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Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 40th Congress

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Amend by inserting, in line 7, after the words ''eighteen hundred and fifty-one,'' the following: ''and record evidence of which claim is found in the Spanish or Mexican archives now in (H.R. 923)

Amend the title so as to read ''A bill to amend the act passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled 'An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices,' and for other purposes.'' (H.R. 1666)

Amendments. By Mr. Bingham: Strike out, in section 1 lines 6 and 7, the words ''is a non-resident of the United States and.'' By Mr. Benjamin, as proposed to be amended by Mr. Garfield. Insert the following section: (H.R. 1682)

Amendments. Reported by Mr. Pomeroy, from the Committee on Public Lands, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 605) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, viz: (H.R. 605)

Amendments. To be proposed to House bill No. 123. (H.R. 123)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Hooper, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the taxation of United States notes and national bank notes by or under State authority. (H.R. 323)

M. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, made the following Report. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. The Committee on Appropriations, to whom the bill (H.R. 605) making appropriations for the legislature, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the ... (H.R. 605)

Motion to recommit pending. Mr. Butler moved to amend the motion to recommit by adding--with instruction to report, instead of the first section of the bill as reported--a section substantially as follows. Ordered to be printed. A Bill Additional and supplemental to ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed ... (H.R. 439)

Mr. Cattell, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1881) regulating the reports of national banking associations, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after enacting clause and insert: (H.R. 1881)

Mr. Chandler, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was recommitted the bill (H.R. 1046) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works, and for other purposes, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 1046)

Mr. Henderson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 819) making partial appropriations for the expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 819)

Mr. Pomeroy, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was recommitted the bill (H.R. 907) to provide for the sale of certain lands and lots on the sea islands of Beaufort district, South Carolina, and for other purposes, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 907)

Mr. Pomeroy, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 907) to provide for the sale of certain lands and lots on the sea islands of Beaufort district, South Carolina, and for other purposes, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 907)

Mr. Ramsey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1427) to establish certain post roads, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 1427)

Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, reported the following amendments to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 605) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1869; which were referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments. ... (H.R. 605)

Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following amendment to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 605) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government, for the year ending the 30th of June, 1869, which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. ... (H.R. 605)

Mr. Williams, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1276) for the sale of the Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas, reported it with an amendment. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 1276)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Amendment In the nature of a substitute, proposed by Mr. Paine, from the Committee on Reconstruction, to the bill H.R. 1968. A Bill To provide for the organization of a provisional government for the State of Mississippi. (H.R. 1968)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Amendment In the nature of a substitute to H.R. 621, reported by Mr. Cook, from the Committee on Roads and Canals. A Bill To authorize the building of a military and postal railroad from Washington, District of Columbia, to the city of New York. Whereas the necessities of ... (H.R. 621)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Churchill, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 1258. A Bill To define felonies and misdemeanors, and regulate peremptory challenges. (H.R. 1258)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Delos R. Ashley to bill H.R. No. 21. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 21)

Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Anderson reported back the following as a substitute to House bill No. 1016: A Bill Granting lands to the State of California to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the town of Vallejo to Humboldt bay, in the State of California. (H.R. 1016)

Ordered to be printed with amendments of the Senate to said bill and the report of the Committee of Conference upon the disagreeing votes of the two houses upon the amendments to the bill. An Act To amend certain acts in relation to the navy and marine corps. (H.R. 941)

Ordered to be printed. A Bill Granting land to the Iowa and Missouri State Line Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 281)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment As modified, to be proposed by Mr. Baker to House bill 584. (H.R. 584)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment In the nature of a substitute proposed to be submitted by Mr. Baker, to H.R. 904, for the admission of the State of Alabama. Whereas the people of Alabama, in pursuance of the provisions of an act of Congress entitled ''An act for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March second, eighteen ... (H.R. 904)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment In the nature of a substitute to be proposed by Mr. Dawes to House bill No. 374. A Bill To provide for the establishment of an uniform and appropriate system of education to take the place of the present systems of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 374)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment In the nature of a substitute to H.R. 1657, proposed to be reported by the Committee on Mines and Mining. Whereas our public lands contain mines of the precious metals which are unsurpassed in richness, and can, with proper development, be made speedily to enhance the value of all property, and thereby relieve the ... (H.R. 1657)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment In the nature of a substitute to H.R. 220. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert as follows: (H.R. 220)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment In the nature of a substitute to H.R. 847, to be proposed by Mr. Newcomb. A Bill To aid in the construction of the International Pacific railroad from Cairo, Illinois, to the Rio Grande river, to authorize the consolidation of certain railroad companies, and to provide homesteads for the laborers on said roads. (H.R. 847)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment In the nature of a substitute to House bill (No. 892) relating to the Alexandria canal, reported by Mr. Ingersoll, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, pending at the expiration of the morning hour. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: Whereas by an act of Congress, on the ... (H.R. 892)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Conness to the bill (H.R. 768) concerning the rights of American citizens in foreign States, viz: Insert in section 3, line 9, after the word ''refused,'' the following: (H.R. 768)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Drake, to the bill (H.R. 1039) to admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 1039)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Howard to the bill (H.R. 1039) to admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress, viz: Insert the following as additional sections: (H.R. 1039)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Maynard to the bill (H.R. 1014) to aid in the construction of the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific railroad, viz: Strike out all after the title and insert: (H.R. 1014)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morgan to the bill (H.R. 1100) to amend an act ''An act to regulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels, and for other purposes,'' viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 1100)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Osborn to the bill (H.R. 1673) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, viz: Insert after line 672 the following: (H.R. 1673)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill (H.R. 1858) making appropriations, in part, for the expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations, viz: Insert as section 2 the following: (H.R. 1858)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stewart to the bill H.R. 1353 as reported from the Committee on the Judiciary, entitled ''A bill for the removal of certain disabilities from the persons therein named,'' viz: Strike out all after the word ''namely'' in line 60, page 3, and insert the following: (H.R. 1353)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Of the Committee of Military Affairs to the bill H.R. 1803, to reduce the army, and further to define the duties of the officers thereof. (H.R. 1803)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Baker to House bill 584. (H.R. 584)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Brooks to the bill, H.R. 1667, to secure equal privileges and immunities to citizens of the United States, and to enforce the provisions of article fourteen of the amendments to the Constitution. (H.R. 1667)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Butler to the bill (H.R. 1803) for the support of the army: Insert the following additional sections: (H.R. 1803)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Drake to the bill (H.R. 1039) to admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 1039)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Henderson to the bill H.R. 1039 to admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress, viz: Strike out all after condition, in the fifth line, and insert as follows: (H.R. 1039)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Morton to the bill (H.R. 1058) to admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama, to representation in Congress, viz: Insert the following as additional sections: (H.R. 1058)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Pile to the bill H.R. 1377. Strike out all after the word ''shall,'' in line 2, section 8, and insert-- (H.R. 1377)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Poland to H.R. 904. Whereas the people of Alabama, in pursuance of the provisions of an act of Congress entitled ''An act for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the acts supplementary thereto, have framed a constitution of ... (H.R. 904)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Schenck to H.R. 1060. Strike out section 139 and the sections following down to and including section 251 and insert the following: (H.R. 1060)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Williams to the bill (H.R. 1058) to admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama to representation in Congress, viz: Insert the following as additional sections: (H.R. 1058)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed to be offered by Mr. Bingham to H.R. 1667. Strike out section one and insert the following: (H.R. 1667)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed to be offered by Mr. Dodge to the bill H.R. 1803. (H.R. 1803)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed to be offered by Mr. Loan to House bill No. 439. Strike out sections 1, 2, and 3, and insert in lieu thereof the following: (H.R. 439)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, and intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 818) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1869, and for other purposes, viz: Insert the following as additional sections: (H.R. 818)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Submitted by Mr. Bingham to H.R. 1058: A Bill To admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama, to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama, have, in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled ''An act ... (H.R. 1058)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed by Mr. Garfield to the bill (H.R. 1738) to restore the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Department of War. (H.R. 1738)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed by Mr. Pile to H.R. 1377. Insert the following as a substitute for section six: (The figures in parentheses show the number in each grade now in service.) (H.R. 1377)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed by Mr. Shanks to the bill H.R. 1667. (H.R. 1667)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed by Mr. Stevens to bill H.R. 605. Add to the end of the bill the following: (H.R. 605)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed by Mr. Thaddeus Stevens as a substitute to House bill No. 374. (H.R. 374)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed by Mr. Wood, to House bill No. 768. Substitute for section three: (H.R. 768)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed to House bill 1202 as a substitute: A Bill To provide for the better protection of the northern and northwestern frontier, and to facilitate commerce between the States. Whereas the ''common defence and general welfare'' of the country is by the Constitution entrusted to the federal government; and ... (H.R. 1202)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed to House bill No. 439, by Mr. J. M. Ashley. (H.R. 439)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Rice to the bill (H.R. 1276) for the sale of the Hot Springs reservation, in Arkansas, viz: (H.R. 1276)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Stewart to the bill (H.R. 1059) to relieve certain citizens of North Carolina of disabilities, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 1059)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Proposed by Mr. Robinson to H.R. 1667. (H.R. 1667)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments. Proposed by Mr. Garfield to bill H.R. 1377--pending. Add to section 7 the following: (H.R. 1337)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following amendment to bill (H.R. 929) to promote American commerce. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: (H.R. 929)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne submitted the following amendment to bill (H.R. 1046) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works, and for other purposes. Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: (H.R. 1046)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on bill H.R. 900, submitted the following report: (H.R. 900)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the committee of conference on the part of the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the amendments to the bill (H.R. 900) to exempt certain manufactures from internal tax, submitted the following report: (H.R. 900)

Ordered to be printed. Ordered to be printed. Amendment Of the Committee of Military Affairs to the bill (H.R. 1803) to reduce the army, and further to define the duties of the officers thereof. (H.R. 1803)

Ordered to be printed. Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Butler to the bill (H.R. 1803) for the support of the army: Insert the following additional sections: (H.R. 1803)

Ordered, That the amendment of the Senate be printed. Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 123) entitled ''An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,' passed on the 2d day of March, 1867, and the act supplementary thereto, passed on the 23d day of ... (H.R. 123)

Ordered, That the bill (H.R. 900) to exempt certain manufactures from internal tax, with the amendments of the Senate, and the amendments of the House of Representatives to the amendments of the Senate, be printed. An Act To exempt certain manufactures from internal tax. (H.R. 900)

Passed the House of Representatives March 11, 1867, and ordered to be printed. A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to facilitate restoration. (H.R. 33)

Read and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Directing the Commissioner of Pensions to proceed to hear evidence and determine the right of W. H. Cox, deceased, late a sergeant in company F, second regiment Pennsylvania artillery, to a pension in same manner as if he was still living, he having died of disease contracted whilst a prisoner ... (H.R. 1420)

Read ordered to be printed, and motion to recommit pending. Mr. Bingham, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill Additional and supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to the acts ... (H.R. 439)

Read the first and second time. An Act To authorize the Southern Minnesota Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Mississippi river and establish a post route. (H.R. 96)

Read the first and second timed. An Act To admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of Arkansas, in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled ''An act for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the acts supplementary thereto, have ... (H.R. 1039)

Read the first and second times. An Act For the more speedy reorganization of the States of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1450)

Read the first and second times. An Act For the sale of the Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas. Whereas the public reservation known as the Hot Springs reservation, in the State of Arkansas, is now held and occupied without color of title by various persons, whose claims have never been acknowledge by the United States government; and whereas the ... (H.R. 1276)

Read the first and second times. An Act Providing for the payment of Captain Goldman Bryson's mounted company. (H.R. 1872)

Read the first and second times. An Act Regulating the duties on imported copper and copper ores. (H.R. 1460)

Read the first and second times. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the National Lincoln Monument Association, at Springfield, Illinois, damaged and captured ordnance. (H.R. 2009)

Read the first and second times. An Act To establish a certain post road in the State of Connecticut. (H.R. 1856)

Read the first and second times. An Act To establish a certain post road in the State of Connecticut. (H.R. 1861)

Read the first and second times. An Act to incorporate the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington. (H.R. 502)

Read the first and second times. An Act To relieve certain of all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 1556)

Read the first and second times. An Act To restore the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Department of War. (H.R. 1482)

Read the first and second times. Considered as in Committee of the Whole and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Henderson with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in Italics. An Act [To restore the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Department of War.] To establish a Department of ... (H.R. 1482)

Read the first and second times. Considered as in Committee of the Whole, and ordered to lie on the table. An Act To provide for the more economical administration of the government of the several Territories of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1458)

Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table. An Act In relation to additional bounty. (H.R. 127)

Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table. Read the second time and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Reported by Mr. Wilson, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act In relation to additional bounty. (H.R. 127)

Read the first time. An Act Additional and supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to the acts supplementary thereto. (H.R. 439)

Read the first, and second times. An Act Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and the act supplementary thereto, passed on the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 123)

Read twice and laid over by the expiration of the morning hour. Mr. E. B. Washburne and others proposed amendments. Ordered, That the bill be printed with the pending amendments. A Bill Fixing the amount found to be due to the State of Iowa on account of certain claims against the United States. Whereas Congress, by an act approved July ... (H.R. 1491)

Read twice and laid over by the expiration of the morning hour. Mr. E. B. Washburne and others proposed amendments. Ordered, That the bill be printed with the pending amendments. Recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs, with instructions to report a bill embracing Mr. Wood's amendment as amended. A Bill Fixing the amount found to be due to ... (H.R. 1491)

Read twice and ordered to be printed with amendments. Mr. Farnsworth, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill To admit the State of Alabama to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of Alabama, in pursuance of the provisions of an act of Congress entitled ''An act for the more efficient government of the ... (H.R. 970)

Read twice and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the force of the Patent Office. (H.R. 28)

Read twice and ordered to be printed. Question on engrossment pending. Mr. Garfield, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: An Act To furnish honorable discharges to certain soldiers and sailors therein designated, and to repeal section twenty-one of an act entitled ''An act to amend the several acts heretofore passed ... (H.R. 319)

Read twice and ordered to lie on the table. An Act Constituting eight hours a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States. (H.R. 365)

Read twice and ordered to lie on the table. An Act To authorize the building of a military and postal railway from Washington, District of Columbia, to the city of New York. (H.R. 621)

Read twice and ordered to lie on the table. An Act To establish a certain post road in the State of Connecticut. (H.R. 1856)

Read twice and ordered to line on the table. An Act Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purpose,'' passed March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 130)

Read twice and referred to a Select Committee on five members. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burt Van Horn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a ship around the Falls of Niagara. Whereas the exposed and unprotected condition of our extended northern frontier demands that immediate provision be made by ... (H.R. 4)

Read twice and referred to Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Julia A. Fisher. (H.R. 1938)

Read twice and referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Mr. Koontz, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to ''An act to incorporate a Newsboy's Home.'' (H.R. 685)

