Number.

BILLS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Title.

Reported.

A bill authorizing John A. McLain, company B
105th Pennsylvania volunteers, to receive three
months' pay proper.

A bill to repeal the twelfth section of an act
approved July 17, 1862, entitled "An act to
define the pay and emoluments of certain officers
of the army, and for other purposes.
A bill for the relief of William McGarrahan
A bill for the relief of Lieutenant John H. Osler, of
Guernsey county, Ohio.

A bill relating to captures made by Admiral Far-
ragut's fleet in the Mississippi river in May, 1862.
A bill to provide pensions for certain officers and
soldiers of the United States who served in the
war of 1812, in the Mexican war and in the
Indian wars, up to and including the Black
Hawk war, and for other purposes.

289

44

185

211

A bill to increase the subsistence department of the
army of the United States.

44

216

A bill allowing pensions to soldiers, or the widows
of soldiers of the war of 1812.

185

264

360 368, 375..... 404

273

A bill to amend the act of April 10, 1806, for estab
fishing rules and articles for the government of
the armies of the United States.

449 451..

486

597

603

621

634

689

697

721

728

735

771

833

847

860

866

887

A bill to grant three months' extra pay to officers
of North Carolina and Tennessee regiments.
A bill granting pensions to certain soldiers and
sailors of the war of 1812.

A bill to authorize the building of a military and
postal railway from Washington, District of
Columbia, to the city of New York.

A bill for the granting of a pension to Walter H.
Tinker and John P. McElroy, of Missouri.
A bill for the relief of Mary J. Stone, of Jackson
county, Tennessee.

A bill regulating the terms of the United States
court for the western district of Pennsylvania.
A bill to increase the pension of Amos Armstrong,
who was wounded in the battle of Queenstown
during the war of 1812.

A bill relating to the Bureau of Steam Engineering
in the Navy Department.
A bill to repeal an act approved March 2, 1867,
entitled "An act to regulate the disposition of
fines, penalties, and forfeitures received under
the laws relating to the customs, and for other
purposes."

A bill for the construction of a canal around the
Big Muscle shoals of the Tennessee River.
A bill for the relief of Rufus M. Hollister, of Janes-
ville, Wisconsin.

A bill to aid in the construction of the International
Pacific railroad from Cairo, Illinois, to the Rio
Grande river; to authorize the consolidation of
certain railroad companies; and to provide home-
steads for the laborers on said roads.
A bill for the relief of Luther McNeal, late post-
master at Lancaster, Erie county, New York.
A bill to facilitate the settlement of the accounts
of paymasters of the army.

A bill for the relief of the members of company A,
independent exempts, West Virginia volunteer
infantry.

A bill to establish a national system of military
education.

905

45

912

933

476*

A bill to repeal an act entitled An act to create
the eastern judicial district of the State of New
York," approved April 25, 1865, and to make
provision for the trial of causes pending in said
district.

A bill to equalize the bounty of soldiers, sailors, and
marines who served in the late war for the Union.
A bill to amend certain acts in relation to the ma-
rine corps.

A bill to regulate the civil service of the United
States.

A bill to provide for the removal of the remains of
Hon. W. T. Coggeshall, late minister of the
United States at Ecuador, to the United States.
A bill for the coinage of nickel-copper pieces of five
cents and under.

A bill supplementary to the several acts relating to
pensions, proposing to extend their provisions to
acting assistant surgeons, &c.

A bill to aid the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific
Railroad Company, of Texas, in the construc-
tion of a railroad and line of telegraph from the
Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean, and to
secure to the government of the United States
the use of the same for postal, military, and
other purposes.

A bill to amend the sixth section of act of July 4,
1864, on the subject of pensions, so as to authorize
pensions to be granted from the date of discharge
or death of the soldier.

Number.

Bills of the House of Representatives-Continued.

Title.

Reported.

A bill granting the right of way to the Walla-Walla
and Columbia River Railroad Company, and for
other purposes.

A bill to reduce into one act and to amend the laws
relating to internal taxes.

A bill for the relief of Henry Barricklow
A bill for the construction of a government tele-
graph, under the direction of the Post Office De-
partment, between New York and Washington.
A bill for the reorganization of the United States
colored troops, their instruction, and colonization.
A bill for the relief of Isaac Watts

A bill for the relief of Commander John L. Davis.
A bill for the relief of Joseph A. Ingham

A bill to provide for the construction of a ship canal
around the falls of Niagara.

A bill to confirm certain private land claims in the
State of Missouri.

A bill to define felonies and misdemeanors, and to
regulate peremptory challenges in the courts of
the United States, and for other purposes.
A bill amendatory of an act entitled "An act relat-
ing to habeas corpus and regulating judicial pro
ceedings in certain cases."

A bill concerning the naturalization of aliens.
A bill for the sale of the Hot Springs reservation in
Arkansas.

A bill in relation to additional bounties, and for
other purposes,

A bill for the relief of Lieutenant Leonidas Smith,
late of the 224 Indian volunteer infantry.

A bill to provide for the granting of pensions to
certain ex-officers of the United States army, &c.
A bill granting pension to E. R. Caine....
A bill granting a peusion to Mrs. Susan Carson..
A bill for the relief of Walter D. Plowden..
A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to exempt
certain manufacturers from internal tax, and for
other purposes," approved March 31, 1868.

1344

A bill to confirm certain private land claims in the
Territory of New Mexico.

