Committee on the District of Columbia: abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia (33A-G5.1); taxation of real and personal property in Georgetown (33A-G5.2); bridges (33A-G5.3); construction of a passenger railway along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Navy Yard to Georgetown (33A-G5.4); incorporation of the Washington City Young Men's Christian Association (33A-G5.5); C. Fletcher's plan for improving the harbor and adding a thousand acres of land to washington City (33A-G5.6); selection of a site for the District Armory (33A-G5.7); water supply of the City (33A-G5.8); and various subjects (33A-G5.9).

Committee on Elections: the unseating of Mike Walsh, a Representative from the 4th District of New York, on the ground of nonnaturalization (33AG6.1).

Committee on Foreign Affairs: independence of Liberia (33A-G7.1); French spoliation claims (33A-G7.2); compensation for claims for services and losses sustained in the service of the United States (33A-G7.3); payment for the seized Amistad Negroes (33A-G7.4); protection of American citizens abroad (33A-G7.5); arbitration of international disputes (33AG7.6); and various subjects (33A-G7.7).

Committee on Indian Affairs: Col. John C. Fremont's furnishing of beef cattle to the U. S. Commissioner for treating with the Indians in California, 1851 (33A-G8.1); Indian depredations (33A-G8.2); and various subjects (33A-G8.3).

Committee on Invalid Pensions: various subjects (33A-09.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner.

Committee on the Judiciary: abolition of the interstate slave trade (33AG10.1); abolition of chaplaincy in U. S. services (33A-G10.2); erection of post offices (33A-G10.3); establishment of U. S. district and circuit courts (33A-G10.4); immigration of paupers and convicts (33A-G10.5); increase of the salaries of judges in district and circuit courts of the United States (33A-G10.6); payment for certain claims of service and property rendered to the United States (33A-G10.7); protection of free colored citizens within the jurisdiction of the several slave States (33A-G10.8); relief in the matter of judicial decisions and convictions (33A-G10.9); repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (33A-G10.10); sale of a slave for debts due to the United States (33A-G10.11); and various subjects (33A-G10.12).

Committee on Manufactures: various subjects (33A-G11.1). Committee on Military Affairs: amendment and extension of the pension laws (33A-G12.1); appropriations for certain ordnance tests and improvements (33A-G12.2); employment of military officers as superintendents of civil works (33A-G12.3); establishment of a national armory in the west (33A-G12.4); extension and amendment of the bounty land laws (33AG12.5); granting of land for military service (33A-G12.6); pensions and pension increases (33A-G12.7); increases in the commutation price of rations (33A-G12.8); extra compensation for various services and departments (33A-G12.9); payment for service rendered during the war of 1812 (33A-G12.10); payment for back salaries and services (33AG12.11); payment to Joshua Shaw for use of his inventions of the percussion cap and lock (33A-G12.12); protest of Dr. Charles T. Jackson against the bill providing compensation for the discovery of practical anesthesia (33A-G12.13); remuneration for certain property lost or

converted to public use (33A-G12.14); and various subjects (33A-G12.15). Committee on the Militia: views of Maine citizens on the arming and equip

ping of the militia of the United States (33A-G13.1). Committee on Naval Affairs: compensation for certain naval and civil services (33A-G14.1); rescue expedition to the polar seas in behalf of Dr. E. K. Kane and associates (33A-C14.2); employment of naval officers as superintendents of civil works (33A-G14.3); increase of compensation (33A-G14.4); compensation by the United States for the Island of Key West (33A-G14.5); payment of prize money (33A-14.6); naval pensions (33AG14.7); appropriations of funds for testing the practicality of certain inventions (33A-G14.8); reimbursement for certain fines and judgments incurred in the performance of duty (33A-G14.9); remuneration for certain property lost or converted to public use (33A-G14.10); settlement of contracts and money accounts (33A-G14.11); and various subjects (33AG14.12). Committee on Patents: extension of patents for cement (33A-G15.1); extension of patent to Samuel Colt, inventor of the revolver (33A-G15.2); extension of patent to Cyrus H. McCormick, Obed Hussey, et al, for improvements in reaping and mowing machines (33A-G15.3); extension of patent to William R. Nevin for his invention, a machine for rolling and cutting crackers and biscuits (33A-G15.4); extension of patent to Zebulon and Austin Parker in respect to improvements in the application of hydraulic power (33A-G15.5); extension of the Woodworth patent for the planing of boards (33A-G15.6); extension of the patents of various other inventors (33A-G15.7); patenting of mail-tubes (33A-G15.8); passage and amendment of patent laws (33A-G15.9); and various subjects (33A-G15.10). Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: adjustment of accounts of various postmasters (33A-G16.1); carrying the U. S. mail through Canada (33A-G16.2); more stringent laws to protect the rail carriage of mail from such incidents as the Erie riots (33A-G16.3); erection of post offices in Ohio (33A-G16.4); erection of post offices in Pennsylvania, specifically in Philadelphia (33A-G16.5); establishment of post roads in the respective States (33A-G16.6 to 33A-G16.32); establishment of post roads in the Territory of New Mexico (33A-G16.33); increased compensation for postal employees including clerks, postmasters, and route agents (33A-G16.34); increased mail facilities to the Windward West Indies and the Spanish Main (33A-C16.35); payment of indennities for losses sustained in relation to contracts for the transportation of the mail (33A-G16.36); indemnity to Joseph Nock for Government non compliance on a contract for mail-locks (33A-G16.37); individual petitions for contracts for carrying the mail (33A-G16.38); recommendation by Tennessee citizens of Isham Walker's plan of carrying the mails through the air at a speed of 300 miles per hour (33A-G16.39); reduction of transoceanic postal rates (33A-G16.40); removal of the post office in Providence, R. I. (33A-G16.41); and various subjects (33A-F16.42).

