FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1873-75 First Session, December 1, 1873-June 23, 1874 Records of Legislative Proceedings MINUTE BOOKS AND JOURNALS. 5 vols. 1 ft. 541 Minute book, 1st session (43A-Al); legislative journal, 1st session (43A-A2); minute book, 2d session (43A-A3); and legislative journal, 2d session (43A-A4). BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE. 14 ft. 542 Twenty volumes of original House bills (43A-B1); 2 volumes of original House joint resolutions (43A-B2); original House concurrent resolutions (43A-B3); House simple resolutions, motions, and orders (43A-B4); desk copies of House bills (43A-B5); desk copies of House joint resolutions (43A-B6); and 7 volumes of engrossed House bills and resolutions (43A-B7). Arranged numerically within each group, except 43A-B3, which is arranged chronologically, and 43A-B4, which is arranged alphabetically by Congress man. BILLS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE AND CONSIDERED IN THE HOUSE. 2 in. 543 Senate bills (43A-C1), arranged numerically. ACCOMPANYING PAPERS FILE. 54 ft. 544 Papers relating to claims, pensions, and other forms of private relief together with papers relating to public matters (43A-D1). Arranged alphabetically by person, State, Territory, or subject. COMMITTEE REPORTS. 74 vols. 18 ft. 545 Original committee reports, 1st session (43A-El) and 2d session (43AE2). Arranged numerically within each group. COMMITTEE PAPERS. 65 ft. 546 Records of the following committees, relating to the subjects listed or consisting of the kinds of documents specified: Committee on Accounts: reporting of the proceedings of House committees (43A-F1.1) and statement of accounts before the committee (43A-F1.2). Arranged by subject. For minutes, see entry 518. Committee on Agriculture: agricultural statistics (43A-F2.1). Committee on Appropriations: papers from or about executive agencies: Agriculture (43A-F3.1), Civil Service Commission (43A-F3.2), Interior (43A-F3.3), Justice (43A-F3.4), Navy (43A-F3.5), Post Office (43A-F3.6), State (43A-F3.7), Treasury (43A-F3.8), and War (43A-F3.9); Capitol Grounds (43A-F3.10); claims (43A-F3.11); Congressional Printer (43AF3.12); contract with Thomas J. Durant for publication of the Revised Statutes at Large (43A-F3.13); Court of Claims (43A-F3.14); District of Columbia (43A-F3.15); 8-hour law (43A-F3.16); Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, Washington, D. C. (43A-F3.17); House administration (43A-F3.18); investigation of the proposed extension to the Boston Post Office (43A-F3.19); Mathew Brady's collection of photographs (43AF3.20); Montana Territory (43A-F3.21); Northern Pacific Railroad Co. (43A-F3.22); United States Centennial Commission, i. e., International Exhibition at Philadelphia (43A-F3.23); U. S. Commissioner of Mining Statistics (43A-F3.24); Senate administration (43A-F3.25); and various subjects (43A-F3.26). Arranged chronologically within each group. For letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence, see entry 504. Committee on Banking and Currency: committee hearings (43A-F4.1); engraving and printing of Government securities, notes, and stamps (43A-F4.2); Freedman's Savings and Trust Co. (43A-F4.3); investigation of the affairs of the Ocean National Bank of New York (43A-F4.4); national finances and currency (43A-F4.5); redemption of National Bank notes by national banking associations (43A-F4.6); partial transcript of hearings on the Nation's finances and currency (43A-F4.7); and various subjects (43A-F4.8). Arranged chronologically within each group. For minutes and docket, see entry 532. Committee on Claims: various subjects (43A-F5.1), arranged by subject. There are also a volume of rough minutes, 43d Congress, 2d session, to 44th Congress, 1st session (43A-F5.2); a volume of minutes, 43d Congress, 1st session, to 46th Congress, 3d session (43A-F5.3); and a docket volume (43A-F5.4). For other rough minutes, see entry 532. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures: abrasion of gold coins (43AF6.1); coinage of dimes (43A-F6.2); committee administration (43A-F6.3); establishment of a United States mint at Chicago (43A-F6.4). Arranged chronologically within each group. There is also a docket volume (43AF6.5). Committee on Commerce: construction of a railway pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wis. (43A-F7.1); railroad rates on refined and crude oil (43A-F7.2); revival of American commerce (43A-F7.3); Shipping Act of 1872 (43A-F7.4); U. S. Shipping Commissioner at the port of New York (43A-F7.5); U. S. Shipping Commissioner at the port of San Francisco (43A-F7.6); and various subjects (43A-F7.7). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on the District of Columbia: Alexandria Canal Aqueduct and Bridge (43A-F8.1); Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (43A-F8.2); Board of Health (43A-F8.3); Board of Metropolitan Police (43A-F8.4); Board of Public Works (43A-F8.5); Commissioners of the District of Columbia (43AF8.6); committee administration (43A-F8.7); District jail (43A-F8.8); reform school (43A-F8.9); Southern Maryland Railroad Co. (43A-F8.10); street railways (43A-F8.11); Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Co. (43A-F8.12); and various subjects (43A-F8.13). Arranged chronologically within each group. For minutes, see entry 518; and dockets, entries 518 and 532. Ar Committee on Education and Labor: Bureau of Education (43A-F9.1); National Education Convention (43A-F9.2); and various subjects (43A-F9.3). ranged by subject. Committee on Elections: allowances for expenses in contested election cases in the 41st, 42d, and 43d Congresses (43A-F10.1); claims of Harry Lott, of Louisiana, and Thomas H. Reeves, of Tennessee, for compensation as Members of the House in the 42d Congress (43A-F10.2); committee administration (43A-F10.3); and the contested election cases of M. L. Bell v. 0. P. Snyder, Arkansas (43A-F10.4), S. N. Bell v. A. F. Pike, New Hampshire (43A-F10.5), Marion Bethune v. Henry R. Harris, Georgia (43A-F10.6), John M. Burns v. John D. Young, Kentucky (43A-F10.7), George Q. Cannon v. George R. Maxwell, Utah Territory (43A-F10.8), E. C. Davidson v. George L. Smith, Louisiana (43A-F10.9), L. C. Gause v. Asa Hodges, Arkansas (43AF10.10), R. L. Gibson v. L. A. Sheldon, Louisiana (43A-F10.11), Effingham Lawrence v. J. Hale Sypher, Louisiana (43A-F10.12), Benjamin F. Martin v. J. Marshall Hagans, West Virginia (43A-F10.13), J. P. C. Shanks v. John E. Neff, Indiana (43A-F10.14), George A. Sheridan v. P. B. S. Pinchback, Louisiana (43A-F10.15), Andrew Sloan v. Morgan Rawes, Georgia (43A-F10.16), C. Y. Thomas v. A. M. Davis, Virginia (43A-F10.17), W. W. Wilshire v. Thomas M. Gunter, Arkansas (43A-F10.18), and Benjamin Wilson v. John J. Davis, West Virginia (43A-F10.19). Arranged by subject. Arranged by subject. For minutes, see entry 532. Committee on Foreign Affairs: case of Edward O'Meagher Condon, Irish patriot (43A-F11.1); Chilean bark Caldera (43A-F11.2); Chinese immigration (43A-F11.3); committee administration (43A-F11.4); conditions in Santo Domingo (43A-F11.5); consular courts in China (43A-F11.6); consulates of the United States (43A-F11.7); East Florida claims (43A-F11.8); elevation of the U. S. diplomatic representative to Sweden and Norway to the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (43AF11.9); report of Maj. W. I. Twining on the work of the U. S. Northern Boundary Commission during the summer of 1874 (43A-F11.10); transatlantic cables (43A-F11.11); and various subjects (43A-F11.12). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a book of incoming letters (43A-F11.13); a volume of minutes, 43d Congress, 1st session, to 44th Congress, 2d session (43A-F11.14); a docket volume (43A-F11.15); and a volume recording the agenda referred to individual members, 43d Congress, 1st session, to 45th Congress, 3d session (43A-F11.16). Committee on Indian Affairs: bids to furnish beef cattle and other supplies to certain Indian agencies (43A-F12.1); Indian question--communication of Bishop H. B. Whipple (43A-F12.2); and various subjects (43A-F12.3). Arranged by subject. For docket, see entry 532. For Committee on Invalid Pensions: committee administration (43A-F13.1), and various subjects (43A-F13.2). Arranged by subject. There are also a docket volume (43A-F13.3) and an index to claimants (43A-F13.4). another docket, see entry 532; and minutes, entry 449. Committee on the Judiciary: civil rights legislation (43A-F14.1); committee administration (43A-F14.2); Federal courts (43A-F14.3); Geneva award (43A-F14.4); investigation of the Western Union Telegraph Co. (43A-F14.5); Piedmont Railroad (43A-F14.6); Louisiana affairs (43A-F14.7); sureties of James H. Collins (43A-F14.8); Utah affairs (43A-F14.9); and various subjects (43A-F14.10). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes (43A-F14.11); a docket volume (43A-F14.12); and a volume recording items referred within the committee (43A-F14.13). For another docket, see entry 532. Committee on Manufactures: a docket volume (43A-F15.1). Committee on Mileage: a volume listing the traveling expenses of Members of the House (43A-F16.1). Committee on Military Affairs: bounty legislation for Civil War veterans (43A-F17.1); claims (43A-F17.2); post traders (43A-17.3); public property in the possession of the War Department as of Dec. 1874 (43A-F17.4); relief of the State of Missouri on account of ordnance and ordnance stores issued to it during the Civil War (43A-F17.5); reports of inspections of money accounts of Army disbursing officers (43A-F17.6); survey of the records in the Office of the Quartermaster General in order to eliminate the useless papers (43A-F17.7); War Department publications (43A-F17.8); and various subjects (43A-F17.9). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 43A-F17.2, which is arranged alphabetically. There are also a volume of minutes, 43d Congress, lst session, to 44th Congress, 2d session (43A-F17.10); and 2 docket volumes (43A-F17.11). For other minutes, see entry 532. Committee on Naval Affairs: a report on percussion primers (43A-F18.1). Committee on the Pacific Railroad: Central Pacific Railroad (43A-F19.1); committee administration (43A-F19.2); J. B. Stewart v. Union Pacific Railroad, U. S. Circuit Court for the District of Kansas (43A-F19.3); and Union Pacific Railroad (43A-F19.4). Arranged chronologically within each group. For minutes and docket, see entry 491. Committee on Patents: extension of the patent of E. P. Torry and W. B. Tilton for a door spring (43A-F20.1); extension of the patent of Eliza Wells for improvements in machinery for forming hat bodies (43A-F20.2); extension of the patent of William Wickersham for improvements in sewing machines (43A-F20.3); and various subjects (43A-F20.4). Arranged chronologically within each group. For docket, 1st session, see entry 449; and minutes, entry 518. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: committee administration (43A-F21.1); Dr. D. B. Richard's mail-order business (43A-F21.2); establishment of mail routes in States and Territories (43A-F21.3); investigation of the engraving and printing of stamps furnished to the Post Office Department (43A-F21.4); investigation of mail contract frauds (43A-F21.5); mail routes in Texas (43A-F21.6); postal rates (43A-F21.7); and various subjects (43A-F21.8). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 43A-F21.3, which is arranged alphabetically by State or Territory. Committee on Private Land Claims: land claims in Louisiana (43A-F22.1); land claims in New Mexico Territory (43A-F22.2); and various subjects (43A-F22.3). Arranged by subject. For minutes and docket, see entry 532. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: investigation of the alleged violation of the 8-hour law in the work on the New York Post Office Building (43A-F23.1) and various subjects (43A-F23.2). Arranged by subject. For minutes and docket, see entry 532. Committee on Public Lands: committee administration (43A-F24.1); papers accompanying specific bills (43A-F24.2); settlement of Russian Mennonites on public lands (43A-F24.3); swamplands in Illinois (43A-F24.4); tideflats, Budd's Inlet, Washington Territory (43A-F24.5); Yerba Buena Island (43A-F24.6); and various subjects (43A-F24.7). Arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes, 43d Congress, 1st session, to 44th Congress, 2d session (43A-F24.8); and a docket volume (43AF24.9). Committee on Railways and Canals: committee administration (43A-F25.1); construction of a horse railway over Rock Island (43A-F25.2); construction of a tunnel under the East River (43A-F25.3); and various subjects (43A-F25.4). Arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (43AF25.5). Committee on Reform in the Civil Service: a list of employees in the Treasury Department, 1873 (43A-F26.1), and a list of employees in the War Department, 1873 (43A-F26.2). Arranged by subject. Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: fragmentary minutes of the committee (43A-F27.1). For docket, see entry 532. Committee on the Territories: a volume of minutes (43A-F28.1). For other minutes, see entry 434. Committee on War Claims: Chicago Fair Grounds (43A-F29.1); claims rejected by the Commissioners of Claims, i. e., Southern Claims Commission, Report No. 3 (43A-F29.2) and Report No. 4 (43A-F29.3); and various subjects (43A-F29.4). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 43AF29.2 and 43A-F29.3, which are arranged numerically. There is also a docket volume (43A-F29.5). For a consolidated index to claims reported by the Commissioners, and a list of claims disallowed, see entry 532. Committee on Ways and Means: committee administration (43A-F30.1); internal revenue law (43A-F30.2); investigation of the Sanborn Contracts (43AF30.3); investigation into the affairs of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. (43A-F30.4); moieties and informers' fees (43A-F30.5); national finance (43A-F30.6); papers accompanying specific bills (43A-F30.7); tariff (43A-F30.8); and various subjects (43A-F30.9). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 43A-F30.7, which is arranged numerically by bill. There is also a docket volume (43A-F30.10). another docket, see entry 532. For Select Committees: on the Centennial Celebration and the Proposed National Census of 1875, a docket volume (43A-F31.1); on the Washington Monument (43A-F31.2); on the Levees of the Mississippi, including a volume of minutes and docket entries (43A-F31.3); and on That Part of the President's Message Relating to the Late Insurrectionary States, including minutes of the committee (43A-F31.4). 143 vols. 36 ft. ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 143 vols. 547 Original executive documents, 1st session (43A-G1) and 2d session (43A-G2); and original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (43A-G3) and 2d session (43A-G4). Arranged numerically within each group. 20 ft. 548 PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED coinage at the Denver Mint (43A-H3.1); reforms in the system of weights and measures, particularly the use of the metric system (43A-H3.2); and various subjects (43A-H3.3). Committee on Commerce: repeal of the act appointing Shipping Commissioners, passed June 7, 1872 (43A-H4.1) and various subjects (43A-H4.2). Committee on the District of Columbia: bridges (43A-H5.1); railways (43AH5.2); use of Corcoran Square for a public market (43A-H5.3); and various subjects (43A-H5.4). Committee on Foreign Affairs: settlement of international difficulties by arbitration or other pacific means (43A-H6.1) and various subjects (43A-H6.2). |