Committee on Invalid Pensions: claims (37A-E8.1), arranged alphabeti cally. There is also a docket volume, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 1st session (37A-E8.2). For minutes, see entry 449. Committee on the Judiciary: authorization of the committee to employ a clerk during the 2d session (37A-E9.1); plan to preserve the Union (37A-E9.2); pleadings in the libel filed with the U. S. Circuit Court for the Maryland District in a cause of collision, William Hubbard, owner of the brig Henry A. Didier, v. the Baltimore Steam Packet Co., owners of the steamboat Louisiana (37A-E9.3); public lands of New Brunswick, a Canadian Province adjoining Maine (37A-E9.4); redress of the grievances of John A. Smith, Clerk of the U. S. Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, with respect to his fees (37A-E9.5). Arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 3th Congress, 1st session (37A-E9.6); 3 rough docket volumes, and a docket volume, 37th Congress, 1st session, to the 38th Congress, 1st session (37A-E9.7); and 1 volume of extensive original testimony on whether a telegraphic censorship of press had been established in wartime Washington, and on whether Congressman Benjamin Wood of New York had been engaged in transmitting intelligence to the Confederate rebels (37A-E9.8). For minutes, see entry 449. Committee on Military Affairs: the case of Col. B. L. E. Bonneville, involving the pay of retired army officers recalled to duty upon the outbreak of the Rebellion (37A-E10.1); the claim of Acting Sutler F. McNerhany, 1st Regiment, Excelsior Brigade, Hooker's Division, for refund of sutler's tax and for return of property seized by military authority (37A-E10.2); court-martial trial of Col. Thomas Worthington, commencing at Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 14, 1862 (37A-E10.3); former slaves employed as servants in the Army of Kentucky (37A-E10.4); and various subjects (37A-E10.5). Arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes (37A-E10.6), and 2 docket volumes (37A-E10.7). Committee on Naval Affairs: loss of the U. S. gunboat Cairo to torpedoes in the Yazoo River (37A-Ell.1); enlargement of the waterfront of the navy yards at Boston and Philadelphia (37A-E11.2); resignation of James E. Fiske as Acting Midshipman in the U. S. Navy (37A-E11.3); and various subjects (37A-El1.4). Arranged by subject. Committee on Patents: charge of malfeasance against the Commissioner of Patents (37A-E12.1); claim of Henry S. Davis for fitting up the saloon in the east wing of the Patent Office Building (37A-E12.2); inquiry as to the expenditure of the appropriation made in 1861 for the Agricultural Bureau of the Patent Office (37A-E12.3). Arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (37A-E12.4). Committee on Private Land Claims: claim of Jacob Leese, Milton Little, and Santiago Little (37A-E13.1). There is also a docket volume, 37th Congress, 2d session, to 38th Congress, 2d session (37A-E13.2). Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: conduct of public works by military engineers (37A-E14.1); extension of the Capitol and Treasury Buildings (37A-E14.2); extension of the Library of Congress (37A-E14.3); removal of John Plant from the Capitol police force for brutal treatment of a soldier on the Capitol Grounds (37A-E14.4); and the Washington Aqueduct (37A-E14.5). Arranged by subject. Committee on Public Expenditures: a docket volume, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 1st session (37A-E15.1). Committee on Public Lands: claim of Augustin Amiot to a lot in St. Louis under Spanish grant (37A-E16.1); claim to Baptist missionary lands in Michigan (37A-E16.2); clerical and map service to the House of Representatives by the General Land Office (37A-E16.3); creation of a land district in the Territory of Colorado (37A-E16.4); determination of titles to land along the boundary line between Georgia and Florida (37A-E16.5); discovery of coal fields in the public lands of California (37A-E16.6); expenses of the district land offices in California (37A-E16.7); grant of public lands to Kansas to aid in the construction of railroads (37A-E16.8); information on grants of public lands made since the passage of the Homestead Act (37A-E16.9); proposed creation of the Jefferson and Nevada Land Districts (37A-E16.10); survey and sale of the "Pine Lands" of Minnesota and wisconsin (37AE16.11); and various other subjects (37A-E16.12). Arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (37A-E16.13). For minutes, see entry 419. Committee on Revolutionary Claims: claim of the heirs of Mrs. Mary Clearwater (37A-E17.1). There is also a volume containing docket entries and minutes, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 2d session (37A-E17.2). Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: claim of Nancy C. Van Rensselaer (37A-E18.1). Committee on the Territories: appropriations for the Territory of Select Committees: on Government Contracts (37A-E21.1), and to Investi- 466 ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 48 vols. 14 ft. session (37A-F4), 2d session (37A-F5), and 3d session (37A-F6); and original reports from the Court of Claims (37A-F7). Arranged numerically within each group. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE REFERRED TO COMMITTEES. 17 ft. 467 Grouped by specified committees listed below, thereunder by subject. Subjects are arranged chronologically within each group, unless otherwise indicated. Committee on Claims: claims (37A-G1.1), arranged alphabetically by peti tioner. Committee on Commerce: Bureau of Statistics in the Interior Department (37A-G2.1); claims (37A-G2.2), arranged alphabetically by petitioner; claim of John Saunders master of the Baron de Castine, a brig captured by the Alabama and converted into a cartel ship (37A-G2.3); establishment of a mint in New York City (37A-G2.4); appointment of Solicitor of Customs in New York City (37A-G2.5); Provincetown, Mass., Harbor (37A-G2.6); harbor improvements (37A-G2.7); survey for a telegraphic line from the Amoor River to Russian America (37A-G2.8); St. Lawrence River waterway to the Great Lakes (37A-G2.9); and various subjects (37A-G2.10). Committee on the District of Columbia: Capitol Grounds (37A-G3.1); construction of wooden hospital buildings in Judiciary Square for Union troops (37A-G3.2); construction of a street railway to Georgetown (37A-G3.3); cleansing of city streets (37A-G3.4); grading and paving of city streets (37A-G3.5); claim of Alexandria Canal Co. for use of property by Federal troops (37A-3.6); and various subjects (37A-G3.7). Committee on Foreign Affairs: claims (37A-G4.1); French spoliation claims (37A-G4.2); claim of citizens of Greytown, Nicaragua, for damages suffered in the bombardment of the city by the U.S.S. Cyane (37A-G4.3); claim of Mohamet Habbet in behalf of the heirs of Mamet Caramalli for losses sustained and for military services rendered by Caramalli in the war against Tripoli (37A-G4.4); claim of Townsend Harris, consul general of the United States to Japan, for extra services to the commerce of the United States (37A-G4.5); and the recognition of Liberia (37A-G4.6). 37A-G4.1 and 37A-G4.2 are arranged alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on Indian Affairs: claims (37A-G5.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner; Delaware Indians (37A-G5.2); Osage Indians (37A-G5.3); Stockbridge and Munsee Indians (37A-G5.4); laws for the improvement and protection of Indians (37A-G5.5); Indian spoliations (37A-G5.6); and various subjects (37A-G5.7). Committee on Invalid Pensions: various subjects (37A-G6.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on the Judiciary: abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia (37A-G7.1); abolition of slavery in the United States (37AG7.2); advice to Congress "to drop the Negro question and attend to the business of the country" (37A-G7.3); admission of West Virginia into the Union (37A-G7.4); bankruptcy law (37A-G7.5); claims (37AG7.6), arranged alphabetically by petitioner; honorable compromise of the difficulties between the States (37A-G7.7); Crittenden Compromise (37A-G7.8); Federal courts and judges (37A-G7.9); Floyd's acceptances (37A-G7.10); repeal of the fugitive slave law (37A-G7.11); national convention of the States for the peaceful adjustment of the difficulties between the North and South (37A-G7.12); confiscation of the property and liberation of the slaves of persons supporting the rebellion (37A-G7.13); passage of a law calling upon all citizens, both bond and free, to aid the Government in suppressing the rebellion (37AG7.14); reduction of the States of South Carolina and Georgia, together with a part of Florida, into a territorial condition to be colonized by Negroes freed by force of arms or by acts of Congress (37A-G7.15); proposed expulsion of Representative Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio from the House of Representatives (37A-G7.16); and various subjects (37A-G7.17). Committee on Military Affairs: claims (37A-G8.