Committee on Printing: authorization to Joseph C. G. Kennedy to print the census statistics of manufactures (33A-G17.1). Committee on Private Land Claims:

various subjects (33A-G18.1), arranged

alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: various subjects (33A-G19.1). Committee on Public Lands: amendment and extension of the bounty land laws (33A-G20.1); grants to actual settlers (33A-G20.2); land grants

to colleges and universities for educational purposes (33A-G20.3); land grants in aid of the North American Railroad (33A-G20.4); land grants to soldiers of the War of 1812 and their heirs (33A-G20.5), arranged by States; land grants to the several States in aid of canal construction (33A-G20.6); land grants to the several States in aid of railroad construction (33A-G20.7); increased compensation for registers and receivers of the U. S. district land offices (33A-G20.8); land grants besought on account of service in Indian wars, the Mexican War, and other operations later than the War of 1812 (33A-G20.9); land grants and settlement of conflicting claims, besought on various grounds (33A-G20.10); land grants, general (33A-G20.11); and various subjects (33A-G20.12). Committee on Revolutionary Claims: various subjects (33A-G21.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner.

various subjects (33A-G22.1). various subjects (33A-G23.1).

Committee on Revolutionary Pensions:
Committee on Roads and Canals:

Committee on the Territories: exclusion of slavery and the slave trade from the Territories and from the District of Columbia (33A-G24.1); opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska bill (33A-G24.2); advocacy of the Kansas-Nebraska bill (33A-G24.3); opposition to repeal of the Missouri Compromise (33A-G24.4); advocacy of repeal of the Missouri Compromise (33A-G24.5); and various subjects (33A-G24.6).

Committee on Ways and Means: imposition of a specific duty of 40 cents per pound on the importation of cigars (33A-G25.1); increased salaries for various Government employees (33A-G25.2); payment by the United States of the debts and liabilities contracted by the Republic of Texas before annexation (33A-G25.3); reduction or abolition of duties on various imports (33A-G25.4); duties on metals (33A-G25.5 and 33A-G25.6); opposition to removal of the U. S. Mint from Philadelphia (33A-G25.7); remuneration for services rendered and for property lost or converted to public use (33A-G25.8); repeal of duties on salt, sugar, and molasses (33A-G25.9 and 33A-G25.10); repeal of the duty on the importation of coal (33A-G25.11); and various subjects (33A-G25.12). Committee of the Whole House: exclusion of slavery and the slave trade from the Territories and from the District of Columbia (33A-G26.1); opposition to passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill (33A-G26.2); indemnification for French spoliations prior to 1800 (33A-G26.3); advocacy of repeal of the fugitive slave law (33A-G26.4); opposition to repeal of the Missouri Compromise (33A-G26.5); and suspension of duties on railroad iron (33A-G26.6).

Select committees: the guano trade (33A-G27.1); recommendations of the citizenry of Philadelphia for the purchase of certain lots as the site of a building for the accommodation of the courts and post office in their city (33A-G27.2); opposition of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia to a change in the management of the Smithsonian (33AG27.3); advocacy of Federal aid in leveeing the east bank of the Mississippi from Hickman, Ky., to the mouth of the Obion River, Tenn. (33A-G27.4); opposition to employment of Army officers to superintend the national armories and other civil works (33A-G27.5); and completion of the Washington National Monument (33A-G27.6).

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED
DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE TABLED. 2 ft.

