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which were referred to the committee (42A-F14.9); judicial districts and circuits (42A-F14.10); Ottawa University (42A-F14.11); removal of legal and political disabilities imposed by the 14th amendment (42AF14.12); salaries of legislative, executive, and judicial officers and employees (42A-F14.13); trial of Susan B. Anthony on the charge of illegal voting (42A-F14.14); Washington National Monument (42A-F14.15); and various subjects (42A-F14.16). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 42A-F14.9, which is arranged numerically by bill or resolution. There is also a docket volume, 42d Congress, 1st session, to 43d Congress, 1st session (42A-F14.17). For minutes, see entry 518. Committee on Manufacturers: For docket, see entry 491.

Committee on Mileage: mileage pay of Members of the House (42A-F16.1). Committee on Military Affairs: Army appointments, promotions, and reinstatements (42A-F17.1); Army regulations (42A-F17.2); military cemeteries and headstones (42A-F17.3); military reservations (42A-F17.4); payment of volunteer companies in the Mexican War and in the suppression of Indian hostilities (42A-F17.5); report of the Assistant Adjutant General on the Freedmen's Bureau (42A-F17.6); and various subjects (42A-F17.7). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also 2 volumes of minutes, 42d Congress, 2d session, to 43d Congress, 1st session (42A-F17.8); and a docket volume (42A-F17.9). Committee on the Pacific Railroad: administrative papers (42A-F18.1), arranged chronologically; House bills and resolutions which were referred to the committee (42A-F18.2), arranged numerically; and a docket volume (42A-F18.3). For another docket and minutes, see entry 491.

Committee on Patents:

various subjects (42A-F19.1), arranged chronologically. For minutes, see entry 518. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: abstracts of bids and contracts for carrying the mail (42A-F20.1); allowances to mail contractors (42A-F20.2); copies of contracts for stationery, twine, wrapping paper, and letter balances (42A-F20.3); curtailments made in service and pay of mail contractors (42A-F20.4); establishment of mail routes in States and Territories (42A-F20.5); House bills and resolutions referred to the committee (42A-F20.6); land and water mails ordered

ring the fiscal year ended June 30, 1872 (42A-F20.7); increase in mail routes, other than by railroad or steamboat, above the amount for which the Postmaster General originally advertised (42A-F20.8); revising, consolidating, and amending the statutes relating to the Post Office Department (42A-F20.9); and various subjects (42A-F20.10). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 42A-F20.5, which is arranged alphabetically by State or Territory, and 42A-F20.6, which is arranged numerically by bill or resolution. Committee on Private Land Claims: a volume of minutes, 42d Congress, 2d session, to 44th Congress, 1st session (42A-F21.1) and a docket volume, 42d Congress, 1st session, to 44th Congress, 1st session (42A-F21.2). Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: duties and authority of the committee (42A-F22.1); House bills and resolutions which were referred to the committee (42A-F22.2); plan for the extension and improvement of the post office in Washington, D. C. (42A-F22.3); proposed plan of public buildings in Atlanta, Ga. (42A-F22.4); selection of stone for

the Government building at St. Louis (42A-F22.5); Seneca sandstone investigation (42A-F22.6); statue of Admiral Farragut (42A-F22.7); statue of Roger Williams (42A-F22.8); and various subjects (42A-F22.9). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 42A-F22.2, which is arranged numerically by bill or resolution. There are also a volume of minutes, 42d Congress, 1st session, to 46th Congress, 3d session (42A-F22.10); and a docket volume, 42d Congress, 1st session, to 43d Congress, 2d session (42A-F22.11).

Committee on Public Expenditures: various subjects (42A-F23.1), arranged chronologically.

Committee on Public Lands: homestead, preemption claims, and other land problems (42A-F24.1); House and Senate bills and resolutions which were referred to the committee (42A-F24.2); lake surveys in the "Public Land States" (42A-F24.3); land grants to aid the construction of canals (42A-F24.4); land grants to aid the construction of railroads (42AF24.5); reorganization of the clerical force of the General Land Office (42A-F24.6); sale of coal lands (42A-F24.7); survey and sale of the land forming the bed of Beaver Lake, Ind. (42A-F24.8); and various subjects (42A-F24.9). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 42A-F24.2, which is arranged numerically by bill or resolution. There is also a docket volume (42A-F24.10). For minutes, see entry 491. Committee on Railways and Canals: various subjects (42A-F25.1), arranged chronologically. For docket, see entry 518.

