There are also a volume of minutes (55A-F22.4); a docket volume (55AF22.5); and indexes to the docket (55A-F22.6) and to papers accompanying bills and resolutions (55A-F22.7).

Committee on Military Affairs: papers accompanying bills and resolutions (55A-F23.1), arranged numerically by bill or resolution; and various subjects (55A-F23.2), arranged by subject. There are also 2 volumes of minutes (55A-F23.3) and 3 docket volumes (55A-F23.4).

Committee on the militia: various subjects (55A-F24.1), arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes (55A-F24.2) and a docket volume (55A-F24.3).

Committee on Mines and Mining: a docket volume (55A-F25.1). Committee on Naval Affairs: armorplate (55A-F26.1); case of Pay Inspector John H. Stevenson (55A-F26.2); drydocks (55A-F26.3); the Naval Academy (55A-F26.4); papers accompanying bills and resolutions (55A-F26.5); and various subjects (55A-F26.6). Arranged by subject within each group, except 55A-F26.5, which is arranged numerically by bill or resoCommittee on Pacific Railroads: various subjects (55A-F27.1), arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes (55A-F27.2) and a docket volume (55A-F27.3).

lution.

Committee on Patents: reports of the Commissioners of Patents (55A-F28.1), arranged chronologically; papers accompanying bills (55A-F28.2), arranged numerically; and various subjects (55A-F28.3), arranged by subject.

There are also a volume of minutes (55A-F28.4) and a docket volume (55AF28.5).

Committee on Pensions: various subjects (55A-F29.1), arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (55A-F29.2).

Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: papers accompanying bills

and resolutions (55A-F30.1), arranged numerically by bill or resolution; and various subjects (55A-330.2), arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes (55A-F30.3) and a docket volume (55A-F30.4). Committee on Printing: various subjects (55A-F31.1), arranged by subject. There is also a docket volume (55A-T31.2).

Committee on Private Land Claims: a volume of minutes (55A-F32.1) and a docket volume (55A-F32.2).

Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: a volume of minutes (55A-F33.1) and a docket volume (55A-F33.2).

Committee on Public Lands: papers accompanying bills and resolutions

(55A-F34.1), arranged numerically by bill or resolution; a volume of minutes (55A-F34.2); and a docket volume (55A-F34.3).

Committee on Railways and Canals: various subjects (55A-F35.1), arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes (55A-35.2) and a docket volume (55A-F35.3).

Committee on Reform in the Civil Service: various subjects (55A-F36.1 arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes (55A-F36.2) and a docket volume (55A-F36.3).

Committee on Rivers and Harbors: bars, breakwaters, dans, levees, and locks (55A-F37.1); bays, harbors, and inlets (55A-F37.2); canals (55A37.3); channels (55A-37.4); creeks and rivers (55A-F37.5); passes and deep waterways (55A-F37.6); and various subjects (55A-F37.7). Arranged alphabetically by name of bar, canal, etc., within each group,

except 55A-F37.7, which is arranged by subject. There are also a volume of minutes (55A-F37.8) and a docket volume (55A-F37.9). Committee on the Territories: Hawaiian Islands (55A-F38.1); New Mexico (55A-F38.2); Oklahoma (55A-F38.3); and various subjects (55A-F38.4). Arranged by subject within each group. There is also a docket volume (55A-F38.5).

Committee on Ways and Means: duty on agricultural products and provisions (55A-F39.1); books and papers (55A-F39.2); chemicals (55A-F39.3); cotton (55A-F39.4); earthenware and glassware (55A-F39.5); flax, hemp, and jute (55A-F39.6); free list (55A-F39.7); metals (55A-F39.8); silk (55AF39.9); spirits, wine, and other beverages (55A-F39.10); sugar and molasses (55A-F39.11); sundries (55A-F39.12); tobacco (55A-F39.13); woods (55A-F39.14); wool and woolens (55A-F39.15); papers accompanying bills and resolutions (55A-F39.16); tax on beer, whiskies, and wines (55A-F39.17); coffee and tea (55A-F39.18); proprietary articles and medicines (55A-F39.19); other commodities (55A-F39.20); and various subjects (55A-F39.21). Arranged alphabetically by commodity within each group, except 55A-F39.16, which is arranged numerically by bill or resolution, and 55A-F39.18 and 55A-F39.19, which are arranged chronologically. There is also a docket volume (55A-F39.22). Committee of the Whole House: various subjects (55A-F40.1), arranged by subject.

Select Committee to Investigate Price and Quality of Gas and Rates for Telephone Service in the District of Columbia: a volume of minutes (55A-F41.1) and a volume of carbon copies of outgoing letters (55AF41.2).

