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Receipts for records withdrawn (11C-B1), arranged alphabetically by sub

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Legislative journal, 1st session (12A-A1) and 2d session (12A-A2). For a secret journal, 1st session, see entry 97.

BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE. 1 ft.

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Original House bills (12A-B1); House simple resolutions, motions, and orders (12A-B2); and engrossed House bills (12A-B3). Arranged numerically within each group, except 12A-B2, which is arranged chronologically.

COMMITTEE REPORTS AND PAPERS. 1 ft.

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Records of the following committees, relating to the subjects listed or consisting of the kinds of documents specified:

Committee on Accounts: a report on the nature of the contingent expenses of the House (12A-C1.1).

Committee on Claims: various subjects (12A-C2.1), arranged alphabetically. Committee on Commerce and Manufactures: various subjects (12A-C3.1), arranged chronologically.

Committee on Elections: contested election case of John Taliaferro v. John P. Hungerford, Virginia (12A-C4.1).

Committee on Foreign Affairs, Select: relations with Great Britain (12AC5.1), arranged chronologically.

exploits of Captains Hull, subjects (12A-C7.2). Ar

Committee on Military Affairs, Select: various subjects (12A-C6.1), arranged chronologically. Committee on the Naval Establishment, Select: Decatur, and Jones (12A-C7.1); and various ranged chronologically within each group. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: arranged chronologically. Committee on Public Lands: various subjects (12A-C9.1), arranged chronologically.

various subjects (12A-C8.1),

Committee on Ways and Means: "papers relative to the appropriations for the support of Government for 1813" (12A-C10.1); penalties incurred by importation of British manufactures (12A-C10.2); and various subjects (12A-C10.3). Arranged chronologically within each group.

Other select committees: business of the House of Representatives (12AC11.1); consuls and vice-consuls (12A-C11.2); roads and canals (12AC11.3); and various subjects (12A-C11.4). Arranged chronologically within each group.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGES. 3 vols. 8 in.

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Annual messages, with pertinent documents, 1811 and 1812; messages suggesting legislation or submitting specific information or documents; and messages transmitting reports and communications from executive departments (12A-D1). Arranged chronologically.

REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS SUBMITTED TO THE HOUSE. 7 in.

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Reports and communications from the Secretary of the Treasury, including 1 volume (12A-E1); and the Secretaries of War and the Navy, 1 volume (12AE2). Arranged chronologically within each group. For reports from the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, see entry 40; and the Secretary of State, entry 49.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED
DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE REFERRED TO COMMITTEES. 5 ft.

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Grouped by specified committees listed below, thereunder by subject. Subjects are arranged chronologically within each group, unless otherwise indicated. Committee on Claims: various subjects (12A-F1.1), arranged alphabetically by petitioner. Committee on Commerce and Manufactures: aids to navigation (12A-F2.1); duties and drawbacks (12A-F2.2); the embargo (12A-F2.3); encouragement of the culture of hemp (12A-F2.4); ports of entry (12A-F2.5); seizure of the schooner Oceanus at Naples under the Berlin and Milan decrees (12AF2.6); and various subjects (12A-F2.7).

Committee on the District of Columbia: applications for divorce by act of Congress (12A-F3.1); Bank of Washington (12A-F3.2); establishment of an institution of learning to be known as Washington College (12A-F3.3); improvement of the Potomac River (12A-F3.4); marriage license fees (12A-F3.5); and various subjects (12A-F3.6).

Committee on Elections: petition of John Taliaferro contesting the election of John P. Hungerford of Virginia (12A-F4.1).

Committee on Foreign Affairs, Select: relations with Great Britain and
France (12A-F5.1).

