Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad: various subjects (36A-G24.1). Select Committee on the Special Message of the President of Jan. 8, 1861: Constitution and laws of the United States (36A-G25.1); Crittenden Compromise (36A-G25.2); national convention for the settlement of national difficulties (36A-G25.3); and various subjects (36A-G25.4). PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE TABLED. 3 ft. 453 Grouped by subject as follows: claims (36A-H1.1); Constitution and laws of the United States (36A-H1.2); Crittenden Compromise (36A-H1.3); national convention for the settlement of national difficulties (36AH1.4); national difficulties (36A-H1.5); patents and inventions (36AH1.6); Post Office Department revenue and efficiency (36A-H1.7); rivers and harbors (36A-H1.8); slavery (36A-H1.9); and various subjects (36AH1.10). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 36A-H1.1, which is arranged alphabetically by petitioner. ELECTION RECORDS. 3 in. 454 Credentials of Representatives and Delegates (36A-J1), arranged alphabetically by State or Territory. ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS. 13 vols. 3 ft. 455 Original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (36A-Kl) and 2d session (36A-K2). Arranged numerically within each group. OTHER RECORDS. 10 in. Two volumes of roll calls (36A-11), arranged chronologically; and various papers (36A-L2), arranged by subject. 456 Records of Impeachment Proceedings IMPEACHMENT OF JOHN C. MATROUS. 4 ft. 457 Papers pertaining to impeachment proceedings against John C. atrous, Judge of the U. S. District Court for the District of Texas (36B-A1). For other papers relating to the impeachment of Judge Watrous, see entries 427 and 443. Records of the Office of the Clerk RECORD BOOKS. 6 vols. 9 in. 458 Bill book of House and Senate bills and resolutions (36C-A1); petition book (360-A2); record of orders of the day (36C-13); record of committee reports (360-A4); and record of miscellaneous documents (36C-A5). For membership of standing and select committees, and a register of resolutions, see entry 398; for a register of reports from the Court of Claims, and a bill book of House bills based upon reports from the Court of Claims, see entry 428; and for account books, see entry 444. OTHER RECORDS. 3 in. Receipts for records withdrawn (36C-B1), arranged chronologically. For Clerk's letter book, see entry 415. 459 Subject index to House bills and resolutions (36C-C1). THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, 1861-63 First Session, July 4-August 6, 1861 Records of Legislative Proceedings MINUTE BOOK AND JOURNALS. 4 vols. 1 ft. 460 461 Minute book, 1st, 2d, and 3d sessions (37A-Al); and legislative journal, 1st session (37A-A2), 2d session (37A-43), and 3d session (37A-A4). BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE. 14 ft. 462 Original House bills and bills upon which further action was taken (37A-B1); original House joint resolutions (37A-B2); House simple resolutions, motions, and orders (37A-B3); 6 volumes of engrossed House bills and resolutions (374-B4); and House bills based upon reports from the Court of Claims (37A-B5). Arranged numerically within each group, except 37A-B3, which is arranged alphabetically by Congressman. BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE AND CONSIDERED IN THE HOUSE. 4 in. 463 Senate bills (37A-C1) and Senate joint resolutions (37A-C2). Arranged numerically within each group. COMMITTEE REPORTS. 9 ft. 464 Original committee reports, 1st session (37A-D1), Zu session (37A-D2), and 3d session (37A-D3). Arranged numerically within each group. 465 COMMITTEE PAPERS. 8 ft. Records of the following committees, relating to the subjects listed or consisting of the kinds of documents specified: Committee on Accounts: For minutes, see entry 434. Committee on Claims: claim of John W. Hill of Mercer County, Ky., for property seized by Federal troops (37A-E2.1); printed Court of Claims reports (37A-E2.2), arranged numerically. There are also 2 docket volumes, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 2d session (37A-E2.3). For minutes, see entry 419; letter book, entry 434; and a volume listing claims, entry 449. Committee on Commerce: claim of William Finney of Plymouth, Mass., for a bounty in respect to the schooner Coiner (37A-E3.1); establishment of a branch mint in the Territory of Nevada (37A-E3.2); regulations on internal and coastwise commerce with the insurrectionary States (37A-E3.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on the District of Columbia: failure of the Bullion Bank of Washington, D. C. (37A-E4.1); grant of authorization to the citizens of the District of Columbia to send a Delegate to Congress (37A-E4.2); improvement of the Washington Canal (37A-E4.