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Postage, reduction of the rates of, petitions of citizens of-Continued.

New Orleans....

Lincoln county, Maine.

Ontario county, New York..

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ordered to be printed..

Mr. Niles..

Bowdoinham, Maine...

Rock county, Wisconsin.

Mifflin county, Pennsylvania.

resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois..

Postage, bill to reduce the rates of. (See bill S. 289.)

Postal arrangements with Bremen, resolution by Mr. Niles..

Postmaster General, reports of-

with report of S. R. Hobbie, Assistant Postmaster General......
transmission of the mail in steamers between the United States
and foreign countries..

postal arrangement with Bremen.

Postmaster General, Assistant, report of S R. Hobbie called for by resolution of

communicated by the Postmaster General..............
Postmasters, election of, by the people, petition of citizens of Huntingdon county,
Pennsylvania...

Post Office department-

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291

291

141

155

report of the Postmaster General...

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84

137

139

187

75

84

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report of the Treasurer with accounts of receipts and disburements
for

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Post office, petition of citizens of Edgefield district, South Carolina, for a post
office at the residence of J. S. Smyly....

154

Post routes. (See mail routes.)

Post routes, bill to repeal a provision of the act of August 14, 1848. (See bill
H. R. 744.)

Pottawatomie annuities. petition of the Kickapoo and Pottawatomie Indians,
relative to the payment of...

255

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Pre-emption-

petition of citizens of Michigan for an extension of the pre-emption laws
to the mineral lands on Lake Superior .....

63

resolution of the Legislature of Illinois' relative to the pre-emption rights
of settlers on lands granted to the State for internal improvements.....
pre-emption rights to certain islands in the Great Miami river. (See bill
H. K. 526)

168

Prentiss, Susanna. (See bill H. R. 614.)

Presidents of the United States, portraits of, in the Library of Congress, commu-
nication from W. W. Chester and S E. Guild.....

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appointment of a joint committee to inform the President that Con-
gress has assembled, &c.-

on the part of the House of Representatives

on the part of the Senate

report......

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notice of the appointment of the Hon. David R. Atchison as President
of the Senate pro tempore..

resolution by Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, relative to appointments by
the President not submitted to the Senate..

appointment of a joint committee to inform the President that Con-
gress is ready to adjourn-

on the part of the Senate

on the part of the House of Representatives

report......

summons from the President for a special session of the Senate

annual message

ordered to be printed..

referred

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President of the United States, messages-

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with report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the
coast survey
with report of the Secretary of State, and documents relative
to the conduct of Com. G. W. Storer

with reports of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and
Navy, relative to John B. Emerson's invention..
with report of the Secretary of State, communicating copies of
the instructions given to Messrs. Sevier and Clifford, United
States ministers to Mexico, prior to the ratification by Mexico
of the treaty with that government......

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87

159

174

203

with report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the number of
vessels and persons employed in the coast survey..
with report of the Secretary of War, relative to the claim of R.
M. Johnson

205

215

252

295

with report of the Secretary of State, and documents relative to
the imprisoment of William Henry Bush in Cuba......
with report of the Solicitor of the Treasury, showing the opera-
tions of that office since its organization...
communicating a report of the Secretary of State, with a list of
treaties between the United States and other nations, giving
the vessels of those nations the right of trading between the
United States and the rest of the world in the productions of
any country upon the same terms as American vessels; also,
a list of proclamations by the President, conferring similar
rights

President of the United States, (Zachary Taylor)—

inaugural address..

oath administered..

committee to inform the President that the Senate has assembled, &c.
committee to inform the President that the Senate is ready to ad-
journ.....

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compensation to persons appointed to deliver the votes for President
and Vice President. (See joint resolution S. R. 47.)

joint committee to report a mode of examining the votes for President
and Vice President, resolution by Mr. Clayton, for the appointment
of.........

concurred in by the House of Representatives.
committee appointed on the part of the Senate..

271

354

356

357

370

370

169

177

169

committee appointed on the part of the House of Representa-
tives....

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report of the committee, and appointment of a teller by the
Senate......

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House of Representatives concur in the report, and appoint tel-
lers....

