Subject.

On the bill (S. 602) for the relief of John Barry...

On the bill (H. R. 2223) for the relief of Robert F. Winslow..

On the bill (S. 686) for the aid of geological and other surveys in the sev-
eral States

On the bill (S. 574) for the relief of Willis N. Arnold.

On the bill (H. R. 491) for the relief of Kerry Sullivan..

On the bill (H. R. 2788) for the relief of Henry P. Ingram and John K.
Askins.

On the bill (H. R. 2789) for the relief of John S. Dickson.
On the bill (H. R. 1322) for the relief of George S. Gustin..

On the memorial of the legislature of Wisconsin and accompanying pa-
pers, asking the removal of the charge of desertion from George
Schwartz

On the bill (S. 502) for the relief of Mrs. Martha Vaughn and Mrs. Louisa
Jackman

On the bill (H. R. 2207) for the relief of James M. True..

On the bill (S. 94) for the relief of Isaac H. Allen..

On the bill (H. R. 2412) for the relief of Sheridan O. Bremmer.

On the bill (H. R. 2839) for the relief of F. O. Wise..

On the bill (S. 671) for the relief of Alexander Minor..

On the bill (H. R. 546) for the relief of William B. Morgan.

On the bill (S. 769) for the relief of Major J. W. Nicholls

On the petition of Delilah Kelly...

On the petition of Dr. Berthold Hahn..

On the bill (H. R. 1051) for the relief of Captain J. Horace McGuire

On the bill (H. R. 2704) for the relief of Selden Connor.

On the bill (S. 792) for the relief of John Fletcher..

On the bill (S. 600) for the relief of Captain J. B. Thompson.

On the bill (H. R. 2696) for the relief of John F. Wheeler..

On the bill (H. R. 2420) allowing Army officers to wear certain emblems
indicative of honors conferred upon them....

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS.

On the memorial of Joseph Council.....

On the bill (S. 141) for the relief of certain contractors for the construc-
tion of vessels of war and steam machinery...

On the bill (S. 65) to authorize the President to restore Captain George
Henry Preble, now a captain in the Navy, to his original position on
the Navy Register, and promote him to the rank of commodore on the
active list; on the bill (S. 31) for the relief of Captain L. C. Sartori, of
the Navy; on the memorial of Commander R. F. R. Lewis
On the memorial of C. K. Curtis and others..

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On the bill to restore Captain Albert G. Clary, United States Navy, to
his original position on the naval list...

On the bill (S. 134) for the relief of Daniel S. Mershon, jr.

On the petition of E. Laws. (To accompany the bill S. 710).
On the petition of William Wheeler Hubbell..

On the bill (S. 448) for the relief of John T. Smith.

On the petition of E. Mellach...

On the Senate resolution instructing the committee to report whether,
under existing laws, a promotion to the rank of rear-admiral can be
lawfully made without a previous examination of the officer promoted,
according to the provisions of the act of Congress on the subject of
promotions, approved July 16, 1862..........

On the resolution " to inquire whether or not the steamships employed
in the ocean mail-steamship service between the United States and
China, under the act of February 17, 1865, and of June 1, 1872, have
been subjected to inspection and surveyed by a United States naval
constructor, and so constructed as to be readily adapted to the armed
naval service of the United States in case of war, the utility of the
vessels for such service, and whether any furtherlegislation is neces-
sary to secure to the United States the right to take said steamships
for the use of the Government in case of war, as provided by said
acts"

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On the memorial of certain surgeons of the United States Navy, ask-
ing for the re-arrangement of the dates of their commissions....

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.

On the bill (H. R. 826) for the relief of Elias C. Boudinot..
On the bill (S. 587) declaring the true intent and meaning of the Union
Pacific Railroad acts, approved July 1, 1862, July 2, 1864, and July 3,
1866

On the bill (S. 343) for the relief of purchasers of lands sold for direct
taxes in the insurrectionary States

On the bill (S. 153) for the relief of Silas I. Field.

On the bill (S. 16) entitled “A bill supplemental to the act entitled 'An
act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United
States, approved May 10, 1872”.

On the bill (S. 391) to enable Susan B. Anthony to pay a fine imposed
upon her by the district court for the northern district of New York,
and a petition praying for the remission of said fine......

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON POST-OFFICES AND POST-ROADS.

On the memorial of D. B. Allen & Co.

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On the bill (H. R. 215) to exempt George M. Richard, of Pittston, from
the payment of $881.29, for postage-stamps stolen..

On the petition of James R. Young

On the bill (H. R. 517) for the relief of Sarah F. Lincoln
On the bill (H. R. 1222) for the relief of George W. Keyes..
On the bill (H. R. 259) for the relief of James W. Glover..
On the petition of Benjamin Cooley and James W. Boswell
On the bill (H. R. 753) for the relief of Peter S. Patton...........
On the bill (S. 434) referring to the Court of Claims for adjudication and
determination the claims of the parties therein named for the past and
future use of Norton's post-marking and postage-canceling hand-stamp
and the Robertson improved hand-stamp

On the bill (S. 651) to provide for the transmission of correspondence by
telegraph

On the petition of J. B. Chandler, of New Orleans.

