Committee on Appropriations: appointment of a committee of entomologists to study the boll weevil (46A-H3.1); appropriation to cover various expenses in the Territories (46A-H3.2); coastal, river, and harbor defense (46A-H3.3); pay increases for Government employees and adjustment and settlement of pay allegedly due (46A-H3.4); relief of destitute colored women and children (46A-H3.5); settlement of contract obligations for goods and services (46A-H3.6); ships, shipyards, and aids to navigation (46A-H3.7); surveys of the Black Hills in Dakota Territory (46A-H3.8); and various subjects (46A-H3.9). Committee on Banking and Currency: legislation relating to the currency of the United States (46A-H4.1); prohibition of the issuance of money by corporations chartered by State or Federal Government (46A-H4.2); and repeal of the laws taxing bank deposits and checks (46A-H4.3). Committee on Claims: various subjects (46A-H5.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner.

Committee on Commerce: abolition of compulsory pilotage (46A-H6.1); completion of the Davis Island Dam on the Ohio River (46A-H6.2); harbor and life-saving station at Waukegan, Ill. (46A-H6.3); improvement of the Harlem River (46A-H6.4); Marine Hospital Service (46A-H6.5); regulation of interstate commerce (46A-H6.6); rivers and harbors (46A-113.7); and various subjects (46A-H6.8).

Committee on the District of Columbia:

various subjects (46A-H7.1).

Committee on Education and Labor: 8-hour day (46A-H8.1).

Committee on Foreign Affairs: European markets for leaf tobacco (46A-
H9.1) and various subjects (46A-H9.2).

Committee on Indian Affairs: settlement of treaty obligations with the
Chippewas of Lake Superior and the Mississippi Valley (46A-H10.1)
and treatment of Indians in general (46A-H10.2).

Committee on Invalid Pensions: administration of the pension laws (46AH11.1); increase in pension of amputees (46A-H11.2); pension for soldiers who were prisoners of war (46A-H11.3); and various subjects (46A-H11.4).

Committee on the Judiciary: bankruptcy law (46A-H12.1); woman suffrage (46A-H12.2); and various subjects (46A-H12.3).

Committee on Manufactures: adulteration of food and drugs (46A-H13.1); creation of a Department of Manufactures, Mechanics, and Mines (46AH13.2); manufacture and sale of oleomargarine (46A-H13.3); prohibition of the use of alum in baking powder (46A-H13.4); and various subjects (46A-H13.5).

Committee on Military Affairs: equalization of bounties (46A-H14.1); payment of additional money to Civil War veterans to compensate for the wartime inflation of the currency (46A-H14.2); and various subjects (46A-H14.3).

Committee on the Militia: financial support of the militia (46A-H15.1) and various subjects (46A-H15.2).

Committee on Naval Affairs: various subjects (46A-H16.1).

Committee on the Pacific Railroad: various subjects (46A-H17.1). Committee on Patents: amendment of the patent laws (46A-H18.1) and protests against the extension of patents (46A-H18.2).

Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads:

discontinuance of the let

ter service of Wells, Fargo, and Co. (46A-H19.1); establishment of a

postal telegraph system (46A-H19.2); reduction of the postage rate on business circulars (46A-H19.3); repeal or modification of the "Comstock Postal Laws" prohibiting the importation or mailing of immoral literature or art, or contraceptives (46A-H19.4); salaries of postal employees (46A-H19.5); and various subjects (46A-H19.6).

Committee on Printing: payment of employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the period of the transfer of the Bureau to its new building (46A-H20.1); printing and distribution of congressional proceedings and public documents (46A-H20.2); and various subjects (46AH20.3).

Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: construction of Federal buildings in various cities (46A-H21.1); erection of a marine hospital in Baltimore (46A-H21.2); and installation of elevators in public buildings (46A-H21.3).

Committee on Railways and Canals: construction of a railroad from the Falls of the Saint Marys River at Sault St. Marie to some point on the Marquette and Mackinaw Rivers (46A-H22.1); construction of a ship canal in the bed of the old Wabash and Ohio Canal (46A-H22.2); enactment of legislation to prevent fluctuating and discriminating transportation charges (46A-H22.3); railroads in the Southwest (46A-H22.4); and various subjects (46A-H22.5).

