During the Year 1861" (37A-K2); and various papers (37A-K3). Arranged chronologically within each group. Records of the Office of the Clerk RECORD BOOKS. 8 vols. 1 ft. 471 Bill book of House and Senate bills and resolutions (37C-Al); register of bills and resolutions passed (37C-A2); petition book (37C-A3); record of orders of the day (37C-A4); Union Calendar, 37th Congress, 2d session, to 38th Congress, 2d session (37C-A5); and 3 account books containing expenditures of the Clerk's Office, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 40th Congress, 3d session (37C-A6). For membership of standing and select committees, see entry 398; for a bill book of House bills based upon reports from the Court of Claims, and a register of reports from the Court of Claims, see entry 428; and for account books, for part of the 1st session, see entry 444. OTHER RECORDS. 2 in. Receipts for records withdrawn (37C-B1), arranged chronologically. For Clerk's letter book, see entry 415. THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, 1863-65 First Session, December 7, 1863-July 4, 1864 472 Records of Legislative Proceedings MINUTE BOOK AND JOURNALS. 3 vols. 1 ft. 473 Minute book, 1st and 2d sessions (38A-Al); and legislative journal, 1st session (38A-A2) and 2d session (38A-A3). BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE. 12 ft. 474 Original House bills and bills upon which further action was taken (38A-B1); original House joint resolutions and joint resolutions upon which further action was taken (38A-B2); House simple resolutions, motions, and orders (38A-B3); and 7 volumes of engrossed House bills and resolutions (38A-B4). Arranged numerically within each group, except 38A-B3, which is arranged alphabetically by Congressman. BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE AND CONSIDERED IN THE 7 in. 475 Senate bills (38A-C1) and Senate joint resolutions (38A-C2). Arranged numerically within each group. COMMITTEE REPORTS. 5 ft. 476 Original committee reports, 1st session (33A-D1) and 2d session (38AD2). Arranged numerically within each group. COMMITTEE PAPERS. 8 ft. 477 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 434. Committee on Agriculture: a docket volume (38A-E2.1). Committee on Claims: claims (38A-E3.1), arranged alphabetically. For minutes, see entry 419; letter book, entry 434; a volume listing claims, entry 449; and docket, entry 465. Committee on Commerce: amendment of laws in regard to the administering of oaths by U. S. consuls abroad (38A-E4.1); customhouse statistics of Portland, Maine, for the calendar year 1863 (38A-E4.2); modification of the Steamboat Act of Aug. 30, 1852 (38A-E4.3); and various subjects (38A-E4.4). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on the District of Columbia: grounds of Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (38A-E5.1) and W. O. Goode's undated draft of a bill to enlarge the powers of the Alexandria Canal Co. (381-E5.2). Arranged by subject. There is also a volume containing both docket entries and minutes (38A-E5.3). For another docket, see entry 465. Committee on Elections: contested election cases of James H. Birch v. Austin A. King, Missouri (38A-E6.1); J. W. Crisfield v. John A. J. Creswell, Maryland (38A-E6.2); Jose M. Gallegos v. Francisco Perea, Territory of New Mexico (38A-E6.3); and H. M. Martin v. J. B. Grinnell, Iowa (38A-E6.4). Arranged by subject. For minutes, see entry 419. Committee on Foreign Affairs: Anglo-American friction along the Canadian Border (38A-E7.1); diplomatic and consular pay (38A-E7.2); the Italian consul at New York, and better execution of U. S. commercial treaties (38A-E7.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. For minutes and a docket volume, see entry 465. Committee on Indian Affairs: completion of Henry R. Schoolcraft's Indian history (38A-E8.1); copy of Maj. Gen. John Pope's views, Feb. 6, 1864, about Indian policy in the Department of the Northwest (38A-E8.2); Indian affairs in the Territories of Montana (38A-E8.3), New Mexico (38A-E8.4), and Utah (38A-E8.5); tribal concerns of the Apaches (38AE8.6), Cherokees (38A-E8.7), Chippewas, Ottawas, and Potawatomis (38AE8.8), Kansas (38A-E8.9), and Shawnees (38A-E8.10). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Invalid Pensions: claims (38A-E9.1), arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume (38A-E9.2). For minutes, see entry 449; and a docket, 1st session only, see entry 465. Committee on the Judiciary: court terms at Cairo, Ill. (38A-E10.1); Federal courthouse at Boston, Mass. (38A-E10.2); date of approval in Mar. 1863, of an act for the collection of abandoned property (38AE10.3); views of Richard H. Dana, Jr., on desirable modifications to the judiciary system (38A-E10.4). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes, 38th Congress, 1st session, to 40th Congress, 1st session (38A-E10.5); and a docket volume (38A-E10.6). For another volume of minutes and another docket volume, each for part of the 1st session only, see entry 465. Committee on Manufactures: two pages of docket entries, Feb. 16-May 2, 1864, chiefly recording petitions favoring a tariff on foreign wool (38A-L11.1). Committee on Military Affairs: t... amuulance bill (38A-E12.1); engineer Committee on Private Land Claims: For docket, see entry 465. construction and improvement projects (38A-E17.1); membership of the committee (38A-E17.2); occupancy of the Winder Building, and leasing of office space (38A-E17.3); salaries and personnel (38A-E17.4); Silas Seymour, chief engineer and general superintendent of the Washington Aqueduct, and other persons accused of misconduct (38A-E17.5). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Public Expenditures: correspondence and papers about the New York Customhouse investigation (38A-E18.1). For docket, see entry 465. Committee on Public Lands: California land claims and concessions (38AE19.1); compensation of A. R. Parker for cartography for the committee (38A-E19.2); confiscation and sale of lands abandoned by secessionists in Northern Texas (38A-19.3); establishment of land offices and districts (38-19.4); establishment of a Mining Department (38A-E19.5); La Nana and Las Ormigas grants in Louisiana (38A-E19.6); land grants for educational purposes (38A-E19.7); mineral lands (38A-E19.8); provision of homesteads for military service (38A-E19.9); quieting of land titles along the Georgia-Florida boundary (3Ɛ-19.10); railroads (38A-E19.11); relief of Eugene L. Guthrie, a Michigan homesteader (38A-19.12); relief of purchasers and locators of swamp and overflow lands (38A-E19.13); renting of the main Farallon Island, off the California coast, to halt a local "Egg Var" (334-19.14); rivers and canals (38A-E19.15); setting aside of an Apache Indian reservation at Bosque Rodondo, N. Mex. (38A-19.16). Arranged chronologically within each group. There is also a docket volume (38A-E19.17). For minutes, see entry 419. Committee on Revolutionary Claims: claims (38-E20.1), arranged alphabetically. For a volume containing both minute and docket entries, see entry 465. Committee on the Territories: a pamphlet, Laws of the Territory of New Mexico with the Joint Resolutions Passed by the Legislative Assembly at the Session of 1863-64, Theodore S. Greiner, translator, printed at Albuquerque, 1864 (38A-E21.1); and a proposed bill for the relief of the citizens of Great Salt Lake City, Territory of Utah (38A-E21.2). For minutes, see entry 434. Committee on Ways and Means: appointments to membership on various House committees (38A-E22.1); attested copies of House resolutions (38A-E22.2); claims (38A-E22.3); commodity tariff or other commodity taxation (38AE22.4); education (38A-E22.5); Government personnel (38A-E22.6); papers from or about an Academy of National Sciences (38-E22.7), the Attorney General's Office (38A-£22.8), the Commissioner of Public Buildings (38AE22.9), and the Government Printing Office (38A-E22.10); papers from or about the executive departments: Agriculture (38A-£22.11), Interior (38A-E22.12), Navy (38A-E22.13), Post Office (38A-E22.14), State (38A£22.15), Treasury (38A-E22.16), and war (38.-22.17); and papers about tariff policy (38A-E22.18), taxation policy (32A-E22.19), and various subjects (38A-E22.20). Arranged chronologically within each group, except that 38A-E22.2, 38.