1345

1348

1349

1364

1367
1415

142

1429

1434
1410
1451

1453
1450

1460

A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to confirm
certain private land claims in the Territory of
New Mexico."

A bill for the relief of S. K. Patton, late colonel
8th Tennessee cavalry.

A bill to increase the revenue from duties on im-
ports, and tending to equalize exports and im-
ports,

A bill to provide for the gradual resumption of
specie payments.

A bill for the relief of George Kaiser

A bill to incorporate the United States Postal Tele-
graph Company, and to establish a postal tele-
graph system.

A bill authorizing the admission in evidence of
copies of certain papers, documents, and entries.
A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to extab-
li-h an uniform rule of naturalization," &c.,
passed April 14, 1802.

A bill granting a pension to William M. Simpson
A bill for the relief of William Wagner.

A bill for the relief of John H. Osler, of Guernsey
county, Ohio.

A bill for the relief of William Grant Powers...
A bill to authorize the importation of machinery,
for repair only, free of duty.

A bill regulating the duties on imported copper and
copper ores.

Laid on the table.

289 290,307.....

342

287 444, 509, 484

403 410

Approved.

1477

16

1478

1479
1480

1481

1482

1483

1484

1485
1486

A bill to prohibit the sale of coin in behalf of the
United States, and to provide for the redemption
of the United States legal-tender notes in coin at
par.

A bill to relieve Dewitt C. Senter, of Tennessee,
from disabilities.

A bill for the relief of John Webb, of Tennessee...
A bill for the relief of Tarlton A. Middleton, late a
lieutenant in company B, 4th Tennessee infantry.
A bill to repeal an act entitled "An act regulating
the tenure of certain civil officers," passed March
2, 1867.

A bill to restore the Bureau of Indian Affairs to
the Department of War.

A bill in reference to swamp lands...

A bill to relieve from disabilities Franklin S. Moses,
of South Carolina.

A bill providing for an election in Virginia....
A bill to enable the Holly, Wayne and Monroe
Railway Company, in the State of Michigan, to
have the subscriptions to its capital stock stamped,
and the stamps already affixed and to be duly
cancelled.

A bill to declare and fix the status of the corps of
judge advocates of the army.

1487

1488

A bill to consolidate the several asylums for aged
and disabled soldiers, created under the laws of
the United States.

Number.

Title.

Bills of the House of Representatives-Continued.

Reported.

Proceedings in House
and in Committee of

Whole House.

1494

1495

1496
1497

1498

1499

1500

1501

1502
1503

1504

1505

1506
1507

1508

1509

1510

1511

1512

1513

1514

1515

1516

1517

1518

1519

1520

1521

1522

1523

1524

1525

A bill creating an additional judicial district in
Virginia.

A bill supplementary to an act entitled "An act
to provide a national currency secured by pledge
of United States bonds, and to provide for the
circulation and redemption thereof," approved
June 3, 1864, and for other purposes.
A bill to establish certain post routes
A bill to reorganize and increase the efficiency of
the medical department of the navy.

A bill to provide for the defence of the northeastern
frontier.

A bill relating to pay, bounty, and pensions of
non-residents.

A bill to repeal a part of section 8 of an act passed
August 3. 1861.

A bill providing for payment for horses lost by
certain officers in the service of the United States.
A bill relating to freedmen's hospitals.....

A bill to remove obstructions from the East river,
in the harbor of New York.

A bill to establish telegraph lines between Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Wash-
ington.

A bill to authorize the Southern Maryland Rail-
road Company to enter the District of Columbia.
A bill to incorporate the African College.....
A bill authorizing the incorporation of certain rail-
road companies to construct railroads therein
described or mentioned.

A bill to change post route No. 2243, in Union
'county, Pennsylvania, so as to go by way of
Kelley Points.

A bill authorizing the erection of a suitable post
office building in the borough of Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania.

A bill supplemental to an act entitled "An act to es-
tablish a uniform system of bankruptcy through-
out the United States," approved March 2, 1867.
A bill to provide for the paving of Pennsylvania

avenue.

A bill granting a pension to James Smith, of Phil-
adelphia, a soldier of the war of 1812.

A bill for the relief of the disabilities of W. I.
Mixon, a citizen of South Carolina.

A bill to relieve from disabilities certain citizens of
South Carolina.

A bill to relieve Nathan Land and I. A. Howard,
of Barton county, in the State of Georgia, from
legal and political disabilities.
A bill granting to the New Orleans, Mobile, and
Chattanooga Railroad Company the right of
way through the public lands of the United
States, and for other purposes.

A bill in relation to the appointment of midship-
men from the lately reconstructed States.

A bill to relieve from legal and political disabilities
certain persons, therein named, of Alabama.
A bill providing that the State of Alabama may
accept provisions of an act giving public lands
for benefit of certain colleges within two years.
A bill concerning Mississippi and Mexican Gulf
Ship Canal Company, asking an appropriation
of $300,000.

A bill to legalize gold contracts....A

A bill to relieve from legal and political disabilities
Winer Bothel, of Florida, engaged in rebellion.

A bill to repeal an act entitled "An act to fix the
times for the regular meetings of Congress,"
approved January 22, 1867.

A bill for better protection of women of District
of Columbia.

A bill to divide the State of Ohio into three judicial
districts, and to provide for holding the district
and circuit courts of the United States therein.