House of Representatives ready to receive the Senate, to examine the
votes for President and Vice President

the two houses assemble, and count the votes.......
list of votes....

Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore declared to be elected..
votes of the electors delivered to the Secretary of the Senate....
joint committee to inform the President and Vice President of their
election....

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committee to make arrangements for the reception of the President

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to appoint, on the part of the Senate, the committee to inform the
President that Congress has assembled, &c......

Hon. David R. Atchison appointed President pro tem.... 81, 295, 352, 367

resolutions of thanks to....

339,

370

administered the oath to the Hon. Millard Fillmore, Vice President..
President of the Senate pro tempore, and the Secretary of the Senate, report rela-
tive to the printing for the 31st Congress..

...

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306

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Price, Johnson. (See Alexander McKee.)
Price, Brigadier General, his officers and men, resolution of thanks to. (See
joint resolution S. R. 38.)
Princeton, N. J., citizens of, petition for a reduction of postage, &c..........
Printing of Congress, resolution extending the time for receiving proposals for.
(See joint resolution S. R. 55.)

return of the resolution from the House of Repre
sentatives asked....................................................

yeas and nays..

resolution returned.

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motions to reconsider..

communication from the Secretary of the Senate and the
Clerk of the House of Representatives...

report of the President of the Senate pro tempore, and the
Secretary of the Senate, relative to the printing for the
31st Congress....

306

resolution by Mr. Cameron, to pay for services rendered in
contracting for the printing of Congress

308

resolution relative to the public printing. (See joint reso-
lution S. R. 71.)

Proceedings of the Senate. (See Debates of the Senate.)

Proceedings of Congress. (See Debates of Congress.)

Proctor, Toney, adverse report.......

151

Property, payment for horses and other property lost in the military service.
(See joint resolution S. R 42 and bills H. R. 659 and S. 455.)
resolution of the Legislature of Arkansas.

149

documents.....

164

Providence, Rhode Island, citizens of, petitions for a reduction of postage, &c. 125, 141, 204
Providence harbor, improvement of. (See bill S. 429.)
Provident Association of Clerks. (See bill H. R. 184.)

Prussian vessels, repealing of the 1st section of the act of May 24, 1828, in addition

to the act concerning discriminating duties, and to equalize
the duties on Prussian vessels, resolution by Mr. Clarke.....
select committee appointed.....

93, 98
98.

list of proclamations issued under the 1st section of the act of
the 24th May, 1828, resolution by Mr. Clarke...
message from the President.....

93, 98
271

the abolition of.................

committee discharged..

Punishment, capital, petitions of citizens of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, for

Parsers in the navy. (See joint resolution H. R. 51.)

265

280

Quakers. (See Friends.)

Q.

Quartermaster's department, petition of James Foy and others, late of the, for
extra pay and bounty land....

Quenaudon, Daniel V., memorial for land to establish a colony in Oregon..

Quinn, Edward. (See bill H. R. 20.)

Quorum, notice to the House of a quorum of the Senate.....

notice from the House of a quorum of the House

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Raccourci cut-off in the Mississippi river, resolution of the Legislature of Lou-
isiana...

Racine, Michigan, citizens of, petitions relative to slavery.

Radcliff, Joseph, memorial referred.....

Ragan, John A., memorial....

Ragsdale, Drury, heirs of. (See Elizabeth Moss.)

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266

64

68

280

resolution for leave to withdraw..

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Rahway, New Jersey, citizens of, memorial for an amendment of the patent laws
Railroads and canals, land to the States for. (See bili S. 415.)

368, 369
237

Ralph, A. B., and others, memorial for military escorts and a military post on the
route to California .....

Ramsay, William, heirs of, leave to withdraw..

228

367

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Randon, Peter, leave to withdraw...

Ramsey, Robert. (See bill H. R. 461.)

Ransom's Store, petition of citizens of Blackford county, Indiana, for a post

office at..

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Read, Samuel F., report and bill...

Receivers. (See Registers of Land Offices.)
Recess, resolution by Mr. Atherton for

yeas and nays...

Reconsider, motion to reconsider the vote-

on ordering the Treasurer's accounts for the Post Office Department
to be printed.....

