Committee on Invalid Pensions: passage of H. R. 1179, a bill providing for increased pensions to disabled soldiers (43A-H7.1) and various subjects (43A-H7.2). Committee on the Judiciary: appointment of a commission to investigate the alcoholic liquor traffic (43A-H8.1); bankruptcy law (43A-H8.2); civil rights legislation (43A-H8.3); constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquor in the United States (43A-H8.4); distribution of the Geneva award (43A– H8.5); election of United States Senators by popular vote (43A-H8.6); liquor, general (43A-H8.7); removal of the U. s. District Court from Keokuk to Burlington, Iowa (43A-H8.8); and various subjects (43A-H8.9). Committee on Manufactures: various subjects (43A-H9.1). Committee on Military Affairs: bounties (43A-H10.1); modification of homestead law, in favor of veterans, to dispense with the necessity of actual residence (43A-H10.2); Presidio of San Francisco, Calif. (43AH10.3); and various subjects (43A-H10.4); Committee on the Pacific Railroad: various subjects (43A-H11.1). Committee on Patents: extension of the Wells patent for the forming of hat bodies (43A-H12.1), and manufacture of patented articles by other than the owner of the patent, on the payment of a reasonable royalty (43A-H12.2). Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: mail routes (43A-H13.1); Pacific Mail Steamship Co. subsidy (43A-H13.2); pay of postal employees (43A-H13.3); postage on newspapers, periodicals, and books (43A-H13.4); and various subjects (43A-H13.5). Committee on Printing: various subjects (43A-H14.1). Committee on Public Lands: amendment of the Timber Culture Act of Mar. 3, 1873 (43A-H15.1); lands for the "Christian denomination called Mennonites of South Russia and Prussia" (43A-H15.2); and various subjects (43A-H15.3). Committee on Railways and Canals: construction of a canal from Hennepin on the Illinois River, to Rock Island on the Mississippi (43A-H16.1); construction of a double-track freight railway from tidewater to the Missouri River (43A-H16.2); Government aid in completing the Western North Carolina Rail Road (43A-H16.3); incorporation of the Eastern and Western Transportation Co. (43A-H16.4); and various subjects (43A-H16.5). Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: various subjects (43A-H17.1). Committee on the Territories: various subjects (43A-H18.1). Committee on Ways and Means: currency (43A-H19.1); extension of the time for payment of taxes on whiskey held in bond (43A-H19.2); friction matches (43A-H19.3); hops (43A-H19.4); iron and steel (43A-H19.5); moiety system (43A-H19.6); repeal of the stamp tax on medicinal preparations, with such tax to be continued on patent or proprietary medicines (43A-H19.7); restoration of the 10-percent duty taken off leading foreign products in 1872, and against a duty on tea and coffee (43A-H19.8); tinplate (43A-F19.9); tobacco and licorice (43A-F19.10); type (43A-H19.11); vinegar (43A-H19.12); wines (43A-H19.13); and various subjects (43A-H19.14). Select Committee on Salaries: various subjects (43A-H20.1). ELECTION RECORDS. 5 in. 549 Credentials of Representatives (43A-J1), arranged alphabetically by State. OTHER RECORDS: 2 ft. 550 Copies of telegrams received (43A-K1) and copies of telegrams sent (43A-K2) by departmental telegraph lines which connected the House of Representatives with all the executive departments and the Government Printing Office; and various papers (43A-K3). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 43A-K3, which is arranged by subject. Records of the Office of the Clerk For index to claims, pensions, etc., see entry 498. RECORD BOOKS. 16 vols. 2 ft. 551 Bill book of House bills and resolutions together with index (43C-A bill book of Senate bills and resolutions (43C-A2); individual ledger (43C-A3); register of enrolled bills and resolutions, 43d Congress, 1st session, to 44th Congress, 1st session (43C-A4); register of committee reports (43C-A5); register of executive documents (43C-A6); register of miscellaneous documents (43C-A7); and 6 account books recording expenditures of the Clerk's Office (43C-A8). For other account books, see entries 525 and 539. OTHER RECORDS. 1 ft. 552 Check stubs showing expenditures from the contingent fund (43C-B1), arranged numerically; and various papers (43C-B2), arranged by subject. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1875-77 First Session, December 6, 1875-August 15, 1876 Records of Legislative Proceedings 553 MINUTE BOOKS AND JOURNALS. 