Select Committee on the Twelfth Census:

various subjects (55A-F42.1),

arranged by subject. Committee on Rules: various subjects (55A-F43.1), arranged by subject.

ORIGINALS OF PRINTED HOUSE DOCUMENTS. 126 vols. 35 ft.

698

Original House documents, 1st session (55A-G1), 2d session (55A-G2), and 3d session (55A-G3). Arranged numerically within each group.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE REFERRED TO COMMITTEES. 45 ft. 699

Grouped by specified committees listed below, thereunder by subject. Subjects are arranged chronologically within each group, unless otherwise indicated.

Committee on Appropriations: abolition of forest reserves (55A-H1.1);

appropriation of public funds for sectarian purposes (55A-H1.2); expositions (55A-H1.3); and various subjects (55A-H1.4).

Committee on Banking and Currency: banking and currency reform (55A-H2.1); establishment of an International American Bank (55A-H2.2); and various subjects (55A-H2.3).

Committee on Coinage, heights, and Measures: banking and currency reform (55A-H3.1) and various subjects (55A-H3.2).

Committee on the District of Columbia: divorces (55A-H4.1); placing

police of the District on an 8-hour day (55A-H4.2); prevention of
cruelty to animals, and antivivisection (55A-H4.3); raising the age
of consent for girls in the District (55A-H4.4); Sunday rest laws
(55A-H4.5); and various subjects (55A-H4.6).

Committee on Education: various subjects (55A-H5.1).

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Great Britain (55A-46.1); Canada (55A-H6.2); Cuba (55A-H6.3); Hawaii (55A-H6.4); the Philippines (55A-6.5); reorganization of the consular service (55A-H6.6); Spain (55A-H6.7); Turkey (55A-H6.8); and various subjects (55A-H6.9).

Committee on Immigration and Naturalization: alien ownership of property in the United States (55A-17.1); restriction of immigration (55A-47.2); and a petition on the "naturalization of Americanized Chinese" (55AH7.3). Committee on Indian Affairs: affairs of various Indian tribes (55A-H8.1), arranged alphabetically by tribe and thereunder chronologically; schools, educational systems, and problems (55A-H8.2); and various subjects (55A-H8.3).

Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce:

aids to navigation, and Life-Saving Service and stations (55A-H9.1); extension of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission (55A-H9.2); establishment of a Department of Commerce and Industry (55A-H9.3); establishment of a Bureau or Department of Public Health (55A-H9.4); establishment of a division, in the Treasury, for the regulation of insurance among the several States (55A-H9.5); freight and passenger rates, and rate discrimination (55A-H9.6); interstate transmission of lottery information and other gambling news by telegraph--antigambling legislation (55AH9.7); National Exposition of American Products in Philadelphia (55AH9.8); Nicaraguan canal (55A-H9.9); placing express companies under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission (55A-H9.10); pooling of freight rates by railroads (55A-H9.11); promotion of ocean trade in vessels under the American flag (55A-H9.12); protection of State anticigarette laws (55A-H9.13); publication of pictures and descriptions of suicides (55A-119.14); pure food and drug laws (55AH9.15); quarantine laws and stations (55A-H9.16); sale of railroad tickets by persons other than authorized agents--anti-ticket-scalping legislation (55A-H9.17); submarine cables (55A-H9.18); transmission by mail or interstate commerce of kinetoscope reproductions or descriptions of prize fights (55A-H9.19); and various subjects (55AH9.20).

Committee on Invalid Pensions:

claims (55A-10.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner; service pensions, legislation, and plans (55A-H10.2); and various subjects (55A-10.3). Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands: various subjects (55A-H11.1). Committee on the Judiciary: arbitration of railroad strikes (55A-H12.1); alien ownership of property in the United States (55A-12.2); constitutional amendment prohibiting sectarian appropriations (55A-H12.3); constitutional amendment recognizing God as the source of all civil power (55A-12.4); Department of Commerce and Industry (55A-H12.5); desecration of the United States flag (55A-H12.6); interstate gambling by telegraph or telephone (55A-112.7); preventing the abuse of the writ of injunction and other legal processes (55A-H12.8); protection of State anticigarette laws (55A-![12.9); raising the age of consent for girls in the District of Columbia (55A-H12.10); relief of the judge of the Northern District of Texas by reason of ill health (55AH12.11); Sunday rest law (55A-H12.12); transmission by mail or inter

state commerce of kinetoscope reproductions or descriptions of prize fights (55A-H12.13); uniform system of bankruptcy (55A-H12.14); woman suffrage (55A-H12.15); and various subjects (55A-H12.16). Committee on Labor: alien ownership of property in the United States, and establishing trusts and issuing bonds in excess of the actual worth of their property (55A-II13.1); appointment of a commission to investigate the problems of labor and capital (55A-H13.2); arbitration of railroad strikes (55A-H13.3); convict labor and convict-made goods (55A-H13.4); 8-hour work law (55A-H13.5); preventing the abuse of the writ of injunction and other legal processes (55A-H13.6); and various subjects (55A-H13.7).

