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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates

Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 36th Congress

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Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Latham, to the bill (H.R. 304) inviting proposals for carrying the entire mail between the Atlantic and Pacific States in one line, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following, and amend the title to read, A bill for the transportation of the mails between the Atlantic and Pacific ... (H.R. 304)

Amendment Intended, to be proposed, by Mr. Latham to the bill (H.R. 304) inviting proposals for carrying the entire mail between the Atlantic and Pacific States in one line, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following, and amend the title to read, A bill for the transportation of the mails between the Atlantic and Pacific ... (H.R. 304)

Considered as in Committee of the Whole, amended, and ordered to be printed as amended, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To secure contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation, by railroad, of mails, troops, munitions of war, military and naval stores, ... (H.R. 701)

Mr. Reagan, from the minority of the Committee on Indian Affairs, proposes the following amendment in the nature of a substitute for the majority bill, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows in italics, and amend the title to read as below; committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. A ... (H.R. 127)

Ordered to be printed with the Senate amendments, and that the Superintendent of Public Printing he directed to have it done with the utmost despatch. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 895)

Ordered to be printed, with the Senate amendments thereto. An Act To secure contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation, by railroad, of mails, troops, munitions of war, military and naval stores, between the Atlantic States and those of the Pacific, and for other purposes. (H.R. 701)

Ordered to be printed, with the Senate amendments. An Act To provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes. (H.R. 338)

Ordered to be printed, with the Senate amendments. Senate amendments in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 864)

Ordered to be printed. A Bill Intended to be offered by Mr. Thayer, at a proper time, as a substitute for the bill proposed to be offered by the Committee on the Territories ''to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Arizona.'' Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: (H.R. 1020)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Fitch to the ''bill (H.R. 23) for the admission of Kansas into the Union,'' viz: at the end of the bill add the following additional sections: (H.R. 23)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Green to the ''bill (H.R. 280) to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain.'' viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: (H.R. 280)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Green to the ''Bill (H.R. 895) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, namely: At the end of the first section add the following: (H.R. 895)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Gwin to the ''bill (H.R. 280) to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,'' viz: insert the following as an additional section: (H.R. 280)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Gwin to the ''bill (H.R. 304) inviting proposals for carrying the entire mail between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in one line,'' viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following, and amend the title to read A Bill for the establishment of overland ... (H.R. 304)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Gwin to the amendments of the House of Representatives to the amendments of the Senate to the ''Bill (H.R. 714) establishing certain post routes,'' viz: Strike out the 18th, 19th, and 20th sections of said amendments, and insert the following: (H.R. 714)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hale, to the ''bill (H.R. 304) inviting proposals for carrying the entire mail between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in one line,'' viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following, and amend the title to read A Bill for the establishment of overland ... (H.R. 304)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, to the amendment reported by the Committee on Public Lands to the ''bill (H.R. 280) to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,'' viz: insert the following in lieu of the reported amendment: (H.R. 280)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. LANE to the ''bill (H.R. 701) to secure contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation, by railroad, of mails, troops, munitions of war, military and naval stores, between the Atlantic States and those of the Pacific, and for other purposes,'' viz: (H.R. 701)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Lane, to the ''bill (H.R. 338) to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes.'' viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: (H.R. 338)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Latham to the ''bill (H.R. 215) making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,'' viz: after the word ... (H.R. 215)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Laxe to the ''Bill (H.R. 338) to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes,'' viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert: (H.R. 338)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. RICE to the ''bill (H.R. 701) to secure contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation, by railroad, of mails, troops, munitions of war, military and naval stores, between the Atlantic States and those of the Pacific, and for other purposes,'' viz: ... (H.R. 701)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed to the ''bill (H.R. 304) inviting proposals for carrying the entire mail between the Atlantic and Pacific States in one line,'' viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 304)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Of a legislative character, adopted by the Senate to bill H.R. 714, entitled ''An act establishing certain post routes.'' (H.R. 714)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Of the House of Representatives to the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 503) ''making further appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty,'' viz: Resolved, That the House recede from their disagreement to the ... (H.R. 503)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Of the House of Representatives to the amendments of the Senate to the Bill (H.R. 714) establishing certain Post Routes. (H.R. 714)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Seward to the amendments of the House of Representatives to the amendments of the Senate to the ''Bill (H.R. 714) establishing certain post routes'' viz: Strike out the 18th, 19th, and 20th sections of said amendments, and insert the following: (H.R. 714)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Simmons, to the ''Bill (H.R. 338) to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes,'' namely: amend section four by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the following in lieu thereof: (H.R. 338)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed to be offered by Mr. Burch to bill H.R. 728, ''To provide for an examination of the claims of citizens of the United States for indemnity for spoliations committed by the Indians and Mexicans within the limits of the State of Texas.'' (H.R. 728)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed to be offered by Mr. Clopton to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Idaho. Amend by striking out the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-eighth lines of the sixth section of the bill, and insert the following: (H.R. 707)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed to be offered by Mr. Thaddeus Stevens. (H.R. 950)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed to be submitted, at a proper time, by Mr. Branch. To the end that all occasion for the use of force may be removed, and to prevent the breaking out of civil war pending the deliberations of Congress on the existing crisis in public affairs: (H.R. 950)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be proposed by the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads to the post route bill H.R. 714. (H.R. 714)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Green to the ''bill (H.R. 23) for the admission of Kansas into the Union,'' as follows: Strike out the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth lines, and the first two words of the fifteenth line of the first section, and in lieu thereof insert the ... (H.R. 23)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Green to the preamble to the bill (H.R. 23) for the admission of Kansas into the Union, as follows: (H.R. 23)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments of the House of Representatives to the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 503) making further appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty, viz: (H.R. 503)

Ordered to be printed. Intended to be offered by Mr. Thayer, at a proper time, in lieu of the bills proposed to be offered by the Committee on the Territories to provide for the temporary governments of the Territories of Idaho and Nevada. Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert as follows: (H.R. 1020)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Adrain proposes the following Amendment. Insert after twenty-sixth line, page seven: (H.R. 707)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, from a minority of the select committee on the Pacific railroad, reported the following Amendment, which he gave notice of his intention, at the proper time, to submit. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: (H.R. 646)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, proposed to offer the following Amendment. Granting public lands and a loan of the credit of government to the People's Pacific Railroad Company, to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Missouri river to San Francisco, on the Pacific coast; and also the same to aid the construction of the Northern and ... (H.R. 835)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Barrett moves the following Amendment. (H.R. 646)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Branch will, at a proper time, move to strike out the bill (H.R. 7) reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, and insert in lieu thereof the following Amendment To amend the act entitled ''An act to establish a territorial government for Utah.'' (H.R. 7)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Curtis from the select committee on the Pacific railroad, reported the following bill: A Bill To secure contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation, by railroad, of mails, troops, munitions of war, military and naval stores, between the Atlantic States and those of the Pacific, and ... (H.R. 646)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gartrell proposes the following as a substitute for the bill of the committee: Amendment. The original bill reported by the committee, with lines twenty-six, twenty-seven, and twenty-eight of section six stricken out, and the following proviso inserted in lieu thereof: (H.R. 707)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, from a minority of the select committee on the Pacific railroad, proposes the following as a substitute for the bill of the committee: A Bill To provide for the transmission of troops, stores, supplies, mails, and so forth, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. (H.R. 646)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Haskin, proposes the following Amendment. (H.R. 707)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. I. I. Stevens proposes the following Amendments in the nature of a substitute: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: (H.R. 646)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. J. B. Clark, proposes the following Amendment. Strike out lines twenty-six, twenty-seven, and twenty-eight, on page seven. (H.R. 707)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. John G. Davis proposed, at a proper time, to submit the following amendment in the nature of a substitute: Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 835)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. John G. Davis proposes the following amendment to bill H.R. 210, ''to grant lands to the Territory of Nebraska for the construction of certain railroads therein,'' to be added at the end of the bill: Amendment. (H.R. 210)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. John G. Davis submitted the following: Amendment Add at the end of the bill the following: (H.R. 700)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. McClernand gave notice that, at a proper time, he would move the following Amendment Amend by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting as follows, to wit: (H.R. 7)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Noell moves the following Amendment. Strike out of the first section of the bill all after the enacting clause to the word and inclusive of the word ''California,'' in the 12th line, and insert in lieu thereof the following: (H.R. 646)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Taylor gave notice of his intention to offer the following as a substitute for the bill of the House, No. 114, reported from the Committee on Commerce: A Bill Further to amend ''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 ... (H.R. 114)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens gave notice of his intention, at a proper time, to move the following Amendment To the amendment of Mr. Taylor. (H.R. 114)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer will, at a proper time, offer the following in lieu of the bill H.R. No. 7: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert as follows: (H.R. 7)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. William Kellogg proposed the following Amendment. (H.R. 707)

Ordered to be printed. Proposed to be offered by Mr. Thayer, at a proper time, as a substitute for the bill proposed to be offered by the Committee on the Territories ''to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Dakota.'' Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert: (H.R. 1020)

Ordered to be printed. Proposed to be reported by Mr. Grow, from the Committee on the Territories. A Bill To provide a temporary government for the Territory of Arizona. (H.R. 1020)

Ordered to be printed. Proposed to be reported by Mr. Grow, from the Committee on the Territories. A Bill To provide a temporary government for the Territory of Chippewa. (H.R. 1020)

Ordered to be printed. Proposed to be reported by Mr. Grow, from the Committee on the Territories. A Bill To provide a temporary government for the Territory of Idaho. (H.R. 1020)

Ordered to be printed. Proposed to be reported by Mr. Grow, from the Committee on the Territories. A Bill To provide for a temporary government for the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 1020)

Ordered to be printed. Proposed to be reported by Mr. Grow, from the Committee on the Territories. A Bill To provide for a temporary government for the Territory of Nevada. (H.R. 1020)

Ordered to be printed. Proposed to be reported by Mr. Holman, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. A Bill For the relief of the widows and children of certain officers and soldiers of the war of the revolution. (H.R. 707)