5 vols. 2 ft. Minute book, 1st session (44A-Al); legislative journal, 1st session (44A-A2); minute book, 2d session (44A-A3); and legislative journal, 2d session (44A-A4). BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE. 13 ft. 554 Twenty volumes of original House bills (44A-B1); 1 volume of original House joint resolutions (44A-B2); original House concurrent resolutions (44A-B3); House simple resolutions, motions, and orders (44A-B4); desk copies of House bills passed (44A-B5); desk copies of House joint resolutions passed (44A-B6); and 8 volumes of engrossed House bills and resolutions (44A-B7). Arranged numerically within each group, except 44A-B3, which is arranged chronologically, and 44A-B4, which is arranged alphabetically by Congressman. BILIS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE AND CONSIDERED IN THE HOUSE. ACCOMPANYING PAPERS FILE. 54 ft. 2 in. 555 556 Papers relating to claims, pensions, and other forms of private relief together with papers relating to public matters (44A-D1). Arranged alphabetically by person, State, Territory, or subject. COMMITTEE REPORTS. 59 vols. 15 ft. 557 Original committee reports, 1st session (44A-E1) and 2d session (44AE2). Arranged numerically within each group. COMMITTEE PAPERS. 42 ft. 558 Records of the following committees, relating to the subjects listed or consisting of the kinds of documents specified: Committee on Accounts: Folding Room investigation (44A-F1.1) and a ledger of the miscellaneous expenses of the committee, 44th Congress, 1st session, to 45th Congress, 2d session (44A-F1.2). For minutes, see entry 518. Committee on Agriculture: various subjects (44A-F2.1), arranged chronologically. Committee on Appropriations: claims (44A-F3.1); papers from or about the Court of Claims (44A-F3.2), the District of Columbia (44A-F3.3), the Government Printing Office (44A-F3.4), the House of Representatives and the Senate (44A-F3.5), the Smithsonian Institution (44A-F3.6), the Supreme Court (44A-F3.7), the U. S. Board Appointed to Test Iron and Steel (44A-F3.8), the U. S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries (44A-F3.9), and the Washington Monument (44A-F3.10); papers from or about executive departments: Agriculture (44A-F3.11), Interior (44A-F3.12), Justice (44A-F3.13), Navy (44A-F3.14), Post Office (44A-F3.15), State (44AF3.16), Treasury (44A-F3.17), and War (44A-F3.18); and various subjects (44A-F3.19). Arranged chronologically within each group. For letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence, see entry 504. Committee on Banking and Currency: various subjects (44A-F4.1), arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (44A-F4.2). Committee on Claims: complaints and affidavits against C. F. Benjamin, Clerk of the Southern Claims Commission (44A-F5.1). There is also a docket volume (44A-F5.2). For minutes, see entry 546. Committee on Commerce: bridge construction (44A-F6.1); investigation of combinations among railroads to control commerce (44A-F6.2); passage of small craft under bridges spanning navigable streams (44A-F6.3); river and harbor improvements (44A-F6.4); and various subjects (44AF6.5). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on the District of Columbia: investigation of the Board of Minnesota (44A-F8.6), Jesse J. Finley v. Josiah T. Walls, Florida (44A-F8.7), Thomas B. Florence v. Chapman Freeman, Pennsylvania (44AF8.8), Samuel Lee v. Joseph H. Rainey, South Carolina (44A-F8.9), John V. Le Moyne v. Charles B. Farwell, Illinois (44A-F8.10), Augustus N. Lowry v. Nelson J. Norton, New York (44A-F8.11), James H. Platt, Jr. v. John Goode, Virginia (44A-F8.12), James T. Rapier v. Jeremiah N. Williams, Alabama (44A-F8.13), Roderick Seal v. John R. Lynch, Mississippi (44A-F8.14), William B. Spencer v. Frank Morey, Louisiana (44A-F8.15), Pedro Valdez v. Stephen B. Elkins, New Mexico Territory (44A-F8.16), and G. H. White v. John A. Hyman, North Carolina (44AF8.17); and various subjects (44A-F8.18). Arranged by subject, except 44A-F8.1, which is arranged alphabetically by claimant. For minutes, see entry 532. Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department: subpenas issued for the appearance of various persons before the committee (44A-F9.1), œranged alphabetically; and a volume of minutes (44A-F9.2). Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice: a docket volume (44A-F10.1). Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department: transfer of the Naval Fiscal Agency at London (44A-F11.1) and various subjects (44A-F11.2). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings: construction of the New York Post Office (44A-F12.1) and various subjects (44A-F12.2). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Expenditures in the State Department: papers relative to the conduct of John A. Bridgeland, United States consul at Le Havre, France (44A-F13.1); consulates (44A-F13.2); and various subjects (44AF13.