements of an act entitled "An act donating public lands ... (H.R. 2109)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Pomeroy with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act For the relief of certain homestead settlers on the public lands. (H.R. 2785)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Pomeroy without amendment and that it ought not to pass. An Act To extend to the State of Nevada the benefits of "An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits." (H.R. 2863)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Stewart with an amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italics. An Act Granting rights of way to railroad companies in the several Territories. (H.R. 3709)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States." (H.R. 203)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the personal representatives of Mary Robbins, deceased, who was the widow of Brintnal Robbins, an officer of the Army of the Revolution. (H.R. 3630)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Mr. Morgan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Fanny A. Thompson, surviving heir and legal representative of William Thompson, deceased, formerly a brigadier-general of the Revolutionary War. (H.R. 3951)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act Amendatory of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act amendatory of 'An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Montana,' approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four." (H.R. 2633)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act Regulating the compensation of the members and officers of the legislative assemblies of the several Territories of the United States, and limiting the duration of the sessions of said assemblies. (H.R. 3364)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Wyoming," approved July 25, 1868. (H.R. 2628)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To disapprove of certain legislation in the Territory of Washington. (H.R. 1501)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To donate the military reservation at Fort Steilacoom to the Territory of Washington for the use of the insane asylum. (H.R. 2630)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To grant the right of way to the Laramie Water and Ditch Company over public lands in Albany County, Wyoming Territory. (H.R. 1178)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To provide for filling vacancies in certain offices in the several Territories. (H.R. 2632)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To provide for holding adjourned terms of the supreme court of Arizona. (H.R. 1735)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To provide for the apportionment of the Territory of Wyoming for legislative purposes. (H.R. 3949)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To re-adjust the western boundary of Dakota Territory. (H.R. 2593)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To regulate elections in Washington and Idaho Territories. (H.R. 1030)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To repeal section one of an act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Idaho, approved March 3d, 1863," approved March 2d, 1867. (H.R. 279)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act Transferring the control of certain territorial penitentiaries to the several Territories in which the same are located. (H.R. 3362)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. Reported by Mr. Cooper with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act To grant the right of way to the Laramie Water and Ditch Company over public lands in Albany County, Wyoming Territory. (H.R. 1178)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act Authorizing the extension of the railway of the Metropolitan Railroad Company in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2240)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act For the settlement and payment of the claim of Elizabeth S. Brewer, executrix of John Brewer. (H.R. 2884)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act Giving the approval and sanction of Congress to the termini and route of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad, and to regulate its construction and operation. (H.R. 2247)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act In relation to the construction of a new jail for the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1552)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act Prohibiting gift-enterprizes in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3482)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act Relating to the supreme court of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2882)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act Supplemental to the act of February 9, 1821, incorporating the Columbia College, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2883)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To aid in maintaining the fire department in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2333)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act governing the colored schools of the District of Columbia." (H.R. 3625)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To authorize the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company to run trains and transport freight and passengers within the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2847)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian congregation of Georgetown to dispose of real estate. (H.R. 3481)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To authorize the Washington City and Point Lockout Railroad Company to extend a railroad into and within the District of Columbia. Whereas it is represented to this present Congress that the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Company, organized on the twenty-fourth ... (H.R. 1916)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To cure defective titles in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1644)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To fix the salary of the members of the board of health of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2332)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To provide for the better education of the indigent blind in the District of Columbia. Whereas the Secretary of the Interior is authorized by law to educate the indigent blind of the District of Columbia in some State institution for the blind; and Whereas the legislature ... (H.R. 3624)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Committee discharged and bill referred to Committee on Education and Labor. Reported by Mr. Sawyer with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To further provide for the [better] education of the indigent blind in the ... (H.R. 3624)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Reported by Mr. Patterson with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act In relation to the construction of a new jail for the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1552)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Reported by Mr. Patterson with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act governing the colored schools of the District of Columbia." (H.R. 3625)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Reported by Mr. Sawyer with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the extension of the railway of the Metropolitan Railroad Company in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2240)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Reported by Mr. Vickers, with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act To cure defective titles in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1644)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Allowing respondents in criminal cases in courts of the United States to testify in their own behalf. (H.R. 1514)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Declaring the true meaning of a statute. (H.R. 3255)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth census. (H.R. 243)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the better organization of the district courts of the United States within the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 2933)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of Elias C. Boudinot. (H.R. 1868)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of James T. Johnston. (H.R. 1867)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of Marshall O. Roberts. (H.R. 1396)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Frances A. McKinney. (H.R. 1866)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of purchasers of lands sold for direct taxes in the insurrectionary States. (H.R. 106)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of Samuel B. Elliott, late acting purser of the United States vessel of war "The Flirt." (H.R. 2775)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Leonidas Haskell, deceased. (H.R. 3725)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of the principal and securities to the official bond of Green W. Caldwell, late superintendent of the branch mint at Charlotte, North Carolina. (H.R. 208)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of the sureties of James T. Miller, late collector and depositary at Wilmington, North Carolina. (H.R. 1865)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of the sureties of S. F. Marks, former postmaster at New Orleans. (H.R. 2777)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of W. W. Griffin. (H.R. 2780)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act In relation to new trials in the Court of Claims. (H.R. 630)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Regulating the compensation of criers and bailiffs of the United States courts. (H.R. 482)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Relating to witnesses for respondents in extradition cases. (H.R. 1331)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Supplemental to an act entitled "An act for the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth census." (H.R. 1343)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To allow persons accused of crime to testify in their own behalf in the courts of the United States. (H.R. 21)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act regulating proceedings in criminal cases, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. (H.R. 631)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act relating to members of Congress, heads of Departments, and other officers of the Government," approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. (H.R. 1028)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to allow the United States to prosecute appeals and writs of error without giving security,' and for other purposes," approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 1625)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March 2, 1867, and the several acts amendatory thereof. (H.R. 2475)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 3496)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Washington National Monument Society." (H.R. 1600)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to prevent smuggling, and for other purposes," approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 187)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for holding a circuit court of the United States in the western district of Missouri," approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3021)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend section five of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one," approved March three, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and to authorize the proper construction thereof. (H.R. 2773)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend the several acts in relation to the northern judicial district of the State of Mississippi, and to provide for the times and places of holding the district courts of the United States therein in future. (H.R. 690)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To authorize settlements by the Secretary of the Treasury with joint debtors of the United States. (H.R. 1770)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To authorize the appointment of deputies of clerks of circuit and district courts. (H.R. 1758)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To change the time for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the western district of Wisconsin, at La Crosse. (H.R. 859)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To change the time for holding the spring term of the United States circuit and district courts at Harrisonburgh, Virginia. (H.R. 1588)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To change the times and places for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Minnesota. (H.R. 3944)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To declare the true intent and meaning of the act approved June eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, amendatory of the general bankrupt law. (H.R. 3702)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To divide the State of Illinois into three judicial districts, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2946)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To divide the State of Ohio into three judicial districts, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3792)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 320)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To establish a western judicial district of North Carolina. (H.R. 2192)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To extend the provisions of the act of April tenth, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to amend the judicial system of the United States." (H.R. 1864)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To extend the time in which certain offenses may be prosecuted. (H.R. 188)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To fix times of United States circuit courts in the eighth district. (H.R. 1072)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To further regulate the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and to prevent delays therein. (H.R. 891)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To grant additional compensation to the marshal of the district of South Carolina for the period of four mouths and ten days. (H.R. 2683)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To perpetuate testimony in the courts of the United States. (H.R. 286)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To prevent and punish the obstruction of the administration of justice in the courts of the United States. (H.R. 1017)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To prevent certain officers of the United States and Territories from practicing as attorneys or solicitors in courts of the United States in certain cases. (H.R. 2774)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for a district and circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 3629)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for an additional term of the district and circuit court of the United States at Syracuse, New York. (H.R. 2693)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for holding a circuit court of the United States in and for the western district of Missouri. (H.R. 1982)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for holding the United States district court in the city of Toledo. (H.R. 534)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for the adjudication of the claim of John Graham. (H.R. 2776)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for the just and equitable distribution of the award made to the United States by the commissioners at Geneva, under the treaty of Washington. (H.R. 3139)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for the payment of legal services rendered by Edmund M. Randolph to the United States. (H.R. 3728)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide stenographers for the courts of the United States. (H.R. 2778)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To re-imburse John E. Woodward for certain moneys paid by him. (H.R. 3382)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To regulate the exercise of eminent domain in securing a site for public buildings in the city of Cincinnati. (H.R. 2867)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To regulate the seizure and examination of invoices, books, and papers in customs-revenue cases. (H.R. 2325)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To reimburse John E. Woodward for certain moneys paid by him. (H.R. 1424)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To repeal an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of the bankruptcy throughout the United States," and all acts amendatory thereof. (H.R. 3613)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To repeal certain statutes prescribing an oath of office. (H.R. 2779)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To repeal several acts relating to the tenure of civil offices. (H.R. 908)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To settle and quiet the titles to lands along the boundary line between the States of Georgia and Florida. (H.R. 48)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To take away the circuit court jurisdiction of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Georgia, to create a circuit court in said district, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1492)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To protect loyal and peaceable citizens of the United States in the full enjoyment of their rights, persons, liberty, and property. Whereas large numbers of lawless and evil-disposed persons, especially ... (H.R. 189)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund certain moneys erroneously covered into the Treasury, arising from the sales of property seized in violation of prohibitory instructions from the Treasury ... (H.R. 210)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back by Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the just and equitable distribution of the award made to the United States by the ... (H.R. 3139)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Carpenter with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Elias C. Boudinot. (H.R. 1868)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Edmunds with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to prevent smuggling, and for other purposes," approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 187)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Edmunds with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for holding a circuit court of the United States in the western district of Missouri," approved June eighth, eighteen ... (H.R. 3021)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth census. (H.R. 243)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the relief of purchasers of lands sold for direct taxes in the insurrectionary States. (H.R. 106)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To extend the time in which certain offenses may be prosecuted. (H.R. 188)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull with an amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act To prevent and punish the obstruction of the administration of justice in the courts of the United States. (H.R. 1017)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported on favorably with amendments: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 320)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. To amend an act entitled "An act to establish the Department of Justice, and for other purposes." (H.R. 1891)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Library. An Act For the relief of Edward G. Allen, of London, England. (H.R. 2034)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Biggs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Burton and Charles C. Stockley, of Georgetown, Delaware. (H.R. 3127)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the disabilities of Lucius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi. (H.R. 3125)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States. An Act To authorize the payment of the census-takers of eighteen hundred and sixty. (H.R. 3610)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States. Committee discharged and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the printed in italics. An Act To revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes ... (H.R. 1)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws. An Act To provide for the preparation and presentation to Congress of the Revision of the Laws of the United States, consolidating the laws relating to the post-roads, and a code relating to military offences, and their revision of treaties with the Indian tribes now in force. (H.R. 4061)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act For the relief of Algernon S. Worth. (H.R. 2950)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act For the relief of John Forsythe, of Mobile, Alabama. (H.R. 3729)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act For the removal of the disabilities of Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia. (H.R. 3561)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act For the removal of the political disabilities of I. Ernest Meire, of the State of Maryland. (H.R. 3249)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act Removing disabilities of certain persons therein named. (H.R. 2965)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act Removing the political disabilities of L. A. Sypert, Luke W. Trafton, A. J. Sisk, and John Couch. (H.R. 1329)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve certain citizens of Georgia from political disabilities. (H.R. 1183)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve certain citizens of Georgia from political disabilities. (H.R. 1322)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve certain citizens of Georgia therein named from their political disabilities. (H.R. 1857)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve certain persons therein named from political disabilities. (H.R. 1858)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1759)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2564)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve certain persons therein named from their political disabilities. (H.R. 2189)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve Edward White, of St. Louis, Missouri, from disabilities under the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution. (H.R. 1659)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve from disabilities W. R. Boggs, of Missouri. (H.R. 3612)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve from political disabilities certain persons in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 1757)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve James Moore, of Mississippi, of his political disabilities. (H.R. 177)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve John J. Bradford of his political disabilities. (H.R. 175)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve Robert E. Cowan, of Kansas City, Missouri, of political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 1660)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve the person therein named from legal and political disabilities. (H.R. 1321)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve the political disabilities of certain persons therein named. (H.R. 1326)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve the political disabilities of Charles H. McBlair, of Maryland. (H.R. 176)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve the political disabilities of Lucius J. Gartrell, of Fulton County, Georgia, and other persons therein named. (H.R. 2971)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To relieve William Smith, of Fauquier County, Virginia, of his political disabilities. (H.R. 3954)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove disabilities from certain citizens of South Carolina, therein named. (H.R. 1185)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States from Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia. (H.R. 3844)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution upon certain persons therein named, in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 1533)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the disabilities of certain persons herein named. (H.R. 1325)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the disabilities of J. L. M. Curry, of Virginia, and others therein named. (H.R. 2980)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the disabilities of William A. Graham, a citizen of North Carolina. (H.R. 3555)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the legal and political disabilities of John H. Reagan, of Anderson County, Texas. (H.R. 3092)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the legal disabilities of Shelton F. Leake, of Albemarle County, Virginia. (H.R. 3611)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the political disabilities of all persons included by the classes of persons therein designated. (H.R. 1389)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the political disabilities of certain citizens of Mississippi. (H.R. 885)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the political disabilities of Daniel C. Dejarnette, of Virginia. (H.R. 3730)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the political disabilities of George S. Houston, Joseph Wheeler, John A. Campbell, James L. Pugh, and John R. Burtwell, of Alabama. (H.R. 2967)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the political disabilities of John H. Halley, of Jasper County, Illinois. (H.R. 4)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the political disabilities of John V. Wright, of Tennessee. (H.R. 3790)

Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. An Act To remove the political disabilities of the persons therein named. (H.R. 2939)

Read twice and referred to the, Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Charles Lynch. (H.R. 2537)

Read twice and referred, to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of David Sergeant. (H.R. 1902)

Read twice referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a national university. Whereas it is the duty of every government to secure to its people facilities for the highest culture, no less than the means of elementary education; and Whereas it ... (H.R. 2839)

Read twice referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of the heirs of Purnel Howard, deceased. (H.R. 1622)

Read twice referred to the Committee on Private land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relinquish the title of the United States to certain lands in the parish of Livingston, State of Louisiana. (H.R. 1695)

Read twice, amended, recommitted to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed; motion to reconsider the order to recommit pending. Mr. Shoemaker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Helena and Northern Utah Railroad Company, and grant the same the right of way through the public lands. (H.R. 2634)

Read twice, and pending on engrossment, the morning hour expired. Recommitted to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed with the proposed amendments. Mr. Merriam, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported the following bill: A Bill To facilitate bank clearing-house exchanges. (H.R. 1764)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Repealing the duty on tea and coffee. (H.R. 174)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary O'Donald. (H.R. 2513)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for Monday next, February 17, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the repair, ... (H.R. 3922)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for to-morrow, February 12, and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James A. Garfield, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the ... (H.R. 3921)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House Read twice, ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles F. Carr, of Boston. (H.R. 2899)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To compensate Elbridge Gerry for important services. (H.R. 2637)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of half-pay of Captain John Davis, a revolutionary officer. (H.R. 3011)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to purchase for the Government of the United States the right to manufacture and use the Emery and ... (H.R. 2054)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James De Long, late United States consul at Aux Cayes, Hayti. (H.R. 2622)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. H. Underhill. (H.R. 2050)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles W. Denton, of Oregon. (H.R. 2901)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and made a special order for to-morrow after the morning hour and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Marshall, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal ... (H.R. 1661)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and made a special order for to-morrow and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Garfield, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the ... (H.R. 1654)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal existing duties on tea and coffee. (H.R. 1537)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the further reduction of taxes and the encouragement of commerce. (H.R. 2348)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for Thursday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Freeman Clarke, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of ... (H.R. 1071)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for Thursday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Swann, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the consular and ... (H.R. 1323)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for Tuesday next after the morning hour and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James A. Garfield, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for sundry civil ... (H.R. 2705)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for Tuesday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the legislative, ... (H.R. 1060)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for Wednesday next (January 31) after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the ... (H.R. 1192)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for Wednesday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the service of the ... (H.R. 1070)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the examination and payment of the claim of Albert Grant. (H.R. 2035)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made the special order for Tuesday next, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service for ... (H.R. 1191)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Saturday, January 11, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service ... (H.R. 3351)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for to-morrows after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Dickey, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the Army for ... (H.R. 3850)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Dawes, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce duties on imports and to reduce internal ... (H.R. 2322)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Dawes, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2322) to reduce duties on imports and to reduce ... (H.R. 2322)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Dickey, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the Army ... (H.R. 1541)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Niblack, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the construction, ... (H.R. 1671)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Palmer, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the service of the ... (H.R. 3498)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday next, February 4, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Marshall, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Making ... (H.R. 3737)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday next, January 14, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Niblack, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the ... (H.R. 3352)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday, December 10, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the current and ... (H.R. 2989)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday, the seventh day of January next, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Swann, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations ... (H.R. 3258)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, made a special order for Wednesday, December 12, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. James A. Garfield, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the ... (H.R. 2990)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Black, late consul of the United States at the city of Mexico. (H.R. 2568)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of T. H. Holderness, owner of the British ship Duke of Edinburgh. (H.R. 2570)

Read twice, engrossed, read third time and passed, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willard, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting pensions to the survivors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve who served sixty days, and to their widows," ... (H.R. 2571)

Read twice, made a special order for Thursday next, March 28, at one and a half o'clock, to the exclusion of all other orders, and from day to day until disposed of, not to interfere with reports from the Committees of Ways and Means and Appropriations, and ordered to be printed with proposed amendments. Note.--Parts printed in italics are taken ... (H.R. 2116)

Read twice, motion to recommit pending, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, from the Select Committee on the President's Message, reported the following bill: A Bill To enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 320)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Claims. Mr. A. Blair, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To reimburse the State of Kansas for moneys expended for the United States in enrolling, equipping, and provisioning militia forces to aid in suppressing the rebellion. (H.R. 1063)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Palmer, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill To connect the telegraph with the postal service and to reduce the rates of correspondence by telegraph. (H.R. 3261)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations; motion to reconsider the vote whereby the bill was ordered to be recommitted pending. Mr. Niblack, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay out to the owners thereof the proceeds of ... (H.R. 2566)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Mr. Merriam, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported the following bill: A Bill For the better security of bank reserves, and to facilitate bank clearing-house exchanges. (H.R. 1869)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Motion to reconsider motion to recommit pending. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To promote immigration to the United States. (H.R. 1925)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Conger, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To promote immigration to the United States. (H.R. 1925)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Note.--Parts printed in italics are taken from the present law. Mr. Negley, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part ... (H.R. 1850)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Education and Labor. Mr. Perce, from the Committee on Education and Labor, reported the following bill: A Bill For the better security of agricultural college funds. (H.R. 1938)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Education and Labor. Mr. Perce, from the Committee on Education and Labor, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish an educational fund, and to apply the proceeds of the public lands to the education of the people. (H.R. 1043)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Education and Labor. Reported with amendments. By unanimous consent, taken from the morning hour, and made a special order, to the exclusion of all other special orders, for Friday of this week and Tuesday of next week, after one and a half o'clock, and previous question to be ... (H.R. 1043)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Education and Labor. Reported with amendments. By unanimous consent, taken from the Speaker's table, and made a special order, to the exclusion of all other special orders, for Friday of this week and Tuesday of next week, after one and a half o'clock, and previous question to ... (H.R. 1043)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Leonard Myers, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Relative to the Centennial International Exhibition, to be held in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six. ... (H.R. 2708)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Mary A. P. Brown, widow of John P. Brown, late secretary to the United States legation at the Ottoman Porte. (H.R. 3614)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Packard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Relative to the convention with Venezuela. (H.R. 1859)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Mr. Shanks, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Miami Indians, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1536)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Mr. Shanks, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To abolish the tribal relations of the Miami Indians, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1535)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Miles and Mining. Mr. Kendall, from the Committee on Mines and Mining, reported the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Sutro tunnel from the proceeds of the sale of mineral lands. Whereas our public lands contain mines of the precious metals which are ... (H.R. 2966)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Coburn, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 1665)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Slocum, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the sale of certain arsenals and other property of the United States. (H.R. 1863)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back without amendment; pending the question on engrossment, House adjourned. Recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Pending the question on engrossment, the morning hour expired. Ordered to be printed. Strike out the part in [brackets] and ... (H.R. 1665)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Mines and Mining. Mr. Waldron, from the Committee on Mines and Mining, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish an assay-office at Helena, in the Territory of Montana. (H.R. 2056)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Whitthorne, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Appropriating two thousand five hundred dollars to test a plan for the artificial production of rain, and so forth. (H.R. 2930)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Patents. Mr. Leonard Myers, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to patents and copyrights," approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 4004)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Printing. Mr. Beatty, from the Committee on Printing, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the distribution of public documents. (H.R. 2252)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Private Land-Claims. Mr. Upson, from the Committee on Private Land-Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for ascertaining and settling private land-claims in certain States and Territories. (H.R. 3517)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, reported the following bill: A Bill To further regulate the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and to prevent delays ... (H.R. 891)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States. Mr. Lansing, from the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, reported the following bill: A Bill Amending an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March ... (H.R. 1332)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812. Mr. Willard, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, reported the following bill: A Bill Restoring the names of certain persons to the pension-rolls, and in amendment of an act entitled "An act granting pensions to ... (H.R. 3503)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To adjust the salaries of the executive, judicial, and legislative departments of the Government. (H.R. 3852)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2564)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Bingham, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To aid the execution of the laws in the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 2694)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Mercur, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the ... (H.R. 1929)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill Referring certain claims to the Court of Claims for examination and decision. (H.R. 3500)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. Mr. Wheeler, from the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, reported the following bill: A Bill Relating to the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Whereas the Central Pacific Railroad, the western link in the chain of railroads connecting the Atlantic and ... (H.R. 1553)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. Reported back with amendments. Ordered to be printed with pending amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Wheeler, from the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, reported the following bill: A Bill ... (H.R. 1553)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Hawley, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To secure the public lands to actual settlers. (H.R. 1852)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Hawley, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To secure the public lands to actual settlers. (H.R. 2117)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Slater, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon. (H.R. 1767)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Washington Townsend, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company to change their projected line of railway in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1766)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Hawley without amendment ', pending, when the morning hour expired. Amended; further amendments submitted, pending which, morning hour expired; ordered to be printed as amended with the pending amendments. Mr. Hawley, from the Committee on the ... (H.R. 2117)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Joint Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States. Mr. Poland, from the Joint Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the provisions of the fourth section of the act approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 1648)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Chipman, from the Select Committee on the Washington Monument, reported the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Washington monument. (H.R. 4035)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Hibbard, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of For the relief of Rollin White. (H.R. 4056)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. J. M. Wilson, from the Select Committee on Credit Mobilier No. 2, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for securing the interests of the United States and the public in the Central Pacific Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4060)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, from the Select Committee on the Credit Mobilier, (No. 2, January 6,) reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph-line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the ... (H.R. 4031)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Upson, from the Committee on Private Land-Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill In relation to new trials in case of private land-claims against the United States. (H.R. 4052)

Read twice, postponed until to-morrow after the reading of the journal, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the seizure and examination of invoices, books, and papers in customs revenue cases. (H.R. 2325)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the estate of Henry K. Sanger, late United States designated depositary at Detroit, Michigan, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3876)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the issue of bonds in lieu of destroyed or defaced bonds of the United States. (H.R. 2565)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the safety of bonds of the United States. (H.R. 3712)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain loyal creditors, whose moneys were confiscated by the confederate congress, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 2985)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 2642)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the payment to the government of Japan, from the indemnity fund, the sum due on account of rents for lands and buildings occupied by the diplomatic and consular ... (H.R. 2797)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to appoint one or more commissioners to represent the Government of the United States at the international exposition of ... (H.R. 2800)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appointment of a secretary of legation at the court of Japan, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2799)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To release the government of Japan from the payment of the balance of the indemnity fund remaining unpaid, amounting to three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, under ... (H.R. 2798)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. S. Macomber. (H.R. 3935)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to patents and copyrights," approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 2857)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to patents and copyrights," approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 2857)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2644)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the ... (H.R. 2475)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, from the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes," ... (H.R. 2125)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Richard C. McCormick, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the time within which the State of Alabama may select swamp-lands. (H.R. 3845)

Read twice, referred from the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments; pending when morning hour expired. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Railways and Canals. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the ... (H.R. 969)

Read twice, referred to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for to-morrow at 1 o'clock, and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James A. Garfield, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the ... (H.R. 4051)

Read twice, referred to a Committee of the whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckley, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Oliver Moses, Frank O. Moses, Galen C. Moses, Charles Owen, and Robert P. Manson, all of Bath, and George W. Edge, of Richmond, Maine, owners of the ship John Carver. (H.R. 4073)

Read twice, referred to a committee of the whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Charles Foster, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edwin and George D. Pitkin, copartners under the firm-name of Butler and Pitkin, of New York City. (H.R. 3942)

Read twice, referred to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. George E. Harris, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jonathan D. Hale. (H.R. 4028)

