tariff on salt, ivory, and raw silk (32A-G24.11); and various subjects (32A-G24.12).

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED
DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE TABLED. 1 ft.

394

Grouped by subject as follows: amendment of the Military Bounty Land Act of 1850 to give 160 acres of land to soldiers of the War of 1812 (32AH1.1); creation of a new land district in western Iowa, and the establishment of the land office at Kanesville (32A-H1.2); grant of lands to aid education (32A-H1.3); grant of lands for aid to the indigent insane (32AH1.4); grant of lands to aid the construction of railroads (32A-H1.5); homestead bill (32A-H1.6); increased compensation for locating land warrants (32A-H1.7); land grants for the construction of plank or macadamized roads (32A-H1.8); land grants of 160 acres for each member of the Western Farm and Village Association of New York (32A-H1.9); pensions (32A-H1.10); and various subjects (32A-H1.11). Arranged chronologically within each group.

ELECTION RECORDS.

2 in.

395 Credentials of Representatives (32A-J1), arranged alphabetically by State. ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS. 4 vols. Original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (32A-Kl) and 2d session (32A-K2). Arranged numerically within each group.

OTHER RECORDS. 9 in.

9 in. 396

397

Two volumes of roll calls (32A-L1), arranged chronologically; and various papers (32A-L2), arranged by subject.

Records of the Office of the Clerk

For transcribed or printed reports of the Committee on the Territories, see entry 217; the Committee on Military Affairs, entry 288; the Committee on Ways and Means, entry 302; the Committee on Private Land Claims and the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, entry 317; the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, the Committee on Public Lands, and the Committee on Roads and Canals, entry 345; and the Committee on Claims and the Committee on Elections, entry 359.

RECORD BOOKS. 13 vols. 2 ft.

398

Bill book of House and Senate bills and resolutions (32C-A1); petition book (32C-42); register of House bills (32C-A3); register of resolutions sent to the President, heads of departments, and committees, 32d Congress, 1st session, to 36th Congress, 1st session (32C-A4); register of House documents, reports, and bills (32C-A5); register of executive documents (32C-16); register of miscellaneous documents (32C-A7); compilation of House membership by State, 1789-1853 (32C-48); membership of standing and select committees, 32d Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 2d session (32C-A9); newspaper book (32C-A10); and contingent accounts of the Clerk's Office, 32d Congress, 1st session, to 33d Congress, 1st session (32C-All).

OTHER RECORDS. 2 in.

399

Memoranda of the Clerk's Office, including evidence of items withdrawn from his custody (32C-B1), arranged alphabetically by subject. For letter book of outgoing correspondence, see entry 360.

Index to private claims, 32d Congress, 1st session, to 33d Congress, 2d session (32C-C1) and indexed register of House and Senate documents, reports, and bills (32C-C2).

THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1853-55

First Session, December 5, 1853-August 7, 1854
Second Session, December 4, 1854-March 3, 1855

400

Records of Legislative Proceedings

MINUTE BOOK AND JOURNALS. 4 vols. 1 ft.

401

Minute book, 1st and 2d sessions (33A-Al); and legislative journal, session (33A-A2) and 2d session (33A-A3).

BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE.

6 ft.

402

Original House bills and bills upon which further action was taken (33ABl); original House joint resolutions and joint resolutions upon which further action was taken (33A-B2); and 8 volumes of engrossed House bills and resolutions (33A-B3). Arranged numerically within each group. There are also a simple resolution of Aug. 7, 1854 (33A-B4), and the enrolled parchment of a vetoed House bill, H. R. 392 (33A-B5).

BILLS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE AND CONSIDERED IN THE HOUSE. 2 in.
Senate bills (33A-C1), arranged numerically.

403

COMMITTEE REPORTS AND PAPERS. 12 ft.

404

Records of the following committees, relating to the subjects listed or consisting of the kinds of documents specified: Committee on Accounts: For minutes, see entry 377. Committee on Agriculture: For docket, see entry 390.

Committee on Claims: claims (33A-D1.1), arranged alphabetically; and various subjects (33A-D1.2), arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (33A-D1.3). For letter book, see entry 293; and minutes, entry 351. Committee on Commerce: claims (33A-D2.1); apprenticeship in the merchant marine service (33A-D2.2); cargo of vessels (33A-D2.3); navigation, revenue, and collection laws (33A-D2.4); passenger regulations at the port of Bremerhaven, Germany (33A-D2.5); port of entry and collection district at Island Pond, Vt. (33A-D2.6); railroads (33A-D2.7); river, harbor, and channel improvements (33A-D2.8); warehousing system for imports into the United States (33A-D2.9); and wreck of the vessel

Aberdeen in San Francisco Bay (33A-D2.10). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 33A-D2.1, which is arranged alphabetically. Committee on the District of Columbia: claims (33A-D3.1), arranged alphabetically; and a paper relating to the water supply of Washington (33AD3.2). There is also a docket volume (33A-D3.3).

