HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SCHUYLER COLFAX, of South Bend, Indiana, Speaker. EDWARD MCPHERSON, of Gettysburg, Penn., Clerk. [Republicans and Unionists (in Roman), 145. Democrats and Conservatives (in Italics), 47. Total, 192. Phelps (Md.), Noell (Mo.), Rousseau (Ky.), and Taylor (Tenn.), who were elected as Unionists, have been classed with the Conservatives. For the names of other Unionists who, on important occasions, voted with the Conservatives, see the vote on the Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bureau Bills, on other pages. Those marked * were members of the XXXVIIIth Congress. Republicans and Unionists (in Roman), 43. Democrats and Conservatives (in Italics), 9. CALIFORNIA. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Dist. [Three members to be 4 John A. Peters. elected in Sept.] CONNECTICUT. MARYLAND. [Four members to be 1+Hiram McCullough 2 S. Archer. (C.) 4 3+C. E. Phelps. (C.) 4 Francis Thomas. 5 Frederick Stone. 5 Wm. E. Robinson. John Morrissey. 6 Thos. E. Stewart. 7+John W. Chanler. 8 James Brooks. 9 Fernando Wood, 10 11 12 Wm. H. Robertson. John H. Ketcham. MASSACHUSETTS. 1 Thomas D. Eliot. 2Oakes Ames. 3 Ginery Twitchell. 4 Samuel Hooper. 5 Benj. F. Butler. 13 6 +Nathan'l P. Banks. 7 Geo. S. Boutwell. 15 †J. A. Griswold. 8+John D. Baldwin, 16 Orange Ferris. 9Wm. B. Washburn 17 +T. C. Hulburd. 10 +Henry L. Dawes. 14 18 James M. Marvin. 19 Wm. C. Fields. 20 †A. H. Laflin. 21 Roscoe Conkling. Dist. 19 Jas. A. Garfield. OREGON. 1 Rufus Mallory. PENNSYLVANIA. 1+Samuel J. Randall. 2+Charles O'Neill. 3 Leonard Myers. 4+Wm. D. Kelley. 5 Caleb N. Taylor. 6+B. Markley Boyer. John M. Broomall. 8 J. Lawrence Getz. 9 +Thaddeus Stevens. 10 H. L. Cake. 11 D. M. Van Auken. 12+Chas. Dennison (C.) 13 Ulysses Mercur. 14 George F. Miller. 15 †A. J. Glossbrenner. 16+Wm. H. Koontz. 17 Daniel J. Morrell. 22 John C. Churchill. 18 Stephen F. Wilson. 23 Dennis McCarthy. 19 G. W. Scofield. 24 +T. M. Pomeroy 25 Wm. H. Kelsey. 1 +Benj. Eggleston. 2 +R. B. Hayes. 3 +Robt. C. Schenck. 4+Wm. Lawrence. 5 Wm. Mungen. 6 +Reader W. Clarke. 7 Saml.Shellabarger. 8 C. S. Hamilton. 9 +Ralph P. Buckland. 10 James M. Ashley. John T. Wilson. 12 P. Van Trump. NEW HAMPSHIRE. [Three members to be 11 elected in March.) 13 14 G. W. Morgan. (C.) Martin Welker. Tobias A. Plants. John A. Bingham. 17+Ephraim R. Eckley. 18 Rufus P. Spaulding. 1 William Moore. 2 Charles Haight. (C) 15 3+Chas. Sitgreaves. 16 4 John Hill. 5 G. A. Halsey. 20 Darwin A. Finney. 21 John Covode. 22 †J. K. Moorhead. 23 Thomas Williams. 24 †G. V. Lawrence. RHODE ISLAND. [Two members to be elected in April.] TENNESSEE. [Eight members to be elected in August.] VERMONT. 1 +F. E. Woodbridge. 2 Luke P. Poland. 3 W. C. Smith. WEST VIRGINIA. 1C. D. Hubbard. 2 B. M. Kitchen. 3 Daniel Polsley. WISCONSIN. 1 Halbert E. Paine. 2 B. F. Hopkins. 3 +Amasa Cobb. 4+ Chas. A. Eldridge. 5 Philetus Sawyer. 6 C. C. Washburne. Republicans and Unionists (in Roman), 127. Democrats and Conservatives (in Italics), 36. (+) Members of the XXXIXth Congress. (C.) Seats contested. ACTS OF CONGRESS. SYNOPSIS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. CHAP. V.-Assistant Assessors of Internal Revenue. - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint Assistant Assessors of Internal Revenue. [Approved Jan. 15, 1866.] CHAP. VIII.-Registry of Vessels. Forbids the registry of vessels as American vessels which altered their registers during the rebellion to obtain the protection of a foreign government. [Feb. 10, 1866.] CHAP. IX. Mrs. Lincoln. An act granting the franking privilege to Mary Lincoln. [Feb. 10, 1866.] CHAP. XII.-Importation of Foreign Cattle. -Forbids the importation of neat cattle, or the hides of neat cattle. The Secretary of the Treasury may suspend the operation of the act as to any foreign country. The President may, by proclamation, declare the act inoperative, and it shall be of no effect from and after thirty days from the date of the proclamation. Any person convicted of willful violation of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both, at the discretion of the court. [March 6, 1866.] CHAP. XIII.