Read twice, referred to Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Shreveport and Upper Red River Improvement Company. (H.R. 65)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Mutual Protection Fire Insurance Company of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3895)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid the American Printing-House and University for the Blind. Whereas the great expense of providing facilities for the education of the blind precludes the investment of private capital; and ... (H.R. 3900)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To allow the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company to establish a depot, and form a connection with other railroads, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2474)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company to run trains and transport freight and passengers within the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2847)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Citizens' Savings-Bank of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3525)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating two hundred thousand dollars for the completion of the Washington National Monument. (H.R. 1179)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the extension of the railway of the Metropolitan Railroad Company, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2240)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Confirming an act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, to incorporate the Boundary and Silver Spring Railway Company. (H.R. 3699)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of the harbor of Washington, and making an appropriation therefor. (H.R. 3479)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the regulation of equity proceedings in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1309)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church of Washington City. (H.R. 3989)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting additional railroad facilities to the people of Washington City and Georgetown. (H.R. 3697)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the public schools of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2001)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the Washington City Light Artillery. (H.R. 3988)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Prohibiting gift enterprises in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3482)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to assessments in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3477)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to assessments in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3985)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to improving the river front of Washington City. (H.R. 3478)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to mortgages in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 768)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the supreme court of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2620)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Restoring to the marshal of the District of Columbia the exclusive supervision of the jail in said District. (H.R. 3273)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia," approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one. (H.R. 1308)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled "An act to authorize the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Company to extend a railroad into and within the District of Columbia," approved January, ... (H.R. 3701)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in maintaining the fire department in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2320)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act governing the colored schools of the District of Columbia." (H.R. 3113)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the creation of corporations in the District of Columbia by general law." (H.R. 766)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend and consolidate the several acts establishing and relating to a Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2472)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend and consolidate the several acts establishing and relating to a Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 875)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the charter of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company. (H.R. 2000)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the usury laws of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1645)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a substantial iron or masonry bridge across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac at or near the present Anacostia bridge. (H.R. 2184)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian Congregation of Georgetown to dispose of real estate. (H.R. 3481)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Company to extend a railroad into and within the District of Columbia. Whereas it is represented to this present Congress that the ... (H.R. 1916)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To cure defective titles in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1644)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To declare inauguration day a legal holiday. (H.R. 3696)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To define the meaning of the four million loan acts passed by the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1915)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the salary of the members of the board of health of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1047)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant permission to open a public highway through a portion of the grounds around the United States Hospital for the Insane. (H.R. 3992)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1643)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Gruetli-Verein Joint Stock Company. (H.R. 3272)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the capital stock and to extend the works of the Washington Gas-Light Company. (H.R. 2833)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To protect the title to property heretofore or hereafter sold for taxes in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2832)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for extending the time of payment of special assessments, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3475)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for extending the time of payment of special assessments, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3986)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the better education of the indigent blind in the District of Columbia. Whereas the Secretary of the Interior is authorized by law to educate the indigent blind of the District of ... (H.R. 3480)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the removal of the wooden buildings on Judiciary Square. (H.R. 3476)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reimburse the owners of property on Pennsylvania avenue for cost of wooden pavement laid pursuant to act of Congress approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 2241)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the act entitled "An act to provide a government for the District of Columbia." (H.R. 1446)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section five of the general incorporation law of the District of Columbia, in relation to cemeteries. (H.R. 105)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a franchise for a line of coaches from the National Capital to the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia. (H.R. 1190)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Washington, Cincinnati and Saint Louis Railroad Company to extend their road into the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3012)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company to put down and operate a temporary railway-track through certain streets in the city of Washington. (H.R. 3780)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamport, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit the manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquors, as a beverage, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3391)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the American Law Times Company, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 2160)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Northern Liberty Market Company. (H.R. 1516)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act to confirm the section of the board of aldermen and common council of the city of Washington, designating a depot-site for the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad ... (H.R. 2918)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal a certain provision in the charter of the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company of Washington, District of Columbia. (H.R. 2382)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the protection of birds and fish in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1747)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To construct one or two night accumulating reservoirs on the north border of the city of Washington. (H.R. 2110)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Approving the building of the Washington and East Alexandria Union Railroad. (H.R. 3145)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1083)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm the action of the authorities of the District of Columbia in designating a depot site for the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company. (H.R. 1084)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Southern Express Company. (H.R. 910)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the admission of pupils into the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. (H.R. 911)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeat an act entitled "An act to revive, with amendments and the act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia," approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 733)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, of Indiana, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Washington and Rock Creek Valley Railroad Company. (H.R. 3960)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Properties of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery. (H.R. 3987)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Curtis and Tilden. (H.R. 3928)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed Mr. Garrett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section two of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes," approved March third, ... (H.R. 1895)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend certain acts therein named. (H.R. 971)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. A Bill For the relief of James E. Barnes and nine others, citizens of the State of California. (H.R. 1493)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. A. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the commissioners of claims to appoint special commissioners to take testimony, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1149)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aaron F. Perry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain contractors for the construction of vessels of war and steam-machinery. (H.R. 1698)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ambler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles W. Pierce and Jacob C. Brubaker, sureties on the official bond of Daniel Price, late postmaster at Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama. (H.R. 3186)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Dadds. (H.R. 2315)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of C. E. Hedges. (H.R. 3596)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George W. Black. (H.R. 2096)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Carroll, of Campbell County, Kentucky, crippled for life while in the line of duty, in command of the United States dispatch-boat Sallie Woods, at Cairo, Illinois. (H.R. 821)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund to Samuel Colcord and sixteen other citizens of the county of Pendleton, in the State of Kentucky, three hundred dollars each, with interest thereon from the thirtieth day of July, anno Domini eighteen ... (H.R. 1971)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. E. Cowles. (H.R. 1901)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. E. Cowles. (H.R. 2581)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles W. Adams. (H.R. 1987)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James McGinnis. (H.R. 1383)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriation for the payment of claims reported allowed by the commissioners of claims under the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 2582)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of claims reported allowed by the commissioners of claims under the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 3583)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Amherst H. Wilder. (H.R. 2659)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of N. Clay Wood, major and assistant adjutant general, United States Army. (H.R. 2755)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Oliver Moses and others, owners of the ship John Carver. (H.R. 1221)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make compensation to the captors of the steamers Morning Light and Louisiana Belle during the late war. (H.R. 2261)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barnum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frederick Smith. (H.R. 2393)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Baskervill and Henry B. Whitfield, and to compensate them for valuable services rendered the Government of the United States. (H.R. 2107)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beatty, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel M. Paige, late first lieutenant of the Thirty-eighth United States Infantry. (H.R. 692)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the compensation of agents and attorneys prosecuting claims or demands before Congress and the Executive Departments of the Government, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1926)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Albert H. Daniels, surviving partner of the late firm of Daniels and Company. (H.R. 1079)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the adjustment of the accounts of certain railroad and transportation companies. (H.R. 2810)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Paul Curtis's executors. (H.R. 3927)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Atlantic Works of Boston, Massachusetts. (H.R. 3929)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Globe Works of Boston, Massachusetts. (H.R. 3926)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Richard W. Meade. Whereas prior to the treaty of eighteen hundred and nineteen between the United States and Spain the government of Spain was justly indebted to Richard ... (H.R. 3881)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Israel Yount. Whereas the Washington Hotel, owned by Israel Yount, in Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania, was taken possession of and occupied as a hospital by the First Corps, Army of the ... (H.R. 2646)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Waugh. (H.R. 2718)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beveridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John H. Hooper. Whereas, on or about the first day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at the city of Keokuk, in the State of Iowa, a stock of drugs and store-fixtures, owned ... (H.R. 1717)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigby, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. F. D. Spain, widow of William B. Spain, deceased. (H.R. 3978)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigby, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Hunt. (H.R. 2359)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigby, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen ... (H.R. 1447)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Biggs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Reverend I. T. Cooper, of Camden, Delaware. (H.R. 3893)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Preston. (H.R. 1888)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow and heirs of Gilead Moore, late private Company I, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteers. (H.R. 1887)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To compensate John Fordyce, John W. Robins, and Francis Trott, of Guernsey County, Ohio, for property burned and destroyed at Campbell's Station, on the Central Ohio Railroad, in said county, July twenty-fourth, ... (H.R. 1702)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bird, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Stephen H. Myers, of Bound Brook, New Jersey. (H.R. 1573)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of C. W. C. Dunnington. (H.R. 3409)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of E. E. Downham, of Alexandria, Virginia. (H.R. 3410)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Green of Alexandria, Virginia. (H.R. 3408)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the benefit of the Presbyterian Church in Murfreesborough, Tennessee. (H.R. 2377)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Van Camp, Chapin, and others. (H.R. 26)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. Snowden and Son. (H.R. 1620)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Ash, of Sterling, Illinois. Whereas James Ash, by John Campbell, in December, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entered from the United States the northeast quarter of section seventeen, ... (H.R. 1828)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jonathan White, senior. (H.R. 2394)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Chester. (H.R. 3311)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caldwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain citizens of the State of Tennessee. (H.R. 1606)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caldwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Friendship Lodge, Number Twenty-two, of Trenton, Tennessee. Whereas the troops of the Army of the United States occupied the building which belonged to and was owned by the Independent Order of ... (H.R. 1365)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Charles Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alpheus Fobes, late pension agent in New York City. (H.R. 1601)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Charles Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas D. West, of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio. (H.R. 1261)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Bryan Tyson, to indemnify him for moneys paid as a deficit for certain mail service. (H.R. 1107)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Minerva Tilley, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, widow of Durell Tilley, deceased. (H.R. 3495)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the erection of a court-house in Hertford County, North Carolina, to supply the place of one destroyed by the Federal forces. (H.R. 1244)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edward C. Garlick. (H.R. 2373)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Caleb Kerr, of Jackson County, Missouri. (H.R. 2580)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Brice, of Kansas City, Missouri, on account of damages and loss or property by depredations committed by the Arapahoe Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, near Fort Lyon. (H.R. 3243)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Referring certain claims of loyal citizens of the State of Missouri to the commissioners of claims appointed under the act of Congress of the United States, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, ... (H.R. 1378)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of M. Walker, of Port Huron, Michigan. (H.R. 3682)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of R. Caslor, of Port Huron, Michigan. (H.R. 3681)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Wildman Mills, of Michigan. (H.R. 3680)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Catharine Wilson, widow of Harrison Wilson, deceased. (H.R. 3442)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel G. Hay, late collector of internal revenue for the thirteenth district of Illinois. (H.R. 3580)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William P. Haliday and S. B. Haliday, of Cairo, Illinois. (H.R. 716)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crocker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Julia A. Nutt. (H.R. 4048)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Darrall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Christian Mornhinoeg. (H.R. 2365)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Darrall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Miller, of Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. (H.R. 3902)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John McHarg, late collector of internal revenue for the fifth collection-district of the State of New York. (H.R. 3385)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dodd, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jeremiah Darling. (H.R. 3240)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dodds, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Millward. (H.R. 3268)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the payment of a sum of money to the widow of Henry C. Fillebrown, a civil engineer, who lost his life by drowning in the Coosa River, in the State of Alabama, when engaged in the service of the United ... (H.R. 681)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of the city of Huntsville, Alabama, the value of their church building, which was destroyed by fire because of its occupation by soldiers of the United ... (H.R. 1881)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Du Bose, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Bernard Rice. (H.R. 3958)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. DuBose, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the State of Georgia and Henry S. French to sue in the Court of Claims for proceeds of cotton taken by the military authorities of the United States. (H.R. 3170)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander H. Davis. (H.R. 3394)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Catherine H. Peck, of Lisle, Broome County, State of New York. (H.R. 3537)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George L. Maynard and Edward B. Griswold. (H.R. 1567)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of R. Nelson Gere. (H.R. 1228)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anna Perry, of Elizabeth City County, Virginia. (H.R. 1313)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain citizens of Lynchburgh, Virginia, against whom internal-revenue taxes have been wrongfully assessed and collected. (H.R. 1575)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. H. Meredith, late postmaster at Wade, Bedford County, Virginia. (H.R. 1803)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Markham, of Virginia. (H.R. 3165)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William H. Better. (H.R. 2587)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Durrall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert N. McMillan, late collector of customs and superintendent of lights for the district of Teche, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 3959)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldredge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Burchard, of Greenbush, Wisconsin. (H.R. 3601)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldredge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Weeks, of Plymouth, Wisconsin. (H.R. 3600)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eli Perry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Margaretta Van Rensselaer. (H.R. 1226)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David J. Millard, of Clayville, New York, for damages under a contract to furnish ten thousand cavalry sabers for the Government. (H.R. 3746)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Marklein, late sutler of the One hundred and seventy-eighth New York Volunteers. (H.R. 1431)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Erasmus W. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edward Gallaher. (H.R. 3896)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farnsworth, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edmund Jussen. (H.R. 3443)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farnsworth, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of T. P. Robb, of Savannah, Georgia. (H.R. 2162)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edmund Jussen. (H.R. 2291)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elijah R. Merrill. (H.R. 900)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of F. and E. Reed, of Bath, in the State of Maine, for the arrest and detention of their ship at the port of Valencia, Spain. (H.R. 626)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James M. Hagar. (H.R. 2259)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Martha L. Hambleton. (H.R. 2126)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of S. D. Cochran. (H.R. 1870)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel C. Beohm and others. (H.R. 3631)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. G. W. Hazelton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George W. Sturtevant. (H.R. 1310)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallegos, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Mrs. R. L. De Leon. (H.R. 3595)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garrett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to pay, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars to Mrs. Clara Ida Grass, a citizen of ... (H.R. 1896)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gerry W. Hazelton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William B. West, late United States consul at Dublin, Ireland. Whereas William B. West, esquire, late United States consul at Dublin, Ireland, was necessarily called upon, by the ... (H.R. 1636)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Getz, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel McKay. (H.R. 3013)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Giddings, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. V. Philpot, of Galveston, Texas. (H.R. 3314)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Giddings, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Julius Greisenbeck, of Waco, Texas. (H.R. 3705)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Giddings, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Harriet R. Alsbury. (H.R. 2826)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Andrew Morrison, a citizen of Tennessee. (H.R. 2226)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth D. German, of Tennessee. (H.R. 2081)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ella Davies, administratrix de bonis non of William H. Calhoun, deceased, citizen of Tennessee. (H.R. 2575)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ferdinand Kuhn, of Nashville, Tennessee. (H.R. 3428)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Bauman, of Nashville, Tennessee. (H.R. 3429)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Tulloss, of Williamson County, Tennessee. (H.R. 1975)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John O. Cage, of Tennessee. (H.R. 1976)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Anderson, of Nashville, Tennessee. (H.R. 3427)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs-at-law of William B. Lewis, deceased. (H.R. 1268)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of W. B. Waldron, a citizen of Tennessee. (H.R. 2576)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of W. H. Wilhite, of Tennessee. (H.R. 4040)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William S. Burgess, of Tennessee. (H.R. 4041)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of claims for rent arising in States declared in insurrection. (H.R. 2574)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griffith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John B. Hogue, late first lieutenant Company I, Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry. (H.R. 657)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griffith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William G. Barnard, late a clerk in the customhouse in the city of New York. (H.R. 1559)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griffith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Ivers, of Santa Fe, New Mexico. (H.R. 1242)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For ascertaining the compensation justly due to loyal citizens of States not declared in insurrection for private property taken in time of war for public use. (H.R. 3278)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the payment of judgments of the Court of Claims, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3151)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Goen W. Plummer. (H.R. 1675)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William E. Caswell. (H.R. 2258)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting relief to Harlan P. Eggleston. (H.R. 2210)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Halsey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Newark India-Rubber Manufacturing Company, of Newark, New Jersey. (H.R. 3491)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hancock, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John P. Kelsey. (H.R. 3768)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing and instructing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay William A. Welch, deputy United States marshal, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-five cents for services rendered the Government in ... (H.R. 1360)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jasper N. Pittman. (H.R. 2220)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cyrus P. Mendenhall, of Greensborough, North Carolina. (H.R. 2722)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mont Patton, of Buncombe County, North Carolina. (H.R. 1590)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To re-imburse the Judson Female College, in Henderson County, North Carolina, for damages sustained from occupation by the United States troops after the close of the war of the rebellion. (H.R. 3558)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josiah Cunningham. (H.R. 2087)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Doctor A. F. Alexander, of Eutaw, Greene County, Alabama. (H.R. 3759)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hays, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josiah Morris. Whereas Josiah Morris did, on the twenty-fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, pay to John Hardy, the marshal of the United States for the middle district of Alabama, ... (H.R. 1312)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Henry D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George S. Wright, administrator of the estate of John T. Wright, deceased. (H.R. 3402)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Henry D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Referring the claim of J. Snowden and Son to the Court of Claims. (H.R. 4000)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the trustees of Wildey Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Charlestown, West Virginia. (H.R. 3227)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John N. Reed, of the State of Texas. (H.R. 2657)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of W. I. Hurt, postmaster at Tyler, Texas. (H.R. 2584)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Webster M. Raines. (H.R. 3634)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Hamilton Woolen Company of Southbridge, Massachusetts. (H.R. 1404)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lewis Hartwell, of Jefferson County, Indiana. (H.R. 1822)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas F. Spencer, of Indiana. (H.R. 1274)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Johnson. (H.R. 1978)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Vails, late a private in Company C, Third Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Cavalry. (H.R. 1275)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure indemnity to the United States in certain cases. (H.R. 3487)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the payment of three hundred dollars to T. H. Logan and D. T. McCoy for the expense of, and as a reward for, the capture of Frank A. Salters, an escaped convict. (H.R. 1141)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. B. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund interest paid by the State of Missouri on money expended by her on account of the war for the suppression of the rebellion. (H.R. 1328)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. H. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Colonel E. M'Carty, of Illinois. (H.R. 3082)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. H. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James M. True, late colonel of the Sixty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 246)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the family of Peter H. Cookus, deceased. (H.R. 975)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the State of Connecticut and other States. (H.R. 3263)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Bayne, trustee, and so forth. (H.R. 3166)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William H. Newman and L. A. Van Hoofmann. (H.R. 3167)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James G. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Moore. (H.R. 1144)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James G. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Leopold R. Straus, of Macon City, Missouri. (H.R. 2652)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Richard H. Swift. (H.R. 3118)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of W. T. Bowers. (H.R. 1899)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John A. Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. G. Collins. (H.R. 2077)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John A. Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of L. T. Kautz, postmaster at Lavana, Ohio. (H.R. 2820)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Burke and Kunkel for pig-iron taken by agent of the Treasury of the United States. (H.R. 2272)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of claimants for property destroyed by the authority of the United States during the rebellion. (H.R. 3032)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of E. A. Fulcher, to refund purchase-money of Tice meters. (H.R. 3414)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of G. W. Taylor, late postmaster at Winchester, Virginia. (H.R. 2842)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Perry Broyles. (H.R. 2841)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of James M. Baher. (H.R. 1806)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Burke, of Virginia. (H.R. 2672)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William T. Simms. (H.R. 2843)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. R. Dodge. (H.R. 1699)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jesse E. Peyton. (H.R. 1558)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. H. McColley. (H.R. 2095)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. M. Barnes, postmaster at Pioche, Lincoln County, State of Nevada. (H.R. 3466)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Black and Albert R. Cooper. (H.R. 887)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. W. Bowling and J. S. Golladay, citizens of Kentucky. (H.R. 2579)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company. Whereas, early in the late rebellion, the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad was taken possession of by the United States, and was used and occupied, together ... (H.R. 2845)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to declare the sense of an act entitled 'An act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and to provide for ... (H.R. 2846)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Killinger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Paine. (H.R. 1351)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George H. Copher, of Hawks Point, Lincoln County, Missouri. (H.R. 1981)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Tinsley, Van Horn and Company, Glenn, Overall and Clark, and J. N. Henderson and Company, of Louisiana, Missouri. (H.R. 847)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of University of the State of Missouri. (H.R. 3679)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William H. Moss, Adam I. Jamison, and William L. Terry, of Clarksville, Pike County, Missouri. Whereas the post-office at Clarksville, Missouri, was feloniously and forcibly broken open and entered ... (H.R. 996)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamison, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Hipp, of Saint Mary's, Auglaize County Ohio. (H.R. 1262)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamport, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alonzo Snyder, of Livingston County, New York. (H.R. 2212)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamport, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of L. Merchant and Company. (H.R. 1569)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles H. Carpenter, of New Haven, New York. (H.R. 925)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Oswego Distillery Company of Oswego, New York. (H.R. 636)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leach, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the destruction of the court-house at Lexington, North Carolina, by the Federal soldiers, by fire, while occupied as officers' quarters and barracks, in the month of November, eighteen ... (H.R. 1809)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lewis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George D. Blakey, late collector of the second district of Kentucky. (H.R. 1707)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles W. Willey. (H.R. 2176)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. Frank McDowell, formerly postmaster at Columbus, Kansas. (H.R. 2175)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced, the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the appointment of a commissioner and the settlement of the claims of certain citizens of Kansas named therein. (H.R. 271)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McClelland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John B. Hays, late assessor of internal revenue for the twentieth district of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 3957)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McGrew, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the relief of Abram H. Herr. Whereas the property known as the Island of Virginius, and adjoining premises, consisting of twenty-nine buildings and twelve acres of land, more or less, situate in the ... (H.R. 1172)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Crawford. (H.R. 1443)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Harding. (H.R. 2758)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of G. W. Irwin. (H.R. 2351)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting relief to Thomas McLaughlin, late a major in the One hundred and second Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 1878)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander Duvall. (H.R. 3567)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Margaret Ward. (H.R. 3566)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Martha A. Booth, of Canton, Mississippi. (H.R. 3663)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the better and more uniform settlement of certain claims against the United States. (H.R. 959)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Holmes Sells. (H.R. 1799)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edwin Butler and George U. Pitkin, copartners under firm-name of Butler and Pitkin, of New York City. (H.R. 1682)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James A. Bell, of Dexter, in the State of New York. (H.R. 1348)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles May. (H.R. 2182)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eleonora Umber. (H.R. 2662)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Stout, disbursing agent of the Treasury at Boise City, Idaho Territory. (H.R. 1642)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant Paris L. Reed. (H.R. 1403)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Brown and James Robinson. (H.R. 3568)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Donald McKay. (H.R. 3031)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morphis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For payment of certain property destroyed by the United States Army in Mississippi. (H.R. 1455)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morphis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Allen White, of Chickasaw County, Mississippi. (H.R. 2650)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morphis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay to Horace D. Mead the proceeds of certain cotton therein named. (H.R. 1454)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain citizens of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 945)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Ayres and George Wolfin and Company, of Indiana. (H.R. 356)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Horace B. Shepard, of Indiana. (H.R. 357)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced following bill: A Bill For the relief of Bixby E. Dodson, of Hardin County, Iowa. (H.R. 1835)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay Samuel Adams for services rendered in exploring the Colorado River and its tributaries. (H.R. 1012)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay Samuel Adams for services rendered in exploring the Colorado River and its tributaries. (H.R. 260)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of G. S. Baker, of Maryville, Missouri, for the reissue of a certain bond. (H.R. 112)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Julia A. Nutt, widow and executrix of Haller Nutt, deceased. (H.R. 3251)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. G. Tebault, of Princess Anne County, Virginia. (H.R. 2680)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. G. Tebault, of Virginia. (H.R. 3343)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of John Henry, deceased. (H.R. 2352)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reimburse Robert Clarke, of Petersburgh, Virginia, for rent of stables by the United States Government. (H.R. 798)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Danford Mott. (H.R. 2338)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Joslin. (H.R. 2131)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Referring the claim of John H. Russell to the Court of Claims. (H.R. 2594)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confer upon the Court of Claims jurisdiction of the claim of Brevet Brigadier General B. S. Roberts. (H.R. 628)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John R. Holland. (H.R. 1103)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the State of Georgia the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or such other sum as may be found due said State, for the use of the Western and Atlantic Railroad ... (H.R. 2670)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. C. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To quiet title to land in the city of Tucson, Arizona Territory. (H.R. 3235)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. M. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of B. F. Speedy, late first lieutenant Second Battalion Six Months' Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 1963)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. M. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of F. B. Steuart, postmaster at Altoona, Pennsylvania. Whereas the post-office at Altoona, Pennsylvania, was broken into by burglars, on the night of the seventh of October, anno Domini eighteen ... (H.R. 658)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. Milton Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Brice X. Blair, postmaster at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Whereas the post-office at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, was broken into on the night of October twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 1562)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of D. C. Trewhett, late an adjutant of the First Brigade Tennessee Volunteers. (H.R. 2821)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rainey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Masonic Lodge of Georgetown, South Carolina. (H.R. 1245)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ritchie, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. M. D. Dall. (H.R. 3656)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ritchie, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate three hundred thousand dollars for the relief of Frederick City, and the banks thereof, for losses occasioned by the confederate army July ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Whereas on the ... (H.R. 3894)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ritchie, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reimburse the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Old Town, Alleghany County, Maryland, for destruction of same by occupation of United States Cavalry during the war. Whereas Isaac Richards, James M. ... (H.R. 664)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick B. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles J. McKinney, of Tennessee. (H.R. 2284)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the estate of Thomas Hord, deceased, of Tennessee. (H.R. 3076)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Doctor J. Milton Best. (H.R. 753)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate to Henry Clay Williams a sum of money found due him on the adjustment of his accounts. (H.R. 752)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Selucius Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. R. Crosbie. (H.R. 2179)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sessions, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John M. Lamb, of the State of New York. (H.R. 3647)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edward H. Wilson. Whereas Edward H. Wilson did, on the tenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, institute suit against the Bank of Louisiana, in the circuit court of the State of ... (H.R. 1885)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of G. Alfred Hall. Whereas G. Alfred Hall, employed as auctioneer at New Orleans for the sale of property confiscated under an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and ... (H.R. 3417)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Harlow J. Phelps and Company. (H.R. 1116)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Ware. Whereas agents of the Government of the United States seized seven hundred and fifty-eight bales of cotton, at Shreveport, in the State of Louisiana, on the first day of December, ... (H.R. 2075)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James McQuoid. (H.R. 2282)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of F. W. Fee, late lieutenant of the First Kentucky Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 2079)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shober, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refer the case of Lepage Brothers to the Court of Claims for adjustment and settlement. (H.R. 2316)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Augustus Pruskowski. (H.R. 1591)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph D. McCluskey. (H.R. 2275)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Fulenwider, late of the State of Alabama, deceased. (H.R. 1884)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Decatur, Alabama. (H.R. 1115)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the trustees of the Male Academy of Athens, Limestone County, in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 1813)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of W. E. Hoke and Company, of Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. (H.R. 2677)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snapp, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For payment for services performed by William J. McIntyre. (H.R. 1655)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snapp, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter D. Posey. (H.R. 3085)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snapp, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay Edward W. Crandall for the destruction of suttlers' goods. (H.R. 1656)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Company. (H.R. 1003)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Lee. (H.R. 3545)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Battelle and Evans. (H.R. 1700)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles H. Mallory and Company, of New York. (H.R. 912)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander Swift and Company, and the Niles Works. (H.R. 3607)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander Swift and Company. (H.R. 3606)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Miles Greenwood. (H.R. 3569)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary L. Reich. (H.R. 3054)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay to Charles Heaton, the inventor of defensive armor for ships, and so forth, the sum of dollars. (H.R. 1098)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. J. McLachlen. (H.R. 1485)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Sergeant. (H.R. 1902)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel G. Hodgman, late first lieutenant and adjutant Seventh Michigan Cavalry. (H.R. 729)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Robert Pettit's company of independent scouts. Whereas Robert Pettit, of Fairfax County, Virginia, did on the sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, organize a company of ... (H.R. 3660)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of M. and E. Myers, of Petersburgh, Virginia, for Tice meter, bought by order of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. (H.R. 3284)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the refunding of money paid by distillers for Tice meters. (H.R. 3754)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Strong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry N. Galpin, postmaster at Berlin, Connecticut. (H.R. 1786)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Strong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lucius F. Wadsworth. (H.R. 1046)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander McArthur, of the city of Corunna, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1382)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry H. Stafford, late receiver of public moneys at Marquette, Michigan. (H.R. 2824)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Timothy Baker, of Saint John's, Michigan. (H.R. 3584)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Swann, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Harris. (H.R. 3345)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Morgan, a loyal citizen of the State of New York. (H.R. 3178)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Martin Tally, a citizen of Louisiana. (H.R. 1595)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Barlow, widow of Judge Barlow, a loyal citizen of Louisiana. (H.R. 1594)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Foster, a citizen of Louisiana. (H.R. 1751)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To indemnify Charles S. Parrish, a citizen of Louisiana. (H.R. 2363)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. B. Denman, late superintendent of Indian affairs. (H.R. 1301)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. B. Denman. (H.R. 3231)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James P. Peck and Reuben Wood. (H.R. 1498)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of James S. Wren and William A. Kelly. Whereas James S. Wren and William A. Kelly have claims against the Government of the United States, for legitimate losses growing out of Wilson's raid, and the ... (H.R. 1405)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Saint Paul's (Episcopal) Church, Selma, Alabama. Whereas at the capture of Selma, in the State of Alabama, by the United States forces, on the second day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, ... (H.R. 958)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William M. Henry. (H.R. 2714)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Trump, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Moore, late a private in Company K, Seventy-third Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 2078)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of D. W. Glassie and others. (H.R. 3077)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Aldredge, of McNairy County, Tennessee. (H.R. 3672)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas G. Neal. (H.R. 1607)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reimburse the Lagrange Synodical College, in the State of Tennessee, for the loss and destruction of property of same. (H.R. 2822)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. G. Booth, late assistant assessor in the twenty-first revenue district of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 1241)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sluman S. Bailey, collector of internal revenue for the fourth district of Michigan. (H.R. 1288)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. T. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To indemnify W. A. Saylor, of Bryan, Texas, for internal revenue taxes illegally assessed and collected during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 1291)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. Morgan Baker and William H. Beatty, trading as Baker and Beatty. (H.R. 653)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walden, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William J. Clark, administrator of Gad E. Upson, deceased. (H.R. 1837)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waldron, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James G. McBride and Company, of Monroe, Michigan. (H.R. 1628)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert M. Wallace, of South Carolina. (H.R. 3560)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert H. Watts, a citizen of the State of Florida. (H.R. 2825)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Warren, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jane A. Green. (H.R. 639)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles A. Weidner. (H.R. 1094)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George W. Bradley. (H.R. 1356)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners of the steamer John Ivers, jr. (H.R. 1724)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whitthorne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay the claims of certain mail-contractors in Tennessee. (H.R. 3573)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William T. Clark, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Susan C. Rhea, widow of Doctor J. Burrows Gardiner. (H.R. 2739)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Winchester, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow of Humphrey Marshall. (H.R. 3671)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Secor and Company, and Perine Secor and Company. (H.R. 3714)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Zeno Secor. (H.R. 3715)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Worthington C. Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Almont Barnes. (H.R. 3636)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the members of the Catholic church at Dalton, Georgia. (H.R. 3061)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Frye, without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Martha L. Hambleton. (H.R. 2126)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Reported by Mr. H. Boarmand Smith with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Claims. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For ... (H.R. 3278)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McGrew, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the improvement of the Monongahela River from New Geneva, in Pennsylvania, to Morgantown, in West Virginia. (H.R. 1495)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the improvement of the Falls of the Ohio River, and of the Louisville and Portland Canal. (H.R. 812)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel A. Duncan. (H.R. 1785)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and made a special order for to-day, December 12, 1872, after the morning hour. Mr. James A. Garfield, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the ... (H.R. 3131)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth census. (H.R. 243)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Black Beaver. (H.R. 3371)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the repeal of all acts or parts of acts creating or imposing a special tax upon any farmer or planter for selling by retail to consumers leaf-tobacco of his own or his tenant's produce. (H.R. 3073)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Acker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the stamp-tax on friction-matches. (H.R. 3403)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the abatement or repayment of taxes on distilled spirits in bond destroyed by casualty," approved May twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3015)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the repeal of all acts and parts of acts creating and imposing a special tax on sales of dealers in tobacco, manufacturers of tobacco, and manufacturers of cigars. (H.R. 698)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the repeal of all acts and parts of acts creating and imposing stamp-duties or tax upon bank-checks, drafts, or orders for the payment of money. (H.R. 3072)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the repeal of the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth sections of the act entitled "An act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for ... (H.R. 3074)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish export bonded warehouses for the storage of manufactured tobacco and snuff in bond. (H.R. 696)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section fifty-six of an act entitled "An act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes," approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 353)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend sections sixty-one and sixty-three of an act entitled "An act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes," approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 463)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the destruction of tobacco legally forfeited and seized by the United States for fraud against the laws for the raising and collection of the internal revenue. (H.R. 697)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remit the internal-revenue tax upon five hundred and forty-nine barrels of whisky, containing twenty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-six gallons, destroyed by fire while in bond in the distillery ... (H.R. 699)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To so far modify and repeal existing acts and parts of acts requiring all duties on imports to be paid in gold as to allow one-half of the amount of such duties to be paid in the legal-tender notes of the ... (H.R. 1264)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the sufferers by the fire in Boston. (H.R. 2992)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund the amount of discriminating duties paid by importing merchants of the United States under proclamation of the President of the United States of October thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 3038)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remit the duties upon certain goods destroyed by fire at the late conflagration in the city of Boston. (H.R. 3037)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the stamp-tax on bank-checks. (H.R. 3546)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beveridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund taxes improperly collected. (H.R. 1980)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Washington, of Alexandria, Virginia. (H.R. 3756)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Portner and Recker, of Alexandria, Virginia. (H.R. 3551)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of sufferers by fire at Chicago. (H.R. 555)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Limiting the time during which funds received upon subscription to national loans shall be permitted to remain upon deposit with national banking associations and depositaries. (H.R. 3083)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce the duties on imports, and equalize their burdens. (H.R. 1139)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund taxes improperly collected. (H.R. 3911)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James E. Montell. (H.R. 2242)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of shipping commissioners by the several circuits courts of the United States to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen engaged in ... (H.R. 3990)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 3991)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund to the First Baptist Church of Washington and the First Baptist Church of Georgetown the amount of legacy-tax paid by them in eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 3993)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the regulation of the distillation of brandy from grapes. (H.R. 1494)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale of a part of the light-house reservation at Fort Gratiot, Port Huron, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 171)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To admit type-metal and types free of duty. (H.R. 1632)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the sale of United States bonds, and to prohibit commissions to agents, and so forth. (H.R. 1227)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To declare the meaning and intention of the eighth section of the act entitled "An act to increase the duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. (H.R. 1087)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote trade with Brazil, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1395)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide judicial proceedings in the United States courts in all cases of assessment and collection of Federal taxes, to prevent seizure of books, papers, and so forth, and for the abolition of moieties and ... (H.R. 454)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide judicial proceedings in the United States Courts in all cases of assessment or collection of Federal taxes. (H.R. 422)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate and facilitate the payment of duties on imported merchandise. (H.R. 1796)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawe, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June third, ... (H.R. 2200)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to admit free of duty a bell imported for the Catholic Church at Milford, Massachusetts. (H.R. 3384)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaratory of an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1415)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For relief of certain merchandise from differential duties imported in French vessels from countries other than France. (H.R. 3501)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce the force required for the collection of internal revenue, and to diminish the expenses of such collection. (H.R. 2327)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section one hundred and ten of the internal revenue act, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1349)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled "An act to reduce duties on imports and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3049)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate seizures for violations of the laws of the United States relating to customs, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1088)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal so much of the internal revenue act as imposes a stamp-tax upon sirups, fruits, and vegetables. (H.R. 1229)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal so much of the internal-revenue act as imposes a tax upon deposits of savings banks. (H.R. 791)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the several sections of the internal-revenue act requiring written instruments to be stamped. (H.R. 640)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill (H.R. 947)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For cancellation of bonds for manufactured tobacco lost on steamer Geo. P. Upton, between the cities of Richmond and New York. (H.R. 2719)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of owners of lands sold for direct taxes. (H.R. 3407)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Repealing all acts imposing taxes upon tobacco. Whereas the tax imposed upon tobacco is most unjust and oppressive to the people of those portions of the United States in which tobacco is grown as a staple ... (H.R. 3162)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize any practicing physician to import medical books for his own use free of duty. (H.R. 3163)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize manufacturers of tobacco and snuff to transfer to their factories licorice and other ingredients used in preparations of tobacco and snuff free of duties. (H.R. 3549)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the abatement or repayment of taxes on manufactured tobacco in bond destroyed by casualty. (H.R. 2720)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal all duties upon licorice. (H.R. 3164)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal all taxes upon spirits manufactured exclusively from fruit. (H.R. 3057)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eames, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to returns of savings-banks and institutions for savings. (H.R. 3530)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eames, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce existing taxes. (H.R. 3040)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eames, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal taxes imposed upon deposits in savings-banks and institutions for savings. (H.R. 3529)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To further increase taxes and encourage monopoly without producing revenue. (H.R. 2743)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," approved March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3045)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of fifty per centum of customs duties in legal-tender notes. (H.R. 642)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To permit the importation, free of duty, of certain Highland kilts and uniforms for the Seventy-ninth Regiment of Highlanders of the National Guard, State of New York. (H.R. 1789)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prescribe the duties of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. (H.R. 3747)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes," approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 2346)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amending an act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes, approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 103)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain sufferers by the Chicago fire. (H.R. 465)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hermann Raster, collector of internal revenue for the first district of Illinois. Whereas the great conflagration in the city of Chicago, on the eighth and ninth days of October, eighteen ... (H.R. 464)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amending an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 995)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amending an act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes, approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 842)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 3581)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the admission of photographs for exhibition free of duty. (H.R. 1260)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garrett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal all laws requiring a tax to be assessed and collected on distilleries, distilled spirits, and manufactured tobacco. (H.R. 970)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. George E. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund certain taxes collected by the United States on raw cotton during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, eighteen ... (H.R. 3901)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund the cotton-tax collected under the provisions of the acts of Congress approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 700)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section ten of the tariff-act approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, relating to materials entering into the construction and repair of American-built vessels. (H.R. 2996)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal all laws of the United States imposing a tax upon spirits made exclusively of grapes, apples, peaches, or other fruits. (H.R. 1249)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To permit the importation of iron for the Helena and Iron Mountain Railroad free of duty. Whereas by act of Congress, approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, a grant of lands was made by the ... (H.R. 3204)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce internal taxes on snuff. (H.R. 3892)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James A. McCullah, late collector of the fifth district of Missouri. (H.R. 1001)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish bonded warehouses for the storage of manufactured tobacco and snuff. (H.R. 988)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place printing-type, ink, and other printing material on the free list in the tariff. (H.R. 1474)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce the tax on snuff and tobacco. (H.R. 986)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the stamp duties imposed by Schedules B and C. (H.R. 3246)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the taxes imposed by stamps under Schedule C. (H.R. 3035)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James B. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. Clay Elliott, of Henderson, Kentucky. (H.R. 3425)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James B. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce duties on imports, and to reduce internal-revenue taxes, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, as to allow ... (H.R. 3670)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James B. