There is (45A-F8.1); Washington Market Co. (45A-F8.2); and various subjects (45A-F8.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. also a docket volume (45A-F8.4). For another docket, see entry 518. For minutes, see entry 504, Committee on Roads and Canals. Committee on Education and Labor: various subjects (45A-F9.1), arranged chronologically. Committee on Elections: accounts of claimants for expenses in contested elections (45A-F10.1); contested election cases of Charles W. Buttz v. E. W. M. Mackey, South Carolina (45A-F10.2), T. E. Chambliss v. Joseph Jorgenson, Virginia (45A-F10.3), Jere Haralson v. Charles M. Shelley, Alabama (45A-F10.4), John R. Lynch v. James R. Chalmers, Mississippi (45A-F10.5), John S. Richardson v. Joseph H. Rainey, South Carolina (45A-F10.6), Peter D. Wigginton v. Romualdo Pacheco, California (45AF10.7), Robert H. M. Davidson v. William J. Purman, Florida (45A-F10.8), Robert N. Baskin v. George Cannon, Utah Territory (45A-F10.9), Thomas B. Florence v. Chapman Freeman, Pennsylvania (45A-F10.10), William H. Hardy v. H. S. Stevens, Arizona Territory (45A-F10.11), and William E. Hinton v. Joseph Jorgensen, Virginia (45A-F10.12); and various subjects (45A-F10.13). Arranged by subject. For minutes, see entry 532. Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department: various subjects (45A-F11.1), arranged chronologically. Committee on Expenditures in the State Department: various subjects (45AF12.1), arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (45A-F12.2). Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department: contingent expenses of the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1878 (45A-F13.1). Committee on Expenditures in the War Department: charges against Frank S. Johnson, chief inspector of clothing at the Quartermaster's Depot in Philadelphia (45A-F14.1); inspections of money accounts of Army disbursing officers (45A-F14.2); and various subjects (45A-F14.3). Arranged by subject. Committee on Foreign Affairs: definition of the boundary between Alaska and Canada (45A-F15.1); Geneva award (45A-F15.2); International Exposition at Paris, 1878 (45A-F15.3); Japanese indemnity fund (45A-F15.4); Mexican awards under the convention of July 4, 1868, between the United States and Mexico (45A-F15.5); Venezuelan claims (45A-F15.6); and various subjects (45A-F15.7). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes, 45th Congress, 1st session, to 46th Congress, 3d session (45A-F15.8); and a docket volume (45AF15.9). For a volume recording the agenda referred to individual members, see entry 546. Committee on Indian Affairs: educational fund of the Cherokee Nation (45A-F15.1); Gen. J. P. C. Shanks, Special Commissioner for the Indian Territory (45A-F16.2); Osage ceded lands (45A-F16.3); lands allotted to the Mexican Potawatomi Indians under the treaty of Nov. 15, 1861 (45A-F16.4); transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department (45AF16.5); and various subjects (45A-F16.6). Arranged chronologically within each group. There is also a docket volume (45A-F16.7). minutes, see entry 558. Committee on Invalid Pensions: claims of soldiers or widows of soldiers of the War of 1812 (45A-F17.1); papers accompanying specific bills (45A-F17.2); pensions for veterans of the Mexican War (45A-F17.3); For transfer of certain records from the Surgeon General's Office, U. S. Army, to the Pension Office (45A-F17.4); U. S. pension agents (45AF17.5); and various subjects (45A-F17.6). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 45A-F17.2, which is arranged numerically. There are also 3 docket volumes (45A-F17.7). For minutes, see entry 449. Committee on the Judiciary: awards made by the Mexican Claims Commission (45A-F18.1); civil rights legislation (45A-F18.2); condemnation by the United States of block 121 of the school section addition to Chicago (45A-F18.3); Geneva award (45A-F18.4); and various subjects (45A-F18.5). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes (45A-F18.6) and a docket volume (45A-F18.7). Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River: a docket volume, 45th Congress, 1st session, to 46th Congress, 1st session, and 48th Congress, 1st session (45A-F19.1). Committee on Manufactures: bills referred to the committee (45A-F20.1), arranged numerically; and a combination minute and docket volume (45AF20.2). Committee on Military Affairs: abstracts of contracts made by the Quartermaster's Department in 1877 (45A-F21.1); appropriations and expenditures of the Army (45A-F21.2); briefs of Representative John H. Evins on the agenda of the committee (45A-F21.3); correspondence of Representative Henry B. Banning, chairman of the committee (45A-F21.4); sale of the Fort Yuma Military Reservation, Arizona Territory (45A-F21.5); and various subjects (45A-F21.6). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes (45A-F21.7) and a docket volume (45A-F21.8). Committee on the Militia: militia force of the United States (45A-F22.1). There is also a combination minute and docket volume (45A-F22.2). Committee on Naval Affairs: expenditures of the Navy Department under the contingent appropriation, July 1, 1877, to June 30, 1878 (45A-F23.1); relief of Lt. Comdr. Horace E. Mullan (45A-F23.2); Rogers American Code of Marine Signals (45A-F23.3); U. S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia (45A-F23.4); U. S. Naval Observatory (45A-F23.5); and various subjects (45A-F23.6). Arranged by subject. Committee on the Pacific Railroad: Austin-Topolovampo Pacific Railroad route (45A-F24.1); Northern Pacific Railroad (45A-F24.2); sinking fund provided for in the act of July 2, 1864, amending an act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean (45A-F23.3); and various subjects (45AF24.4). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes, 45th Congress, 2d session, to 48th Congress, 2d session (45A-F24.5); and a docket volume (45A-F24.6). For other minutes, see entry 558. Committee on Patents: various subjects (45A-F25.1), arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (45A-F25.2). For minutes, see entry 558. Committee on the Post Office and Post Office and Post Roads: increase of the revenues of the Post Office Department (45A-F26.1); return post cards (45A-F26.2); and various subjects (45A-F26.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Private Land Claims: papers accompanying specific bills (45A-F27.1), arranged numerically; and various subjects (45A-F27.2), arranged chronologically. There is also a docket volume (45A-F27.3). For minutes and another docket, see entry 558. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: Capitol Building and Grounds (45A-F28.1); construction of public buildings (45A-F28.2); charges against Edward Clark, Architect of the Capitol (45A-F28.3); charges against Samuel McCullough, Superintendent of Public Construction at San Francisco (45A-F28.4); papers accompanying specific bills (45AF28.5); public property in Alaska transferred to the United States by Russia (45A-F28.6); Washington Market Co. (45A-F28.7); and various subjects (45A-F28.8). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 45A-F28.5, which is arranged numerically by bill. There is also a docket volume (45A-F28.9). For minutes, see entry 532. Committee on Public Expenditures: a volume of minutes, 45th Congress, 1st session, to 47th Congress, 1st session (45A-F29.1); and a docket volume (45A-F29.2). Committee on Public Lands: Fort Smith Military Reservation, Ark. (45AF30.1); homestead legislation (45A-F30.2); papers accompanying specific bills (45A-F30.3); restoration of certain Michigan lands to market (45A-F30.4); and various subjects (45A-F30.5). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 45A-F30.3, which is arranged numerically by bill. There are also a rough docket, 45th Congress, 1st session, to 47th Congress, 2d session (45A-F30.6); and a docket volume (45A-F30.7). Committee on Railways and Canals: Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Railroad (45A-F31.1); Dismal Swamp Canal (45A-F31.2); Galveston and Camargo Railroad (45A-F31.3); papers accompanying specific bills (45A-F31.4); and various subjects (45A-F31.5). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 45A-F31.4, which is arranged numerically by bill. For minutes, see entry 558. Committee on Revision of the Laws: a docket volume (45A-F32.1). Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: papers accompanying specific bills (45A-F33.1), arranged numerically by bill; a volume of minutes, 45th Congress, 1st session, to 46th Congress, 2d session (45A-F33.2), which also contains the minutes of the Committee on Pensions, 47th Congress, 1st session, to 48th Congress, 2d session; a docket volume (45A-F33.3), which also contains the docket of the Committee on Pensions for the 47th Congress; and an alphabetical register of case files requested by the committee, principally from the Commissioner of Pensions (45A-F33.4). Committee on the Territories: administrative records (45A-F34.1) and various subjects (45A-F34.2). Arranged by subject. For minutes, see entry 558. Committee on War Claims: claims rejected by the Commissioners of Claims, i. e., the Southern Claims Commission, Report No. 7 (45A-F35.1) and Report No. 8 (45A-F35.2); court-martial trial of Capt. G. W. Smith (45A-F35.3); and various subjects (45A-F35.4). Arranged by subject, except 45A-F35.1 and 45A-F35.2, which are arranged numerically within each group. There is also a docket volume (45A-F35.5). For a consolidated index to claims reported by the Commissioners, and a list of claims disallowed, see entry 532. Committee on Ways and Means: ad valorem duties (45A-F36.1); currency (45A-F36.2); distilled spirits (45A-F36.3); New York Customhouse investigation (45A-F36.4); papers accompanying specific bills (45A-F36.5); refunding the national debt and the promotion of safety deposits (45AF36.6); scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of interest to the committee (45A-F36.7); tariff on bags and bagging (45A-F36.8), chloroform (45A-F36.9), dry goods (45A-F36.10), French wines (45A-F36.11), gloves (45A-F36.12), licorice paste (45A-F36.13), paper (45A-F36.14), saltpeter (45A-F36.15), sugar (45A-F36.16), sulphate of quinia (45AF36.17), type (45A-F36.18), wire rope (45A-F36.19), and wool (45AF36.20); taxes on alcohol and tobacco (45A-F36.21); vaporization of spirits for vinegar (45A-F36.22); and various subjects. Arranged chronologically within each group, except 45A-F36.5, which is arranged numerically. There are also a volume of minutes (45A-F36.23), a docket volume (45A-F36.24), and a record of petitions referred to the committee (45A-F36.25). Select Committees: on Alleged Frauds in the Late Presidential Election (1876), a volume of minutes, (45A-F37.1); on the Census, a docket volume, 45th Congress, 3d session, to 46th Congress, 3d session (45A-F37.2); on the Origin, Introduction, and Prevention of Epidemic Diseases in the United States, a volume of minutes, 45th Congress, 3d session, to 46th Congress, 3d session (45A-F37.3); on Reform in the Civil Service, a combination minute and docket book (45A-F37.4); and to Inquire Into the Manner of Ventilating the Hall of the House of Representatives, a volume of minutes (45A-F37.5). ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 203 vols. 51 ft. 573 Original executive documents, 1st session (45A-G1), 2d session (45 G2), and 3d session (45A-G3); and original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (45A-G4), 2d session (45 A-G5), and 3d session (45A-G6). Arranged numerically within each group. 29 ft. 574 PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED Committee on Accounts: various subjects (45A-H1.1). (45A-H3.11); restoration of diplomatic relations with Bolivia and Colombia (45A-H3.12); and various subjects (45A-H3.13). Committee on Banking and Currency: repeal of the Specie Resumption Act (45A-H4.1). Committee on Claims: various subjects (45A-H5.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on Commerce: compulsory pilotage for coastal trade and fisheries (45A-H6.1); establishment of a Department of Commerce (45A-H6.2); immigration tax (45A-H6.3); licensing of shipmasters, mates, pilots, and engineers (45A-H6.4); Michigan Ship Canal (45A-H6.5); regulation and protection of fisheries on the lakes and rivers of the West (45A-H6.6); regulation of interstate commerce and the prohibition of unjust rebates and discriminations by common carriers (45A-H6.7); rivers and harbors (45A-H6.8); ships and shipping (45A-116.9); free competition in the construction and operation of telegraphic cables (45A-H6.10); transfer of the Life-Saving Service from the Treasury Department (45A-H6.11); and various subjects (45A-H6.12). Committee on the District of Columbia: legislation to enable members of the Western Emigration Society of the District of Columbia to take advantage of the homestead law (45A-H7.1). Committee on Education and Labor: aid to indigent colonizers of public land (45A-H8.1); aid to various groups for educational purposes (45AH8.2); appointment of a commission to investigate the alcoholic liquor traffic (45A-H8.3); claims (45A-H8.4), arranged alphabetically by petitioner; colonization of Liberia by American Negroes (45A-H8.5); distribution of the proceeds from the sale of public lands to the States for educational purposes (45A-H8.6); incorporation of the Iron Moulders Union of North America (45A-H8.7); legislation to effect enforcement of the 8-hour law and to provide fair and equitable pay for employees of the Government (45A-H8.8); prohibition of Chinese immigration (45AH8.9); refund of a succession tax paid by Stevens Polytechnic Institute (45A-H8.10); use of unclaimed cotton tax refunds, H. R. 1670, for educational purposes in the States in which it was paid (45A-H8.11); and various subjects (45A-H8.12). Committee on Foreign Affairs: abrogation of the fishing articles of the Washington treaty (45A-H9.1); claims (45A-H9.2), arranged alphabetically by petitioner; diplomatic mission to Colombia (45A-H9.3); exploration and colonization of the North Polar Area (45A-H9.4); Mexico (45A-H9.5); and various subjects (45A-H9.6). Committee on Invalid Pensions: amendment of the pension laws (45A-H10.1); pensions for veterans of the Mexican war and the Black Hawk War (45AH10.2); and various subjects (45A-H10.3). Committee on the Judiciary: appointment of a commission to investigate the alcoholic liquor traffic (45A-H11.1); appointment of a special committee to investigate the official conduct of H. W. Blodgett, District Judge of the Northern District of Illinois (45A-1.2); creation of a new Federal judicial district in Texas (45A-H11.3); enforcement of the antipolygamy law of 1862 (45A-H11.4); repeal of the bankruptcy Iaw (45A-H11.5); settlement of the Alabama claims (45A-H11.6); woman suffrage (45A-H11.7); and various subjects (45A-H11.8). Committee on Manufactures: adulteration of food (45A-H12.1) and various subjects (45A-H12.2). |