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Post Office Department--Continued
Appropriations and other financial matters
of--Continued

Hearings on, 405

See also Expenditures and expenses, below.
Clerks for, additional, 67

Pay of, petitions, 132, 230

Correspondence with House Members, to inves-
tigate conduct in relation to, 308
Custodial employees, petitions, 420
Efficiency of, petitions, 153
Expenditures and expenses
Curtailment of, 273

Mi sapplication of, 102
Various, 47, 66, 381, 386

See also Appropriations and other finan-
cial matters, above, and Expenditures
in the Post Office Department, Commit-
tee on.

Investigation of, 308

Laws concerning, revision, 191
Legislation, views concerning, 171
Personnel of, 244, 281

Public property in, 381

Revenues, 212

Petitions, 153

Service and employment in, curtailment,
petitions, 402

Stamp Division, envelope frauds in, 236
Various, 143

See also Postmaster General.
Post offices and post roads

Accommodations for, 137

Act establishing, to amend, petitions, 17
Buildings, petitions, 326, 414
Consolidation of certain, petitions, 298
Construction of certain, cost of, 204
Creation of, 185

List of, 178

New York, cost of construction, 204
Receipts of, 48

Various, 35, 39, 43, 44, 48, 62, 67, 87,
143, 353

Petitions, 17, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29, 30,

33, 40, 63, 68, 73, 78, 83, 88, 94,
99, 105, 110, 111, 115, 120, 125,
131, 132, 138, 139, 146, 152

See also Mail routes.

Post Offices and Post Roads Committee (select
and standing)

Appointments to, 185

Authorizations to, 321

Chairman of, correspondence, 67, 103
Papers to accompany bills and resolutions

referred to. See Accompanying papers
under all Congresses from the 58th
through the 79th except the 62d, 63d,
and 64th.

Petitions referred to. See Petitions and
memorials under all Congresses from the
9th through the 77th except the 48th,
63d, and 65th.

Post Offices and Post Roads Committee (select
and standing)--Continued

Records of. See Committee reports and

papers under all Congresses from the
12th through the 36th and Committee
papers under all Congresses from the
38th through the 79th.

Post routes. See Mall routes.

Postage rates, 87, 103, 185, 199, 228, 244
Petitions, 88, 94, 105, 106, 110, 115,

120, 132, 139, 146, 194, 201, 216,
224, 246, 261, 276, 284, 316, 326,
335, 361, 367, 378, 383, 391, 397,
402, 403, 414

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Postal Service, Joint Commission on, 364
Postal Telegraph, Select Committee on, 186
Postal telegraph system, petitions, 224, 230,
261, 269

Postmaster General, reports and communications
from. See Reports and communications

under the 1st, 2d, and 8th Congresses and
under the 16th through the 36th Congresses.
For later reports and communications, see
the bound volumes of original documents.
Postmasters

Accounts of various, adjustments of, peti-
tions, 132

Claims of certain, 332
Fourth-class, 339

Petitions, 284, 291, 298

Increased compensation for, 339

Petitions, 45, 132, 284, 291, 298

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Powell, Alfred H., election contest, 51

Powell, Joseph, election contest, 176

Power boats, regulation, petitions, 298
Power looms. See Looms for weaving.

Prairie du Chien, Wis., bridge at, 197
Prayers, time for, petitions, 360, 420
Precipitation, 352

Predatory animals, control of, petitions, 387
Preemption law, to extend, petitions, 94
Preemption rights and privileges, 88, 89, 150
Petitions, 33, 53, 68, 73, 88, 89

Preemption settlers, relief of certain, 236
Preemptors, additional year to pay for plans,
petitions, 194

Prentiss, S. S., election contest, 86
President and Vice President, Select Committee
on Law Respecting the Election of, records
of, 237

President of the United States

Assassination, petitions, 303

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Registers of, 350, 356, 361, 368, 373,
378, 384, 389, 393, 398, 404, 409,
415, 421, 426, 433, 439

Permission for foreign-born to become,
petitions, 194

Policy toward Germany and allies, petitions,
354

Private meetings with, 172

Proclamation convening Congress, 415

Protection of, 307

Protest of House resolution by, 149

Qualifications for, petitions, 194

Resolutions sent to, registers of, 121, 126

Tenure of office, petitions, 420, 431

See also Vice President.

President's house. See White House.
Presidio at San Francisco, Calif., 235
Petitions, 201

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Printing, Superintendent of Public, 129, 1
Printing and binding, 38, 42, 69, 79, 80, 92,
123, 143, 144, 189, 322, 330, 332
Printing Committee (select and standing)
Papers to accompany bills and resolutions

referred to. See Accompanying papers
under all Congresses from the 58th
through the 79th except the 61st, 62d,
63d, and 65th.

