pilots in the gunboat service and elsewhere (39A-F17.3); and restoration of Comdr. Aaron K. Hughes to the active list of the Navy (39AF17.4). Arranged by subject.

Committee on the Pacific Railroad:

a volume of minutes (39A-F18.1) and

a docket volume (39A-F18.2), both covering 39th Congress, 1st session, to 43d Congress, 2d session.

Committee on Patents: a docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, and 41st Congress, 3d session (39A-F19.1).

Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: legislative views of the Auditor of the Treasury for Post Office Department (39A-F20.1); post routes or other matters of primary interest to localities (39A-F20.2); railway bridge over the Mississippi River near Clinton, Iowa (39AF20.3); and various subjects (39A-F20.4). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 39A-F20.2, which is arranged alphabetically by State or Territory.

Committee on Private Land Claims: a docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (39A-F21.1). Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: the Capitol, especially as to its ventilation (39A-F22.1); improvements to streets and avenues passing through or by Federal property (394-F22.2); Long Bridge over the Potomac River (39A-F22.3); the White House (39A-F22.4); and various subjects (39A-F22.5). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Public Expenditures: a volume of minutes, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 2d session (39A-F23.1). For docket, see entry 465.

Committee on Public Lands: committee memoranda, including draft minutes for Feb. 3, 10, and 11, 1865 (39A-F24.1); confirmation of titles to public lands disposed of in Mississippi under conditions of secession (39A-F24.2); encouragement to tree planting (39A-F24.3); Joseph Leidy's effort to publicize his description of Nebraskan fossil remains (39AF24.4); public land problems in California (39A-F24.5); quieting titles to certain lands ceded by the United States to States (39A-F24.6); railways and transportation in the West (39A-F24.7); subjection of Tennessee school lands to exploitation for copper (39A-F24.8); and various subjects (39-F24.9). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 42d Congress, 3d session (39A-F24.10); and a docket volume (39F24.11).

Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: A docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (39A-F25.1).

Committee on the Territories: codification of the laws of the Territory of Dakota (39A-F26.1); the Great Trail West from Leavenworth, Kans., as an example of neglect in public upkeep (39A-F26.2); a pamphlet, Laws of the Territory of New Mexico Passed by the Legislative Assembly, Session 1865-66, printed at Santa Fe, 1866 (39A-F26.3); and protest of John Titus about local real estate grants to Mormon interests in the Territory of Utah (39A-F26.4). Arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (39A-F26.5). For minutes, see entry 434.

Committee on ays and Means: appointments to membership on various House committees (39A-F27.1); attested House resolutions (39A-F27.2); copies

of House bills (39A-F27.3); correspondence of the chairman, Justin S. Morrill, a Representative from Vermont (39A-F27.4); correspondence of a committee member, Samuel Hooper, a Representative from liassachusetts (39A-F27.5); invitations and letters of introduction (39A-F27.6); requests for publications or papers (39A-F27.7); papers on substantive topics, as follows: Canadian reciprocity (394-27.8), commodity tariff or commodity taxation (39A-F27.9), direct taxes (39A-F27.10), drawbacks and exports (394-F27.11), Government personnel (39A-F27.12), immigration (39A-F27.13), income tax (39A-F27.14), internal revenue (39A-F27.15), national currency and finance (39A-F27.16), railroads and interstate commerce (39A-F27.17), tariff policy (394-F27.18), taxation policy (39.F27.19), and other subjects (39A-F27.20); and papers from or concerning the Commissioner of Public Buildings (39A-F27.21), the Congress, especially the House of Representatives (39A-F27.22), and the executive departments: Agriculture (39A-F27.23), Interior (39A-F27.24), Navy (39A-F27.25), Post Office (39A-F27.26), State (39A-F27.27), Treasury (39A-F27.28), and war (39A-27.29). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 39A-F27.2 and 39A-F27.3, which are arranged numerically. There is also a docket volume, 1st session (39A-F27.30). Select Committees: on Alleged Private Meetings of Members of the House With a View to a Corrupt Bargain Kith the President (39A-F28.1); on the Murder of Union Soldiers in South Carolina (39A-F28.2); and on Reconstruction (39A-F28.3).

ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 21 ft.

492

Original executive documents, 1st session (39A-G1) and 2d session (39A-2); and original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (39A-G3) and 2d session (39A-G4). Arranged numerically within each group.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED
DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE REFERRED TO COMMITTEES. 19 ft.

493

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

various subjects (39A-H1.1).

