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- A.A. Vance. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1013.) Papers relative to claims for relief of A.A. Vance. January 31, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- A.P. Hotaling. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to the claim of A.P. Hotaling for rent of land for the use of the Indian service in California. March 23, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- A.S. Wallace vs. W.D. Simpson. May 18, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed., (electronic resource)
- Abolition of internal taxes. Letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in answer to a resolution of the House, of March 11, in relation to the expediency and advantage or disadvantage to the government of abolishing the internal taxes, &c. March 23, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Accounts of the colonization agent. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the accounts of the colonization agent. March 30, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Acquisition of foreign territory. January 20, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Acquisition of territory. January 13, 1870. -- Read and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Additional clerical force in Ordnance Department. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting communication from Chief of Ordnance Department relative to the necessity of a larger clerical force than is provided for in the pending appropriation bill. February 3, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Additional papers in the case of Davis Hatch, an American citizen, imprisoned by the Dominican government at Azua, San Domingo. March 23, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed., (electronic resource)
- Administration of civil law in Virginia. Letter from the Secretary of War, on the administration of civil law in Virginia. January 19, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Reconstruction., (electronic resource)
- Advertising for Thirty-seventh Congress. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives in answer to a resolution of the House of this date relative to payments made to D.C. Forney, for advertising certain statements relative to Thirty-seventh Congress. April 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Aggression upon our commerce. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the sum of six hundred thousand dollars paid the United States as indemnity for aggression upon our commerce, pursuant to stipulations of a treaty with Japan of October 22, 1864. January 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 5, transmitting a copy of the report of the late special agent of his Department for Alaska. January 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Albert Greenleaf, William Flynn, and S.P. Brown. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Alexander C. Twining. (To accompany Bill S. No. 704.) July 1, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Alfred M. Briggs. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Amendment to the Constitution. Letter from the Governor of the State of Nebraska, transmitting a certified copy of a concurrent resolution of said state, ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by Congress as Article XV. March 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Amendments to pension laws. Resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia, requesting amendments to the pension law. February 12, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- American citizens prisoners in Great Britain. Message from the President of the United States in answer to a resolution of the House of 15th ultimo, relative to American citizens, native or naturalized, who may be confined in jails or prisons in Great Britain. March 2, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- American fishing vessels. Message from the President of the United States in answer to a resolution of the House of July 1, 1870, relative to the arrest and detention of American fishing vessels. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1869. Volume I., (electronic resource)
- Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1869. Volume II., (electronic resource)
- Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1869. Volume III. Illustrations of patents., (electronic resource)
- Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. December 5, 1870. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed., (electronic resource)
- Annual report of the Deputy Special Commissioner of the Revenue in charge of the Bureau of Statistics, on the commerce and navigation of the United States, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1869., (electronic resource)
- Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1870., (electronic resource)
- Annuities withheld from Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior in answer to a resolution of the House of February 3, relative to annuities or other payments withheld from Indian tribes under act of Congress. February 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appointments to the military and naval academies. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 1606.) March 24, 1870. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriation for Indian service. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior recommending an appropriation to pay certain claims that have been allowed and partly settled to extent of funds on hand. February 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriation for Paymaster General's office. Letter from the Secretary of War relative to the insufficiency of the appropriations for rent, &c., for Paymaster General's office. March 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriation for removal of Kaw Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior asking for an appropriation for the removal of the Kaw Indians from Kansas to the Indian Territory. June 27, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriation to pay certain Indian depredation claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior recommending an appropriation of $100,000 to pay certain Indian depredation claims. July 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations -- delegations of Indians to Washington. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior estimating for an appropriation to defray the expenses of delegations of Indians visiting Washington City and for the purchase of presents. June 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations Indian service -- Fort Berthold agency. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior recommending an appropriation to pay outstanding indebtedness on account of the Indian service at Fort Berthold Indian agency. February 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for House of Correction for Boys. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting copies of two letters from the President of the Board of Trustees of the House of Correction for Boys, for an appropriation for the benefit of said institution. February 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for Indian interpreters. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting copy of report from Commissioner of Indian Affairs, relative to deficiencies in appropriations for the pay of Indian interpreters. February 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for Indian service in Montana. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior recommending an appropriation to pay an outstanding indebtedness on account of the Indian service in Montana Territory. February 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior inclosing a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, asking for an appropriation of $250,000 for the purchase of subsistence for the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and other tribes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871. May 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners in relation to appropriations for Indians. January 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior asking for an appropriation to pay to the upper and lower bands of Sioux Indians according to treaty of June 19, 1858. June 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior recommending an appropriation to pay vouchers approved by General Harney, on account of Indian service in the Sioux Indian district. February 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for fortifications. Letter from the Secretary of War in answer to a request made by the Committee on Military Affairs, transmitting a statement of the amount of money appropriated up to the present time for fortifications, and other works of defense. April 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for surveyor general. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior submitting estimate of appropriations for expenses of surveyor general's office in Wyoming Territory. May 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations for the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War relative to the unexpectedly large demands upon the appropriation for pay to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn. March 29, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the second session of the Forty-first Congress. II. Offices created and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period. July 15, 1870., (electronic resource)