Ordered, That the following amendments of the Senate to the ''Bill (H.R. 714) establishing certain post routes,'' with the action of the House of Representatives thereon, be printed. (H.R. 714)

Ordered, together with the Senate amendments, to be printed. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 305)

Ordered, with the Senate amendments, to be printed. 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-two. (H.R. 892)

Passed the Senate with amendments, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, and printed in italics. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed with the amendments. Resolved, That this House do concur in the sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. No. 4) ''making ... (H.R. 4)

Passed the Senate with amendments, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and printed in italics. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed, with the amendments. Resolved, That this House do concur in the first, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 499) entitled ''An act to supply ... (H.R. 499)

Rad twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Caroline E. Clark. (H.R. 592)

Read a first and second time, and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain musicians and soldiers stationed at Fort Sumter, in South Carolina. (H.R. 964)

Read a first and second time, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Ann Eliza Platt, widow of Commander Charles T. Platt, late of the United States navy. (H.R. 956)

Read a first and second time, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of C. W. C. Dunnington. (H.R. 955)

Read a first and second time, referred to the select committee of five, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John Cochran, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for taking the sense of the people of the several States on certain proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Whereas the Union is in imminent ... (H.R. 957)

Read and passed to a second reading. An Act Amendatory of the act for the rendition of fugitives from labor. (H.R. 1009)

Read the first and second times and ordered to lie on the table. Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act For the relief of Peay and Ayliffe. (H.R. 328)

Read the first and second times, considered as in Committee of the Whole, and postponed to and made the special order for Wednesday, the 2nd day of January, 1861, at one o'clock. An Act To secure contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation, by railroad, of mails, troops, munitions of war, military and naval ... (H.R. 701)

Read the first and second times. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth Walton, widow of Thomas Walton. (H.R. 688)

Read the first and second times. An Act Granting a pension to Harriett S. Wyman, widow of Captain Thomas W. Wyman, post captain in the naval service of the United States. (H.R. 559)

Read the first and second times. An Act Granting an invalid pension to William Burns, of Ohio. (H.R. 451)

Read the first and second times. Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Hale with an amendment, viz: insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of A. Bledsoe, William Bryson, William C. Scott, William Doty, and others. (H.R. 811)

Read the first time, second reading pending. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to the several acts now in force to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions. (H.R. 1003)

Read twice and ordered to lie on the table. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant George L. Hartsuff, of the United States Army. (H.R. 905)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Azel Spalding. (H.R. 996)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of George P. Marsh. (H.R. 8)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Hull and Cozzens a.nd John Naylor and Company. (H.R. 624)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Lot Hall, deceased. (H.R. 16)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. An Act For the relief of Thomas Forster. (H.R. 984)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Bragg, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets.] An Act For the relief of William Lyon, late pension agent at Knoxville, Tennessee. (H.R. 86)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Hemphill, without amendment, and accompanied by a report, (No. 192.) An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of five deceased clerks in the Philadelphia custom-house. (H.R. 233)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported by Mr. Iverson, with an amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows, printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Cassius M. Clay. (H.R. 240)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Conferring on Atlanta, Georgia., the privileges of a port of delivery. (H.R. 617)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act For the relief of James M. Adams, Henry D. McKinney, and William D. Adams. (H.R. 941)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act For the relief of Samuel Beaston, master of the schooner George Harris. (H.R. 979)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Further to provide for the safety of passengers on vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam. (H.R. 114)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To amend an act approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled ''An act to establish a port of entry at Saluria, in the State of Texas, and for other purposes.'' (H.R. 839)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to regulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels,'' approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, for the better protection of female passengers and other purposes. (H.R. 19)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To change the name of the ship ''Rockall'' to ''Massachusetts.'' (H.R. 838)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To change the name of the steamboat Antelope. (H.R. 691)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To regulate the compensation of the keeper and assistant keepers of the Light-house on Minot's Ledge, in the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts, and for other purposes. (H.R. 970)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Ordered to be printed. An Act Further to provide for the safety of passengers on vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam. (H.R. 114)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Authorizing a Loan. (H.R. 972)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 501)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 895)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 864)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 4)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 215)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 865)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 339)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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-two. (H.R. 892)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 500)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 914)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 861)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 564)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 971)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 899)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 862)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations to defray the deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and in part for the support of the Post Office Department for the year ending thirtieth June, ... (H.R. 1)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making further appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty. (H.R. 503)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend an act regulating the diplomatic and consular system of the United States. (H.R. 699)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To amend the several acts authorizing loans. (H.R. 1004)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize the issue of Treasury Notes and for other purposes. (H.R. 863)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes. (H.R. 338)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To regulate the mileage of members of Congress. (H.R. 63)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To supply Deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 866)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty. (H.R. 499)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Fessenden with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 895)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Hunter with amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 215)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Hunter with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 4)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Hunter with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ... (H.R. 865)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Hunter, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making further appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty. (H.R. 503)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Hunter, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 339)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Hunter, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 866)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Pearce with amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. The bill was considered as in Committee of the Whole, and postponed to and made the special order for Tuesday, the 5th instant, at half-past twelve o'clock. An Act Authorizing a loan. (H.R. 972)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Pearce with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 899)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Pearce with amendments, viz: Strike out the words printed in [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 914)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Pearce with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert the parts printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 971)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Pearce with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 864)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Toombs with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 501)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States'', approved August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. (H.R. 765)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Mr. MASON, with amendments, viz: strike out the parts within [brackets,] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To amend an act regulating the diplomatic and consular system of the United States. (H.R. 699)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act For the relief of certain Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottowatomie Indians. (H.R. 852)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act For the relief of O. F. D. Fairbanks, Frederick Dodge, and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. (H.R. 127)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To provide for a superintendent of Indian affairs for Washington Territory and additional Indian agents. (H.R. 181)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Clark with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. To settle the titles to certain lands set apart for the use of certain half-breed Kansas Indians, in Kansas Territory. Whereas by the sixth article of a treaty, made and ... (H.R. 637)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Fitch, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics; and accompanied by a report, (No. 298.) An Act For the relief of certain Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottowatomie Indians. (H.R. 852)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Mr. Sebastian with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To provide payment for depredations committed by the whites upon the Shawnee Indians in Kansas Territory. (H.R. 368)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act Authorizing the sale of the Western Military Asylum, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. (H.R. 324)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the relief of Wendell Trout. (H.R. 640)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Reported by Mr. Davis without amendment, and adversely. Recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Reported by Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, with amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act To remove the United States arsenal from the ... (H.R. 132)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. Reported by Mr. Davis, with an amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows, printed in italics. An Act Authorizing the sale of the ''Western Military Asylum, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. (H.R. 324)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To remove the United States arsenal from the city of Saint Louis, and to provide for the sale of the lands on which the same is located. (H.R. 132)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported with amendments, viz: Strike out the word within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics, and accompanied by a report, (No. 308.) An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Frederick F. Brose, deceased. (H.R. 586)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions An Act Granting an invalid pension to Anselmn Clarkson, of Missouri. (H.R. 453)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Concerning invalid pensions, and regulating the time of their commencement. (H.R. 12)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Andrew E. Marshall. (H.R. 318)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Beda Hayes, widow of Dudley Hayes, of Granby, Hartford county, Connecticut. (H.R. 528)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Edward Williams. (H.R. 1001)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Effisia C. De May, widow of Charles F. V. De May, late a dragoon in the army of the United States. (H.R. 542)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Emma A. Wood, widow of the late Brevet Major George W. F. Wood, of the United States army. (H.R. 314)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Erastus Hutchins. (H.R. 446)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Henry Sanford. (H.R. 593)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Katherine K. Russell. (H.R. 537)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Mary Ann Henry. (H.R. 311)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Nancy Weeks, of Georgia. (H.R. 441)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Phineas G. Pearson. (H.R. 100)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Susan Bayard, widow of A. W. W. Bayard, an invalid soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 988)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of the children and heirs of Alexander Montgomery. (H.R. 600)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of the children of Elizabeth Yancey, widow of John Yancey. (H.R. 778)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of the children of the late Captain E. A. Capron. (H.R. 447)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Betsy Nash. (H.R. 990)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Thomas Chittenden. (H.R. 909)

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

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Archibald Merriman. (H.R. 591)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Asa Wells. (H.R. 452)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza M. Plympton. (H.R. 923)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Herman J. Ehle. (H.R. 653)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Martha Sanderson, widow of Major Wins-low F. Sanderson. (H.R. 529)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Shircliff, widow of John Shircliff. (H.R. 465)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an invalid pension to Beriah Wright, of New York. (H.R. 385)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an invalid pension to Ezekiel Jones. (H.R. 407)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an invalid pension to Henry F. Bowers. (H.R. 602)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting an invalid pension to John Rogers, of Tennessee. (H.R. 924)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To grant a pension to Mary I. Harris, widow of Colonel Thomas L. Harris, deceased. (H.R. 656)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Grimes, with an amendment, viz: At the end of the bill add the words or widowhood. An Act Granting a pension to Adaline Caddis. (H.R. 399)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Powell, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza M. Plympton. (H.R. 923)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Saulsbury, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Eunice Cobb. (H.R. 449)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Thomson with amendments, viz: Strike out the word within [brackets,] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Margaret Whitehead. (H.R. 543)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Thomson with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Eliza A. Merchant, widow of the late First Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Charles G. Merchant, of the United States army. (H.R. 436)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Thomson with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Granting a pension to Gregory Patti. (H.R. 545)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Thomson with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting an invalid pension to Esther P. Fox. widow of Augustus C. Fox. (H.R. 448)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Thomson with an amendment. Recommitted to the Committee on Pensions. Reported by Mr. Thomson, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Granting an invalid pension to Esther P. Fox, widow of Augustus C. Fox. (H.R. 448)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported with an amendment, viz: Strike out the word within [brackets] and insert that printed in italic. An Act For the relief of Stephen Bunnell. (H.R. 390)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported, by Mr. Grimes, with an amendment: Strike out the word within [brackets] and insert the word inserted, in italics. An Act For the relief of Chauncey W. Fuller. (H.R. 395)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act Authorizing publishers to print on their papers the date when subscriptions expire. (H.R. 241)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act For the relief of D. D. Harrill. (H.R. 896)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act For the relief of F. M. Beauchamp and Betsy D. Townsend. (H.R. 919)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act For the relief of George F. Means. (H.R. 517)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act For the relief of Marvin M. Hickox and A. M. Pettengill, of Vigo county, Indiana. (H.R. 920)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act In relation to the Postal Service. (H.R. 950)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act Inviting proposals for carrying the entire mail between the Atlantic and the Pacific States on one line. (H.R. 304)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To establish mail routes in the Territory of Kansas. (H.R. 326)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act To furnish additional mail facilities. (H.R. 661)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Gwin with an amendment; viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows printed in italics. An Act Inviting proposals for carrying the entire mail between the Atlantic and the Pacific States on one line. (H.R. 304)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Gwin, with an amendment; viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows printed in italics. An Act Inviting proposals for carrying the entire mail between the Atlantic and the Pacific States on one line. (H.R. 304)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported by Mr. Yulee with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Establishing certain post routes. (H.R. 714)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Relative to the printing and distribution of the annual message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents. (H.R. 228)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Printing. An Act Relative to the printing and distribution of the annual message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents. (H.R. 228)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act For the relief of Anthony Schlander. (H.R. 237)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act For the relief of Josiah Atkins, of Ohio. (H.R. 365)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act To confirm a certain private land claim in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 981)