Committee on War Claims:

various subjects (46A-H23.1), arranged alpha

betically by petitioner. Committee on Ways and Means: adulteration of food and drugs (46A-H24.1); amendment of statutes relating to the transportation of dutiable goods (46A-H24.2); appointment of a Tariff Commission to study revision of import duties (46A-H24.3); cattle, sheep, and horses (46A-H24.4); chrome, iron ore, and bichromate of potash (46A-H24.5); cigarettes, cigars, and tobacco (46A-H24.6); claim of Calvin Bronson (46A-H24.7); claims for tax refunds (46A-H24.8); earthenware (46A-H24.9); fish (46A-H24.10); foreign trade (46A-H24.11); friction matches (46A-H24.12); glycerine (46A-H24.13); income tax (46A-H24.14); legacy and succession taxes (46A-H24.15); legislation to secure the savings of depositors in the Freedman's Savings and Trust Co. (46A-H24.16); licorice and licorice paste (46A-H24.17); malt (46A-H24.18); medicine, perfumes, and cosmetics (46A-H24.19); newspapers and periodicals (46A-H24.20); paper and materials used in the manufacture of paper (46A-H24.21); payment of the national debt (46A-H24.22); quinine (46A-H24.23); regulation of interstate commerce (46A-H24.24); salt (46A-H24.25); seizure and forefeiture of vessels for breach of the revenue laws (46A-H24.26); steel rails (46AH24.27); sugar (46A-H24.28); taxing and regulating the sale of oleomargarine (46A-H24.29); tax on bank deposits and checks (46A-H24.30); type (46A-H24.31); vinegar (46A-H24.32); wages and hours in Government service (46A-H24.33); wine, distilled and fermented liquors, and beer (46A-H24.34); zinc (46A-H24.35); and various subjects (46A-H24.36). Select Committee on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic: appointment of a commission of inquiry concerning the alcoholic liquor traffic (46A-H25.1); prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages (46AH25.2); and various subjects (46A-H25.3).

Select Committee on the Origin, Introduction, and Prevention of Epidemic Diseases in the United States: various subjects (46A-H26.1).

Select Committee on the Interoceanic Ship Canal: various subjects (46AH27.1).

Select Committee on the Payment of Pensions, Bounty, and Back Pay: vari

ous subjects (46A-H28.1).

Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service:

H29.1).

ELECTION RECORDS. 2 ft.

various subjects (46A

589

Credentials of Representatives and Delegates (46A-J1), arranged alphabetically by State or Territory.

Copies of telegrams sent (464-K1) and copies of telegrams received (46A-K2) through the departmental telegraph lines; and various papers (46A-K3). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 46A-K3, which is arranged by subject.

590

Records of Impeachment Proceedings

2 in.

IMPEACHMENT OF GEORGE F. SEWARD.

591

Papers pertaining to impeachment proceedings against George F. Seward, late consul general at Shanghai (46B-Al). For other papers relating to Seward's impeachment, see entry 578.

Records of the Office of the Clerk

For geographical index to petitions, see entry 566.

RECORD BOOKS. 14 vols. 2 ft.

592

Bill book of House bills and resolutions together with index (46C-AT); bill book of Senate bills and resolutions (460-42); individual ledger (46C-A3); daily order of business and calendars (46C-A4); register of committee reports (46C-5); register of executive documents (46C-A6); and register of miscellaneous documents (46C-A7).

MINUTE BOOKS AND JOURNALS. 13 vols. 3 ft.

594

Minute book, 1st session (47A-Al); legislative journal, 1st session (47A-A2); minute book, 2d session (47A-A3); and legislative journal, 2d session (47A-A4).

BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE. 17 ft.

595

Thirty-one volumes of original House bills and joint resolutions (474B1); original House concurrent resolutions (47A-B2); House simple resolutions, motions, and orders (47A-B3); desk copies of House bills passed (47A-B4); desk copies of House joint resolutions passed (47A-B5); and 8 volumes of engrossed House bills and resolutions (47A-B6). Arranged numerically within each group, except 47A-B2, which is arranged chronologically, and 47A-B3, which is arranged alphabetically by Congressman.

BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE AND CONSIDERED IN THE
HOUSE. 4 in.

596

Senate bills (47A-C1) and House amendments to Senate joint resolutions (47A-C2). Arranged numerically within each group.

597

Papers relating to claims, pensions, and other forms of private relief together with papers relating to public matters (47A-D1). Arranged alphabetically by person, State, Territory, or subject.

COMMITTEE REPORTS. 23 vols. 5 ft.

598

Original committee reports, 1st session (47A-E1) and 2d session (47AE2). Arranged numerically within each group.

COMMITTEE PAPERS. 42 ft.

599

Records of the following committees, relating to the subjects listed or consisting of the kinds of documents specified: Committee on Accounts: various subjects (47A-F1.1), arranged by subject; and statement of accounts before the committee, 47th Congress, 2d session, to 50th Congress, 2d session (47A-F1.2). For minutes, see entry 518; docket, entry 572; and other statements of accounts before the committee, entry 586.

Committee on Agriculture: a volume of minutes, 47th Congress, 1st session, to 49th Congress, 2d session (47A-F2.1); and a docket volume, 47th Congress and 49th Congress (47A-F2.2).