Committee on Revolutionary Claims: a docket volume (42A-F26.1). Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: pension increase to certain soldiers and sailors of the War of 1812, and to the widows of deceased soldiers (42A-F27.1); statements of the number of militia and volunteers employed in the Indian wars, 1811-58, (42A-F27.2); and various subjects (42AF27.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. There is also a docket volume, 42d Congress, 1st session, to 43d Congress, 2d session (42A-F27.4). Committee on the Territories: various subjects (42A-F28.1), arranged chronologically. For minutes, see entry 434.

Committee on War Claims: claims rejected by the Commissioners of Claims, i. e., Southern Claims Commission, Report No. 1 (42A-F29.1) and Report No. 2 (42A-F29.2). Arranged numerically within each group. There are also a docket of claims reported by the Commissioners (42A-F29.3); a numerical list of claims disallowed by the Commissioners 1871-78 (42AF29.4); Consolidated Index of Claims Reported by the Commissioners of Claims to the House of Representatives From 1871 to 1880 (42A-F29.5); and a volume of minutes of the commissioners appointed to examine and audit certain claims of the State of Kansas pursuant to the requirements of the act of Congress approved Feb. 2, 1871 (42A-F29.6). Committee on Ways and Means: administrative papers of the committee (42AF30.1); Chicago relief (42A-F30.2); claims (42A-F30.3); commodity tariffs (42A-F30.4); commodity taxation (42A-F30.5); financial affairs (42A-F30.6); House and Senate bills and resolutions which were referred to the committee (42A-F30.7); income tax (42A-F30.8); investigation of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. subsidy (42A-F30.9); papers from or about the Treasury Department (42A-F30.10); personnel matters, particularly salary increases for Government employees (42A-F30.11);

promotion of trade with Brazil (42A-F30.12); tariff policy (42A-F30.13); taxation policy (42A-F30.14); and various subjects (42A-F30.15). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 42A-F30.3, 42A-F30.4, and 42A-F30.5, which are arranged alphabetically by claimant or commodity, and 42A-F30.7, which is arranged numerically by bill or resolution. There are also 2 docket volumes, 42d Congress, 1st session, to 43d Congress, 1st session (42A-F30.16). Select Committees: to Inquire Into the Transactions of the Association Known as Credit Mobilier, including a volume of minutes (42A-F31.1); on the Civil Service, including a docket volume (42A-F31.2); on Levees of the Mississippi, a docket volume (42A-F31.3); on the Washington Monument (42A-F31.4); and to Investigate Irregularities in and Mal-Administration of the Affairs of the Navy Department, including a volume of minutes (42A-F31.5).

ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 98 vols. 28 ft.

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Original executive documents, 1st session (42A-G1), 2d session (42AG2), and 3d session (42A-G3); and original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (42A-G4), 2d session (42A-G5), and 3d session (42A-G6). Arranged numerically within each group.

15 ft.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE REFERRED TO COMMITTEES. 534 Grouped by specified committees listed below, thereunder by subject. Subjects are arranged chronologically within each group, unless otherwise indicated.

Committee on Appropriations:

various subjects (42A-H1.1).

Committee on Claims: French spoliations (42A-H2.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner.

Committee on Commerce: repeal of the act of June 6, 1872, authorizing the appointment of Shipping Commissioners (42A-H3.1). Committee on the District of Columbia: amendment of the charter of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Co. (42A-H4.1); appointment by the President of a commission to study the effects of the liquor traffic (42A-H4.2); appropriation to remodel the Arsenal Building (42A-H4.3); Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station (42A-H4.4); claims (42A-H4.5); colored schools (42A-H4.6); completion of the Washington Monument (42AH4.7); creation of a municipal court in the District of Columbia (42AH4.8); establishment of a chair of homeopathy in the proposed National University (42A-H4.9); increase in the pay of District firemen (42AH4.10); Industrial Home School (42A-H4.11); investigation of the Board of Public Works (42A-H4.12); Northern Liberty Market (42A-H4.13); prohibition of the manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia and the Territories (42A-H4.14); and various subjects (42A-H4.15).

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Chinese immigration (42A-H5.1); French spoliation claims (42A-H5.2), arranged alphabetically by petitioner; recognition of the belligerent rights of Cuba in the struggle against Spanish dominion (42A-H5.3); and various subjects (42A-H5.4). Committee on Freedmen's Affairs: appropriation to complete the construction of the Georgia Infirmary in Savannah (42A-H6.1).