Committee on Military Affairs, Select:
Committee on Naval Affairs, Select:

various subjects (12A-F6.1). coastal defenses (12A-F7.1) and priva

teers of the city of Baltimore (12A-F7.2). Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads:

establishment of post routes

in Indiana Territory (12A-F8.1), Kentucky (12A-F8.2), New Hampshire (12A-F8.3), New York (12A-F8.4), North Carolina (12A-F8.5), Ohio (12AF8.6), Pennsylvania (12A-F8.7), Tennessee (12A-F8.8), and Virginia (12AF8.9); prohibition of the transportation of the mails on Sunday (12AF8.10); and various subjects (12A-F8.11). Committee on Public Lands: plan of Rev. Gabriel Richard to educate children in Michigan Territory (12A-F9.1) and various subjects (12A-F9.2). Committee on Ways and Means: collectors of revenue (12 A-F10.1); duties (12A-F10.2); the embargo (12A-F10.3); and various subjects (12A-F10.4). Other select committees: removal of the office of the Commissioner of Loans from Annapolis to Baltimore (12A-F11.1); renewal of Eli Whitney's patent on the cotton gin (12A-F11.2); Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania (12A-F11.3); and various subjects (12A-F11.4).

Committee of the Whole House: importation of goods from Great Britain, her colonies, or dependencies (12A-F12.1); post roads (12A-F12.2); government of Louisiana Territory (12A-F12.3); relief of infirm, disabled, and superannuated officers and soldiers (12A-F12.4); patent bill (12A-F12.5); and various subjects (12A-F12.6).

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE TABLED. 1 ft. 114

Grouped by subject as follows: against war (12A-G1.1); the embargo (12AG1.2); opening of post offices and carrying mails on the Sabbath (12A-G1.3); and various subjects (12A-F1.4). Arranged chronologically within each group.

ELECTIONS RECORDS.

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Credentials of Representatives and Delegates (12A-H1), arranged alphabetically by State or Territory.

OTHER RECORDS. 1/2 in.

Various papers (12A-J1), arranged by subject.

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Records of the Office of the Clerk

For petition book, see entry 93. For index to transcribed reports of the Committee on Claims, see entry 27; and for index to other committee reports and to reports and communications from executive departments, see entry 9. RECORDS OF COMMITTEE REPORTS. 2 vols. 6 in.

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Transcribed reports of the Committee on Claims, 12th Congress, 1st session, to 16th Congress, 1st session (12C-A1); and select committees, 12th Congress, 1st session, to 14th Congress, 1st session (12C-A2). Arranged chronologically within each group. For reports of the Committee on Ways and Means, see entry 71; the Committee on Accounts and the Committee on Public Lands, entry 82; and the Committee on the District of Columbia, entry 94.

RECORDS OF REPORTS FROM EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. 2 vols. 6 in.

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Transcribed reports and communications from the Secretary of State, 12th Congress, 1st session, to 14th Congress, 1st session (12C-B1); and the Secretary of the Treasury (12C-B2). Arranged chronologically within each group. For reports from the Secretary of the Navy see entry 44; and the Secretary of War, entry 52.

OTHER RECORDS. 1/2 in.

Receipts for records withdrawn (12C-C1), arranged alphabetically by subject.

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THIRTEENTH CONGRESS, 1813-15

First Session, May 24-August 2, 1813

Second Session, December 6, 1813-April 18, 1814
Third Session, September 19, 1814-March 3, 1815

Records of Legislative Proceedings

MINUTE BOOK AND JOURNALS. 4 vols. 9 in.

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Legislative journal and a secret journal, 1st session (13A-Al) and 2d session (13A-A2); minute book, 3d session (13A-A3); and legislative journal and a secret journal, 3d session (13A-A4).

BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE HOUSE. 2 ft.

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Original House bills and House bills upon which further action was taken (13A-B1); original House joint resolutions (13A-B2); a simple resolution relating to expediency of establishing certain post roads (13A-B3); and a volume of engrossed House bills and several loose engrossed bills upon which the Senate did not take favorable action (13A-B4). Arranged numerically within each group, except 13A-B2, which is arranged chronologically.

BILIS AND RESOLUTIONS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE AND CONSIDERED IN THE HOUSE. 1 in. 122

House amendments to Senate bills (13A-C1); conference reports on Senate bills (13A-C2); and Senate joint resolutions (13A-C3). Arranged numerically within each group, except 13A-C3, which is arranged chronologically.