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner; homeopathic surgeons (374-G8.2); Illinois and Michigan Canal (37A-G8.3); repeal of legislation barring Jewish chaplains in the Army (37A-G8.4); Lake Michigan-Mississippi River Canal (37-G8.5); Michigan troops held as prisoners of war (37A-G8.6); military defenses and roads (37A-G8.7); national armory (374-G8.8); Oswego and Erie Canals (37A-C8.9); paymaster's compensation (37A-G8.10); peace and compromise of the difficulties between the North and South (37A-G8.11); enactment of a law calling upon all persons, both bond and free, to aid the Government in suppressing the rebellion (374-G8.12); abolition of slavery (37A-G8.13); soldiers' pay (37A-G8.14); sutlers (37A-G8.15); mustering out of the 1st and 2d Regiments of U. S. Reserve Corps (37A-G8.16); establishment of a professorship in German at West Point Military Academy (37A-C8.17); and various subjects (37A-G8.18). Committee on Naval Affairs: Advisory Board of the Navy (37A-G9.1); claims (37A-09.2); rates of pay and hours of labor in navy yards (37A-G9.3); increase in the pay of workmen in the Washington, D. C., Navy Yard (37A-G9.4); and various subjects (37A-G9.5). Committee on Patents: renewal of the patent of Samuel Bentz for certain improvements in the hulling of grain (37A-G10.1); renewal of the patent of Thomas Blanchard for bending wood (37A-G10.2); Evans' Patent Safety Guard for high-pressure boilers (374-G10.3); renewal of the patent of John Goulding for improvements in machinery for manufacturing woolen goods (37A-G10.4); renewal of the patent of George Page for a portable sawmill (37A-G10.5); pay of Patent Office clerks (37A-G10.6); renewal of the patent of Frederick E. Sickels for improvements in constructing apparatus for regulating the valves of steam engines (37A-G10.7); and various subjects (37A-G10.8). Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: establishment of mail routes in the States or Territories of Illinois (37A-Gl1.1), Indiana (37AGl1.2), Iowa (37A-G11.3), Kansas (37A-G11.4), Kentucky (37A-G11.5), Maine (37A-G11.6), Minnesota (37A-G11.7), Nebraska Territory (37Gl1.8), Nevada Territory (37A-G11.9), New Hampshire (37A-G11.10), New York (37A-G11.11), Ohio (37A-G11.12), Pennsylvania (37A-G11.13), Washington Territory (37A-G11.14), and Wisconsin (37A-G11.15); ocean mail routes (37A-G11.16); sending of small parcels of clothing and other articles for soldiers by mail (37A-G11.17); and various subjects (37A-G11.18). Committee on Printing: authorization to print the agricultural report of the Patent Office in German (37A-G12.1). Committee on Private Land Claims: various subjects (37A-G13.1). Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: claim of L. Leutze for deco rating the Capitol (37A-G14.1). Committee on Public Lands: bounty lands for military service in the Kar of 1812 (37A-G15.1); claims (37A-G15.2); Eastern Railroad land grants in Wisconsin (37A-G15.3); homestead law (37A-15.4); survey of public lands in Kansas (37A-C15.5); increase in the pay of registers and receivers in land offices on the Pacific coast (37-15.6); land grant to Minnesota to aid in the construction of the Minneapolis and Cedar Valley Railroad (37A-G15.7); land office in Nevada Territory (37AG15.8); public lands within the limits of Virginia City, Nevada Territory (37A-G15.9); sale of lands in the New York Indian Reservation in Kansas (37A-G15.10); public land grant for a Protestant University of the United States, Cincinnati, Ohio (37A-G15.11); public land grant to Michigan and Wisconsin to aid in the construction of roads (37AG15.12); and various subjects (374-G15.13). Committee on Revolutionary Claims: alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: various subjects (37A-G16.1), arranged various subjects (37A-G17.1), ar ranged alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on Roads and Canals: Illinois and Michigan Canal (37A-G18.1) and various subjects (37A-G18.2). Committee on the Territories: various subjects (37A-G19.1). Committee on ways and Means: advice to Congress "to drop the Negro question and attend to the business of the country" (37A-G20.1); national currency (37A-20.2); national debt (37A-G20.3); Kansas and Nebraska public lands (37A-G20.4); establishment of a branch mint in New York City (374-G20.5); establishment of a branch mint in St. Louis (37A-G20.6); tariff (374-G20.7); taxes (37A-G20.8); and various subjects (37A-G20.9). Select Committees: on a National Armory (37A-G21.1); on a General Bankruptcy Law (37A-G21.2); on the Defenses of the Great Lakes and Rivers (37A-G21.3); on Emancipation (37A-G21.4); on the Confiscation of Rebel Property (37A-G21.5); and on the Celebration of Washington's Birthday (37A-G21.6). PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE TABLED. 7 in. 468 Grouped by subject as follows: claims (37A-H1.1); abrogation of the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Great Britain (37A-H1.2); and various subjects (37A-H1.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. ELECTION RECORDS. 2 in. 469 Credentials of Representatives and Delegates (37A-J1), arranged alphabetically by State or Territory. OTHER RECORDS. 9 in. Two volumes of roll calls (37A-K1); original report on the "Astronomical and Meteorological Observations Made at the Naval Observatory 470 |