-E22.3, 38A-E22.4, and 38A-E22.19 are arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume (3ƐA-E22.21). Select Committees: Appointed to Investigate Certain Charges Against the Commissioner of Patents (38A-E23.1); on Emancipation (38A-23.2); on Immigration (38A-E23.3); on the Northeastern Defenses (38A-E23.4); on a Railroad From New York to washington (38A-23.5); and on the Rebellious States (38A-123.6). ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 60 vols. 478 Original executive documents, 1st session (38-Fl) and 2d session (38-F2), arranged by agency of origin, thereunder numerically. Original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (38A-F3) and 2d session (38-F4), arranged numerically. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE REFERRED TO COMMITTEES. 15 ft. 479 Grouped by specified committees listed below, thereunder by subject. Subjects are arranged chronologically within each group, unless otherwise indicated. Committee on Accounts: claim of Charles B. Shirley (38A-G1.1). tioner. Committee on Commerce: admeasurement of the tonnage of vessels of the United States (38A-G3.1); claims (38A-G3.2); construction of a ship canal around Niagara Falls (38A-G3.3); increase in the pay of steamboat inspectors and customs officers (38A-G3.4); reciprocity treaty between the United States and Great Britain (38A-G3.5); river and harbor improvements (38A-G3.6); steamship lines (38A-33.7); and various subjects (38A-G3.8). Committee on the District of Columbia: various subjects (38A-G4.1). Committee on Expenditures in the war Department: improvident expenditures and mismanagement in the War Department (38A-G6.1). Committee on Foreign Affairs: claims (38A-G7.1); French spoliations (38A-G7.2); and various subjects (38A-G7.3). Committee on Indian Affairs: various subjects (38A-G8.1). Committee on Invalid Pensions: claims (38A-G9.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on the Judiciary: amendment of the Constitution to abolish slavery (38A-G10.1); confiscation of the property of persons supporting the rebellion (38-G10.2); Federal courts and judges (38A-G10.3); slavery (38-10.4); and various subjects (38A-G10.5). Committee on the Library: United States employment of John Mix Stanley to paint a picture illustrative of Indian history (38A-G11.1). Committee on Military Affairs: ambulance and hospital corps (38A-G12.1); Gen. Robert Anderson's retirement (38A-G12.2); bounties (38A-G12.3); chaplains (38A-G12.4); claims (38A-G12.5); colored troops (38A-G12.6); conscript law (38A-G12.7); construction of the southwest branch of the Pacific Railroad (38A-G12.8); exchange and release of Union prisoners taken by Confederate forces (38A-G12.9); exemption of ministers of the gospel from military service (38A-G12.10); increase in the pay of officers and men in the Union Army (38A-G12.11); treatment of Confederate prisoners by Union forces (38A-G12.12); and various subjects (38AG12.13). Committee on Naval Affairs: claims (38A-G13.1); complaints of naval officers against the Naval Advisory Board (38A-G13.2); increase of the number of officers in the Navy in the grades of commander and captain (38A-G13.3); increase in the pay of employees of navy yards (38A-G13.4); increase in the pay of paymasters of the Navy (38A-G13.5); increase in the pay of the Corps of Professors of Mathematics in the Navy (38AG13.6); status of volunteer officers in the Navy (38A-G13.7); and various subjects (38A-G13.8). Committee on Patents: extension of Charles Goodyear's patent for the vulcanization of rubber (38A-G14.1); extension of George Page's patent for a portable sawmill (38A-G14.2); extension of J. P. Sherwood's patent for improvements on door locks (38A-G14.3); and various subjects (3Ɛa-G14.4). Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: abolition of the franking privilege (38-G15.1); claims (38-15.2); establishment of postal routes in Illinois (38A-15.3), Indiana (38A-15.4), Iowa (38A-G15.5), Kentucky (38A-C15.6), Maryland (38A-G15.7), Massachusetts (38-G15.8), Michigan (38A-G15.9), Minnesota (38A-C15.10), New York (38A-G15.11), Ohio (38A-G15.12), Pennsylvania (38A-G15.13), and Wisconsin (38A-G15.14); |