On the petition of William B. Barry

On the bill (S. 277) for the relief of Mrs. Nancy Day

On the bill (S. 106) for the relief of Chauncey M. Lockwood.

On the bill (H. R. 3175) for the relief of J. E. Ingalls...

On the petition of Thomas Sprinkle, jr., of Oil Creek, Ind..

On the resolution relative to the transportation of the additional semi-
monthly mail between San Francisco, Japan, and China..........

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS.

On the bill (H. R. 429) creating an additional land-district in the Terri-
tory of New Mexico...

On the bill (S. 512) to extend the time for constructing the Wisconsin
Central Railroad

On the bill (S. 281) ceding to the several States within whose limits they
respectively lie the beds of unsurveyed lakes and other bodies of water.
On the bill (S. 3×1) to create an additional land-district in the State of
Oregon, to be called the Dalles land-district.....

On the letter of the Secretary of the Interior, with other communications,
on the subject of the Yellowstone Park......

On the bill (S. 174) for the relief of certain settlers upon homestead and
pre-emption lands

On the memorial of the governors of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, relating
to the two-per-cent. fund arising from sales of public lands in said
States. Majority report, part 1; minority report, part 2
On the bill (S. 486) to revise and continue certain grants of land hereto-
fore made to the Territory and State of Minnesota, to aid in the con-
struction of the several lines of the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad
Company

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On the bill (S. 654) to extend the time for the completion of a railroad
from the Saint Croix River or Lake, between townships 25 and 31, to
the west end of Lake Superior, and to Bayfield, in the State of Wis-
consin

On the bill (S. 637) to settle certain accounts between the United States
and the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois...

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE LAND-CLAIMS.

O the petition of Sebastian Reichert...

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.

On the communication of the Secretary of the Interior, with accompany-
ing papers, in regard to the Mission Indians of California ...
On the bill (S. 558) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to use funds
from the sale of lands for the benefit of the Osage Indians..
On the bill (S. 205) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dis-
charge certain obligations of the United States to the creditors of the
Upper and Lower bands of Sioux Indians ...

On the bill (S. 650) explanatory of the resolution entitled “A resolution
for the relief of settlers upon the Absentee Shawnee lands in Kansas
On the bill (S. 735) for the relief of D. G. and D. A. Sanford.....
On the bill (S. 778) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide homes
for the Pottawatomie and Absentee Shawnee Indians in the Indian
Territory"

On the bill (S. 652) conferring exclusive jurisdiction over Indian reserva-
tions upon the United States courts, and for the punishment of crimes
committed by and against Indians.

On the petition of Mary Ann Hall.............

On the bill (S. 748) to transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury all stocks
and evidences of indebtedness due and held in trust by the Secretary
of the Interior on account of the Creek orphans' fund..........

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON PENSIONS.

On the memorial of Richard J. Murray...

On the petition of Calvin Chipman

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On the petition of Margaret E. West. (To accompany bill S. 82).

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On the petition of James A. Hyde...

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On the application of Samuel Spalding.

On the petition of Mary D. Loud

On the memorial of Lizzie M. Mitchell

On the petition of Eliza, Nancy, Patsey I., and Elva Shelton, Cerena
Metcalf, Nancy King, Sarah Metcalf, and Mary Franklin..

On the bill (S. 298) to increase the pension of Harriet De Witt Mitchell..
On the petition of Mrs. Barbara A. Nock

On the bill (S. 307) granting a pension to Henry Oglesby.

On the bill (S. 217) granting a pension to Julia A. Smith..
On the bill (S. 42) granting a pension to Caleb A. Lamb..

On the bill (S. 387) granting a pension to Captain Benjamin Fenley

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On the petition of Anna Hancock.....

Subject.

On the petition of Ruth Ellen Greeland

On the bill (H. R. 1225) granting a pension to William E. Price.
On the petition of Elizabeth R. McCracken

On the petition of William Martin

On the bill (H. R. 1226) granting a pension to Francis Bernard.
On the petition of Mary C. Haile

On the petition of John Coonan

On the petition of Canady O'Brien...

On the application of Elizabeth O'Neil.

On the petition of C. B. Dean....

On the petition of Michael McGrayel.

On the bill (S. 322) granting a pension to Mrs. Alme D. Brooks.

On the petition of R. S. McKay

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On the claim of Elizabeth Reidenbach

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On the petition of Abraham Lansing.

On the bill (H. R. 1402) granting a pension to John A. Fisher.
On the petition of Benjamin C. Skinner...

On the petition of Susan Ten Eyck Williamson..

On the joint petition of Fleming Crump and William Williamson

On the petition of Mrs. Phebe Riker

On the petition of Mrs. Almira H. Thompson

On the petition of John O'Connor..

On the petition of William Daily

On the petition of Jemima Maxwell.

On the petition of George Reisinger.

On the petition for a pension to William C. Parker

On the petition of Barnet Simonson.

On the petition of Celia, widow of Thomas Tweed..

On the petition of John P. McElroy.