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund certain taxes collected by the Government of the United States on raw cotton exported. Whereas by the act of Congress approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the ... (H.R. 3669)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John M. Rice, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the law imposing a special tax upon retail dealers in leaf-tobacco. (H.R. 3070)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section thirty-one of the act approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, so as to permit farmers and planters to sell leaf-tobacco without restriction, and to modify the law ... (H.R. 3025)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the repeal of the stamp-tax on matches. (H.R. 3144)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the income tax, and to provide that the tax on incomes for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one shall not be assessed or collected. (H.R. 1085)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the stamp duty or tax on matches. (H.R. 909)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the stamp-tax on checks and sight-drafts. (H.R. 2998)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage the sinking of artesian wells upon public lands in the State of Nevada. (H.R. 1503)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the payment of moieties to informers, and to require the proceeds of all fines, penalties and forfeitures, under the internal-revenue and customs laws, to be paid into the Treasury, and for other ... (H.R. 979)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the repayment of income-tax collected of judicial officers of the States. (H.R. 3436)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the seizure and examination of invoices, books, and papers in customs-revenue cases. (H.R. 3116)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce internal taxation, and to amend an act entitled "An act to provide internal revenue to support the Government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved June ... (H.R. 1679)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the income tax. (H.R. 441)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamport, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce duties on imports, and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," passed June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3535)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leach, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the tax on brandy, and to simplify and reduce it on whisky, and to prohibit the destruction, by revenue officers, of property appertaining thereto. (H.R. 2150)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Fixing the rate of internal tax on all kinds of manufactured tobacco at sixteen cents per pound. (H.R. 650)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the stamp duty or tax on matches. (H.R. 2999)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the office of the Director of the Bureau of Statistics, and to extend the duties of said Director. (H.R. 2381)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to remit and pay back taxes assessed and collected on vessels. (H.R. 483)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund certain duties erroneously collected. (H.R. 3490)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for a drawback on ship-building material and ship-stores. (H.R. 3002)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the resumption of specie payments and to regulate the currency. (H.R. 3995)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Davenport, of Zionsville, Indiana. (H.R. 3438)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To collect the unpaid direct tax, and for other purposes. (H.R. 79)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To re-establish Knoxville, Tennessee, a port of delivery. (H.R. 432)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McHenry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of W. L. Berry, of Kentucky. Whereas on the night of the fourteenth of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the distillery and fixtures of W. L. Berry, of the second district of ... (H.R. 439)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund certain taxes collected by the United States on raw cotton during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 3173)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund certain taxes collected by the Government of the United States on raw cotton during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and ... (H.R. 1592)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To admit free of duty all tea and coffee imported into the United States on and after the first day of July next. (H.R. 929)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal all laws giving to an informer any share or portion of the fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed upon persons convicted of a violation of the internal-revenue laws. (H.R. 502)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the protection of home industries. (H.R. 1092)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish oaths and affirmations on customs entries and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof. (H.R. 2856)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To allow drawback upon exported fire-arms, plows, shovels, and so forth, made of imported steel, when the stocks and handles are made of American-grown wood. (H.R. 2686)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize State officers to administer oaths and affirmations to importers. (H.R. 1347)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund to the judicial officers of the United States, and of the several States, the taxes on their salaries heretofore collected and paid under the income-tax laws of the United States. (H.R. 662)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund to Saint Mary's Church, in the city of Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin, the sum of money therein named. (H.R. 3097)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal certain stamp duties. (H.R. 3182)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the stamp-tax upon lucifer and friction matches. (H.R. 810)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure justice to the wool-growers of the United States. (H.R. 3065)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the duty on manufactured machinery imported from foreign countries. (H.R. 288)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund certain taxes collected by the Government of the United States on raw cotton during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and ... (H.R. 3564)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act relative to collection districts in North Carolina," approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 1804)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Limiting the time within which claims against the Government may be presented and prosecuted. (H.R. 1217)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix and establish the rate of tax on all descriptions of manufactured tobacco entering the market for consumption at the uniform rate of sixteen cents per pound. (H.R. 1181)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the law imposing a tax on tobacco. (H.R. 3168)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. Roderick Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of D. P. Rowe, and Brown and Crowell, of Morristown, Tennessee. (H.R. 3572)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Randall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To direct the Attorney General of the United States to collect certain funds in the custody of the authorities of the State of Wisconsin belonging to the Government of the United States. (H.R. 2268)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal all laws imposing duties on printers' types, ink, and paper. (H.R. 1266)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rice, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the collection of a tax on incomes in excess of two thousand dollars. (H.R. 1894)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize all producers of leaf-tobacco to sell fifty dollars' worth without paying a tax or taking out a license therefor. (H.R. 3297)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to seizures under the laws of the United States. (H.R. 344)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain books from duties. (H.R. 3532)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend existing laws relating to the compensation of officers of the customs, and for other purposes. (H.R. 30)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the exportation of distilled spirits. (H.R. 29)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remit the impost and excise taxes upon alcohol used by universities and colleges for scientific purposes only. (H.R. 3492)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaratory of the meaning of an act entitled "An act to reduce duties on imports and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3930)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce duties on imposts and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3028)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the reduction of officers and expenses of the internal revenue. (H.R. 2994)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend certain privileges to the port of Erie, in the State of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 508)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To allow the Calcasieu Sulphur Mining Company of New Orleans to import certain machinery free of duty. (H.R. 807)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sion H. Rogers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the law imposing a special tax upon retail dealers in leaf-tobacco, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3661)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sion H. Rogers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the tax imposed upon spirits distilled from fruit, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3757)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To admit certain machinery imported from foreign countries free of duty. (H.R. 1171)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce internal taxes. (H.R. 1882)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal all laws imposing taxes on spirits manufactured exclusively from fruit. (H.R. 3175)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of distillers of spirits by the refunding and repayment of moneys expended or paid and deposited by them for Tice meters. (H.R. 1256)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the act requiring stamps on bank-checks. (H.R. 3153)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the income tax, and to provide that the tax upon incomes for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one shall not be collected. (H.R. 2144)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of C. H. Frost and Company, of Buffalo, New York. (H.R. 3658)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of F. Briggs and Company, of Buffalo, New York. (H.R. 3659)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Messrs. Moss and Chamberlin, of Clarksville, Virginia, for a Tice meter purchased by order of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. (H.R. 3657)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Terry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edward Langster. (H.R. 3550)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the office of surveyor at the port of Chester, in Pennsylvania, and for other purposes. (H.R. 446)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the sufferers by fire in Boston. (H.R. 2993)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons against sales of their lands for direct taxes in insurrectionary districts. (H.R. 2619)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Abolishing all duties and imposts on imported printing type, and placing the same on the free list. (H.R. 1270)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish all duties and imposts on type and all other printing material; also to abolish all duties and imposts on all articles used in the manufacture of type and other printing material, and to place ... (H.R. 1369)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enforce the payment of the public debt in legal-tender currency, according to the law of the contract, as determined and pronounced by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. (H.R. 1612)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waldron, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to refund certain duties collected without authority of law. (H.R. 2088)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the tax imposed by stamps on bank-checks, drafts, and orders. (H.R. 3020)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whitthorne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To modify the tax upon tobacco. (H.R. 3301)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whitthorne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal all taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and to provide for the deficiency in the revenue occasioned thereby. (H.R. 3300)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled "An act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes." (H.R. 1834)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, of New York, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund duties paid on the chime of bells and clock imported for Saint Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo, New York. (H.R. 1957)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate and facilitate the payment of duties on imported merchandise. (H.R. 2595)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Worthington C. Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To admit pine timber and lumber free. (H.R. 1215)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Worthington C. Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To modify the duties on the various kinds of lumber, and to provide for a drawback on lumber re-exported. (H.R. 2132)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the income tax. (H.R. 12)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for providing a college under an act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic ... (H.R. 1898)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Haldeman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage the planting of trees, and for the preservation of woods on the public domain now held by the United States. (H.R. 2197)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Haldeman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the preservation and increase of timber. (H.R. 3008)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the issuance of college-scrip to the State of Arkansas. Whereas the State of Arkansas has complied with all the provisions and requirements of an act entitled "An act donating public lands to the ... (H.R. 2109)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hays, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the control of the horticultural gardens. (H.R. 2604)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transportation within the United States. (H.R. 694)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To make provision for the preservation of forests, and to encourage the planting of timber trees. (H.R. 1463)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Southwestern Land and Immigration Company. (H.R. 1143)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appointments, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for a Government building, to be used for a custom-house, post office, and bonded warehouse, at Port Huron, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 2)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stewart to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 3921)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the determination of the boundary line between the British possessions on the Pacific coast and the territory acquired by the United States from the Russian ... (H.R. 3254)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beatty, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for paying Rives and Bailey for reporting and publishing the proceedings and debates of Congress from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to the fourth day of March, ... (H.R. 1459)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of life-preserving stations on the coast of Cape Cod. (H.R. 461)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend certain acts therein specified. (H.R. 767)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Claggett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of deficiencies in the appropriations for legislative and other expenses in the Territory of Montana during the current fiscal year. (H.R. 1737)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of life-preserving stations between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and Cape Henry, Virginia. (H.R. 1693)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of an addition to the post-office and court-house at Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 2288)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for completing the survey of the Fort Gratiot military reservation at Port Huron, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1287)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Darrall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the execution of, and to protect certain public works of improvement. Whereas in the prosecution of certain works of river and harbor improvement, undertaken by the Government of the United ... (H.R. 1118)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Brigadier-General A. B. Dyer. (H.R. 3141)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eames, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of commissions allowed by law to collectors for their services as superintendents of lights. (H.R. 3389)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the sale of the arsenal at Rome, New York, and to appropriate the proceeds. (H.R. 792)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hancock, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of mail-contractors for services rendered in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, prior ... (H.R. 3448)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a National Photographic Institute. (H.R. 3752)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a light-house and a steam fog-whistle on the coast of California, near Point Pillar. (H.R. 3322)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. W. Hazleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the appropriation for the employment of surfmen at alternate life-saving stations on the New Jersey coast for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to ... (H.R. 501)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the erection of a light-house on Southwest Ledge, at the entrance of New Haven Harbor, Connecticut. (H.R. 3142)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the construction of a pneumatic tube from the Government Printing Office to the Capitol. (H.R. 2665)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To further provide for payment to laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by the Government their compensation for labor of eight hours per day. (H.R. 3983)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain claims arising from the seizure and conversion, to the uses of the United States, of private personal property after the thirtieth day of June, ... (H.R. 953)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the compensation of the chief clerk of the Department of State. (H.R. 1120)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to compensate the United States supervisors of election appointed under the provisions of section of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the ... (H.R. 3176)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 3030)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Fixing the salaries of certain officers. (H.R. 517)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriation and to refund certain moneys now standing to the credit of the Navy pension-fund. (H.R. 1442)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to pay certain mail contractors in the States lately in rebellion for services rendered prior to May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 1133)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of three bridges across the Big Sioux River between the Territory of Dakota and the State of Iowa. (H.R. 3449)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to indemnify certain States for expenses incurred in defense of the United States. (H.R. 1157)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To connect the telegraph with the postal service, and to reduce the rates of correspondence by telegraph. (H.R. 1903)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to protect the approaches to the custom-house at Bangor, Maine. (H.R. 3605)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of the Joint Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in the Southern States. (H.R. 484)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate five thousand dollars for a monument to Genera Nicholas Herkimer. Whereas General Nicholas Herkimer, commanding the American troops at the battle of Oriskany, in seventeen hundred an ... (H.R. 1922)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ritchie, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the ascertainment and examination of claims for compensation for the use and destruction of private property by the United States Army during the late war for the preservation of the Union in the ... (H.R. 663)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ritchie, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure a sufficient supply of water for the cities of Georgetown and Washington, and for other purposes. Whereas in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three the United States Government was granted by ... (H.R. 2145)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the erection of fish-breeding establishments. (H.R. 1792)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for a life-size marble statue of the late Senator Edward Dickinson Baker from the marble model in possession of the family of the deceased Senator. (H.R. 2586)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2208)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cypress Lodge, No. of Free and Accepted Masons, at Florence, Alabama. (H.R. 1114)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Strong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide means for carrying out the provisions of an act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to erect a building for a post-office, and so forth, at Hartford, Connecticut. (H.R. 2305)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the survey of the northern boundary line of the State of Nebraska. (H.R. 1497)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tyner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To exempt appropriations for public buildings from the restriction imposed by the provisions of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the ... (H.R. 2019)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. T. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment, to the State of Texas, of money disbursed by said State for protection of her frontier prior to the rebellion. (H.R. 1075)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waddell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad Company for carrying the United States mail. (H.R. 1106)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the accounts of J. B. Wheeler, topographical engineer. (H.R. 3925)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the purchase of a suitable site, and erecting a building thereon, in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, to be used for the purposes of a ... (H.R. 619)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Garfield without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, made a special order for Wednesday next after the morning hour and from day to day until disposed of, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, ... (H.R. 2208)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To make the volume of the currency self-adjusting, according to the wants of the people. (H.R. 28)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigby, on leave, introduced, the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the First National Bank of Newnan to change its location and name. (H.R. 1812)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for an increase of circulation to national banks to an amount equal to par value of bonds deposited. (H.R. 3107)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Claggett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for an increase of five millions of national bank notes, the same to be distributed among the several Territories. (H.R. 2183)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide a currency of coin and paper of equal and uniform value throughout the United States. (H.R. 917)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the resumption of specie payments. Whereas, under pressure of "military necessity," certain Treasury notes issued by the United States were declared to be "lawful money," and a "legal tender" in ... (H.R. 3152)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the tax ten per centum imposed on the circulation of the State banks. (H.R. 3395)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the further refunding of the public debt, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3201)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the retirement of mutilated national bank-notes, and for other purposes. (H.R. 71)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the National Bank of Springfield, Missouri, to change its name. (H.R. 3310)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hogar, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the safety of bonds of the United States. (H.R. 3039)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James Brooks, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Workingmen's Co-operative Colonization National Bank of America. Whereas a number of workingmen, citizens of the city, county, and State of New York, have ... (H.R. 2195)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John W. Hazelton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the people to regulate the volume of the currency. (H.R. 4036)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamport, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the First National Bank of Watkins, New York, to change its location and name. (H.R. 3534)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide against undue expansions and contractions of the currency. (H.R. 784)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the resumption of specie payments. (H.R. 450)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for withdrawing from circulation the fractional paper currency now in use, and for supplying its place with silver coin. (H.R. 2170)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing free banking. (H.R. 3149)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide a national currency secured by pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June third, eighteen ... (H.R. 3397)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the organization of national banks without circulation. (H.R. 3050)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the substitution of United States notes for the three per centum loan certificates. (H.R. 2596)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate bank clearing-house exchanges. (H.R. 1668)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To punish bank, insurance, State, and Government officials for bribery and corruption. (H.R. 643)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the usury section of the national-currency act. (H.R. 3051)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the mode of payment of duties on imports, and equalizing the value of Treasury notes. (H.R. 661)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled "An act to provide for the redemption of the three per centum temporary-loan certificates, and for an increase of national bank-notes," approved July twelfth, eighteen ... (H.R. 3294)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the examination of certain banks. (H.R. 3183)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the circulation of counterfeit, altered, and spurious United States and national bank notes. (H.R. 808)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the retirement of torn and mutilated national bank notes. (H.R. 809)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the First National Bank of Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, to change its location. (H.R. 3507)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Randall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June third eighteen ... (H.R. 3348)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Randall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the manner of closing up the affairs of the Fourth National Bank of the city of Philadelphia. (H.R. 946)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the convertibility of United States notes not bearing interest into coin. (H.R. 3347)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To require national banks to restore their capital when impaired, and to amend sections twenty-nine and fifty-seven of the national-currency act. (H.R. 3388)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the redemption of the three per centum temporary loan certificates and for an increase of national bank notes," approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 2367)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June third, eighteen ... (H.R. 806)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide a national currency secured by the pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June third, eighteen ... (H.R. 1458)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherwood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the resumption of specie payment and the reduction of the public debt. (H.R. 1099)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snapp, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the location of a bank. (H.R. 1373)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section fifty-seven of the act entitled "An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," ... (H.R. 3903)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the resumption of specie payments by making legal-tender notes redeemable in United States bonds. (H.R. 4046)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the redemption of national bank notes. (H.R. 3154)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for an increase of national bank notes. (H.R. 3447)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Swann, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the First National Bank of Annapolis to change its location and name. (H.R. 2848)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Trump, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June third, eighteen ... (H.R. 3424)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waldron, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the redemption of United States notes in coin, and for free banking. (H.R. 3916)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for obtaining information of the condition of banks organized under State laws. (H.R. 3399)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wheeler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate "The Governor and Managers of the Exchequer of the United States of America." (H.R. 3023)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent contraction and expansion of the money market and to give elasticity to the currency. (H.R. 2343)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Monroe with amendments; question pending on amendments when the morning hour expired. On motion of Mr. Monroe taken from morning hour; the further consideration postponed to Tuesday, April 2, made a special order for that day after the ... (H.R. 809)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend for four years the act establishing the Board of Commissioners of Claims, and the acts relating thereto. (H.R. 3088)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas B. Wallace, of Lexington, in the State of Missouri. Whereas, on the thirteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the dwelling-house and out-buildings, and the furniture and ... (H.R. 562)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hermann Raster, collector of internal revenue, first district, Illinois. (H.R. 713)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griffith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John P. Reed, late deputy collector of internal revenue, twentieth district of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 504)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griffith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Courson, Huldah Courson, David Courson, and Emma Courson, minor children of David W. Courson, deceased, late private in Company G, Sixty-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 505)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Garsed. (H.R. 513)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Matson, Henderson and Company, of Louisiana, Missouri. (H.R. 2914)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles B. Holbrook, assignee of I. H. Hammond. (H.R. 2926)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lewis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Martin, late deputy collector of internal revenue for the third district of Kentucky. (H.R. 2927)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of George W. Gadbury, of Casey County, Kentucky. (H.R. 2925)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of William L. Brown, of Liberty, in Casey County, Kentucky. (H.R. 2924)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act Referring the claim of J. Snowden & Son to the Court of Claims. (H.R. 3871)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measares, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of existing laws relative to the silver coins of the United States. (H.R. 1018)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To punish and prevent the unlawful making, passing, or selling, or having in possession with intent to issue or sell, any false coin, or token in the resemblance of any coin, of the United ... (H.R. 3224)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act to locate and establish an assay-office in the Territory of Idaho," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 1305)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Changing the standard weights of silver coins, limiting the amount to be issued, and for other purposes. (H.R. 646)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of bridges across the Arkansas River, and to prescribe the dimensions of the same. (H.R. 1984)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed Mr. J. W. Hazleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to change the name of the sloop "Margaret & Amelia." (H.R. 644)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In addition to an act entitled "An act for the improvement of water communication between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan by the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers," approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 607)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed, Mr. Isaac G. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri, and to declare the same a post-route. (H.R. 1721)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. ["Note.--Sections marked by an asterisk (*) have not been amended, but are the same as in the act of February 28, 1871.] Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of ... (H.R. 654)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To re-enact the act approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred, entitled "An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland and Georgia." (H.R. 403)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of Government bridges over the Big Sioux River, between the Territory of Dakota and the State of Iowa. (H.R. 2749)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: To amend the eighteenth section of an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-eighth, ... (H.R. 822)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a draw-bridge over the Mississippi River at Red Wing, Minnesota. (H.R. 1996)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the collection district of Du Luth, and to create Saint Paul, in the collection district of Minnesota, a port of delivery. (H.R. 469)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the collection district of Du Luth, in the State of Minnesota. (H.R. 265)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To allow the yacht Red Hot to take the name of Addie Parker, and be registered under that name. (H.R. 2341)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barnum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of Southport Harbor, Connecticut. (H.R. 1225)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barnum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of the harbors of Bridgeport and Westport, Connecticut. (H.R. 914)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the compensation of gaugers at the port of Boston. (H.R. 1953)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company. (H.R. 68)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company. (H.R. 772)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bird, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Directing the survey of the channel opposite Elizabethport, in the county of Union, New Jersey. (H.R. 1311)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bird, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For continuing the improvement of South River, New Jersey. (H.R. 645)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River at Dardanelle, Arkansas. (H.R. 3962)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River at Van Buren, Arkansas. (H.R. 3087)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For continuing the improvement of the Rappahannock River, Virginia. (H.R. 665)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the compensation of the collector of customs for the district of Alexandria. (H.R. 3115)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Montgomery and Mobile Railroad Company to bridge the Mobile River and other navigable rivers tributary to Mobile Bay. (H.R. 2009)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Sterling Hydraulic Company to maintain their dam across Rock River, at Sterling, Illinois. Whereas the general assembly of the State of Illinois, by an act approved February fifth, eighteen ... (H.R. 1617)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at Jefferson City, Missouri. (H.R. 2295)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caldwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate for the survey and improvement of Obion and Forked Deer Rivers, in Tennessee, one hundred thousand dollars to each. (H.R. 1605)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Charles Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the better protection of the northern and northwestern frontier, and to facilitate commerce, and diminish the expense of the exchanges between States. (H.R. 69)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Charles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the better protection of the northern and northwestern frontiers, and to facilitate commerce and diminish the expense of the exchanges between States. (H.R. 3187)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To cause the removal of obstructions to navigation on the upper Missouri River. (H.R. 3111)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the site of the custom-house at Plymouth, North Carolina. (H.R. 1692)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage immigration to the United States, to regulate the carriage of European immigrant passengers in steamships and other vessels, and for their better protection before, upon, and after arriving at the ... (H.R. 81)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of delivery at the city of Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 2287)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to the entry and clearance of ferry-boats and of bonded cars passing from one State to another through foreign contiguous territory. (H.R. 329)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the appointment of shipping commissioners by the judges of the several circuit courts of the United States, to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen engaged in merchant ships belonging to ... (H.R. 120)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage the building of ships for foreign trade, and for other purposes. (H.R. 118)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote immigration to the United States. (H.R. 1006)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a report of a board of engineers of the United States Army upon the feasibility and propriety of bridging the straits between Lakes Huron and Erie. (H.R. 3998)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the trade and commerce between the several States and Territories of the United States. Whereas the unjust, illiberal, and unconstitutional practice of imposing restrictions upon trade between the ... (H.R. 1290)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the protection of owners of saw-mills on the Mississippi River. (H.R. 2167)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting to the Davenport and Saint Paul Railroad Company the right of way. (H.R. 1672)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of certain bridges and to establish them as Post-roads," approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 127)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of certain bridges and to establish them as Post-roads," approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 311)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa. (H.R. 1409)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of delivery at Davenport, Iowa. (H.R. 3095)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid the Mediterranean and Oriental Steam Navigation Company of New York to establish an American line of iron steamships for opening direct trade between the United States and Southern Europe, for carrying the ... (H.R. 3359)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid the United States and Venezuela Mail Steamship Company to establish an American line of steamships for opening direct trade between the United States and the republic of Venezuela, and for carrying the mails ... (H.R. 3533)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize protection to be given to citizens of the United States who may discover deposits of guano," approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. (H.R. 166)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To improve commerce. (H.R. 3885)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To protect shipping on the Atlantic coast from destructive easterly gales. (H.R. 2213)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for additional mail service to Brazil, out of increased importations of coffee by mail steamers. (H.R. 37)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revive shipping and commerce. (H.R. 3884)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To so repeal the law of December thirty-first, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, as to allow upon American registry foreign-built vessels. (H.R. 1038)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad Company the right to build a bridge across the Big Wabash River. (H.R. 1768)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crossland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for repairing the dam in the Ohio River, at the mouth of Cumberland River. (H.R. 1892)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Darrall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the removal of obstructions to navigation at the mouth of Calcasieu River and at the mouth of Atchafalaya Bay, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 1119)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Darrall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To define the limits of the collection-district of the Teche, in the State of Louisiana, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2817)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the establishment of ocean mail steamship service between the United States and Australia. (H.R. 1393)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of ten first-class iron steamships of not less than three thousand tons each, to connect the ports of the United States with foreign ports, and to secure to the Government the use of the ... (H.R. 1429)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the speedy construction of a ship-canal of large capacity around the Falls of Niagara, on the American side thereof. (H.R. 3014)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid the Colombian Mail Steamship Company to establish an American line of steamships for opening direct trade between the United States of America and the United States of Colombia, South America, and for ... (H.R. 3148)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid the United States and Colombian Mail Steamship Company to establish an American line of ocean steamships for opening direct trade between the United States of America and the United States of Colombia South ... (H.R. 3887)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of entry and delivery at the city of Lynchburg, Virginia. (H.R. 666)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company to connect their line of railway by a bridge across the Mississippi River at North La Crosse, Wisconsin. (H.R. 3099)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act further regulating the construction of bridges across the Mississippi River," approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3100)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dwight Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the establishment of ocean mail steamship service between the United States and Mexico. (H.R. 1188)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dwight Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To replace the light-ship "Wreck of the Scotland" in its late position at the entrance to New York Harbor, and for other purposes. Whereas there was placed, at the entrance to the harbor of New York, a ... (H.R. 2139)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eames, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of navigation in Providence River, and to establish a light-house at Pyramid Rock. (H.R. 1345)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eames, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of navigation in the harbor of Newport, in the State of Rhode Island: (H.R. 1676)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriation for the construction of a light-house at the mouth of the Fond du Lac River, on Lake Winnebago, in the State of Wisconsin. (H.R. 1293)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the improvement of the harbors of Sheboygan and Port Washington, in the State of Wisconsin. (H.R. 1042)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eli Perry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To create a port of entry and delivery at Albany, New York. (H.R. 1566)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. Whereas various States (seaboard or on the ... (H.R. 18)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize and regulate the construction of bridges across the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers. (H.R. 17)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Freeman Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a railroad and draw-bridge across the Genesee River in Monroe County, New York. (H.R. 2385)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the jurisdiction of the Light-House Board. (H.R. 1259)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the jurisdiction of the Light-house board. (H.R. 230)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Getz, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage maritime commerce under the American flag. (H.R. 3)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Giddings, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For continuing the improvement at Galveston Harbor, near Galveston, Texas. (H.R. 3218)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate internal commerce. (H.R. 2573)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the change of the name of the schooner Benjamin to the Sea Lark. (H.R. 2809)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of life-saying stations upon the coast of Maine. (H.R. 3034)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve American-built steamers and vessels from import duties laid upon materials and articles entering into their construction, repair, and use. (H.R. 389)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve masters of coasting vessels engaged in trade upon the frontiers of the United States from procuring and presenting manifests of cargoes as now required by law. (H.R. 476)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Halsey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of entry at Jersey City, in the State of New Jersey. (H.R. 1317)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hancock, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the second section of an act entitled "An act authorizing imported goods, wares, and merchandise entered and bonded for warehousing in pursuance of law, to be exported by certain routes to ports or ... (H.R. 1154)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the commerce of the river Schuylkill. (H.R. 3785)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the protection of owners of saw-mills on the Mississippi River (H.R. 2386)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction and maintenance of a bridge over the Mississippi River between the city of Warsaw, in Hancock County, and State of Illinois, and the city of Alexandria, in Clark County, and State of ... (H.R. 2161)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a wagon and railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at Quincy, Illinois, and to establish the same as a post-road. (H.R. 2026)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 1392)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the preservation and improvement of the harbor at the city of Alton, in the State of Illinois. (H.R. 989)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for locking and damming the Great Kanawha River, in the State of West Virginia. (H.R. 1034)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the Great Kanawha and New Rivers, in the State of West Virginia. (H.R. 3732)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the survey and improvement of the navigation of Sabine Pass, and the rivers of Sabine, Nuches, Angelina, and Trinity, in the State of Texas. (H.R. 1156)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the collection district of Sabine Pass, and to create Orange and Beaumont, in the collection district of Sabine Pass, Texas, ports of delivery. (H.R. 1007)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve the commerce of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from the tax imposed thereon at the Louisville and Portland Canal, at Louisville, Kentucky. (H.R. 1465)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave introduced, the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of San Francisco. (H.R. 1294)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To make San Diego, in the State of California, a port of entry. (H.R. 1907)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the defense of the harbor of San Diego, in the State of California. (H.R. 3321)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the preservation of the harbor of San Diego. (H.R. 3222)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. G. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Giving the consent of the United States to the erection of a bridge across the Mississippi River at the town of Cauton, Lewis County, and State of Missouri. (H.R. 997)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting authority to bridge the Mississippi River at or near Saint Genevieve, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 2008)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at the city of Cape Girardeau, and to establish the same as a post route. (H.R. 116)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James Brooks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the continuance of mail steamship service between the United States and Cuba. (H.R. 1749)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John B. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appointment of commissioners to collect information in relation to railroads forming lines of commerce between States, and for other purposes. Whereas by the Constitution of the United ... (H.R. 3307)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John B. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of Lake Michigan, the Illinois, the Mississippi, and Rock Rivers. (H.R. 3306)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the commerce of the river Schuylkill. Whereas by an act approved the twenty-fifth day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act to extend the boundaries of the collection ... (H.R. 1542)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the commerce of the River Schuylkill. Whereas by an act approved the twenty-fifth day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act to extend the boundaries of the collection ... (H.R. 1769)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For continuing the improvement at Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut. (H.R. 3044)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For continuing the improvement of New Haven Harbor, Connecticut. (H.R. 492)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For continuing the improvement of the harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut. (H.R. 3043)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For continuing the improvement of the Housatonic River, Connecticut. (H.R. 493)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For continuing the improvements at New Haven Harbor, Housatonic River, and the Connecticut River near Saybrook, Connecticut. (H.R. 3042)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the erection of a light-house on Southwest Ledge, New Haven Harbor, Connecticut. (H.R. 2936)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River, between the city of New Albany, in the State of Indiana, and the city of Louisville, in the State of Kentucky, and to prescribe the dimensions of the ... (H.R. 3016)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of bridges across the Ohio River, and to prescribe the dimensions of the same. (H.R. 827)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the safety of human life upon railroads. Whereas the preservation of life and the protection of the person is a paramount duty of the Government; and Whereas the loss of life and injury of person, ... (H.R. 3849)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the issuing of a certificate of registry to the schooner Jessie Drummond. (H.R. 2059)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the establishment of ocean mail steamship service in American-built iron steamships between the United States and England. (H.R. 3281)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Further to facilitate the immediate transportation of certain importations to the port of destination. (H.R. 649)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the thirtieth section of an act entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes," approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 2717)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Imposing tonnage duties, and for other purposes. (H.R. 627)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Prohibiting the collection of pilotage and harbor dues by State or municipal authorities. (H.R. 783)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge over the tide-water of Dunstan River, in the State of Maine. (H.R. 2313)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enlarge the collection district of Portland and Falmouth, and to change the name thereof. (H.R. 1674)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the establishment of life-saving stations on the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire. (H.R. 3033)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revive the navigation and commercial interests of the United States. (H.R. 2314)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revive the navigation and commercial interests of the United States. Whereas the mercantile marine of the country was nearly destroyed during the late rebellion in consequence of the inability of the Government ... (H.R. 449)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Marshall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote commerce among the States, and to cheapen the transportation of the mails and military and naval stores. (H.R. 412)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the completion of the improvement of the Des Moines Rapids in the Mississippi River. (H.R. 739)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge, and to establish the same as a post-road. (H.R. 1937)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To declare the Iowa River, in the State of Iowa, to be not a navigable stream. (H.R. 3771)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for utilizing certain water-power. (H.R. 584)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate commerce among the several States. (H.R. 586)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To require uniform charges for transporting freight and passengers by railroad companies and other common-carriers, and to prevent and punish unjust discriminations in favor of or against particular persons or ... (H.R. 2091)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McHenry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the erection of a bridge over the Ohio River, at the city of Henderson, Kentucky. (H.R. 1893)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McHenry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the erection of a bridge over the Ohio River, at the city of Owensborough, Kentucky. (H.R. 3075)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Savannah, Georgia, and the improvement of the navigation of the Savannah River from the city of Savannah to its mouth. Whereas a survey of the harbor ... (H.R. 671)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate money to further improve the harbor of Savannah, Georgia. (H.R. 3415)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To declare the port of Brunswick, Georgia, a port of entry and delivery. (H.R. 2601)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reimburse the city of Savannah for all expenditures made in the improvement of the harbor of Savannah, Georgia, since the late war. Whereas the corporate authorities of the city of Savannah, in the county of ... (H.R. 670)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the Memphis and Vicksburgh Railroad Company the right to build a bridge over the Yazoo River. (H.R. 2013)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the erection of a custom-house and post-office at Racine, Wisconsin. (H.R. 1726)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to aid in completing the harbor at Kenosha, in the State of Wisconsin. (H.R. 1161)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the height at which railway-bridges may be constructed across the Mississippi River. (H.R. 3963)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repay to the city of Milwaukee certain moneys advanced for the construction of the new harbor. (H.R. 335)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Confirming the rights and privileges granted to the Upper Red River Raft Company by the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 2076)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the North Louisiana and Texas Railroad Company to construct a bridge over the Ouachita River at or near Monroe, Louisiana. (H.R. 3762)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the North Louisiana and Texas Railroad Company to construct a bridge over the Red River at or near Shreveport, Louisiana. (H.R. 3761)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To create Shreveport, in the State of Louisiana, a port of delivery. (H.R. 64)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To exempt the iron steam ice-boats constructed by the city of Philadelphia from the inspection required by the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled "An act to provide for the ... (H.R. 1069)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the improvement of navigation of the Monongahela River, beginning at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, under the direction of the Secretary of War. (H.R. 944)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio River under the direction of the Secretary of War. (H.R. 943)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the promotion of commerce and amity between the people of the United States and of Mexico, by encouraging the citizens of the United States to aid Mexico in the development of her resources. Whereas the ... (H.R. 655)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Prohibiting that harbor, port, or pilotage fees, dues, or other taxes or imposts be levied, or pretended to be levied, on the tonnage, merchandise, trade, imports, or cargoes of any vessel, or the vessel itself, ... (H.R. 516)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the transit of merchant vessels of heavy draught across the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1932)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the eighteenth section of an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," approved February ... (H.R. 795)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To complete a water highway from tide-water on the James River to the Ohio River, at the mouth of the Kanawha. (H.R. 3052)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the creation of a Board of Commissioners of Commerce. (H.R. 3924)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the light-ship in New York Harbor known as the "Wreck of the Scotland Light-Ship." (H.R. 3753)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a railroad bridge across the Ohio River at Mount Vernon, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 1615)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a railroad bridge across the Ohio River, at or near Evansville, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 1193)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the improvement of the Wabash River. (H.R. 1135)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to improve the Ohio River. (H.R. 1134)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To constitute Sioux City, in the State of Iowa, a port of delivery. (H.R. 3316)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for a harbor of refuge at Michigan City, Indiana. (H.R. 974)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the tonnage tax on American vessels. (H.R. 2015)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate internal commerce. (H.R. 814)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Defining the rights of part owners of vessels in certain cases. (H.R. 1213)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the boundaries of the customs district of Bangor, in the State of Maine. (H.R. 1211)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate commerce between the United States and China, Japan, and the countries of Asia. (H.R. 458)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing and directing a survey of the Blackwater River, in the State of Virginia. (H.R. 2915)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of the Dismal Swamp Canal. (H.R. 2916)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage the owning and building of ships in the United States. (H.R. 319)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting aid to the Atlantic and Great Western Canal. (H.R. 167)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Randall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of shipping-commissioners by the several circuit courts of the United States, to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen engaged in ... (H.R. 3652)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money to James Story for the purpose of enabling him to perfect his discovery and patent known as the flexible ocean-cable shield, and so forth. Whereas James Story has invented and made what is known ... (H.R. 2609)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ritchie, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the examination or survey of a route to connect the Ohio River and the seaboard by canal or slackwater navigation by the way of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Whereas the President in his last ... (H.R. 3704)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rogers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To protect domestic trade-marks. (H.R. 2597)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to pleasure-yachts. (H.R. 1746)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To permanently improve the Washington channel. (H.R. 1748)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction, maintaining, and operating of a bridge across the Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wisconsin, at the location fixed by the Secretary of War. (H.R. 3684)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to bridge the Saint Louis River. (H.R. 3733)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the West Wisconsin Railway Company to keep up and maintain a bridge, for railway purposes, across Lake Saint Croix, at the city of Hudson, in the State of Wisconsin. (H.R. 1015)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the waters of the bay of Superior to their natural outlet. (H.R. 2376)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of shipping-commissioners by the several circuit courts of the United States to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen engaged in ... (H.R. 3689)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant an American register to the Hawaiian bark Florence. (H.R. 2093)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To punish the collection of illegal taxes on passengers. (H.R. 1924)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the building of a light-house on the north shore of Presque Isle, Lake Erie. (H.R. 507)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit railroad companies from discriminating among shippers in shipping facilities and freightage. (H.R. 2251)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Selucius Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To improve certain rivers in Washington Territory. (H.R. 3469)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing mail steamship service between the ports of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Rio Janeiro, in the empire of Brazil. (H.R. 1967)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing mail steamship service in the Gulf of Mexico between the port of New Orleans, Louisiana, and certain ports in the republic of Mexico. (H.R. 56)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid the Mediterranean and Oriental Steam Navigation Company of New York to establish an American line of iron steamships for opening direct trade between the United States and Southern Europe, for carrying ... (H.R. 57)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the encouragement of the foreign commerce of the United States. (H.R. 1743)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to facilitate commercial, postal, and military communication among the several States," approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 3064)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote immigration to the United States, and for the protection of immigrants. (H.R. 1744)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Creating the collection-district of Southern Oregon. (H.R. 3592)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the improvement of the Tennessee River, under the direction of the Secretary of War. (H.R. 1113)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snapp, from the Committee on Railroads and Canals, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To construct a ship-canal for the passage of armed and naval vessels from the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan, and for other purposes. (H.R. 556)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Giving the consent of the United States to the erection of a bridge across the Arkansas River at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. (H.R. 2319)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Ouachita River Slack-Water Navigation Company. (H.R. 1986)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the erection of floating light-houses, and to provide means for saving life and property. (H.R. 3744)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of Thames River, Connecticut. (H.R. 1222)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of the harbor of Norwalk, Connecticut. (H.R. 1223)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of the harbor of Stonington, Connecticut. (H.R. 1430)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the promotion of iron ship building in the United States. (H.R. 1398)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To accept the Louisville and Portland Canal, and to reduce the tolls thereof. Whereas the stock of the Louisville and Portland Canal Company is owned and held by the United States, expecting five shares held ... (H.R. 3179)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To complete a water highway from tide-water on the James River to the Ohio River at the mouth of the Kanawha. (H.R. 962)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain harbors in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1484)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a draw-bridge over the west channel of the Detroit River from Stoney Island to Grosse Isle and from Grosse Isle to the westerly bank of the Detroit River. (H.R. 2838)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to improve the channel of the Roanoke River. (H.R. 1517)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Strong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of navigation at the mouth of the Connecticut River. (H.R. 1224)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge across Portage Lake, at or near the villages of Houghton and Hancock, Michigan. (H.R. 416)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Swann, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of the harbor of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, and the increase of the custom-house and revenue accommodations of said city. Whereas in view of the rapid increase in the trade of the ... (H.R. 1102)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Swann, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the name of the brig Georgia, of the port of Baltimore, Maryland. (H.R. 2214)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the removal of the raft from Red River, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 1597)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To clean out and deepen the channel over the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 2729)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Southern Express Company. (H.R. 62)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a ship-canal near Fort Saint Philip, in the State of Louisiana. Whereas the Mississippi River is a national highway, the improvement and defense of which concern the whole ... (H.R. 3062)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the improvement of the Tchefuncte and the Tangipahoa Rivers, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 1593)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at Rulo, Nebraska. (H.R. 2178)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River, at or near Sioux City, Iowa. (H.R. 3230)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Townsend, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the sale of unserviceable vessels and materials in the United States Navy Department, and to provide for the construction of twenty iron sea-going steamships. (H.R. 888)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the name of the pleasure-yacht Ellie, of Boston, Massachusetts. (H.R. 2340)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. T. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appoint an appraiser for the port of Galveston, Texas, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1152)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the improvement of the Apalachicola River, and Moccasin Slough of said river, in the State of Florida. (H.R. 3211)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Cedar Keys, in the State of Florida. (H.R. 3212)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriations for the improvement of the harbor of Pensacola, in the State of Florida. (H.R. 3213)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriations for the improvement of the Saint John's River, in the State of Florida. (H.R. 3215)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the establishment of life-saving stations on the coast of Florida. (H.R. 3214)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the improvement of the harbor at Alton; also the mouth of the Missouri River, and a general survey of the Mississippi River between Alton and the month of the Ohio River. (H.R. 109)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriation for the preservation and improvement of the harbor of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri, and the improvement of the Missouri River at its mouth. (H.R. 1142)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wheeler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River, and to establish it as a post-road. (H.R. 3004)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whitthorne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the survey and improvement of the Apalachicola River, and its tributaries, the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers. (H.R. 611)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriation for certain harbors in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1725)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William T. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for a survey for a ship-canal from the waters of Galveston Bay to Sabine Lake, in Texas. (H.R. 1384)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, of New York, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at Buffalo. Whereas there was a certain contract made on the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, between Brevet ... (H.R. 1438)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, of New York, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the city of Buffalo, New York, to construct a tunnel under Niagara River, and to erect and maintain an inlet-pier therefrom, for the purpose of supplying the city of Buffalo with pure ... (H.R. 1958)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose of removing the obstruction from the general of the Oustanoula River, in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 3291)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of entry in the city of Atlanta, in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 2218)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the survey of the Oustanaula River and its tributaries, in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 3171)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Ordered to be reprinted. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting aid to the Atlantic and Great Western Canal. (H.R. 167)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Holman, with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of bridges across the Ohio ... (H.R. 827)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Negley as a substitute to H.R. 1392, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Negley, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill in the nature of a substitute: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi ... (H.R. 1392)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Shellabarger with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Reported back with further amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Reported back by Mr. Shellabarger with an amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the ... (H.R. 1743)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Shellabarger with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Reported back with further amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, ... (H.R. 1743)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Shellabarger with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the encouragement of the foreign ... (H.R. 1743)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Shellabarger, with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Mr. Marshall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote commerce among the States, and to ... (H.R. 412)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, ordered to be printed, and leave to report at any time. Mr. William Williams, of New York, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War to lease certain swamp or low lands belonging to the Government, lying on Niagara River and ... (H.R. 1756)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. (H.R. 789)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage and aid the establishment of free schools throughout the United States. (H.R. 102)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Homestead Fund Commission. (H.R. 421)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate labor contracts made with immigrants to the United States. (H.R. 107)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the public schools of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3112)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote education in the several Territories of the Union. (H.R. 3108)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote education in the several Territories. (H.R. 3695)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallegos, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the disposition of school-funds in the Territory of New Mexico, and organizing a system for public schools. (H.R. 3332)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. George E. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To endow Reneau Female University and five normal schools in the State of Mississippi. Whereas the public lands asked for by the State of Mississippi in a memorial to Congress of the ... (H.R. 2815)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize the distribution of the public lands of the United States, and to provide a system of free schools and public education for all the children in the respective States and Territories. ... (H.R. 1267)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the observance of a day of national thanksgiving in all the States and Territories of the United States. (H.R. 3739)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant to the State of Alabama all the public lands within the State remaining undisposed of for the benefit of the free public school fund of said State. Whereas when many of the western and ... (H.R. 2603)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appointment of a commission on the subject of the wages and hours of labor and the division of profits between labor and capital in the United States. (H.R. 374)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant to the State of Missouri all the public lands within the State remaining undisposed of for the benefit of the public-school fund of said State. (H.R. 2375)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved July second, ... (H.R. 3309)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a Bureau of Sanitary Science. (H.R. 2986)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the name of the Bureau of Education. (H.R. 3782)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the reimbursement of the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, for property destroyed during the war of the rebellion. (H.R. 3760)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an educational fund, and to apply the proceeds of the public lands to the education of the people. (H.R. 802)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the greater efficiency of the public schools in the several States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2606)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the payment of the female employees of the Government, and for other purposes. (H.R. 689)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick B. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Strawberry Plains High School, East Tennessee. (H.R. 1897)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Establishing a Bureau of Labor, providing for the appointment of a Commissioner therefor, and defining his duties. (H.R. 550)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage mechanical industry. (H.R. 3421)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting one million acres of the public lands to the trustees of the Agricultural College in the State of Florida. (H.R. 3210)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting one million acres of the public lands to the trustees of the Browns Theological Institute in the State of Florida. (H.R. 3208)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Ordered to be printed with amendments. Mr. Hoar, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appointment of a commission on the subject of the wages and hours of labor and the division of profits between labor and capital in the United ... (H.R. 374)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by "Mr. Perce with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Education and Labor. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To ... (H.R. 689)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Perce with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Education and Labor. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: ... (H.R. 789)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Education and Labor. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide ... (H.R. 2606)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and Read twice, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the further endowment and support of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the ... (H.R. 2913)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Elections, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to and amendatory of an act entitled "An act to prescribe the mode of obtaining evidence in cases of contested election," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. (H.R. 1048)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Elections, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit the payment of expenses to either party to a contested-election case in the House of Representatives. (H.R. 2740)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Elections, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wheeler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote the purity of elections in the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 2198)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John W. Hickey, of the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 3019)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Further consideration postponed to April 16, and made a special order, after the morning hour and from day to day, until disposed of The farther consideration postponed to the second Tuesday in January, and made a special order for that day, after the morning hour. ... (H.R. 488)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Andrew Ten Brook, late consul at Munich. (H.R. 1150)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Creating a commission to adjust the compensation of the several claimants for damages for depredations by rebel cruisers, to be discharged out of the indemnity-fund awared by the tribunal of arbitration at ... (H.R. 3117)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In aid of the maritime interests of the United States. (H.R. 1515)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the further protection of the American fisheries, and in relation to the navigation and commercial interests of the United States. (H.R. 1220)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for expenses incurred under articles twelfth to seventeenth, inclusive, of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concluded at Washington May eighth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 489)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for expenses that may be incurred under articles one to nine, inclusive, of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington May eighth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 487)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect article thirteen of the Constitution of the United States, and to prohibit the owning or dealing in slaves by American citizens in foreign countries. (H.R. 490)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed in the city of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the ... (H.R. 488)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Southern International Telegraph Company. (H.R. 1081)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the education of American and Chinese youth in China as interpreters and assistants in the official and commercial intercourse between the United States and China, and for the increase and ... (H.R. 2626)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote and sustain the American fisheries under the treaty of Washington. (H.R. 1080)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States," approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. (H.R. 837)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appointment of commissioners on the part of the United States, who, in connection with commissioners that may be appointed on the part of the Dominion of Canada, shall examine and report ... (H.R. 2289)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To allow the withdrawal of certain evidence from the State Department. (H.R. 165)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to revise and adjust the account of James C. Pickett, late charge d'affaires to Peru. (H.R. 1875)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Blanchard, late consul of the United States at Melbourne, Australia. Whereas the Government of the United States obtained an award before the board of arbitration at Geneva, of ... (H.R. 3886)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Halsey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Black, late consul of the United States at the city of Mexico. (H.R. 1316)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the minister of the United States at the court of Japan to represent the government of Hawaii at that court. Whereas the government of Hawaii has requested of the Government of the United ... (H.R. 2122)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the adjustment and satisfaction of claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to the thirty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and one. (H.R. 384)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reimburse George S. Fisher for losses sustained by the burning of the consulate building of the United States, at Kanagawa, Japan, November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 2106)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the satisfaction of claims due to certain American citizens for spoliations committed on their commerce prior to the year eighteen hundred. (H.R. 1391)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the law which requires consular officers of the United States to collect three months' extra wages upon the discharge of seamen. (H.R. 961)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pecuniary allowance to the families of diplomatic and consular officers who die abroad. (H.R. 1121)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to admit six Japanese youths to the West Point Military Academy. (H.R. 2728)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage and promote telegraphic communication between America, Asia, and Europe. (H.R. 1400)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to request the republic of Hayti to indemnify Antonio Pelletier. Whereas Antonio Pelletier, a citizen of the United States, naturalized in the year eighteen ... (H.R. 3195)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage and promote telegraphic communication between America and Asia. (H.R. 2388)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage the laying of ocean telegraph cables, and to secure the same for the use of the United States. (H.R. 629)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles J. Sands, late United States marshal of the United States consular court at Chin-Kiang, China. (H.R. 916)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for a commission to determine the claims for damages committed upon our commerce by the steamers Alabama, Shenandoah, Florida, Georgia, and other British cruisers. Whereas, during the ... (H.R. 423)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to telegraphic communication between the United States and foreign countries. (H.R. 32)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Banks, without amendment, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Tuesday, the 19th day of March, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry into ... (H.R. 488)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Leonard Myers with amendments, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, ... (H.R. 2106)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Wood with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. Mr. Wood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to ... (H.R. 32)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. The further consideration postponed to second Wednesday in January next. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the adjustment and satisfaction of claims of American citizens for spoliations ... (H.R. 384)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Freedman's Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate money to the Georgia Infirmary of the city of Savannah, State of Georgia. Whereas Edward Padelford, late of the city of Savannah, State of Georgia, by his last will and testament, ... (H.R. 954)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Abolishing the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, and providing for the continuance of the Freedmen's Hospital in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1359)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. George M. Brooks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the freedmen of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. Whereas in the third article of the treaty made and concluded on the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1873)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Confirming articles of agreement with Shoshone and Bannock tribe of Indians, and directing the Secretary of the Interior to carry the same into effect. Whereas by act of Congress approved June firth, ... (H.R. 3984)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to discharge certain obligations of the United States to the creditors of the Upper and Lower Bands of Sioux Indians. (H.R. 3775)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 2296)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the auditing and payment of claims for compensation for Indian depredations. (H.R. 1528)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the removal of the Flathead and other Indians from the Bitter Root Valley, in the Territory of Montana. (H.R. 763)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure a more efficient and honest administration of Indian affairs in the several Territories. (H.R. 3109)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Claggett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the chiefs and head-men of the Crow tribe of Indians for the surrender of their reservation in the Territory of Montana. (H.R. 1934)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George McDougall. (H.R. 1614)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to take jurisdiction over the people of Alaska called Indians, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2174)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore a part of the Round Valley Indian reservation to the public lands, and to provide for the sale of the same. (H.R. 3717)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Red River at or near Colbert's Ferry. (H.R. 3917)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. DuBose, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To permit certain Indian tribes to prefer their claims against the United States, and have adjudication thereof. (H.R. 674)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Erastus S. Joslyn, of Washington Territory. (H.R. 1499)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Alabama, Coostatta, and Muscogee tribes of Indians in Texas. Whereas there are now, and have been for nearly one hundred years, three tribes of Indians, the Alabamas, Coostattas, and ... (H.R. 3090)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. I. C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to examine and adjust the accounts of Harrison B. Branch, late superintendent of Indian affairs for the Central superintendency. (H.R. 413)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac G. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the sureties of Harrison B. Branch, late superintendent of Indian affairs for the Central superintendency. (H.R. 1623)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the chiefs and head-men of the Shoshone and Bannock tribes of Indians for the relinquishment of a portion of their reservation in Wyoming ... (H.R. 1914)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the removal of restrictions upon the alienation of certain Miami Indian lands in the State of Kansas. (H.R. 1841)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the sale of the Black Bob Indian lands in Kansas. Whereas a large tract of lands set apart, in a compact body to be held in common, by a treaty with the Shawnee tribe of Indians, dated May tenth, anno ... (H.R. 142)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President to enter into treaty negotiation with the Indian tribes of the Indian Territory, with a view to procure the assent of said tribes to the extinguishment of tribal rights, and the ... (H.R. 2302)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect the fourth article of the treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, with the Seneca, Shawnee, Quapaw, and other Indians. Whereas, by the fourth article of the ... (H.R. 757)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry out certain provisions of the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for the relief of settlers on the Cherokee lands in the State of Kansas. Whereas in order that certain provisions ... (H.R. 1496)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for making entries of the Osage lands in Kansas. (H.R. 3269)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time of payment to settlers upon the Cherokee strip in Kansas. (H.R. 3329)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale of certain lands in Kansas known as the Cherokee strip. (H.R. 139)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale of certain New York Indian lands in Kansas. (H.R. 872)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale of Miami Indian lands in Kansas. (H.R. 1406)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James H. Jordon, surviving partner of Jordon and Cave, of Van Buren County, Iowa. (H.R. 585)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a right of way to H. O. Harkness through an Indian reservation in Idaho Territory. (H.R. 2663)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the freedmen of the Choctaw Nation, and for other purposes. Whereas in the third article of the treaty made and concluded on the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ... (H.R. 379)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Stevens. (H.R. 744)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sessions, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Cattaraugus and Allegany Indians in New York to lease lands and confirm leases. (H.R. 2264)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sessions, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to settle the claims of the Ogden Company against the lands of the Allegany and Cattaraugus Indians, in the State of New York. (H.R. 1440)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to the Presbyterian Board of Missions, for the reservation of three hundred and twenty acres of land set apart by the Kickapoo treaty of February ... (H.R. 977)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the appointment of a commissioner to take testimony relative to alleged frauds in connection with military pay and bounty due Cherokee, Creek, and other Indians. (H.R. 3979)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Miami tribe of Indians in Kansas. (H.R. 3908)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the mode of making private contracts with Indians. (H.R. 2290)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to private contracts or agreements made with Indians. (H.R. 3304)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relocating the United States agency for the Creek tribe of Indians, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2823)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Repealing acts and parts of acts granting lands and certain privileges in the Indian Territory to railroad companies. (H.R. 1132)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain Indians in the Central superintendency," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and to settle by commission all rights and equities ... (H.R. 3909)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section eleven of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes ... (H.R. 3907)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to open negotiations with Indian nations, tribes, or individuals, for the purpose of commuting all annuities now payable in kind, and to report his doings to ... (H.R. 1469)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect certain treaty stipulations with the Choctaw Nation or tribe of Indians. (H.R. 306)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm to the Great and Little Osage Indians a reservation in the Indian Territory. Whereas by the treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, ... (H.R. 2334)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To dispose of the Cherokee neutral lands in Kansas to actual settlers only. (H.R. 83)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the removal of the Kansas tribe of Indians to the Indian Territory, and to dispose of their lands in Kansas to actual settlers only. (H.R. 242)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain Indians in the Central superintendency," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and to settle by commission all rights and ... (H.R. 3430)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure a more efficient administration of Indian affairs. (H.R. 3270)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William G. Langford. Whereas the commissioners of the American Board of Foreign Missions, a corporation having its office or principal place of business in Boston, Massachusetts, became ... (H.R. 1840)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain tribes of Indians in the Northern superintendency. (H.R. 2589)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the office of Superintendent of Indian Affairs. (H.R. 1029)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To disencumber the public domain of the so-called Indian title. (H.R. 3229)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the revision of the various Indian treaties. (H.R. 3228)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tyner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the circuit court of the United States for the district of Indiana to make partition of the reservation to Me-shin-go-me-sia, a Miami Indian. (H.R. 183)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To recognize the validity of the Cherokee treaty of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 2734)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Averill with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry out certain provisions of the ... (H.R. 1496)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with an amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part in italics. Mr. Selucius Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of ... (H.R. 1499)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Susan W. Mechem. (H.R. 2066)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place upon the pension-rolls the name of Margaret Clune, widow of the late Colonel W. H. Clune, of the Sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 3339)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Katharine Ensworth. (H.R. 2392)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Antoine Brossa, of Company I, Eighty-third Regiment New York Volunteers. (H.R. 2612)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Ellen Errickson. (H.R. 3462)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Joseph H. Ickes, late private in Company A, Eighty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 3156)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaring all reports relating to claims for pensions to be official and open to the inspection of officers of the Government. (H.R. 1741)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to place the name of Mary A. Morris, widow of Major General William W. Morris, upon the pension-rolls, at the rate of fifty dollars per month. (H.R. 1872)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the pension of widows of deceased officers of the Army who had been, at the time of decease, more than forty years in the service of the Government. (H.R. 1742)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barber, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Jane La Font, mother of Louis La Font, deceased, private of Company C, Second Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. (H.R. 3266)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barber, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary E. Hall, widow of John E. Hall, deceased, private Company C, Second Regiment Wisconsin Cavalry. (H.R. 3319)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beatty, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to William Freshour, late a captain in the Eighth Regiment of Cavalry Ohio Volunteers. (H.R. 1816)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel Mahoney, the father of Daniel Mahoney, late a private in Company C, Third Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. (H.R. 3379)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah J. Kimball, of Concord, New Hampshire, widow of Frank Kimball, late a first lieutenant in Company C, of the Seventy-fifth United States Colored Infantry. (H.R. 3380)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James B. Tredwell. (H.R. 2844)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Nichman. (H.R. 1802)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Ellen Collins, widow of Mark Collins, late a private in Company B, Fifty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 3547)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Catharine Spangy, widow of Adam Spangy, late a private in Company B, Sixty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 2269)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beveridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Watson, late a private in Company H, in the Seventy-second Infantry Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. (H.R. 982)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beveridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Justus F. Jones, late a private in Company E, Seventh Iowa Cavalry Volunteers. (H.R. 1374)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beveridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of an allowance of one hundred dollars to the volunteers accepted under the President's proclamation of May third, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Whereas the President of ... (H.R. 1375)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Henry Miser, late private of Company C, Forty-third Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 4053)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Mary O'Donald. (H.R. 1818)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary G. Rhoades, widow of the late Major John L. Rhoades. (H.R. 3766)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Emily Booth. (H.R. 3276)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Restoring Edward O'Driscoll to the pension-rolls. (H.R. 3386)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Benjamin F. Berkley. (H.R. 1619)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Colton, of Stephenson County, Illinois. (H.R. 2928)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Dolan. (H.R. 1618)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John W. Shaeffer. (H.R. 1718)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Washington L. Sandford. (H.R. 1477)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Washington L. Sandford. (H.R. 3200)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William Swanzey. (H.R. 3084)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to George A. Lamb. (H.R. 1482)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Mary A. Shoemaker, widow of Captain Horace Shoemaker. (H.R. 1284)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carroll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Herman J. Ehle, of New York. (H.R. 927)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Virginia M. F. Cusack. (H.R. 2181)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Allowing totally and partially disabled soldiers and seamen increased pensions. (H.R. 1738)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Better. (H.R. 1851)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Maria L. Lee. (H.R. 1848)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide that no pensions be allowed for wounds or disabilities hereafter incurred except in cases where such wounds or disabilities were contracted in actual hostile service against the public enemy. (H.R. 973)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James McKean. (H.R. 3220)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Samuel R. Allen. (H.R. 3096)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for furnishing trusses to disabled soldiers. (H.R. 857)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal former laws in regard to paying pensions, and to provide for their payment in future. (H.R. 97)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John S. Hall, of Ritchie County, West Virginia. (H.R. 1997)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Cassa Ann Cottrill. (H.R. 3465)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Evy Grim. (H.R. 3464)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Commissioner of Pensions to issue to Charles H. Day, late a first lieutenant in Company I, Second Regiment West Virginia Volunteers, in lieu of the certificate now held by him, a ... (H.R. 1037)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dodd, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Sells. (H.R. 3239)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. C. Vanhouvan. (H.R. 2742)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Mullins. (H.R. 2235)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension to Axef S. Howard. (H.R. 1009)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension to Sarah T. Clough, guardian of the minor child of Lawrence D. Smith. (H.R. 582)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Increasing the pension of Mrs. Sue Bradley Johnson, widow of General G. M. L. Johnson. (H.R. 3897)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Erastus C. Herrick. (H.R. 2307)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Samuel C. Reed, of Onondaga County, New York. (H.R. 396)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting pensions to the survivors of the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one." (H.R. 3147)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the pension of Mrs. Hannah W. Sumner, widow of Major General Edwin V. Sumner, who died March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, while in command of the Department of the West. (H.R. 1876)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Harvey Green. (H.R. 3225)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Peter J. Cratzer. (H.R. 3774)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Catharine Ferry. (H.R. 3486)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Robert S. Moore. (H.R. 994)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension to Louise Moss. (H.R. 1285)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of Lieutenant Herman Tuerk," approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. (H.R. 3349)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Armstrong O'Hara, late private Company F, Forty-seventh Missouri Volunteers. (H.R. 993)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garrett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Directing the Secretary of the Interior to place the name of Mary Jane Stone upon the pension-roll, and to pay her a pension, and so forth. (H.R. 704)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garrett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Requiring the Commissioner of Pensions to furnish applicants for invalid pensions with a copy of all testimony or statements filed against them, with names of parties furnishing the same, with residence ... (H.R. 1464)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gerry W. Hazelton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Susan Schofield, widow of Alfred F. Schofield. (H.R. 1492)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gerry W. Hazleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John C. Morrill. (H.R. 749)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gerry W. Hazleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Crawford. (H.R. 748)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lorenzo D. Hogle. (H.R. 1974)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Boguskie, of the State of Tennessee. (H.R. 1820)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Increasing the pension of Tarrance Kirby, of Tennessee. (H.R. 1819)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John D. Berry, of New York. (H.R. 3538)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Henry Van Campen, of Steuben County, New York. (H.R. 1570)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Josiah Hilton, of Steuben County, New York. (H.R. 2060)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah E. King, widow of Lieutenant William H. King, Tenth United States Infantry. (H.R. 921)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Zenas Bradley, of Allen, Allegany County, New York. (H.R. 2138)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting an arrearage of pension to Isabella Crandall. (H.R. 922)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Ann Wallace, widow of Captain John Wallace, deceased, of Indiana County, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 398)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hancock, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary Ann Montgomery. (H.R. 1008)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frances Moore. (H.R. 1352)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jennie B. Savage. (H.R. 1353)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension to the heirs of James M. Smith. (H.R. 1280)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Elizabeth Norton. (H.R. 3582)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Juliet E. Hall, daughter of William Hall, late colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of Iowa Infantry. (H.R. 990)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elizabeth J. Ewing, of Sparta, Illinois. (H.R. 2577)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James A. Sanders. (H.R. 2751)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Henry H. Kaiser. (H.R. 1719)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of pensions through postmasters. (H.R. 478)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Henry D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anne Penny. (H.R. 1691)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Henry D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Lydia Dunmire. (H.R. 2023)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act granting a pension to Lucia Marden. (H.R. 1950)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Michael Shields. (H.R. 1318)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Catharine Campbell, guardian of John Thompson's children. (H.R. 1441)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Margaret H. Pittenger. (H.R. 3749)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Augusta Fox. (H.R. 981)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Captain Michael McGrayel. (H.R. 3191)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Cecily Schnetzer. (H.R. 3194)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Eliza B. Anderson. (H.R. 2733)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Harriet McLeaster. (H.R. 3192)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Martha Smith. (H.R. 1823)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Millie A. Powell. (H.R. 1824)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William DeBeck. (H.R. 1979)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hosea W. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Peter Grattan. (H.R. 1556)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac 0. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary B. Foster, of Chillicothe, Missouri. (H.R. 2735)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Robert H. Brown, of Adair County, Missouri. (H.R. 1479)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pensions to the widows, children, dependent fathers and mothers, or orphan brothers and sisters, of those soldiers who were murdered by guerrillas at Centralia, Missouri, in eighteen ... (H.R. 3313)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. G. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant Colonel Humphrey M. Woodyard, late of the Twenty-first Missouri Infantry. Whereas, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, stoppage was made against ... (H.R. 114)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. G. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Nancy Ann Spurgeon, widow of Josiah Spurgeon, of Lewis County, Missouri. (H.R. 115)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. H. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elizabeth York. Whereas by special act number eighteen, approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, granting a pension to Mrs. Elizabeth York, widow of Shubal ... (H.R. 557)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John A. Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Ephraim S. Cline, of Ohio. (H.R. 3668)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John A. Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to George H. Washington, of Ohio. (H.R. 3667)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John Rogers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William W. Sweet, of Clinton County, in the State of New York. (H.R. 3393)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry C. Doddridge. (H.R. 1817)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of William S. Higginbotham, deceased. (H.R. 3570)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Amelia A. Smith. (H.R. 964)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Julina Wooten. (H.R. 1364)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Harriet Mattis, widow of the late Isaac Mattis, late a private in the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 2668)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of sundry invalid pensioners. (H.R. 1754)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William J. Rice. (H.R. 2211)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Adam R. Walker. (H.R. 710)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Washington. (H.R. 1471)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Howard J. Webber, of New Albany, Indiana. (H.R. 3577)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Weber. (H.R. 3027)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary C. Griffin. (H.R. 1470)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Ann E. Hollowell. (H.R. 2228)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to George Washington. (H.R. 3190)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting a pension to Matilda Sullivan," approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 3080)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Killinger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Martin Zeeb. (H.R. 1920)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. L. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amending the act entitled "An act to grant pensions," approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 399)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamison, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place the name of Sarah E. Roebuck, widow of Lawrence Russell Roebuck, on the pension-rolls. (H.R. 2366)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George M. Brooks. (H.R. 3238)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James C. Bullock. (H.R. 3882)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Harper Smith. (H.R. 3541)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Isabella Swem, widow of John Mershon Swem, late private in Company D, Fourth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. (H.R. 1688)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Margaretta S. Meade, widow of Major-General George G. Meade. (H.R. 3024)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Mary Davis, of Philadelphia. (H.R. 651)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act to grant pensions," approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 1960)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following with A Bill Granting a pension to D. B. Vondersmith, late captain of Company C, Twenty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry. (H.R. 1877)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lewis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Aidy A. Autney. (H.R. 1708)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Leonard N. Hohnburgh, late first lieutenant in the First Illinois Cavalry. (H.R. 2837)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the name of Eliza M. Bass to the pension-roll. (H.R. 3910)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Adam Wallace, late a private in Company I, Thirteenth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers. (H.R. 1616)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Colonel William C. Kise. (H.R. 1371)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Lazarus B. Wilson. (H.R. 1522)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Margarett Boyd, Sarah A. McIlvaine, Silas H. McIlvaine, Rachel D. McIlvaine, and William L. McIlvaine. (H.R. 1273)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Wesley M. Gerard and David M. Gerard, minor children of William T. Gerard. (H.R. 1137)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William H. Bridges. (H.R. 712)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Restoring Aaron Archer to the pension-roll. (H.R. 2615)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Virginia Loyall Farragut. (H.R. 2017)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McClelland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting an increased pension to Hampton Thompson. (H.R. 3406)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Orson Young. (H.R. 2171)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Davenport Downs. (H.R. 3772)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Aaron B. Hughes, late a musician in Company E, One hundred and third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 3160)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel Beatty. (H.R. 1687)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Martha A. Gallaher, widow of William A. Gallaher, deceased, late a private in Company G, One hundred and thirty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 3159)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary McGuire. (H.R. 3890)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary Sproul, dependent mother of George Sproul, late a private in Company F, Sixty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 3158)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Richard V. Pare. (H.R. 3889)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Samuel Shaffer, late a private in Company I, Seventy-eighth Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers: (H.R. 1686)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Samuel Shuler, late a private in Company E, Sixty-first Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 1800)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Susan Davis, dependent mother of William W. Davis, deceased, late a private in Company E, One hundred and third Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 1444)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to James Treiss, of Company C, First Louisiana Volunteers. (H.R. 2011)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Enos B. Conover, late a private of Company A, Twenty-fifth Illinois Infantry. (H.R. 3440)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary S. Howe. (H.R. 558)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension to the minor heirs of Alexander Southerland, deceased. (H.R. 1319)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the relief of certain invalid pensioners. Whereas by section one of an act entitled "An act supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 991)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revise, consolidate, and amend the laws relating to invalid pensions. (H.R. 2312)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to provide officers and soldiers who have lost one or both eyes with artificial eyes. (H.R. 3665)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act relating to pensions," approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 815)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edward Tucker, late private in Company F. Second Regiment of Maryland Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 935)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James E. Audenried, late first lieutenant Company E, Second Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers. (H.R. 1234)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Louisa Brenstedt, mother of Louis Brenstedt, late a private in Company I, Seventeenth Missouri Volunteers. (H.R. 1101)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Margaret Conyers. (H.R. 1235)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Dempsey, of Company H, Second Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves. (H.R. 3888)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the pension of H. Louise Gates, widow of General William Gates. (H.R. 1684)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension to certain persons therein named. (H.R. 87)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Deborah A. Swan. (H.R. 3770)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary V. B. Joice. (H.R. 3769)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Harrison Mitchell. (H.R. 3079)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Peter Zimmer. (H.R. 3196)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William H. Wareham. (H.R. 3197)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James B. Thompson, captain Company F, One hundred and ninetieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Whereas James B. Thompson, of Company F, First Pennsylvania Rifles, was captured at ... (H.R. 938)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James W. Wharton, late a private in Company G, First Pennsylvania Rifles. Whereas on the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, James W. Wharton enlisted in Company G, ... (H.R. 1236)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Duran T. Hunt, late a soldier in the Fourth Regiment Iowa Cavalry. (H.R. 2169)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to C. S. Mooers, of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. (H.R. 1904)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Joseph James. (H.R. 2605)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Salem P. Rose, of North Adams, Massachusetts. (H.R. 2149)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Lane, of Greene County, Tennessee. (H.R. 540)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the pension of Thomas J. Dews of Laure County, Kentucky. Whereas Thomas J. Dews was, on the eleventh day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, granted a pension, at the rate of six ... (H.R. 3982)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick B. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Saraphine T. Palmer, widow of Doctor R. H. Palmer, late a surgeon, Eighth Tennessee Calvary. (H.R. 3298)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to George W. Browning, first sergeant Company D, First Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 3299)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Margaret E. Cogburn, widow of Hiram J. Cogburn, late a private Company F, Second Tennessee Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 968)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Nancy Tipton, widow of Samuel Tipton, late a private of Company H, Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry. (H.R. 2285)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Sarah Barry, of Tennessee. (H.R. 2384)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the pension of Captain Elias Beal, of Hawkins County, Tennessee. (H.R. 2383)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thomas M. K. Lee. (H.R. 3965)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the pension of Mrs. Mary R. Greenly. (H.R. 3457)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scopfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Rogers. (H.R. 2350)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Seeley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal all statutes which forfeit widows' pensions by reason of a second marriage. (H.R. 648)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sessions, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Eunice C. Adams. (H.R. 769)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Armstive Goodlow, late a private in Company E, Twenty-third Regiment United States Colored Troops. (H.R. 976)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place the name of James C. Bates, of Indiana, on the pension-rolls. (H.R. 708)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary Annie Thomasina Loomis, widow of the late Colonel Gustavus Loomis. (H.R. 2137)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to the minor children of Benjamin Franklin Browne, late acting assistant paymaster in the United States Navy. (H.R. 2004)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary Horton, of Franklin County, Alabama. (H.R. 2814)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snapp, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place the name of Anderson W. Scott on the pension-roll. (H.R. 1372)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snapp, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place the name of William J. McIntyre on the pension-rolls. (H.R. 1276)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Fixing the time from which pensions heretofore granted, or which may be hereafter granted, shall commence, and extending the time for the filing of applications for the same. (H.R. 511)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the date of the death of soldiers missing in action, or captured in the line of duty, and not heard from since. (H.R. 3544)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the rate of pensions to certain persons. (H.R. 3543)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal that part of section six of the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An to grant pensions,'" as limits the time in which claims ... (H.R. 3751)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah Evans, mother of L. G. Evans, late sergeant of Company K, Twenty-first United States Infantry. (H.R. 965)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Eunice Christie. (H.R. 3745)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve," and so forth, approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 3009)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to the minor children of David A. Arens, late private Company E, Eighty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, deceased. (H.R. 2265)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to the minor children of David Arens, late private Company E, Eighty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, deceased. (H.R. 2812)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary J. Corcoran, widow of Henry Corcoran, late of the Twelfth Michigan Infantry. (H.R. 2233)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the payment of invalid pensioners who were deprived of their pensions for drawing pay for actual military, naval, or marine service daring the war for the suppression of the rebellion. (H.R. 1488)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Horace B. Rogers. (H.R. 1989)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Parrish. (H.R. 1988)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tyner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension to Mary A. King. (H.R. 2159)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Amos Armstrong. (H.R. 3185)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Martha Tilliston, widow of George W. Tilliston. (H.R. 2944)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Trump, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Garrett Fleming. (H.R. 1258)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles 0. Wood, of Vigo County, Indiana. (H.R. 1368)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Rebecca J. Shaw, mother of John A. Shaw, deceased, late a private in the Eleventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers. (H.R. 1367)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William H. H. Anderson, late a private of Company B, First Heavy Artillery Indiana Volunteers. (H.R. 1900)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William P. Calvert, of Indiana, late a private in the Twenty-first Illinois Volunteers. (H.R. 1129)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place the name of Doctor Williamson D. Dunn, of Clay County, Indiana, late assistant surgeon of the Twenty-first Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, on the pension-rolls from and after the September ... (H.R. 1613)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place the name of Samuel B. Davis, late a corporal in Company C, Eighteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, on the pension-rolls, at the rate of a full disability, from and after the fourth day of ... (H.R. 1366)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walden, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edwin T. Parker, late a private of E Company, Second New Hampshire Volunteers. (H.R. 1836)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walden, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant arrears of pension to Charles N. Lockwood. (H.R. 1014)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waldron, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Amos Eddy, of Plymouth, Michigan. (H.R. 1286)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Aaron Tinsley and Mary Ann Tinsley. Whereas Aaron Tinsley and Mary Ann Tinsley, of the borough of Coatesville, in the county of Chester, and State of Pennsylvania, lost ... (H.R. 1683)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Ann C. Butler. (H.R. 1230)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Rebecca Taylor. (H.R. 3007)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Restoring the pension of Frances C. Elliott, widow of Commodore Jesse D. Elliott, deceased. Whereas by the third section of the act of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the thirteenth ... (H.R. 2611)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Charlotte Cumming, widow of the late Francis H. Gumming, chaplain of the Third Michigan Infantry. (H.R. 1832)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel Tuell. (H.R. 1240)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary E. Snively and Mavilla S. Snively, minor children of Abraham Snively, who died in the United States service in eighteen hundred and sixty-five. (H.R. 1487)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Phillip W. Tayler, of the Twenty-first Michigan Infantry. (H.R. 3586)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to the minor children of Michiel Weiss, formerly a private in Company K, Ninth Michigan Volunteers. (H.R. 3588)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to the act approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and so forth. (H.R. 1239)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Williams, of New York, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Abigail Bagot. (H.R. 1571)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Letitia Lindsay. (H.R. 3649)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, of New York, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary McAllister. (H.R. 2347)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to George W. Bradley. (H.R. 1355)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Manufactures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To define a gross of matches, and for other purposes. (H.R. 794)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Simms, late a lieutenant in the Seventy-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers. (H.R. 918)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. Mr. McGrew, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant [John] Jehu F. Wotring, a ... (H.R. 1299)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize a promotion in the Inspector-General's Department. (H.R. 3575)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aaron F. Perry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to appointments in the Army under the act approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 1599)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Acker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize bounties to soldiers who served in the late war for the suppression of the rebellion. (H.R. 3781)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Adams, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of sundry citizens of Eastern Kentucky who volunteered to aid in the protection of supplies for the Army. Whereas in the fall of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in obedience to the call of ... (H.R. 3707)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Adams, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relieving certain soldiers and sailors from the charge of desertion. (H.R. 816)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Adams, on leave, introduced the following bill: Construing the joint resolution of Congress, approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "A joint resolution for the relief of certain officers of the Army." (H.R. 967)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ambler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William McElroy, late lieutenant in the United States Army. Whereas William McElroy, late lieutenant in the United States Army, without cause, fault, or advice on his part, and when on ... (H.R. 3420)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ambler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting condemned cannon to the Jefferson County Monumental Association. (H.R. 1122)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Andrews. (H.R. 2695)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill authorizing the Secretary of War to issue arms and equipments to Captain Frank Bem's company of Bohemian Sharpshooters, of the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 1845)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To furnish arms and equipments for the First Battalion Dakota National Guard Militia. (H.R. 1033)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore Captain Seth Bonney to his former rank in the Army. (H.R. 3472)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Gurk, father of Caleb H. Gurk, late a private in the First Regiment of Michigan Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 1831)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Francisco V. DeCoster, of Litchfield, Meeker County, Minnesota. (H.R. 1170)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James H. Davidson, late colonel of the One hundred and twenty-second Regiment of United States Colored Troops. (H.R. 3463)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Dunnell, late a second lieutenant in Company C, of the Twenty-seventh Regiment Maine Volunteers. (H.R. 1839)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate brevets in the Army. (H.R. 907)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Margaret Merklein. (H.R. 1652)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes." (H.R. 2153)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal so much of section six of an act dated March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as relates to appointments in the Medical Department of the Army. (H.R. 3899)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Major General Schuyler Hamilton. (H.R. 1520)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting condemned ordnance to Philip H. Sheridan Post, Number Thirty-four, Grand Army of the Republic, for a monument for its cemetery. (H.R. 2243)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting one piece of condemned heavy ordnance to John Russell Lowell Encampment, Post Number Seven, Grand Army of the Republic, for their burial-lot. (H.R. 2244)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate a national military and naval asylum for the relief of the totally disabled officers and men of the volunteer ... (H.R. 1952)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to clothe the maimed and disabled soldiers," approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 1653)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate certain property and money withheld from deserters and others to the support of disabled volunteer soldiers. (H.R. 2133)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To insure bounty to heirs of deceased soldiers who are entitled to the same. (H.R. 3528)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the charge of desertion in the War Department against James W. Barnes, late private of Company I, Twentieth Ohio Volunteers. (H.R. 3666)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the charge of desertion in the War Department against Joseph H. Moore, late private Company A, Eightieth Regiment Ohio Volunteers. (H.R. 3716)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alois Smith, second lieutenant Company L, Second Arkansas Cavalry. (H.R. 3205)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Boorlin, late captain of Company L, Second Arkansas Cavalry. (H.R. 3206)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Braxton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the appointment of a major of artillery in the Army of the United States. (H.R. 3755)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robertson Topp and William L. Vance. (H.R. 2379)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To adjust the rank and pay of officers on the retired list of the Army. (H.R. 3662)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Henry O. Brigham, deceased. (H.R. 3275)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the designation of a chief medical purveyor. (H.R. 1745)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Kreel and Miller. (H.R. 1526)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Caldwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ethan A. Sawyer. (H.R. 2732)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaring the lands constituting the Fort Collins military reservation, in the Territory of Colorado, subject to pre-emption and homestead entry, as provided for in existing laws. (H.R. 598)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Charles Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William E. Childs. Whereas a commission as first lieutenant was issued by the governor of Ohio, on January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for William E. Childs, a ... (H.R. 3068)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. H. von Luettwitz, late first lieutenant Third United States Cavalry. (H.R. 3994)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the salaries of superintendents of national cemeteries. (H.R. 2185)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay the three months' volunteers one hundred dollars bounty. (H.R. 2834)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal section three of the joint resolution amendatory of "Joint resolution for the relief of certain officers of the Army," approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1646)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of existing bounty laws, and granting bounty to persons of color who were slaves previous to the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and who enlisted and served in the Army ... (H.R. 1589)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gonsalvo C. Smythe, late surgeon of the Forty-third Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. (H.R. 3574)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to certain brevet appointments. (H.R. 3198)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Repealing so much of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes," as prohibits ... (H.R. 3433)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend a joint resolution, approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "Joint resolution amendatory of a joint resolution for the relief of certain officers of the Army, approved July ... (H.R. 3576)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen ... (H.R. 3937)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish and to protect national cemeteries," approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 1272)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the thirty-first section of an act entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national militia, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. (H.R. 1467)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the soldiers' monument committee of Greencastle, Indiana, certain condemned ordnance. (H.R. 1468)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To limit the time for the presentation to, and decision of claims by, the Commissary-General of Subsistence, under the act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and for other purposes, ... (H.R. 3432)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the establishment of a large arsenal of construction and repair, a powder-depot, and a proving-ground, at suitable points east of the Alleghany Mountains, and for the discontinuance and ... (H.R. 3434)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the establishment of a prison for the Army of the United States, and for its government. (H.R. 1131)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the inspection of the disbursements of appropriations made by officers of the Army. (H.R. 3305)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the issue of duplicate checks by disbursing officers of the War Department. (H.R. 1041)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the Military Academy band and to fix the pay of its members. (H.R. 3435)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the purchase, by the Secretary of War, of lands for the United States in the State of Texas, for the sites of forts and military posts. (H.R. 1130)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide that minors shall not be enlisted in the military or naval service of the United States without the consent of parents or guardians. (H.R. 838)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide that no person shall be promoted in the Army who is addicted to the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors or drugs. (H.R. 3609)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the employment of engineer soldiers on extra duty. (H.R. 2227)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To simplify the accounts of disbursing officers. (H.R. 3431)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to granting bounty to the First Battalion Mountaineers, California volunteers. (H.R. 2658)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting three months' extra pay proper to the officers of the Missouri State militia, below the rank of brigadier general, who continued in the military service during the late rebellion after the third ... (H.R. 1931)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Selah V. Reeve, late quartermaster-sergeant of the Fourth Michigan Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 475)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to survey, plat, and sell the present cemetery grounds upon the Fort Gratiot military reservation in Michigan, and for other purposes. (H.R. 119)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to survey, plat, and sell the present cemetery grounds upon the Fort Gratiot military reservation, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1525)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Yount. (H.R. 3451)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting an honorable discharge to Paul C. Abney. (H.R. 3676)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in building a soldiers' monument at the national cemetery near Mound City, Illinois. Whereas the General Government of the United States has purchased and now holds title to a plat of ground near ... (H.R. 983)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John L. Bullard. (H.R. 1428)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dodds, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Joseph Weldt, late second lieutenant of the Fifty-eight Ohio Volunteers. (H.R. 3267)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the superintendent of the Military Academy to convene general courts-martial. (H.R. 3455)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Goldhammer. (H.R. 3315)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the better care and protection of subsistence supplies. (H.R. 3452)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the care and preservation of the cemetery near the city of Mexico, purchased in accordance with the act of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty. (H.R. 3454)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of bounty to the Fourth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers. Whereas the enlisted men of the Fourth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers were enrolled prior to the twenty-second day ... (H.R. 2923)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the printing, at the Government Printing Office, of one thousand copies of the descriptive anatomical catalogue of the Army Medical Museum. (H.R. 3453)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal so much of the not entitled "An act to increase and fix the military peace establishment of the United States," approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as authorizes ... (H.R. 3456)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the name of T. H. Carpenter, late captain Seventeenth United States Infantry, to the rolls of the Army. (H.R. 581)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish a duplicate certificate of discharge where the same has been lost. (H.R. 2308)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain officers of the volunteer service who continued in the military service to the close of the late war. (H.R. 1955)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John F. Wheeler. (H.R. 2917)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the equalization of bounties to soldiers who served in the war for the suppression of the rebellion. (H.R. 641)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish the State of Minnesota with five hundred stands of arms. (H.R. 1637)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the equalization of bounties to soldiers who served in the war for the suppression of the rebellion. (H.R. 3690)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal section six of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes," approved ... (H.R. 1909)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dwight Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Creating a professorship of dental surgery at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, and the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis. (H.R. 2140)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eames, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Julia Roberts. (H.R. 3531)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldredge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles W. Berry, late private of the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. (H.R. 3686)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldredge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Rood, late a private of the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. (H.R. 3685)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldredge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 3687)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reinstate certain officers in the Army. (H.R. 2299)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting unserviceable ordnance for a monument to Baron Steuben. (H.R. 2645)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the sale of certain public property," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3279)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To permit the use of certain military equipments by Young's Cavalry Staff. (H.R. 3046)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farnsworth, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to turn over condemned cannon to the Soldiers' Monument Association of Kane County, Illinois. (H.R. 2666)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain States and Territories on account of ordnance stores issued to such States and Territories by the United States during the late war of the rebellion. (H.R. 3787)