Read twice and referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Mr. Koontz, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Columbia Savings Institution. (H.R. 686)

Read twice and referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the incorporation of the National Art Union Association of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 864)

Read twice and referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Mr. Ingersoll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Georgetown and Washington Canal and Sewerage Company. Whereas the Washington ... (H.R. 232)

Read twice and referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Mr. Welker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for juries in certain cases in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 190)

Read twice and referred to the Committee of Claims. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the appointment of a commissioner and the settlement of claims of citizens of Kansas. (H.R. 1727)

Read twice and referred to the Committee of Elections. Ordered to be printed, and a motion to reconsider reference pending. Mr. J. M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the time for the election of representatives and delegates in the Congress of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 215)

Read twice and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Brooks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to exempt certain manufacturers from internal tax, and for other purposes,'' approved March thirty-one, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 1327)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. An Act To provide for certain claims against the Department of Agriculture. (H.R. 1068)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. Reported without amendment and referred Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Howe, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To provide for certain claims against the Department of Agriculture. (H.R. 1068)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriation. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 605)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act For the better regulation of the custody and expenditures of the public moneys. (H.R. 836)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1341)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2007)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other purposes. (H.R. 818)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1570)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other purposes. (H.R. 718)

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 thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1738)

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 thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 1073)

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 the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1672)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1599)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 601)

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 sixty-nine. (H.R. 678)

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. (H.R. 1564)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of salaries and contingent expenses of the Patent Office for January and February, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 1809)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and establishing additional regulations for the government of the institution. (H.R. 541)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1808)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 832)

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 sixty-nine, and for other purposes. (H.R. 658)

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, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1803)

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. (H.R. 1596)

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 thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 599)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the execution of the reconstruction laws in the third military district for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 1045)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the execution of the reconstruction laws, and for the service of the Quartermaster's department of the government, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes. (H.R. 320)

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 sixty-nine, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1911)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making appropriations, in part, for the expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations. (H.R. 1858)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act Making partial appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 313)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act To authorize the appointment of certain watchmen, and for other purposes. (H.R. 79)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act To prevent an appropriation therein mentioned from lapsing because of delay in the adjustment. (H.R. 1121)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. An Act To supply partial deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 1117)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for the last Tuesday in February, after the morning hour. Mr. Spalding, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making ... (H.R. 541)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the better regulation of the custody and expenditures of public moneys. (H.R. 500)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and the further consideration postponed to Friday the 24th instant, after the morning hour. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the payment of certain claims. (H.R. 234)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Howe 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. 1911)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morril, of Maine, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in Italics. 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. (H.R. 1564)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with amendment, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 599)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with amendments, viz: Insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the execution of the reconstruction laws, and for the service of the Quartermaster's department of the government, for ... (H.R. 320)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert that printed in italics. 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 ... (H.R. 678)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with amendments, viz: Strike out the part 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 sixty-nine, and for other purposes. (H.R. 658)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, ... (H.R. 1341)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other ... (H.R. 2007)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other ... (H.R. 818)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seventy, and ... (H.R. 1570)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 ... (H.R. 1738)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 ... (H.R. 1073)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 the thirtieth of June, eighteen ... (H.R. 1672)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 605)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1599)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 601)

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 support of the army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1803)

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 support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1596)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with amendments. Recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, 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 ... (H.R. 658)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and establishing additional regulations for the government of the institution. (H.R. 541)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 832)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Reported with amendments: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other purposes. (H.R. 718)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. A Bill A bill for the relief of Charles Pitcher. Whereas it is shown by a duplicate certificate issued by T. A. Walker, as register of the land office at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, dated August twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, that Charles Pitcher, now of Marseilles, La Salle county, ... (H.R. 269)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Anthony Bucher. (H.R. 1326)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Captain A. G. Olivar. (H.R. 1366)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Charles B. Tanner, late first lieutenant sixty-ninth Pennsylvania volunteers. (H.R. 1069)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Edward B. Allen. (H.R. 1080)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George Kaiser. (H.R. 1367)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of James Rock, of Saginaw, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1070)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of John H. Osler, of Guernsey county, Ohio. (H.R. 1451)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of L. Merchant and Company and Peter Rosecrantz. (H.R. 1320)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Major F. F. Stevens, assistant paymaster United States army. (H.R. 1322)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Mary Harris, of Oregon. (H.R. 1324)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Susan A. Shelby. (H.R. 2015)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Palemon John. (H.R. 433)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Rufus M. Hollister, of Janesville, Wisconsin. (H.R. 833)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Sally C. Northrop. Whereas the petition of Sally C. Northrop represents that in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight Henry S. Atwood, a merchant, being solicited thereto by them, purchased the discharges of certain soldiers, and obtained from them powers of attorney ... (H.R. 722)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the Honorable George W. Bridges, a member of the thirty-seventh Congress. (H.R. 834)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Timothy Lyden, of Parkersburg, West Virginia. (H.R. 445)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Wait Talcott. (H.R. 1099)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. For the relief of Henry Barricklow. Whereas, on the twenty-eight day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, by the sinking of the steamboat ''Nat. Holmes,'' in the Ohio river, near the city of Aurora, Indiana, Henry Barricklow lost the following described twenty-three land warrants, to wit: ... (H.R. 1063)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Changing the ports of entry from Plymouth to Edenton, in North Carolina, and Port Royal to Beaufort, in South Carolina. (H.R. 1444)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Declaring Saint George and Boothbay, in the State of Maine, and San Antonio, Texas, ports of delivery, and authorizing the establishment of bonded warehouses at Bucksport and Vinalhaven, in the State of Maine. (H.R. 786)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act For the registration or enrolment of certain foreign vessels. (H.R. 1119)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act For the repeal of tonnage duties on Spanish vessels. (H.R. 1864)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act In relation to bridges across the Ohio river. (H.R. 2014)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1046)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To aid the improvement of the Des Moines and Rock Island rapids, in the Mississippi river. (H.R. 485)

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, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1100)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the names of certain vessels. (H.R. 1120)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To change the name of the ship Golconda. (H.R. 448)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To establish the collection district of Aroostook, in the State of Maine, and to more accurately define the boundaries of the district of Newark, New Jersey. (H.R. 1906)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To extend the boundaries of the collection district of Philadelphia so as to include the whole consolidated city of Philadelphia. (H.R. 538)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To re-establish the boundaries of the collection districts of Michigan and Michilimackinac, and to change the names of the collection districts of Michilimackinac and Port Huron. (H.R. 198)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To repeal an act approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled an ''An act to regulate the disposition of fines, penalties, and forfeitures received under the laws relating to the customs, and for other purposes,'' and to amend certain acts for the prevention and ... (H.R. 375)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To revive an act to constitute Hannibal, Missouri, and Peoria, Illinois, ports of delivery. (H.R. 785)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Commerce. Mr. Eggleston, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To take possession of the bar known as Pass a L'Outre at the entrance of the Mississippi river, and to construct a canal without ... (H.R. 594)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Eggleston, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Washington and Cincinnati National Railroad Company. (H.R. 224)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act Declaring Saint George and Boothbay, in the State of Maine, and San Antonio, Texas, ports of delivery, and authorizing the establishment of bonded warehouses ... (H.R. 786)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported without amendment. Recommitted. Reported without amendment. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Commerce, reported sundry amendments, and accompanied by a report No. 252, viz: Insert the words printed in Italics. An Act to repeal certain sections of an act approved March two, eighteen ... (H.R. 375)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act To supply partial deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 1117)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. An Act For the relief of Benjamin B. French, late Commissioner of Public Buildings. (H.R. 1325)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Authorizing the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to adjust the accounts of Mark Howard. (H.R. 39)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Authorizing the Manufacturers' National Bank of New York to change its location. (H.R. 1035)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Constituting eight hours a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States. (H.R. 103)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Declaratory of the meaning of a certain clause in section ninety-four, of the act entitled ''An act to provide internal revenue,'' and so forth, passed March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. (H.R. 813)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of Peter McGough, collector of internal revenue and disbursing agent, twentieth district, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 1989)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company. (H.R. 1867)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act In reference to certifying checks by national banks. (H.R. 1973)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act In relation to taxing shares in national banks. (H.R. 512)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making regulations as to the public debt. (H.R. 1454)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Refunding duties paid under protest on the importation from France of a bell donated for the use of Saint Mary's Institute and Notre Dame University, Indiana. (H.R. 881)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To allow deputy collectors and assistant assessors of internal revenue acting as collectors or assessors the pay of collectors and assessors. (H.R. 1812)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act 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. 1555)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to exempt certain manufacturers from internal tax, and for other purposes,'' approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 1327)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize the importation of machinery, for repair only, free of duty. (H.R. 1456)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To exempt ladders from internal tax. (H.R. 73)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To exempt wrapping paper, made from wood or cornstalks, from internal tax. (H.R. 72)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To facilitate the collection of the direct tax in the State of Delaware. (H.R. 510)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To fix the compensation of the United States depositary at Chicago. (H.R. 387)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To increase the force in the Patent Office, and for other purposes. (H.R. 28)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To locate and establish an assay office in the Territory of Idaho. (H.R. 264)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To prevent frauds in the collection of the tax on distilled spirits. (H.R. 369)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To prevent loaning money upon United States notes. (H.R. 1974)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To prohibit the further increase of the public debt, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1882)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To provide for the exemption of cotton from internal tax. (H.R. 207)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To regulate the appraisement and inspection of imports in certain cases, and for other purposes. (H.R. 788)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To regulate the deposits of the public moneys. (H.R. 450)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To repeal section one hundred and thirty-six of the act of June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, entitled ''An act to provide ways and means to support the government, and for other purposes.'' (H.R. 1452)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To strengthen the public credit, and relating to contracts for the payment of coin. (H.R. 1744)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To suspend further reduction of the currency. (H.R. 213)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Morgan, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To locate and establish an assay office in the Territory of Idaho. (H.R. 264)

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 the Illinois Iron end Bolt Company. (H.R. 1867)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Sherman with an amendment, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To suspend further reduction of the currency. (H.R. 213)