Committee on Elections: contested election case of William C. Lane v.

Jose Manuel Gallegos, New Mexico Territory (33A-D4.1), and a Leakesville, N. C. voting list (33A-D4.2).

Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings: a report on reparations to Joseph G. Kennedy for damage to 2 buildings rented to the Government (33A-D5.1).

Committee on Foreign Affairs: claims (33A-D6.1); Amazon River navigation (33A-D6.2); Cuban port charges against the vessel Black Warrior (33AD6.3); diplomatic and consular system of the United States (33A-D6.4); and a Hong Kong consular report on shipwrecked Americans (33A-D6.5). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 33A-D6.1, which is arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume (33A-D6.6). Committee on Indian Affairs: claims (33A-D7.1); affairs in the Territory of New Mexico (33A-D7.2); claimants for Cherokee emoluments (33A-D7.3); Indian depredations (33A-D7.4); Indians in the United States military service (33A-D7.5); Indian treaties (33A-D7.6); and schools for Indians (33A-D7.7). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 33AD7.1, which is arranged alphabetically.

Committee on Invalid Pensions: claims (33A-D8.1), arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume (33A-D8.2).

Committee on the Judiciary: claims (33A-D9.1); chaplains in the civil and military service of the United States (33A-D9.2); deserters from foreign vessels in American ports (33A-D9.3); financial report of the clerk of the U. S. courts in the Western District of Virginia (33A-D9.4); land titles and surveys (33A-D9.5); Rhode Island controversy involving Thomas W. Dorr (33A-D9.6); steamboat Martha Washington (33A-D9.7); temperance in the Capital City (33A-D9.8); and Federal prisons and confinement conditions in New York City (33A-D9.9). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 33A-D9.1, which is arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume (33A-D9.10). Committee on Military Affairs: claims (33A-D10.1); Army pay and efficiency (33A-D10.2); equestrian statue of George Washington for New York City (33A-D10.3); Fayetteville Arsenal, N. C. (33A-D10.4); indemnification of the militia of New Mexico for service in suppressing Indian hostilities (33A-D10.5); military posts and stations (33A-D10.6); nonmilitary personnel employed in the War Department, 1853 (33A-D10.7); obstruction of travel and communication by rioting citizenry of Erie, Pa. (33AD10.8); rations of a Colonel Benton (33A-D10.9); refunding the expenses of Utah Territory incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities (33AD10.10); and roads and bridges in the several Territories (33A-D10.11). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 33A-D10.1, which is arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume (33A-D10.12). Committee on Naval Affairs: claims (33A-D11.1), arranged alphabetically; and a report on life-saving equipment for American vessels (33A-D11.2).

Committee on Patents: firearms (33A-D12.1); harvesting and reaping machines (33A-D12.2); power printing presses (33A-D12.3); steam propelling improvements (33A-D12.4); water-wheel improvements (33A-D12.5); and fabrication of cloth without spinning or weaving (33A-D12.6). Arranged by subject. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: claims (33A-D13.1), arranged alphabetically; and various subjects (33A-D13.2), arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (33A-D13.3).

Committee on Private Land Claims: various subjects (33A-D14.1), arranged alphabetically.

Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: various subjects (33A-D15.1), arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (33A-D15.2). Committee on Public Lands: claims (33A-D16.1); geological survey of the Territories of Oregon and Washington (33A-D16.2); land grants to States and Territories for the benefit of indigent insane (33A-D16.3); land grants in aid of construction of the Niagara Ship Canal (33A-D16.4); land grants in aid of railroad construction (33A-D16.5); and various subjects (33A-D16.6). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 33A-D16.1, which is arranged alphabetically. There are also a

volume of minutes (33A-D16.7) and a docket volume (33A-D16.8). Committee on Revolutionary Claims: claims (33A-D17.1), arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume (33A-D17.2). Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: claims (33A-D18.1), arranged alphabetically.

