of Newark, N. J., to include the city and port of Elizabeth (40A-F6.4); establishment of lighthouses (40A-F6.5); increased appropriation for the consulate at Havana, Cuba (40A-F6.6); legislation for the better security of life and property aboard ship (404-F6.7); obstruction of the channel off Sandy Hook, N. J., by the wreck of the steamship Scotland (40A-F6.8); the Revenue-Cutter Service (40A-F6.9); survey and improvement of western and northwestern rivers by the Corps of Engineers (40A-F6.10); tonnage duties against Spanish vessels in U. S. ports (40A-F6.11); various subjects relating to the Department of State (40AF6.12); various subjects relating to the Department of the Treasury (40A-F6.13); and various subjects (40A-F6.14). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on the District of Columbia: American University for the Blind (40A-F7.1); Industrial Home School (40A-F7.2); National Burglary Insurance Co. (40A-F7.3); National Safe Deposit Co. (40A-F7.4); letters addressed to Hon. bon C. Ingersoll, a Representative from Illinois (40A-F7.5); report of trustees of the colored schools of Washington and Georgetown (40A-F7.6); and the Washington Aqueduct (40A-F7.7). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Elections: contested representation from the 2d Congressional District of Louisiana (40A-F8.1); and Joseph Powell v. Roderick R. Butler, Tennessee (40A-F8.2). Arranged by subject. There is also a volume of minutes (40A-F8.3). Committee on Foreign Affairs: administration of the committee (40A-F9.1); Baring Brothers and Co., London financial agents for 2 U. S. Government Departments (40A-F9.2); claims (40A-F9.3); Confederate cotton and other property abroad (40A-F9.4); consular fees (40A-F9.5); consulates at Canea, Crete, and Havana, Cuba (40A-F9.6); proposed location of an American college at Peking (40A-F9.7); Cuba, revolt against Spanish rule (40A-F9.8); Great Britain, rights of American and British citizens and their Governments, including a print of diplomatic correspondence, Aug. 27 to Nov. 29, 1867, and printed papers presented in Parliament in 1964 and 1366 (40A-F9.9); Haiti, internal conditions (40-F9.10); Liberia, as to reciprocity (40A-F9.11); Norway and Sweden, regulation of transatlantic emigration (40A-F9.12); Santo Domingo, its proposed annexation, and its control of the guano island of Alta Vela (40A-F9.13); the Vatican, withdrawal of diplomatic representation (40A-F9.14); and various subjects, especially the Paris Universal Exposition, mentioned in original letters, Jan. 23, 1867, to Feb. 18, 1869 (40A-F9.15). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 40A-F9.3, which is arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume, 40th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (40A-F9.16). For minutes, see entry 491. Committee on Freedmen's Affairs: administration of the committee (40AF10.1); advocacy by Maj. Gen. 0. 0. Howard of investigation of his management of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (40A-F10.2); local conditions of freedmen's affairs in Kentucky (40AF10.3), Mississippi (40A-F10.4), North Carolina (40A-F10.5), Texas (40A-F10.6), and Virginia (40A-F10.7); National Freedman's Savings and Trust Co. (40A-F10.8); and various subjects (LOA-F10.9). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a few unbound sheets of rough minutes (40A-F10.10). Committee on Indian Affairs: Indian Peace Commission vouchers (40A-F11.1); prints of executive and miscellaneous communications (40A-F11.2); tribal or regional affairs embracing the interests of the following Indians: Apaches, Utes, and Navahos in New Mexico (40A-F11.3), Cherokees and Creeks (40A-F11.4), Chickasaws and Choctaws, including the claim of J. G. Heald and Reuben Wright (40A-F11.5), Eel River Band of Miamis (40A-F11.6), Great and Little Osages (40A-F11.7); Sauk and Foxes (40AF11.8), Sioux, various bands (40A-F11.9), and Umatilla and Oregon Indians (40A-F11.10); and various subjects (40A-F11.11). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Invalid Pensions: claims (40A-F12.1), arranged alphabetically; and various subjects (40A-F12.2), arranged chronologically. There is also a docket volume (40A-F12.3). For minutes, see entry 449. Committee on the Judiciary: investigation of the government in Delaware (40A-F13.1) and Maryland (40A-F13.2); refusal of Francis A. Macartney, editor of the Washington Evening Express, to divulge to the committee the source of a news story about privately held views in the Supreme Court on the questionable constitutionality of reconstruction measures (40A-F13.3); and various subjects (40A-F13.4). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes, 40th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 2d session (40A-F13.5); and 2 docket volumes, 1 extending to the 41st Congress, 1st session, and the other extending to the 3d session of that Congress (40A-F13.6). For other minutes, see entry 477. Committee on Manufactures: For docket, see entry 491. Committee on Military Affairs: claims (40A-F15.1); construction of a telegraph line to link defensive posts on the Texas frontier (40A-F15.2); court-martial trial at Raleigh, of the assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in North Carolina, Bvt. Brig. Gen. E. Whittlesey, and others, for alleged mismanagement of freedmen's affairs in North Carolina (40A-F15.3); garrison troops in the vicinity of the National Capital (40A-F15.4); legislation to promote the efficiency of the Battalion of Engineers (40A-F15.5); obstructions in the harbor of New Haven, Conn. (40A-F15.6); survey report upon the harbor of Galveston, Tex. (40A-F15.7); and various subjects (40A-F15.8). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 40A-F15.1, which is arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume, 40th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 1st session (40A-F15.9). Committee on the Militia: For docket, see entry 491. Committee on Naval Affairs: the Naval Academy (40A-F17.1); Navy Department appropriations (40A-F17.2); Navy expenditures for experiments in steam (40A-F17.3); promotion of Comdr. Edward T. Nichols (40A-F17.4); restoration of Comdr. A. K. Hughes to the active list (40A-F17.5); and various subjects (40A-F17.6). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on the Pacific Railroad: administration of the committee (40AF18.1); rival Oregon railway companies (40A-F18.2); sites for forts and problems of frontier defense in Texas (40A-F18.3); and Union Pacific Railroad affairs: agreement of George M. Pullman to furnish sleeping cars (40A-F18.4), construction (40A-F18.5), reports by presidential commissioner on various sections of track age (40A-F18.6), and a summary report of Nov. 23, 1868, by special commissioners of the Secretary of the Interior (40A-F18.7). Arranged chronologically within each group. For minutes and a docket, see entry 491. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: abstract of bids and contracts for carriage of mail (40A-F19.1); additional allowances to postal contractors (40A-F19.2); carriage of railway company mail (40A-F19.3); curtailments in service and pay of postal contractors (40A-F19.4); land and water mail routes ordered during the fiscal years 1867 and 1868 (40A-F19.5); manuscript list of post offices and incumbent postmasters as revised in 1867, for a printing of 1868 (40A-F19.6); overland mail service under contract with Wells, Fargo, and Co. (40A-F19.7); payment of a subsidy to F. Alexandre and Sons for operating steamships between New York City and Mexican ports (40A-F19.8); postal communications between the United States and Canada (40-F19.9); and various subjects (40A-F19.10). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Private Land Claims: For docket, see entry 491. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: Arlington House heirlooms of Mrs. Mary Custis Lee (40A-F21.1); Capitol Building and Grounds (40AF21.2); investigation of the letting of the construction contract for the District of Columbia jail (40A-F21.3); Maj. Nathaniel Michler, Commissioner of Public Buildings (40A-F21.4); ventilation of the Chamber of the House of Representatives (40A-F21.5); the Washington Aqueduct (40A-F21.6); and the Washington Canal (40A-F21.7). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Public Expenditures: a volume of sporadic minutes and docket entries: 40th Congress, 1st session; 41st Congress, 2d and 3d sessions; and 44th Congress, 1st session (40A-F22.1). For other minutes, see entry 491; and another docket, entry 465. Committee on Public Lands: Cherokee lands (40A-F23.1); General Land Office (40A-F23.2); Hot Springs Reservation, Ark. (40A-F23.3); Indian trust lands (40A-F23.4); land claims (40A-F23.5); land grants for railroads, ship canals, wagon roads, and internal improvements (40A-F23.6); land certified to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi under railroad grants of 1856 (40A-F23.7); military reservation at Fort Jesup, La. (40A-F23.8); public lands on Anastasia Island at St. Augustine, Fla. (40A-F23.9); public lands in California (40A-F23.10); public lands unsold and unappropriated (40A-F23.11); and various subjects (40A-F23.12). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 40A-F23.5, which is arranged alphabetically. There is also a docket volume, 40th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (40A-F23.13). For minutes, see entry 491. Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: For docket, see entry 491. minutes (40A-F25.3), which also contains minutes of the Committee on Committee on the Territories: entry 434. Committee on ways and Means: For docket, see entry 491; and minutes, administration of the committee (40A-F27.1); appointments to membership on various rouse committees (40A-F27.2); attested copies of House resolutions (40A-F27.3); Canadian reciprocity (40A-F27.4); commodity tariff (40A-F27.5); tariff policy (40A-F27.6); customs frauds and problems, especially undervaluation of silk imports (40A-F27.7); drawbacks and exports (40A-F27.8); Government personnel (40A-F27.9); collection of internal revenue, including a volume of letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence, Jan. 27-May 28, 1869, from the office of the Supervisor of Internal Revenue, New Orleans, La. (40A-F27.10); drafts and revisions of sections of the main internal