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 To regulate the appraisement and inspection of imports in certain cases, and for other purposes. (H.R. 788)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Sherman, with amendments, viz: Strike out the word in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To exempt certain manufacturers from internal tax. (H.R. 900)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Williams 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 exempt certain manufacturers from internal tax, and for other purposes,'' approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1327)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill More effectually to preserve the neutral relations of the United States. (H.R. 35)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act Concerning the rights of American citizens in foreign states. Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for the protection of which the government ... (H.R. 768)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act For the relief of Nott and Company. (H.R. 1969)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act Making an appropriation of money to carry into effect the treaty with Russia of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Whereas the President of the United States, on the thirtieth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entered into a treaty with the Emperor of ... (H.R. 1096)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To provide for the removal of the remains of Honorable W. T. Coggeshall, late minister of the United States at Ecuador, to the United States. (H.R. 967)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Mr. Sumner with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Concerning the rights of American citizens in foreign states. Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to ... (H.R. 768)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act Amendatory of ''An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for contingent expenses of the Senate of the United States for the fiscal for year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other purposes.'' (H.R. 137)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to cause the lands known as the Miami Indian reservation, in the State of Indiana, to be patented. (H.R. 511)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act For the relief of the Navajo Indians at the Bosque Redondo, and to establish them on a reservation. (H.R. 733)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act Making appropriations for the expenses of commissioners sent by the President of the Indian country. (H.R. 1)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act Making partial appropriations for the expenses of the Indian department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations. (H.R. 819)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To transfer to the Department of the Interior certain powers and duties now exercised by the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with Indian affairs. (H.R. 1375)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Henderson with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the relief of the Navajo Indians at the Bosque Redondo, and to establish them on a reservation, and for other purposes. (H.R. 733)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, with leave to report at any time. Mr. Holman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah Hackleman, widow of Brigadier General Pleasant A. Hackleman. (H.R. 1313)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. Benjamin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Naomi Adams. (H.R. 1586)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Julia Finley. (H.R. 1584)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. R. R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Hockaday, of Johnson county, Tennessee. (H.R. 1581)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. R. R. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George E. Grisham, of Tennessee, late a captain of company I, eight Tennessee volunteer cavalry. (H.R. 1579)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. Stokes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Mary J. Stone, of Jackson county, Tennessee. (H.R. 689)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act Amendatory of an act entitled ''An act for the relief of certain drafted men.'' (H.R. 424)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act Authorizing the sale of an unoccupied military site at Waterford, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 368)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act Declaratory of the law in regard to officers cashiered or dismissed from the army by the sentence of a general court martial. (H.R. 201)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of A. W. Ballard. (H.R. 553)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of Captain C. P. Johnson. (H.R. 452)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of Captain Thomas W. Miller. (H.R. 1365)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of certain volunteer soldiers and sailors therein designated. Whereas a large number of men, who voluntarily enlisted in the service of the United States for a definite period or during the war, and who faithfully served until after the surrender of ... (H.R. 108)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of H. G. Aukeny, late captain fourth Iowa infantry. (H.R. 1130)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of Isaac Watts. (H.R. 1128)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of John A. Neustaedter. (H.R. 1081)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of Mary A. Filler. Whereas Sergeant Henry Drenning, late of Company K, fifty-fifth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, was killed at Cold Harbor, in Virginia, on the third day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four, leaving no widow ... (H.R. 425)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of O. P. Shiras. (H.R. 1077)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of the heirs of James S. Porter, late of Hancock county, West Virginia. (H.R. 255)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of the widow and children of Colonel James A. Mulligan, deceased. Whereas James A. Mulligan on the fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, was mustered into the service of the United States as colonel of the twenty-third Illinois infantry, ... (H.R. 1129)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act Granting a certain right of way to the Hudson River West Shore Railroad Company. (H.R. 155)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emily B. Bidwell, widow of Brigadier General Daniel D. Bidwell. (H.R. 1363)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frances T. Richardson, widow of the late Major General Israel B. Richardson. (H.R. 1337)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act Providing for the sale of a portion of the Fort Gratiot military reservation in Saint Clair county, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 550)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act Providing for the sale of the arsenal grounds at Saint Louis and Liberty, Missouri, and for other purposes. (H.R. 451)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act To amend the act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and six, for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States. (H.R. 273)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act To authorize the sale of twenty acres of land in the military reservation of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Whereas the Secretary of War, in behalf of the United States and in accordance with the previous practice of the War Department, on the thirteenth day of ... (H.R. 938)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act To clothe the maimed and destitute soldiers. (H.R. 19)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act To declare the meaning of the several acts in relation to retired officers of the army. (H.R. 1378)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act To facilitate the payment of soldiers' bounties under act of eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 331)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act To grant the right of way to the Whitehall and Plattsburg Railroad Company. (H.R. 1062)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act To provide for the issue of arms for the use of the Militia. (H.R. 1354)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Reported by Mr. Wilson with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Providing for the sale of the arsenal grounds at Saint Louis and Liberty, Missouri, and for other purposes. (H.R. 451)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Reported by Mr. Wilson, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To facilitate the payment of soldiers' bounties under act of eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 331)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Reported by Mr. Wilson, with an amendment, viz: Insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To continue the Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees, and for other purposes. (H.R. 598)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of certain companies of scouts and guides organized in Alabama. (H.R. 1879)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of David Braden. (H.R. 1871)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of George C. Haynie. (H.R. 1869)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of George W. Short (H.R. 1878)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of H. A. White. (H.R. 1868)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Jefferson W. Davis. (H.R. 1873)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Leonidas Smith, late of the Twenty-second regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. (H.R. 1280)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Samuel H. Moore. Whereas Samuel H. Moore, late private in company G, fifty-seventh regiment Ohio veteran volunteer infantry, was entered on the rolls of his company as having deserted in January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three; and whereas there is satisfactory ... (H.R. 1876)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Second Lieutenant James Ulio, Sixteenth United States Infantry. (H.R. 1870)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Charles C. Cook, deceased. (H.R. 1877)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of Walter D. Plowden. (H.R. 1323)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act For the relief of William F. Scott, late adjutant fourth Iowa cavalry volunteers. (H.R. 1838)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Granting a portion of the military reservation at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to the American Baptist Home Mission Society. (H.R. 1489)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To consolidate the several asylums for aged and disabled soldiers, created under the laws of the United States. (H.R. 1488)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To declare and fix the status of the corps of judge advocates of the army. Whereas doubts have arisen whether the judge advocates of the army, though originally commissioned in the regular service, constitute a permanent corps in which vacancies may be filled; and whereas it is ... (H.R. 1487)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To define the pay of officers of the army detailed to act as military instructors. (H.R. 1490)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. J. M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain volunteer soldiers and sailors therein designated. Whereas a large number of men, who voluntarily enlisted in the service of the United States for a definite period or during the war, and who ... (H.R. 144)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Koontz, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of an act entitled ''An act for the relief of certain drafted men.'' (H.R. 424)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported by Mr. Sprague with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in Italics. An Act For the relief of certain companies of scouts and guides organized in Alabama. (H.R. 1879)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported by Mr. Wilson with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the word printed in Italics. An Act To declare and fix the status of the corps of judge advocates of the army. Whereas doubts have arisen whether the judge advocates of the army, though originally ... (H.R. 1487)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act Extending the provisions of the act of July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, relating to the naturalization of soldiers, to those who enlisted in the naval and marine service of the United States. (H.R. 616)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of Commander John L. Davis. (H.R. 1158)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of Foster and Tower. (H.R. 1966)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act In relation to the appointment of midshipmen from the lately reconstructed States. (H.R. 1751)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act Relating to captures made by Admiral Farragut's fleet in the Mississippi river in May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 112)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act Relating to the Bureau of Steam Engineering in the Navy Department. (H.R. 728)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To amend certain acts in relation to the navy and marine corps. (H.R. 941)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act To compensate the officers and crew of the United States steamer Kearsarge for the destruction of the rebel piratical vessel, Alabama. (H.R. 1967)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported by Mr. Drake, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act To amend and explain certain acts in relation to the navy [and marine corps.] (H.R. 941)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported by Mr. Grimes with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in Italics. An Act To compensate the officers and crew of the United States steamer Kearsarge for the destruction of the rebel piratical vessel Alabama. (H.R. 1967)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported by Mr. Grimes with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in Italics. An Act Relating to captures made by Admiral Farragut's fleet in the Mississippi river in May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 112)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported with amendments. Recommitted to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported by Mr. Drake, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To amend certain acts [in relation to] concerning the navy [and marine corps.] (H.R. 941)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office. An Act For the relief of Samuel Pierce. (H.R. 783)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office. An Act To authorize Charles Grafton Page to apply for and receive a patent. (H.R. 731)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office. Reported by Mr. Ferry, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics; accompanied by a report, (No. 75.) An Act For the relief of Martha M. Jones, administratrix of Samuel T. Jones. Whereas the Commissioner of Patents did on ... (H.R. 780)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents. An Act For the relief of Martha M. Jones, administratrix of Samuel T. Jones. Whereas the Commissioner of Patents did on the twenty-third of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, upon the petition of Martha M. Jones, administratrix of the estate of Samuel T. Jones, deceased, extend for the ... (H.R. 780)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Almira Wyeth. (H.R. 411)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Barbara Stout, of Tennessee. (H.R. 1332)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Captain William McKean. (H.R. 828)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of James L. Dickerson. (H.R. 257)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of John Gestiger. (H.R. 1939)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of John Perry. (H.R. 101)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Mary B. Craig. (H.R. 258)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Alice A. Dryer. (H.R. 614)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Mary J. Trueman. (H.R. 886)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Nancy Cook, of Tennessee. (H.R. 1331)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Seth Lea. (H.R. 1315)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of the estate of Isaac Philips, deceased, who was a private in the revolutionary war. (H.R. 1745)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of the widow and minor children of Benjamin B. Naylor, late a pilot on the gunboat Patapsco. (H.R. 516)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of the widows and children of Henry E. Morse. (H.R. 152)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Zadock T. Newman. (H.R. 991)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension of seventeen dollars per month to David Duhigg, of Lyndon, Vermont, father of late First Lieutenant Dennis Duhigg of company M, first regiment Vermont artillery. (H.R. 218)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Abigal Dix. (H.R. 2016)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Allen E. Rector. (H.R. 1958)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Amos Witham. (H.R. 774)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ann Smith. (H.R. 1926)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ann Williams. (H.R. 851)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ann Wilson. (H.R. 827)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Annie Vaughn. (H.R. 824)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Asa F. Holcomb. (H.R. 1409)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Austin M. Partridge. (H.R. 524)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Betsey S. Jackman. (H.R. 1941)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Bridget Hayes. (H.R. 1944)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Catharine O'Conners, widow of Timothy O'Conners, deceased, late private, company C, of the thirty-third regiment Massachusetts volunteers. (H.R. 1921)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Catharine Skinner. (H.R. 1402)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Catherine Gensler. (H.R. 1408)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Catherine S. B. Spear. (H.R. 1947)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Charles H. B. King. (H.R. 1935)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Charles Mains, of Tennessee. (H.R. 1903)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Charles Maus, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 1695)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Charlotte Webster, widow of Timothy Webster, deceased. (H.R. 1917)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Chauncey D. Rose, father of Alvin J. Rose, late a sergeant veteran in company A, second regiment of Ohio cavalry volunteers, who was killed in action at Five Forks, Virginia, April one, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. (H.R. 1392)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Christopher M. Cornmesser, late a private in the Independent Iowa Home Guards. (H.R. 1183)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Clarissa K. Grant. (H.R. 1925)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Cornelia K. Schmidt, widow of Adam Schmidt, deceased, late a private in company a, thirty-seventh Ohio volunteers. (H.R. 517)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Cornelia Peaslee. (H.R. 1175)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Cyrus Hall. (H.R. 1940)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Cyrus K. Wood, Read twice, ordered to be printed, the legal representatives of Cyrus D. Wood. (H.R. 663)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Daniel Hauser, a citizen of North Carolina, and a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1749)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Daniel Sheets. (H.R. 1394)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to David Howe. (H.R. 769)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to David Van Nordstrand. (H.R. 455)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Edward W. White. (H.R. 1959)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza Donnelly, mother of Dudley Donnelly, deceased, late colonel of the twenty-eighth regiment infantry' New York State volunteers. (H.R. 1389)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza J. Rennard, widow of William K. Rennard, deceased, late a private in tenth Ohio volunteers, of war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 519)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza Mathews. (H.R. 1170)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Butler, widow of Cyrus Butler. (H.R. 668)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Cassidy. (H.R. 1165)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth G. Hibben, widow of Reverend Samuel Hibben, deceased, late a chaplain in the fourth cavalry regiment, Illinois volunteers. (H.R. 1387)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Lamar. (H.R. 1405)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Radigan, widow of John Radigan, deceased, who was a private in company A, of the forty-ninth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. (H.R. 1923)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Ellen Green. (H.R. 1960)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Emily H. Gardner. (H.R. 1963)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Emmelene H. Rudd, widow of the late Commodore John Rudd, deceased. (H.R. 1431)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Esther C. C. Vangilder, widow of Charles F. Vangilder, deceased, late a private in company M, first regiment Vermont heavy artillery volunteers. (H.R. 1395)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Esther Graves. (H.R. 1167)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Frederick Denning. (H.R. 1168)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to George F. Gorham, late a private in company B, twenty-ninth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. (H.R. 518)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to George Givens, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1747)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to George Truax, late a private in company H, first regiment of Virginia volunteers. (H.R. 256)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to George W. Locker. (H.R. 823)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Hampton Thompson. (H.R. 822)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Harriet E. Shears, widow of John T. Shears, deceased, late a private in company H, of the fifty-seventh regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry. (H.R. 1181)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Harriet M. Mills, widow of Samuel J. Mills, deceased, late a private in company F, of second regiment Connecticut volunteers. (H.R. 1927)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Helen L. Wolf. (H.R. 1403)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Henry H. Hunter. (H.R. 666)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Henry Riemann. (H.R. 1933)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Hinmam L. Hall. (H.R. 1386)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Hugo Eichholtz. (H.R. 1393)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Jacob Huggins. (H.R. 1931)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Jacob S. Baker. (H.R. 1971)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to James H. Maguire. (H.R. 1949)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to James S. Todd. (H.R. 523)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Jane McNaughton. (H.R. 1391)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Jane Rook. (H.R. 1413)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Jeremiah T. Hallett. (H.R. 525)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John A. Parker, a soldier in the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 1924)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John D. Lay. (H.R. 771)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Gridley. (H.R. 1407)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John H. Finlay. (H.R. 770)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Kelley. (H.R. 454)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John La Marsh. (H.R. 1401)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Law. (H.R. 1972)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John M. Flynn. (H.R. 1932)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John Q. A. Keck, late a private in the third Missouri cavalry. (H.R. 236)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John R. Ray. (H.R. 1953)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to John W. Hughes. (H.R. 825)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Joseph B. Rodden. (H.R. 1169)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Joseph M. Hudson. (H.R. 1632)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Joseph Wheat. (H.R. 2017)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Julia A. Barton. (H.R. 1173)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Julia Carroll. (H.R. 1174)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Juliet E. Hall. (H.R. 1929)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Kate Higgins. (H.R. 1388)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Katharine Dreyer, widow of Sylvester Dreyer, deceased, late private of company H, of the tenth regiment of Minnesota volunteers. (H.R. 1920)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Lemuel Barthalon. (H.R. 1928)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Lorenzo Day. (H.R. 1956)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Louisa M. Williston. (H.R. 1166)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Lucinda A. Wilder. (H.R. 1942)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Lucinda J. Letcher. (H.R. 1172)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Lucinda Pangle. (H.R. 1937)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Madge K. Guthrie and Robert B. Guthrie. (H.R. 1930)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mahala M. Freeman. (H.R. 1934)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Malinda Ferguson, widow of James Ferguson, late a private in company C, of the first regiment of Kentucky cavalry. (H.R. 1177)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret Davis. (H.R. 1164)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Maria Walters. (H.R. 1954)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha E. McKinney. (H.R. 1951)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martin Burke. (H.R. 1398)