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. 118)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Reported by Mr. Benjamin with an amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows printed in italics, and accompanied by a report, (No. 228.) An Act To confirm certain private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 195)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Confirming certain land entries under the third section of the act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled ''An act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department, during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 44)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the adjustment of the claims of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company, under the treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-six with Great Britain. (H.R. 980)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the confirmation of the title to the Saline Lands in Jackson county, State of Illinois, to D. H. Brush and others. (H.R. 975)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Alfred C. Murphy and Hiram Burlingham. (H.R. 749)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of congressional township number eight south, of range number three east, in Mercer county, Ohio. Whereas fractional congressional township number eight south, of range number three east, in Mercer county, Ohio, has no school lands within its limits, and for which ... (H.R. 840)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of congressional township number six south, of range number eight west, in Randolph county, State of Illinois. Whereas section number sixteen, in township number six south, of range number eight west, in Randolph county. Illinois, is covered by a private claim number ... (H.R. 424)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Greenbeny M. Watkins, of Montgomery county, Maryland. (H.R. 997)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Sally C. Northup. (H.R. 942)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Noah Wiswall. (H.R. 918)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of the Register of the Land Office at Vincennes, Indiana, and for other purposes. (H.R. 929)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of the widow and other heirs of William Higgins, deceased. (H.R. 627)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Making further provision in relation to Consolidated Land Offices. (H.R. 841)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Providing for satisfying claims for bounty lands and for other purposes. (H.R. 279)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act Recognizing the survey of the Grand Cheniere Island, State of Louisiana, as a approved by the surveyor general, and for other purposes. (H.R. 288)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act granting public lands in alternate sections to the State of Mississippi, to aid in the construction of railroads in said State, and for other purposes,'' approved August eleven, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. (H.R. 812)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To construe the word ''minimum'' price of the Public Lands, and for other purposes. (H.R. 50)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To provide for bringing up the arrearages of work of the land office at Olympia, Washington Territory. (H.R. 943)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To settle the titles to certain lands set apart for the use of certain half-breed Kansas Indians, in Kansas Territory. Whereas by the sixth article of a treaty, made and concluded at the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri, on the third day of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 637)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Bragg, with an amendment, viz: At the end of the bill insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Sally C. Northup. (H.R. 942)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Harlan, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To authorize the reissue of land warrants in certain cases, and for other purposes. (H.R. 807)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act For the relief of Eben S. Hanscomb. (H.R. 225)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reportedy Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, with an amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows printed in italics. An Act To secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. (H.R. 280)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Captain John A. Hopper. (H.R. 363)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs of the Reverend James Craig, deceased. (H.R. 320)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Bedinger, deceased. (H.R. 415)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of the estate of Charles H. Mason. (H.R. 189)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. An Act To authorize the President of the United States, in conjunction with the State of California, to run and mark the boundary lines between the territories of the United States and the State of California. (H.R. 706)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Territories. Reported by Mr. Green, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriation for the payment of the expenses of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Minnesota. (H.R. 703)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act Extending the charter incorporating the German Benevolent Society, of Washington city, approved July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and forty-two. (H.R. 523)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To amend an act supplementary to an act approved March three, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. ''to organize an Institution for the Insane of the Army and Navy and of the District of Columbia in the said District,'' approved February seven, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 999)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To authorize notaries public in the District of Columbia to take acknowledgments of deeds for the conveyance of real and personal estate therein. (H.R. 622)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Reported by Mr. Brown with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Extending the charter incorporating the German Benevolent Society, of Washington city, approved July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and forty-two. (H.R. 523)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Reported by Mr. Brown, with an amendment, viz: In the second section, strike out the words within [brackets.] An Act To incorporate the East Washington Library Association. (H.R. 521)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of Gotlieb Scheerer. (H.R. 680)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the relief of J. and R.H. Porter, J. C. Irvine and Company, and Charles Perry and Company. (H.R. 849)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Providing for additional terms of the United States circuit and district courts in the State of Kentucky. (H.R. 819)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Providing for the punishment of marshals and deputy marshals of the United States, or other ministerial officers, for permitting the escape of prisoners in their custody. (H.R. 804)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Supplemental to an act entitled ''An act providing for the taking of the seventh and subsequent censuses of the United States, and to fix the number of the members of the House of Representatives, and provide for the future apportionment among the several States,'' approved May ... (H.R. 660)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in the Territories of the United States, and other places, and disapproving and annulling certain acts of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 7)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To repeal the third section of an act entitled ''An act to increase and regulate the terms of the circuit and district courts for the northern district of the State of New York,'' approved July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 331)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Bayard with amendments, viz: Strike out the part within [brackets,] and insert the words printed in italics. An Act To punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in the Territories of the United States, and other places, and disapproving and annuling certain acts of the ... (H.R. 7)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Bayard with amendments, viz: Strike out the word within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Providing for the punishment of marshals and deputy marshals of the United States, or other ministerial officers, for permitting the escape of prisoners in their ... (H.R. 804)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Library. An Act To amend an act approved February fifth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled ''An act providing for keeping and distributing all public documents, and for other purposes.'' (H.R. 665)

Read twice and referred, to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Hunter, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty. (H.R. 499)

Read twice and referred, to the Committee on Finance. Reported by Mr. Pearce with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 892)

Read twice and. referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported by Mr. Hamlin with an amendment, viz: at the end of the bill insert the section printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for light-houses, beacons, buoys, and so forth. (H.R. 350)

Read twice and. referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported by Mr. Hale with an amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert what follows printed in italics, and accompanied by a report, (No. 195.) An Act For the relief of Mrs. A. W. Angus, widow of the late Captain Samuel Angus, United States navy. (H.R. 267)

Read twice and. referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Rachel McMillan. (H.R. 458)

Read twice and. referred, to the Committee on Commerce. An Act Making appropriations for light-houses, beacons, buoys, and so forth. (H.R. 350)

Read twice and. referred, to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported, by Mr. Bayard without amendment and adversely, and accompanied by a report, (No. 295.) An Act For the relief of the creditors of Daniel B. Vondersmith. (H.R. 356)

Read twice, amended, rejected on engrossment; subsequently reconsidered, and recommitted to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Reported by Mr. Kilgore with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows in italics; ordered to be printed. Motion to recommit pending. Mr. ... (H.R. 917)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, 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. 215)

Read twice, and on motion by Mr. Fitch, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to report whether the State of Indiana is responsible for certain of its bonds, principal, and interest, held by the Interior Department in trust for certain Indians; and if responsible, to so amend the bill or report a new bill as to direct the ... (H.R. 103)

Read twice, and on motion by Mr. Fitch, referred, to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to report whether the State of Indiana is responsible for certain of its bonds, principal, and interest, held by the Interior Department in trust for certain Indians; and if responsible, to so amend the bill or report a new bill as to direct the ... (H.R. 103)

Read twice, and ordered to be printed. Motion to recommit pending. Mr. Colfax, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill Inviting proposals for carrying the entire mail between the Atlantic and the Pacific States on one line. (H.R. 304)

Read twice, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to extend the Washington branch of their road to the Potomac river, and across the same, by an extension of the present structure known as the Long Bridge, for ... (H.R. 823)

Read twice, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the Alexandria and Washington railroad into the District of Columbia. (H.R. 825)

Read twice, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Washington City and Georgetown Railway Company. (H.R. 824)