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department: captured and abandoned property (44A-F14.1); water-proofing process employed in the manufacture of fractional currency (44A-F14.2); and various subjects (44A-F14.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Expenditures in the War Department: various subjects (44A-F15.1), arranged chronologically. Committee on Foreign Affairs: case of the brig Surprise, whose papers were retained by the U. S. consul at Trinidad (44A-F16.1); conduct of George F. Seward, U. S. Minister to China (44A-F16.2); Cuban affairs (44A-F16.3); German Empire (44A-F16.4); Great Britain (44A-F16.5); Ireland (44A-F16.6); Mexico (44A-F16.7); South Africa (44A-F16.8); relationship of Robert Schenck, U. S. Minister to the Court of St. James, with the Emma Mine (44A-F16.9); Tunis (44A-F16.10); Turkey (44A-F16.11); Venezuela (44A-F16.12); and various subjects (44A-F16.13). Arranged chronologically within each group. There is also a docket volume (44AF16.14). For minutes and a volume recording the agenda referred to individual members, see entry 546. Committee on Indian Affairs: conduct of Indian offices (44A-F17.1); proposed transfer of the management of Indian affairs from the Interior Department to the War Department (44A-F17.2); and various subjects (44A-F17.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a minute book, 44th Congress, 1st session, to 46th Congress, 2d session (44A-F17.4); and a docket volume (44A-F17.5). Committee on Invalid Pensions: various subjects (44A-F18.1), arranged by subject. There are also 2 docket volumes (44A-F18.2). For minutes, see entry 449. Committee on the Judiciary: investigation of Pacific railroads (44A-F19.1); conduct of Judges J. B. Belford and A. W. Stone of Colorado Territory (44A-F19.2); and various subjects (44A-F19.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes (44A-F19.4) and 2 docket volumes (44A-F19.5). Committee on Military Affairs: reports of inspection of money accounts of disbursing officers of the Army (44A-F20.1); testimony relating to the operation of the Soldiers' Home and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (44A-F20.2); and various subjects (44A-F20.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also 2 docket volumes (44A-F20.4). For minutes, see entry 546. Committee on the Militia: arming and equipping the Militia of the United States (44A-F21.1), arranged chronologically. For docket, see entry 491. Committee on the Mississippi Levees: various subjects (44A-F22.1), arranged chronologically. There is also a docket volume (44A-F22.2). Committee on Naval Affairs: various subjects (44A-F23.1), arranged chronologically. Committee on the Pacific Railroad: Central Pacific Railroad (44A-F24.1); Northern Pacific Railroad (44A-F24.2); Oregon Branch of the Pacific Railroad (44A-F24.3); Southern Pacific Railroad (44A-F24.4); Texas Pacific Railroad (44A-F24.5); Union Pacific Railroad (44A-F24.6); and various subjects (44A-F24.7). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes, 44th Congress, 1st session, to 45th Congress, 2d session (44A-F24.8); and a docket volume (44AF24.9). Committee on Patents: J. W. Rexford's patent for "improvement in rectifying and oxygenating apparatus" (44A-F25.1) and various subjects (44AF25.2). Arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes, 44th Congress, 1st session, to 46th Congress, 3d session (44A-F25.3); and a docket volume (44A-F25.4). Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: establishment of mail routes in States and Territories (44A-F26.1); report of fines and reductions from the pay of mail contractors, July 4, 1874, to June 24, 1876 (44A-F26.2); and various subjects (44A-F26.3). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 44A-F26.1, which is arranged alphabetically by State or Territory. Committee on Printing: memorial addresses on the life and character of M. C. Kerr, Speaker of the House (44A-F27.1); general inquiry into the Government Printing Office as to cost of work (44A-F27.2); and various subjects (44A-F27.3). Arranged by subject. Committee on Private Land Claims: various subjects (44A-F28.1), arranged chronologically. There are also a minute book, 44th Congress, 1st session, to 45th Congress, 3d session (44A-F28.2); and 3 docket volumes, 44th Congress, 1st session, to 45th Congress, 2d session (44A-F28.3). For additional minutes and docket, see entry 532. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: Chicago Customhouse investigation (44A-F29.1); expenditures for the use and improvement of public |