- Army recruiting service. Letter from the Secretary of War recommending an appropriation to continue the Army recruiting service for the remainder of the present fiscal year. February 25, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Arnton Smith. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2360.) July 2, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Artillery School at Fortress Monroe. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting certain papers relating to the site of the United States Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. January 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Assignment of contested election cases. Assignment of contested election cases by the Chairman of the Committee of Elections. February 22, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Assimilated rank in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy in answer to a resolution of the House of 14th December, 1869, inclosing the record of proceedings of the board of officers appointed to take into consideration the subject of assimilated rank in the Navy. January 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Assistant treasurer in Baltimore. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the establishment of the Office of Assistant Treasurer in the City of Baltimore, as an independent office. March 29, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior in answer to a resolution of the House of 10th instant, calling for information to regard to the Atlantic and Pacific Railway Company. March 15, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Awards under Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies' treaty. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury inclosing a letter from the Secretary of State asking an appropriation to pay the awards under the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies' treaty with her Britannic Majesty. March 29, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- B.F. Whittemore. February 21, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Balances due from internal revenue collectors. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to a resolution of the House of March 21, 1870, transmitting a statement of the balances due from collectors of internal revenue who are not now in office. May 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Banking capital in the several states. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 17th instant, transmitting statement of the amount of banking capital in the several states in the month of December, 1860. January 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Banking facilities. (To accompany H.R. No. 1900.) May 27, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Barbara Schorr. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2254.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Barnes vs. Adams. May 23, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Beneficial Society of Cumberland. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Quartermaster General relative to a piece of land purchased for the burial of officers and soldiers, and now desired by the "Beneficial Society of the Laboring Sons of Cumberland." January 17, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Benjamin F. Butler. March 7, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Benjamin F. Reynolds. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting the petition of Benjamin F. Reynolds, late captain Company K Forty-eighth Illinois Volunteers, for relief. May 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Benjamin Mooers. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 760.) January 10, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Black Bob Indian lands. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 181.) July 6, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs., (electronic resource)
- Blacksmiths in the Army, &c. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a memorial from the cavalry and artillery officers of the Army advising for reasons fully set forth therein, that the pay of blacksmiths in the cavalry and artificers of artillery be by law augmented and that the rank of sergeant or corporal be conferred upon them. March 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Books of record for Recorder of Deeds for District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimate of appropriations for books of record for Office of Recorder of Deeds for District of Columbia. December 21, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Boston and New York Harbors, etc. Letter from the Secretary of War in answer to a resolution of the House of April 25, 1870, in relation to the expenditures on Boston and New York harbors, Delaware breakwater, and mouth of the Mississippi. May 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Bounties to colored soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of War in answer to a resolution of the House, of the 7th ultimo, relative to collection and payment of bounties to colored soldiers. April, 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Bounty decision of Supreme Court. Letter from the Secretary of War in relation to the bounty decision of the Supreme Court. May 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Bounty for the capture of Jefferson Davis. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 15th December, relative to the payment of the bounty for the capture of Jefferson Davis, allowed by act of Congress, July 27, 1868. January 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Boyden vs. Shober. Evidence and papers in the contested election case in the Sixth Congressional District of North Carolina. February 25, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Brazil mail. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2244.) June 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Breakwater at Crescent City, California. Memorial of the Legislature of California, praying an appropriation for the erection of a breakwater at Crescent City, in that state. February 16, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Breakwater at Hyannis. Letter from the Secretary of War in answer to a resolution of the House of December 11, transmitting report upon the condition of the breakwater at Hyannis, Massachusetts. January 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Breakwater at Wilmington Harbor, California. Joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of California relating to a breakwater at Wilmington harbor, on the coast of California, and government survey. March 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Bridge over the Ohio River at Cincinnati. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati, relative to the bridge over the Ohio River at Cincinnati. December 8, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Bronze doors. Letter from the Architect of Capitol Extension, in answer to a resolution of the House of January 13, relative to the bronze doors now in the passage leading from the rotunda to the House of Representatives. January 18, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Bryan Tyson -- transportation of the mails. Letter from the Postmaster General relative to his action in rejecting all bids made by Bryan Tyson for the transportation of the mails. June 11, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Buildings rented in the District of Columbia. May 18, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Retrenchment., (electronic resource)
- Calvin H. Frederick. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Capitol Hill Savings Bank. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2518.) December 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Capitol building in Wyoming. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Wyoming Territory, asking for an appropriation for a capitol building. February 14, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Capitol buildings in territories. February 16, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Captain Dominick Lynch. May 13, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Captain Edward Ball. March 25, 1870. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Captain John W. Bevins. Memorial of the Arkansas Legislature, asking relief for Captain John W. Bevins and his command of "Independent Rangers." March 1, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Captain Samuel Adams. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2565.) Communication from Captain Samuel Adams relative to the exploration of the Colorado River and its tributaries. December 19, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Capture of Jefferson Davis. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 15, in relation to the payment of the reward authorized by law for the capture of Jefferson Davis. January 13, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee of Claims and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Captured and abandoned property. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury relating to captured and abandoned property, showing that there are outstanding claims against the government to the amount of several thousand dollars. January 28, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Causes of the reduction of American tonnage. (To accompany Bills H.R. No. 1261 and 1262.) February 17, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)
- Cavalry for New Mexico. Memorial from the Legislature of the Territory of New Mexico asking that Congress will authorize the raising of two regiments of cavalry in said territory for defense against the Indians. March 23, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)