Postage, reduction of the rates of, petitions of citizens of-Continued. New Orleans.... Lincoln county, Maine. Ontario county, New York.. Page. 204 209 215 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...... postal arrangement with Bremen. Postmaster General, Assistant, report of S R. Hobbie called for by resolution of communicated by the Postmaster General.............. Post Office department- 264 291 291 141 155 report of the Postmaster General... 187 84 137 139 187 75 84 232 report of the Treasurer with accounts of receipts and disburements Post office, petition of citizens of Edgefield district, South Carolina, for a post 154 Post routes. (See mail routes.) Post routes, bill to repeal a provision of the act of August 14, 1848. (See bill Pottawatomie annuities. petition of the Kickapoo and Pottawatomie Indians, 255 ........... Pre-emption- petition of citizens of Michigan for an extension of the pre-emption laws 63 resolution of the Legislature of Illinois' relative to the pre-emption rights 168 Prentiss, Susanna. (See bill H. R. 614.) Presidents of the United States, portraits of, in the Library of Congress, commu- appointment of a joint committee to inform the President that Con- on the part of the House of Representatives on the part of the Senate report...... ...... notice of the appointment of the Hon. David R. Atchison as President resolution by Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, relative to appointments by appointment of a joint committee to inform the President that Con- 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 President of the United States, messages- .... with report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the with reports of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Page.- 87 159 174 203 with report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the number of 205 215 252 295 with report of the Secretary of State, and documents relative to President of the United States, (Zachary Taylor)— inaugural address.. oath administered.. committee to inform the President that the Senate has assembled, &c. compensation to persons appointed to deliver the votes for President joint committee to report a mode of examining the votes for President concurred in by the House of Representatives. 271 354 356 357 370 370 169 177 169 committee appointed on the part of the House of Representa- 177 report of the committee, and appointment of a teller by the House of Representatives concur in the report, and appoint tel- House of Representatives ready to receive the Senate, to examine the the two houses assemble, and count the votes....... Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore declared to be elected.. committee to make arrangements for the reception of the President to appoint, on the part of the Senate, the committee to inform the 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.. ... 353 306 Page. Price, Johnson. (See Alexander McKee.) return of the resolution from the House of Repre yeas and nays.. resolution returned. 179 177 motions to reconsider.. communication from the Secretary of the Senate and the report of the President of the Senate pro tempore, and the 306 resolution by Mr. Cameron, to pay for services rendered in 308 resolution relative to the public printing. (See joint reso- 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. 149 documents..... 164 Providence, Rhode Island, citizens of, petitions for a reduction of postage, &c. 125, 141, 204 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 93, 98 list of proclamations issued under the 1st section of the act of 93, 98 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 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 Raccourci cut-off in the Mississippi river, resolution of the Legislature of Lou- Racine, Michigan, citizens of, petitions relative to slavery. Radcliff, Joseph, memorial referred..... Ragan, John A., memorial.... Ragsdale, Drury, heirs of. (See Elizabeth Moss.) 179 266 64 68 280 resolution for leave to withdraw.. .... Rahway, New Jersey, citizens of, memorial for an amendment of the patent laws 368, 369 Ralph, A. B., and others, memorial for military escorts and a military post on the Ramsay, William, heirs of, leave to withdraw.. 228 367 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.. Read, Samuel F., report and bill... Receivers. (See Registers of Land Offices.) yeas and nays... Reconsider, motion to reconsider the vote- on ordering the Treasurer's accounts for the Post Office Department ......... on concurring in the adverse report on the petition of Arnold Naudain ...... ........ .......... on ordering bill S. 118 to a third reading, yeas and nays.. on the motion that the motion to receive the memorial of Friends, of on ordering bill H. R. 7 to a third reading.. on passing bill H. R. 270 yeas and nays.. 209 245 254 .65 76, 91 99, 101 101 113 113 122, 137 137 153 177, 195 196 178 178 193, 197 on passing bill S. 415.. 218 on rejecting bill S. 199.. ........ 230 on passing bill S. 391. 236, 279 on the resolution relative to the publication of the proceedings and 259 on concurring in the amendment of the House of Representatives to Records, bill to amend the act of February 22, 1849,.for authenticating certain. Red River Railroad Company. (See bill S. 92.) Red river and Rio Grande, military posts between, resolution of the Legislature Red Rock, petition of citizens of Iowa for a land office at... Register of the Treasury, report of, on commerce and navigation, communicated Registers and receivers of land offices, petition for commissions on entries of bill to compensate the registers and receivers of the several land offi. bill to compensate the regists and receivers of the land offices for 126 280 165 255 69 63, 125 139 111 63 72 141 53 Religion, memorial of the Kekukee Primitive Baptist Association... 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 Reports, motion by Mr. Atherton to rescind the orders of last session discharging 51 resolution by Mr. Cameron to change the number of copies of reports 51 Page. abolition of slavery Resolutions, motion by Mr. Atherton to rescind the orders of last session dis- 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. 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, 155 158 306 and claim of Texas to New Mexico 278 abolition of the spirit ration and corporeal punishment in the Rind, Samuel S., petition.... Ringgold, Major Samuel, sword to the nearest male relative of. (See joint Rio de Janeiro, despatches of the United States minister at, in relation to Com- Robinson, Daniel. (See bili H. R. 13.) Roboson, Rebecca, petition referred Rochester, New York, petition, of citizens of, in behalf the Tonawanda Indians, citizens of, petitions for a prohibition of intoxicating li Rock river rapids, improvement of, resolution of the Legislature of Iowa...... resolution of the Legislature of Illinois petition of citizens of Illinois. (See bill $469.) Rockville, Maryland, citizens of, memorial against the issue and circulation of mayor of, petition for a prohibition of intoxicating liquors 198 199 186 291 125 180 181 220 142 147 Rogers, Johnson K., memorial for self and other Cherokees for an investigation of Rosendale, Wisconsin, petition of citizens of, committee discharged, |