On the bill (S. 415) granting a pension to Bartholomew Diggins

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On the petition of George Goerth

On the petition of Joanna W. Turner

On the petition of Richard H. Conner.

On the bill (H. R. 1401) granting a pension to Penelope T. Heald..
On the petition of Adrian S. Lee...

On the bill (H. R. 510) granting a pension to Thomas R. Hardwick.

On the petition of Edward Healy.

On the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth Biggers.

On the petition of Lucinda Schrum

On the petition of Christiana Bailey

On the petition of citizens of Washington County, Vermont, for a pen-
sion to Fanny Newcomb...

On the petition of Mary E. Naylor..

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On the petition of Elizabeth Howard

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On the memorial of William H. Babcock.......

On the bill (S. 414) granting a pension to Alice Mullally

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On the petition of Chloe Ann Ketchum...

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On the bill (H. R. 2096) granting a pension to James Roach.
On the petition of Patsey Inlow

On the bill (H. R. 216) granting a pension to Timothy Paige.
On the petition of Jefferson A. French

On the bill (H. R. 1948) granting a pension to Mary J. Blood.

On the bill (H. R. 1945) granting a pension to Juliet E. Hall.

On the bill (H. R. 2356) granting a pension to Edward Jardine..
On the petition of Nancy Flesher

On the bill (H. R. 1122) granting a pension to Mrs. Martha E. Northup
On the bill (H. R. 816) granting a pension to Jane La Font
On the petition of Margaret A. Hoffner..

On the bill (H. R. 20944) granting an increase of pension to Mary C. Bell.

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On the bill (S. 578) for a persion to Elizabeth Loebrick...

On the application of Henry Woodson..

On the petition of Ira W. Douthard..

On the petition of Elizabeth Davis..

On the petition of George W. Truehart.

On the petition of Martin V. Jackson

On the bill (H. R. 2455) granting an allowance to soldiers who have lost

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On the bill (H. R. 1122) granting a pension to Mrs. Martha E. Northup..
On the bill (H. R. 1230) granting a pension to Elizabeth W. Prindle..
On the bill (H. R. 1227) granting a pension to Eliza H. Maxham

On the resolution of the legislature of Minnesota, in regard to an investi-
gation of the affairs of the Pension-Office

On the petition of Mrs. Mary W. Jones

On the bill (H. R. 599) for the relief of Ade H. McDonald

On the bill (H. R. 1439) granting a pension to John Folger.
On the bill (H. R. 1719) granting a pension to Ezra H. Foster.
On the bill (H. R. 2791) granting a pension to Franklin Stoner..
On the bill (H. R. 1835) granting a peusion to Mary A. Lowe...
On the bill (H. R. 2217) granting a pension to Henry Bruckner.
On the bill (H. R. 2679) granting a pension to George Dayspring
On the bill (H. R. 1616) granting a pension to John G. Parr
On the petition of Esther M. Shubrick.

On the petition of Harriet J. Peabody.

On the petition of John Carter

On the petition of sundry citizens of New Ulm, praying that Jacob Nix
be placed on the pension-roll..............

On the bill (H. R. 1843) granting a pension to Lucinda Jones..
On the bill (H. R. 2215) granting a pension to Elizabeth Brady.
On the bill (H. R. 2668) granting a pension to William J. Uhler.
On the petition of Mary Jane Lowrie

On the bill (S. 533) granting a pension to Uriah W. Briggs.

On the petition of Andrew J. Lasley.

On the petition of John S. Long

On the bill (H. R. 2118) for the relief of Elizabeth Clark.

On the bill (S. 659) for the relief of Niel Nielsoon....

On the bill (H. R. 1673) granting a pension to Isaac Stevens

On the petition of Mary E. Murphey.

On the petition of Elizabeth Wolf.

On the bill (S. 763) explaining the intent and meaning of the fourth sec-
tion of the act entitled "An act in addition to certain acts granting
bounty-land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in
the military service of the United States," approved March 3, 1855..
On the petition of Mary P. Jarvis....

On the petition of John Colahan

On the case of David F. Taylor..

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On the petition of Abraham Van Assune.

On the bill (H. R. 1791) granting a petition to Augustus L. Yeager.
On the petition of Livanna Ingraham..

On the petition of Ebenezer W. Brady..

On the bill (H. R. 2181) granting a pension to Jennet H. Nisbet.

On the petition of George Bagnall .

On the bill (S. 412) granting a pension to George H. Mellan.

On the petition of Ellen O'Connell.

On the petition of Jules L. Williams..

On the bill (H. R. 62) for the relief of Margaret E. West

On the bill (H. R. 2355) granting a pension to Mrs. Ann R. Vorhees.

On the petition of sundry citizens of Fort Wayne, Ind., praying a pen-
sion be granted to John W. Trewitt

On the bill (S. 41) granting a pension to Margaret E. Alexander.

On the bill (H. R. 3015) granting a pension to Margaret A. Chantry.
On the bill (H. R. 3010) for the relief of John Downey

On the petition of John R. Gaines ....

On the bill (H. R. 2213) granting a pension to Sarah Summerville.