Read twice, referred to the committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the State of Missouri on account of ordnance and ordnance stores issued to said State by the United States during the late war of rebellion. Whereas during the late war of rebellion ... (H.R. 2859)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting to officers of the Missouri State militia the three months extra pay which has been given all other commissioned officers of the United States Army by the act approved March third, eighteen ... (H.R. 1147)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Murphy. (H.R. 901)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallegos, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the completion of the military road from Santa Fe to Taos, in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 2747)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallegos, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the construction of a military road from Fort Union, by Las Vegas, San Miguel, Mesa de Pecos, Rancho de San Carlos, via Santa Fe, (Fort Marcy,) to Albuquerque, in the Territory of New ... (H.R. 2748)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallegos, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the construction of a military road in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 3104)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac B. Higgins, of Washington Territory. (H.R. 1843)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the disposition of useless military reservations," approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 1174)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the first section of an act entitled "An act to provide for the disposition of useless military reservations," approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (H.R. 1303)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garrett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Austin O. Lyun, second lieutenant First Tennessee Light Artillery. (H.R. 3303)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garrett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting to each officer, soldier, seaman, and marine who served the United States in the late war of the rebellion, and who was honorable discharged therefrom, a certificate or warrant for public lands. (H.R. 2391)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garrett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the restoration of George A. Armes to the rank of captain in the Army. (H.R. 705)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gerry W. Hazleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George W. Burchard. (H.R. 750)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. W. Lawless. (H.R. 2082)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griffith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of B. S. Roberts, brevet brigadier general United States Army. (H.R. 2063)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griffith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant James R. Grant, late of the Fourth Regiment of Pennsylvania Cavalry. (H.R. 2328)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griffith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the officers of the United States retired from active service. (H.R. 1560)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griffith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting bounty lands to all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who were mastered into the service of the United States in the war for the suppression of the rebellion. (H.R. 506)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a certain right of way to the New York, Albany, and Buffalo Transportation Company. (H.R. 1795)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Haldeman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Charles McClure. (H.R. 3783)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Haldeman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a school at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, for the education of the children of the soldiers of the Regular Army of the United States. Whereas the large and commodious buildings at ... (H.R. 2667)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hancock, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to construct and operate-telegraph-lines connecting the military posts, and from post to post, on the frontiers of Texas with the headquarters at San Antonio. (H.R. 3767)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Edwards. (H.R. 1095)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Harper, junior first lieutenant Sixth United States Calvary. (H.R. 3282)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William S. Johnson. (H.R. 568)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Placing the officers of certain Missouri troops upon an equal footing with others as to the three months' pay proper authorized by an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. (H.R. 570)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of bounty to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Regiments of Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. (H.R. 2738)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Heberer. (H.R. 1473)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to purchase Drake's patent fuse. (H.R. 880)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Francis C. Buffington. (H.R. 3193)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect the decision of the Supreme Court relating to bounty to soldiers enlisted between the third day of May and the twenty-second day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 431)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the former occupants of the military reservation at Point San Jose, in the city and county of San Francisco, and for other purposes. (H.R. 592)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the former occupants of the military reservation at Point San Jose, in the city and county of San Francisco. Whereas by the act of Congress of July first, eighteen hundred and seventy, ... (H.R. 1728)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the sale of the military reservation known as Camp Cady, in the State of California. (H.R. 2301)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore certain lands to Phineas Banning and Benjamin D. Wilson. Whereas Phineas Banning conveyed to the United States of America, by deeds dated October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 3323)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. I. C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Matney, of Saint Joseph, Missouri, late a private in the Thirty-fifth Missouri Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 719)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. I. C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act in relation to bounty," approved April twenty-second, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3203)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Colonel Napoleon B. Giddings, of Savannah, Missouri. (H.R. 1278)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jefferson Miller, late captain of Company E, Twelfth Missouri United States Volunteer Cavalry. (H.R. 1624)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting officers of the Missouri State militia the three months' extra pay which has been given all other commissioned officers of the United States volunteer Army by the act approved March ... (H.R. 3312)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making further provision for compensation for horses and other property lost or destroyed while in the military service of the United States. (H.R. 2230)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of a bounty of one hundred dollars to the members of the Fifth Regiment of Missouri State Militia. (H.R. 2736)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. B. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize bounties of soldiers who served in the late war for the Union. (H.R. 987)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lewis Schramm, late a second lieutenant in the One hundred and twenty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 706)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and to provide for the payment of certain demands for quartermaster's stores and subsistence supplies ... (H.R. 564)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Trichler, of the county of Adams, Ohio. (H.R. 693)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Edward A. Diehl. (H.R. 1480)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ephraim P. Showalter. Whereas Ephraim P. Showalter was drafted into the service of the United States on the twenty-sixth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, ... (H.R. 1611)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Simeon J. Thompson, late an acting second lieutenant, Company B, Seventy-ninth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. (H.R. 1609)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William H. Pilkinton, late a second lieutenant in Company G, Fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteers. (H.R. 1610)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John B. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named, late members of Company K, fifty-eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from the charge of mutiny. (H.R. 3678)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John Rogers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of War to release twenty-five acres of the lands of the United States at Plattsburgh, New York, to the New York and Canada Railroad Company, ... (H.R. 3485)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to expend certain moneys for the purpose of sinking an artesian well on the Fort D. A. Russell military reservation, in Wyoming Territory. (H.R. 1513)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Joseph R. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathan B. Abbott. (H.R. 3041)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ellen Perkins. (H.R. 1855)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the payment of bounties to the Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Whereas certain members of the Fifth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, in good faith, enlisted for the three years' service ... (H.R. 3143)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David R. Scott and John W. Brindley. (H.R. 3247)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William W. Speirs, late assistant surgeon, United States Army. (H.R. 711)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relieve of Auguste Paulsen. (H.R. 3188)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved February fourteenth, eighteen ... (H.R. 3189)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for presenting claims for additional bounties. (H.R. 829)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay bounty to a certain military organization therein named. (H.R. 1283)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamison, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert McMurry, late second lieutenant of the Sixty-seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 1040)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamison, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and other officers of the United States to furnish copies of military and naval records at the request of governors of States for the use of ... (H.R. 2119)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Andrew J. Phinney. (H.R. 3643)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Carl Veitenheimer. (H.R. 3748)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Damon Woodworth. (H.R. 3642)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ellis Z. Smith. (H.R. 3644)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nelson G. Parmalee. (H.R. 3641)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of Doctor Mary E. Walker for services in the Army. (H.R. 2058)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Donating condemned cannon to the Pennsylvania State Association of Washington, District of Columbia. (H.R. 2759)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant W. F. Gardner. (H.R. 1401)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Haslam, late second lieutenant of Company K, Twenty-sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 1959)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lewis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Major John W. Todd. (H.R. 1709)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gideon F. Hodson. (H.R. 140)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Rigby. (H.R. 3226)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the Army and Navy Union of Portland, Maine, condemned ordnance for a soldiers' monument. (H.R. 3632)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Asbury E. Anderson, a private soldier. (H.R. 1715)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Emolds Lloyd, of Montgomery County, Indiana. (H.R. 1825)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Dice, of Fountain County, Indiana. (H.R. 1826)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize bounties to the soldiers of the United States in the late war to suppress the rebellion. (H.R. 3437)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant J. Scott Payne. (H.R. 1530)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the erection of a monument to the memory of Major-General George H. Thomas. (H.R. 3302)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act for the better organization of the military establishment," approved August third, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 2664)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the sixth section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes," ... (H.R. 1602)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McClelland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver, to the president of the Washington County, Pennsylvania, Monument Association, four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-balls. (H.R. 1091)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Sutherland. (H.R. 587)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the removal of the charge of desertion from soldiers who agreed to join the enemy only to escape from southern prisons, and who never actually bore arms against the United States. (H.R. 3450)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McGrew, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant John F. Wotring, a resident of the State of Michigan. Whereas John F. Wotring, formerly a citizen of West Virginia, now of the State of Michigan, did, with others, in the ... (H.R. 1299)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McHenry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To indemnify the State of Kentucky and other States for expenses incurred by them in defense of the United States. (H.R. 1124)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Andrew Ivory. (H.R. 1961)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Hoffman, late a second lieutenant of infantry in Company E of the Seventy-eighth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. (H.R. 1357)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel C. Boggs, late second lieutenant of Company G of the Fourth Regiment of Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers. (H.R. 1358)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable Light Battery, Mississippi Marine Brigade, to collect the balance of three hundred dollars Government bounty. (H.R. 2271)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the Memphis and Vicksburgh Railroad Company the right of way along the river-bank at the national cemetery at Vicksburgh, Mississippi. (H.R. 2012)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKinney, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David W. Stockstill, of Sidney, Ohio. Whereas on the twenty-seventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, one Henry S. Stockstill, of Selby County, Ohio, was drafted into ... (H.R. 3260)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKinney, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting bounty land to honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who served in the suppression of the rebellion, and to their widows and orphan children. (H.R. 327)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKinney, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting bounty to certain soldiers therein named. (H.R. 2608)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McNeely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Aaron B. Fryrear. (H.R. 3521)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate old and condemned bronze cannon for soldiers' monuments and cemeteries. (H.R. 397)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize bounties by giving to each honorably discharged soldier the sum of eight dollars and thirty-three cents for each month's service. (H.R. 647)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the charge of desertion against Daniel Orner, late private in Company H, Ninety-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Whereas Daniel Orner, late a private in Company H, Ninety-first Regiment ... (H.R. 1238)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to admit six Japanese youths to the West Point Military Academy. (H.R. 2727)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Brooks. (H.R. 1969)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Scipio Donald. (H.R. 2922)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a bounty to the non-commissioned officers and privates of the First Regiment of Louisiana Independent Scouts. (H.R. 1970)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to sell the grounds and tenements in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, now used as a United States quartermaster's depot. (H.R. 939)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Incorporating the National Union Soldiers and Sailors' Orphan Industrial Training-School Association. (H.R. 2064)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 1096)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending bounties to certain soldiers who were discharged on account of disability incurred while in the service of the United States. (H.R. 86)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In regard to charges of desertion against certain soldiers who have been honorably discharged. (H.R. 387)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the claims of certain persons in the late insurrectionary States. (H.R. 438)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James C. Livingston, late a private in Company E. Third Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 3683)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act of June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An act to provide for furnishing artificial limbs to disabled soldiers." (H.R. 3317)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaring the meaning of the third section of the joint resolution approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "A joint resolution amendatory of joint resolution for the relief of ... (H.R. 304)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Susan L. Galloway. (H.R. 1128)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William West. (H.R. 305)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry D. Wharton, late commissary sergeant Forty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Whereas Henry D. Wharton, commissary sergeant Forty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania ... (H.R. 1798)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles C. Hood. (H.R. 741)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant A. J. Smith, of De Soto, Iowa. (H.R. 2298)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of P. E. Dye, of Polk County, Iowa. (H.R. 740)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Newton Knight and others, citizens of Mississippi, therein named. (H.R. 1814)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Washington T. Scott. (H.R. 1445)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 3999)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the United States." (H.R. 2353)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Directing the removal of the charge of desertion in certain cases. (H.R. 2128)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frederick Mack. (H.R. 3138)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of S. P. Jocelyn. (H.R. 1344)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to bounties. (H.R. 785)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. Milton Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to bounties. (H.R. 2387)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Randall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Donating condemned cannon to the Second Regiment Infantry, National Guards, of Philadelphia. (H.R. 2267)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Colonel George W. Kirk, of Tennessee. (H.R. 3765)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roderick R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hiram J. Cogburn. (H.R. 3296)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rogers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to release fatty acres of the lands of the United States at Plattsburgh, New York, to the New York and Canada Railroad Company. (H.R. 2263)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve Samuel S. Sherman, late of the First Iowa Cavalry, from the charge of desertion, and to authorize the payment to him of pay, allowances, and bounty for the whole time he was in the military ... (H.R. 2237)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the charge of desertion from John Eaton, a private soldier of the Eighteenth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. (H.R. 4047)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Selucious Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To adjust the rank and pay of officers on the retired list of the Army. (H.R. 3777)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sessions, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Allowing totally disabled soldiers and seamen increased pensions. (H.R. 881)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Doctor Theodore A. Tellkampf. (H.R. 2676)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize bounties. (H.R. 3181)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherwood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place Lieutenant Oliver Lumphney upon the retired list of Army officers, with like pay as other officers of the same grade upon the retired list. (H.R. 1561)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the sale of certain arsenals and other property of the United States. (H.R. 610)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Catherine Harris. (H.R. 1346)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to the retirement of officers of the Army. (H.R. 1788)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize an appointment in the Inspector General's Department. (H.R. 2136)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to release the right of way to the Bay Ridge and Sea Shore Railroad Company of Long Island over the military reservation at Forth Hamilton, in the State of New York. (H.R. 3645)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the pay of officers in the United States Army and Navy when absent on leave. (H.R. 1253)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To dispose of the lands in the military reserve at Fort Smith, in Arkansas. (H.R. 2232)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting bounty-land to the soldiers and sailors who served in the war for the suppression of the rebellion, and to the widows and children of those who are dead. (H.R. 512)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act in relation to bounties." (H.R. 3295)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the enlistment in the Army of the United States of persons under the age of twenty-one years. (H.R. 510)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Julia P. Lynde, minor child of R. D. Lynde, late surgeon of United States Volunteers, deceased. (H.R. 3981)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Petrie, widow of George C. Petrie, late a private of the Seventeenth Michigan Infantry Volunteers. (H.R. 576)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Seth M. Whitten, late private of the Fourth Regiment Michigan Infantry. (H.R. 575)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, relating to pensions. (H.R. 3914)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 10)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize the bounties of soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the late war for the suppression of the rebellion. (H.R. 574)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty, under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 577)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To legalize the department of ordnance and science of gunnery, at the United States Military Affairs. (H.R. 3786)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale of useless arsenals and the construction of an arsenal for the manufacture of steel guns for sea-coast defense. (H.R. 2610)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Rock, of Saginaw, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 415)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Donating condemned ordnance to the State Fencibles of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 2590)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Louis J. Boyer. (H.R. 3103)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Terry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the recomputation of the accounts between the United States and the several States growing out of moneys expended by said States in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 2354)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tyner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve all persons engaged in the volunteer military service of the United States, at the close of the war of the rebellion, from the disability of desertion on account of absenting themselves ... (H.R. 241)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Lynch. (H.R. 468)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend to men transferred from the Army to the Navy the benefits of the act in relation to additional bounty. (H.R. 3184)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the completion of the national monument to the memory of George Washington. Whereas the failure to complete the national monument to the memory of George Washington is a disgrace to the people and ... (H.R. 3674)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. T. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reimburse the State of Texas for moneys expended in enrolling, equipping, and provisioning the "ranger" forces to aid the Government of the United States in protecting the frontier from ... (H.R. 1044)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walden, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of D. K. Sargent, of Poweshiek County, Iowa. (H.R. 2173)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walden, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. W. Holiday. (H.R. 1013)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the salary and allowances in kind of commissioned officers of the Army when absent with leave. (H.R. 3493)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To assign certain condemned cannon to the national cemetery at Andersonville, in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 955)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William R. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William G. Halpine, for losses sustained while serving in the United States Army in eighteen hundred and sixty-two and eighteen hundred and sixty-three. (H.R. 1849)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, of Indiana, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George L. Key, late a first lieutenant of the Twenty-third Indiana Volunteer Battery. (H.R. 1472)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To re-organize and reduce the staff of the Army, to secure the more prompt settlement of disbursing officers' accounts, and to prevent defalcations. (H.R. 495)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Worthington C. Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Almont Barnes. (H.R. 1871)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Coburn, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the establishment of a prison for the Army of the United States, and for its ... (H.R. 1131)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Coburn with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill ... (H.R. 610)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Coburn with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To ... (H.R. 1130)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Coburn,with amendments, ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Insert the part printed in italics. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide that minors shall not be enlisted in ... (H.R. 838)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Georg E. Harris with an amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Strike out the part within [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. Mr. Caldwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A ... (H.R. 2732)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments, and ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the inspection of the disbursements of ... (H.R. 3305)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with an amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Insert the words printed in italics. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the printing, at the Government Printing ... (H.R. 3453)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back without amendment by Mr. Coburn, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaring the meaning of the third section of the joint resolution approved ... (H.R. 304)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William H. Pilkinton, late a second lieutenant in Company G, Fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteers. (H.R. 1610)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Upson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Lynch. (H.R. 468)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back without amendment, recommitted to the said committee, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June ... (H.R. 3937)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be, printed. Mr. Burchard, on lease, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the settlement of the accounts of Major Abram Beeler, late paymaster of United States Volunteers. (H.R. 1829)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Abraham P. Eyre, of Philadelphia. (H.R. 1233)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to the printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting payment of bounties, back pay, and so forth, provided by previous laws of Congress, to certain soldiers therein named, who have been defrauded of the same by their attorneys without authority. (H.R. 141)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Utah Railroad Mining and Land Company. (H.R. 1739)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Claggett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To locate and establish an assay office in the Territory of Montana. (H.R. 1307)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant the right of pre-emption to coal-lands on the public domain in the Pacific States and Territories. (H.R. 754)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the President to appoint commissioners to examine and report upon the practical advantage of sinking artesian wells in the State of Nevada and in the Territory Utah. (H.R. 3467)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Sutro Tunnel from the proceeds of the sale of mineral lands. Whereas our public lands contain mines of the precious metals which are unsurpassed in richness, and can ... (H.R. 1173)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage the discovery, exploration, and working of coal veins or beds upon the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 3519)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a right of way to the Boise Basin Bed-Rock Flaming Company, of Idaho Territory, over the public lands of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1847)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a national school of mines in the North Georgia Agricultural College, at Dahlonega, Georgia; to provide for the selection of a faculty; and to appropriate a sum of money for the support and ... (H.R. 3060)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the entry of homesteads and pre-emptions in the mining States and Territories. (H.R. 2621)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote the development of the mining resources of the United States. (H.R. 1016)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waldron, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to mineral lands. (H.R. 3518)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waldron, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Utah Railroad and Mining Company. (H.R. 3913)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain officers of the Navy who were dropped, furloughed, or retired under the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. (H.R. 1053)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles W. Whitney. (H.R. 445)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs at law of William C. Brashears. (H.R. 3161)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the officers and crew of the United States steamer Champion. (H.R. 4039)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place on the naval pension-roll the names of the widows and minor children of Newton H. Adams and John Rudenstein. (H.R. 457)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate promotions on the active list in the Navy. (H.R. 3602)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Archer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the pensions of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes. (H.R. 519)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to F. Selina Buchanan, widow of McKean Buchanan, late paymaster in the United States Navy. (H.R. 633)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of ten or more steam vessels of war, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1219)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the payment of prize-money to the officers and crew of the United States steamer Bienville. (H.R. 1557)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bird, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel S. Morshon, junior. (H.R. 3650)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Defining the rank of officers transferred from the supernumerary list. (H.R. 2370)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carroll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Howard F. Moffat. (H.R. 3604)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Barry, widow and administratrix of Thomas Barry. (H.R. 3700)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Fixing the pay of civil engineers in the United States Navy. (H.R. 3718)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the captors of the rebel iron-clad man-of-war Albemarle. (H.R. 1727)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President to appoint Frederick T. Peet at first lieutenant in the Marine Corps. (H.R. 3773)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the building of two excavated dry-docks at the Mare Island navy-yard. (H.R. 1635)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore Captain Albert G. Clary, United States Navy, to his original position on the Navy Register. (H.R. 3591)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore Captain Louis C. Sartori to his original position on the Navy Register. (H.R. 3022)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Darrall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a permanent navy-yard and depot at Baton Rouge, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 1117)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a marine hospital at the city of Parkersburgh, in the county of Wood, in the State of West Virginia. (H.R. 1036)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dodds, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section thirty-two of the act entitled "An act to regulate prize proceedings and the distribution of prize money, and for other purposes," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. (H.R. 3931)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of the officers and crew of the United States steamer Kearsarge." (H.R. 2830)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Martha J. Coston, widow of Benjamin F. Coston. (H.R. 3599)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Haldeman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes," approved March third, ... (H.R. 3750)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Establishing the number of officers in certain ranks in the United States Navy. (H.R. 1214)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Fixing the rank of the professors of mathematics in the United States Navy. (H.R. 780)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George A. Stevens, of the United States Navy. (H.R. 903)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To compensate the officers and crew of the Kearsarge for the destruction of the rebel piratical vessel Alabama. (H.R. 186)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a marine hospital within, or near to, the city of Helena, in the State of Arkansas. (H.R. 725)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hays, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Andrew W. Johnson. (H.R. 2276)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Henry D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of heirs of Captain A. K. Long, deceased, late of the United States Navy. (H.R. 3280)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To limit the number of midshipmen in the Naval Academy. (H.R. 3635)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To test a plan of storm and flood signals. Whereas the season of storms and floods is fast approaching, when large amounts of property and even lives are lost on rivers that rise suddenly and run with ... (H.R. 1783)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James Brooks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an iron-ship building yard on the waters falling into the Atlantic, and an iron-ship building yard on the Mississippi or one of its tributaries, and to afford facilities to the Navy. ... (H.R. 2716)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain W. W. Low. (H.R. 3651)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the officers and crew of the United States steamer Sciota. (H.R. 3502)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow of Captain Elisha Peck, of the United States Navy. (H.R. 3638)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the President to appoint C. W. Cronk a first assistant engineer in the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 2317)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for an outfit and yearly allowance of clothing to enlisted men and boys in the Navy. (H.R. 1563)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Harriet Pendleton, widow of George H. Pendleton, late of the United States Navy. (H.R. 1649)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the promotion of Commodore John P. Gillis, United States Navy, and others, to the grade of rear-admiral on the retired list. (H.R. 3905)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the promotion of Commodore John P. Gillis, United States Navy, to the grade of rear-admiral on the retired list. (H.R. 2389)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McClelland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Philip Miller, late second assistant engineer in the Navy. (H.R. 3706)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McClelland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To re-instate Lieutenant George M. Book on the active list of the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 3655)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McClelland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore George M. Book to the active list of the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 937)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Rear-Admiral Thomas Turner. (H.R. 2827)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for a survey of the harbor at the mouth of the Patuxent River. (H.R. 1879)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel McKay. (H.R. 3664)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the grades of admiral, vice-admiral, and rear-admiral, and to correct other abuses in the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 1890)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to dispose of vessels, machinery, ordnance, and other material now at the navy-yards and naval stations, which may be sold without detriment to the public service, and ... (H.R. 1097)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate and establish the grade of certain officers in the United States Navy. (H.R. 3400)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Egbert Thompson. Whereas Egbert Thompson, captain on the active list, has not been advanced to his original position, though advanced by the act for the relief of certain officers, ... (H.R. 3673)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the efficiency of the Navy of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1815)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to Mrs. Mary Ann Dodd and Mrs. Margaret Webber. (H.R. 668)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Navy of the United States to appoint Acting Master Robert Platt a master in the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 1805)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the pay of mechanics, laborers, and artisans at the Norfolk navy-yard. (H.R. 2681)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the purchase of certain real estate in Washington, District of Columbia, for a dry-dock and other purposes. (H.R. 3637)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Prindle, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for reclaiming and improving the swamp and overflowed lands connected with the United States navy-yard at Brooklyn, New York. (H.R. 1436)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Randall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a annuity to Mary Swift, daughter of Thomas Truxton, deceased, late commodore in the United States Navy. (H.R. 3653)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Randall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To construe certain acts relating to the relative rank of staff officers in the Navy. (H.R. 2266)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of ten steam sloops of war. (H.R. 1082)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way for the construction of a submarine tunnel under Mare Island Straits, in the State of California. (H.R. 3964)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Albert Ross, United States Navy. (H.R. 2101)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the distribution of prize-money in the Navy. (H.R. 2102)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the Government to obtain a more thorough knowledge of the actual numbers, condition, tribal relations, and so forth, of the various Indian tribes of the United States. (H.R. 3404)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote the securing of efficient seamen for the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 930)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shoemaker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the President of the United States to remove Commander John C. Beaumont from the retired list and to restore him to the active list in the Navy. (H.R. 1797)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the appointment of Robert K. Diossy a chaplain in the Navy. (H.R. 2003)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of Navy to purchase a bust of the late Admiral Farragut, and place the same in the Capitol. (H.R. 915)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale of the naval hospital in Brooklyn, New York, and the adjoining land. (H.R. 1787)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For payments to the heirs of William M. Ellis for the use and purchase by the Government of his invention in lathe for boring and planing howitzers. (H.R. 3242)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the officers and crew of the United States ship Wyoming. (H.R. 1874)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Miles Greenwood. (H.R. 3422)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Swann, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Talbert. (H.R. 3344)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ambler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the thirty-third section of the patent act. (H.R. 963)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Alpha Richardson, deceased. (H.R. 2127)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the extension of patents in certain cases. (H.R. 2134)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beveridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Jonathan Haines, deceased. (H.R. 1478)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize Charles M. Shaffner, an employee of the Patent-Office, to apply for a patent. (H.R. 1983)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the Commissioner of Patents to sell copies of the drawings and specifications of patents at cost in certain cases. (H.R. 1917)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time of letters-patent issued to David Hoke. (H.R. 2297)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anson Atwood. (H.R. 3633)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James A. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the privileges of obtaining patents. (H.R. 3346)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James Brooks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth N. Jackson. (H.R. 1524)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of William A. Graham. Whereas it appears that William A. Graham, in the year anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, filed his application in due form, for ... (H.R. 1370)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the extension of the patent of James M. Lilley for improved instrument for surveying and calculating areas. (H.R. 1753)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James C. Cooke. (H.R. 2997)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James C. Cooke. (H.R. 3936)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To explain the twenty-fifth section of an act entitled "An act to revise, consolidated, and amend the statutes relating to patents and copyrights," approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 3955)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah S. Trapp, executrix of William Trapp, deceased. (H.R. 924)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Oliver Evans Woods, of Philadelphia. (H.R. 3271)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Warker. (H.R. 2142)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Winans and William L. Winans. (H.R. 3542)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nicholas Whitehall, of Fountain County, Indiana. (H.R. 3439)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable Richard A. Stewart to make application to the Commissioner of Patents for the extension of letters-patent for an improvement in clarifying and defecating cane-juice. (H.R. 3293)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the extension of a patent to Alexander Douglas. (H.R. 3413)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Confirming and extending a patent right to Levi W. Pond and Eau Claire Lumber Company. (H.R. 263)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for furnishing copies of drawings and specifications of the Patent Office to the circuit courts of the United States at Erie and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 509)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherwood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the deposit of one copy of all specifications and drawings of patents issued subsequent to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in the office of the deputy clerk of the United States ... (H.R. 3241)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snapp, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the extension of a patent to Andrew Dillman. (H.R. 2372)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Starkweather, on leave, introduced, the following bill: A Bill For the payment of Richard M. Green for the use and purchase of his patent by the Government. (H.R. 913)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Swann, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ross Winans and Thomas Winans. (H.R. 2600)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Mary A. McComb, of Memphis, Tennessee. (H.R. 3078)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walden, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James D. Willoughby, of Vineland, New Jersey. Whereas letters-patent of the United States were issued to James D. Willoughby for an improvement in seed-planters, August third, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 2835)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George W. Morse. (H.R. 1108)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize William G. Jardine to make application to the Commissioner of Patents for the issue of a patent for his improvement in brake and rest for carts. Whereas William C. Jardine's application ... (H.R. 933)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Albert W. Gray. (H.R. 391)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beatty, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for reporting and publishing the debates and proceedings of Congress. (H.R. 1460)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beatty, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the distribution of public documents. (H.R. 2730)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For preparing for publication the second and third parts of the Medical and Surgical History of the War. (H.R. 2929)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Beatty with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Beatty, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for reporting and publishing the ... (H.R. 1460)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anson Rudd. Whereas Anson Rudd, and Harriet, his wife, of Fremont County, Colorado Territory, did, on the twentieth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, by ... (H.R. 1031)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm the title of the heirs of Gervasio Nolan to certain lands in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 275)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the transfer and exchange of two irregular strips of land adjoining the marine hospital tract at Saint Louis, Missouri. (H.R. 843)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To expedite the survey of private land claims. (H.R. 1163)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Monroe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of Peter Mills," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. (H.R. 1402)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Addison Goodell, of Illinois. (H.R. 2104)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Lake Washington Canal Company. Whereas a navigable canal, at some convenient point, from the tide-waters of Puget Sound to Lake Union, and thence to Lake Washington, in King ... (H.R. 272)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Requiring the Commissioner of the General Land-Office to investigate and report upon the unconfirmed private land-claims in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 2154)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve Joseph Coffman, of Louisiana. Whereas a patent for one hundred and sixty acres of land was issued in eighteen hundred and twenty-one to Joseph Coffman, a soldier of the war of eighteen ... (H.R. 805)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Quieting doubts in relation to the validity of a certain location of land in the State of Missouri, made by virtue of New Madrid certificate numbered three hundred and thirty-three, issued to John B. ... (H.R. 1723)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act for the survey of grants or claims of land," approved June second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 1377)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morphis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Martin P. Hardin, of Pontotoc County, Mississippi. (H.R. 1457)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the issue of patents to lands in cases of private land-claims. (H.R. 1918)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal several acts which provide for the survey of confirmed private land-claims at the expense of the claimants. (H.R. 1919)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the Saint Mary's Missionary Station, in the Territory of Montana. (H.R. 3110)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Claggett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Michael M. McCauley. (H.R. 2239)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallegos, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the legal representatives of John Scolly, and others, in the Territory of New Mexico, to institute suit against the United States in the supreme court of New Mexico. (H.R. 2746)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Lake Washington Canal Company. (H.R. 1502)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm the title of John Boyer to certain lands therein described. (H.R. 1720)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm certain land-titles in the State of Missouri. Whereas the Baron of Carondelet, governor-general of the Territory of Louisiana, did, on the fifteenth day of March, anno Domini ... (H.R. 1282)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for ascertaining and settling private land-claims in certain States and Territories. (H.R. 1954)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McGrew, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm to William Marvin the title to seven thousand acres of land in the State of Florida. Whereas under the act of Congress approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled, "An ... (H.R. 3593)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the sale of certain lands at Vincennes, Indiana. Whereas the United States heretofore acquired for debt certain real estate in and near the city of Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana, ... (H.R. 2673)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To release the title of the United States to certain lands in Michigan City, Indiana. Whereas Isaac C. Elston, on the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, agreed to donate to ... (H.R. 1827)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to certificates of location and patents to be issued upon private land-claims confirmed under the laws of the United States. (H.R. 2651)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Upson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to Mexican titles to land within the Territory of Arizona. Whereas by article one of the treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, concluded and signed at the ... (H.R. 2224)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, an ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the erection of a building at the city of Syracuse, New York, for the accommodation of the post-office an United States courts. (H.R. 394)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a United States custom-house at the post of Pembina, in the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 2303)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the President to purchase a site and erect thereon a fireproof building for the accommodation of the United States courts and post-office in the city of Covington, State of Kentucky. (H.R. 536)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To compensate the city of Charlestown, Massachusetts, for expense incurred in curbing and paving sidewalks and streets adjacent to the navy-yard at Charlestown. (H.R. 1740)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigby, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the United States court, post-office, and internal revenue offices, at Atlanta, Georgia. (H.R. 1448)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the Federal courts, postoffice, internal-revenue, and other civil offices in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. (H.R. 2331)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building suited to the use of the post-office, land and revenue officers, and the judicial officers of the United States in the city of Montgomery, Alabama. (H.R. 1111)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a building at Fall River, Massachusetts, for custom-house, post-office, and other public offices. (H.R. 486)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for a Government building, to be used for a court-house and post-office, at the city of Jefferson, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 252)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a building for the use of the post-office, United States courts, United States marshal, internal revenue, and other civil offices, in the city of Denver, ... (H.R. 599)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the enlargement of the public grounds surrounding the Capitol. (H.R. 765)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enlarge and complete the penitentiary in the Territory of Montana. (H.R. 1527)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a Government building in the city of Rochester, New York. (H.R. 637)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of an addition to the United States court-house and post-office at Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 551)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the post-office and internal revenue offices at Kansas City, Missouri. (H.R. 563)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crossland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the erection of a court-house and post-office in the city of Paducah, Kentucky. (H.R. 1126)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating a certain sum of money to be expended in the erection of a building for the purposes of a United States courthouse and post-office at Huntsville, in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 216)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the erection of a Government building at the city of Syracuse, New York, and appropriating two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for that purpose. (H.R. 1089)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a building for the use of the postoffice, United States circuit and district courts, and internal revenue offices at Lynchburgh, Virginia. (H.R. 477)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eames, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a building in North Providence, Rhode Island, for a post-office and other public offices. (H.R. 2135)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eli Perry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the post-office, customhouse, United States circuit and district courts, and internal revenue offices, at Albany, New York. (H.R. 189 1/2)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the erection of a public building at Rome, New York. (H.R. 1432)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the post-office, United States circuit and district courts, office of the clerk of the United States circuit court, and internal-revenue ... (H.R. 1572)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the construction of a public building at Chicago, Illinois. (H.R. 459)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the repairs, furnishing, and ornamentation of the United States custom house and post-office at Bath, Maine. (H.R. 902)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Getz, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to a site for public buildings in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 3264)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of buildings suitable for the use of the United States courts, post-office, custom-house, and other necessary Government offices, at Nashville, Tennessee. (H.R. 701)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Haldeman on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the erection of a building at the city of Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, for the accommodation of the post-office, pension, revenue, and other officers of the United States. (H.R. 1237)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Halsey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a building suitable for use as a post-office, and for the accommodation of United States internal revenue officials, and other Government purposes, at Jersey ... (H.R. 928)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hancock, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the President to purchase a site, and erect thereon a fire-proof building for the United States courts and post-office, at Austin, Texas. (H.R. 735)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To erect a post-office building in the city of Opelika, Alabama. (H.R. 2074)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a building suitable for use as a post-office, custom-house, and other Government purposes, at Quincy, Illinois. (H.R. 245)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a building suitable for use as a post-office, "United States court, custom-house, and other Government purposes at Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia. (H.R. 332)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide a suitable building for the United States courts, post-office, and internal-revenue officers, in the city of Tyler, State of Texas. (H.R. 856)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To erect a court-house and post-office at Harrisonburgh, Virginia (H.R. 1964)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To erect a post-office in the city of Staunton, in Virginia. (H.R. 1965)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kinsella, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a building suitable for use as a post-office and United States court, and for the accommodation of United States internal revenue officials and other ... (H.R. 336)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a public building at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the use of the post-office and United States courts in said city. (H.R. 1947)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the Federal courts, postoffice, internal revenue, and other civil offices, in the city of Topeka, Kansas. (H.R. 594)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Keokuk, Iowa, for the use of the United States courts and Government offices. (H.R. 1631)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate money to construct a custom-house and post-office in the city of Brunswick, State of Georgia. Whereas the growth of the city of Brunswick, Georgia, together with its increase ... (H.R. 672)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the board of managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to convey certain real estate to the State of Wisconsin for the purpose therein mentioned. (H.R. 2300)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To donate certain property of the United States to the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, for educational purposes. (H.R. 2155)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the purchase of a suitable site and erecting a building thereon in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to be used for a court-house, custom-house, post-office, United ... (H.R. 941)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend Winder's Building for the use of the War Department. (H.R. 656)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the erection of a building for a custom-house, postoffice, and other purposes, at Evansville, Indiana. (H.R. 1710)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site, and erect thereon a building to be used as a marine hospital, in Sioux City, Iowa. (H.R. 2236)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the construction of a public building at Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. (H.R. 1362)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of an iron-plating shop, a marine barrack, and smithery at the Norfolk navy-yard. (H.R. 3289)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a building suitable for a courthouse, and for the use of the officers of the United States, at La Crosse, Wisconsin. (H.R. 860)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Explanatory of an act entitled "An act to reduce the expenses of the survey and sale of the public lands in the United States." (H.R. 3458)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the erection of a building on the vacant half of the custom-house lot at San Francisco. (H.R. 1166)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at San Francisco. (H.R. 1165)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the appraiser's department at San Francisco, California. (H.R. 3459)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the post-office, pension office, United States court, and internal revenue offices at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. (H.R. 132)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the post-office, pension-office, United States court, and internal-revenue offices, at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. (H.R. 745)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sessions, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a post-office and custom-house at Dunkirk, New York. (H.R. 1439)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Silas Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the erection of a public building at Jacksonville, Florida. (H.R. 4042)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the renting of certain buildings for temporary use of the State and War Departments. (H.R. 496)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the purchase of a suitable site in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the erection of a building to be used for the purposes of a custom-house, post-office, and other ... (H.R. 811)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a building at Danville, Virginia, for post-office, United States court, and other purposes. (H.R. 667)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Strong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the post-office, customhouse, pension office, United States circuit and district courts, and internal revenue offices at Hartford, Connecticut. (H.R. 392)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomas, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the erection of a building suitable for the post-office, custom-house, and district court of the United States in the city of New Berne, North Carolina. (H.R. 1810)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the construction of a public building in the city of Selma, State of Alabama, to be used for a custom-house, post-office, revenue-office, and for-other purposes. (H.R. 2278)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide a building suited to the use of the custom-house, postoffice, the pension and revenue officers, and the judicial officers of the United States, in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. (H.R. 545)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waddell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of the post-office and United States district court at Wilmington, North Carolina. (H.R. 800)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave introduced the following bill: A Bill For the erection of a public building at Key West, in the State of Florida, to be used as a custom-house, post-office, court-house, and other Federal offices. (H.R. 731)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the erection of a public building at Cedar Keys, in the State of Florida, to be used as a custom-house and other Federal offices. (H.R. 730)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the erection of a public building at Jacksonville, in the State of Florida, to be used as a custom-house, post-office, and other Federal offices. (H.R. 3217)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the erection of a public building at Jacksonville, in the State of Florida, to be used as a custom-house, post-office, and other Federal offices. (H.R. 732)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Warren, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction or purchase of a suitable building in the city of Troy, State of New York, for a post-office, customhouse, and other national public offices. (H.R. 638)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the purchase of a suitable site in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, for the erection of a building to be used for the purposes of a custom-house, post-office, and ... (H.R. 456)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a building for the use of custom-house, post-office, federal courts, internal revenue and other civil officers, in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri. (H.R. 110)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wheeler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of an iron building in the city of New York for the purposes of a barge-office. (H.R. 3640)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the construction of a court-house, post-office, and other Government offices at Grand Rapids, Michigan. (H.R. 3587)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a fire-proof building for post-office, United States courts and its offices, pension and internal-revenue offices, in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. (H.R. 851)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, of Indiana, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the grades of First street east, between B street south and B street north, in the city of Washington. (H.R. 3081)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To appropriate two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the erection of public buildings in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. (H.R. 1752)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Salt Lake and Colorado River Railroad Company. (H.R. 3441)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands to the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company. (H.R. 2371)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting rights of way to railroad companies in the several Territories. (H.R. 3474)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the fare for passengers, and the charge for extra baggage on all railways or stage-lines carrying the United States mails. (H.R. 1153)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To empower the Secretary of War to establish, under certain conditions, a horse-railway upon and over the island of Rock Island and the bridges erected by the United States connecting the cities of ... (H.R. 3318)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico Railroad Company. (H.R. 414)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Designating the point at which the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad may cross the Red River. (H.R. 565)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John B. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To empower the Secretary of War to establish, under certain conditions, a horse-railway upon and over the island of Rock Island and the bridges erected by the United States, connecting the ... (H.R. 3202)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Killinger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate intercommunication and promote a cheap and uniform system of railroad transportation in all parts of the United States and Territories. Whereas it has heretofore been regarded as the ... (H.R. 503)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamison, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico Railroad Company. (H.R. 2607)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to the Leavenworth Street Railway Company, through the Fort Leavenworth military reservation. (H.R. 3934)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the building of the Wyoming and Montana Railway. (H.R. 3360)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revive and continue in force so much of the act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, as relates to the railroad from Brandon, in the State of Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico. (H.R. 299)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Monroe, Fulton and Oklahoma Railroad Company. (H.R. 1886)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Monroe, Fulton and Santa Fe Railroad Company. (H.R. 352)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morphis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public domain, and for other purposes. Whereas Southeastern Mississippi and Northeastern Louisiana consist mainly of wild lands that have remained on the hands of ... (H.R. 1456)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a right of way to the Salt Lake, Sevier Valley and Pioche Railroad Company. (H.R. 3405)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way over the public domain and confirming corporate powers to the Colorado Central Railroad Company. (H.R. 2585)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In regard to public roads. (H.R. 3646)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of the Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railway. (H.R. 134)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Directing a preliminary survey and report on the practicability and cost of the construction of a ship-canal from the southern portion of Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River, at or near the mouth of ... (H.R. 709)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Mississippi Valley Levee Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 444)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Red River Valley, Oklahoma and Santa Fe Railroad Company. (H.R. 58)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slocum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate ingress and egress between the cities of New York and Brooklyn, and for other purposes. (H.R. 343)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote the construction of the Cincinnati Southern Railway. Whereas it is represented to this present Congress that Miles Greenwood, Richard M. Bishop, William Hooper, Philip Heidelbach, and ... (H.R. 70)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Shreveport, Oklahoma and New Mexico Railroad Company. (H.R. 2250)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of an air-line railroad from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia. (H.R. 47)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the survey of a steamboat canal from Fernandina, Florida, on the Atlantic coast, to the Mississippi River, at or near New Orleans, Louisiana. (H.R. 3209)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Killinger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate intercommunication and promote a cheap and uniform system of railroad transportation in all parts of the United States and Territories. Whereas it has heretofore ... (H.R. 503)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals; and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public domain, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2310)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to certain actions in the Court of Claims. (H.R. 2281)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish equality of rights in citizens of the United States. (H.R. 1218)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the several ... (H.R. 2613)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dodds, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for the institution of suits in the Court of Claims, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3363)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gerry W. Hazelton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to prevent and punish frauds upon the revenue, to provide for the more speedy and certain collection of claims in favor of the United ... (H.R. 3976)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the time for holding the spring term of the United States circuit and district courts at Harrisonburgh, Virginia. (H.R. 1588)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit commerce in obscene or immoral things within the local jurisdiction of the United States, or among the States, or with the Indian tribes. (H.R. 3627)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit commerce in the United States in things of an obscene and immoral character. (H.R. 3648)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and supplemental to an act entitled "An act to protect ... (H.R. 3177)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Augusta C. and T. Alonzo Walker. (H.R. 1320)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced tho following bill: A Bill As a further supplement to the act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1232)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to witnesses for respondents in extradition cases. (H.R. 24)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States." (H.R. 341)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to prevent smuggling, and for other purposes," approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 187)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the provisions of "An act to provide further remedial justice in the courts of the United States," approved August twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-two. (H.R. 25)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time in which certain offenses may be prosecuted. (H.R. 188)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To perpetuate testimony in the courts of the United States. (H.R. 286)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to amend 'An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,' approved ... (H.R. 3286)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to regulate the times and manner of holding elections for Senators in Congress." (H.R. 3288)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," and for other purposes. (H.R. 3121)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revive and re-enact an act approved January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to fix the times for the regular meetings of Congress." (H.R. 3287)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the removal of causes into the United States courts. (H.R. 1397)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the taking of testimony in certain cases. (H.R. 1994)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherwood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the removal of causes from the State to the United States courts. (H.R. 1100)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act for the removal of certain cases from State courts," approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 2649)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of enlisted men who served for thirty days in the war against the Seminole Indians, in the State of Florida. (H.R. 1315)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Ambler with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Benjamin F. ... (H.R. 632)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Strong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States." (H.R. 1923)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McJunkin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the orphan children of Colonel Philip Johnston. (H.R. 1801)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the administrator of the estate of Lieutenant Joseph Wheaton, deceased. (H.R. 3997)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To compensate and suitably recognize the services of Sergeant Major John Champe. (H.R. 1263)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shoemaker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Harvey and Jamieson Harvey, heirs and legal representatives of Benjamin Harvey, deceased. (H.R. 2021)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Swann, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Colonel Francis Taylor and Doctor Charles Taylor, officers of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. (H.R. 2002)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the half-pay of Captain John Davis, a revolutionary officer. (H.R. 932)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and the War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Alvin Jones, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 3048)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and the War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved ... (H.R. 1956)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and the War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act granting relief to certain officers and soldiers of the Revolution. (H.R. 3327)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812 and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William Dodds, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1462)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the settlement of the claims of the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, and of the widows and children of those who died in the service. (H.R. 410)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Betsey Loomis. (H.R. 2164)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Enoch John, son and heir of William John, a soldier of the war of the Revolution. Whereas Isabella John, widow of William John, a soldier of the war ... (H.R. 2270)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to James Mulholland, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1689)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to John Souders, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1690)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a pension to Mrs. Eliza Taliaferro, widow of Lieutenant Lawrence Taliaferro, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 2143)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sally Clark, widow of Joseph L. Clark, deceased, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 2818)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary E. Campbell. (H.R. 2380)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Cheney Olds, a surviving soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 3961)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to certain widows of deceased soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 715)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carroll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled an "Act granting pensions to the survivors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, who served sixty days, and to their widows," approved "February ... (H.R. 289)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thomas Allcock, a soldier in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 3956)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary A. Maydole, widow of John Maydole, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 3980)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved February ... (H.R. 1350)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced, the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Joseph Dyer, of Onondaga County, New York, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 919)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thomas Lewis. (H.R. 948)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary Paddock. (H.R. 3932)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eames, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George F. Thorp. (H.R. 3390)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Giddings, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert E. B. Baylor, of Washington County, Texas, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 3093)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to certain soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred and eighteen with the Seminole Indians, and the widows of deceased soldiers. (H.R. 1973)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved February ... (H.R. 717)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Henry D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Increasing the pension of Patrick Meehon, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 3654)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jiles S. Boggess, of Rusk County, Texas, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 3091)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved February ... (H.R. 1155)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Abram Amazeen, a soldier in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 3740)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Prudence Davis. (H.R. 3522)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting a pension to Phoebe Sofield, widow of Lewis Sofield." (H.R. 1271)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James G. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William Shumate, a soldier of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1381)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore to the pension-roll Nancy Cloud, widow of William Cloud, a revolutionary pensioner. (H.R. 1243)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers." (H.R. 1461)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To so amend the act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved ... (H.R. 548)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamport, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Caleb Cowing, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1086)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lansing, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To place the name of John M. Watson upon the pension list of soldiers of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 923)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widows and minor children of certain pensioners. (H.R. 3764)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McGrew, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah Sparks. (H.R. 3331)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peck, on leave introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Robert Patterson. (H.R. 1889)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Cordelia Kershner. (H.R. 3763)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Ross. (H.R. 3067)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sally Everitt Herrick. (H.R. 3738)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Isaac Chamberlain. (H.R. 3523)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah Pond. (H.R. 2339)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Simeon Farnsworth, of Danville, Vermont. (H.R. 2130)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In addition to an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers," passed ... (H.R. 1216)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Prindle, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Maria S. Per Lee, widow of a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1435)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of the applicants for pensions under the act of February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, granting pensions to the soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 1703)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Sarah Cully, of Meade County, Kentucky, widow of Thomas Cully, late a soldier in the revolutionary war. (H.R. 3426)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scofield. on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers. and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved February ... (H.R. 931)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved February ... (H.R. 686)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah Pugh, widow of George Dreher, deceased, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1354)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to certain widows of soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1412)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Tabitha Taylor, widow of James Taylor, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1808)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Strong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In alteration of an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers." (H.R. 447)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Terry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Directing that a bounty-land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land be issued to Elisha Franklin for military services in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1576)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the provisions of the pension law approved fourteenth February, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to certain other widows of soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen ... (H.R. 950)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whitthorne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To modify the first section of the act of Congress passed February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled "An act granting pensions to certain soldiers and ... (H.R. 541)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder B. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled "An act granting pensions to the survivors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve." (H.R. 1833)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Jedediah Gray. (H.R. 2089)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To define the jurisdiction of the district and supreme courts of the Territories of the United States, in bankruptcy. (H.R. 158)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary with leave to report at any time, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In aid of the execution of the laws in the Territory of Utah, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3791)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2311)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed Mr. H. Boardman Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a national railroad between the cities of New York and Chicago. (H.R. 920)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced, the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the political disabilities of certain citizens of the State of Alabama. (H.R. 2219)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed Mr. J. M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Establishing two judicial districts in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 819)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed Mr. Shoemaker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Whereas in many cases, persons, ... (H.R. 3055)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide an additional district judge, district attorney, and marshal for the State of Georgia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 675)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed, Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve Benjamine Holmes of political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. (H.R. 846)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ambler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To allow writs of error in criminal cases to the Supreme Court of the United States. (H.R. 479)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To approve the organization of the Dakota Central Railroad Company. (H.R. 3338)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the repeal of an act entitled "An act to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purposes," approved May thirty-first, eighteen ... (H.R. 3071)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote uniform harmony, fraternity, and prosperity in all the governments and people composing the Federal Union. (H.R. 2080)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of certain causes to the United States, court. (H.R. 906)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to new trials in the Court of Claims. (H.R. 630)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act regulating proceedings in criminal cases, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. (H.R. 631)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities of persons incurred during the late rebellion, and for other purposes. (H.R. 905)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal several acts relating to the tenure of civil offices. (H.R. 908)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure and protect the freedom of transit and commerce within the United States. (H.R. 605)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the salary of the President of the United States. (H.R. 3036)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for an additional judge of the United States district court for the State of Mississippi. (H.R. 2191)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2816)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 300)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of all legal and political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 6)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Prohibiting and annulling all contracts made with any official of any of the departments of the Government for services rendered by them for any person relative to any claim or demand against the United ... (H.R. 966)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the eastern judicial district of Kentucky. (H.R. 75)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the presentation of claims before the Executive Departments of the Government. (H.R. 2731)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve John Blain, George W. Cox, and Edward Strong, of Kentucky, from political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2156)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of office and for other purposes," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 76)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the place of holding the terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of New Hampshire. (H.R. 2336)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the sureties of the late Jesse J. Simpkins, deceased. (H.R. 1390)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act for the removal of causes in certain cases from State courts,' approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six," ... (H.R. 3527)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 3358)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section two of chapter one hundred and sixteen of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-one making appropriations, and so forth. (H.R. 3140)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enforce equal rights and privileges of citizens of the United States. (H.R. 771)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish equality of rights in citizens of the United States. (H.R. 2840)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent bribery and corruption of officers and employees of the United States. (H.R. 1519)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the holding of additional terms of the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3383)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To punish pretended counterfeiters of the currency and coin of the United States. (H.R. 3608)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reimburse John E. Woodward for certain moneys paid by him. (H.R. 3382)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigby, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. (H.R. 677)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bigby, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2217)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaring the true construction of section two of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act to settle certain accounts between the United States and the State of Mississippi ... (H.R. 67)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill to adjudicate the rights and losses of Isaac Taylor, owner of the bark Alvarado, of Boston, Massachusetts. (H.R. 3180)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to amend section five of an act entitled 'An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one,' ... (H.R. 3423)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a municipal court in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1598)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the trial of suits, causes, and proceedings; the taking of depositions, testimony, bonds; the issuing of processes and expediting the proceedings in suits at law or in equity in the district ... (H.R. 2701)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the trials of criminal causes and reduce expenses in the western judicial district of Arkansas. (H.R. 2754)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the times and places of holding the United States courts for the western district of Arkansas. (H.R. 2819)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaratory of the true intent and meaning of the twenty-second section of the act of Congress entitled "An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this ... (H.R. 1627)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the political disabilities of sundry persons. (H.R. 2024)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the political disabilities of sundry persons. (H.R. 2112)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bright, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the political disabilities of sundry persons. (H.R. 2378)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the circuit and district courts of the United States for the middle and northern district of Alabama. (H.R. 3943)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing terms of the United States district court to be held at Fort Gibson, in the Indian Territory. (H.R. 1476)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To divide the State of Illinois into three judicial districts, and for other purposes. (H.R. 554)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John C. Conner. Whereas the Honorable John C. Conner was served with notice of contest for a seat in the Forty-first Congress after the expiration of the time allowed by law for service of ... (H.R. 1481)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of disabilities from Leroy F. Roberts. (H.R. 2653)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of disabilities. (H.R. 2086)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for holding a circuit court of the United States in and for the western district of Missouri. (H.R. 1982)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the issuing, service, and return of original and final process in the circuit and district courts of the United States. (H.R. 840)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carroll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the several acts and parts of acts ... (H.R. 3146)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. (H.R. 153)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George P. Fisher. (H.R. 3698)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the courts and judicial proceedings in the Territories. (H.R. 2687)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Claggett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To more clearly define the nature of certain courts in the several Territories, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1306)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clinton L. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a western judicial district of North Carolina. (H.R. 205)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Giving additional representation to certain States in the House of Representatives. (H.R. 80)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the pay of the election officers appointed by the judges of the circuit courts of the United States in cities having upward of twenty thousand inhabitants. (H.R. 972)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Fixing the time for the election of Representatives from the State of California to the Forty-fourth Congress. (H.R. 3324)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Leonidas Haskell. (H.R. 2829)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To define the terms of civil offices. (H.R. 1025)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit contracts for servile labor. (H.R. 755)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain citizens of the counties of Jackson, Cass, Bates, and Vernon, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 1380)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of all political disabilities from George G. Vest, of the city of Sedalia, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 2292)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the future meeting of Congress. (H.R. 722)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve R. E. Cowan, of Kansas City, Missouri, from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 723)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To require the holding of additional district and circuit courts in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1279)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the election of presidential electors. (H.R. 1991)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the judicial district of North Texas and the Indian Territory. (H.R. 2995)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove political disabilities from certain citizens of Texas. (H.R. 580)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities of certain citizens of the State of Texas. (H.R. 2234)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of purchasers of lands sold for direct taxes in the insurrectionary States. (H.R. 106)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to private land claims under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. (H.R. 104)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coughlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States in relation to the disposal of the public lands. (H.R. 591)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For general relief from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 500)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain Indians in the Central superintendency," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Whereas the act of Congress approved June tenth, ... (H.R. 3708)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Critcher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To declare the true intent and meaning of the act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, amendatory of the general bankrupt law. (H.R. 3504)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Critcher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed on them by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2022)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Critcher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of certain persons therein named, imposed by the third section of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2108)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Critcher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,'" approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and ... (H.R. 3056)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crossland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve the political disabilities of citizens therein named. (H.R. 1705)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crossland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the nineteenth section of an act entitled "An act to amend an act approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled 'An act to enforce the rights of citizens of this Union to ... (H.R. 1706)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Darrall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For removal of political disabilities from John J. Morgan, of Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. (H.R. 1750)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To require the holding of an additional term of the circuit court of the United States in the district of West Virginia. (H.R. 760)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the political disabilities of J. A. Crook, of Wilcox County, and James P. Jones, of Dallas County, State of Alabama. (H.R. 678)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Removing the legal and political disabilities of Samuel K. McSpadden and other persons therein named. (H.R. 1451)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Removing the political disabilities of W. A. Vincent and T. J. Burgess, of the county of Etowah, in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 682)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve G. B. Douthit, of the county of Calhoun; and Samuel K. McSpadden and Jackson Millsaps, of the county of Cherokee, all of the State of Alabama, of their legal and political disabilities. (H.R. 1248)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities of James Foreman, of the county of Saint Clair, in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 2648)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of Samuel K. McSpadden, of Cherokee County, and Bartlett Owens, Cleburne County, in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 957)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. DuBose, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the refunding of certain moneys covered into the Treasury. (H.R. 179)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. DuBose, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a third judicial district in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 2355)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. DuBose, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve La Fayette McLaws of his political disabilities. (H.R. 3562)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. DuBose, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States upon Martin J. Crawford, of the county of Muscogee, in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 1246)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sewall B. Corbett, William B. Lacy, and Lott W. Crocker. Whereas Sewall B. Corbett, William B. Lacy, and Lott W. Crocker, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, filed their separate ... (H.R. 790)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend a joint resolution entitled "A joint resolution prohibiting payments by any officer of the Government to any person not known to have been opposed to the rebellion, and in favor of its suppression," ... (H.R. 1681)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled "An act establishing a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to reduce the expenses of proceedings ... (H.R. 1090)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To create and establish an additional judicial district, to be called the northern district of New York, and to make further provisions in relation to the courts of the United States in said State. (H.R. 393)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the National Wood-Working Mechanics' Union of the United States of America. (H.R. 1434)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the act entitled "An act establishing a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 3047)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the fees and costs to be allowed clerks, marshals, and attorneys of the circuit and district courts of the United States, anal for other purposes," approved ... (H.R. 3548)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the times and places for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Minnesota. (H.R. 3460)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Elliott, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James L. Barnwell, late of Beaufort, South Carolina. (H.R. 3559)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Elliott, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve James D. Tradewell, of South Carolina, of political disabilities. (H.R. 2309)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to claims against the United States. (H.R. 3539)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, amendatory of an act entitled "An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to and in the several States of ... (H.R. 2674)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the collection of docket-fees in circuit and district courts of the United States. (H.R. 3003)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin H. Campbell, marshal of the United States for the northern district of the State of Illinois. (H.R. 553)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain Chicago officers. (H.R. 3579)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John K. Hannay. Whereas John K. Hannay, of the city of Chicago, and State of Illinois, was the owner of the following described United States Government coupon bonds, commonly known as ... (H.R. 714)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the compensation of the judge of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. (H.R. 1423)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the records of the United States courts at Chicago. Whereas the records and files of the circuit and the district courts of the United States for the northern district of Illinois were totally ... (H.R. 552)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for holding a circuit court of the United States in the western district of Missouri," approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3021)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide stenographers for the circuit courts of the United States. (H.R. 20)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. G. E. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of civil and political disabilities of certain citizens of Mississippi therein named. (H.R. 530)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. G. E. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the place of holding the district court of the United States for the northern district of Mississippi. (H.R. 688)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. G. M. Brooks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States. (H.R. 342)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish the Department of Justice, and for other purposes." (H.R. 1891)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a record of naturalization in the Department of State. Whereas the immigration into the United States is constantly increasing, and personal security, as well as international justice, require ... (H.R. 1701)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. George E. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the civil and political disabilities of certain citizens of Mississippi therein named. (H.R. 2221)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. George E. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the civil and political disabilities of certain citizens of Mississippi therein named. (H.R. 2105)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. George E. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of J. C. Davis, of Marshall County, Mississippi. (H.R. 2280)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gerry W. Hazleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 746)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove political disabilities from certain persons therein named. (H.R. 702)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove political disabilities from N. N. Cox, of Tennessee. (H.R. 1821)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities of certain citizens of Tennessee. (H.R. 1604)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Golladay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States on certain citizens of the State of Tennessee. (H.R. 2083)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Goodrich, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Colin B. Ferguson, deceased, late captain and assistant quartermaster of the United States Army. (H.R. 2344)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Goodrich, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the times and places for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States in the northern district of New York. (H.R. 1093)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal section fourteen of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other ... (H.R. 1554)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Halsey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of purchasers of lands sold for direct taxes in the insurrectionary States. (H.R. 2141)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hancock, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of certain persons therein named. (H.R. 1489)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the claimants the proceeds of certain cotton seized in violation of instructions from the Treasury Department, and which have been erroneously covered ... (H.R. 2073)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Garrett and others, citizens of the State of Alabama, from civil and political disabilities. (H.R. 1250)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of civil and political disabilities of Eldridge Barker, a citizen of Elmore County, State of Alabama. (H.R. 687)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve innocent purchasers of lands, entered in accordance with an act of Congress approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, in the State of Alabama. Whereas thousands of acres of land, ... (H.R. 1361)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve Judge William H. Thornton, and forty-six other citizens, of the State of Alabama, therein named, from their political disabilities. (H.R. 2006)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve parties from paying impost duties the second time. (H.R. 3563)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John S. Hornor. Whereas an examination of all the papers in the case shows that injustice was done to John S. Hornor, of Helena, Arkansas, in the judgment for four hundred and forty-four ... (H.R. 3446)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution, from L. L. Mack and others, in Arkansas. (H.R. 1985)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the holding of United States circuit and district courts in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3445)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the holding of United States district courts in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4001)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to the acts entitled "An act for the removal of causes in certain cases from the State courts," approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and March second, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 3283)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay for quartermaster and commissary stores when purchased and receipted for, without requiring an oath of past loyalty. (H.R. 404)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, prescribing an oath of office. (H.R. 521)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to allow the United States to prosecute appeals and writs of error without giving security,' and for other purposes," approved July ... (H.R. 1625)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hays, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the more convenient transaction of business in the district courts of the United States for the districts of Alabama. (H.R. 683)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hays, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles H. Bradford and others from political disabilities. (H.R. 2362)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hays, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the United States courts in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 2016)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hays, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To better regulate the United States district courts in and for the State of Alabama. (H.R. 3977)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hays, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 1650)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Henderson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities of certain persons therein named. (H.R. 1992)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove disabilities from certain persons named therein. (H.R. 1730)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove disabilities from certain persons named therein. (H.R. 596)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove political disabilities from all the citizens of the United States. (H.R. 595)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution prohibiting payments by any officer of the Government to any person not known to have been opposed to the rebellion and in favor of its suppression," ... (H.R. 1035)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States from certain persons therein named. (H.R. 2656)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of certain persons therein named. (H.R. 1630)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Herndon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities of John H. Reagan, of Anderson County Texas. (H.R. 3092)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hosea W. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Changing the place of holding a term of the circuit court of the United States for the district of New Hampshire. (H.R. 2337)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to a short-hand reporter of the United States courts in the State of California. (H.R. 1295)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled 'An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several ... (H.R. 2828)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to further the administration of justice," approved June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3223)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of legal services rendered by Edmund M. Randolph to the United States. (H.R. 3590)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. I. C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the holding of terms of the district court of the United States for the western district of Missouri at Saint Joseph and Springfield, in said State, and to increase the jurisdiction of ... (H.R. 720)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To allow women to vote and hold office in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 1277)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve James H. R. Cundiff, Reuben Kay, and James Carbry, of Saint Joseph, Missouri, from their political disabilities. (H.R. 2578)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. G. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To legalize polygamous marriages in the Territory of Utah, and to dismiss prosecutions in said Territory on account of such marriages. (H.R. 721)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve Manning M. Kimmel from disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution. (H.R. 2007)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act of April third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, so as to allow pay for rent of property used by the Army of the United States; and where used by contract, to pay without proof of ... (H.R. 669)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James A. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To define the duties of circuit and district courts of the United States. (H.R. 3904)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James B. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the disabilities of Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia. (H.R. 3561)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James B. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the appearance and compensation of agents and attorneys prosecuting or demands before Congress or the Executive Departments of the Government, and for other purposes. Whereas the secret ... (H.R. 3974)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James B. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of office and for other purposes," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts which require, ... (H.R. 3069)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaring the true intent and meaning of section twenty-two of an act entitled "An act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes," approved July twentieth, eighteen ... (H.R. 2329)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Colter. (H.R. 2286)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to issuing patents to railroad companies for lands granted to aid in the construction of the roads of such companies. (H.R. 2801)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide a national currency, secured by the pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June third, ... (H.R. 3711)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jeremiah M.Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaring the true intent and meaning of a statute, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1608)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 44)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the fees and compensation of United States attorneys, marshals, and clerks of United States courts in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 162)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled 'An act to enforce the rights of the citizens of the United States to vote in the several ... (H.R. 466)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To defray the expenses of district judges from other districts while holding district or circuit courts in the southern district of New York. (H.R. 1518)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To inquire what legislation is necessary to prevent damage to public lands of the United States by the diversion of the waters of Lake Tahoe by a corporation organized under the laws of the State of ... (H.R. 331)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Birdsall J. Perrigo. (H.R. 980)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to the taking of depositions de bene esse in the courts of United States. (H.R. 1713)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the circuit courts of the United States to adjudicate upon the validity of patents, or to restrain the issue of patents for public lands in certain cases, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1711)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the supreme court of the District of Columbia to adjudicate upon any claims for patents for public lands, and to restrain the issue of patents therefor in certain cases, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1712)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant any person restrained of his or her liberty a right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, from the final judgment of any circuit court thereof, upon any petition for relief by writ of ... (H.R. 828)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the drawing and summoning of jurors in the district and circuit courts of the United States. (H.R. 170)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the drawing and summoning of jurors in the district and circuit courts of the United States. (H.R. 1714)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act therein described. (H.R. 832)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act therein named, relating to certain causes of challenge of grand and petit jurors in United States courts, and other matters. (H.R. 830)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced, the following bill: A Bill To repeal section one of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend the Judiciary act,' passed September twenty-fourth, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine," approved March, ... (H.R. 831)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Killinger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James W. Bowen, late provost-marshal of the tenth congressional district of Pennsylvania. Whereas Andrew B. Neugardt, a son of Jacob Neugardt, of Upper Mahantango Township, Schuylkill ... (H.R. 3891)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamison, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent certain officers of the United States and Territories from practicing as attorneys or solicitors in the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States in certain cases. (H.R. 180)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamport, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an additional judicial district to be called the northern district of New York, and to make further provisions in relation to the courts of the United States in said State. (H.R. 1680)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamport, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appointment of a commission of inquiry on the subject of restrictive and prohibitory legislation for the suppression of intemperance. (H.R. 3536)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leach, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of disabilities. (H.R. 1966)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leach, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States." (H.R. 172)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leach, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from political disabilities. (H.R. 2151)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the State of Tennessee. Whereas the Government of the United States holds three bonds, signed by the governor of the State of Tennessee, dated the first day of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 3000)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the practice in the circuit and district courts of the United States. (H.R. 3906)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McGrew, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the political disabilities of certain persons named therein. (H.R. 2177)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McGrew, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Attorney-General to adjust the claim of the Government upon the purchasers of property at Harper's Ferry. (H.R. 3594)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McHenry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of A. J. Sisk and John Couch, of Hopkins County, Kentucky; Luke W. Trofton, of Henderson County, Kentucky; and L. A. Sybert, of Christian County, Kentucky. (H.R. 1125)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve from political disabilities Bird D. Mobley and William B. Goulden, of Georgia; Sanders Sevasy, of Lee County, Virginia; and Holland Denton, of Putnam County, Tennessee. (H.R. 2357)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve from political disabilities Franklin J. Walker, of Colquitt County, Georgia. (H.R. 2753)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve from political disabilities John Bilbo, Daniel U. McNeill Arthur P. Wright, David P. Luke, and John H. Sherod, citizens of Georgia; and David S. Walker, a citizen of Florida. (H.R. 2070)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve from political disabilities M. S. Verdery, of Chatham County, Georgia. (H.R. 2216)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of B. D. Brantley, of Pierce County, Georgia. (H.R. 2273)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of certain persons therein mentioned. (H.R. 2152)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, reported the following bill: A Bill To relieve from disabilities Samuel B. Spencer, of Atlanta, Georgia. (H.R. 952)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain citizens of Mississippi of their political disabilities. (H.R. 2010)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove disabilities from certain citizens of Mississippi. (H.R. 2756)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKinney, on leave introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Washington National Monument Society. (H.R. 1600)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McNeely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the making of a bust of Roger B. Taney, deceased, late Chief of Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the room of said court. (H.R. 3788)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth census. (H.R. 328)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth census. (H.R. 8)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the several acts amendatory thereof. (H.R. 2062)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States." (H.R. 192)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the admission of certain evidence in the several courts of the United States. (H.R. 193)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mercur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the drawing and summoning of jurors in the district and circuit courts of the United States. (H.R. 194)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the suppression of the trade in and circulation of obscene literature, illustrations, advertisements, and articles of indecent or immoral use, and obscene advertisements of patent medicines, in the ... (H.R. 2014)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States in equity and admiralty causes. (H.R. 1574)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the better organization of the district courts of the United States within the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 14)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the political disabilities of Paul O. Hebert, of Louisiana. (H.R. 2283)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of political disabilities. (H.R. 15)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the political disabilities of H. R. Lott, of Carroll Parish, Louisiana. (H.R. 2675)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes. (H.R. 13)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve R. B. Todd, of Bastrop, Louisiana, of the political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2364)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve the political disabilities of the persons therein named. (H.R. 2726)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morphis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the civil and political disabilities of certain citizens of Mississippi therein named. (H.R. 1453)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morphis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the several acts in relation to the northern judicial district of the State of Mississippi, and to provide for the times and places of holding the district courts of the United States therein in ... (H.R. 690)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morphis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the civil and political disabilities from certain citizens therein named. (H.R. 2222)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the removal of causes from State courts into courts of the United States. (H.R. 940)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend State laws on the subject of "occupying claimants" to actions tried in the courts of the United States. (H.R. 4043)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for holding the United States district court in the city of Toledo," approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3066)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for holding the United States district court in the city of Toledo. (H.R. 534)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Allowing respondents in criminal cases in courts of the United States to testify in their own behalf. (H.R. 899)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing writs of error from the circuit to the district courts of the United States in certain criminal cases. (H.R. 1949)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In amendment of an act entitled "An act for the removal of causes in certain cases from State courts," approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the acts in addition to, and amendment ... (H.R. 481)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In regard to the discharge of poor convicts. (H.R. 480)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the compensation of criers of the United States courts. (H.R. 482)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the right of corporations to transact business in the several States. (H.R. 185)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To allow persons accused of crime to testify in their own behalf in the courts of the United States. (H.R. 21)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Asiatic Commercial Company. (H.R. 2209)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaratory of the meaning of section thirty-nine of the act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An act to reduce duties on imports and to reduce internal taxes, and for other ... (H.R. 3342)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 3029)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment. (H.R. 2679)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joel C. C. Winch. (H.R. 2129)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the distribution of the money received under the Geneva award. (H.R. 3524)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate actions in the Court of Claims by loyal owners of property seized under the act of March twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. (H.R. 485)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of all disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendment of the Constitution of the United States, from all persons. (H.R. 1105)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of civil and criminal causes from certain State courts to the Federal courts, and the commencement of such causes therein, to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth article of amendment of ... (H.R. 1104)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of civil and criminal causes from State courts to the Federal courts, and the commencement of such causes therein in the States herein named, and for the removal of all legal and political ... (H.R. 406)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint a deputy collector of the customs at Chincoteague Island, in the State of Virginia." (H.R. 3262)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section nine of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States." (H.R. 3552)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the removal of civil and criminal causes from State courts to the federal courts and the commencement of such causes therein, in the States herein named, and for the removal of all legal and ... (H.R. 46)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the continuance of any grand jury in the district courts of the United States in the State of New York. (H.R. 2005)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the repeal of test-oaths. (H.R. 3114)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the sale and disposition of the lands and estates of infants in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3017)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to evidence in the courts of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 3018)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled "An act to further the administration of justice," and for other purposes. (H.R. 3488)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize settlements by the Secretary of the Treasury with joint debtors of the United States. (H.R. 1770)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 168)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 951)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of certain persons therein named. (H.R. 2671)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of Hosea C. Giddens, William J. Wiley, Richard Martin, William R. McConnell, and James Shargers, citizens of Georgia. (H.R. 2723)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of T.J. Harolson, of Union County, Georgia, and other persons therein named. (H.R. 2360)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. M. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Repealing all laws requiring the publication in newspapers of the laws and treaties of the United States. (H.R. 1962)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. M. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit the payment of the expenses of unsuccessful contests by persons claiming seats in Congress. (H.R. 2349)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To make uniform the exemption laws. (H.R. 703)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rainey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant additional compensation to the marshal of the district of South Carolina for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 1811)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Richard C. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confer additional powers upon the governors of the Territories of the United States in granting reprieves and pardons, and commuting the punishment of persons convicted of offenses against ... (H.R. 1734)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Richard G. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1736)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to seizures of books and papers under the laws of the United States. (H.R. 1793)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to smuggling. (H.R. 1794)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roosevelt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the legal interpretation of the revenue laws of the United States. (H.R. 345)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act to protect all citizens of the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means for their vindication," passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1521)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the sixth section of the act approved June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending the thirtieth day ... (H.R. 2342)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent and punish the obstruction of the administration of justice in the courts of the United States. (H.R. 1017)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide stenographers for the courts of the United States. (H.R. 3688)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve John M. Scanland from political disabilities. (H.R. 1995)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Selucius Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To disapprove certain legislation in Washington Territory relating to property as affected by marriage. (H.R. 2831)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sessions, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the case of William R. Glover and Thomas W. Mather against the United States, in the Court of Claims, to the docket for trial. (H.R. 3784)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Directing all writs and processes issuing from United States courts to be in the name of "The People of the United States of America," and the forms of writs and pleadings, practice and procedure, in the ... (H.R. 307)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Establishing a United States district court in the Indian country. Whereas the several treaties between the United States and the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations of Indians, ... (H.R. 2204)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the owners the proceeds of certain cotton seized in violation of instructions from the Treasury Department. Whereas the Secretary of the Treasury, by a ... (H.R. 443)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confer jurisdiction upon the United States circuit court for the fifth circuit and district of Louisiana, to settle the conflicting claims of the United States and other creditors of the late First ... (H.R. 691)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prescribe the time for holding the election for choosing electors for President and Vice-President in the State of Louisiana for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 351)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States in the enforcement of the laws, and to secure the protection thereof to all persons within the jurisdiction of the United ... (H.R. 7)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To divide the State of Ohio into three judicial districts, and for other purposes. (H.R. 72)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure to all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States the equal protection of the laws within the several States. (H.R. 224)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherwood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the deposit of one copy of all specifications and drawings of patents issued subsequent to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in the office of the deputy clerk of the United ... (H.R. 936)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shober, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relieving certain citizens of North Carolina, therein named, from political disabilities. (H.R. 2067)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shoemaker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a district and circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 3244)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sion H. Rogers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the disabilities of Samuel A. Ashe, a citizen of North Carolina. (H.R. 3556)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sion H. Rogers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the disabilities of W. N. H. Smith, a citizen of North Carolina. (H.R. 3557)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sion H. Rogers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the disabilities of William A. Graham, a citizen of North Carolina. (H.R. 3555)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the civil and political disabilities of certain persons of Alabama therein named. (H.R. 801)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the legal and political disabilities of Robert M. Patton, of Lauderdale County, Alabama. (H.R. 2678)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the district courts of Alabama. (H.R. 684)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities of citizens of the State of Alabama therein named. (H.R. 2361)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities of Isaac M. Downs, John B. Cox, and Daniel Benson, of Franklin County, Alabama. (H.R. 2725)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities of Wade Keyes, of Florence, Alabama, and other persons therein named. (H.R. 2602)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of Terrel Fulton Waldrop, a citizen of Jefferson County, Alabama. (H.R. 2390)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow of Gayle H. Kyle. Whereas, in the year anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, Gayle H. Kyle was elected as a Representative in Congress from the second district of the State ... (H.R. 2655)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of disabilities. (H.R. 1004)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the various acts relating to agents and attorneys prosecuting claims or demands before Congress and the Executive Departments of the Government, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2654)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appointment of sub-commissioners in the matter of the claims of southern loyalists. (H.R. 3912)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of all legal and political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and to promote peace and order. (H.R. 227)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the district courts of Utah Territory. (H.R. 1486)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section two of an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 3585)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section fourteen of an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," and all acts amendatory thereto: (H.R. 3411)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove all disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States from persons named therein. (H.R. 2321)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove all disabilities imposed by the third section, fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution, from William P. Floyd and others. (H.R. 2813)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove all legal and political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States from persons named therein. (H.R. 2020)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stowell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment from the persons named therein. (H.R. 2103)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled 'An act to enforce the lights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States ... (H.R. 1968)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant a certain tract of land to the city of Shreveport, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 1596)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain citizens therein named of their legal and political disabilities. (H.R. 804)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove all legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. (H.R. 63)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act relating to members of Congress, heads of Departments, and other officers of the Government," approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. (H.R. 1028)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the prosecution of certain claims in the district courts of the United States. (H.R. 3776)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Terry, on leave introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of F. Johnston, James H. Logan, and Robert H. Logan. (H.R. 2721)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Terry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2147)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomas J. Speer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of William Ezzard, Fulton County; David J. Bailey, Spalding County; and Philip M. Russell, Chatham County, Georgia. (H.R. 1449)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomas, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States from William Robinson and other citizens of North Carolina, therein named. (H.R. 2068)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the legal and political disabilities of James D. Craig, A. D. Brazil, I. P. Jones, and G. W. Gogle, citizens of the State of Alabama. (H.R. 2279)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act for the removal of certain cases from State courts," approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 1694)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States. (H.R. 3741)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the redemption of real estate bid in by the United States Government at tax sales. (H.R. 1269)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To better secure the enforcement of the laws of the United States. (H.R. 1127)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of political disabilities from persons in the States of Tennessee and Mississippi. (H.R. 2111)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In reference to income tax collected from officers under State governments. (H.R. 978)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the Oregon Central Railroad Company. (H.R. 1466)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the settlement of Captain E. W. H. Read's accounts while acting as assistant quartermaster in Texas at the breaking out of the late rebellion. (H.R. 2157)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To advance the administration of justice. (H.R. 2085)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid the enforcement of the laws in the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 2158)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the tenth article of the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 3618)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the western, district of Michigan. (H.R. 3089)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. T. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To divide the State of Texas into two judicial districts. (H.R. 1045)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waddell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the place of holding United States courts in the western judicial district of North Carolina. (H.R. 3554)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waddell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable Indians to become citizens of the United States. (H.R. 3058)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wakeman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States." (H.R. 1565)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wakeman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the salaries of district judges in Northern and Southern New York. (H.R. 3996)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the payment of interest due to the State of South Carolina. (H.R. 419)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve from legal and political disabilities the persons named therein. (H.R. 2752)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove legal and political disabilities of certain classes therein named. (H.R. 376)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove political disabilities from certain persons therein named. (H.R. 420)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of George F. Towers, of Greenville, North Carolina. (H.R. 2836)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of N. R. Eaves, of Chester County, and Jonathan N. McElree, senior, of York County, South Carolina. (H.R. 2306)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled "An act to protect all citizens of the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means for their vindication," passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 734)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Changing the time of holding the Supreme Court, and providing for a session of the same at Saint Louis. (H.R. 2737)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the appointment of deputies of clerks of circuit and district courts. (H.R. 1758)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To preserve the ballots cast at, and all papers connected with, elections held for Representatives or Delegates to Congress, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1110)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for supervisors of elections in certain cases, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1109)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the enforcement of the second section of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 2069)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the removal of suits from the State courts to the circuit courts of the United States in certain cases. (H.R. 3172)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain citizens of Georgia from political disabilities. (H.R. 2274)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain citizens of Georgia from political disabilities. (H.R. 2647)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve from political disabilities certain persons in the second congressional district of Georgia. (H.R. 676)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To take away the circuit court jurisdiction of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Georgia, to create a circuit court in said district, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1422)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To transfer certain counties of the southern judicial district of Georgia to the northern judicial district. (H.R. 3416)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whitthorne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of certain citizens of Tennessee. (H.R. 2084)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve George Blakslee from disabilities imposed by statute. (H.R. 1990)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making the provisions of certain laws applicable to Delegates from Territories. (H.R. 1951)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act for the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth census." (H.R. 1343)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the manner of counting the votes of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States. (H.R. 2260)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William T. Clark, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the tenth judicial circuit. (H.R. 1629)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William T. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the legal and political disabilities of certain citizens of the State of Texas. (H.R. 1385)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of disabilities from all citizens of the United States. (H.R. 3758)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve citizens of the United States from all disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 3059)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove all legal and political disabilities from Warren Aiken, Lewis Tumlin, James W. Harris, and David Irwin, of the State of Georgia. (H.R. 673)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the disabilities of Carey W. Styles, of Georgia. (H.R. 2724)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Young, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the political disabilities of certain persons therein named. (H.R. 2356)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Mercur with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act for the ... (H.R. 1343)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Perce with an amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Education and Labor. Strike out the part within brackets and insert the part in italics. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit ... (H.R. 755)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Shoemaker with an amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Amendment To the bill (H.R. 3244) to provide for a district and circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Pennsylvania, ... (H.R. 3244)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Voorhees with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Strike out the part within [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. A Bill In reference to income tax collected from officers under ... (H.R. 978)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed; motion to reconsider reference pending. Mr. Aaron F. Perry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the exercise of the right of eminent domain in securing a sit for public buildings in the city of Cincinnati. (H.R. 2867)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in rebuilding the levees of the Mississippi River, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3419)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For securing to authors, in certain cases, the benefit of international copyright, advancing the development of American literature, and promoting the interests of publishers and bookbuyers in the United States. (H.R. 470)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the purchase of the original painting known as "The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation." (H.R. 3396)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John B. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section six of the act, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, ... (H.R. 3308)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce the area of the military reservation of Fort Sanders, in the Territory of Wyoming, and providing for the survey of said reservation as reduced. (H.R. 161)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making provisions for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1255)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to the Vermillion Valley and Northern Pacific Railroad Company. (H.R. 2750)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a charter to the Northern Central Railway Company in Minnesota. (H.R. 3237)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the fifth section of the act approved May eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government. (H.R. 3120)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a Southern Transportation Company in New Mexico and Colorado Territories. Whereas an act was passed July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy, treating William Gilpin and his ... (H.R. 788)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company to mortgage its road and to confer certain jurisdiction upon the United States district court for district of Missouri. (H.R. 27)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend a joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution authorizing the Northern Pacific Railroad to issue its bonds for the construction of its road, and to secure the same by mortgage, and for other ... (H.R. 2061)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Arkansas Valley and Rocky Mountain Railroad Company, and to grant the right of way through the public lands to the same. (H.R. 1906)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands to the Cheyenne, Iron Mountain and Helena Railroad Company. (H.R. 1510)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting to the Denver, Laramie and Iron Mountain Railroad and Telegraph Company the right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad and telegraph line. (H.R. 1508)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Incorporating the Cheyenne, Iron Mountain and Helena Railroad Company, and granting public lands in the Territories of Wyoming and Montana to aid in the construction thereof. (H.R. 164)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKinney, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands to the Cheyenne, Iron Mountain and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company. (H.R. 3508)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 223)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Little Cottonwood Railroad Company. (H.R. 3155)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting to the Wasatch and Jordan Valley Railroad Company a right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad and telegraph. (H.R. 3265)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wheeler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the act incorporating the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. (H.R. 3883)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wheeler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the Central Pacific Railroad. Whereas the Central Pacific Railroad, the western link in the chain of railroads connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is now completed to Oakland, ... (H.R. 494)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wheeler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1765)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William H. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands to the Utah Southern Railroad Company. (H.R. 1302)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William H. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting to the Utah Southern Railroad Company a right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad and telegraph. (H.R. 1733)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Averill with an amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. Amendment To the bill (H.R. 3237) granting a charter to the Northern Central Railway Company in Minnesota, viz: Strike out all ... (H.R. 3237)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Houghton, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. Amendment To the bill (H.R. 1906) to incorporate the Arkansas Valley and Rocky Mountain Railroad ... (H.R. 1906)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Houghton, with an amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. Amendment To the bill (H.R. 163) to aid in the construction of a railroad from a point on the Union Pacific Railroad at or near ... (H.R. 163)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Reported by Mr. Houghton with an amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Amendment To the bill (H.R. 3155) to incorporate the Little Cottonwood Railroad Company, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 3155)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railway, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of a railroad from a point on the Union Pacific Railroad at or near Church Butte Station, in the Territory of Wyoming, to the headwaters of Smith's Fork, in the Uinta ... (H.R. 163)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farnsworth, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revise, consolidated, and amend the statutes relating to the Post Office Department. (H.R. 1)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the franking privilege. (H.R. 11)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To embrace magazine manuscripts and newspaper manuscripts in the third class of mailable matter. (H.R. 3880)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To explain sections one hundred and fifty, one hundred and fifty-one, and one hundred and fifty-two, of an act entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the ... (H.R. 3006)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed, Mr. Carroll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel O. Cleveland, postmaster at Broadalbin, in the State of New York. (H.R. 2345)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jonathan Diehl and George Blymyer, sureties on the bond of Josiah S. Diehl, late contractor for carrying the United States mails on post-route numbered four ... (H.R. 3401)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the post-office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri, and to declare the same a post route. (H.R. 108)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carroll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William F. Barker, postmaster at Northville, Fulton County, New York. (H.R. 1564)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carroll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William F. Barker, postmaster at Northville, in the State of New York. (H.R. 1437)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carroll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the abuse of the franking privilege, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3603)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to postal routes. (H.R. 2757)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the post-office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the employment of letter-carriers. (H.R. 590 1/2)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the post-office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cotton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the employment of letter-carriers. (H.R. 591)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revive former post-routes, and declaring certain roads in the several States to be post-roads. (H.R. 1450)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Patrick H. Agan, former deputy postmaster at the city of Syracuse, New York. (H.R. 1433)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the postal laws in relation to the transportation of newspapers by mail. (H.R. 1568)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Esty, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Willard Howe. Whereas in the month of September, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the post-office at South Farmingham, in the State of Massachusetts, was ... (H.R. 3639)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the post-office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farnsworth, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to proposals and contracts for the transportation of the mails, and for other purposes. (H.R. 609)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farnsworth, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To further amend the postal laws. (H.R. 3675)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. George M. Brooks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the sureties of Samuel Chism, late postmaster at Newton, Massachusetts. (H.R. 1784)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate proposals or bids for mail service in the Post-Office Department, and their acceptance by the Postmaster General of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1251)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To cancel a bond, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1002)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hibbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Postmaster-General to establish post-roads. (H.R. 3381)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the post-office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Postmaster General to issue one-cent "correspondence" or "post cards." (H.R. 455)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow and children of the late Joseph W. Briggs, late special agent of the Post-Office Department. (H.R. 4037)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend postal code laws in regard to seeds, bulbs, and so forth. (H.R. 3128)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize postage on newspapers. (H.R. 3398)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce postage. (H.R. 3001)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John B. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Michael L. Crane. (H.R. 3677)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Postmaster General to credit the postmasters in the States lately in rebellion with all stamps and stamped envelopes taken from them by paramount force, or lost or ... (H.R. 2215)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William B. Wilson, for extra services in carrying the United States mails. (H.R. 1300)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Fixing the rates of postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs, and so forth. (H.R. 3245)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the post-office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Increasing the compensation of letter-carriers, under the free-delivery system, to twelve hundred dollars per annum. (H.R. 608)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leonard Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the sections of the postal code which require double rates of postage on mail-matter not prepaid. (H.R. 3157)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter S. Patton. Whereas, in the month of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, the post-office at Burlington, in the State of Kansas, was burglariously entered and robbed ... (H.R. 3328)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the opening of a military and Post-road from the mouth of Walnut River, in Kansas, to the mouth of the Main Cashe River, in Texas. (H.R. 758)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Cornell, postmaster at Transitville, Indiana. (H.R. 3199)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Carse. (H.R. 2172)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merriam, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Restricting the advertisement for proposals to carry United States mails to newspapers printed in the congressional districts where the routes are located. (H.R. 3150)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the post-office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Chauncy M. Lockwood. (H.R. 160)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George P. Works. (H.R. 3418)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Green, of Knox County, Indiana. (H.R. 1977)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of Solomon Books for services as mail-route agent. (H.R. 1651)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the post-office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the franking privilege and to provide for the transmission of official documents and other public matter. (H.R. 190)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Postmaster General to accept new sureties on contracts for carrying the mails. (H.R. 1921)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rainey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid the West India Mail Steamship Company to establish an American line of ocean-steamships for opening direct trade between the United States and the Republic of Hayti and for carrying ... (H.R. 3290)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Charles Cosby, compensating him for distributing the mails at Millerstown, Grayson County, Kentucky. (H.R. 1972)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Charles Cosby, late postmaster at Uptonville, Hardin County, Kentucky. Whereas Charles Cosby, late postmaster at Uptonville, Hardin County, Kentucky, was robbed of ... (H.R. 1704)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Read, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Philip N. Fox, postmaster at Mount Washington, Bullitt County, Kentucky. Whereas Philip N. Fox, postmaster at Mount Washington, Bullitt County, Kentucky, was robbed in the ... (H.R. 1265)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Seeley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the election of postmasters. (H.R. 2715)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shoemaker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the payment of postage on newspapers printed wholly or in part. (H.R. 1685)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the publication of advertisements for proposals to carry the United States mails in the newspaper published in the congressional district where the routes are located having ... (H.R. 3292)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish certain post-roads in the State of Nebraska. (H.R. 2018)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Henry Fulenwider, deceased. (H.R. 1112)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tyner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the appointment of a chief of division for mail depredations in the Post-Office Department. (H.R. 1314)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vaughan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee. (H.R. 969)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post-Office Department," approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3053)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend postal code laws in regard to seeds, bulbs, and so forth. (H.R. 3128)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Hill without amendment, ordered to be printed with pending amendments, and recommitted to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Mr. Hill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the franking ... (H.R. 11)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Mr. Worthington C. Smith, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a custom-house and post-office at Saint Albans, Vermont. (H.R. 2919)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the erection of suitable buildings for the accommodation of the Post-Office Department in Shreveport, Louisiana. (H.R. 960)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to accretions in the public-land States and Territories, and for other purposes. (H.R. 877)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm title to certain lands in Washington Territory. (H.R. 1500)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ambler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting certain public lands to James F. Stuart and Charles Patton. (H.R. 1123)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to certain railroad companies in the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 2097)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to the Dakota Grand Trunk Railway Company. (H.R. 2592)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To adopt Carl C. P. Meyer's patent fire-proof section-corner in all future surveys of the public lands. (H.R. 1506)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Dakota Central Railroad. (H.R. 3694)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a United States land-office at the crossing of the Northern Pacific Railroad on the Upper Missouri River, in the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 3471)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an additional land-district in the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 1507)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish certain land-districts in the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 3969)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the Sioux Valley land-district, in the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 3233)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for making final proof and payment on preemption claims in the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 1846)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the settlement of the public domain in Dakota Territory by the construction of public thoroughfares through its interior plains. (H.R. 3234)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for sinking coal-shafts and artesian wells in the Territories. (H.R. 3778)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a Government wagon-road from Yankton, capital of Dakota Territory, to the Northern Pacific Railroad. (H.R. 3597)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To quiet the title to certain lands in the Red River Valley of Dakota Territory. (H.R. 2661)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arthur, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the homestead laws approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Whereas ... (H.R. 354)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Austin Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To further amend the homestead law by establishing a homestead land-office in the city of New York. Whereas the principal object of the homestead law was to increase the wealth and resources of the ... (H.R. 1483)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For restoring homestead rights to certain soldiers and sailors of the late war of the rebellion. (H.R. 1729)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the extension of time to the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company for the completion of its roads. (H.R. 3461)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Averill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To donate lands to the Hastings and Dakota Railway Company to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Minnesota State line westerly to the Missouri River. (H.R. 370)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the encouragement of the settlement of the public lands by actual settlers, and to recompense the officers and soldiers of the Army of the United States during the late war. (H.R. 606)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barry, on leave introduced, the following bill: A Bill To confirm the title of certain lands to Mary E. Sacia. (H.R. 1254)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benjamin F. Meyers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on public lands of the United States," approved ... (H.R. 2598)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm certain entries of lands therein named. (H.R. 1626)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burchard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the claimants of lands in Salt Lake City, in the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 1475)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Stoddard, Jackson, Lawrence, Green, and other counties in the State of Missouri, in the matter of certain swamp-land. (H.R. 1830)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to the Kansas City and Memphis Railroad Company. (H.R. 364)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burdett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable actual settlers and cultivators of the graduated lands of the United States to obtain title thereto. (H.R. 2294)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of actual settlers upon certain lands in the Territory of Colorado, and for other purposes. (H.R. 597)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Arapahoe County and the city of Denver, in the Territory of Colorado. (H.R. 3106)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the citizens of Trinidad, in the Territory of Colorado. (H.R. 1639)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the inhabitants of the cities of Black Hawk, Central, and Georgetown, in the Territory of Colorado, and for other purposes. (H.R. 149)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way over the public lands to the Denver, Georgetown and Utah Railway Company of Colorado. (H.R. 3336)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way over the public lands to the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway Company, of Colorado. (H.R. 3335)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way, and lands to the Colorado Canal Company of Colorado Territory. (H.R. 152)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to homestead and pre-emption claims. (H.R. 1640)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of a narrow-gauge railway and a telegraph line from Denver, in the Territory of Colorado, to El Paso, near the southern boundary of the Territory of New Mexico, by a grant of ... (H.R. 1844)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize and aid the Kansas Pacific Railway Company to extend and construct its railroad and telegraph line to the northern boundary of Mexico. (H.R. 154)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the creation and regulation of railroad companies in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 2684)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide Gilpin County, in Colorado, with water. (H.R. 3337)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Withdrawing a certain tract of land from entry and sale in Colorado Territory, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1032)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chipman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant two million five hundred thousand acres of the public lands for the benefit of public schools in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 473)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the entry of public lands in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 1999)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant to the Salt Lake and Salina Railroad Company the right of way across the public lands. (H.R. 3236)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To set apart a certain tract of land lying near the head-waters of the Yellowstone River as a public park. (H.R. 764)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of settlers on the Suscol ranch, in the State of California. (H.R. 1838)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the inhabitants of the town of Arcata, in Humboldt County, California. Whereas the town of Arcata, in Humboldt County, California, was allowed to enter three hundred and twenty acres of ... (H.R. 3325)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to reduce the expenses of the survey and sale of public lands in the United States," approved May thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 3098)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coghlan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale to actual settlers of the surplus lands of the Round Valley Indian reservation. (H.R. 2094)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Comingo, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To declare the Memphis and Kansas City and Kansas City and Memphis Railroads military and Post-roads, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1379)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Confirming to the Port Huron and Lake Michigan Railroad Company the lands heretofore granted to the State of Michigan to aid in the construction of a railroad from Grand Haven to Flint, and thence to Port ... (H.R. 255)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled "An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes," approved July ... (H.R. 793)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the homestead laws for the benefit of the soldiers of the late war for the suppression of the rebellion. (H.R. 98)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Crebs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the protection of settlers on the public and Indian lands of the United States. (H.R. 96)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land-Office to sell to Luman K. Bowdish a certain tract of land within the limits of the city of Dubuque, Iowa. (H.R. 1490)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant the right of way through the public lands and other aid to the McGregor and Missouri River Railway Company. (H.R. 1905)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appraisement and sale of lots in the town of Peru, Dubuque County, Iowa. Whereas under an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and an act amendatory thereto ... (H.R. 2741)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting public lands which have been surveyed and in market for more than twenty years to States in which such lands are located. (H.R. 215)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act, and to repeal certain parts thereof, entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 680)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To give effect to a certain grant of lands heretofore made to the State of Alabama. (H.R. 49)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act for the disposal of the public lands for homestead actual settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida," approved June twenty-first, ... (H.R. 679)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting bounty lands to all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who were mustered into the service of the United States in the war commenced in eighteen hundred and sixty-one for the suppression of ... (H.R. 448)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Southern Minnesota Railroad Company to connect its line with the Northern Pacific Railroad. (H.R. 136)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the extension of time to the Winona and Saint Peter Railroad Company for the completion of its road. (H.R. 3005)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of settlers on the late Sioux Indian reservation in the State of Minnesota. (H.R. 3326)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting permission to the Winona and Saint Peter Railroad Company to change the direction of its railroad. Whereas by an act entitled "An act making a grant of land to the Territory of Minnesota, to aid ... (H.R. 1167)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Springfield and Dakota Central Railroad. (H.R. 1168)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To create an additional land district in the State of Minnesota. (H.R. 1026)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for two years to al pre-emptors on the public lands in the State of Minnesota and the Territory of Dakota to make final payment of the same. (H.R. 3975)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time of payment for their lands by persons holding pre-emptions on the public lands in the State of Minnesota. (H.R. 864)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant the right of way through the public lands and other aid to the Hastings and Dakota Railway Company. (H.R. 1908)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the European and American Land and Emigration Company. (H.R. 3691)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Great Salt Lake and Colorado River Railway Company, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for the purpose of securing the lands along the line of said road to actual settlers ... (H.R. 593)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To perfect navigation on the Mississippi River. (H.R. 1027)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad in the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 128)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Finkelnburg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Concerning the manner of making final proof under the homestead law. (H.R. 992)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallegos, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Creating an additional land-district in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 4045)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallegos, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Directing the President to order the survey, at the Government expense, of the land-grants made to the citizens of New Mexico by the Spanish and Mexican governments. (H.R. 3333)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the reservation at Port Angelos, Washington Territory. (H.R. 147)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time within which the State of Alabama may select swamp-lands. (H.R. 3898)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reserve from sale or entry public lands upon which public school-houses have been erected. (H.R. 2072)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands of the United States in Arkansas to the Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana Railroad and Telegraph Company. Whereas, in conformity to the act of the general ... (H.R. 1005)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm certain entries of land therein named. (H.R. 1148)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Graves. (H.R. 1281)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm and legalize certain entries of lands under the graduation act. (H.R. 2163)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To legalize entries of public lands under the homestead laws in certain cases. (H.R. 2293)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Defining swamp and overflowed lands. (H.R. 99)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled "An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the swamp-land within their limits," approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and ... (H.R. 2229)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure the public lands to actual settlers. (H.R. 1138)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way and lands to the Pecos and Placer Canal Company of New Mexico. (H.R. 372)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way and lands to the Sacramento Irrigation and Navigation Company. (H.R. 371)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting bounty lands to the soldiers and seamen of the Army and Navy of the United States in the late war. (H.R. 411)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure the public lands to actual settlers under the provisions of the homestead and pre-emption laws. (H.R. 707)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting public lands in the State of Alabama to the Decatur and Aberdeen Railroad Company, to aid in the construction of a railroad to be built from Decatur, Alabama, to Aberdeen, Mississippi. (H.R. 685)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas B. Valentine. (H.R. 1024)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage the construction of canals for irrigation and navigation in California. (H.R. 3918)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time to pay for public lands in the Aurora land-district, in California and Nevada. (H.R. 3967)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Houghton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a board of commissioners to report a system of irrigation for the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys, in the State of California. (H.R. 3966)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Arkansas Valley and Cimarron Railway Company, and grant right of way over the public lands. (H.R. 3444)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. B. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the construction of the Saint James and Little Rock Railroad. (H.R. 1000)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting certain swamp-lands in Holt County, Missouri, to said Holt County, for school purposes. (H.R. 718)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Rice, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on public lands of the United States. (H.R. 539)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm the title in the State of Indiana to the lands known as the bed of Beaver Lake, in Newton County, in said State. (H.R. 1136)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain purchasers of the public lands under the graduation act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. (H.R. 724)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands of the United States to the Saint Louis, Salem and Little Rock Railroad Company. (H.R. 2614)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act making a grant of lands in alternate sections to aid in the construction and extension of the Iron Mountain Railroad, from Pilot Knob, in the State of ... (H.R. 999)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of a railway and telegraph line through Missouri and Arkansas, along or near the thirty-sixth parallel of north latitude. (H.R. 117)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James G. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Ridgway. Whereas on the fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, Thomas Ridgway located, at the land-office at Milan, in the State of Missouri, a ... (H.R. 1927)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Cape Girardeau and State Line Railroad, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 998)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James R. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To quiet the title to certain lands in the State of Missouri. Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States, approved on the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 845)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John T. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant to the State of Virginia public lands to assist her in paying her public debt. Whereas the State of Virginia, in seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, commissioned and equipped the armed ... (H.R. 1577)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the pay of registers of the land-offices and receivers of public moneys for the land-districts of the several Territories of the United States. (H.R. 1511)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaratory of the true construction of an act approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the swamp-lands ... (H.R. 1505)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the time allowed to the State of Nevada in which to provide a college of mining. Whereas by the third section of the act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act ... (H.R. 1504)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting to the American Fork Railway Company a right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad and telegraph. (H.R. 2588)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To create an additional land district in the State of Nevada. (H.R. 143)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant the right of way through the public lands to the Eastern Nevada Railroad Company. (H.R. 1842)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant the right of way through the public lands to the Eureka and Palisade Railroad Company. (H.R. 2123)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kendall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant the right of way through the public lands to the Eureka Consolidated Mining Company for building a railroad. (H.R. 2304)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the creation of new land-districts. (H.R. 2262)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To expedite the transaction of business in the General Land-Office and bring up the arrearages of work. (H.R. 1791)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit certain persons from entering public lands. (H.R. 1678)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the more efficient administration of the laws relating to public lands. (H.R. 1677)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reorganize the clerical force of the General Land-Office. (H.R. 1790)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketcham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. (H.R. 926)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ketchum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Fixing a minimum price to the lands remaining to the United States within the limits of grants for rail or wagon roads. (H.R. 3277)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Killinger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the protection of settlers on the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 3540)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant to the State of Missouri all the public lands within the State remaining undisposed of for the benefit of the public-school fund of said State. (H.R. 2369)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of actual settlers upon the Cherokee neutral lands in Kansas. (H.R. 1407)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of settlers on the Cherokee neutral lands in Kansas. (H.R. 3102)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Ely Moore. (H.R. 1298)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize pre-emptors or settlers upon homesteads on the public land to alienate portions of their pre-emptions or homesteads for certain public purposes. (H.R. 4044)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the southwestern land-district in Kansas. (H.R. 3330)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote the culture of forest-trees in Kansas and Colorado. (H.R. 3933)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant bounty lands to the soldiers who served in the late war to suppress the rebellion, and the widows and children of such of them as are dead. (H.R. 452)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the better security of agricultural college funds. (H.R. 453)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm the purchase, by the executive department, of three acres of land in the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee, and to donate the same to the trustees of the Fisk University for educational ... (H.R. 1603)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCormick, of Arizona, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Restricting the killing of the bison, or buffalo, upon the public lands. (H.R. 157)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the protection of settlers on the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 126)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to the Missouri Valley Railroad Company. (H.R. 853)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Setting apart and reserving public lands for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a national university. (H.R. 738)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCrary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the irrigation of Bear River Valley, in Utah Territory. (H.R. 583)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McIntyre, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revive and continue in force section seven of an act entitled "An act making a grant of land to the Territory of Minnesota in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of certain railroads in ... (H.R. 1247)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable final proof in homestead cases to be taken in the county in which the applicant resides. (H.R. 3565)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to the Great Basin Railroad Company. (H.R. 3473)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the irrigation of the lands lying between Boise and Snake Rivers, in Idaho Territory. (H.R. 1523)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making a grant of lands to the North Louisiana and Texas Railroad Company to aid in the construction of a railroad from Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the Texas State line. (H.R. 66)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to re-establish the Monroe land district in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 16)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure homesteads to persons who served in the Army and Navy of the United States during the war of the rebellion. (H.R. 934)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the award to the Vincennes University of certain vacant and abandoned lands in Knox County, Indiana. Whereas it is alleged that there are certain parcels of abandoned lands in Knox County, ... (H.R. 239)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the limitations of the grants of land made to the State of Florida in aid of certain lines of railroads. (H.R. 3915)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain settlers on the public lands in Iowa under the provisions of the homestead laws. (H.R. 590)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to the Dakota Southern Railway Company. (H.R. 1292)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to rights of actual settlers upon certain lands in Iowa. (H.R. 743)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Sioux City and Pembina Railway. (H.R. 1011)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to ascertain the value of certain lands in the State of Iowa, north of the Raccoon Fork of the Des Moines River, held by settlers under the pre-emption and ... (H.R. 1010)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for construction a railroad from McGregor to the west line of O'Brien County, Iowa. (H.R. 3094)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Orr, on leave, introduced the following bill: For the relief of John Cleghorn, late register of the land-office at Sioux City, Iowa. (H.R. 1386)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain settlers on the public lands. Whereas through mistake or otherwise, on the part of the executive officers of the Government, qualified settlers have been allowed to enter, under ... (H.R. 2168)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lucas, O'Brien, Dickinson, and other counties in the State of Iowa. (H.R. 1387)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Coles, of Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa. Whereas it appearing that, in accordance with the laws of the State of Iowa, the board of supervisors of Lucas County, in said State, on ... (H.R. 3219)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands to the Utah Northern Railroad Company. (H.R. 1158)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm the title to certain lands on the Fort Kearney military reservation in Fremont County, Iowa. Whereas the following-described entries at the Council Bluffs land district, in the State of Iowa, ... (H.R. 129)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To quiet the title to certain lands in the State of Iowa. (H.R. 742)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the protection of settlers and purchasers of the public lands. (H.R. 111)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the trustees of Manhattan Township to select land for school purposes. (H.R. 2225)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the settlement of the public lands, to encourage industry, to create a school-fund, to educate and elevate the condition of our laboring population, and to increase the productive resources ... (H.R. 1363)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the building of the New Mexico and Gulf Railway, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2100)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the New Mexico Central Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2099)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the time for the completion of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship-Canal. (H.R. 3489)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. McComick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way and lands to the Sacramento Irrigation and Navigation Company. (H.R. 373)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Richard C. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Creating an additional land-district in the Territory of Arizona. (H.R. 2689)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ritchie, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To donate a piece of land near Cumberland, Maryland, to the Laboring Sons of Cumberland for a burial-ground. Whereas the United States of America acquired by purchase a certain piece or parcel of land ... (H.R. 1039)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Directing the Commissioner of the General Land-Office to issue a patent to Andrew Knudson. (H.R. 751)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin W. Reynolds. (H.R. 1634)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the settlers within the limits of the lands granted to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of a railroad from Saint Croix Lake to Lake Superior. Whereas by the acts of ... (H.R. 1993)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time to the State of Wisconsin to complete a road from Lake Saint Croix to Lake Superior. (H.R. 1160)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To release certain lands held for public use. (H.R. 1633)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the sale of timber lands in the States of California and Oregon and Washington Territory. (H.R. 274)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In regard to homesteads on public lands. (H.R. 146)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Garfielde,on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the entry of public lands in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 273)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing joint entry by pre-emption settlers, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1023)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of aged or infirm pre-emption settlers. (H.R. 1022)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of pre-emption settlers in the State of California. (H.R. 1021)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to grazing-lands in the State of California. Whereas there are in different parts of the State of California public lands neither mineral, agricultural, nor timber lands, said lands being fit ... (H.R. 3221)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to swamp lands in the State of California. (H.R. 2744)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act to quiet land-titles in the State of California. (H.R. 1296)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm to James M. Hutchings his pre-emption claim in the Yosemite Valley, in the State of California. Whereas by act of Congress of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the Yosemite ... (H.R. 1019)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To dedicate the public agricultural lands in the State of California to homestead and pre-emption purposes. (H.R. 1020)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the selection of lands as lieu or indemnity for school-sections heretofore granted to the several States. (H.R. 3320)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of a breakwater and harbor and ship-canal at the head of Sturgeon Bay, in the county of Door, in said State, to connect the waters of ... (H.R. 312)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of a railroad from Milwaukee to Lake Superior via Green Bay, Wisconsin. (H.R. 262)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of a railroad in said State. (H.R. 261)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands to the Green Bay and Superior Railway Company. (H.R. 1491)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to additional bounties, and so forth. (H.R. 133)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant certain islands to the State of Wisconsin as swamp lands, and for other purposes. (H.R. 135)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Selucius Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting the right of way to the Walla-Walla and Columbia River Railroad Company, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 3470)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Selucius Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Olympia and Chehalis Valley Railroad Company. (H.R. 2180)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sessions, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on public lands of the United States. (H.R. 770)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant the right of way to the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 59)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sheldon, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relinquish the title of the United States to certain lands in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 442)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shoemaker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting bounty-land to certain persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States from and after the fourth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 660)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of an act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agricultural and mechanic arts," passed July second, ... (H.R. 1297)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of an act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts," passed July second, eighteen ... (H.R. 2374)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the time for the selection of swamp and overflowed lands in Oregon under act of Congress approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty. Whereas by act of Congress entitled "An act to extend ... (H.R. 756)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon. (H.R. 137)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way for a railway from Tualatin Valley to Tilamook Bay, in Oregon. (H.R. 1910)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon. (H.R. 2124)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands to the Grand Ronde and Walla-Walla Railroad Company. (H.R. 3692)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the sale of timbered lands to settlers upon, and owners of, untimbered lands. (H.R. 3101)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing that the lands along the line of the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad shall be disposed of to actual settlers only by pre-emption and homestead, and appropriating a portion of the ... (H.R. 2660)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act granting the right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon," approved April eleventh, eighteen ... (H.R. 2783)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled "An act granting the right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon," approved April twelfth, eighteen ... (H.R. 3622)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Oregon Branch Pacific Railroad. (H.R. 138)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the State of Oregon to change the list of lands selected by said State under the act of September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 2745)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To create the Linkton land-district, in the State of Oregon. (H.R. 1638)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Columbus, Fayette and Decatur Railroad Company of Alabama and Mississippi to enter public lands. (H.R. 1883)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Savannah and Memphis Railroad Company of Alabama to enter public lands. (H.R. 347)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joab Bagley. Whereas it is alleged that, on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, under and by virtue of an act of Congress approved March third, eighteen ... (H.R. 3174)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting public lands in alternate sections to the State of Alabama to aid in the construction of the Selma and Gulf Railroad. (H.R. 348)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting public lands in the States of Alabama and Georgia to the Alabama and Georgia Railroad Company, to aid in the building of a railroad from Decatur, Alabama, to Rome, Georgia. (H.R. 1452)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting public lands in the States of Alabama and Georgia to the Memphis Branch Railroad Company, to aid in the building of a railroad from Decatur, Alabama, to Rome, Georgia. (H.R. 1252)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sloss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting public lands in the States of Alabama and Mississippi to the Columbus, layette, and Decatur Railroad Company to aid in the construction of a railroad to be built from Decatur, Alabama, to ... (H.R. 956)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the disposal of the public domain and to secure homesteads to actual settlers within the State of Arkansas. (H.R. 1755)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Snyder, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the disposal of the public domain, and to secure homesteads to actual settlers, within the State of Arkansas. (H.R. 2318)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Isabella Orange. Whereas Mrs. Isabella Orange, a soldier's widow, is living as a settler on the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-five, township four of ... (H.R. 3571)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To utilize burned timber on the public lands in the States of Michigan and Minnesota. (H.R. 1257)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stoughton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Asher A. Spicer. (H.R. 573)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of L'Anse and Vieux De Sert bands of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 2165)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company to change their projected line of railway in the State of Michigan, and to extend the time for the completion thereof. (H.R. 726)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the sale of Middle Ground, or Island in Saginaw River, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1289)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the sale of middle ground, or island, in Saginaw River, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 2090)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To change the direction of the road authorized by the act approved June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, from Ontonagon, in the State of Michigan, to the Wisconsin State line, and for other ... (H.R. 727)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sutherland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for the completion of the military road from Fort Wilkins, at Copper Harbor, in the State of Michigan, to Fort Howard, at Green Bay, in the State of Wisconsin. (H.R. 578)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the improvement of the navigation of the Calcasieu River, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 2223)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to the Great Nemaha Valley, Lincoln City and Loupe Fork Railway. (H.R. 317)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Northern Nebraska and Central Dakota Railroad. (H.R. 762)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish two new land districts in the State of Nebraska. (H.R. 1731)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for proof and payment on pre-emption claims upon the public lands. (H.R. 1732)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To sell certain public lands to the Republican Valley Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3026)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Terry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide a college for the advancement of literature, science, and the arts. (H.R. 520)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Terry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Donating public lands to the State of Virginia, to aid in the establishment of colleges in said State, pursuant to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 2146)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Terry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the further endowment and support of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits ... (H.R. 1807)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the United States Land Commissioner to bid for and to purchase private lands sold at public auction, and to subdivide the same and sell to the landless citizens of the United States in the ... (H.R. 2277)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a right of way through the public lands to the Kansas and Colorado Railway Company. (H.R. 3742)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a right of way to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company. (H.R. 3743)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands to the Kansas and Colorado Railway Company. (H.R. 3526)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company. (H.R. 3494)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for the completion of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and secure lands to actual settlers. (H.R. 2772)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tyner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the survey and sale of the lands reclaimed by the drainage of Beaver Lake, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 823)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tyner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the further sale of the public lands fit for tillage. (H.R. 824)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Confirming title to the purchasers of certain lands, granted by an act of Congress of June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to the State of Michigan, to aid in the construction of a railroad ... (H.R. 3207)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. H. Hooper, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the reclamation of desert lands in the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 615)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. H. Hooper, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the reclamation of desert lands in the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 618)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. H. Hooper, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Bear River and Cache Valley Canal Company, and for a grant of land to aid in the construction of a canal for irrigation and other purposes in the Territories of Utah ... (H.R. 616)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. H. Hooper, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Weber River and Kay's Greek Canal Company, and for a grant of land to aid in the construction of a canal, for irrigation and other purposes, in the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 617)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. H. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the reclamation of desert lands in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 3232)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. H. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to pre-emption claims. (H.R. 3105)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. Williams, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To charter the Puget Sound and Idaho Railroad and Telegraph Company. (H.R. 82)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of schools in South Carolina. (H.R. 949)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin W. Reynolds. (H.R. 3169)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad in the State of Florida, and to secure railroad connections with the nearest available harbor to Cuba and other West India islands. (H.R. 130)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walls, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act granting the right of way through the public lands for the construction of a railroad and telegraph in Florida," approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3216)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Washington Townsend, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act for the restoration to market of certain lands in Michigan," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 4038)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale of unsurveyed swamp or overflowed lands not otherwise disposed of. (H.R. 844)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilder D. Foster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the restoration of certain lands to market in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 2583)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William H. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of pre-emption settlers in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 2591)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William H. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the development of the agricultural and mineral resources of the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 3334)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Dunnell with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands, with accompanying report. Strike out the part within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Dunnell, on leave, introduced ... (H.R. 1027)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Dunnell without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Lowe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Ely Moore. (H.R. 1298)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Dunnell without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Rusk, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin W. Reynolds. (H.R. 1634)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Reported back by Mr. Stevenson with an amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Amendment To the bill (H.R. 1883) authorizing the Columbus, Fayette and Decatur Railroad Company of Alabama and Mississippi to enter public lands, viz: Strike out all after ... (H.R. 1883)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit officers of a State or Territory from holding office under the Government of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3553)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gerry W. Hazleton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 747)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James A. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the conduct of law-business arising in the Executive Departments. (H.R. 3063)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act, approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An act to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States ... (H.R. 3285)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit officers of a State from holding office under the Government of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3412)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherwood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Limiting the effect of the act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and its supplement, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to such ... (H.R. 659)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amending the practice of the courts in patent cases. (H.R. 632)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To protect the elective franchise. (H.R. 604)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the people of the Territories to elect their governors and all other territorial officers in the manner provided for election of delegates to Congress. (H.R. 3968)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To encourage internal improvements in the Territories. (H.R. 1911)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the Territory of Pembina, and to provide a temporary. government therefor. (H.R. 318)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the purchase of the Black Hills pine-lands from the Indian tribes in Western Dakota. (H.R. 1176)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Armstrong, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To re-adjust the western boundary of Dakota Territory. (H.R. 2593)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act amendatory of an act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Montana," approved May ... (H.R. 1304)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way for certain railroads in the Territory of Colorado. (H.R. 151)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way over the public domain and confirming corporate powers to certain railroad companies incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Colorado. (H.R. 1175)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and State government previous to their admission into the United States as a State, with the name of Lincoln, on an equal footing with the ... (H.R. 150)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. (H.R. 148)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clagett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands, for the construction of a railroad and telegraph line, to the Utah, Idaho and Montana Railroad Company. (H.R. 2473)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Claggett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section seven of an act entitled "An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Montana," approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. (H.R. 1912)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Claggett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Helena and Northern Utah Railroad Company, and grant the same the right of way through the public lands. (H.R. 2238)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallegos, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for extending the time of election in New Mexico to vote on constitution and for State officers. (H.R. 3468)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To disapprove of certain legislation in the Territory of Washington. (H.R. 1501)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To donate the military reservation at Fort Steilacoom to the Territory of Washington, for the use of the insane asylum. (H.R. 145)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate elections in Washington and Idaho Territories. (H.R. 1030)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Havens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To organize the Territory of Oklahoma and consolidate certain Indian tribes under territorial government. (H.R. 113)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Establishing a territorial government for the better protection of certain Indian tribes. (H.R. 3086)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac C. Parker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the better protection of the Indian tribes, and their consolidation under a civil government, to be called the Territory of Oklahoma. (H.R. 1376)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Continuing in force certain acts and joint resolutions of the first legislative assembly of Wyoming Territory. (H.R. 1509)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the location and construction of a Government wagon-road from Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, to Fort Fetterman, in said Territory. (H.R. 1512)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to the Laramie Water and Ditch Company over public lands in Albany County, Wyoming Territory. (H.R. 1178)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In reference to incorporation in Territories, and declaratory of the meaning of section one of the act entitled "An act amendatory of an act entitled 'An act to provide a temporary government for the ... (H.R. 1913)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Wyoming," approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 2098)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled "An act to withdraw from settlement and sale a certain of land in Wyoming Territory," approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. (H.R. 3340)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a new land-district in the Territory of Wyoming. (H.R. 3341)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamport, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit the manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquors, as a beverage, in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 3392)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCormick, of Arizona, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the fees and compensation of United States attorneys, marshals, and clerks of the United States courts in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 156)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCormick, of Arizona, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the compensation of the members and officers of the legislative assemblies of the several Territories of the United States, and limiting the duration of the sessions of said ... (H.R. 155)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize and fix the salaries of the governors and secretaries of the Territories of the United States of America. (H.R. 451)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the legislative assembly of Idaho Territory. (H.R. 1641)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the pay of supreme judges of Idaho Territory. (H.R. 159)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merritt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Transferring the control of certain territorial penitentiaries to the several Territories in which the same are located. (H.R. 1177)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Richard C. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for holding adjourned terms of the supreme court of Arizona. (H.R. 1735)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Richard C. McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To transfer the control of certain powers and duties in relation to the Territories to the Department of the Interior. (H.R. 3598)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Richard C.McCormick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Creating an additional land-district in the Territory of Arizona. (H.R. 1998)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Garfielde, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To set aside certain proceeds from Internal Revenue, for the erection of capitol building's in the Territories of Arizona, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Washington. (H.R. 144)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To suppress polygamy, and to enable the people of Utah to form a constitution and State government (H.R. 1164)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Conforming the boundaries of the State of Oregon to those fixed and defined in the constitution of said State as presented to Congress when applying for admission into the Union as a State. (H.R. 3693)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure to citizens of the Territory of Utah the right of suffrage without distinction of race, sex, color, or previous condition of servitude. (H.R. 293)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taffe, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the people of Utah to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. (H.R. 761)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry out certain Indian treaties of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and to organize the Territory of Oklahoma. (H.R. 3578)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wells, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To organize the Territory of Oklahoma and consolidate certain Indian tribes under territorial government. (H.R. 561)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Reported by Mr. Taffe, from the Committee on the Territories, without the amendments proposed and pending; pending which, the morning hour expired. Further amendments proposed; debate arising, morning hour expired; ordered to be printed with pending amendments. Mr. ... (H.R. 148)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Storm, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce taxation and to promote peace, and for other purposes. Whereas the custom of war is a relic of barbarism unworthy a free and civilized country and people, the results of which are destruction to ... (H.R. 292)

