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West, George W., Charles S. Riché, and others, petition for an enlargement of
the Philadelphia navy yard...
committee discharged..

Westcott, jr., Hon. James D., attended....

presented the credentials of the Hon. Jackson Morton.
resolutions submitted by-

survey of the reefs and coast of South Florida......
tonnage duty on Spanish vessels....

tonnage duty on Spanish vessels trading between Cuba and the
United States....

relative to the act for the relief of Jones & Boker..

newspapers that have contracted to publish the debates of the
Senate to be furnished with the documents

establishment of a navy yard and naval depot at Key West..
despatches of Commodore Stockton, relative to the naval and
military operations in California...

report of Lieutenant Lynch of an examination of the Dead sea.
appointment of Leonard D. Gale as examiner in the Patent
Office

West Feliciana Railroad Company. (See bill S. 241.)

West Indies, memorial of J. Disturnell, relative to the collection of statistics of
West Turin, New York, citizens of, petition for a mail route from Constableville
to S. C. Thompson's store.....

Weston, jr., Nathan, petition

adverse report.

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Wetmore, Leonidas, petition..

Wheaton, Mr, resolution by Mr. Johnson of Maryland, for a despatch of Mr.
Wheaton concerning a communication between the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans and the Mediterranean seas

Whitcher, William. (See bill H. R. 549.)

Whitcomb, Hon. James, credentials presented.

attended

oath taken, &c..

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White, David L., petition......

White, Sarah. (See bill H. R. 446.)

White's New Recopilacion, resolution by Mr. Rusk for the purchase of...................

(See joint resolution S. R. 62.)

Whitehall, New York, certain privileges extended to the town of. (See bill H.
R. 405.)

Whitesides, John, memorial...

Whitman, George, memorial..

petition....

Whitman, John, leave to withdraw.

Whitney, Elisha D. (See bill S. 169.)

Whitney, Asa, land to, for a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific. (See
bill S. 297.)

Whittet, Robert. (See bill H. R. 450.)

Widows and orphans of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and pri-
vates of regulars and volunteers, who have died or may die of disease con-
tracted in Mexico. (See bill S. 454.)

Widows and orphans, five years' half-pay to. (See bill H. R. 766.)

Widows, evidence in applications for pensions by. (See joint resolution H. R. 52.)
Widows and orphans of officers and soldiers in the war with Mexico. (See bill
S. 471.)

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Widows and orphans, claims of, to have priority in the examination of claims
arising out of the Mexican war. (See bill H. R. 786.)

Wigent, William L. (See bill S. 277.)

Wilkes, George, memorial for the construction of a road from the Missouri to
the Pacific..

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Wilkes, Charles, memorial.

258

Wilkins, Fort, memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin for a road from Green
Bay to

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Willcox, Jacob, petition referred.

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Williams, Archibald, and Charles Griffin, petition....

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William and Mary College, president and professors of, memorial referred.

108

Williams, Lowry. (See bill H. R. 510.)

Williams, Edwin, memorial....

258

Williams & Griffith, leave to withdraw...

359

Williamson, Elizabeth. (See bill H. R. 445.)

Wilmot proviso, resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina relative to.....

185

Wilson, Charles. (See bill H. R. 724.)

Wilson, John. (See bill H. R. 449.)

Wilson, Daniel. (See bill H. R. 780.)

Wilson, William H., (See bill H. R. 451.)

Winchester, Connecticut, citizens of, petition for reduction of postage, &c....
Winchester, Illinois, citizens of, petition for a military escort and military post on
the route to California.....

Winder's building, purchase of, resolution by Mr. Pearce....

report of the Secretary of the Treasury.

Windham, Vermont, citizens of, petition for reduction of postage, &c.
Winnebago, Fort, memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin for a grant of the re-
servation at, for a penitentiary
Winnebago county, Illinois, committee discharged from the petition of citizens of
Wisconsin-

registers and receivers of land offices in, petition for commissions on entries
of military land warrants.

citizens of, petition for a mail route from West Bend to Sheboygan....

mineral lands in, reduction of the price of.