Committee on the Territories: claim of Grafton Baker (33A-D19.1); codification of the laws and printing of the records of the Territories of Oregon and New Mexico (33A-D19.2); improvement of military roads and bridges in the Territory of New Mexico (33A-D19.3); legislation of the Territorial Government of New Mexico (33A-D19.4); and right-of-way and grant of land in aid of the construction of a Pacific-to-Atlantic subterranean telegraph line (33A-D19.5). Arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (33A-D19.6). Committee on Ways and Means: reports on bills pertaining to appropriations and revenue, to reimbursement of Maryland for expenditures incurred during the War of 1812, and to reimbursement of California for duties collected there, 1848-49, prior to specific extension of the revenue laws of the United States (33A-D20.1); papers from or about the Secretary of the Senate (33A-D20.2), the Clerk of the House of Representatives (33AD20.3), various Members of the House of Representatives (33A-D20.4), the Library of Congress (33A-D20.5), the Superintendent of Public Printing (33A-D20.6), the Reporter of the Supreme Court (33A-D20.7), the President of the United States (33A-D20.8), the U. S. Capitol extension, and the Washington Aqueduct Office (33A-D20.9), the Department of State (33AD20.10), the Department of the Treasury (33A-D20.11), the Department of War (33A-D20.12), the Office of the Attorney General (33A-D20.13), the Post Office Department (33A-D20.14), the Department of the Interior (33A-D20.15), and the Office of the Commissioner of Public Buildings (33A-D20.16); and various subjects (33A-D20.17). Arranged chronologically within each group.

Select Committees: on the Alteration of the Text of the Minnesota Railroad Bill (33A-D21.1); on Charges Preferred by B. E. Green Against Hon. T. H.

Bayly (33A-D21.2); on Collins and Other Mail Steamers (33A-D21.3); on Colt's Patent and Other Bills (33A-D21.4); on the Guano Trade (33AD21.5); on the Investment of the Funds of the Smithsonian Institution (33A-D21.6); on the Letter of Rufus Choate, and Also as to the Management of the Smithsonian Institution (33A-D21.7); on the Message of the President Relative to Courthouses (33A-D21.8); on the Message of the President Relative to the Memphis Navy Yard (33A-D21.9); on the San Francisco Disaster (33A-D21.10); on the Superintendence of Civil Works by Military Officers (33A-D21.11); and on the Washington National Monument (33A-D21.12).

Committee of the Whole House: a volume of minutes, 33d Congress, 1st session, to 37th Congress, 1st session (33A-D22.1). Committee on Roads and Canals: a docket volume (33A-D23.1).

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGES. 17 vols.

4 ft.

405

Annual messages, with pertinent documents, 1853 and 1854; messages suggesting legislation or submitting specific information or documents; and messages transmitting reports and communications from executive departments (33A-El). Arranged chronologically.

REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS SUBMITTED TO THE HOUSE. 35 vols. 8 ft.

406

Reports and communications from the Secretary of the Treasury (33A-FI), the Treasurer of the United States (33A-F2), the Secretary of War (33A-F3), the Secretary of the Navy (33A-F4), the Postmaster General (33A-F5), and others (33A-F6). Arranged chronologically within each group.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE REFERRED TO COMMITTEES. 25 ft.

407

Grouped by specified committees listed below, thereunder by subject. Subjects are arranged chronologically within each group, unless otherwise indicated.

Committee on Accounts: compensation to Julianna Doddridge for service of her deceased husband, Philip, as chairman of a select committee of the 22d Congress in preparing a code of laws for the District of Columbia (33A-G1.1).

Committee on Agriculture:

establishment of a Department of Agriculture (33A-G2.1); establishment of industrial universities throughout the Union (33A-G2.2); the homestead bill (33A-G2.3); Swedish milk and dairy processes (33A-G2.4); and various subjects (33A-G2.5). Committee on Claims: claims (33A-G3.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner.

Committee on Commerce:

breakwaters (33A-G4.1); polar rescue of Dr. E. K. Kane and associates (33A-G4.2); erection of customhouses (33A-G4.3); erection of lighthouses (33A-G4.4); establishment of marine hospitals (33A-G4.5); establishment of ports of entry (33A-G4.6); construction of piers (33A-G4.7); Evans' Safety Guards for preventing steamboat boiler explosions (33A-G4.8); increased compensation for customs and other employees (33A-G4.9); payment of fishing bounties (33A-G4.10); remission of duties and fines (33A-G4.11); survey and improvement of various rivers, harbors, and channels (33A-G4.12); and various subjects (33A-G4.13).