Committee on Agriculture: Committee on Appropriations: increase in pay for Government employees (39A-H2.1); removal of the wreck of the steamer Scotland at Sandy Hook (39A-H2.2); reward offered for the apprehension of the assassin Booth (39A-H2.3); and various subjects (39A-H2.4).

Committee on Banking and Currency: various subjects (39A-H3.1). Committee on Claims: claims (39A-H4.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner.

Committee on Commerce: harbor improvement (39A-H5.1); increase in pay for Government employees (39A-H5.2); insurance legislation (39.-H5.3); quarantine in the Port of New York (394-H5.4); registry of vessels (39A-H5.5); rivers and canals (39A-5.6); transportation of gunpowder on steamboats (39A-H5.7); and various subjects (39-115.8). Committee on the District of Columbia: various subjects (39A-H6.1). Committee on Education: a petition for the establishment of a Bureau of Education (39A-H7.1).

Committee on Elections:

various subjects (39A-H8.1).

Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department: a petition to increase

the pay of employees of the Washington Navy Yard (39A-H9.1). Committee on Foreign Affairs: various subjects (39A-H10.1). Committee on Freedmen's Affairs:

various subjects (39A-H11.1). Committee on Indian Affairs: various subjects (39A-H12.1). Committee on Invalid Pensions: various subjects (39A-H13.1). Committee on the Judiciary: annexation of Virginia counties to West Virginia (39A-H14.1); civil rights, suffrage, and equality before the law (39A-H14.2); constitutional amendment to acknowledge God as the source of all authority and power in civil government (39A-H14.3); constitutional amendment to provide for election of the President and Vice President by direct vote (39A-H14.4); courts and judges (39A-H14.5); -hour day (39A-H14.6); impeachment of President Andrew Johnson (39AH14.7); insurance legislation (39A-H14.8); woman suffrage (39A-H14.9); and various subjects (39A-H14.10).

Committee on Military Affairs: bounties (39A-H15.1); commutation price of Army ration (39A-H15.2); perpetuation of the Veteran Reserve Corps (39A-H15.3); and various subjects (39A-H15.4).

Committee on Mines and Mining: various subjects (39A-H16.1). Committee on Naval Affairs: various subjects (39A-H17.1). Committee on Patents: various subjects (39A-H18.1). Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: abolition of the franking privilege (39A-H19.1); bridges over the Mississippi River (39A-H19.2); change in postal law to allow books, pamphlets, etc., to be sent public libraries and historical societies without prepayment of postage (39AH19.3); mail routes (39A-H19.4); pay increase for postal workers (39AH19.5); stamped envelopes (39A-H19.6); and various subjects (39A-H19.7). Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: public park for cities of Washington and Ceorgetown (39A-H20.1) and various subjects (39A-H2O.2). Committee on Public Lands: extension of the land grant of the Amboy, Lansing, and Traverse Bay Railroad Co., in Michigan (39A-H21.1); land grants to aid education (39A-H21.2); land grant to Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad (39A-H21.3); land grants for railroads, canals, roads, and harbors (39A-H21.4); return to the market of certain reserved land (39A-H21.5); and various subjects (39A-H21.6). Committee on Revolutionary Pensior.s:

1812 (39A-H22.1).

pensions for soldiers of the .ar of

Committee on Roads and Canals: increased transit facilities (39A-H23.1). Committee on the Territories: various subjects (39-H24.1). Committee on bays and Means: agricultural implements (39A-H25.1); banks and banking (394-H25.2); barley (39A-H25.3); books, charts, maps, and pamphlets (39A-H25.4); cigars and tobacco (39A-125.5); copper (39A-H25.6); dogs (39A-M25.7); flax and hemp (39A-H25.8); hardware (39A-H25.9); increase in pay for Government workers (39A-H25.10); iron and steel (39AH25.11); manufacturers' tax (39A-H25.12); medicines (39A-125.13); Mississippi River levees (39A-H25.14); petroleum (39A-H25.15); photographs (39A-H25.16); protection of American industry (39A-125.17); reciprocity treaty with the British Provinces (39A-H25.18); regulation of insurance (39A-H25.19); relief of fire insurance companies from tax upon premiums (39A-H25.20); wool (39A-H25.21); and various subjects (39A-H25.22).

Select Committees:

on the Bankruptcy Law (39A-H26.1); on a National Bureau of Education (39A-H26.2); and on the Pacific Railroad (39▲H26.3).

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS HICH WERE TABLED. 2 in.

494

Grouped by subject as follows: claims (39A-Jl.1) and various subjects (39A-Jl.2). Arranged chronologically within each group.

OTHER RECORDS. 3 in.

495

Roll calls (39A-K1), arranged chronologically; and various papers (39A-K2), arranged by subject.

