Subject.

Reports of the Postmaster General-Continued.
Statement of letters, circulars, newspapers, and pamphlets re-
ceived and delivered by carriers, and the amount received
and paid out for carriage in New York and other cities
therein named, for the year 1858-59.....

Statement of letter postage on British mails received in and sent
from the United States during the year 1858-59....

Same on Prussian mails....

Same on French mails.

Same on Bremen mails.....

Same on Hamburg mails...........

Statement of letters and newspapers exchanged between the Uni-
ted States and United Kingdom in British mails during
the year 1858-59.........

Same between the United States and Prussia, France, Bremen,
and Hamburg..........

Statement of revenue to the United States, also to the United
States Post Office Department, by the Cunard line for the
year 1858-59...

Statement of closed-mail account of mails received and sent to
and from Prussia, Canada, California, Havana, and Mexico.
Statement of receipts and disbursements in closed mails between
the United States and Prussia during the year 1858–59.....
Statement of letters and newspapers, with the several postages,

conveyed by various lines of ocean steamers during the
year 1858-59..

Statement of postages on mails exchanged between the United
States and the British provinces in the year 1858–59......
Statement of postage account with Great Britain and Ireland
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1859...

Same with Prussia.......

Same with France...........

Same with Bremen......

Same with Hamburg.....

Statement of balances due the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, France, Bremen, and Hamburg, on the ad-
justment of accounts, during the year 1858–59......
Statement of balances due the United States, on the adjustment

of the accounts with the kingdom of Prussia, in the year
1858-59..............

Statement of postages accounted for on foreign dead letters re-
turned to and sent from the United States with England
and Ireland, Prussia, France, Bremen, and Hamburg
Statement of amounts reported as being due the Havre line,
being the sea and inland postages.........

Same as being due the "miscellaneous "line, being the sea postages.
Same as being due the Vanderbilt line
Same as being due the German Lloyd line.
Same as being due the Canadian line..

Same as being due the Bremen line.....

Transmitting a statement of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post
Office Department of the amount of postage received in each
State and Territory since 1840 to the present time; and also the
amount paid in each year for transportation in each of said
States and Territories, indicating the rates of postage in each
year, and the number of letters transmitted by mail each year....
Letter to the chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads of the Senate in relation to the contract made with Mr.
Butterfield for the transportation of the letter mail, overland, from
the Mississippi river to San Francisco, and back
In relation to dead letters, drop letters, and letters held for postage or
postage not prepaid...
Communicating copies of the contracts of Daniel H. Johnson and
Cornelius Vanderbilt for transporting the mails between New
York, New Orleans, and San Francisco, via the Isthmus, to-
gether with the correspondence relating thereto............

Subject.

Reports of the Postmaster General-Continued.
Communicating further information in relation to the contracts with
Daniel H. Johnson and Cornelius Vanderbilt for temporary mail
service between New York and San Francisco, and New Or-
leans and San Francisco, via the Isthmus......
Communicating information in relation to the defalcation of the post-
master at New York........

In relation to mail depredations in the Greenville district, in the State
of South Carolina, and the unfitness of the Greenville post office
building for post office purposes, &c..............

Report of the Attorney General, viz:

Transmitting correspondence between the judges of Utah and him or
the President with reference to the legal proceedings and condi-
dition of affairs in the Territory of Utah.....

Reports of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, viz:

On the operations of the General Land Office during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1859, and the quarter ending September 30, 1859.

Accompanying documents, viz:

Exhibit of sales, &c., of public lands during the year ending
June 30, 1859, and the quarter ending September 30, 1859
Exhibit of the condition of the bounty land business under acts
of 1847, 1850, 1852, and 1855.......
Exhibit of swamp land selected for the several States under acts
of March 2, 1849, and September 28, 1850, up to Sep-
tember 30, 1859......

Operations in relation to revolutionary military claims and those
for services in the war of 1812, and recommendations
relative to the residue of the lands in the Virginia mili-
tary district........