COMMITTEE REPORTS AND PAPERS. 4 ft.

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Records of the following committees, relating to the subjects listed or consisting of the kinds of documents specified: Committee on Accounts:

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various subjects (13A-D1.1), arranged chronologivarious subjects (13A-D2.1), arranged alphabetically. Committee on Commerce and Manufactures: various subjects (13A-D3.1), ar

Committee on Claims:

ranged chronologically.

Committee on the District of Columbia:

various subjects (13A-D4.1), ar

ranged chronologically. Committee on Elections: contested election cases of Burwell Bassett v. Thomas M. Bayley, Virginia (13A-D5.1); B. B. Blydenburgh and Peter Jay v. John Lefferts and Ebenezer Sage, New York (13A-D5.2); William Kelly v. Thomas K. Harris, Tennessee (13A-D5.3); John Taliaferro v. John P. Hungerford, Virginia (13A-D5.4); and Isaac Williams v. John M. Bowers, New York (13A-D5.5). Arranged by subject.

Committee on Foreign Affairs, Select: relations with Great Britain and France (13A-D6.1), arranged chronologically. Committee on the Judiciary: salary of district judges (13A-D7.1) and various subjects (13A-D7.2). Arranged chronologically within each group. Committee on Military Affairs, Select: militia and militia laws (13A-D8.1), arranged chronologically.

Committee on the Naval Establishment, Select: privateers and prizes (13AD9.1) and various subjects (13A-D9.2). Arranged chronologically within

each group. There is also a volume entitled Rules, Regulations, and Instructions for the Naval Service of the United States (13A-D9.3). Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims: various subjects (13A

D10.1), arranged alphabetically.

Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads: post roads (13A-D11.1) and various subjects (13A-D11.2). Arranged chronologically within each group.

Committee on Public Expenditures: a report relating to examinations into expenditures of public money (13A-D12.1).

Committee on Public Lands: communications from General Land Office (13AD13.1) and various subjects (13A-D13.2). Arranged chronologically within each group.

Committee on Ways and Means: completion of the Post Office Building (13AD14.1); distillers (13A-D14.2); military establishment (13A-D14.3); and various subjects (13A-D14.4). Arranged chronologically within each group.

Other select committees: business of the House of Representatives (13AD15.1); circumstances attending the destruction, by the enemy, of the office of Patrick Magruder, Clerk of the House of Representatives (13AD15.2); inquiry into the success of the enemy against Washington and Alexandria and into the destruction of public buildings and property (13A-D15.3); and various subjects (13A-D15.4). Arranged by subject.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGES. 2 vols. 5 in.

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Annual messages, 1813 and 1814; messages suggesting legislation or submitting specific information or documents; and messages transmitting reports and communications from executive departments (13A-El). Arranged chronologically.

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REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS SUBMITTED TO THE HOUSE. 1 ft. Reports and communications from the Secretary of the Treasury, including 1 volume (13A-F1); the Treasurer of the United States, 1 volume (13A-F2); and the Secretaries of war and the Navy, including 1 volume (13A-F3); and a communication, enclosing sundry documents, from Gen. Alexander Smyth, regarding operations at Niagara, 1812-13 (13A-F4). Arranged chronologically within each group. For reports from the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, see entry 40; and the Secretary of State, entry 49.

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PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES, AND RELATED
DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE REFERRED TO COMMITTEES.
Grouped by specified committees listed below, thereunder by subject.
Subjects are arranged chronologically within each group, unless otherwise
indicated.

Committee on Claims: by petitioner.

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various subjects (13A-G1.1), arranged alphabetically

Committee on Commerce and Manufactures: duties on imports (13A-G2.1); the embargo (13A-G2.2); patent rights of Oliver Evans (13A-G2.3); Great Egg Harbor, N. J. (13A-G2.4); and various subjects (13A-G2.5).

Committee on the District of Columbia: Alexandria, D. C. (13A-G3.1); roads (13A-G3.2); and various subjects (13A-G3.3).

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