Records of the Office of the Clerk

RECORD BOOKS. 6 vols. 11 in.

496

Bill book of House and Senate bills and resolutions (39C-Al); register of bills originating in and passed by the House (39C-A2); petition book (39C-A3); record of orders of the day (39C-A4); and statement of contingent expenses, 39th Congress, 2d session, to 40th Congress, 2d session (39C-A5). For other account books, see entries 471 and 484.

OTHER RECORDS. Less than 1/4 in.

497

Record of records withdrawn (39C-B1), arranged chronologically.

INDEX. 1 vol. 1 in.

498

Index to papers submitted to various committees in support of claims, pensions, and other forms of private relief, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 43d Congress, 2d session (39C-C1).

FORTIETH CONGRESS, 1867-69

First Session, March 4-December 2, 1867

Second Session, December 2, 1867-November 10, 1868
Third Session, December 7, 1868-March 3, 1869

Records of Legislative Proceedings

MINUTE BOOK AND JOURNALS. 4 vols. 1 ft.

499

Minute book, 1st, 2d, and 3d sessions (40A-A1); and legislative journal, 2d session (40A-A2) and 3d session (40A-A3).

BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE. 16 ft.

500

Original House bills and bills upon which further action was taken (40A-B1); original House joint resolutions and joint resolutions upon which further action was taken (40A-B2); engrossed House concurrent resolutions (40A-B3); House simple resolutions, motions, and orders (40A-B4); and 8 volumes of engrossed House bills and resolutions (40A-B5). Arranged numerically within each group, except 40A-B3, which is arranged chronologically, and 40A-34, which is arranged alphabetically by Congressman.

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

3 in.

501

Senate bills (40A-C1) and Senate joint resolutions (40A-C2). Arranged numerically within each group.

ACCOMPANYING PAPERS FILE. 24 ft.

502

Papers relating to claims, pensions, and other forms of private relief together with papers relating to public matters (40A-D1). Arranged alphabetically by person, State, Territory, or subject.

COMMITTEE REPORTS.

10 ft.

503

Criginal committee reports, 1st session (40A-E1), 2d session (40A-E2), and 3d session (40A-E3). Arranged numerically within each group.

COMMITTEE PAPERS. 27 ft.

504

Records of the following committees, relating to the subjects listed or consisting of the kinds of documents specified: Committee on Accounts: a report on the malfeasance of N. G. Ordway, Sergeant at Arms (40A-Fl.1). There is also a ledger volume (40A-F1.2). Committee on Appropriations: The Attorney General's Office (40A-F2.1); the Capitol (10A-F2.2); charges against Theodore B. Samo, supervising engineer of the Washington Aqueduct (40A-F2.3); claims (40A-F2.4); Clerk of the House of Representatives (40A-12.5); Colorado Territory (40A-F2.6); Court of Claims (40A-F2.7); discrete correspondence addressed to Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, a Representative from Pennsylvania, and Hon. E. B. Washburne, a Representative from 1llinois (40A-F2.8); District of Columbia (40A-F2.9); Federal courts (10A-F2.10); increase in pay of employees of the executive departments (40A-F2.11); papers from or about the executive departments: Agriculture (40A-F2.12), Interior, on education (40A-T2.13) and on Indian and other matters (40A-F2.1), Navy (40A-F2.15), Post Office (LOA-F2.16), State (40AF2.17), Treasury (40A-F2.18), and War (40A-F2.19); and various subjects (10A-F2.20). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 40A-F2.4, which is arranged alphabetically. There is also a volume of letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence, 1867-80, 40th Congress, 2d session, to 46th Congress, 2d session (40A-F2.21). Committee on Eanking and Currency: affairs of the National bank on the Metropolis, Washington (404-F3.1), arranged chronologically. There is also a volume of minutes, 40th Congress, 2d session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (40A-F3.2).

Committee on Claims: claims (404-F4.1), arranged alphabetically.

There

are also a volume of rough minutes, 40th Congress, 3d session, to 42d Congress, 2d session (40A-F.2); and a docket volume, 40th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 1st session (40A-F4.3). For other minutes, see entry 491.

Committee on Coinage, weights, and Measures: a volume of minutes (40AF5.1) and a docket volume (10A-F5.2), both covering 40th Congress, 2d session, to 1st Congress, 3d session.

Committee on Commerce: amendment of an act of 1850 providing for the recording of conveyances of vessels (40A-F6.1); amendment of an act of 1852 on inspection of steam vessels (40A-F6.2); broadcast of storm warnings by rapid means (40A-76.3); enlargement of the customs district