Petitions referred to, 120, 125, 132, 146,
160, 166, 201, 207, 224, 230, 239, 261,
269, 276, 284, 291, 298, 373, 378, 402
Records of, 123, 137, 143, 144, 205, 221,

228, 236, 244, 251, 258, 266, 274, 281,
288, 296, 302, 353, 365, 371, 376, 381,
387, 391, 396, 401, 407, 412, 418, 436
Referrals to, record of, 121

Printing House, American, aid for, 190
Printing presses, 129, 137

Petitions, 139

Printing type, duty on, petitions, 194

Prioleau, Aaron P., election contests, 307,
313, 319, 330, 351

Prisoners

American

Release, petitions, 104
Various, petitions, 99

Confederate, petitions, 165

Convicted of espionage, 367
Federal

Confinement in certain institutions,

petitions, 387

Parole of, petitions, 367

Prisoners of war

Exchange of, petitions, 165

Pensions for certain, petitions, 223, 230,

231, 238, 240, 246, 253, 260

Promotions for, petitions, 432

Rations for, 170

Relief for, petitions, 432

Treatment of, petitions, 165

Various, petitions, 341

Prisons.

See Penitentiaries.

Private expresses, 103

Private Land Claims Committee

Papers to accompany bills and resolutions
referred to, 306, 312, 318, 329
Petitions referred to. See Petitions and
memorials under all Congresses from
the ith through the 38th, and under
the 42d, 49th, 50th, 58th, and 59th
Congresses.
Records of. See Committee reports and

papers under all Congresses from the
14th through the 36th and Committee
papers under all Congresses from the
37th through the 61st.

Reports of, record of transcribed, 37, 79

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Public Buildings and Grounds Committee--
Continued

Petitions referred to, 88, 94, 99, 105, 111,
116, 120, 125, 132, 139, 146, 152, 160,
166, 173, 186, 208, 216, 224, 239, 253,
276, 291, 298, 326, 335, 342, 349, 361,
367, 373, 388, 393, 397, 402, 408, 414
Records of. See Committee reports and

papers under all Congresses from the
25th through the 36th except the 34th
and 35th, and Committee papers under
all Congresses from the 37th through
the 79th except the 76th.

Reports of, record of transcribed, 95
Public Buildings Commissioner, 102, 129, 157,
164, 168, 172, 178, 182

Public Buildings Committee, Select

Petitions referred to, 45, 53, 59, 63, 68,
73, 83

Records of, 43, 48, 52, 62, 82

See also Expenditures on the Public Build-
ings, Committee on, and Public Buildings
and Grounds Committee.

Public deposits, 77

Public documents. See Documents.

Public domain, grazing on, petitions, 383
Public Expenditures Committee

Petitions referred to, 36, 94, 99, 116
Records of, 32, 35, 43, 48, 62, 67, 72, 92,
97, 103, 114, 150, 157, 163, 171, 178,
185, 192, 206, 213, 221, 228

Reports of, record of transcribed, 34
Public finance, 179

Public health, petitions, 366, 401
Public Health, Select Committee on
Petitions referred to, 240, 247
Records of, 229, 237

Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, 320
Petitions, 341

Public Health Bureau, 272

Petitions, 275

Public Health Department, establishment, 268,

290

Public Health Service

Divisions of, petitions, 354

Pharmacists in, petitions, 323

Various, petitions, 372

Public improvements, petitions, 326

Public Information Committee, inquiry into

statement by Chairman of, 357

Public lands. See Lands.

Public Lands Committee

Appointments to, 185

Inquiry into opening a certain road,
resolution authorizing, 23

Papers accompanying bills and resolutions re-
ferred to. See Accompanying papers under
all Congresses from the 58th through the
79th except the 66th, 69th, and 72d.
Petitions referred to. See Petitions and

memorials under all Congresses from the
9th through the 79th except the 46th, 7th,
65th, 66th, 67th, 70th, 71st, and 72d.

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Public Works Board, District of Columbia, to
investigate, 197
Petitions, 193
Publications

Benevolent and fraternal, admission as

second-class matter, petitions, 276
Congressional, exchange with Canada and
Chile, 250

Exchange of statistical, 169

Foreign-language, exclusion from second-
class mail, petitions, 367
Government

Issued, received, and distributed by
agencies of, 371
Statements concerning, 376, 381
Subscribers to, withholding mail distribu-
tion in, petitions, 326

Various, petitions, 335

See also Documents.

Pueblo Indians, petitions, 341

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Laws, 287

Petitions, 290

National legislation for, petitions, 269
Stations or warehouses, 169

Petitions, 138, 152, 290

Quartermaster Corps, status of pay clerks of,
petitions, 349

Quartermaster General's Department
Contracts, abstracts of, 212

Expenditures and appropriations, 35

Survey of records in, 199

Quartermaster's Depot, Philadelphia, Pa.,

clothing inspector at, charges against, 211
Quebec, Canada, U. S. consul at, compensation
for, 169

Quinia sulphate, tariff on, 214
Quinine, petitions, 208, 217, 224
Quito, Ecuador, exposition at, 320
Race riots, 359

Racing bets, interstate transmission of,
petitions, 366

Radio

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Radio stations

High-powered, 358

Various, petitions, 392

Railroad from New York to Washington, Select

Committee on, 164

Petitions, 167

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