Read twice, referred to the Committee, on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Catherine Carney. (H.R. 1716)

Read twice, referred to the Joint Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the printing of additional copies of the Agricultural Report for the year eighteen hundred and seventy, for the use of the Senate and House. (H.R. 1621)

Read twice, referred to the Joint Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing the terms on which copyrights may be granted to foreign authors. (H.R. 1667)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Condition of the South, and ordered to be printed. Mr. George E. Harris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the political disabilities from certain citizens of Mississippi therein named. (H.R. 350)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Condition of the South, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the legal and political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. (H.R. 349)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Credit Mobilier of which Mr. Wilson is chairman, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a board of commissioners of railways to take testimony relative to land-grant and subsidy railroads. (H.R. 3779)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Mississippi Levees, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Negley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To construct and aid in rebuilding the levees on the Mississippi River, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2065)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aaron F. Perry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To preserve the independence of the several Departments of the Government, and to fix the actual responsibility for appointments to office in the ... (H.R. 1697)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the reorganization of the Treasury Department of the United States. (H.R. 1531)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Handley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the election of postmasters by the people. (H.R. 2071)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hay, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To distribute the number and rank of Government employees among the several congressional districts and Territories. (H.R. 1140)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Samuel Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reorganize the Treasury Department, to fix the salaries of its officers and employees, and to establish a system of appointments for the civil ... (H.R. 3387)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the appointment to office, or employment under the Government, of dishonest and incompetent persons, and to render officers appointing, and ... (H.R. 695)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whiteley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To improve the civil service. (H.R. 2358)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating appointments and removals in the civil service of the United States. (H.R. 786)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To preserve the independence of the several departments of the Government. (H.R. 787)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the employment and compensation of clerks for the committees of the House of Representatives. (H.R. 1341)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Ordered to be printed with proposed amendments. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the employment and ... (H.R. 1341)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government, and ordered to be printed. Reported without amendment. Ordered to be printed with pending amendments and recommitted to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service of the Government. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the ... (H.R. 787)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating appointments and removals in the civil service of the United States. (H.R. 1673)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on the Reorganization of the Civil Service, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the manner of making appointments in the civil service of the United States. (H.R. 462)