Committee on Appropriations: claims (47A-F3.1); Clerk of the House of Representatives (47A-F3.2); Court of Claims (47A-F3.3); District of Columbia (47A-F3.4); Library of Congress (47A-F3.5); papers from or about executive departments: Agriculture (47A-F3.6), Interior (47AF3.7), Justice (47A-F3.8), Navy (47A-F3.9), Post Office (47A-F3.10), State (47A-F3.11), Treasury (47A-F3.12), and lar (47A-F3.13); Public Printer (47A-F3.14); Smithsonian Institution (47A-F3.15); Supreme Court (47A-F3.16); Territories (47A-F3.17); U. S. Fish Commission (47A-F3.18); Washington Monument (47A-F3.19); yellow fever epidemic in Florida and Texas (474-F3.20); Yorktown Centennial (47A-F3.21); and various subjects (47A-F3.22). Arranged chronologically within each group, except 47A-F3.1, which is arranged alphabetically. For letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence, see entry 586. Committee on Banking and Currency: a docket volume (47A-F4.1). For minutes, see entry 572.

Committee on Claims: a volume of minutes, 47th Congress, 1st session, to 48th Congress, 1st session (47A-F5.1); and 2 docket volumes (47AF5.2).

Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures: and docket, entry 586.

For minutes, see entry 572,

Committee on Commerce: regulation of interstate commerce and prohibition of unjust discriminations by common carriers (47A-F7.1) and various subjects (47A-F7.2). Arranged by subject.

Committee on the District of Columbia: For docket, see entry 586. Committee on Elections: contested election cases of Samuel J. Anderson v. Thomas B. Reed, Maine (47A-F9.1), S. P. Bayley v. John S. Barbour, Virginia (47A-F9.2), Horatio Bisbee, Jr., v. Jesse J. Finley, Florida (47A-F9.3), George M. Buchanan v. Vanney H. Manning, Mississippi (47AF9.4), George Q. Cannon v. Allen G. Campbell, Utah Territory (47AF9.5), John C. Cook v. Marsena E. Cutts, Iowa (47A-F9.6), James Gillette v. Thomas H. Herndon, Alabama (47A-F9.7), John W. Jones v. Charles M. Shelley, Alabama (47A-F9.8), B. H. Lanier v. J. Floyd King, Louisiana (47A-F9.9), William M. Lowe v. Joseph Wheeler, Alabama (47A-F9.10), John R. Lynch v. James R. Chalmers, Mississippi (47A-F9.11), A. A. Mabson v. William C. Oates, Alabama (47A-F9.12), Edmund W. M. Mackey v. Michael P. O'Connor, South Carolina (47A-F9.13), Samuel W. McDowell v. Melvin C. George, Oregon at large (47A-F9.14), Gustavus Sessinghaus v. Richard Graham Frost, Missouri (47A-F9.15), Robert Smalls v. George D. Tillman, South Carolina (47A-F9.16), Alexander Smith v. Edward W. Robertson, Louisiana (47A-F9.17), James Q. Smith v. Charles M. Shelley, Alabama (47A-F9.18), Carlos J. Stolbrand v. D. Wyatt Aiken, South Carolina (47A-F9.19), John T. Stovall v. George Cabell, Virginia (47A-F9.20), Paul Strobach v. Hilary A. Herbert, Alabama (47A-F9.21), and George W. Witherspoon v. Robert H. M. Davidson, Florida (47A-F9.22); and various subjects (47A-F9.23). Arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes (47A-F9.24) and a docket volume (47A-F9.25). Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department:

a list of officers and employees of the Department during the calendar year 1880 (47AF10.1). Committee on Expenditures in the War Department: inspection of money accounts of Army disbursing officers (47A-F11.1) and various subjects (47A-F11.2). Arranged by subject. There are also fragmentary minutes, Feb. 1 to June 26, 1882 (47A-F11.3).

Committee on Foreign Affairs: administration of justice in Tunis (47AF12.1); Chile-Peruvian investigation (47A-F12.2); consular fees collected by U. S. consuls from ships sailing under the American flag, 1876-81 (47A-F12.3); Hawaiian treaty (47A-F12.4); interoceanic canal (47A-F12.5); prevention and punishment of counterfeiting the securities of foreign governments within the United States (47A-F12.6); proposed peace congress in Washington (47A-F12.7); and various subjects (47AF12.8). Arranged chronologically within each group. There are also a volume of minutes (47A-F12.9) and a docket volume (47A-F12.10). Committee on Indian Affairs: sale of the Kansas lands of the Miami Indians (47A-F13.1) and the New York Indians (47A-F13.2); and various subjects (47A-F13.3). Arranged chronologically within each group. There is also a docket volume (47A-F13.4). For minutes, see entry 586. Committee on Invalid Pensions: various subjects (47A-F14.1), arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes, 47th Congress, 1st session, to 48th Congress, 1st session (47A-F14.2); and 5 docket volumes (47AF14.3). For letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence, see entry 586.