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

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Davis, widow of William P. Davis, a private in the eighteenth regiment of Indiana volunteers, in the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 596)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Falardo, widow of Onesimus Falardo, deceased, late a private in company K, of the one hundred and twenty-fifth regiment of New York volunteers. (H.R. 1179)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Ann Shurlock. (H.R. 1936)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Cover, widow of Samuel Cover, deceased, late a private in company G, of the fifty-sixth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers. (H.R. 1176)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Graham. (H.R. 667)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary J. Hutton, widow of John C. Hutton, deceased. (H.R. 1922)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Merchant, mother of Timothy H. Pittsford, deceased, late a private in company G, of the first regiment of the United States veteran engineer corps. (H.R. 1178)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary R. Brown. (H.R. 1600)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Whitten. (H.R. 2019)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Matilda, Carney. (H.R. 1952)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Michael Mellon. (H.R. 826)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Michael Reilly. (H.R. 1390)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Miss Ann E. Hamilton, of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, aunt and adopted mother of James E. McKillip and Charles P. McKillip, deceased, late soldiers in the Union army. (H.R. 1383)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Elizabeth Lane, of Boston, Massachusetts, mother of John Lane, deceased, late a private in company A, twelfth regiment Massachusetts volunteers. (H.R. 1384)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Naomi Adams. (H.R. 1586)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Susan Carson. (H.R. 1321)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Susan Ten Eyck Williamson. (H.R. 829)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Nancy Reed. (H.R. 1948)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Patrick Collins. (H.R. 1406)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Phoebe McBride, mother of Thomas McBride, deceased, late a private in company B of the eighty-seventh regiment of Illinois volunteers. (H.R. 1180)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Polly W. Cotton. (H.R. 1411)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Prescott Y. Howland. (H.R. 1397)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Rachel C. Floyd. (H.R. 1957)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Richard Look. (H.R. 1950)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Robert McCrory. (H.R. 772)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Roslinda McCabe, widow of Barney McCabe, deceased, late a private in company I, tenth regiment New York cavalry volunteers. (H.R. 1385)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah A. Scherr. (H.R. 1945)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah A. Wilcox. (H.R. 1961)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah E. Ball, widow of James Ball, deceased, late a fireman on the steamer Vidette, connected with the Burnside expedition. (H.R. 1382 1/2)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah E. Pickell. (H.R. 659)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah K. Johnson. (H.R. 1414)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Sophia E. Harmon. (H.R. 2018)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Stephen T. Carver. (H.R. 1396)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Susan V. Berg. (H.R. 665)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the children of William R. Silvey. (H.R. 1412)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the minor children of Charles Gouler. (H.R. 664)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the minor children of James Heatherly. (H.R. 677)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the minor children of Pleasant Stoops. (H.R. 456)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and children of Andrew Holman (H.R. 670)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and minor children of Charles W. Wilcox. (H.R. 672)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and minor children of Cornelius L. Rice. (H.R. 675)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and minor children of Erastus Kinsel. (H.R. 775)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and minor children of George R. Waters. (H.R. 662)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and minor children of John S. Phelps. (H.R. 673)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and minor children of Lieutenant Richard H. Allen. (H.R. 1943)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and minor children of Myron Wilklow. (H.R. 669)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and minor children of William Craft. (H.R. 661)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow of Henry Kaneday. (H.R. 671)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to the widow of William S. Hamlin. (H.R. 674)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Thomas Connolly. (H.R. 676)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to W. W. Cunningham. (H.R. 522)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William Adams, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 1748)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William F. Nelson. (H.R. 1171)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William H. Blair, late a private in company G, of the twelfth regiment of Maine volunteers. (H.R. 1182)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William H. McDonald. (H.R. 773)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William J. Cotty, late of the twenty-first Missouri infantry volunteers. (H.R. 1295)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William M. Simpson. (H.R. 1434)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William McDonald. (H.R. 1962)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to William Smith. (H.R. 1404)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Zephaniah Knapp, of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 776)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emily B. Bidwell, widow of Brigadier General Daniel D. Bidwell, and to Sarah Hackleman, widow of Brigadier General Pleasant A. Hackleman. (H.R. 1741)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah Hackleman, widow of Brigadier General Pleasant A. Hackleman. (H.R. 1313)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting back pension to Edmund W. Wandell, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. Whereas the said Edmund W. Wandell entered as a private in company I, first regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, in the war with Mexico, and served to the close of that war in eighteen hundred and forty-eight, when he ... (H.R. 1919)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting back pension to the minor children of Joseph Berry. (H.R. 1410)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting increased pension to William B. Edwards. (H.R. 1399)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 603)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Increasing the pension of Nancy Weeks, widow of Francis Weeks, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 453)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Increasing the pension of Susan A. Mitchell. (H.R. 526)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Increasing the pension of William J. Patten. (H.R. 1955)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Relating to pensions. (H.R. 1010)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Relating to the operation of the pension laws, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2020)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To grant a pension to Margaret Huston. (H.R. 280)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To grant a pension to Milton Anderson. (H.R. 246)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To increase the pension of Amos Armstrong, who was wounded in the battle of Queenstown during the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 721)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To increase the pension of William H. Johnson. (H.R. 1918)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To place the name of Ellen Curry, widow of James Curry, deceased, a private soldier in company F, thirty-ninth regiment Illinois volunteers, upon the pension roll of the United States. (H.R. 945)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To place the name of Mahala A. Straight upon the pension rolls of the United States. (H.R. 373)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To place the name of Solomon Zachman on the pensions rolls. (H.R. 521)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Insert the parts printed in Italics. An Act Granting a pension to Madge K. Guthrie and Robert B. Guthrie. (H.R. 1930)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the letters in [brackets,] and insert what is printed in italics. An Act To place the name of Mahala [A.] M. Straight upon the pension rolls of the United States. (H.R. 373)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and [minor] child[ren] of Erastus Kinsel. (H.R. 775)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and [minor] child[ren] of John S. Phelps. (H.R. 673)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 603)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Increasing the pension of Nancy Weeks, widow of Francis Weeks, [a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve,] an ensign in the revolutionary war. (H.R. 453)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the words [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to John H. Finlay. (H.R. 770)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets,] and insert those is printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and [minor] child[ren] of William Craft. (H.R. 661)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and children of Andrew Holman. (H.R. 670)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the [minor] children of James Heatherly. (H.R. 677)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and [minor] child[ren] of Cornelius L. Rice. (H.R. 675)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and [minor] children of George R. Waters. (H.R. 662)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act [To place the name of] granting a pension to Solomon Zachman [on the pension rolls.] (H.R. 521)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to [Cyrus K. Wood, the legal representatives of] Cyrus D. Wood. (H.R. 663)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics An Act Granting a pension to George W. Locker. (H.R. 823)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics An Act Granting a pension to John Q. A. Keck, late a private in the third Missouri cavalry, (H.R. 236)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Ann Wilson. (H.R. 827)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Annie Vaughn. (H.R. 824)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Austin M. Partridge. (H.R. 524)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to David Howe. (H.R. 769)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to James S. Todd. (H.R. 523)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Jeremiah T. Hallett. (H.R. 525)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to John D. Lay. (H.R. 771)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to John Kelley. (H.R. 454)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to John W. Hughes. (H.R. 825)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Michael Mellon. (H.R. 826)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah E. Pickell. (H.R. 659)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Susan V. Berg. (H.R. 665)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Thomas Connolly. (H.R. 676)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to W. W. Cunningham. (H.R. 522)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to George F. Gorham, late a private in company B, twenty-ninth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. (H.R. 518)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Relating to pensions. (H.R. 1010)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with amendments, viz: Strike out the word in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Susan Ten Eyck Williamson. (H.R. 829)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the widow of Henry Kaneday. (H.R. 671)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting pension to the widow and [minor] children of Charles W. Wilcox. (H.R. 672)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act For the relief of the widow and [minor] children of Benjamin B. Naylor, late a pilot on the gunboat Patapsco. (H.R. 516)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the [minor] children of Charles Gouler. (H.R. 664)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Hampton Thompson. (H.R. 822)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Zephaniah Knapp, of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 776)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Almira Wyeth. (H.R. 411)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Henry H. Hunter. (H.R. 666)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the widow and [minor] children of Myron Wilklow. (H.R. 669)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with an amendments viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Robert McCrory. (H.R. 772)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with an amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Amos Witham. (H.R. 774)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with an amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to William H. McDonald. (H.R. 773)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Van Winkle, with and amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to the [minor] children of Pleasant Stoops. (H.R. 456)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act Amendatory of an act approved July twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled ''An act to authorize the construction of certain bridges, and to establish them as post roads.'' Whereas the Saint Louis and Illinois Bridge Company, organized under the laws of the ... (H.R. 631)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act For the relief of Edwin B. Hoag. (H.R. 281)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act For the relief of Jonathan Jessup, postmaster at York, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 867)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act Supplemental to an act approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled ''An act to establish certain post roads.'' (H.R. 725)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to authorize the construction of certain bridges and to establish them as post roads.'' (H.R. 593)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to provide for carrying the mails from the United States to foreign ports, and for other purposes,'' approved March twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. (H.R. 176)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To authorize the building of a railroad bridge across the Ohio river at Paducah, Kentucky. (H.R. 384)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Black river, in Lorain county, Ohio. (H.R. 1027)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To change a certain post route in the State of Illinois. (H.R. 74)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To establish a bridge across the East river, between the cities of Brooklyn and New York, in the State of New York, a post road. (H.R. 1804)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To establish and declare the railroad and bridges of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Company, as hereafter constructed, a post road, and for other purposes. (H.R. 296)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To establish certain post roads. (H.R. 2006)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To establish certain post roads. (H.R. 328)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To further amend the postal laws. (H.R. 1205)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To restrict and regulate the franking privilege. (H.R. 1549)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Committee discharged, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Morgan with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in Italics. An Act To establish a bridge across the East river, between the cities of Brooklyn and New ... (H.R. 1804)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To authorize the building of a railroad bridge across the Ohio river at Paducah, Kentucky. (H.R. 384)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To establish and declare the railroad and bridges of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Company, as hereafter constructed, a post road, and for other purposes. (H.R. 296)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert parts printed in italics. An Act Supplemental to an act approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled ''An act to establish certain post roads.'' (H.R. 725)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to provide for carrying the mails from the United States to foreign ports, and for other purposes,'' approved March ... (H.R. 176)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to authorize the construction of certain bridges and to establish them as post roads.'' (H.R. 593)

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. 2006)

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 restrict and regulate the franking privilege. (H.R. 1549)

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 those printed in italics. An Act To establish certain post roads. (H.R. 328)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey, with amendments. Recommitted to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To establish certain post roads. (H.R. 328)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Printing. An Act To provide stationery for Congress and the several departments, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1601)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act For the relief of the grantees of Ann D. Durding. Whereas Ann D. Durding, by her duly appointed attorney, attempted to locate the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-one, in township ninety-seven north, of range six west, in the district of lands ... (H.R. 910)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act For the relief of William MCGarrahan. (H.R. 65)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to confirm certain private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico.'' (H.R. 1345)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act To confirm certain private land claims in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 1204)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act To confirm certain private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 1344)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act To confirm the title to certain land to the pueblo of Santa Ana, in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 1343)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act To confirm to J. M. Hutchings and J. C. Lamon their pre-emption claims in the Yosemite valley, in the State of California. Whereas the government of the United States did, by act of Congress approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, cede to the State of ... (H.R. 1118)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Reported back, the further consideration postponed to first Tuesday of December next, after the morning hour, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pile, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm certain private land claims in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 1204)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands, An Act Amendatory of the homestead law. (H.R. 359)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Amendatory of an act entitled ''An act granting public lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of railroads in said State,'' approved June three, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. (H.R. 1052)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Amendatory of the act entitled ''An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,'' approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts amendatory thereof, approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and June twenty-one, eighteen ... (H.R. 934)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a patent to F. N. Blake for one hundred and sixty acres of land in Kansas. Whereas military bounty land warrant, number eighty-two thousand five hundred and seventy-eight, for one hundred and sixty acres was issued under ... (H.R. 1156)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Confirming title to Little Rock island, in the Mississippi river. Whereas, according to the official plat of the survey of the public land returned to the General Land Office by the surveyor general, a certain island, in the Mississippi river, known as Little Rock island, and situate ... (H.R. 394)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. 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. 2005)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Lucas and Dickinson counties, in the State of Iowa. (H.R. 170)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Samuel Tibbetts. (H.R. 396)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of settlers on the late Sioux Indian reservation, in the State of Minnesota. (H.R. 358)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Solomon Oliver. (H.R. 1588)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Thomas McLean. (H.R. 1033)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Granting the right of way to the Walla-Walla and Columbia River Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1041)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act In relation to islands in the Great Miami river. (H.R. 223)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,'' approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 1433)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To close the land system in certain States. (H.R. 1714)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To declare forfeited to the United States certain lands granted to aid in the construction of railroads in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, and for other purposes. (H.R. 267)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To extend the provisions of the homestead act to the orphan children of deceased soldiers who are under the age of twenty-one years. (H.R. 1192)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To grant certain islands to the State of Wisconsin as swamp lands, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1051)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To protect the rights of actual settlers upon the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 23)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To provide for the discontinuance of district land offices in certain cases. (H.R. 278)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To provide for the sale of certain lands and lots on the sea islands of Beaufort district, South Carolina, and for other purposes. (H.R. 907)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To regulate the disposition of lands that may be hereafter granted to aid in the construction of railways. (H.R. 767)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To revive and extend certain acts of Congress relative to land claims in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 237)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Pomeroy, with an amendment, viz: Insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making a grant of land to the State of Minnesota to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi river. (H.R. 554)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Pomeroy, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert that printed in italics. An Act In relation to islands in the Great Miami river. (H.R. 223)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Retrenchment. An Act To repeal ''An act to regulate the tenure of certain civil offices. (H.R. 1666)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Retrenchment. Reported by Mr. Edmunds with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in Italics. An Act To repeal an act to regulate the tenure of certain civil offices. (H.R. 1666)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Revision of Laws. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Revision of Laws. Mr. O'Neil, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,'' ... (H.R. 1510)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Reported back with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. A Bill To authorize the building of a military and postal railroad from Washington, District of Columbia, to ... (H.R. 621)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Mr. Thomas, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the building of a railroad from Washington city, District of Columbia, to connect with the North Central ... (H.R. 470)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Reported back, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Mr. Cook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for bringing suits in the courts of the United States against railroad corporations where portions of the line are in several ... (H.R. 1423)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To amend act of third March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, providing for the construction of certain wagon roads in Dakota Territory. (H.R. 650)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To amend an act changing the location of the capital of Montana Territory. (H.R. 100)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To create the office of surveyor general in the Territory of Utah, and establish a land office in said Territory, and extend the homestead and pre-emption laws over the same. (H.R. 202)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. Committee discharged and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Pomeroy with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To create the office of surveyor general in the Territory of Utah, and establish a land office ... (H.R. 202)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act For the relief of William B. Todd. (H.R. 503)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act For the relief of William Grant Powers (H.R. 1453)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act In relation to the pay of grand and petit jurors in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 480)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act authorizing the construction of a jail in and for the District of Columbia,'' approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 784)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To establish a policy court in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1627)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To incorporate the ''Washington Target-shooting Association,'' in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 344)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To incorporate the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington. (H.R. 161)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To incorporate the Connecticut Avenue and Park Railway Company, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 420)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To incorporate the Gruetli Verein, of Washington, District of Columbia. (H.R. 566)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To incorporate the National Hotel Company, of Washington city. (H.R. 366)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Committee discharged and referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Reported by Mr. Fessenden 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 authorizing the construction of a ... (H.R. 784)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Reported by Mr. Sumner, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To regulate the selection of officers in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 143)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. C. Washburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To divide the district of Wisconsin into two judicial districts. (H.R. 22)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Authorizing the admission in evidence of copies of certain papers, documents, and entries. (H.R. 1428)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Authorizing the remission of penalties in certain cases. (H.R. 1439)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Explanatory of the act entitled ''An act declaring the title to land warrants in certain cases.'' (H.R. 568)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the removal of certain disabilities from the persons therein named. (H.R. 1353)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the removal of certain disabilities from the persons therein named. (H.R. 1746)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the surrender of persons convicted of certain crimes. (H.R. 719)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act In addition to an act entitled ''An act to relieve from legal and political disabilities certain persons engaged in the late rebellion,'' approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 2008)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act In amendment of an act entitled ''An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,'' approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 1021)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Placing the Solicitor and assistant solicitors of the Court of Claims in the department of the Attorney General, and for other purposes. (H.R. 63)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Prescribing an oath of office to be taken by persons from whom legal disabilities shall have been removed. (H.R. 869)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Providing for an election in Virginia. (H.R. 1381)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Providing for an election in Virginia. (H.R. 1485)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Providing for holding a circuit court at the city of Erie, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 274)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases for the protection of officers and agents of the government, and for the better defence of the treasury against unlawful claims. (H.R. 1131)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Relating to the Supreme Court of the United States. (H.R. 861)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama have, in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled ''An act for the more ... (H.R. 1058)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend ''An act to divide the State of Illinois into two judicial districts,'' approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. (H.R. 347)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to create the eastern judicial district of the State of New York,'' approved February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. (H.R. 446)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to prescribed the mode of obtaining evidence in case of contested elections,'' approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. (H.R. 1558)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To amend the act passed March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled ''An act supplementary to 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,' passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to facilitate their restoration.'' (H.R. 214)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To authorize and require the administration of oaths in certain cases, and to punish perjury in connection therewith. (H.R. 90)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To define felonies and misdemeanors and regulate peremptory challenges. (H.R. 1987)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To extend the jurisdiction of probate courts and of justices of the peace in the Territories of Idaho and Montana. (H.R. 263)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To fix the time for holding the terms of the United States district court in Virginia. (H.R. 1370)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To preserve the purity of elections in the several Territories of the United States. (H.R. 1624)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To prevent and punish the unlawful use of public money and property. (H.R. 787)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for a temporary and provisional government for Alabama. (H.R. 970)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for holding terms of the United States district court for the western district of Missouri, at Saint Joseph and the city of Kansas, in said State. (H.R. 348)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To provide for the inauguration of State officers in Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama, and for the meeting of the legislatures of said States. (H.R. 1194)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To regulate and limit the admiralty jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States in certain cases. (H.R. 293)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To regulate the selection of juries for the several courts of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 105)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To relieve certain citizens of North Carolina of disabilities. (H.R. 1059)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 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. 1880)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To relieve from legal and political disabilities Simeon Corley, John Milledge, and Michael Hahn. (H.R. 1446)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To relieve William H. Bagley, of Wake county, North Carolina. (H.R. 1673)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To remove political disabilities from Roderick R. Butler, of Tennessee. Whereas R. R. Butler, representative elect from the first congressional district of Tennessee, performed honorable service in the army of the United States from September, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, till ... (H.R. 870)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To repeal an act entitled ''An act to retrocede the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, to the State of Virginia,'' and for other purposes. Whereas the Constitution of the United States provides that Congress ''shall exercise exclusive legislation in all cases ... (H.R. 2)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the naturalization laws of the United States. (H.R. 1585)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be printed, and motion to reconsider reference pending. Mr. J. M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the restoration of the late rebel States, and for other purposes. Whereas, since the organization of revolutionary State governments in the late ... (H.R. 214)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Miller, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Allowing a rehearing in patent cases before the district court of the United States for the District of Columbia, and to allow an appeal therefrom to the Supreme Court of the United States. (H.R. 913)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back from the Committee on the Judiciary without amendment, the committee discharged--referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws and ordered to be printed. Mr. Churchill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Concerning the naturalization of aliens. (H.R. 1274)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary, with the proposed amendment of Mr. Cavanaugh. Mr. Holbrook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the organic act of Idaho ... (H.R. 263)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Woodbridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Explanatory of an act entitled ''An act to regulate prize proceedings and the disposition of prize money, and for other ... (H.R. 501)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Churchill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To define felonies and misdemeanors, and to regulate peremptory challenges in the courts of the United States, and for ... (H.R. 1258)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Feelinghuysen, with an amendment, viz: Insert the part printed in italics. An Act To prevent and punish the unlawful use of public money and property. (H.R. 787)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Stewart with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act For the removal of certain disabilities from the persons therein named. (H.R. 1353)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Stewart with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in Italics. An Act For the removal of certain disabilities from the persons therein named. (H.R. 1746)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Stewart with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the names printed in Italics. 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. 1880)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Stewart, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act To relieve certain citizens of North Carolina of disabilities. (H.R. 1059)