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on concurring in the adverse report on the petition of Arnold Naudain
on ordering bill S. 139 to a third reading

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on ordering bill S. 118 to a third reading, yeas and nays..
on the motion by Mr. King, that the motion to receive certain peti-
tions presented by Mr. Hale, lie on the table....

on the motion that the motion to receive the memorial of Friends, of
Ohio, lie on the table......

on ordering bill H. R. 7 to a third reading..

on passing bill H. R. 270

yeas and nays..

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76, 91

99, 101

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177, 195

196

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193, 197

on passing bill S. 415..

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on rejecting bill S. 199..

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on passing bill S. 391.

236, 279

on the resolution relative to the publication of the proceedings and
debates of the Senate.....

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on concurring in the amendment of the House of Representatives to
bill S. 251........

Records, bill to amend the act of February 22, 1849,.for authenticating certain.
(See bill S. 484.)

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Red River Railroad Company. (See bill S. 92.)

Red river and Rio Grande, military posts between, resolution of the Legislature
of Texas relative to, committee discharged and again referred.....

Red Rock, petition of citizens of Iowa for a land office at...

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Register of the Treasury, report of, on commerce and navigation, communicated
by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Registers and receivers of land offices, petition for commissions on entries of

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bill to compensate the registers and receivers of the several land offi.
ces in the United States. (See bill S. 396.)

bill to compensate the regists and receivers of the land offices for
locating military bounty land warrants, Choctaw land scrip, &c.
(See bill S. 483.)

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280

165

255

69

63, 125

139

111

63

72

141

53

Religion, memorial of the Kekukee Primitive Baptist Association...
Rencher, A., petition....

Reneau, Margueritta, adverse report.

51

189

158

Renner, Mary B. (See bill H. R. 213.)

Reporting and publishing the proceedings and debates of the Senate. (See
Debates)

Reports, motion by Mr. Atherton to rescind the orders of last session discharging
the Committees on Commerce, Pensions, Military Affairs, and Naval
Affairs, from certain reports

51

resolution by Mr. Cameron to change the number of copies of reports
printed for the Senate....

51

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abolition of slavery

Resolutions, motion by Mr. Atherton to rescind the orders of last session dis-
charging the Committees on Commerce, Pensions, Military Affairs, and Naval
Affairs, from certain resolutions....

Resolutions, joint. (See Bills, Acts.)

Restaurador, Spanish brig. (See bill H. R. 113.)

Revenue laws, bill to extend the revenue laws over California. (See bill H. R.
734.)

Reynes, Joseph, petition.......

committee discharged.

Rhea, Robert, petition

Rhode Island, petition of citizens of-

reduction of postage..

Rhode Island Legislature, resolutions of-

territorial governments in California and New Mexico; slavery;

51

54

307,

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158

306

and claim of Texas to New Mexico

278

abolition of the spirit ration and corporeal punishment in the

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Rind, Samuel S., petition....

Ringgold, Major Samuel, sword to the nearest male relative of. (See joint
resolution S. R. 50.)

Rio de Janeiro, despatches of the United States minister at, in relation to Com-
modore G. W. Storer, resolution by Mr. Clarke..

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Robinson, Daniel. (See bili H. R. 13.)

Roboson, Rebecca, petition referred

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Rochester, New York, petition, of citizens of, in behalf the Tonawanda Indians,

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citizens of, petitions for a prohibition of intoxicating li
quors in the navy...

Rock river rapids, improvement of, resolution of the Legislature of Iowa......
Rock county, Wisconsin, citizens of, petition for a reduction of postage, &c..........
Rock Island, marine hospital on, memorial of the Legislature of Iowa...

resolution of the Legislature of Illinois
resolution by Mr. Breese..

petition of citizens of Illinois.

(See bill $469.)

Rockville, Maryland, citizens of, memorial against the issue and circulation of
small notes in the District of Columbia...

mayor of, petition for a prohibition of intoxicating liquors
in the navy....

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291

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Rogers, Johnson K., memorial for self and other Cherokees for an investigation of

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Rosendale, Wisconsin, petition of citizens of, committee discharged,

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