408

Grouped by subject as follows: expedition to the polar seas for the rescue of Dr. E. K. Kane and associates (33A-H1.1); land grants for educational purposes (33A-H1.2); exclusion of slavery from the Territories and from the District of Columbia (33A-H1.3); extension of patents to various inventors (33A-H1.4); extension of the Bounty Land Act of Sept. 28, 1850 (33A-H1.5); extension of a patent of Apr. 29, 1829, to Uri Emmons for a cylindrical wood-planing machine (33A-H1.6); land grants and pensions to soldiers of the War of 1812 and their heirs (33A-H1.7); land grants to the States in aid of railroad construction (33A-H1.8); relief of Martha Gray, widow of the discoverer of the Columbia River (33A-H1.9); modification of an act of 1793, as amended, in respect to the clearance of vessels engaged in the coastwise trade (33A-H1.10); opposition to the passage of the KansasNebraska bill (33A-H1.11); payment by the United States of debts and liabilities contracted by the Republic of Texas before its annexation (33 AH1.12); payment of certain claims for services rendered and property lost or converted to public use (33A-H1.13); grants of bounty land for military services (33A-H1.14); payment of pension arrears (33A-H1.15); protection of free colored citizens within the jurisdiction of the several slave States (33A-H1.16); remission of duties and fines (33A-H1.17); repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (33A-H1.18); opposition to repeal of the Missouri Compromise (33A-H1.19); the seating of Mike Walsh as one of the Representatives from New York (33A-H1.20); submission of international disputes to arbitration (33A-H1.21); and various subjects (33A-H1.22). Arranged chronologically within each group.

ELECTION RECORDS.

2 in.

409

Credentials of Representatives and Delegates (33A-J1), arranged alphabetically by State or Territory.

ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS. 4 vols. 10 in. 410 Original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (33A-K1) and 2d session (33A-K2). Arranged numerically within each group.

OTHER RECORDS. 2 vols. 4 in.

Roll calls (33A-L1), arranged chronologically.

Records of Impeachment Proceedings

IMPEACHMENT OF ROBERT C. GRIER. 3/4 in.

Papers pertaining to impeachment proceedings against Robert C. Grier, a Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (333-A1).

Records of the Office of the Clerk

For index to private claims, see entry 400.

411

412

RECORD BOOKS. 11 vols. 1 ft.

413

Bill book of House and Sera te bills and resolutions (33C-Al); petition book (33C-A2); register of House and Senate printed documents, reports,

and bills (33C-A3); register of executive documents (33C-A4); register of miscellaneous documents (33C-A5); register of committee reports (33C-A6); newspaper book (33C-A7); record of orders of the day (33C-A8); contingent accounts of the Clerk's Office, 33d Congress, 2d session, to 34th Congress, 1st session (33C-A9); and a record of referrals to and reports from the Court of Claims, 33d Congress, 2d session, to 35th Congress, 1st session (33C-A10). For membership of standing and select committees, for contingent accounts, 1st session, and for a register of resolutions, see entry 398.

RECORDS OF COMMITTEE REPORTS. 1 vol. 3 in.

414

Transcribed reports of the Committee on Claims, 33d Congress, 1st session, to 35th Congress, 1st session (33C-B1), arranged chronologically. For other reports of the Committee on Claims, see entry 359.

OTHER RECORDS. 6 in.

415

Letter book of the Clerk's outgoing correspondence, 33d Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 1st session (33C-C1), arranged chronologically; memoranda relating to the distribution of publications (33C-C2), arranged alphabetically by recipient; memoranda relating to items withdrawn (33CC3), arranged by subject; and a roster of news reporters filed with the Clerk, 1855 (330-C4).

THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1855-57

First Session, December 3, 1855-August 18, 1856
Second Session, August 21-30, 1856

Third Session, December 1, 1856-March 3, 1857

Records of Legislative Proceedings

MINUTE BOOK AND JOURNALS. 4 vols. 1 ft.

416

Minute book, 1st, 2d, and 3d sessions (34A-A1); and legislative journal, 1st and 2d sessions (34A-A2) and 3d session (34A-A3).

BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE.

7 ft.

417

Original House bills and bills upon which further action was taken (34ABl); original House joint resolutions and joint resolutions upon which further action was taken (34A-B2); House simple resolutions, motions, and orders (34A-B3); 5 volumes of engrossed House bills and resolutions (34AB4); and House bills based upon reports from the Court of Claims (34A-B5). Arranged numerically within each group, except 34A-B3, which is arranged chronologically.

BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE AND CONSIDERED IN THE
HOUSE. 7 in.

418

Senate bills (34A-C1) and Senate joint resolutions (34A-C2). Arranged numerically within each group.