-Lands to California. Relinquishes to the city of San Francisco the right and title of the United States to certain lands within said city. Said lands shall be disposed of by the city to parties on bona fide possession thereof. The relinquishment shall not, how ever, interfere with any adverse right or claim. [March 8, 1866.] CHAP. XV. Declaratory of the Meaning of Certain Parts of the Internal Revenue Act. In section 120 the words dividends in scrip or money, &c., shall mean dividends in scrip or money, &c., wherever payable, and the words stockholders, &c., shall include non-residents. Persons shall make returns of income, &c., according to their value in legal tender currency, and if the returns shall be made on the basis of coined money, the Assistant Assessor shall reduce such returns to the basis of legal tender currency. [March 10, 1866.] CHAP. XVII.-Goods in Bonded Warehouses. -After the 1st day of May, 1866, goods in bonded warehouse may be withdrawn within one year from the date of importation, on payment of the duties to which they may be subject at the time of withdrawal, and after the expiration of one year, and until the expiration of three years from said date, an additional duty of 10 per cent. will be assessed. This act shall not operate to prevent the export of bonded goods, &c., within three years from date of importation, nor their transportation in bond to other ports for the purpose of exportation. [Mar.14,'66.] CHAP. XVIII.-Maine Lumber.-Admits, free of duty, lumber of American citizens, grown on St. John River and its tributaries, sawed or hewed in the Province of New Brunswick by American citizens, after the 17th of March, 1866. [March 16, 1866.] CHAP. XXI.--National Military and Naval Asylum. -Constitutes the President, Secretary of War, and Chief Justice of the United States, and other persons, a Board of Managers of "The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers." Nine other citizens, not members of Congress, shall be associated with the three above named, no two of whom shall be residents of the same State, and who shall all be residents of the States which furnished organized bodies of troops for the suppression of the rebellion (no person being ever eligible who gave aid to the rebellion), to be selected by joint resolution of the Senate and House. The Board of Managers shall have authority to procure sites for Military Asylums. For the support of the asylum shall be appropriated all stoppages or fines against officers and soldiers above the amount necessary for the reimbursement of the Government or individuals, all forfeitures for desertion, and all moneys due deceased officers and soldiers which now are or may be unclaimed for three years after their death. All officers and soldiers who served in the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, and not provided for by existing laws, who have been or may be disabled by wounds received or sickness contracted in the line of their duty, shall be entitled to the benefits of the institution upon the recommendation of three of the managers. The provision for a naval asylum in the act (1865, chap. XCI.) to which this is amendatory is repealed. The property of the United States at Point Lookout, Md., shall become the property of the asylum. [March 21, 1866.] CHAP. XXV.-Smithsonian Institute. -Transfers the Library of the Smithsonian Institute to the Library of Congress. [April 5, 1866.] CHAP. XXVII.-Relief of Seamen. Grants to any officer of the navy or marine corps who may have lost his personal effects by the loss of his vessel one month of sea pay. The bountymoney of any seaman who enlisted from the army into the navy shall not be deducted from his prize-money. [April 6, 1866.] CHAP. XXXI.-Civil Rights Bill.- [The text of this important bill, together with the veto of the President, and the vote by which both Houses passed it over the veto, is given on another page.] CHAP. XXXIX. - Exchange of Obligations.Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange treasury notes or any other obligations for any description of bonds, and also to dispose of any description of bonds at his discretion, for lawful money of the United States or treasury notes, certificates of indebtedness, or certificates of deposit. [April 12, 1866.] CHAP. XL. Reimbursement of Pennsylvania. - Provides for the reimbursement of the State of Pennsylvania for moneys advanced to the Government for war purposes. [April 12, 1866.] |