Exhibit of the quantities of land certified to States, &c., under
grants for railroads.......
Statement of surveying returns from October 1, 1858, to Sep-
tember 30, 1859, showing the number of acres and miles
surveyed in the States and Territories.

Statement of surveys of boundary line between Florida and
Georgia; western boundary line of Minnesota, of bound-
ary lines between California, Utah, New Mexico, and
Oregon; of lands in Oregon and Washington, east of the
Cascades; and of donations and claims under treaty of
1846 with Great Britain.......

Exhibit of lands prepared for market and not advertised for sale
on the 30th of June, 1858; also those prepared for mar-
ket during the year ending June 30, 1859; and those ad-
vertised for sale during the same year; and those prepared
for market and advertised for sale during the quarter
ending September 30, 1859; and also the whole quantity
of unoffered surveyed land on hand September 30, 1859...
Statements of lands sold, cash received, incidental expenses,
and payments into the treasury during the first and second
half years ending June 30, 1859......
Estimates for the General Land Office for the year ending June
30, 1861, and additional appropriations under military
acts of March 3, 1855, and August 18, 1856; and of con-
tingent expenses of the General Land Office for the year
ending June 30, 1861..........

30, 1861........

Report, with estimates of the surveyor general of Minnesota.....
Report, with estimates, of the surveyor general of Illinois and
Missouri......

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Estimates for the surveying department for the year ending June

Subject.

Reports of the Commissioner of the General Land Office-Continued.
Report, with estimates, of the surveyor general of Wisconsin

and Iowa......

Report, with estimates, of the surveyor general of Louisiana.....
Report, with estimates, of the surveyor general of Florida..
Report, with estimates, of the surveyor general of New Mexico.
Report, with estimates, of the surveyor general of Nebraska......
Report, with estimates, of the surveyor general of California.....
Report, with estimates, of the surveyor general of Washington.
Report, with estimates, of the surveyor general of Utah........
In relation to preemptions to contractors carrying mails through Ter-
ritories west of the Mississippi, under acts of March 3, 1855,
and March 3, 1857........

Reports of the Commissioner of Pensions, viz:

On the operations of the Pension Bureau during the year ending June
30, 1859, with synopsis thereof......

Accompanying documents, viz:

Statement of original applications and for increase of army pen-
sions admitted, with annual amount of same, for the year
ending June 30, 1859

Statement of arrears of army pensions admitted, due, and pay-
able at the date of issuing the pension certificate, for the
year ending June 30, 1859

Statement of the amount of army pensions on the rolls of the
several States and Territories, on June 30, 1859.....
Statement of amount paid for army pensions at the several agen-
cies in the States and Territories, for the year ending
June 30, 1859.............

Statement of the amount of funds in the hands of army pension
agents, on June 30, 1859..........
Statement of the number and yearly amount of original applica-
tions, and for increase of navy pensions admitted, during
the year ending June 30, 1859...

Statement of the amount of funds in the hands of navy pension
agents on June 30, 1859 .....

Statement of the amount paid for navy pensions at the several
agencies in the States and Territories for the year ending
June 30, 1859........

Statement of the number and annual amount of navy pensions
payable at the several agencies in the States and Territo-
ries on June 30, 1859......

Statement of the amount that has been paid for pensions in each
State and Territory since the organization of the present
government.....

Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, viz:

On the operations of the office of Indian Affairs during the year ending
June 30, 1859, with a compendium..........................................

Accompanying documents, viz:

Report of the New York Indian agency.

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Report of the Michigan Indian agency...

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Report of the agency of the Indians in the vicinity of Green bay.

Report of the Northern Indian superintendency.

Report of the Central Indian superintendency.

Report of the Southern Indian superintendency.

Report of the Texas Indian superintendency...

Report of the New Mexico Indian superintendency.

Report of the Utah Indian superintendency..

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Report of the Washington Indian superintendency.

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Subject.

Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs-Continued.
Report of the California Indian superintendency.
Statement of the condition of the Indian Trust Fund, &c........
Statement of stocks held by the Secretary of the Interior in trust
for Indian tribes.......