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. There is also a docket volume, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 1st session (37A-E4.4). Committee on Elections: election cases of S. Ferguson Beach, Virginia (37A-E5.1); John M. Butler v. illiam E. Lehman, Pennsylvania (37AE5.2); LeGrand Byington v. William Vandever, Iowa (37A-E5.3); Henry Foster, North Carolina (37A-E5.4); John Kline v. John Verree, Pennsylvania (37A-E5.5); F. F. Low, California (37A-E5.6); J. Sterling Morton v. Samuel G. Daily, Nebraska (37A-E5.7); Joseph Segar, Virginia (37AE5.8); and Charles H. Upton, Virginia (37A-E5.9). Arranged by subject. For minutes, see entry 419. Committee on Foreign Affairs: claim of Z. B. Caverly, late Secretary of Legation to Peru, for losses by exchange rates (37A-E6.1); consular appointment to Port Burwell, Canada (37A-E6.2); consular pay (37A-E6.3); consular salary increase to Franklin Chase, at Tampico, Mexico (37AE6.4); disbursements by Isaac R. Diller, late consul at Bremen, Germany (37A-E6.5); fraudulent naturalizations (37A-E6.6); recovery for damages inflicted by the Union blockading force upon the Swedish brig Admiral P. Tordenskiold (37A-E6.7); and various subjects (37A-E6.8). Arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes, 37th Congress, 2d session, to 38th Congress, 2d session (37A-E6.9); and a docket volume, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 2d session (37A-E6.10). Committee on Indian Affairs: attitude of John Beeson of Philadelphia about hostilities toward Indians, particularly those near Humboldt Bay, Calif. (37A-E7.1); appropriation of funds to conclude a treaty with the Brulé and Yanktonai Indians of the Territory of Dakota (37A-E7.2); assistance to destitute New York Indians in Kansas (37A-E7.3); claims of Delaware Indians for thefts by white men in Kansas (37A-E7.4); relief of destitute Choctaw and Seminole Indians in Kansas, driven there from Indian Territory by disloyal Indians with the aid of Confederate forces (37A-E7.5); communications of H. B. whipple, Bishop of Minnesota, Mar. 6, 1862, to the President about Indian affairs in Minnesota (37AE7.6); constructive expenditures of Treasury funds belonging to the Winnebago Indians (37A-E7.7); curbing of Winnebago outrages through proceedings of a military commission sitting at South Bend, Minn., in Nov. 1862 (37A-E7.8); delineation of the claims of certain Nemaha halfbreeds, based on the Treaty of Prairie du Chien of July 15, 1830, and subsequent acts of Congress (37A-E7.9); elevation in salary for the Indian Agent in the Territory of Nevada (37A-E7.10); unsettled accounts of Brigham Young, late Governor and ex officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Territory of Utah (37A-E7.11); funds to conclude treaties, and other subjects, affecting Indian affairs in the Territory of Utah (37A-E7.12); investigation, by a commission, of tribal affairs throughout the United States (37A-E7.13); a print of Laws, Regulations, Etc., of the Indian Bureau, 1850, published in 1861, and a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs submitting additional estimates, transmitted by the Secretary of Interior, Apr. 1, 1862, published as Senate Misc. Doc. No. 79, 37th Congress, 2d session (37A-L7.14); and Southern Superintendency, abstract of disbursements for the 3d quarter of 1862 (37A-7.15). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Invalid Pensions: claims (37A-E8.1), arranged alphabeti cally. There is also a docket volume, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 1st session (37A-E8.2). For minutes, see entry 449. Committee on the Judiciary: authorization of the committee to employ a clerk during the 2d session (37A-E9.1); plan to preserve the Union (37A-E9.2); pleadings in the libel filed with the U. S. Circuit Court for the Maryland District in a cause of collision, William Hubbard, owner of the brig Henry A. Didier, v. the Baltimore Steam Packet Co., owners of the steamboat Louisiana (37A-E9.3); public lands of New Brunswick, a Canadian Province adjoining Maine (37A-E9.4); redress of the grievances of John A. Smith, Clerk of the U. S. Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, with respect to his fees (37A-E9.5). Arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 1st session (37A-E9.6); 3 rough docket volumes, and a docket volume, 37th Congress, 1st session, to the 38th Congress, 1st session (37A-E9.7); and 1 volume of extensive original testimony on whether a telegraphic censorship of press had been established in wartime Washington, and on whether Congressman Benjamin Wood of New York had been engaged in transmitting intelligence to the Confederate rebels (37A-E9.8). For minutes, see entry 449. Committee on Military Affairs: the case of Col. B. L. E. Bonneville, involving the pay of retired army officers recalled to duty upon the outbreak of the Rebellion (37A-E10.1); the claim of Acting Sutler F. McNerhany, 