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 part printed in italics. An Act To remove political disabilities from Roderick R. Butler, of Tennessee. [Whereas R. R. Butler, representative elect from the first congressional district of ... (H.R. 870)

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 amend ''An act to divide the State of Illinois into two judicial districts,'' approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.] For holding ... (H.R. 347)

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 Providing for an election in Virginia. (H.R. 1485)

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 those printed in italics. An Act Placing the Solicitor and assistant solicitors of the Court of Claims in the department of the Attorney General, and for other purposes. (H.R. 63)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull with amendments, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words printed in Italics. An Act Explanatory of the act entitled ''An act declaring the title to land warrants in certain cases.'' (H.R. 568)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull with amendments. Recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull, with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act To remove political disabilities from Roderick R. Butler, of Tennessee. ... (H.R. 870)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull with an amendment, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act To amend the act passed March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled ''An act supplementary to 'An act to provide for the more efficient ... (H.R. 214)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull with an 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 prescribe the mode of obtaining evidence in case of contested elections,'' approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 1558)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull, with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the admission in evidence of copies of certain papers, documents, and entries. (H.R. 1428)

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 admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and [Alabama] Florida to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of North ... (H.R. 1058)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull, with amendments, viz: Strike out the word in [brackets] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Prescribing an oath of office to be taken by persons from whom legal disabilities have been removed. (H.R. 869)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Trumbull, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets] and insert the part printed in italics. An Act Relating to the Supreme Court of the United States. (H.R. 861)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported from the said committee without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the said committee. Mr. James F. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William McGarrahan. (H.R. 65)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. An Act Extending the time for the completion of the Dubuque and Sioux City railroad. (H.R. 208)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. An Act Restoring lands to market along the line of the Pacific railroads and branches. (H.R. 660)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. Mr. Mallory, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Portland, Oregon, to connect with the ... (H.R. 459)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. Reported by Mr. Edmunds with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. Extending the time for the completion of the Dubuque and Sioux City railroad. (H.R. 208)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. An Act To establish certain post roads. (H.R. 1427)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr. Benjamin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Establishing certain post routes in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 1587)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr. Newcomb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish certain post routes in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 1583)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Reported back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, ordered to be printed, and committed to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Motion to reconsider pending. Mr. Farnsworth, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restrict and regulate the ... (H.R. 1549)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Ramsey with amendments, viz: Strike out the part in [brackets and insert the parts printed in Italics. An Act For the relief of Luther McNeal, late postmaster at Lancaster, Erie county, New York. (H.R. 860)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. An Act To authorize adjudication of claim number forty-five, in the report of the surveyor general of the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 1075)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the occupation of public lands by freedmen under the homestead act. (H.R. 122)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the limits of certain land grants in Iowa and Minnesota. (H.R. 1064)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. 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. 960)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Reported back with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Mr. Holbrook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill [To increase the compensation of registers and ... (H.R. 652)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Reported from the said committee with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the said committee. Mr. Johnson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore to certain parties their rights under the treaties and laws of the United States. (H.R. 923)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Territories. Mr. James M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide a temporary government for the Territory of Alaska. (H.R. 1670)

Read twice referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to the refining of gold and silver bullion at the mint of the United States and branches. (H.R. 1758)

Read twice referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Constituting eight hours a day's work for all mechanics and laborers employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States. (H.R. 37)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to damages done to loyal men, and for other purposes. Whereas it is due to justice, and as an example to future times, that some proper punishment should be inflicted on the people who ... (H.R. 29)

Read twice, and recommitted to the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, from the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of To provide for the sale of certain lands and lots on the sea islands of Beaufort district, South Carolina, and for other purposes. (H.R. 457)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act To prevent the payment of certain claims. (H.R. 234)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Regulating the reports of national banking associations. (H.R. 1881)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of N. A. Shuttleworth, of Harrison county, West Virginia. (H.R. 284)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. Williams, 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 Union. (H.R. 11)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To provide for an American line of mail and emigrant passenger steamships between New York and one or more European ports. (H.R. 939)

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 further amend the postal laws. (H.R. 1205)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To cede to the State of Ohio the unsold lands in the Virginia military district, in said State. (H.R. 1157)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To incorporate ''The Masonic Mutual Relief Association of the District of Columbia.'' (H.R. 1758)

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. Archer, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles W. Whitney. (H.R. 1964)

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. Pike, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported for following bill: A Bill For the payment of Richard M. Green for the use of his patent by the government. (H.R. 1965)

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. Stokes, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain A. G. Olivar. (H.R. 1366)

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. W. B. Washburn, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of L. Merchant and Company, and Peter Rosecrantz. (H.R. 1320)

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 Monday next, after the morning hour. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the execution ... (H.R. 1045)

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-morrow after the morning hour. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the execution of the ... (H.R. 320)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, from the committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill. A Bill Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian ... (H.R. 1738)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Prohibiting the rendering of any service or furnishing supplies in excess of legal appropriations; making the same a penal offence, and debarring ... (H.R. 1910)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cary, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a uniform currency, provide for the management and liquidation of the national debt, and for other purposes. (H.R. 542)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cook, from the Select Committee on the Niagara Ship Canal, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a ship canal around the Falls of Niagara. Whereas the exposed and unprotected condition of our extended ... (H.R. 1202)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. D. R. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize taxation and reduce the interest on the public debt. (H.R. 1425)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 1564)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of salaries and contingent expenses of the Patent Office for January and February, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1809)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hooper, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize an internal tax on the interest of the bonds and other securities of the United States. (H.R. 1350)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moorhead, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To increase the revenue from duties on imports, and tending to equalize exports and imports. (H.R. 1349)

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 ordered to be printed. Mr. Spalding, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money in support of benevolent institutions and in aid of charities in the District of Columbia, ... (H.R. 859)

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 Monday, February 3d, after the morning hour, and from day to day till disposed of. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the ... (H.R. 599)

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-morrow after the morning hour. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making partial appropriations for the expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling ... (H.R. 819)

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 February 24, and from day to day until disposed of, after the morning hour. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of invalid ... (H.R. 678)

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 Monday next after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service ... (H.R. 1599)

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 Monday next, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Blaine, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the army ... (H.R. 1803)

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 the 3d of March, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Blaine, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the service of the ... (H.R. 832)

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 Thursday, after the morning hour, and from day to day till disposed of. Mr. Stevens, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations and to supply deficiencies in ... (H.R. 1341)

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 Thursday, the 13th February, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Blaine, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the army for the ... (H.R. 658)

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-morrow after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the legislative, ... (H.R. 1673)

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-morrow after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the ... (H.R. 1596)

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-morrow after the morning hour. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ... (H.R. 818)

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-morrow, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of, except Saturday of this week. A Bill Making appropriations and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the ... (H.R. 1911)

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. Beaman, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the service of the Post ... (H.R. 1808)

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 Wednesday, the 12th of February, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making ... (H.R. 718)

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 to-morrow after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Making appropriations for the ... (H.R. 1570)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made the special order for to-morrow, and from day to day until disposed of Mr. Spalding, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the ... (H.R. 2007)

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 the 18th of February, after the morning hour, and from day to day till disposed of. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the ... (H.R. 601)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations (in part) for the expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations. (H.R. 1853)

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. Windom, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Dent, Vantine and Company for provisions furnished to the Indians in California during the years anno Domini eighteen ... (H.R. 1374)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations of money to carry into effect the treaty with Russia, of March thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 1096)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Saturday, May 16, and from day to day, after the morning hour. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the ... (H.R. 1073)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and made a special order for Monday, the 3d instant, after the morning hour, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations ... (H.R. 605)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for to-morrow, and from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill For the admission of the State of Alabama. Whereas the people of Alabama, in pursuance of the provisions of an act of Congress entitled ''An ... (H.R. 904)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and made a special order for Wednesday next, the 13th, after the morning hour, and from day to day. Mr. Stevens, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill To admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama, to representation in Congress. Whereas ... (H.R. 1058)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means Mr. Logan, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making certain regulations as to the public debt. (H.R. 1416)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means Mr. Schenck, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce into one act and to amend the laws relating to internal taxes. (H.R. 1060)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means, with leave to report at any time. Mr. Schenck, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To exempt certain manufactures from internal tax. (H.R. 900)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Schenk, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To suspend further reduction of the currency. (H.R. 213)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means. Ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in Italics. Mr. Schenck, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce into one act and to amend the laws relating to internal taxes. (H.R. 1060)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seventy. (H.R. 1590)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other ... (H.R. 602)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 515)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Mr. Hooper, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported the following bill: A Bill Regulating the reports of the national banking association. (H.R. 1881)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Eggleston, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the appraisement and inspection of imports in certain cases, and for other purposes. (H.R. 788)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill 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. 1372)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. O'Neil, from the Committee on To amend an act entitled ''An act to regulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels, and for other purposes.'' (H.R. 1100)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. O'Neill, 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, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1100)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back with amendment, ordered to be printed, postponed until the second Wednesday in June, and made a special order after H.R. 929. Strike out all in [brackets] and insert all in italics. Mr. O'Neill, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: ... (H.R. 1100)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Concerning the rights a American citizens in foreign states. (H.R. 584)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Concerning the rights of American citizens in foreign states. Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of ... (H.R. 768)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Ordered to be printed as amended with proposed amendments, as follows. Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Concerning the rights of American citizens in foreign states. (H.R. 584)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs. Mr. Eliot, from the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To continue the Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees, and for other purposes. (H.R. 598)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. Perham, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Relaingt to the operations of the pension laws, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1916)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. Perham, on leave, reported the following bill: A Bill Relating to pensions. (H.R. 1010)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Manufactures. Mr. Morrell, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill To modify the warehousing system, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1308)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Garfield, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To declare the meaning of the several acts in relation to retired officers of the army. (H.R. 1378)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Garfield, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a national system of military education. (H.R. 905)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Garfield, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce and fix the military peace establishment. (H.R. 1377)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. H. D. Washburn, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To equalize the bounties of soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the late war for the Union. (H.R. 940)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back and amended, ordered to be printed as amended, and also print amendments pending and amendments to be proposed. Mr. Garfield, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce and fix the military peace ... (H.R. 1377)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs; motion to reconsider motion to recommit pending. Mr. H. D. Washburn, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,'' approved May ... (H.R. 1433)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Mines and Mining. Mr. D. R. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Sutro tunnel, in the State of Nevada. Whereas our mines of the precious metals are unsurpassed in richness, and can, with proper development, be made speedily to ... (H.R. 1153)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Pike, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend certain acts in relation to the navy and marine corps. (H.R. 941)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Ordnance. Mr. Schenck, from the Committee on Ordnance, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Norman Wiard. (H.R. 1680)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Mr. Covode, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act authorizing the construction of a jail in and for the District of Columbia,'' approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen ... (H.R. 784)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Beaman, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of two additional States out of the territory of the State of Texas, and for other purposes. Whereas the people of the State of Texas desire to erect ... (H.R. 1203)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Beck, from the Committee on Reconstruction, 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. 1988)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Bingham, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill To relieve William H. Holden and others from disabilities. (H.R. 778)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Boutwell, from the Committee on Reconstruction, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the organization of a provisional government for the State of Mississippi. (H.R. 1968)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Farnsworth, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill To admit the State of Alabama to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of Alabama, in pursuance of the provisions of an act of Congress entitled ''An act for the ... (H.R. 935)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Paine, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill To admit the State of South Carolina to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of South Carolina, in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled ''An act for the more ... (H.R. 1044)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Stevens, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill To admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of Arkansas, in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled ''An act for the more efficient ... (H.R. 1039)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Stevens, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of not more than two additional States out of the territory of the State of Texas, and for other purposes. Whereas the people of the State of Texas ... (H.R. 1351)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction. Reported back with amendments. Mr. Bingham submitted additional amendments, ordered to be printed as amended, and recommitted to the said committee with instructions to report the same back with a brief statement, in each case, of the reasons of the committee for ... (H.R. 778)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Revision of Laws. Mr. Jenckes, from Committee on Revision of Laws, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish an uniform rule of naturalization throughout the United States. (H.R. 1970)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and of the War of 1812. Mr. Loan, from the Committee on Revolutionary and of the War of 1812, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 603)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Mr. Cake, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the building of a railroad from Washington city, District of Columbia, to the Schuylkill river, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 980)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Motion to reconsider order of recommitment pending. Mr. Boutwell, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To secure equal privileges and immunities to citizens of the United States, and to enforce the provisions of article fourteen ... (H.R. 1667)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Library. Mr. Baldwin, from the Committee on the Library, reported 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 ... (H.R. 779)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to the Territory of Dakota in aid of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company, authorizing said company to extend said road through the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 1154)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Julian, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the act entitled ''An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,'' approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts ... (H.R. 934)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Julian, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To declare forfeited to the United States certain lands granted to aid in the construction of railroads in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, and ... (H.R. 267)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Julian, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To prevent the further sale of the public lands of the United States, except as provided for in the pre-emption and homestead laws, and the laws for disposing of town sites, ... (H.R. 370)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm to J. M. Hutchings and J. C. Lamon their pre-emption claims in the Yosemite valley, in the State of California. Whereas the government of the United States did by act of Congress approved ... (H.R. 1118)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Revisal of the Laws. Mr. Jenckes, from the Committee on the Revisal of the Laws, reported the following bill: A Bill In amendment of an act entitled ''An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,'' approved March two, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1021)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Select Committee on Education; motion to reconsider the motion to recommit pending. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, from the Select Committee on Education, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a system of common schools for the District of Columbia. Whereas the capital of a great nation, ... (H.R. 1382)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. J. F. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide a remedy for the loss or destruction of judgment records or decrees appertaining to proceedings in the United States courts. Whereas during the late war the records of judgments and decrees ... (H.R. 944)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Hopkins, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of an act entitled ''An act granting public lands to the State of Wisconsin, to aid in the construction of railroads in said State,'' approved June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. (H.R. 1052)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in ascertaining the value of certain public lands in Story county, in the State of Nevada. Whereas our public lands contain mines of the precious metals which are unsurpassed in richness, and can ... (H.R. 1379)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and the further consideration postponed to January 6, after the morning hour. Mr. H. D. Washburn, from the select committee on soldiers' bounties, reported the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the payment of soldiers' bounties, under act of eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 331)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and the further consideration postponed to the second Tuesday of December next, after the morning hour. Mr. Lynch, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the gradual resumption of specie payments. (H.R. 1364)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means; a motion to reconsider recommitment pending; ordered to be printed. Mr. Hooper, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To prohibit the further increase of the public debt, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1882)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eggleston, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To take possession of the bar known as Pass a L'Outre at the entrance to the Mississippi river, and to construct a canal without any expense to the government. (H.R. 1102)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed Mr. Cullom, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the encouragement of emigration to the United States. (H.R. 1355)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs, ordered to be printed, and set apart for consideration on Friday evening next. Mr. Garfield, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States. (H.R. 1373)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, from the Committee on Reconstruction, 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. 1880)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of certain disabilities from the persons therein named. (H.R. 1353)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hopkins, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the disposition of lands that may be hereafter granted to aid in the construction of railways. (H.R. 767)

