THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, 1865-67 First Session, December 4, 1865-July 28, 1866 Records of Legislative Proceedings MINUTE BOOK AND JOURNALS. 4 vols. 1 ft. Minute book, 1st and 2d sessions (39A-Al); and legislative journal, 1st session (39A-A2) and 2d session (39A-A3). BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE. 13 ft. 486 487 Original House bills and bills upon which further action was taken (39A-B1); original House joint resolutions and joint resolutions upon which further action was taken (39A-B2); attested copies of House concurrent resolutions passed (39A-B3); House simple resolutions, motions, and orders (39A-B4); and 8 volumes of engrossed House bills and resolutions (39A-B5). Arranged numerically within each group, except 39A-B4, which is arranged alphabetically by Congressman. BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE AND CONSIDERED IN THE HOUSE. 11 in. Senate bills (39A-C1) and Senate joint resolutions (39A-C2). Arranged numerically within each group. 488 489 ACCOMPANYING PAPERS FILE. 13 ft. Papers submitted to various committees relating to claims, pensions, and other forms of private relief together with papers relating to public matters (39A-D1). Arranged alphabetically by person, State, Territory, or subject. COMMITTEE REPORTS. 7 ft. 490 Original committee reports, 1st session (394-El) and 2d session (39AE2). Arranged numerically within each group. 491 COMMITTEE PAPERS. 21 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 Agriculture: agricultural lands distributed to the States (39-Fl.1). Committee on Appropriations: the Attorney General's Office (39A-F2.1); claims (39A-F2.2); the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (39A-F2.3); the Commissioner of Public Buildings (39-2.4); the Federal courts (39A-F2.5); the House of Representatives (39A-F2.6); the Library of Congress (39A-F2.7); the metropolitan Police of washington (39-F2.8); the St. Louis Arsenal (39A-F2.9); papers from or about the executive departments: Agriculture (39A-F2.10), Interior, including numerous "Indian Papers" (39A-F2.11), Navy (39A-F2.12), Post Office (39A-F2.13), State (39A-F2.14), Treasury (39A-F2.15), and 1.ar (39A-F2.16); and various subjects (394-F2.17). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 39A-F2.2, which is arranged alphabetically. Committee on Banking and Currency: a report on the national banks, especially the Merchants National Bank of Washington (39A-F3.1). Committee on Claims: a volume of rough minutes, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 40th Congress, 2d session (39A-F4.1); a volume of minutes, 39th Congress, 2d session, to 42d Congress, 3d session (39A-F4.2); and a docket volume (39A-F4.3). For minutes, see entry 419; and letter book, entry 434. Committee on Commerce: compensation of the U. S. consul at Quebec (39AF5.1); consolidation of Petersburg and Richmond collection districts in Virginia (39A-F5.2); lighthouse dues (39A-F5.3); lighthouse at Wangooshance, Mich. (39A-F5.4); port of entry for Calais, Maine (39AF5.5); quarantine warehouses for the port of New York (39A-F5.6); registry, or other problems, relating to vessels (39-F5.7). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 39A-F5.7, which is arranged alphabetically by name of vessel. Committee on the District of Columbia: Long Bridge over the Potomac (39A-F6.1); opposition of the Guardian Society to a proposed house of correction for juvenile delinquents (39A-F6.2); proposal of a public park in the valley of Rock Creek (39A-F6.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. There is also a docket volume (39A-F6.4). Committee on Elections: claim of Abelard Guthrie for representing in 1852, the then unorganized Territory of Nebraska (39A-F7.1); and an election contest, Smith Fuller v. John L. Dawson, Pennsylvania (39A-F7.2). For minutes, see entry 419, and for an inquiry into public affairs in Maryland begun by the Committee on Elections but continued by the Committee on the Judiciary, see 39A-F13.4, below. Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department: copies of Lieutenant General Grant's circular telegram of May 29, 1865, officially encouraging the resumption of the Southern export trade, especially in cotton (39A-F8.1). Committee on Foreign Affairs: Anglo-American boundary impingements (39AF9.1); banishment of criminals to the United States (39A-F9.2); claims (39A-F9.3); consular problems (39A-F9.4); exchange of statistical publications (39A-9.5); foreign consular jurisdiction in this country (39A-F9.6); judgment of the Lord Chancellor of England in the case of the United States v. Mckae, a financial agent of the late Confederate States (39A-F9.7); medal for the patriotic generosity of Cornelius Vanderbilt (39A-F9.8); Paris Universal Exposition (39A-F9.9); presents from foreign powers (39A-9.10); organization of the Department of State (39A-F9.11); relations with Brazil, Fiji, Mexico, Santo Domingo, and Switzerland (39A-F9.12); and various subjects (39A-F9.13). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 39A-F9.3 and 39A-F9.4, which are arranged alphabetically. There are also a volume of minutes, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (39A-F9.14); and a docket volume (39A-F9.15). Committee on Freedmen's Affairs: attested House resolutions of Dec. 10, 1866 (39A-F10.1); funds received by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (39A-F10.2); and scarcity of food in South Carolina (39A-F10.3). Arranged by subject. Committee on Indian Affairs: administration of the Indian Office (39AF11.1); attested copies of House resolutions (39-F11.2); bids, goods, and contracts (39A-F11.3); captives (39A-F11.4); Indian policy (39AF11.5); transcribed quarterly accounts, 1865 and 1866, of the Southern Superintendency, Ft. Leavenworth, Kans., and its subordinate agencies (39A-F11.6); and tribal matters of the following regions: California (39A-F11.7), Kansas and Nebraska (39A-F11.8), Minnesota and the Sioux country (39A-F11.9), Montana and the Pacific Northwest (39A-F11.10), New Mexico and Utah (39A-F11.11), the Southern Superintendency (39AF11.12); and the Upper Missouri River country (39A-F11.13). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Invalid Pensions: a docket volume (39A-F12.1). For minutes, see entry 449. Committee on the Judiciary: attested House resolutions (39A-F13.1); civil and legal rights, especially of freedmen (39A-F13.2); nominations for customs and internal revenue positions ignored or rejected by the Senate (39A-F13.3); inquiry into public affairs in Maryland begun by the Committee on Elections and continued by the Committee on the Judiciary (39-F13.4); legislative proposals affecting the Federal judiciary and law enforcement personnel (39A-F13.5); proposal for a U. S. Manual Labor Corps (394-F13.6); protection of Federal officials, including Provost Marshal personnel, from local vindictiveness (39A-F13.7); repair of Southern railroads (39A-F13.8); return of various Louisiana properties (39.-F13.9); trial of Jefferson Davis, president of the late Confederate States, for treason (39A-F13.10); woman suffrage (39AF13.11); various court or legal problems of regional interest (39AF13.12). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 39A-F13.9, which is arranged numerically, and 39A-F13.12, which is arranged alphabetically by State or Territory. There is also a docket volume (39AF13.13). For minutes, see entry 477. Committee on Manufactures: a docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 42d Congress, 2d session (39A-F14.1). Committee on Military Affairs: bounty for Missouri militia (39A-F15.1); detention of the Michigan Cavalry Regiment (39A-F15.2); fraud in recruiting in the Provost Marshal's Department, Western District of New York (39A-F15.3); horses and equipage of the 1st Regiment of Dakota Cavalry (39A-F15.4); indictment, in 1866, of A. B. Morey for acts allegedly committed during the occupation of Vicksburg, Miss. (39л-F15.5); payment of commutation of rations to prisoners of war for the period of their confinement (39A-F15.6); scope of statistical information available in the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (39AF15.7); and various subjects (39A-F15.8). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes (39A-F15.9) and a docket volume (394-15.10). Committee on the lilitia: analysis and amendment of militia legislation (39-F16.1), arranged chronologically; and correspondence and views from various localities (394-F16.2), arranged alphabetically by State or Territory. There is also a docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 1st session, and 44th Congress, 1st and 2d sessions (39A-F16.3). Committee on Naval Affairs: Bureau of Ordnance commendation to inspector D. Lynch, Norfolk, Va. (39-17.1); freshwater basin at or near Portland, Maine, for ironclad vessels of the Navy (39A-F17.2); pay of pilots in the gunboat service and elsewhere (39A-F17.3); and restoration of Comdr. Aaron K. Hughes to the active list of the Navy (39AF17.4). Arranged by subject. Committee on the Pacific Railroad: a volume of minutes (39A-F18.1) and a docket volume (39A-F18.2), both covering 39 th Congress, 1st session, to 43d Congress, 2d session. Committee on Patents: a docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, and 41st Congress, 3d session (39A-F19.1). Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: legislative views of the Auditor of the Treasury for Post Office Department (39A-F20.1); post routes or other matters of primary interest to localities (39A-F20.2); railway bridge over the Mississippi River near Clinton, Iowa (39AF20.3); and various subjects (39A-F20.4). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 394-r20.2, which is arranged alphabetically by State or Territory. Committee on Private Land Claims: a docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (39A-F21.1). Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: the Capitol, especially as to its ventilation (39A-F22.1); improvements to streets and avenues passing through or by Federal property (394-F22.2); Long Bridge over the Potomac River (39A-F22.3); the White House (39A-F22.4); and various subjects (39A-F22.5). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Public Expenditures: a volume of minutes, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 2d session (39A-F23.1). For docket, see entry 465. Committee on Public Lands: committee memoranda, including draft minutes for Feb. 3, 10, and 11, 1865 (39A-F24.1); confirmation of titles to public lands disposed of in Mississippi under conditions of secession (39A-F24.2); encouragement to tree planting (39A-F24.3); Joseph Leidy's effort to publicize his description of Nebraskan fossil remains (39AF24.4); public land problems in California (39A-F24.5); quieting titles to certain lands ceded by the United States to States (39A-F24.6); railways and transportation in the West (39A-F24.7); subjection of Tennessee school lands to exploitation for copper (39-F24.8); and various subjects (39-F24.9). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 42d Congress, 3d session (39A-F24.10); and a docket volume (39AF24.11). Committee on Revolutionary Pensions: A docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (39A-F25.1). Committee on the Territories: codification of the laws of the Territory of Dakota (394-F26.1); the Great Trail West from Leavenworth, Kans., as an example of neglect in public upkeep (39-F26.2); a pamphlet, Laws of the Territory of New Mexico Passed by the Legislative Assembly Session 1865-66, printed at Santa Fe, 1866 (39A-F26.3); and protest of John Titus about local real estate grants to Mormon interests in the Territory of Utah (39A-F26.4). Arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume, 39th Congress, 1st session, to 41st Congress, 3d session (39A-F26.5). For minutes, see entry 434. Committee on ays and Means: appointments to membership on various House committees (39A-F27.1); attested House resolutions (39A-F27.2); copies of House bills (39A-F27.3); correspondence of the chairman, Justin S. Morrill, a Representative from Vermont (39A-F27.4); correspondence of a committee member, Samuel Hooper, a Representative from Massachusetts (39A-F27.5); invitations and letters of introduction (39A-F27.6); requests for publications or papers (39A-F27.7); papers on substantive topics, as follows: Canadian reciprocity (39A-F27.8), commodity tariff or commodity taxation (39A-F27.9), direct taxes (394-F27.10), drawbacks and exports (39A-F27.11), Government personnel (39A-F27.12), immigration (39A-F27.13), income tax (39A-F27.14), internal revenue (39A-F27.15), national currency and finance (39A-F27.16), railroads and interstate commerce (39A-F27.17), tariff policy (39A-F27.18), taxation policy (39AF27.19), and other subjects (39A-F27.20); and papers from or concerning the Commissioner of Public Buildings (39A-F27.21), the Congress, especially the House of Representatives (39-F27.22), and the executive departments: Agriculture (39A-F27.23), Interior (39A-F27.24), Navy (39A-F27.25), Post Office (39A-F27.26), State (39A-F27.27), Treasury (39A-F27.28), and War (39A-27.29). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 39A-F27.2 and 39A-F27.3, which are arranged numerically. There is also a docket volume, 1st session (39A-F27.30). Select Committees: on Alleged Private Meetings of Members of the House With a View to a Corrupt Bargain with the President (39A-F28.1); on the Murder of Union Soldiers in South Carolina (39A-F28.2); and on Reconstruction (39A-F28.3). ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 21 ft. 492 Original executive documents, 1st session (39A-G1) and 2d session (39A-2); and original miscellaneous documents, 1st session (39A-G3) and 2d session (39A-G4). Arranged numerically within each group. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED 493 Grouped by specified committees listed below, thereunder by subject. Subjects are arranged chronologically within each group, unless otherwise indicated. Committee on Agriculture: various subjects (39A-1.1). Committee on Appropriations: increase in pay for Government employees (39A-H2.1); removal of the wreck of the steamer Scotland at Sandy Hook (39A-H2.2); reward offered for the apprehension of the assassin Booth (39A-H2.3); and various subjects (39A-H2.4). Committee on Banking and Currency: various subjects (39A-H3.1). Committee on Claims: claims (39A-H4.1), arranged alphabetically by peti tioner. Committee on Cominerce: harbor improvement (39A-H5.1); increase in pay for Government employees (39A-H5.2); insurance legislation (39.-H5.3); quarantine in the Port of New York (39A-H5.4); registry of vessels (39A-5.5); rivers and canals (39A-15.6); transportation of gunpowder on steamboats (39A-H5.7); and various subjects (39-115.8). Committee on the District of Columbia: various subjects (39A-H6.1). Committee on Education: a petition for the establishment of a Bureau of Education (39A-H7.1). Committee on Elections: various subjects (39A-H8.1). |