Read twice, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Woodson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To preserve the public peace. Whereas the States of South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, have formally withdrawn from the American Union, and have organized a separate government, which they claim to be independent ... (H.R. 1006)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Reported back by Mr. Burnett, read a third time, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fouke, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the United States Agricultural Society. (H.R. 213)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Reported back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows in italics. Mr. Kilgore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To organize a metropolitan police for the city of Washington. (H.R. 900)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee of Claims. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. B. Washburne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of David G. Bates. (H.R. 115)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee of Claims. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomas, on leave introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lydia Fletcher. (H.R. 80)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Reported back by Mr. Phelps with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those in italics; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barrett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an ... (H.R. 133)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Grow, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. (H.R. 24)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported back by Mr. Ely without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To liquidate the unadjusted contracts of the Tennessee river improvement. (H.R. 89)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported back by Mr. Hoard without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Sayre. (H.R. 99)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mr. Spaulding, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Lot Hall, deceased. (H.R. 16)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Lyon, late pension agent at Knoxville, Tennessee. (H.R. 86)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Claims. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomas, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief James Henderson. (H.R. 79)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back by Mr. E. B. Washburne without amendment, ordered to be printed, and its further consideration postponed until Tuesday, the 21th instant. Mr. E. B. Washburne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Further to provide for the safety of passengers on vessels propelled in ... (H.R. 114)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back by Mr. Eliot, with a recommendation that it do not pass; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Curry, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Repealing all laws or parts of laws granting bounties or allowances to ... (H.R. 51)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back by Mr. John Cochrane without amendment, and its further consideration postponed until the first Tuesday of April next, after the morning hour. Ordered to be printed. Mr. John Cochrane, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the simplification and codification of the ... (H.R. 21)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back by Mr. Moorhead without amendment, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moorhead, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Knap. (H.R. 31)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the late consuls at Cyprus, in Turkey, Odessa, in Russia, and Maranham, in Brazil. (H.R. 1005)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clopton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To constitute Montgomery, Alabama, a port of delivery. (H.R. 620)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers. (H.R. 113)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. Cochrane, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the removal of the port of entry of the collection district of Niagara, in the State of New York, ... (H.R. 995)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moorhead, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent and punish fraud in the use of false stamps, moulds, dies, brands, labels, or trade-marks. (H.R. 330)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Quarles, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To constitute Clarksville, in the State of Tennessee, a port of delivery. (H.R. 96)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Reported back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows in italics; committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Royce, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the ... (H.R. 8)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Richard Chenery. (H.R. 171)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gartrell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of W. Y. Hansell, the heirs of W. H. Underwood, and the representatives of Samuel Rockwell. (H.R. 224)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. B. Clark, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the survivors of the Sublette Cut-off massacre, of the twenty-fourth July, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 127)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. I. I. Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for a superintendent of Indian affairs for Washington Territory and additional ... (H.R. 181)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reported back by Mr. F. W. Kellogg without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Helmick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Jackson, an invalid soldier. (H.R. 70)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashmore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Major John F. Hunter. (H.R. 219)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles W. Brooks, of New York. (H.R. 214)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Phineas G. Pearson. (H.R. 100)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to John Purcell. (H.R. 101)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Jacob Gates. (H.R. 752)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to the soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 801)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Mileage. Reported back with a recommendation that it do not pass; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Helmick, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce the compensation of members of Congress and to regulate the mileage. (H.R. 69)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Mileage. Reported back with a recommendation that it do not pass; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Theaker, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To reduce the compensation and mileage of senators, representatives, and delegates ... (H.R. 71)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act For the payment of expenses incurred in the suppression of Indian hostilities in the State of California. (H.R. 299)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act more effectually to provide for the organization of the Militia of the District of Columbia.'' approved March three, eighteen hundred and three. (H.R. 958)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back by Mr. Boteler with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets] and insert those in italics; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the ... (H.R. 132)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back by Mr. Boteler without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnett, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To remove the United States arsenal from the city of St. Louis, and to establish the ... (H.R. 132)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back by Mr. Tompkins with an amendment, viz: insert the words in italics; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vallandigham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act of April twenty-three, ... (H.R. 65)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows in italics; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burch, on leave, introduced the following ... (H.R. 299)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Farnsworth, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the accounts of Colonel William Gates. (H.R. 107)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Phelps, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To pay to the State of Missouri the amount expended by said State in repelling the invasion of the Osage Indians. (H.R. 130)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Smith, of Coffee county, Tennessee. (H.R. 337)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morse, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the sea-service pay of pursers in the ... (H.R. 2)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Thomas Berry. (H.R. 450)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. An Act Establishing certain post routes. (H.R. 714)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cooper, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Arthur Edwards and others. (H.R. 221)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Reported back by Mr. Blair without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taylor, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing floats to issue in satisfaction of claims against the United States for lands sold by them ... (H.R. 871)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Reported back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows in italics; committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Noell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To ... (H.R. 118)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Avery, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of R. K. Doebler. (H.R. 85)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Noell, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Gabriel J. Johnston. (H.R. 876)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Otero, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To confirm certain private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 195)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back by Mr Windom without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eben S. Hanscomb. (H.R. 225)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back by Mr. Barrett with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, viz: strike out all after the enacting clause and insert what follows in italics; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. B. Clark, on leave, introduced ... (H.R. 126)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back by Mr. John G. Davis with an amendment, in the nature of a substitute: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows in italics; ordered, to be printed. Mr. Estabrook, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting alternate sections of the public ... (H.R. 210)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back with a recommendation that it do not pass; and its further consideration postponed to the third Tuesday in April next, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Donating public lands to the several States which may provide colleges ... (H.R. 6)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alfred C. Murphy and Hiram Burlingham. (H.R. 749)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back without amendment, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Parrott, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To enable the trustees of the Bluemont College to pre-empt a certain quarter section of land, and for other purposes. (H.R. 203)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. C. Washburn, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the proper accounting officers of the United States treasury to audit and pay over ... (H.R. 162)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clopton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Extending the provisions of the sixth section of ''An act granting public lands to the State of Alabama ... (H.R. 565)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Grow, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prevent the sale of the public lands, except to actual settlers, for ten years after the same shall ... (H.R. 22)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stallworth, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting public lands in alternate sections to the State of Alabama to aid in the construction of ... (H.R. 797)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stout, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the time within which the governor of the State of Oregon shall select lands as provided in the ... (H.R. 177)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Underwood, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To extend the provisions of an act entitled ''An act granting public lands in alternate sections to ... (H.R. 321)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Harlan, with an amendment, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act For the relief of congressional township number six south, of range number eight west, in Randolph county, State of Illinois. Whereas section number sixteen, in ... (H.R. 424)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported from the Committee without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stout, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Creating a new land district in the State of Oregon. (H.R. 178)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported from the committee without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vandever, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making a grant of lands to the State of Iowa, in alternate sections, to aid in the ... (H.R. 156)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Jonathan Skinner, deceased. (H.R. 430)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Reported without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the settlement of the claims of the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, ... (H.R. 13)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Territories. Reported back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert what follows in italics; committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Isaac I. Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For ... (H.R. 189)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Proposed to be reported by Mr. Bingham from the Committee on the Judiciary with an amendment, viz: insert the words in italics, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To disapprove and declare null and void all territorial acts and parts of ... (H.R. 64)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back by Mr. Bingham without amendment; recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Motion to reconsider commitment ponding. Mr. Logan, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the holding of circuit and district courts of the United ... (H.R. 488)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back by Mr. Hickman with sundry amendments, viz: Insert the parts in italics; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Moore, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for an appeal to the Supreme Court ... (H.R. 56)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back by Mr. Hickman, who asked the reference of the bill to the Committee on Commerce, and that it be printed. Mr. Etheridge, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish and regulate a paper circulation of uniform value throughout the United States, and for other ... (H.R. 91)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back by Mr. Nelson without amendment, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in the Territories of the United States, and other places, and disapproving and annulling certain acts of ... (H.R. 7)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back with a recommendation that it do not pass; committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ashley, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for and facilitate the organization of the House of Representatives of the United States ... (H.R. 867)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those in italics; ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports. (H.R. 910)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Babbitt, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To divide the State of Pennsylvania into three judicial districts, and to establish a district court ... (H.R. 33)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burch, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize a change of the place of trial in civil cases in the circuit and district courts of the ... (H.R. 760)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back without amendment, with a recommendation that it do not pass; committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To withdraw the protection of Congress from non-resident landholders in several of ... (H.R. 472)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back without amendment, with a recommendation that it do not pass; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McClernand, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To attach the counties of Peoria, Woodford, Livingston, ... (H.R. 116)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported back, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Somes, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States. (H.R. 750)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Mr. Reynolds with amendments, viz: Strike out the parts within [brackets,] and insert those in italics; recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Reynolds, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish an additional judicial ... (H.R. 870)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported from the committee with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert what follows in italics, and amend the title. Ordered to be printed, and committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Mr. Hale, on ... (H.R. 505)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported without amendment, with a recommendation that it do not pass; ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Cobb, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the act establishing a Court of Claims. (H.R. 46)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported without amendment, with a recommendation that it do not pass; ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Grow, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an act to establish a court for the investigation of claims against the United ... (H.R. 25)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported without amendment, with a recommendation that it do not pass; ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Niblack, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend an ''Act to establish a court for the investigation of claims against the ... (H.R. 98)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Militia. Reported back by Mr. Webster without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Webster, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appointment of a commission to ascertain and recommend a proper site ... (H.R. 659)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Reported back without amendment, and its further consideration postponed until Thursday, the 31st instant, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Colfax, on leave, introduced the following bill. A Bill In relation to the postal service. Whereas in several States of the Union the ... (H.R. 950)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Humphrey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To construct a building for a post office at the city of Brooklyn, in the State of ... (H.R. 713)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Territories. Reported by Mr. Grow without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. I. I. Stevens, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making additional appropriations for the erection of the public buildings of Washington ... (H.R. 184)

Read twice, and referred to the select committee on the Pacific railroad. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boteler, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a railroad and telegraph communication from a point on the Mississippi river, south of latitude thirty-seven, to the Pacific ocean. (H.R. 413)

Read twice, and referred, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reported from the committee without amendment, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. V. Wright, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary A. M. Jones. (H.R. 42)

Read twice, and referred, to the select committee on the Pacific railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stout, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a railroad from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean. (H.R. 291)

Read twice, and. referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Reported by Mr. Thayer without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To constitute the Dakota land district, and to provide for the admission to the House of ... (H.R. 611)