Committee on Invalid Pensions: various subjects (42A-H7.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on the Judiciary: amendment of the Constitution to permit a person of foreign birth to become President of the United States (424H8.1); amendment of the Constitution to acknowledge God as the source of all authority and power in civil government (42A-H8.2); amendment of the Constitution to provide that no person addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors shall be eligible to hold Federal office (42AH8.3); appointment by the President of a commission to study the effects of the liquor traffic (42A-H8.4); civil service reform (42A-H8.5); claims (42A-H8.6); Federal courts (42A-H8.7); prohibition of the manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxicating beverages within the United States (42A-H8.8); Southern Republican Association of the District of Columbia (42A-H8.9); Supplementary Civil Rights Bills, S. 99 (42A-H8.10); woman suffrage (42A-H8.11); and various subjects (42AH8.12). Committee on the Library: publication of Pierre Margry's collection of historical documents concerning the French in North America (42A-H9.1). Committee on Military Affairs: establishment of industrial homes and

training schools for orphans of Union soldiers and sailors of the Civil War (42A-H10.1); grant of bounty lands to military telegraph operators in the Civil War (42A-H10.2); grant of bounty money and lands to soldiers and sailors of the Union Army (42A-H10.3); increase in the pensions of disabled veterans of the Union Army (42A-H10.4); and various subjects (42A-H10.5).

Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: deductions in the pay of mail contractors for the failure of the mails caused by "high water" (42A-H11.1); establishment of mail routes (42A-H11.2), arranged alphabetically by State; increase in the pay of letter carriers (42A-H11.3); sale of stamped envelopes by the Post Office Department (42A-H11.4); postage on newspapers and periodicals (42A-H11.5); and various subjects (42A-11.6).

Committee on Private Land Claims: various subjects (42A-H12.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner.

Committee on Public Lands: grant of an additional year to preemptors on the public lands to prove and pay for their lands (42A-H13.1); grant of bounties and land warrants to soldiers of the War of 1812 and the Civil War (42A-H13.2); grant of right-of-way over public lands to aid the Portland, Dalles, and Salt Lake Railroad Co. (42A-H13.3); lands accruing to the Central Pacific Railroad in Nevada (42A-H13.4); and various subjects (42A-H13.5).

Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: granting of pensions to soldiers and seamen of the War of 1812 who served less than 60 days (42A-H14.1) and various subjects (42A-H14.2). Committee on Ways and Means:

claims (42A-H15.1); duty on hides (42A-H15.2); duty on printing type (42A-H15.3); laws and regulations governing appointments to and removals from public offices, seizures by the Government of private books and papers, and salaries, perquisites, and moieties of public officers (42A-H15.4); maintenance of a protective tariff (42A-H15.5); manufacture and sale of stamped envelopes by the Post Office Department (42A-H15.6); protection of American labor by

levying discriminating duties on imports (42A-H15.7); reduction of the tariff to a strictly revenue basis (42A-H15.8); refund of the cotton tax (42A-H15.9); repeal of the income tax (42A-H15.10); repeal of stamp tax upon medicinal preparations (42A-H15.11); repeal of tax on savings institutions (42A-H15.12); tariff on cork (42A-H15.13); earthenware and stoneware (42A-H15.14), licorice (42A-H15.15), machinery (42A-H15.16), rice (42A-H15.17), salt (42A-H15.18), saltpeter (42A-H15.19), sugar (42A-H15.20), wool (42A-H15.21), distilled spirits (42A-H15.22), and tobacco (42A-H15.23); and various subjects (42A-H15.24).

Select Committee on the Civil Service: various subjects (42A-H16.1).

ELECTION RECORDS.

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Credentials of Representatives (42A-J1), arranged alphabetically by

State.

OTHER RECORDS.

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Roll calls (42A-K1), and various papers (42A-K2). Arranged chronologically within each group.

Records of Impeachment Proceedings

IMPEACHMENT OF MARK W. DELAHAY. 8 in.

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Papers pertaining to impeachment proceedings against Mark W. Delahay, Judge of the U. S. District Court for the District of Kansas (42B-A1). IMPEACHMENT OF CHARLES T. SHERMAN. 1/2 in.

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Papers pertaining to impeachment proceedings against Charles T. Sherman, Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (42BB1).

Records of the Office of the Clerk

For index to claims, pensions, etc., see entry 498.

RECORD BOOKS. 12 vols. 2 ft.

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Bill book of House and Senate bills and resolutions (42C-Al); register of bills and joint resolutions passed (420-A2); individual ledger (42C-A3); record of miscellaneous documents and committee reports ordered printed, 2d session (42C-A4); record of executive documents, miscellaneous documents, and committee reports ordered printed, 3d session (42C-A5); and 4 account books recording expenditures of the Clerk's Office, 42d Congress, 1st session, to 43d Congress, 1st session (42C-A6). For other account books, see entries 511 and 525; and for registers of committee reports and executive documents, see entry 525.

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Check stubs showing expenditures from the contingent fund (42C-B1); receipts for records withdrawn (42C-B2); and various papers (42C-B3). Arranged chronologically within each group.

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