Read twice, referred to a Select Committee of five members, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a system of common schools for the District of Columbia. Whereas the capital of a great nation, though a political necessity, is generally a social evil; and whereas it is ... (H.R. 140)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the better protection of the rights of women in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1761)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the University for the Blind in the District of Columbia. Whereas an effort has been put forth to establish a national institution to advance the educational interest of the ... (H.R. 1563)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a commission of charities for the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1362)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingersoll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the Alexandria canal. Whereas by an act of Congress, on the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, the Alexandria Canal Company was incorporated, and authorized, and ... (H.R. 892)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingersoll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the pavement of a portion of Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth street west with the Nicholson pavement. (H.R. 93)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingersoll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Washington and Georgetown Canal and Sewerage Company. (H.R. 483)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the office of superintendent and inspector of sewers, carriage ways, foot ways, and new buildings, created by ordinance of the corporation, and approved June tenth, eighteen ... (H.R. 136)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Further to extend the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1530)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Concerning the property of married women in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 91)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Washington and Norfolk Mail Steamboat Company. (H.R. 734)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Welker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Further to amend the law of the District of Columbia in relation to judicial proceedings therein, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1009)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Welker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide a criminal code for the District of Columbia. (H.R. 45)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Welker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide a system of education for the public schools of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 47)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Welker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the removal of the Centre market, in the city of Washington, and for the erection of a market building in a more suitable locality. (H.R. 1628)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with a substitute, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Concerning the property of married women in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 91)

Read twice, referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments and ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts printed in Italics. Mr. Welker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a police court for the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1627)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cavanaugh, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the appointment of three commissioners to examine the claim of the Territory of Montana for volunteers during the late Indian war, and to report upon the same. (H.R. 1443)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the better establishment of certain claims. (H.R. 310)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the National Gold and Silver Mining Company of Washington, District of Columbia. (H.R. 1862)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to the reduction of the currency. (H.R. 89)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal part of an act therein named. (H.R. 87)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the repeal of internal imposed by existing laws on cotton and the productions of mechanical and manufacturing industry. (H.R. 156)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Mr. Miller, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the appointment of revenue officers. (H.R. 115)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the issue of a national currency, to assurance its stability and elasticity, lessen the interest on the public debt, and reduce the rate of interest. (H.R. 1669)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beaman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate trade on our northern frontier, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1190)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Benton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To make partial compensation for expenses incurred in the prosecution of the war by providing for the taxation of national bonds. Whereas certain war expenses have been necessarily incurred by the loyal ... (H.R. 527)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boutwell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the public debt and the payment of interest thereon. (H.R. 609)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boyden, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes, approved July twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. (H.R. 1697)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To equalize taxation and reduce the interest on the public debt. (H.R. 1380)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Hubbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the resumption of specie payments. (H.R. 307)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Callis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a loan of five millions of the five per centum bonds of the United States to the New Orleans and Selma Railroad Campany and Immigration Association. (H.R. 1976)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Churchill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the duties on lumber, timber, wood, and manufactures of wood. (H.R. 714)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cullom, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the internal revenue laws. (H.R. 965)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. D. R. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in ascertaining the value of public lands containing mineral lodes, and for the endowment of a national school of mines. Whereas our public lands contain mines of the precious metals which are ... (H.R. 1657)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dockery, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To refund certain taxes illegally collected in the Internal Revenue department, and for other purposes. Whereas in accordance with the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States, and with the ... (H.R. 1820)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Pledging the faith of the United States to the payment in coin of certain public securities, known as five-twenty bonds. (H.R. 153)

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 legalize gold contracts. (H.R. 1521)

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 legalize gold contracts. (H.R. 688)

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 a gradual return to specie payments. (H.R. 687)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Griswold, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To diminish the fluctuations in gold and to provide for a return to specie payments. (H.R. 1755)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Heaton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the eighth section of the act entitled ''An act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes,'' approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1800)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the public debt. (H.R. 843)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hunter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the funding of the national debt, and for other purposes. (H.R. 386)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hunter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide internal revenue to support the government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes. (H.R. 321)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingersoll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing an additional issue of legal-tender notes to the amount of forty-five millions of dollars, and for other purposes. (H.R. 585)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingersoll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to 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, ... (H.R. 1848)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingersoll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit further reduction of the currency. (H.R. 147)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingersoll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit the sale of coin on behalf of the United States, and to provide for the redemption of the United States legal-tender notes in coin at par. (H.R. 1477)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelsey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for funding and paying the national debt, and for taxing the interest-bearing bonds hereafter issued by the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1764)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelsey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for funding the national debt, and for taxing the interest-bearing bonds hereafter issued by the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1287)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, on leave, introduced the following bill; A Bill Providing for the payment of the national debt and for the reduction of the rate of interest thereon. (H.R. 1865)

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 allow a drawback upon articles used in the construction of vessels, and for other purposes. (H.R. 149)

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 against undue expansions and contractions of the currency. (H.R. 1461)

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 give uniformity to the currency. (H.R. 1475)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Miller, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Further supplementary to ''An act to provide internal revenue to support the government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes.'' Whereas, under existing laws, manufacturers of liquors ... (H.R. 159)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moorhead, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the better security of life and property from the dangers of coal oil, crude petroleum, and their products, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1810)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the collector of customs at Yorktown, Virginia, and abolishing the office of deputy collector at the same place. (H.R. 683)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a reserve of gold in the treasury and the national banks, and for other purposes. (H.R. 75)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal so much of ''An act to provide internal revenue to support the government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1864,'' and all acts amendatory thereof as ... (H.R. 172)

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 For retiring United States notes, and for a free system of national banking. (H.R. 681)

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 Providing for the issue of United States bonds, for retiring United States notes, and for a, free system of national banking. (H.R. 1683)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Raum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the various acts relating to the bonding of imported goods and to provide for the more speedy payment of duties thereon. (H.R. 1162)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the exportation of distilled spirits in bond, and for other purposes. (H.R. 713)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To strengthen the public credit and relating to contracts for the payment of coin. (H.R. 1744)

Read twice, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. Williams, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for funding the interest-bearing debt of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 210)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burleigh, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In regard to the expenditure of appropriations for the several Indian tribes. (H.R. 1981)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cullom, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in defence of the United States,'' approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 985)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomas, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent an appropriation therein mentioned from lapsing because of delay in the adjustment. (H.R. 1121)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. 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,'' and for other purposes. (H.R. 71)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. Mr. Noell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For abolishing national banks, redeeming the bank notes with legal tenders, and making the legal tender notes receivable for duties on imports. (H.R. 119)

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 Supplemental to 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 ... (H.R. 1983)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barnes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent banks of issue from paying interest upon deposits. (H.R. 1692)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barnes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent loaning money upon United States legal-tender notes. (H.R. 1691)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Blaine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to taxing shares in national banks. (H.R. 512)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Broomall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill to fix the value of legal tender notes, and to provide for their redemption. (H.R. 157)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the national currency, and for other purposes. (H.R. 623)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Hubbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to 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 ... (H.R. 1980)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cook, 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 stocks, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof,'' approved February ... (H.R. 547)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hunter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the taxing of all that species of currency known as greenbacks, compound interest notes, and national bank currency by the various States and Territories of the United States, and for ... (H.R. 194)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingersoll, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to 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, ... (H.R. 1495)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Judd, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the method of converting gold into currency, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1833)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Loughridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the taxation of United States notes, treasury notes, national currency, and fractional notes for State and municipal purposes. (H.R. 639)

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. 241)

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. 240)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perham, 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. 148)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section forty-one of an act to provide a national currency, passed June three, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. (H.R. 150)

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 authorize the issue of treasury notes, not bearing interest, to be used in providing a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the national debt. (H.R. 44)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Selye, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act to provide a national currency. (H.R. 871)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tift, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the laws relating to banking, to regulate the currency, to provide a sinking fund for the payment of the public debt, and for other purposes. (H.R. 2000)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to printed. Mr. Barnes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the exchange of gold for United States demand notes, and to prohibit the sale of gold. (H.R. 1887)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Prince, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For extending to certain citizens of certain States the privileges of an act entitled ''An act making appropriations, and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the ... (H.R. 1700)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Whittemore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing payment to be made for certain services rendered to the United States in the late insurrectionary States. (H.R. 1891)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To convert the branch mint of the United States, at Denver, Colorado, into an assay office. (H.R. 1757)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the coinage of nickel-copper pieces of five cents and under. (H.R. 968)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a uniform system of small coins. (H.R. 781)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an assay office at Helena, in the Territory of Montana. (H.R. 1756)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote the establishment of an international metrical system of coinage. Whereas certain nations of Europe have adopted and have proposed to the rest of the world a coinage which was ... (H.R. 1445)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the alienation to foreigners of grants or privileges from the United States. (H.R. 1687)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clift, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to improve the navigation of the Savannah river. (H.R. 1769)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure the navigation of the Mississippi river above the falls of Saint Anthony. (H.R. 1842)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eggleston, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the completion of the Louisville and Portland canal around the falls of the Ohio river at Louisville, Kentucky. (H.R. 835)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1046)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Prohibiting the carriage as freight in passenger vessels of nitroglycerine, petroleum, and other explosive substances. (H.R. 1554)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the laws relating to the registry of vessels. (H.R. 1571)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To indemnify owners of vessels for property sacrificed to save human life at sea, and for other purposes. (H.R. 875)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the collection of illegal imposts under color of State authority. (H.R. 1817)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for cases of vacancy in the office of collector of the customs, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1589)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the examination of masters and mates in the merchant service, and to encourage the establishment of public marine schools. (H.R. 947)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate and protect the fur seal trade at the islands of Saint Paul's and Saint George, in the Territory of Alaska. (H.R. 1603)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate and protect the fur seal trade at the islands of Saint Paul's and Saint George, in the Territory of Alaska. (H.R. 1688)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate and protect the fur seal trade at the islands of Saint Paul's and Saint George, in the Territory of Alaska. (H.R. 1885)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled ''An act to regulate the disposition of fines, penalties, and forfeitures received under the laws relating to the ... (H.R. 735)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the better protection of emigrants and passengers. (H.R. 999)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain harbors in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1476)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain harbors in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 636)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To re-establish the boundaries of the collection districts of Michigan and Michilimackinac, and to change the names of the collection districts of Michilimackinac and Port Huron. (H.R. 198)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Grover, on leave, introduced the following bill. A Bill To encourage commerce and internal trade by facilitating direct importations. (H.R. 953)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Loughridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the charges and compensation of express companies in connection with commerce between the States. (H.R. 638)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lynch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To allow a drawback upon articles used in the construction of vessels. (H.R. 1286)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide two local inspectors of steamboats at Evansville, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 797)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to fishing licenses and the payment of the tonnage tax. (H.R. 790)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote American commerce. (H.R. 929)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pile, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the better security of life and property and promoting commerce on the navigable waters flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. (H.R. 166)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Prince, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate The Southern Express Company. (H.R. 1794)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Raum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the erection of a marine hospital at Cairo, Illinois. (H.R. 931)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Robinson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the improvement of the harbor of New York, by removing obstructions therefrom, and to secure the erection of substantial piers and docks therein. (H.R. 1604)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Robinson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove obstructions from the East river, at Hell Gate, in the harbor of New York. Whereas the appropriations of eighty-five thousand dollars made heretofore, at the last session of Congress, has proved ... (H.R. 1503)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam,'' and for other purposes. (H.R. 858)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clever, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate an educational university, with male and female departments, in Santa Fe, the capital of the Territory of New Mexico. Whereas Congress has recently passed an act prohibiting the ... (H.R. 1730)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Election Frauds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ward, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Fixing the time for the election of Representatives in Congress, to amend the naturalization laws, and to detect fraudulent naturalization papers. Whereas it is expedient for Congress to exercise the power ... (H.R. 1886)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Elections, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To alter the laws of Ohio as to the manner of electing representatives in Congress. Whereas, by the constitution of the State of Ohio, persons of African descent, but having a preponderance of white blood, ... (H.R. 1185)

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 appointment of a financial agent of the United States in foreign countries. (H.R. 1663)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish, under the direction of the Secretary of State, agencies in Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, and Norway, for the promotion of emigration to the United States. Whereas the United States have ... (H.R. 1139)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanders, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an unpaid immigration agency at Liverpool, Glasgow, and Dublin, in Great Britain and Ireland. (H.R. 1145)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jenckes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Concerning American citizenship, and the protection due to American citizens in foreign states. (H.R. 611)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Robinson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an uniform rule of naturalization. (H.R. 615)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to freedmen's hospitals. (H.R. 1502)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Loan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide levees to secure the lowlands of Arkansas and Missouri from inundation, and to encourage the settlement thereof. Whereas the Memphis and Saint Louis Railroad Company, (a corporation created by ... (H.R. 745)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale of certain lands and lots on the sea islands of Beaufort district, South Carolina, and for other purposes. (H.R. 173)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Central Indian Railroad Company in the Indian territory. (H.R. 1653)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To create a Department of Indian Affairs, and to provide for the consolidation, civilization, and government of the Indian tribes. (H.R. 1795)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. T. Van Horn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the consolidation of the Indian tribes, and to organize a system of government in the Indian territory. (H.R. 367)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a commission to investigate claims arising from Indian depredations. (H.R. 705)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Reported back without amendment, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Mr. Windom, 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. 1195)