Submitting an estimate of the amounts that will be required to hold
councils with the Kiowas, Comanches, and other Indians who
roam near the Arkansas river, west of 100th degree west lon-
gitude; the Arrapahoes and Cheyennes, located below the south
fork of the Platte river; the Sioux and other Indians of the
plains, and the Red Lake Chippewas and the Indians of the Red
river, in the State of Minnesota, for the extinguishment of their
title to lands in that State.........
Transmitting to the Secretary of the Interior facts and correspondence
relating to the massacre at Mountain Meadow, in August, 1857,
and other massacres in Utah Territory, &c.....
(See list of papers accompanying the above at pages 2 and 38 of same.)
Transmitting to the Secretary of the Interior copies of correspondence

between the Indian Office and the present superintendents and
agents in California and J. Ross Browne, relating to the condi-
tion and management of the Indians and their reservations in
California........

Reports of the Commissioner of Patents, viz:

On the operations of the agricultural branch of the Patent Office during
the year 1858-9......

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On the mechanical operations of the Patent Office during the year
1858-9, (part 1)..

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On the mechanical operations of the Patent Office during the year
1858-9, (part 2)..

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Report of the Superintendent of Public Printing, viz:

Seventh annual report of the operations of the office, and showing the
condition of the public printing..........

Reports of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, viz:

On the operations of his office during the year ending June 30, 1859,
with compendium thereof.....

Accompanying documents, viz:

Statement of receipts and expenditures under his direction
during the year ending June 30, 1859.....

Report of the Engineer in charge of the finished portion of the Potomac
water-works, viz:

On the operation, condition, repairs, &c., of the water-works during
the year 1858-59........
Copy of system of regulations adopted by the Corporation of Wash-
ington, to avail itself of the privileges conferred upon it by act
of March 3, 1859, in regard to the use of the Potomac water,
with copies of city ordinances relating thereto.....
Estimate of the amount required for the expenses of the office of the
Potomac water-works

Report of the Resident Physician of the Washington Infirmary, in the
District of Columbia, viz:

Statement, with a list of government patients remaining under treat-
ment on the 1st of July, 1858, designating those who died or
were improved or discharged...........

Subject.

Report of Resident Physician of the Washington Infirmary-Contin'd.
List of patients admitted into the Infirmary from July 1, 1858, to June
30, 1859, showing the date of admission and discharge, and con-
dition at the time of the discharge..........

Reports of the Surgeon General of the Army, viz:

1858-59...

On the medical operations of his department during the
year
On the sickness and mortality of the army during the year 1858-59......
Report of the Board of Inspectors of the Penitentiary of the District of
Columbia, viz:

On the condition and operations of the penitentiary during the year

1858-59.....

Accompanying papers, viz:

Report of the warden of the penitentiary......
Report of the physician of the penitentiary..
Report of the chaplain of the penitentiary.
Report of the matron of the penitentiary...

Report of the Board of Visitors of the Hospital for the Insane, viz:

Compendium of the report of the Board of Visitors.........
Report of the president and secretary of the hospital.........
Report of the superintendent for the erection of the hospital........

Report of the Board of Directors of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
and the Blind, viz:

On the operations of the Institution during the past year, and its con-
dition on the 1st of July, 1859.......

Accompanying papers, viz:

Report of the superintendent of the Institution...

List of subscriptions to the Institution for the year ending June

30, 1859..............

Report of the treasurer of the Institution............

List of pupils in the Institution during the year ending June 30,
1859.............

Statement of the regulations of the Institution....................

Reports, &c., of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, viz:

Communication in reply to the preamble and resolutions submitted
by Hon. Mr. Green, and asking an investigation into the
charges contained therein.......

On the operations of his office for the year 1858-59......

Report of the Second Comptroller, viz:

On the operations of his office during the year 1858-59..

Annual reports of the several Auditors, viz:

Of the First Auditor on the operations of his office for the year ending
June 30, 1859........

Of the Second Auditor on the operations of his office............
Of the Third Auditor on the operations of his office..
Of the Fourth Auditor on the operations of his office......
Of the Fifth Auditor on the operations of his office........
Of the Sixth Auditor on the operations of his office..............

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