revenue bill of 1868 (40A-F27.11); frauds in whiskey revenue (40A-F27.12); other revenue frauds (40A-F27.13); recommendations concerning internal revenue (40A-F27.14); revenue stamps (40A-F27.15); specific taxation of bonds and securities (40A-F27.16), carfares (40A-F27.17), income (40AF27.18), lotteries (40A-F27.19), manufacturers (40A-F27.20), sales (40AF27.21), trades and vocations (40A-F27.22), confections (40A-F27.23), gunpowder (40A-F27.24), matches (40A-F27.25), petroleum (40A-F27.26), tobacco (40A-F27.27), whiskey and alcohol (40A-F27.28), and other manufactured products (40A-F27.29); bonds and the funding of the national debt (40A-F27.30); currency and banking, including the problems of greenback inflation and resumption of specie payment (40A-F27.31); other matters of public finance (40A-F27.32); and various subjects (40AF27.33). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also 2 docket volumes, 1 of which extends to the 41st Congress, 2d session (40A-F27.34). Select Committees: on Frauds in the Pay Department (40A-F28.1); to Investigate the Hon. I. Donnelly and the Hon. B. F. Butler, including a volume of minutes (40A-F28.2); on Soldiers' and Sailors' Bounties (40AF28.3); and on Reconstruction, 40th and 41st Congresses, including a docket volume and 4 index volumes (40A-F28.4). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 40A-F28.4, which is arranged by State. ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 35 ft. 505 Original executive documents, 1st session (40A-G1), 2d session (40A-G2), and 3d session (40A-G3); and original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (40A-4), 2d session (40A-G5), and 3d session (40A-G6). Arranged numerically within each group. 506 PETITIONS AND MEMORIAIS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED Committee on Appropriations: increase in pay for Government workers (40A- Committee on Claims: various subjects (40A-H2.1). Committee on Commerce: protection of persons engaged in navigation from "illegal" taxes by States and municipalities (40A-H3.1); railroads (40A-H3.2); rivers (40A-H3.3); steamboats and steamships (40A-H3.4); and various subjects (40A-H3.5). Committee on the District of Columbia: various subjects (40A-H4.1). Committee on Education and Labor: a petition for the establishment of a school for war orphans in East Tennessee (40A-H5.1). Committee on Foreign Affairs: rights of naturalized citizens in foreign Committee on Freedmen's Affairs: continuation of the Freedmen's Bureau Committee on Indian Affairs: pacification and improvement of Indians Committee on Invalid Pensions: various subjects (40A-H9.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on the Judiciary: constitutional amendment to acknowledge God as the source of all authority and power in civil government (40A-H10.1); impeachment of President Andrew Johnson (40A-0.2); and various subjects (40A-H10.3). Committee on Military Affairs: various subjects (40A-H11.1). Committee on Naval Affairs: various subjects (40A-H12.1). Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: various subjects (40n-H14.1). Railroad (40A-H15.1); and various subjects (40A-H15.2). Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: pensions for soldiers of the lar of 1812 and their widows (40A-H16.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on Roads and Canals: incorporation of the Washington and Maryland Rail Road Co. (40A-17.1) and various subjects (40A-H17.2). Committee on the Territories: various subjects (40A-H18.1). Committee on ways and Means: banks, currency, and related subjects (40AH19.1); barley (40A-H19.2); bitters and tonics (40A-H19.3); bonded warehouses (40A-H19.4); cigars and tobacco (40A-H19.5); civil service appointments for Government jobs (40A-H19.6); copper (40A-H19.7); cotton (40A-H19.8); distilled spirits (40A-H19.9); hand-loomed goods (40A-H19.10); income tax (40A-H19.11); petroleum (40A-H19.12); protection of American industry and labor (40A-H19.13); salt (40A-H19.14); steel and iron (40A-H19.15); sugar (40A-H19.16); sumac and goatskins (40A-H19.17); tax reduction (40A-H19.18); and various subjects (40AH19.19). Select Committee on the Impeachment of the President: Andrew Johnson (40A-H20.1). impeachment of Select Committee on Reconstruction: applications for the removal of legal and political disabilities, imposed by the 14th amendment, from residents of the following States: Alabama (40A-H21.1), Arkansas (40AH21.2), California (40A-H21.3), District of Columbia (40A-H21.4), Florida (40-H21.5), Georgia (40A-H21.6), Illinois (40A-H21.7), Kansas (40A-H21.8), Kentucky (40A-H21.9), Louisiana (40A-21.10), Maryland (40A-H21.11), Mississippi (40A-H21.12), Missouri (40-H21.13), New Mexico (40A-H21.14), New York (40A-H21.15), North Carolina (40-H21.16), Ohio (40A-H21.17), South Carolina (40A-H21.18), Tennessee (40-H21.19), Texas (40A-H21.20), Virginia (40A-H21.21), and West Virginia (40-H21.22); disorders in Tennessee (40A-H21.23); impeachment of the President (404H21.24); proposed partition of Texas (40A-H21.25); reconstruction in Virginia (40-H21.26); starvation in South Carolina (40A-H21.27); and various problems of reconstruction (40A-H21.28). |