1st Regiment, Excelsior Brigade, Hooker's Division, for refund of sutler's tax and for return of property seized by military authority (37A-E10.2); court-martial trial of Col. Thomas Worthington, commencing at Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 14, 1862 (37A-E10.3); former slaves employed as servants in the Army of Kentucky (37A-E10.4); and various subjects (37A-E10.5). Arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes (37A-E10.6), and 2 docket volumes (37A-E10.7). Committee on Naval Affairs: loss of the U. S. gunboat Cairo to torpedoes in the Yazoo River (37A-Ell.1); enlargement of the waterfront of the navy yards at Boston and Philadelphia (37A-E11.2); resignation of James E. Fiske as Acting Midshipman in the U. S. Navy (37A-E11.3); and various subjects (37A-E11.4). Arranged by subject. Committee on Patents: charge of malfeasance against the Commissioner of Patents (37A-E12.1); claim of Henry S. Davis for fitting up the saloon in the east wing of the Patent Office Building (37A-E12.2); inquiry as to the expenditure of the appropriation made in 1861 for the Agricultural Bureau of the Patent Office (37A-E12.3). Arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (37A-E12.4). Committee on Private Land Claims: claim of Jacob Leese, Milton Little, and Santiago Little (37A-E13.1). There is also a docket volume, 37th Congress, 2d session, to 38th Congress, 2d session (37A-E13.2). Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: conduct of public works by military engineers (37A-E14.1); extension of the Capitol and Treasury Buildings (37A-E14.2); extension of the Library of Congress (37A-E14.3); removal of John Plant from the Capitol police force for brutal treatment of a soldier on the Capitol Grounds (37A-E14.4); and the Washington Aqueduct (37A-E14.5). Arranged by subject. Committee on Public Expenditures: a docket volume, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 1st session (37A-E15.1). Committee on Public Lands: claim of Augustin Amiot to a lot in St. Louis under Spanish grant (37A-E16.1); claim to Baptist missionary lands in Michigan (37A-E16.2); clerical and map service to the House of Representatives by the General Land Office (37A-E16.3); creation of a land district in the Territory of Colorado (37A-E16.4); determination of titles to land along the boundary line between Georgia and Florida (37A-E16.5); discovery of coal fields in the public lands of California (37A-E16.6); expenses of the district land offices in California (37A-E16.7); grant of public lands to Kansas to aid in the construction of railroads (37A-E16.8); information on grants of public lands made since the passage of the Homestead Act (37A-E16.9); proposed creation of the Jefferson and Nevada Land Districts (37A-E16.10); survey and sale of the "Pine Lands" of Minnesota and wisconsin (37AE16.11); and various other subjects (37A-E16.12). Arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (37A-E16.13). For minutes, see entry 419. Committee on Revolutionary Claims: claim of the heirs of Mrs. Mary Clearwater (37A-E17.1). There is also a volume containing docket entries and minutes, 37th Congress, 1st session, to 38th Congress, 2d session (37A-E17.2). Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: claim of Nancy C. Van Rensselaer (37A-E18.1). Committee on the Territories: appropriations for the Territory of Colorado (37A-E19.1); appropriations for the Territory of Dakota (37A-E19.2); census of the Territories of Dakota and Nevada (37AE19.3); executive message of William F. M. Arny, Acting Governor of New Mexico, to the Legislative Assembly of the Territory, Dec. 2, 1862 (37A-E19.4). Arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (37A-E19.5). For minutes, see entry 434. Committee on Ways and Means: Commissioner of Public Buildings (37A-E20.1); communications with various Members of Congress (37A-E20.2); contingent expenses of the Clerk of the House of Representatives (37A-E20.3); the Court of Claims (37A-E20.4); papers from or about the executive departments: Agriculture (37A-E20.5), Interior (37A-E20.6), Navy (37A-E20.7), Post Office (37A-E20.8), State (37A-E20.9), Treasury (37A-E20.10), and War (37A-E20.11); the District of Columbia (37A-E20.12); domestic taxes (37A-E20.13); income taxes (37A-E20.14); the Pension Office (37AE20.15); private correspondence of Thadeus Stevens (37A-E20.16); suppression of the African slave trade (37A-E20.17); the tariff (37A-E20.18); and various subjects (37A-E20.19). Arranged chronologically within each group. There is also a docket volume (37A-E20.20). For minutes, see entry 434. Select Committees: on Government Contracts (37A-E21.1), and to Investi gate Charges Against the Hon. J. M. Ashley (37A-E21.2). Committee of the whole House: For minutes, see entry 404. ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 48 vols. 14 ft. 466 |