Committee on the Library: various subjects (55A-H14.1).
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries:

promoting and/or increasing the commerce, foreign trade, and merchant marine of the United States (55A-H15.1) and various subjects (55A-H15.2).

Committee on Military Affairs: granting the rank of Second Lieutenant to veterinary surgeons in the Army (55A-H16.1); increasing the number of chaplains in the Army (55A-H16.2); preventing discrimination against homeopathic physicians and surgeons in appointments to the Army and Navy (55A-H16.3); and various subjects (55A-H16.4). Committee on the Militia: annual appropriation of one million dollars for the militia (55A-H17.1) and increased appropriation for the maintenance of the National Guard (55A-H17.2).

Committee on lines and mining: various subjects (55A-18.1).

Committee on Naval Affairs: navy yards and drydocks (55A-H19.1); promoting the efficiency of the clerical service of the Navy (55A-H19.2); and various subjects (55A-19.3).

Committee on Patents: trade-marks (55A-H20.1) and various subjects (55AH20.2).

Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads:

amendment of the postal laws relating to second-class mail matter (55A-H21.1); compensation of fourth-class postmasters (55A-H21.2); establishment of postal savings banks (55A-21.3); extension of pneumatic mail service (55A-21.4); rural free delivery (55A-H21.5); reduction and/or curtailment of mail deliveries and facilities (55A-121.6); and various subjects (55A-H21.7). Committee on Printing: various subjects (55A-122.1).

Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds: construction of various public buildings (55A-H23.1); sale of intoxicating liquors in Government buildings (55A-23.2); and various subjects (55A-23.3).

Committee on Public Lands: various subjects (55A-H24.1).

Committee on Railways and Canals: sale of railroad tickets by ersons other than authorized agents--anti-ticket-scalping legislation (55AH25.1) and various subjects (55A-125.2).

Committee on Reform in the Civil Service: preference for war veterans in the Civil Service (554-1126.1); repeal or modification of the civil service laws (55A-H26.2); and various subjects (55A-H26.3). Committee on Rivers and larbors: bayous, canals, lakes, passes, and sounds (55A-H27.1); breakwaters, dans, levees, and retaining walls (554-H27.2); harbor and bay improvements (55A-H27.3); river improvements and surveys (55A-H27.4); and various subjects (55A-H27.5). 55A-H27.1, 55A-H27.3, and 55A-H27.4 are arranged alphabetically by river, harbor, etc., and thereunder chronologically.

Committee on the Territories: Alaska (55A-H28.1); Arizona (55A-H28.2);
Hawaii (55A-H28.3); New Mexico (55A-H20.4); Oklahoma (55A-H28.5);
Philippine Islands (55A-H28.6); Puerto Rico (55A-H28.7); raising the
age of consent for girls (55A-H28.8); and various subjects (55A-H28.9).
Committee on Ways and Means: abrogation of the Hawaiian treaty (55A-
H29.1); adulteration of flour-pure foods (55A-H29.2); commodity tariffs
(55A-H29.3); commodity taxes (55A-H29.4); Pan American exposition (55A-
H29.5); and various subjects (55A-H29.6). 55A-H29.3 and 55A-H29.4 are

arranged alphabetically by commodity and thereunder chronologically. Select Committee on the Twelfth Census: various subjects (55A-H30.1). Committee on Elections No. 1: expulsion of B. H. Roberts of Utah, "avowed polygamist," from the House of Representatives (55A-H31.1). Committee on Rules: various subjects (55A-H32.1).

ELECTION RECORDS. 2 ft.

700

Credentials of Representatives and Delegates (55A-J1), arranged alphabetically by State or Territory.

OTHER RECORDS. 3 vols. 4 in.

Roll calls (55A-K1), arranged chronologically.

701

Records of the Office of the Clerk

RECORD BOOKS. 14 vols.
14 vols. 3 ft.

702

House bill book (55C-Al); House joint resolution book (55C-A2); House concurrent and simple resolution book together with Senate concurrent resolutions (55C-A3); Senate bill book (550-A4); Senate joint resolution book (55C-A5); individual ledger (55C-A6); register of papers sent to committees (55C-17); register of papers from committees (55C-A8); register of papers sent to the Senate (55C-A9); register of papers received from the Senate (55C-AlO); register of committee reports (55C-All); and record of stationery supplies furnished to committees (55C-A12).

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