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grant of the reservation at Fort Winnebago for a penitentiary.

land to the widow and heirs of John Hood.

committee discharged from the resolution relative to a treaty with the
Menomonie Indians.....

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Wormsby, James, petition referred..

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report and bill (see bill S. 374)...

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Wrecks of American vessels, report of the Secretary of the Treasury.

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Wyer, Joseph, and other citizens of the United States, petition for donations of

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Yool, William, representatives of. (See William D. and Julia Acken.)

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Ypsilanti, Michigan, citizens of, petition for a reduction of postage.
Yulee, Hon. David Levy, attended...

resolutions submitted by-

to refer so much of the President's message as relates to naval affairs..
exclusion of the mail system from St. Lucie and Dade counties, Florida
reduction of the price of the pine lands in Florida....

claim of Captain George E. McClellan's company of Florida volunteers
greater expedition in the mails between New York and New Orleans..
compensation of Thomas Peters

Zimmerman, Jacob. (See bill H, R. 772.)

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3 A bill to reduce and graduate the price
of the public lands.

11 An act to compensate John M. Moore
13 A bill to grant to the State of Illinois
a right of way through the public
lands, and for other purposes.

20 A bill concerning testimony...

22 A bill for the relief of Mary McRea,
widow of Lieutenant Colonel Wm.
McRea, late of the United States
army, deceased.

35 A bill for the relief of Asa Andrews,

of Ipswich, in the State of Massa-
chusetts.

43 A bill for the relief of Jeannette C.

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First reading.

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Proceedings
before pas-
sage.

Passed Senate.

Passed H. R.

Other pro-
ceedings.

Approved.

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45 A bill for the relief of Thomas Talbot

and others.

48 A bill for the relief of Peter Capello,
administrator of Andrew Capello,
deceased, and for the relief of John
Capo, and for the relief of Elijah
Petty and Hannah Petty, his wife,
heirs of John Beardon, deceased.

69 A bill for the relief of Creed Taylor...
81 A bill for the relief of the forward
officers of the late exploring expe.
dition.

83 A bill for the relief of Joseph F. Cald.
well.

93 A bill to establish an additional dis-
trict court of the United States in
the State of Texas.

94 A bill for the relief of Thomas Doug-
las, late United States attorney
for East Florida.

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102 A bill for the relief of John Milliken
and others, to secure certain rights
to pre-emption in the State of Lou-
isiana.

106 A bill to provide for the settlement
of the claim of Henry Washington.
107 A bill for the relief of George Center
116 A bill to authorize the Secretary of the
Treasury, with the approbation of
the Attorney General, to purchase
for the United States the interest of
Baylie Peyton in the tract of land
upon which the light-house stands,
at the southwest pass, at the mouth
of the Mississippi river.

129 A bill for the relief of James F. Soth-

oron.

131 A bill for the relief of John P. Bald-
.win, owner of the Spanish brig Gil
Blas.

139 A bill for the relief of the heirs and
legal representatives of Colonel
William Grayson.

142 A bill to amend an act entitled "An

act to provide for the punishment of
offences committed in cutting, des-
troying, or removing live oak and
other timber or trees reserved for
naval purposes," approved March 2,
1831.

147 A bill for the relief of the heirs of F.
Perry, Josiah Bleakley, Nicholas Jar-
rott, and Robert Morrison.

148 A bill for the relief of John Devlin...
152 A bill to establish the territorial gov
ernment of Minesota.

155 A bill granting a pension to Bethiah
Healey, deceased.

163 A bill to relinquish the reversionary
interest of the United States in a
certain Indian reservation in the
State of Alabama.

168 A bill to provide for the unpaid claims
of the officers and soldiers of the
Virginia State and continental lines
of the revolution.

169 A bill for the relief of Frederick Daw-
son, James Schott, and Elisha Dana
Whitney.

170 A bill to establish the territory of Ne-

braska.

184 A bill to cede to the State of Alabama
the lands unsold in that State, and
belonging to the United States, re-
maining unsold after the 1st day of
May, 1848, and for other purposes.
185 A bill for the relief of James B. Car-

son.

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