Read twice, the farther consideration postponed until to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to determine the material, devices, and so forth, of stamps required by the laws relating to internal revenue. (H.R. 182)

Read twice, the further consideration postponed to second Tuesday of December next, after the morning hour, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac, C. Parker, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill For the better protection of the Indian tribes, and their consolidation under a civil government, to be called the ... (H.R. 2635)

Read twice. An Act For the relief of Donald McKay, of Boston. (H.R. 3866)

Read twice. An Act For the relief of George W. Lawrence. (H.R. 3869)

Read twice. An Act For the relief of Larrabee and Allen. (H.R. 3867)

Read twice. An Act For the relief of Miles Greenwood. (H.R. 3569)

Read twice. An Act For the relief of Nathaniel McKay. (H.R. 3865)

Read twice. An Act For the relief of the Portland Company, of Portland, Maine. (H.R. 3868)

Read twice. An Act To authorize the accounting officers of the Treasury to settle the accounts of Charles T. Brown and J. J. S. Hasler, late agents for the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, on the grounds of equity and justice. (H.R. 3952)

Read twice. An Act To authorize the construction of a railroad and draw bridge across the Genesee River, in Monroe County, New York. (H.R. 3972)

Read twice. An Act To authorize the President to ascertain the value of certain lands in the State of Iowa, north of the Raccoon Fork of the Des Moines River, held by settlers under the pre-emption and homestead laws of the United States. (H.R. 3919)

Read twice. An Act To carry into effect the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed in the city of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fisheries. (H.R. 488)

Read twice. An Act To regulate the taking of testimony in certain cases. (H.R. 2959)

Read twice. An Act To relieve Francis E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United States. (H.R. 3250)

Read twice. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Edmunds with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To regulate the taking of testimony in certain cases. (H.R. 2959)

Read twice; amended; pending the third reading, the morning hour expired. By unanimous consent, taken from the morning hour and postponed until Thursday, April 4th, and made a special order for that day to the exclusion of all other special orders, the previous question to be considered as operating at 4 o'clock and 30 minutes of that day. Ordered ... (H.R. 2044)

Read twice; pending the demand for previous question, the House adjourned; ordered that the bill, with amendments to be proposed, be printed. Mr. Starkweather, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm the action of the board of aldermen and common council of the city of Washington, designating ... (H.R. 2057)

Read twice; question pending on engrossment and third reading, when the morning hour expired; ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Burdett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to the bill (H.R. 763) to provide for the removal of the Flat-head and other Indians from the Bitter Root Valley, in the Territory of Montana, viz: Strike out ... (H.R. 763)

Recommitted to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed with the amendment of Mr. Stewart as proposed to be amended. An Act Giving the approval and sanction of Congress to the termini and route of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad, and to regulate its construction and operation. (H.R. 2247)

Recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, from the Committee on the Judiciary, introduced the following bill: A Bill To determine the rights of the San Francisco Land Association of Philadelphia. (H.R. 3727)

Recommitted to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities. Reported by Mr. Boremen with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To remove the disabilities of certain persons herein named. (H.R. 1325)

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Mr. James B. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of distillers of spirits by the refunding and repayment of moneys expended or paid and deposited by them for Tice meters. (H.R. 3703)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed with Senate amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1541)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed with Senate amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3351)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Alcorn to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: Whereas ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Anthony to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Anthony to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as an ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Anthony to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: At the end of line 33, page 2, ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Bayard to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, and for ... (H.R. 1654)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Bayard to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Buckingham to the bill (H.R. --) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert in section -- the ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Buckingham to the bill (H.R. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen ... (H.R. 1192)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Buckingham to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Caldwell to the bill (H.R. 1541) making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as additional sections: (H.R. 1541)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Caldwell to the bill (H.R. 1541) making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 1541)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Casserly to the bill (H.R. 1070) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 1070)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Chandler to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: On page 17, after line 383, ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Clayton to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following after line ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Clayton to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as an ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Conkling to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Corbett to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Corbett to the bill (H.R. 2989) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen ... (H.R. 2989)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Edmunds to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: On page 8 after line 180, insert: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Fenton to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Flanagan to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as follows: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hamlin to the bill (H.R. 1070) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 1070)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Harlan to the bill (H.R. 2989) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 2989)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Harlan to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as follows: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hill to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, and for ... (H.R. 1654)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hitchcock to the bill (H.B. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen ... (H.R. 1192)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hitchcock to the bill (H.R. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen ... (H.R. 1192)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hitchcock to the bill (H.R. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen ... (H.R. 1192)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hitchcock to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, and ... (H.R. 1654)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hitchcock to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hitchcock to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Howe to the bill (H.R. 2989) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 2989)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Johnston to the bill (H.R. 1541) making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 1541)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Logan to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. and for other purposes, viz: ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, to the bill (H.R. 1070) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 1070)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two) and for former ... (H.R. 1654)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Nye to the bill (H.R. 1191) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 1191)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Patterson to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Patterson to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: insert the following after ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Pomeroy to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as an ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill (H.R. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 1192)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Robertson to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as an additional ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Robertson to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert, as an additional ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sawyer to the bill (H.R. 1070) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 1070)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sawyer to the bill (H.R. 1191) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 1191)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sawyer to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, and for ... (H.R. 1654)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sawyer to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: After line 1049 insert the ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sawyer to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: After line 180 insert as follows: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sawyer to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Strike out line 246, and all that ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Spencer to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Spencer to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Spraque to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as an ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stevenson to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, and ... (H.R. 1654)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stewart to the bill (H.R. 1323) making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 1323)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stewart to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as follows: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stockton to the bill (H.R. 1191) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following proviso: (H.R. 1191)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sumner to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Vickers to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. West to the bill (H.R. 1070) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 1070)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Wilson to the bill (H.R. 1191) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 1191)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Anthony, from the Committee of Naval Affairs, to the bill (H.R. 3351) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3351)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Casserly to the bill (H.R. 2291) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Amend by inserting, after ... (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Chandler, from the Committee on Commerce, to the bill (H.R. 3258) making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: After ... (H.R. 3258)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Corbett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to the bill (H.R. 3498) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 3498)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert in page ... (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Frelinghusyen to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes viz: On page 50, after the word "dollars," in ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Frelinghuysen to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Amend lines 308 and ... (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, to the bill (H.R. 3850) making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3850)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to the bill (H.R. 3498) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: Strike out all after the ... (H.R. 3498)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Harlan to the bill (H.R. 4051) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 4051)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Hitchcock to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Hitchcock to the bill (H.R. 4051) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 4051)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Hitchcock to the bill (H.R. 4051) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: On page ... (H.R. 4051)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Logan from the Committee on Military Affairs to the bill (H.R. 3850) making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3850)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Finance, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Morton to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Nye to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Nye, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Patterson to the bill (H.R. 3351) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: On page 4, after line 85, insert the following: (H.R. 3351)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Pomeroy to the bill (H.R. 4051) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 4051)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Pool to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: On page 35, at the end of line ... (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Pratt to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Page 23, at the end of line ... (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill (H.R. 3498) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: After line 44, insert the following: (H.R. 3498)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Add to line 1036 the following: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Ramsey, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to the bill (H.R. 3498) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3498)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Robertson to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Robertson to the bill (H.R. 4051) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 4051)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Scott to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: After line 267, page 12, insert: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Strike out line ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Spencer to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Stevenson to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. West to the bill (H.R. 3498) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3498)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Wilson to the bill (H.R. 3850) making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3850)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Wilson to the bill (H.R. 4051) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the ... (H.R. 4051)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Wright to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert after line 443, page ... (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Buckingham, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 2989) making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, ... (H.R. 2989)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Caldwell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian ... (H.R. 1192)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Cameron, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1323) making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ... (H.R. 1323)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Cragin, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen ... (H.R. 1654)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Cragin, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Frelinghuysen, from the Committee on Agriculture, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1323) making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ... (H.R. 1323)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, ... (H.R. 1192)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Morton, from the Committee and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Ramsey, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1070) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ... (H.R. 1070)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on Education and Labor, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Scott, from the Joint Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Outrages in the Southern States, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian ... (H.R. 1192)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Buckingham to the bill (H.R. 1654) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, ... (H.R. 1654)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Frelinghuysen to the bill (H.R. 1060) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to the bill (H.R 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 2705)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Saulsbury to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert at the end of line 703 ... (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Anthony to the bill (H.R. 3351) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3351)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Printing, to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other ... (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Buckingham to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Cole to the bill (H.R. 3498) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3498)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Cragin to the bill (H.R. 3351) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 3351)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Cragin, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to the bill (H.R. 3351) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3351)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Fenton to the bill (H.R. 3498) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3498)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Frelinghuysen to the bill (H.R. 3351) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 3351)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Hill to the bill (H.R. 2291) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Strike out lines 10 and 11 ... (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to the bill (H.R. 3921) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3921)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Nye, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to the bill (H.R. 3351) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: Insert after line 533 the following: (H.R. 3351)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Pratt to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Robertson to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Robertson to the bill (H.R. 3258) making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 3258)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Scott to the bill (H.R. 3351) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 3351)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Stewart to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Windom to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed to be offered by Mr. Sawyer, chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, to the bill (H.R. 2991) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Reported by Mr. Cragin, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, and intended to be proposed by Mr. Wilson to the bill (H.R. 1191) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, ... (H.R. 1191)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1323)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former years, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1654)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reported by Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 1192) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the ... (H.R. 1192)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2991)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen ... (H.R. 2989)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1873. (H.R. 1070)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill (H.R. 1191) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as ... (H.R. 1191)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations with Senate amendments, Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1060)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, with Senate amendments, and ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. (H.R. 3498)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, with Senate amendments, and ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. (H.R. 3850)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be offered by Mr. Osborn to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Add at the end of line 180, section 1, of the printed bill, the ... (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Bayard to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Blair to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Strike out from line 161, page 7, to line 166, page 8, both inclusive, ... (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Carpenter to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following proviso: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Corbett to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as follows: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Frelinghuysen to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, to the bill (H.R. 3922)making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as following: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hill to the Bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Johnston to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Johnston to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Johnston to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Kellogg to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert after the word "dollars," in line 320, page 14, the following: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, to the bill (R. R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as follows: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morton to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morton to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as an additional section: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Pratt to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as follows: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Rice to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Strike out from line 135 to line 138, inclusive, and insert the ... (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Rice to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert after line 138 the following: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Saulsbury to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Scott to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert in lieu of that part of the bill appropriating fifteen thousand ... (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Spencer to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sprague to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert after line 226 as follows: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stockton to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Wright to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be offered by Mr. Kellogg to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Corbett to the bill (H.R. 2116) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 2116)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Flanagan to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as follows: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Johnston to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, namely: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Johnston to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: Insert as follows: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Osborn to the bill (H.R. 3922) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 3922)

Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stockton to the bill (H.R. 2208) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, viz: (H.R. 2208)

Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Frelinghuysen to the amendments reported by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H.R. 173) to repeal the duties upon salt, viz: (H.R. 173)

Referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Authorizing the First National Bank of Watkins, New York, to change its location and name. (H.R. 3534)

Referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Sherman, with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [ brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To repeal the duties on salt. (H.R. 173)

Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act For the relief of settlers on the late Sioux Indian reservation, in the State of Minnesota. (H.R. 3326)

Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stewart to the bill (H.R. 1016) to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 1016)

Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To amend an act entitled "An act granting the right of way to the Walla-Walla and Columbia River Railroad Company, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 3470)

Referred to the Committee on the Post-Offices and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act To establish certain post-roads. (H.R. 3274)

Reported back by Mr. Dunnell with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Amendment In the nature of a substitute to the bill (H.R. 2094) to provide for the sale to actual settlers of the surplus lands of the Round Valley Indian reservation, viz: Strike out all after ... (H.R. 2094)

Reported back from the Committee on Military Affairs by Mr. Stoughton, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Amendment In the nature of a substitute to the bill (H.R. 785) in relation to bounties. (H.R. 785)

Reported back with an amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Claims. Amendment Reported by Mr. H. Boardman Smith as a substitute to the bill (H.R. 3013) for the relief of Nathaniel McKay, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 3013)

Reported, from the Committee on the Public Lands, by Mr. Slater, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the said committee. Amendment In the nature of a substitute for the bill (H.R. 137) granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon. (H.R. 137)

Substitute Recommended by the Committee of Conference for Senate amendment No. 10 to the bill (H.R. 2705) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes, viz: Strike out all from the word "to," in line 114, page 6 of the print, ... (H.R. 2705)