Read twice, committed a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frederick Stephens. (H.R. 265)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. Robinson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sampson Stanfill. (H.R. 724)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ana M. Rolas Robaldo, widow of Francisco Robaldo, deceased. (H.R. 795)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Woodbury, Elizabeth Odell, and others. (H.R. 853)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Monty. (H.R. 580)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Reuben J. Champion, only child and heir of Reuben and Rhoda Champion. (H.R. 726)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Nathan Randall. (H.R. 393)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Daniel Coit. (H.R. 443)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walton, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles James Lanman. (H.R. 340)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Woodson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of M. M. Marmaduke and others. (H.R. 636)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered printed. Mr. Maynard, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph P. Moore. (H.R. 953)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed Mr. Noell, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Olivier Duclosel, of the parish of St. Martin, Louisiana. (H.R. 260)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George G. Durham. (H.R. 526)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel McLean, Richard G. Murphy, and Charles E. Flandrau. (H.R. 982)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the administrators of the estate of the late Almon W. Babbitt, secretary of Utah. (H.R. 585)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To pay B. Y. Shelley for his claim and improvements, taken from him by the Omaha reservation, in Nebraska Territory. (H.R. 787)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Alley, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hockaday and Liggit. (H.R. 513)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Alley, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Y. Sewell. (H.R. 426)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Alley, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel S. Green. (H.R. 514)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Alley, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Franklin Haven and his associates. (H.R. 915)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Alley, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Franklin Haven and his associates. (H.R. 916)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anderson, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of the claim of J. W. Nye, assignee of Peter Bargy, jr., and Hugh Stewart. (H.R. 628)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Avery, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Valery Landry, of the parish of Ascension, Louisiana. (H.R. 261)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. B. Craige, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of William York. (H.R. 440)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Babbitt, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elias Wilson and other surviving children of the late Lieutenant John Wilson, late of Georgia, an officer in the revolution. (H.R. 791)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Babbitt, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Saxton, a soldier of the revolution. (H.R. 382)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Babbitt, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of William Humphrey, a soldier of the revolution. (H.R. 590)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Babbitt, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of John Forrester, a soldier of the revolution. (H.R. 381)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Babbitt, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of John McDaniel, a soldier of the revolution. (H.R. 642)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barrett, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles E. Roberts, of Washington Territory. (H.R. 733)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Triche and Edward Rodrigue. (H.R. 634)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boteler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Harriet F. Fisher, administratrix of M. W. Fisher, deceased, and Richard M. Bouton. (H.R. 684)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bouligny, from the Committee on Private Land Claim, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Francois Guillory. (H.R. 262)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bouligny, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Braxton Bragg and Randall L. Gibson. (H.R. 367)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bouligny, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Camilla C. A. Ponce. (H.R. 633)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Floyd. (H.R. 400)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Louisa Abert Byrne. (H.R. 1020)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Michael R. Clark. (H.R. 396)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Adaline Caddis. (H.R. 399)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Leopold Schineider. (H.R. 599)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Richard M. Haden. (H.R. 532)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Samuel Gibbs. (H.R. 667)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah Blackwell. (H.R. 398)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Esther P. Fox, widow of Augustus C. Fox. (H.R. 448)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to James C. Myers. (H.R. 531)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To continue the name of Ann G. Barker on the invalid pension roll for life. (H.R. 397)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Berault, administratrix, and so forth, of the late Joseph Wheaton, of Rhode Island. (H.R. 902)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Maryett Van Buskirk. (H.R. 245)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the administrator of Mary Clift, deceased. (H.R. 1013)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Abraham Livingston. (H.R. 638)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of John Roberts, deceased, late a surgeon in the revolutionary war. (H.R. 939)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Jonathan Skinner, deceased. (H.R. 430)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant Colonel David Hopkins. (H.R. 1014)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Major John Ripley. (H.R. 246)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children and the issue of any deceased child or children of Henry Brockholst Livingston. (H.R. 430)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of John L. Polevesky, deceased. (H.R. 1012)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Antone Robideaux. (H.R. 694)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John C. McFerran, of the United States army. (H.R. 372)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Julius Martin. (H.R. 527)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Maurice K. Simons, of Jackson county, Texas. (H.R. 639)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buffinton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Eliza A. Merchant, widow of the late First Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Charles G. Merchant, of the United States army. (H.R. 436)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burch, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Barron, James Porter, and Aaron A. L. H. Crenshaw. (H.R. 813)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burroughs, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Mary Jemison, deceased. (H.R. 508)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. C. Washburn, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Francis Lavonture and Pierre Grignon. (H.R. 556)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. C. Washburn, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josiah Atkins, of Ohio. (H.R. 365)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. C. Washburn, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Packwood. (H.R. 366)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Martin, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Emma A. Wood, widow of the late Brevet Major George W. F. Wood, of the United States army. (H.R. 314)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Martin, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Erastus Hutchins. (H.R. 446)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Martin, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Harriet R. F. Vinson. (H.R. 447)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Martin, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Sutton. (H.R. 666)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Martin, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Jane Yates. (H.R. 530)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Martin, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Sandles. (H.R. 312)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. MARTIN, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Martha Sanderson, widow of Major Winslow F. Sanderson. (H.R. 529)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. D. Martin, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Rufus L. Harvey. (H.R. 858)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. Robinson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Albert Elfe and others. (H.R. 692)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Directing the conveyance of a lot of ground for the use of the public schools of the city of Washington. (H.R. 520)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the East Washington Library Association. (H.R. 521)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Metropolitan Gas Light Company, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 522)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Case, from the Committee on Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David V. Whiting. (H.R. 377)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cobb, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Johnston. (H.R. 238)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of the Reverend James Craig, deceased. (H.R. 320)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. D. C. Leach, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomie Indians. (H.R. 852)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. D. C. Leach, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to adjudicate and settle certain claims against the Menomonee Indians. (H.R. 433)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. De Jarnette, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Gustavus B. Horner, deceased. (H.R. 401)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dejarnette, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Bedinger, deceased. (H.R. 415)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Delano, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth Bliss Wolf, of Troy, New York. (H.R. 685)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Delano, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Rebecca Davis, widow of Jesse Davis. (H.R. 589)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Delano, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel N. Elliott and others, children of Arthur Elliott. (H.R. 588)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Delano, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Howard, widow of James Howard. (H.R. 643)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Delano, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Whitney and Mary Huggerford, children of Huldah Butler. (H.R. 736)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Delano, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs-at-law of John L. Mersereau, a revolutionary soldier. (H.R. 737)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George W. Samson. (H.R. 831)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James S. Campbell. (H.R. 298)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Barnt de Klyn, deceased. (H.R. 429)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant James Taylor, of the Virginia State line. (H.R. 525)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Charles Fierer, deceased. (H.R. 903)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of Israel Frisbie, a revolutionary soldier. (H.R. 362)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To refund to the State of Georgia certain moneys paid by said State to Peter Trezvant, the legal representative of Robert Varquhar. (H.R. 904)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter Rogerson and Son, of St. John's, Newfoundland, owners of the British brig ''Jessie.'' (H.R. 349)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Shade Calloway. (H.R. 230)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Smith and Hunt, of Toledo, Ohio. (H.R. 317)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. B. Washburne, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Young and George Young, owners of the schooner ''Elizabeth Mary.'' (H.R. 721)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. Joy Morris, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles E. Anderson. (H.R. 551)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. H. Jones and M. H. C. Brown. (H.R. 727)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anson Dart. (H.R. 220)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Hall. (H.R. 584)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of D. R. Green and others, owners of ship Junior, of New Bedford. (H.R. 940)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel John L. Gardner. (H.R. 952)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Van Camp, Chapin, and others. (H.R. 772)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Alexander V. Frazer. (H.R. 625)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Etheridge, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Johnston, of Ohio. (H.R. 263)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Etheridge, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Michael T. Simmons. (H.R. 369)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Etheridge, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Richard C. Martin. (H.R. 693)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Etheridge, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide payment for depredations committed by the whites upon the Shawnee Indians in Kansas Territory. (H.R. 368)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anthony W. Bayard, an invalid soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 315)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Chauncey W. Fuller. (H.R. 395)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary J. Maddux. (H.R. 394)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Second Lieutenant George W. Malone, of Georgia. (H.R. 821)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to James Dunning. (H.R. 459)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to James L. Williams, an invalid soldier of the Mexican war. (H.R. 747)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Charles Appleton. (H.R. 461)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Hugh Baker. (H.R. 462)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Levi Parks. (H.R. 793)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to William Eddy. (H.R. 460)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Amanda Batts, Laura P. W. Young, and Betsey Murdock, heirs of Barbara Walker. (H.R. 828)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eunice Cobb. (H.R. 449)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Sanford. (H.R. 593)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Taylor. (H.R. 392)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Lane. (H.R. 1015)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Rachel McMillan. (H.R. 458)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Goodrich, jr. (H.R. 387)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Stephen Bunnell. (H.R. 390)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sylvanus Burnham. (H.R. 384)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Berry. (H.R. 450)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Bullock. (H.R. 457)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Zina Williams. (H.R. 386)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Andrew Templeton. (H.R. 454)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Archibald Merriman. (H.R. 591)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Asa Wells. (H.R. 452)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Harriett S. Wyman, widow of Captain Thomas W. Wyman, post captain in the naval service of the United States. (H.R. 559)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Herman J. Ehle. (H.R. 653)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Alexander, an invalid soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 456)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary Blattenberger, widow of John Blattenberger. (H.R. 949)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Moses Grooms. (H.R. 594)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Adam Garlock. (H.R. 389)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Anselmn Clackson, of Missouri. (H.R. 453)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Beriah Wright, of New York. (H.R. 385)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Chauncey Hoyt, of Chenango county, New York. (H.R. 455)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to John Piper. (H.R. 391)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Peter Navarre. (H.R. 926)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Sutton M. Young. (H.R. 383)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to William Burns, of Ohio. (H.R. 451)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting deficiency and increase of pension to Isaac Carpenter. (H.R. 388)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: Bill Granting a pension to Asa Hastings. (H.R. 829)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Robert Paul, a soldier of the revolution. (H.R. 928)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain David Noble, deceased. (H.R. 506)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John and Sarah Mandeville, deceased. (H.R. 748)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Moshier. (H.R. 359)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill; A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Jones, of the Virginia continental line during the revolutionary war. (H.R. 361)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported, the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Mrs. Harriet de la Palm Baker, deceased, daughter and legal heir of the late Lieutenant Colonel Frederick H. Weissenfels, of the army of ... (H.R. 360)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and descendants of John Baptiste Labonte, a captain in the revolutionary war. (H.R. 254)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Captain Samuel Miller. (H.R. 253)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Joseph Traversie, a captain in the revolutionary war. (H.R. 258)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Nehemiah Stokely, a revolutionary officer. (H.R. 257)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representative of Captain Louis Marnay. (H.R. 250)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Brigadier General William Thompson. (H.R. 248)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Pierre Ayott. (H.R. 256)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Lieutenant Francis Ware. Whereas it appears, from the books in the Register's office of the Treasury Department, that there is ... (H.R. 582)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the orphan children of Colonel Philip Johnston. (H.R. 249)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the orphan children of Joseph Jewett, a revolutionary officer, who was slain in battle. (H.R. 259)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of Basil Mignault. (H.R. 252)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: For the relief of the legal representatives of Lieutenant Thomas Williams, a revolutionary officer. (H.R. 255)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reporter the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Chaudonet. (H.R. 247)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Clement Gosselin. (H.R. 251)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Florence, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Hildreth. (H.R. 789)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Florence, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Frederick Schaum. (H.R. 669)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Florence, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Gregory Patti. (H.R. 545)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Florence, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Hester Sergeant Barton. (H.R. 546)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Florence, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John C. West. (H.R. 1018)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Florence, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Susan McGaulick, widow of James McGaulick. (H.R. 908)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Florence, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Henry F. Bowers. (H.R. 602)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Florence, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to William Roberts. (H.R. 788)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill (H.R. 464)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Directing the payment of arrearages of pension due Simon Smith, deceased, late a pensioner of the United States, to his heirs-at-law. (H.R. 783)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief James Van Pelt. (H.R. 596)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edwin W. Jones. (H.R. 674)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Effisia C. De May, widow of Charles F. V. De May, late a dragoon in the army of the United States. (H.R. 542)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elmira White, widow of Captain Thomas R. White. (H.R. 316)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frances Fowler, widow of Abraham C. Fowler, late a second lieutenant of artillery in the United States army. (H.R. 922)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Pike. (H.R. 676)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Judith Nott, widow of John Nott, late of the United States navy. (H.R. 595)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant Isaac H. Metcalf, of Tioga county, New York. (H.R. 987)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant Robert Cunningham. (H.R. 464)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Margaret Whitehead. (H.R. 543)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Bennett. (H.R. 403)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary F. Parker, widow of George Parker. (H.R. 538)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Micajah Hawkes. (H.R. 273)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter Josephs. (H.R. 907)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of Margaret Reynolds, deceased. (H.R. 744)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Timothy Cavan, an invalid pensioner. (H.R. 274)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Charles Goodspeed, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. (H.R. 541)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Charles Lee, late of the United States army. (H.R. 539)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel Lucas. (H.R. 598)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Edward Lee, late of the United States army. (H.R. 539)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Ethelred Stafford, of Louisiana. (H.R. 784)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Jonathan W. Swift, of the United States navy. (H.R. 540)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Maria Cornell, widow of George Cornell. (H.R. 1002)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary Shircliff, widow of John Shircliff. (H.R. 465)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Adelia C. Place, widow of Lieutenant Charles W. Place, late of the United States navy. (H.R. 671)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mrs. Margaret Coward, widow of Thomas Coward. (H.R. 741)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sparhawk Parsons. (H.R. 675)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Jane W. McKee, widow of Colonel William R. McKee, of the second regiment of Kentucky volunteers. (H.R. 740)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to William G. Bernard, late a soldier in the United States army. (H.R. 670)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Michael Hanson. (H.R. 404)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Samuel Hamilton. (H.R. 463)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting increased pension to Richard Brazier. (H.R. 402)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To increase the pension of John O'Leary. (H.R. 743)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To increase the pension of Salvador Accardi. (H.R. 742)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To increase the pension of William W. Deihl. (H.R. 597)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Francis W. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to George W. Allen. (H.R. 822)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frank, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ezra Cornell, of Ithaca, New York. (H.R. 826)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frank, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frederick E. Sickels. (H.R. 827)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. G. Adams, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas F. Bowler, of New Mexico. (H.R. 579)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Green Adams, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing and directing the Postmaster General to purchase and to test H. Allen's water-proof and air-tight mail bags. (H.R. 519)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Green Adams, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. Bledsoe, William Bryson, William C. Scott, William Doty, and others. (H.R. 811)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Green Adams, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To compensate M. C. Mordecai for certain services. (H.R. 938)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Harriet Beard, widow of James Beard, deceased. (H.R. 774)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Lilly. (H.R. 809)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sutliff and Case. (H.R. 937)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee of Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Snyder. (H.R. 1016)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. W. Flemming. (H.R. 469)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Andrew E. Marshall. (H.R. 318)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Fedler. (H.R. 468)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Katherine K. Russell. (H.R. 537)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Maria W. Sanders. (H.R. 989)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Hannah McDowell. (H.R. 276)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Lieutenant Nathaniel Smith, deceased. (H.R. 275)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Webster S. Steele. (H.R. 277)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Piercy, (H.R. 470)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Helmick, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. T. Spencer and Gurdon S. Hubbard. (H.R. 515)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Helmick, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Allen L. Porter. (H.R. 351)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Helmick, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George F. Means. (H.R. 517)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Helmick, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Dougless, survivor of Dougless and Beman. (H.R. 516)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Helmick, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Postmaster General to open and readjust the accounts of L. F. Sanger and John Frink and Company, mail contractors. (H.R. 816)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Helmick, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Harris and Hodge, of Missouri. (H.R. 723)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hickman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the creditors of Daniel B. Vondersmith. (H.R. 356)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hickman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William A. Linn's estate. (H.R. 818)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of E. George Squier, of New York. (H.R. 511)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoard, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas H. Baird, administrator of Doctor Absalom Baird, deceased. (H.R. 836)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoard, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cassius M. Clay. (H.R. 240)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Captain John A. Hopper. (H.R. 363)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of John Hopper, deceased. (H.R. 555)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hughes, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Francis B. Schaeffer, late a military storekeeper in California. (H.R. 985)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hughes, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James O'Brien, late lieutenant of company E of the District of Columbia and Maryland regiment of volunteers, in the Mexican war, and others. (H.R. 945)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Humphrey, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anton L. C. Portman. (H.R. 587)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hutchins, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Doctor Edward Jarvis. (H.R. 343)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hutchins, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. R. Crump. (H.R. 524)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hutchins, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of five deceased clerks in the Philadelphia custom-house. (H.R. 233)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hutchins, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Sylvester Day, late a surgeon in the United States army. (H.R. 344)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. Craig, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Offices Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas R. Livingston. (H.R. 353)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. Craig, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel H. Woodson. (H.R. 518)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. G. Davis, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander Albertson, of Platte county, Nebraska. (H.R. 355)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. G. Davis, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of congressional township No. 2 north, of range No. 9 west, of the 4th principal meridian, in Adams county, State of Illinois. Whereas section No. 16, in township ... (H.R. 235)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. G. Davis, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Talbott, late register of the land office at Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 775)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. G. Davis, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Atkinson, of Parke county, Indiana. (H.R. 234)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Harris, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Maxwell Wood, a surgeon in the navy of the United States. (H.R. 697)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Harris, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the settlement of the account of General A. Henderson. (H.R. 946)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Leach, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Ferguson Smith. (H.R. 548)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Leach, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Mary Bullock. (H.R. 549)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Leach, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of David Richardson and his widow, Sarah Richardson, deceased. (H.R. 444)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Leach, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of George Walker, deceased. (H.R. 550)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Leach, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of the late John Moore, and his widow, Mary Moore. (H.R. 445)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Charles Porterfield, deceased. (H.R. 243)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: For the relief of the heirs of Dr. George Yates. (H.R. 244)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. James M. Leach, from the Committee on Revolutionary pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Dudley, of Adair county, Kentucky. (H.R. 739)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John G. Davis, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of congressional township number two south, of range number twelve west, of the second principal meridian, in Gibson county. State of Indiana. Whereas section ... (H.R. 425)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Junkin, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Elizabeth Yancey, widow of John Yancey. (H.R. 778)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Junkin, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Haynie, administrator of Ann Haynie. (H.R. 777)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Junkin, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Susannah Scott, widow of William Scott. (H.R. 380)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Junkin, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To pay to the surviving children of the late Martha Swilling, widow of George Swilling, the pension that was due her to the period of her death, under the act of seventh of ... (H.R. 268)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Adelaide Adams, widow of Commander George Adams, United States navy. (H.R. 272)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Margarett Watts, widow of Alexander Watts. (H.R. 668)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leach, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Israel Johnson. (H.R. 370)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Leach, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of Elizabeth Hickman, late of Georgia. (H.R. 792)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lee, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. C. Ferry, for carrying the mail for one quarter from Pittsburg to Franklin. (H.R. 354)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lee, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of D. D. Harrill. (H.R. 896)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lee, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eben Adams. (H.R. 833)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lee, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the erection of a post office in the city of Philadelphia. (H.R. 814)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lee, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To stamp self-sealing newspaper wrappers. (H.R. 815)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Longnecker, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Benjamin Moore, deceased. (H.R. 776)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Longnecker, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of certain volunteer companies in the service of the United States in the war with Mexico and in the suppression of Indian disturbances in New ... (H.R. 730)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs-at-law of the late Major William S. Henry. (H.R. 837)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph C. G. Kennedy. (H.R. 512)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maynard, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Messrs. Coale and Barr. (H.R. 576)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Moorhead, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edward Lusher. (H.R. 832)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morse, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel A. Coale, junior, late acting purser of the United States ship Levant. (H.R. 641)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Nelson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill Directing the Secretary of the Interior to liquidate the accounts of Mitchell and Rammilsburg and Baker and Von Phul. (H.R. 428)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Nelson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Austin E. Smith, assignee of W. Wallace Ward. (H.R. 851)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Noell, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Jean A. B. Dauterive. (H.R. 583)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Noell, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of William P. McCully, deceased. (H.R. 632)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Olin, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the reciprocal extinguishment of certain claims between the United States and the representatives of Robert Brent, deceased. (H.R. 696)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Olin, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Asenath M. Elliott, widow of Captain Edward G. Elliott. (H.R. 695)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Martin Burke and Captain Charles S. Winder, of the United States army. (H.R. 266)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William B. Dodd and others. (H.R. 732)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Hutchinson. (H.R. 373)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perry, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the erection of public buildings in the Territory of Washington. (H.R. 948)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Porter, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To compensate the State of New Jersey for the use of rooms for the United States courts in the State House at Trenton, in said State. (H.R. 901)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Beda Hayes, widow of Dudley Hayes, of Granby, Hartford county, Connecticut. (H.R. 528)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Hopper. (H.R. 645)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mowry Bates, of Rhode Island. (H.R. 785)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nancy G. Van Rensselaer, widow of Lieutenant Colonel Henry K. Van Rensselaer, of New York. (H.R. 786)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Reuben and Rhoda H. Champion. (H.R. 378)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Elnathan Sears, an officer of the revolution. (H.R. 442)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Tousant Lavarnway. (H.R. 379)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Robert Purchase, a soldier of the revolutionary war. (H.R. 601)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pottle, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill. A Bill For the relief of Celestia P. Hartt, widow of Constructor Samuel P. Hartt. (H.R. 509)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pottle, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eliphalet Brown, jr. (H.R. 439)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pottle, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Prince S. Crowell. (H.R. 986)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pottle, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Frederick F. Brose, deceased. (H.R. 586)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pottle, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William B. Draper. (H.R. 438)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. Davis, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Kelly. (H.R. 358)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. R. Davis, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill; A Bill For the relief of Stephen O. Gibbs. (H.R. 357)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Reagan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Chauncey A. Horr, of Nebraska. (H.R. 563)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Moore, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Perry. (H.R. 678)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Schwartz, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Tyson. (H.R. 437)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sedgewick, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. A. W. Angus, widow of the late Captain Samuel Angus, United States navy. (H.R. 267)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sedgwick, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Ann E. Smoot, widow of the late Captain Joseph Smoot, of the United States navy. (H.R. 734)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sickles, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Adriene Rich, of Habersham county, Georgia. (H.R. 533)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sickles, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John P. Smith, of Habersham county, Georgia. (H.R. 534)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Stillman. (H.R. 264)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James and R.H. Porter. (H.R. 856)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John F. Sanford, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Robert Sanford, deceased. (H.R. 434)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Van Cott and Samuel Malin, of the Territory of Utah. (H.R. 731)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph B. Eaton. (H.R. 371)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to ''An act to refund to the Territory of Utah the expenses incurred by said Territory in suppressing Indian hostilities,'' approved July seventeen, eighteen ... (H.R. 796)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To refund to the Territory of Utah the expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three. (H.R. 435)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edward Rumery. (H.R. 547)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hiram Anderson. (H.R. 991)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Abigail A. Bingham, widow of Samuel S. Bingham. (H.R. 745)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Cyrenus C. Blackman, of St. Helena parish, Louisiana. (H.R. 271)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Eliza M. Plympton. (H.R. 923)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Lacey, of Grainger county, Tennessee. (H.R. 269)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Madden, of Claiborn county, Tennessee. (H.R. 270)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Phoebe Ann Shockley. (H.R. 406)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Reverend William H. Rogers, chaplain in the United States army in the war with Mexico. (H.R. 535)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Joseph Files. (H.R. 405)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Eliza Reeves. (H.R. 467)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Ezekiel Jones. (H.R. 407)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to John Rogers, of Tennessee. (H.R. 924)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Larkin Tally, of Tennessee. (H.R. 925)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an invalid pension to Thomas Glasgow. (H.R. 466)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting half pay for five years to Louisa Sweetman, widow of James Sweetman. (H.R. 746)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting increased pension to Henry Hewson. (H.R. 992)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting relief to Aaron Quigley, an invalid seaman. (H.R. 536)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the appointment of commissioners to settle the claims of citizens of Kansas. (H.R. 1017)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander Cross. (H.R. 808)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Brigadier General Joseph G. Totten. (H.R. 954)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George W. Mundy, administrator of Major General Eleazur W. Ripley, deceased. (H.R. 794)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hodges and Lansdale, and the administrator of William Kilgour, deceased, and administrator of Rinaldo Johnson and Anne E Johnson, deceased. (H.R. 978)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Veitch. (H.R. 977)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the administrators of Jacob Wead. (H.R. 944)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Myerle. (H.R. 345)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hannibal Graham. (H.R. 348)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hull and Cozzens and John Naylor and Company (H.R. 624)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jethro Bonney, of the State of New York. (H.R. 422)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Oliver Harris. (H.R. 347)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of P. P. Hull, deceased. (H.R. 346)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Cowing. (H.R. 623)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sweeney, Rittenhouse, Fant and Company. (H.R. 427)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill In relation to mission claims at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. (H.R. 577)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thayer, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm certain entries of land in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 806)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Thomas, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nancy Weeks, of Georgia. (H.R. 441)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Train, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following bill: A Bill To define the powers and duties and fix the salaries of the United States Art Commissioners. (H.R. 603)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Trimble, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Y. Strong. (H.R. 578)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the grandchildren of Captain Richard Jones, an officer in the revolution. (H.R. 690)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heir-at-law and legal representative of Captain Thomas Hazzard. (H.R. 687)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, deceased. (H.R. 319)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant George Walton. (H.R. 688)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of the late Mrs. Mary Clearwater, of New York. (H.R. 927)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal heirs and representatives of Captain Andrew Russell, deceased, of the Virginia line. (H.R. 689)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of James Bell, late of Chambly, in the province of Lower Canada, deceased. (H.R. 581)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Presbyterian church, at Princeton, New Jersey. (H.R. 725)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vandever, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John W. Taylor and certain other assignees of pre-emption land locations. (H.R. 284)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Verbee, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Catherine Ansart. (H.R. 780)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Verree, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Cole, widow of Levi Cole, deceased. (H.R. 779)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Verree, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Molly W. Hobbs, widow of Josiah Hobbs, of New Hampshire. (H.R. 781)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Verree, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving child or children of Mary Haskins, deceased. (H.R. 782)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waldron, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the redemption of the outstanding scrip issued by the city of Omaha, applied to the erection of the capitol of Nebraska. (H.R. 947)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walton, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of M. V. Jones, late collector of the customs for the district of Wilmington, North Carolina. (H.R. 773)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walton, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Brown. (H.R. 229)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walton, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Phelan. (H.R. 342)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walton, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joel M. Smith. (H.R. 421)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walton, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Moses Meeker. (H.R. 341)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William C. Anderson, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. W. Nye. (H.R. 629)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. William N. H. Smith, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Stephen F. Willis. (H.R. 626)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George F. Brott. (H.R. 239)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Winslow, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the president and directors of the Panama Railroad Company. (H.R. 735)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Woodruff, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Hooten. (H.R. 352)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Woodruff, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Robert H. Morris, late postmaster of the city of New York. (H.R. 242)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Woodson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill A bill for the relief of Erastus S. Joslyn. (H.R. 635)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Woodson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Barrow, James Porter, and Aaron L. H. Crenshaw. (H.R. 1019)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Woodson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Kerr, Brierly and Company. (H.R. 431)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to the printed. Mr. Nixon, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac S. Smith, of Syracuse, New York. (H.R. 231)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to the printed. Mr. Tappan, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ephraim Hunt. (H.R. 677)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered, to be printed. Mr. C. D. Martin, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Abraham Crum. (H.R. 313)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered, to be printed. Mr. E. Joy Morris, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ralph King. (H.R. 698)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered, to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas W. Phelps. (H.R. 558)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered, to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Nathan Whitman. (H.R. 652)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House; and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Rufus Call, junior, a soldier in the late war with Great Britain. (H.R. 544)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House; and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lovejoy, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Dixon. (H.R. 236)