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 for the payment of back pensions in cases where the persons entitled thereto have been infants or insane, and without guardians, during the period in which such persons were without guardians. (H.R. 1005)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. D. Washburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions from the date of discharge, and giving pay to pensioners employed in civil service prior to act of June six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (H.R. 16)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Miller, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the provisions of the act of July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, relating to the naturalization of soldiers, to those who enlisted in the naval and marine service of the United ... (H.R. 616)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Nunn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Further extending the provisions of the pension laws. (H.R. 473)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To construe an act entitled ''An act supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions,'' approved June six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Whereas it is provided in the first section of an act ... (H.R. 1108)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the operations of the pension laws, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1682)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Duhigg. (H.R. 218)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments, which were agreed to; sundry other amendments agreed to. Ordered to be printed as amended, with pending amendments, and recommitted to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. Perham, on leave, introduced the following bill: Relating ... (H.R. 1682)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Manufactures, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To modify the warehousing system, and for other purposes. (H.R. 844)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Welker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to deserters from the army and navy of the United States. (H.R. 117)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Motion to reconsider reference pending. Motion to reconsider agreed to; motion to refer withdrawn, and a substitute for the bill adopted. Ordered, That the bill as amended, together with the pending amendments, be printed, and the bill made a special order for ... (H.R. 108)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Motion to reconsider the reference pending. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the granting of honorable discharges to certain soldiers and sailors of the army and navy. (H.R. 125)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Arnell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the payment of bounties to colored soldiers. (H.R. 1709)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the twelfth and thirteenth sections of an act entitled ''An act making appropriations for sundry civil expense of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 242)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Hubbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of company A, independent exempts, West Virginia volunteer infantry. (H.R. 887)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dodge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act of April ten, eighteen hundred and six, for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States. (H.R. 66)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. G. F. Miller, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Major James B. Thompson, of Perrysville, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, who was first lieutenant and subsequently captain of company F, one hundred and ninetieth regiment ... (H.R. 17)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to officers of the army dismissed or cashiered by sentence of a general court martial. (H.R. 201)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the National Lincoln Monument Association, at Springfield, Illinois, damaged and captured ordnance. (H.R. 1831)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate the settlement of the accounts of paymasters of the army. (H.R. 866)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the number of brigadier generals in the army. (H.R. 1708)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Garfield, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Department of War. (H.R. 1152)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. D. Washburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend section twenty-five, chapter one hundred and sixty-two, second session twenty-fifth Congress, approved July five, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 340)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to additional bounty. (H.R. 165)

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 the twelfth section of the soldiers' bounty law, contained in ''An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 341)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Koontz, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the act of twenty-eighth July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, granting bounties to soldiers. (H.R. 1890)

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 To increase and fix the Subsistence department of the army of the United States. (H.R. 211)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Marvin, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of a railroad for military and postal purposes through the wilderness of northern New York, from Schenectady to the Saint Lawrence river, and thus render more perfect the ... (H.R. 1288)

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 provide for officers and soldiers not mustered into the service (H.R. 312)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the payment of bounties to persons who were rejected as volunteers and who were immediately afterwards drafted and held to service. (H.R. 158)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the value of extra rations to which army officers may be entitled. (H.R. 1889)

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. 1028)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To construe the law granting additional bounties. (H.R. 1123)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Phelps, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the reorganization of the United States colored troops, their instruction and colonization. (H.R. 1105)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pile, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the sale of the arsenal grounds at Saint Louisland Liberty, Missouri, and for other purposes. (H.R. 451)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Giving a bounty to soldiers drafted into the army of the United States. (H.R. 491)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal section two of an act passed February thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled ''An act making an appropriation for completing the defences of Washington, and for other purposes.'' (H.R. 1685)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Robertson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reimburse the State of New York for moneys expended for the United States in enrolling, equipping, and provisioning volunteer forces to aid in suppressing the rebellion. (H.R. 135)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Robinson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a certain right of way to the Hudson River West Shore Railroad Company. (H.R. 155)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river upon the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, and to provide for the reduction of said reservation. (H.R. 400)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix and equalize the pay of officers and to establish the pay of enlisted soldiers of the army. (H.R. 839)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To further regulate brevets in the army. (H.R. 1471)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the fees of claim agents and attorneys, and for other purposes. (H.R. 51)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the twelfth section of an act approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled ''An act to define the pay and emoluments of certain officers of the army, and for other ... (H.R. 52)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To restore the Bureau for Indian Affairs to the War Department. (H.R. 146)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Trowbridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the sale of a portion of the Fort Gratiot military reservation, in St. Clair county, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 550)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To give construction to the act of June twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, increasing the pay of soldiers of the army, and to the act of March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, ... (H.R. 88)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, ordered to be printed. Motion to reconsider, reference pending. Mr. J. M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain volunteer soldiers and sailors therein designated. Whereas, a large number of men who voluntarily enlisted in the service of the United ... (H.R. 108)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chanler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a national school of science. (H.R. 43)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Banks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the regulation of labor in the navy yards of the United States, and the compensation thereof. (H.R. 936)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Hubbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to establish and equalize the grades of line officers of the United States navy,'' approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 805)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Concerning the solicitor and naval judge advocate general. (H.R. 841)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish the rank of pay-officers in the navy. (H.R. 1547)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. A. Johnson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote the efficiency of the American commercial marine, to provide for the orphans of soldiers and sailors killed in battle or deceased in the service of the United States, and to enlarge the ... (H.R. 642)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Concerning the promotion of officers who have been restored to the active list in the United States navy. (H.R. 196)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal ''An act concerning the registering and recording of ships,'' approved December thirty-first, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1285)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making further provision for widows and heirs of officers of the navy, and for establishing naval life insurance. (H.R. 187)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to, and explanatory of certain acts of Congress relating to officers of the navy. (H.R. 304)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schenck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To abolish the office of solicitor and naval judge advocate, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1430)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the rank of the medical staff of the navy. (H.R. 1602)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chanler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent infringements and frauds upon patents, and for other purposes. (H.R. 42)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize Charles Grafton Page to apply for and receive a patent. (H.R. 102)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. G. F. Miller, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to a site for an Executive Mansion. (H.R. 1574)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peters, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the pavement of Pennsylvania avenue. (H.R. 1884)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shanks, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To distribute the number and rank of government employees among the several districts and Territories. (H.R. 1711)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. A. W. Hubbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the time for the completion of the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad. (H.R. 208)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. A. W. Hubbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act for a grant of lands to the State of Iowa in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of a railroad in said State,'' approved May twelve, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 295)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making a grant of land to the Territory of Dakota, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of a certain railroad in said Territory. (H.R. 356)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Higby, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Terminal Central Pacific Railway Company. (H.R. 174)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holbrook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Union Pacific railroad to Idaho, Montana, Portland, and Puget Sound. (H.R. 408)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the pre-emption laws and for other purposes. (H.R. 164)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the pre-emption laws, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1640)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction and ordered to be printed. Mr. Judd, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enforce obedience to the act Congress entitled ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States.'' (H.R. 118)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. F. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enforce the laws of the United States in the State of Georgia. (H.R. 1546)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the holding of an election in Mississippi, and for other purposes. Whereas the people of Mississippi, at an election held in said State from the twenty-first day of June to the fourth day of ... (H.R. 1860)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To admit the State of Mississippi to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of Mississippi have, in pursuance of an act entitled ''An act for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' ... (H.R. 1706)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Blackburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain persons therein named from all legal and political disabilities imposed by the amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America known as the fourteenth article, and to ... (H.R. 1995)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the election of electors for President and Vice President of the United States in the States to be formed out of the territory included within the late Confederate States, except Tennessee, ... (H.R. 142)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the relief from disabilities of certain persons who have been engaged in rebellion. (H.R. 1291)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Further to extend and apply the provisions of the ''Act for the disposal of the public lands for homestead actual settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida,'' ... (H.R. 124)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mullins, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove unconstitutional office-holders and to punish such as violate the same. (H.R. 1636)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Norris, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to provide an oath of office, and for other purposes,'' approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 1915)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the inauguration of State of officers in Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama, and for the meeting of the legislatures of said States. (H.R. 1194)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To relieve certain citizens of Mississippi of disabilities. (H.R. 1137)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pierce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the representation in Congress of the two-fifths of such persons as heretofore have been held in slavery in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and ... (H.R. 1774)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Shellabarger, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the manner of applying to Congress for the removal of the political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. (H.R. 1752)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jenckes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the civil service of the United States and promote the efficiency thereof. (H.R. 113)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jenckes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a Department of Justice. (H.R. 610)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jenckes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the civil service of the United States and promote the efficiency thereof. (H.R. 948)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelsey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the compensation of certain consular officers, to provide for their supervision, and the verification of their accounts, and to prohibit their collection of fees not authorized by law. (H.R. 1047)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments, ordered to be printed in the Globe, and the further consideration postponed to June third. Ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Mr. Jenckes, on leave, introduced the following ... (H.R. 948)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; ordered to be printed, Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Retrenchment. Mr. W. Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a Law department. (H.R. 765)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of Laws of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Allowing the defendant in criminal cases to testify. (H.R. 1684)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the naturalization laws of the United States. (H.R. 1898)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jenckes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an uniform rule of naturalization throughout the United States. (H.R. 1883)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kerr, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prescribe an uniform rule of naturalization. (H.R. 1904)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revision of Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for a uniform system of naturalization. (H.R. 1863)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and of the War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pension the soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve (H.R. 311)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and of the War of 1812, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Miller, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve with Great Britain. (H.R. 185)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Road and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingersoll, 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. 92)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the building of a railroad bridge. (H.R. 946)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the improvement of the Illinois river. Whereas the State of Illinois, to secure the improvement and extension of the Illinois and Michigan canal, and the improvement of the Illinois, Rock, and other ... (H.R. 868)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Getz, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the city of Washington, District of Columbia, to the city of Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, by the nearest direct line. (H.R. 1132)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hotchkiss, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the building of a railroad bridge across the Connecticut river, Connecticut, at a crossing at Middletown and Portland. (H.R. 949)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Government Anthracite Railroad Company. (H.R. 1611)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Newcomb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Mississippi Levee, Railway, and Steamship Company, and to aid in the construction of levees on the Mississippi river. (H.R. 896)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill. A Bill To authorize the construction of a railroad from Davenport, in the State of Iowa, to Topeka, in the State of Kansas. (H.R. 1789)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Raum, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the International Pacific railroad from Cairo, Illinois, to the Rio Grande river, to authorize the consolidation of certain railroad companies, and to provide homesteads for ... (H.R. 847)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill A Bill To authorize the construction of a ship canal from Lake Erie to the Ohio river. (H.R. 998)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To facilitate commercial intercourse between the several States and Territories of the United States and foreign countries. Whereas the Constitution of the United States empowers Congress ''to regulate ... (H.R. 1597)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Further to extend the right of suffrage in the Territories of the United States. (H.R. 1531)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Corley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the National Railway Trust and Loan Company. (H.R. 1907)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To construe certain acts relating to pensions. (H.R. 1122)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. J. F. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To increase the number of justices of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1839)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Broomall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To guarantee to the several States of the Union a republican form of government. Whereas the form of government of several of the States of the Union is not republican in this particular, that by the ... (H.R. 126)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Broomall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the African College. (H.R. 1506)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burleigh, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In regard to appeals from decisions of the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the title of individuals to public land. (H.R. 891)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases, for the protection of officers and agents of the government, and for the better defence of the treasury against unlawful claims. (H.R. 1131)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Churchill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act relative to the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President in case of vacancies in the office ... (H.R. 982)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Churchill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the sessions of the district court for the northern district of New York. (H.R. 497)

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 rejection, as void, of all votes cast at any election for members of the House of Representatives of the United States for any person known to be ineligible by the persons casting them. (H.R. 800)

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 suits in the courts of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 801)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In addition to an act, passed March twenty-six, eighteen hundred and four, entitled ''An act in addition to an act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.'' (H.R. 1149)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eldridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the creation of a National Bureau of Insurance. (H.R. 40)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. G. F. Miller, on leave, introduced the following bill. A Bill Regulating the trial of causes in United States courts for the western district of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 950)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. Ward, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To guarantee to certain States that have been in rebellion a republican form of government. (H.R. 5)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Heaton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled ''An act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and to provide for the payment of certain demands for quartermasters' and subsistence supplies furnished to the army of ... (H.R. 1615)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hulburd, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled ''An act to create the eastern judicial district of the State of New York,'' approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and to make provision for the trial of ... (H.R. 933)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. F. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act to reorganize the courts of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. (H.R. 1788)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. F. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the judicial system of the United States. (H.R. 1725)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James F. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making the office of Solicitor of the Court of Claims a bureau in the office of the Attorney General, and for other purposes. (H.R. 63)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Judd, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States. (H.R. 111)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix the time for the election of representatives and delegates in the Congress of the United States. (H.R. 36)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelsey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaring the effect of an impeachment by the House of Representatives of the President, Vice-President, or any civil officer of the United States. (H.R. 177)

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 and limit the admiralty jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States in certain cases. (H.R. 1542)

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 and limit the admiralty jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States in certain cases. (H.R. 293)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal certain parts of the act approved April 30, 1790, entitled ''An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.'' (H.R. 57)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Loan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for holding terms of the United States district court for the western district of Missouri at Saint Joseph, in said State. (H.R. 348)