Read twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. M. Leach, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the surviving children of Catharine Hanna, deceased. (H.R. 738)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. FLORENCE, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill To fix and regulate the duty on imports, and for other purposes. (H.R. 481)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed, Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 861)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aldrich, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish two Indian agencies in Nebraska Territory, and one in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 557)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Alley, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To prevent the removal of the post office in Boston, Massachusetts. (H.R. 854)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Barr, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Incorporating the Catholic Beneficial Total Abstinence Association of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 770)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnett, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize divorces in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 633)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the American Pharmaceutical Association, in Washington city, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 767)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Regents of a General Hospital for the District of Columbia. (H.R. 552)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Colfax, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce the expenses of the Post Office Department. (H.R. 303)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Colfax, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To suppress the unlawful collection and delivery of letters. (H.R. 327)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For retiring superannuated and disabled officers from the United States army. (H.R. 718)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Regulating contracts in the military service of the United States. (H.R. 717)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. E. Joy Morris, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States,'' approved August eighteen, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 765)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eliot, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for light-houses, beacons, buoys, and so forth. (H.R. 350)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal certain acts of limitation with reference to revolutionary claims. (H.R. 686)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gooch, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriation for the payment of the expenses of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Minnesota. (H.R. 703)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gurley, from the Committee on Printing, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the public printing, binding, engraving, and lithographing. (H.R. 302)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Haskin, from the Committee on Public Expenditures, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act for the commencement of a fortification opposite Fort Schuyler, at a point known as Willet's or Wilkins' Point, New York. (H.R. 364)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hickman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to prescribe the mode of obtaining evidence in cases of contested elections,'' approved February the nineteenth, one ... (H.R. 553)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hickman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize district judges of the United States to act out of their districts in certain cases. (H.R. 332)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hickman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill; A Bill To extend the right of appeal from decisions of circuit courts to the Supreme Court of the United States. (H.R. 554)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hughes, by unanimous consent, reported, from a minority of the Committee for the District of Columbia, the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of railways in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and the extension, ... (H.R. 768)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hughes, from a minority of the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To appropriate annually for ten years the sum of twenty thousand dollars for erecting a monument to George Washington at the seat of ... (H.R. 769)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hughes, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the curbing, grading, paving, and so forth, of Seventeenth street west, from Pennsylvania avenue to B street north. (H.R. 1000)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. Cochrane, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To appropriate fifty thousand dollars for the survey of the northern waters, coasts, and islands of the Pacific ocean and Behring's straits, in view of ... (H.R. 998)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. Morrison Harris, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable the Secretary of the Navy to purchase Davidson's boat apparatus. (H.R. 855)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John B. Clark, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Appropriating money for the erection of public buildings in certain Territories therein named, and for other purposes. (H.R. 704)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. John G. Davis, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting alternate sections of the public lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads in the Territory of Nebraska. (H.R. 701)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kunkel, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for repairing the custom-house of the United States at the port of Baltimore. (H.R. 495)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Loomis, from the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the present system of providing relief for sick and disabled seamen. (H.R. 850)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. McRae, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish national foundries in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and in Shelby county, Alabama. (H.R. 844)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes. (H.R. 338)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morse, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect a conditional contract for the purchase of coal. (H.R. 771)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morse, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm certain payments, and to establish the pay of pursers' clerks. (H.R. 560)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill Making appropriations for military roads in the Territory of Washington. (H.R. 906)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the better organization of the militia of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 860)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the construction of certain military roads in the Territory of Washington. (H.R. 702)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettit, from the Committee on the Library, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to complete the publication of the Exploring Expedition. (H.R. 834)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peyton, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following bill: A Bill To erect a new jail in the city of Washington. (H.R. 790)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Reagan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for an examination of the claims of citizens of the United States for indemnity for spoliations committed by Indians and Mexicans within the limits ... (H.R. 728)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Reagan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to enable the President of the United States to call into the service of the United States the regiment of mounted volunteers ... (H.R. 859)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill Further to amend the several acts respecting copy-rights. (H.R. 803)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing a loan. (H.R. 972)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Ponca Indians, and with certain bands of Indians in the State of Oregon and Territory of ... (H.R. 216)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 895)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 864)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 4)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, 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 tribes, ... (H.R. 865)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 339)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and Judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 892)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 914)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 3)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 564)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 971)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 305)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 899)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 5)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 862)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making further appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty. (H.R. 503)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 866)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty. (H.R. 499)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vandever, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the reissue of land warrants in certain cases, and for other purposes. (H.R. 807)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Waldron, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for territorial libraries. (H.R. 705)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Ordered to be printed as amended in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Morrill, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to ... (H.R. 338)

Read twice, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Unions and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the ''Guardian Society'' and reform juvenile offenders in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 766)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Nathaniel Heard. (H.R. 631)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brason, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Mary Ann Henry. (H.R. 311)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Duell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah S. Stafford. (H.R. 664)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Prentis Champlain. (H.R. 655)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thomas Booth. (H.R. 654)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William M. S. Riley. (H.R. 673)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Foster, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Mary Perrigo, widow of Frederick Perrigo. (H.R. 672)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Nathaniel Emerson, deceased. (H.R. 644)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pottle, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hiram Paulding. (H.R. 375)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. S. Moore, from the Committee on Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Philip B. Holmes and William Pedrich. (H.R. 423)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Walton, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hooper and Williams, Livingston, Kincaid and Company, Gilbert and Gerrish, and others. (H.R. 720)

Read twice, committed, to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered, to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the examination of claims for Indian depredations in the Territory of New Mexico. (H.R. 376)

Read twice, committed, to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To reimburse the corporation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, a sum of money advanced towards the construction of the Little Falls ... (H.R. 679)

Read twice, committed, to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lovejoy, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. (H.R. 280)

Read twice, committed, to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 500)

Read twice, committed, to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 501)

Read twice, committed, to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the construction, preservation and repairs of certain fortifications and other works of defence for the year ending the thirtieth ... (H.R. 217)

Read twice, committed. to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W. C. Anderson, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. W. Nye. (H.R. 630)

Read twice, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Spinner, from the Committee on Accounts, reported the following bill: A Bill Defining the duties and fixing the compensation of the Clerk, Sergeant-at-arms. Postmaster, Doorkeeper, and Librarian, and settling the number and pay of the other employees of the House of Representatives, and ... (H.R. 1111)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and its further consideration postponed until 12th April next. Mr. Royce, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the ascertainment and satisfaction of claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to the thirty-first day of July, one ... (H.R. 510)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and its further consideration postponed until the third Tuesday in December next. Mr. Curtis, from the select committee on the Pacific railroad, reported the following bill: A Bill To secure contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation, by railroad, of mails, troops, ... (H.R. 835)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Eliot, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To prohibit the ''Chinese coolie trade'' by American citizens in American vessels. (H.R. 657)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Public Lands. Mr. Vandever, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting alternate sections of the public lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads in the Territory or future State of Kansas. (H.R. 700)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Library. Mr. Pettit, from the Committee on the Library, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act, approved February fifth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled ''An act providing for keeping and distributing all public documents, and for other ... (H.R. 665)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr. Green Adams, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a mail six times a week from Sacramento, in California, to Olympia, in the Territory of Washington. (H.R. 715)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr. Green Adams, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the transportation of the mails of the United States between the United States and the republic of Mexico. (H.R. 810)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the select committee. Mr. Curtis, from the select committee on the Pacific railroad, reported the following bill: A Bill To secure contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation, by railroad, of mails, troops, munitions of war, military and naval stores, ... (H.R. 646)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted, to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled ''An act to establish a court for the investigation of claims against the United States,'' approved February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 719)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted. Mr. Carter, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend ''An act to incorporate the Columbia Institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb and the blind,'' and to make an appropriation for the benefit thereof. (H.R. 973)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Mr. Colfax, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the laws regulating the rate of postage. (H.R. 647)

Read twice, ordered to be printed, and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Reported back without amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Green Adams, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for ... (H.R. 810)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Grow, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide a temporary government for the Territory of Arizona. (H.R. 890)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Grow, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide a temporary government for the Territory of Idaho. (H.R. 887)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Grow, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide a temporary government for the Territory of Nevada. (H.R. 888)

Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Grow, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for a temporary government for the Territory of Dakota. (H.R. 889)

Read twice, recommitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. Cochrane, from the select committee, reported the following bill: A Bill Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports. (H.R. 969)

Read twice, recommitted, and ordered, together with the majority and minority reports, to be printed. Mr. J. H. Reynolds, from the select committee on the special message of the President of the United States, reported the following bill: A Bill Further to provide for calling forth the militia of the United States in certain cases. (H.R. 968)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 305)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Reported by Mr. Hunter, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 305)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gilmer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To do equal justice to all the States. (H.R. 322)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Mr. Colfax, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill Relative to postage on newspapers in packages, on letters to and from the Pacific coast, and for other purposes. (H.R. 681)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ely, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to ''An act to facilitate communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States by electric telegraph.'' (H.R. 891)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Daily, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the completion of the public buildings in the Territory of Nebraska, and other purposes. (H.R. 830)

Read twice, referred to the select committee on the Pacific Railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Brabson, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of railroads to the Pacific ocean. (H.R. 662)

Read twice, referred to the select committee on the Pacific railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Curtis, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill: To secure contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation, by railroad, of mails, troops, munitions of war, military and naval stores, between the ... (H.R. 492)

Read twice, referred to the select committee on the Pacific railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hindman, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize contracts, and make provision for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation by railroad of mails, troops, munitions of war, military and naval stores, between the Atlantic ... (H.R. 502)

Read twice, referred to the select committee on the Pacific railroad, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Otero, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To authorize contracts for carrying the mails and troops and naval and military stores on the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western, the Sabine and Rio Grande, the Southern Pacific and New ... (H.R. 761)

Read twice. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnham, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jane B. Evans. (H.R. 471)

Read. twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. C. C. Washburn, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a land warrant to Daniel Davis. (H.R. 507)

Read. twice, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (H.R. 374)

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed, with the Senate amendments thereto. See Senate amendments in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 914)

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 501)

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and with the Senate amendments, ordered to be printed. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulation's with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 865)

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and, with the Senate amendments, ordered to be printed. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (H.R. 899)

Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Bigler to the ''Bill (H.R. No. 338) to provide for the payment of outstanding Treasury Notes, to authorize a Loan, to fix the Duties on Imports, and for other purposes,'' viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 338)

Referred, together with the Senate amendments thereto, to the Committee of Ways and Means. Reported back, recommending agreement to some of the said amendments, disagreement to others; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. (For action of the Committee of Ways and Means, see end of the bill.) ... (H.R. 4)

Referred, together with the Senate amendments thereto, to the Committee of Ways and Means. Reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, recommending agreement to some, disagreement to others, and agreement to another with an amendment. Ordered to be printed, and its further consideration postponed until to-morrow, the 31st. (For action of the ... (H.R. 866)

Referred, together with the Senate amendments thereto, to the Committee of Ways and Means. Reported from the committee, recommending agreement to some of the said Senate amendments, disagreement to others, and agreement to others with amendments; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. (See end ... (H.R. 499)

Referred, together with the Senate amendments, to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported back, committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (H.R. 5)

Reported back from the Committee of Ways and Means, recommending concurrence in some of the said Senate amendments, and non-concurrence in others; committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. (See action of the committee at the end of the bill.) An Act Making appropriations for the current and ... (H.R. 215)

Reported back with a recommendation that the House concur in the amendments of the Senate; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and the bill and amendments of the Senate ordered to be printed. (See Senate amendments in italics.) Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following: An Act ... (H.R. 216)

Resumed as in Committee of the Whole, and referred to a select committee of five members, with instructions to report back the bill on Wednesday next, the 30th instant. Reported by Mr. Simmons, with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. The bill was considered as in Committee of the Whole, and ... (H.R. 338)

Tariff of 1861. An Act to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes (H.R. 338)