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 amend an act entitled ''An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication,'' approved April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and ... (H.R. 1796)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Miller, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to service of the filing of a bill in equity in the district court of the United States for the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1356)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mullins, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To suppress and punish persons who unlawfully vote or disturb or otherwise unlawfully endeavor to control those who are lawfully entitled to vote at any election in the United States. (H.R. 1528)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing district courts to be held at the cities of Evansville and New Albany, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 928)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pierce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect the fourteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution. (H.R. 1621)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pile, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a National Bureau of Insurance. (H.R. 94)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Plants, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To divide the State of Ohio into three judicial districts, and to provide for holding the district and circuit courts of the United States therein. (H.R. 1525)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to appeals in equity. (H.R. 335)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Providing for the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States in certain cases. (H.R. 80)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating writs of error, and appeals from the supreme court of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 285)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. T. Van Horn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the terms of the United States district court for the western district of Missouri. (H.R. 697)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. T. Williams, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the practice and define the powers of the Supreme Court of the United States in certain cases arising under the Constitution and laws thereof. (H.R. 30)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization,'' and so forth, passed April fourteen, eighteen hundred and two. (H.R. 1429)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the qualifications of jurors in certain cases. (H.R. 54)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the deposit of trust funds in the treasury of the United States. (H.R. 55)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To define and punish certain crimes. (H.R. 53)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To protect the rights of action of loyal citizens. (H.R. 56)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reorganize the judiciary of the United States. (H.R. 85)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Woodbridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To create the office of surrogate of the District of Columbia, provide for the appointment, and define the powers and duties, of guardians, and for other purposes. (H.R. 82)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Reported by Mr. Trumbull with an amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert what follows printed in italics. An Act Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March ... (H.R. 33)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 128)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Militia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Paine, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the issue of arms for the use of the militia. (H.R. 1314)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of the Arkansas and Pacific railroad. (H.R. 1721)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. D. R. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Humboldt to the Colorado river. (H.R. 1301)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Additional to an act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound on the Pacific coast, by the northern route. (H.R. 942)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced 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 government the use of the same for ... (H.R. 357)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced 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 government the use of the same for ... (H.R. 67)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanders, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Puget Sound and Columbia River Railroad Company. (H.R. 184)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gravely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In aid of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company; supplemental to an act entitled ''An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the States of Missouri ... (H.R. 698)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. F. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the companies building the Union Pacific Railroad, or any branch thereof, to select sites for certain purposes therein named. (H.R. 308)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Loughridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Rio Grande to the Pacific ocean. (H.R. 1388)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Price, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure the use of American iron in the construction of land-grant railroads. (H.R. 1578)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roots, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To perfect and complete railroad and telegraph communication with the Pacific ocean. (H.R. 1785)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Grating lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the city of Lawrence, in the State of Kansas, to the boundary line between the United States and Mexico in the ... (H.R. 24)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In aid of the Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division, supplemental to an act entitled ''An act to aid in the construction f a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the ... (H.R. 704)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relating to the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company. (H.R. 556)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure the speedy construction of the Union Pacific railroad (southern branch) and telegraph line, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other ... (H.R. 69)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burt Van Horn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the construction of lines of telegraph between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington under the direction of the Post Office Department. (H.R. 1689)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cavanaugh, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for mail service between Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory, and Helena, in Montana Territory. (H.R. 782)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, to Mobile, in the State of Alabama, and to secure to the government the use of the ... (H.R. 937)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. B. Washburne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the construction of a government telegraph, under the direction of the Post Office Department, between New York and Washington. (H.R. 1083)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize contracts for foreign mail service and to aid in the construction and employment of American-built steamers, and for other purposes. (H.R. 865)

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 incorporate the United States Postal Telegraph Company, and to establish a postal telegraph system. (H.R. 1415)

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: An Act Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act, to aid in construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes,'' ... (H.R. 846)

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 provide for an American line of mail and emigrant passenger steamships between New York and one or more European ports. (H.R. 939)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Conferring the franking privilege on Miss Dorothea L. Dix. (H.R. 1013)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company, of Texas, in the construction of a railroad and line of telegraph from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to ... (H.R. 1014)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pile, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi river, in Madison county, State of Illinois. (H.R. 966)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish telegraph lines between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. (H.R. 1504)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Twichell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In relation to the transportation of United States mails by railroad companies. (H.R. 1307)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the said committee. Strike out all in [brackets] and insert all in italics. Mr. Hill, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported back the following bill: A ... (H.R. 939)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the Portage Lake and Lake Superior ship canal to Kewenaw bay, providing for the right of way, and making a grant of lands in the construction of said extension. (H.R. 1135)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revive and renew a certain grant of public lands to the State of Alabama. (H.R. 1773)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. C. Washburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to aid the construction of certain railroads in the State of Wisconsin,'' approved May five, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. (H.R. 1085)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Callis, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting certain lands in the State of Alabama to the Tennessee and Coosa Railroad Company, to aid in the construction thereof, and for other purposes. Whereas the United States of America did, by an act ... (H.R. 2010)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clever, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of inhabitants of towns and villages in the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, who settle upon the public lands. (H.R. 1089)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Coburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting bounty land to soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States in the war of the rebellion. (H.R. 799)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. D. R. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Boise, in Idaho Territory, to the Humboldt river. (H.R. 1799)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the act entitled ''An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,'' approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the acts amendatory thereof approved ... (H.R. 1088)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting certain lands to the State of Minnesota to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Zumbo river in said State. (H.R. 68)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making a grant of land to the State of Minnesota to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi river. (H.R. 554)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, 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. 486)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Mississippi river to Yancton, on the Missouri river, and to amend an act entitled ''An act for a grant of lands to the State of Iowa, in ... (H.R. 1054)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To protect the rights of actual settlers upon the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 23)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To regulate the disposition of lands that may be hereafter granted to aid in the construction of railways. (H.R. 726)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Driggs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to the States of Wisconsin and Michigan to aid in the construction of the Wisconsin and Lake Superior railroad and its branch. (H.R. 62)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Driggs, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the Jackson, Lansing, and Saginaw Railroad Company to change the northern terminus of its road, and to extend the same to Marquette, in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 1837)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Elliot, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting to the State of Arkansas public lands, in alternate sections to aid in the construction of the Mississippi, Ouachita, and Red River railroad, from Eunice, on the Mississippi river, via ... (H.R. 1850)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Donating, for school purposes, a lot of land and building thereon, known as the ''Old Indian Dormitory,'' in the village of Mackinac, Michigan. (H.R. 1533)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanders, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the city of Walla-Walla, Washington Territory, to the Columbia river. (H.R. 1042)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanders, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Columbia River Railroad Company. (H.R. 1845)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hopkins, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sally C. Northrop. Whereas the petition of Sally C. Northrop represents that in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight Henry S. Atwood, a merchant, being solicited thereto by them, ... (H.R. 722)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hopkins, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act for a grant of lands to the State of Iowa, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of a railroad in said State,'' approved May twelve, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 1086)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hopkins, 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. 1051)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hopkins, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Mississippi river to Yancton, on the Missouri river, and to amend an act entitled ''An act for a grant of lands to the State of Iowa, in ... (H.R. 1087)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hopkins, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant lands to the Superior and State Line Railroad Company. (H.R. 1650)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James F. Wilson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting land to the Iowa and Missouri State Line Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 64)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way and public lands of the United States for the Oroville and Virginia City railroad and telegraph line, and to provide for its construction. (H.R. 1998)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To finally settle the title to Mexican land grants in the State of California. (H.R. 1053)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill A bill to incorporate the National Homestead Company. (H.R. 1715)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the pre-emption laws, and for other purposes. (H.R. 14)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To close the land system in certain States. (H.R. 1714)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Julian, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To grant the right of way to the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company from El Paso, Texas, to the Pacific ocean. (H.R. 1895)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To revive the grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from Selma to Gadsden, in the State of Alabama, and to confirm the same to the Selma, Rome, and Dalton Railroad Company. (H.R. 1824)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pierce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Donating a part of the public lands in the State of Alabama to that State for the purpose of aiding in its internal improvements. (H.R. 1993)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pierce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting public lands in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana to the New Orleans and Selma Railroad Company and Immigration Association to aid the said company in the construction of an ... (H.R. 1901)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Roots, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend 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 Missouri, to Helena ... (H.R. 1424)

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 States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota to aid in the construction of a railroad from the mouth of the Menomonee river, near the boundary line between the States of Michigan and ... (H.R. 1899)

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 authorize front proprietors on the Menomonee river in Michigan and Wisconsin to have surveyed and enter the fast lands in said river. (H.R. 1136)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Fort Scott, Kansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. (H.R. 645)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Irving, Kansas, to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. (H.R. 1140)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act granting lands to the State of Kansas to aid in the construction of a southern branch of the Union Pacific railway and telegraph from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Fort ... (H.R. 70)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sidney Clarke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the pre-emption and homestead laws of the United States over certain lands, and for other purposes. (H.R. 646)

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 enable the State of Louisiana to receive the public lands donated to that State by the act for the benefit of agricultural colleges, and so forth, and for other purposes. Whereas, there being no ... (H.R. 1705)

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 land to aid in the construction of a railroad from Sioux City, Iowa, to Columbus, Nebraska. Whereas the Congress of the United States did, on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, ... (H.R. 1790)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tift, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill In amendment to the Denver Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company, providing for the Southern Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific railway, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1846)

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 For the relief of inhabitants of cities and towns in the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. (H.R. 1807)

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 Territory of Utah. (H.R. 1806)

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 To create the office of surveyor general in the territory of Utah, and establish a land office in said Territory, and extend the homestead and pre-emption laws over the same. (H.R. 202)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure to actual settlers the right to purchase lands hereafter granted to railway and other companies. (H.R. 492)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To promote the progress of the fine arts. (H.R. 1866)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments and ordered to be printed with pending amendments. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. Mr. A. W. Hubbard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the time for the completion of the ... (H.R. 208)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Broomall, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amending the laws providing for the naturalization of aliens. (H.R. 1465)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McKee, on leave, introduced the following bill: To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore in force on that subject. (H.R. 1474)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Poland, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Construing ''An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary district within the United States,'' approved March 12, 1863. (H.R. 1082)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Spalding, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States,'' approved April thirtieth, seventeen hundred and ninety, so as to extend the time within which ... (H.R. 1015)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cavanagh, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the people of Montana to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. (H.R. 808)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chilcott, 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. 1660)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanders, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the counties of Walla Walla, Klickitat, Skamania, and Clarke, Territory of Washington, to aid in the construction of the Columbia River railroad. (H.R. 1791)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanders, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way to the Walla-Walla and Columbia River Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1041)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanders, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Lake Washington Coal Company to make certain improvements for transportation in the county of King, Washington Territory, and for other purposes. Whereas it is represented to this ... (H.R. 1004)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Concerning the boundary of New Mexico. (H.R. 1626)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the boundaries of the States of Nevada, Minnesota, and Nebraska, and the Territories of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. (H.R. 1625)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To preserve the purity of elections in the several organized Territories of the United States. (H.R. 1624)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the election of delegates to the Congress of the United States for the several Territories. (H.R. 1671)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. H. Hooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the admission of Deseret into the Union. Whereas the people of the Territory of Utah did by their representatives form for themselves a constitution and State government, republican in form, ... (H.R. 203)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William Lawrence, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide a temporary government for the Territory of Lincoln. (H.R. 86)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Reported back with amendments, the further consideration postponed to the 28th instant, and made a special order, after the morning hour, from day to day until disposed of. Ordered to be printed. Mr. James M. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill ... (H.R. 1625)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on Free Schools in the District of Columbia, (same as last session,) and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a system of common schools for the District of Columbia. Whereas the capital of a great nation, though a political necessity, is ... (H.R. 206)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Explanatory of an act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States, passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and explanatory of an act supplementary thereto, passed ... (H.R. 109)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Spalding, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and also the act supplementary ... (H.R. 110)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on Reconstruction, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the military protection of the loyal inhabitants of the late rebel States. Whereas the pretended State governments of the late so-called Confederate States of Virginia, North Carolina, ... (H.R. 138)

Read twice, referred to the Select Committee on Reconstructions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the inhabitants of the late rebel States, conquered by the United States, to form State governments. (H.R. 139)

Read twice, the further consideration postponed to Wednesday the 15th instant, made a special order for that day, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a system of schools for the District of Columbia, which shall serve as a model for similar institutions throughout the nation. ... (H.R. 374)

Read twice. Mr. James F. Wilson moved to amend; Mr. Stevens move to recommit the bill and amendment. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, from the Select Committee on Reconstruction, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed on the second day of March, ... (H.R. 123)

Received. An Act In relation to the district court of the United States for the northern district of Ohio. (H.R. 145)

Received. An Act To regulate the selection of officers in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 143)

Referred to be Committee on Appropriations, with Senate amendments, and ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [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 the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. (H.R. 605)

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, with Senate amendments. Reported back, recommending concurrence in some and non-concurrence in others, and ordered to be printed. An Act To exempt certain manufactures from internal tax. (H.R. 900)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hendricks to the bill (H.R. 818) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other purposes. Insert the following: (H.R. 818)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Pomeroy to the bill (H.R. 818) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other purposes. Insert the following as additional sections: (H.R. 818)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Sumner, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to the bill (H.R. 1803) making appropriations. Whereas the State of Maine has appropriated for the use of the European and North American Railway Company of Maine, for the construction of a ... (H.R. 1803)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Vickers to the bill (H.R. 1341) making appropriations and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes. ... (H.R. 1341)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Wilson to the bill (H.R. 1803) making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1803)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, intended to be proposed to the bill (H.R. 605) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year the ending thirtieth of June, eighteen ... (H.R. 605)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill (H.R. 605) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, viz: (H.R. 605)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Ramsey to the bill H.R. 1073, viz: (H.R. 1073)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Thayer to the bill (H.R. 1073) 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. 1073)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Morgan, to the bill (H.R. 1341) making appropriations and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes. ... (H.R. 1341)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Henderson to the bill (H.R. 1073) 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 thirtieth June, eighteen ... (H.R. 1073)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, with Senate amendments, and ordered to be printed. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the parts in italics. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other purposes. (H.R. 818)

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 consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1570)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, with Senate amendments. Reported back with report, ordered to be printed, referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and made a special order for Monday next, after the morning hour, and from day to day till disposed of. Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert the ... (H.R. 1599)

Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Corbett to the bill (H.R. 1073) 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 thirty, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 1073)

Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs with Senate amendment. Reported back Senate amendment with amendments and ordered to be printed. An Act In relation to additional bounty. (H.R. 127)

Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Pomeroy to the bill (H.R. 267) to declare forfeited to the United States certain lands granted to aid in the construction of railroads in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, and for other purposes. Strike out the ... (H.R. 267)

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Declaring the fourteenth article of amendment proposed by the thirty-ninth Congress duly ratified as a part of the Constitution. (H.R. 436)

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sypher, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enforce the provisions of the third section of the fourteenth article of the amendment to the Constitution. (H.R. 1449)

Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Mr. Donnelly, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making a grant of lands to the State of Minnesota to aid in the construction of a railroad from Taylor's Falls via Saint Cloud to the western boundary of said State. (H.R. 1037)

Reported back as a substitute, by Mr. Farnsworth, for House bill No. 846, to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. 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,'' ... (H.R. 846)

Reported from the Committee on Appropriations, ordered to be printed, and recommitted, with the amendments of the Senate thereto, viz: Strike out the words in [brackets] and insert the words in Italics. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various ... (H.R. 1738)

Resolved, That the bill (H.R. 33) supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration, do pass with an amendment; and that the bill be printed as amended by the Senate. [The bill as passed by the House of Representatives.] An Act ... (H.R. 33)

the custody of the United States surveyor general for the State of California,'' In line 23, after the word ''therein,'' insert the words ''both on the title and on the survey and location.'' (H.R. 923)