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for the term commencing March fourth, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven", approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

16. Joint resolution for the erection of a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson.

17. Joint resolution granting the use of artillery, tents, and so forth, at the national soldiers' and sailors' reunion to be held at Marietta, Ohio.

18. Joint resolution providing for the distribution and sale of the new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

19. Joint resolution to pay the laborers known as cloak-room men and to place them on the Doorkeeper's roll.

20. Joint resolution granting the use of tents at the solders' reunion to be held at Des Moines, Iowa.

21. Joint resolution providing for issue of arms to Territories.

22. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to turn over to Governor Hubbard, of Texas, such tents, poles, and pins as he may require for the use of the volunteers of the State at their summer encamp

ment.

23. Joint resolution granting the use of artillery, tents, and so forth, at the soldiers' reunion to be held at Centreville Iowa.

21. Joint resolution for the benefit of the penny-lunch house of the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

25. Joint resolution to allow the Secretary of the Navy to purchase plate-iron and other material used in the construction of steam boilers for the United States Navy.

26. Joint resolution to enable the joint commission to carry into effect the act of Congress providing for the completion of the Washington Monument.

27. Joint resolution asking for investigation in the case of Edward O. M. Condon.

28. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver to the city of Winterset, Madison County, Iowa, four cannon and carriages for the soldiers' monument in said city.

29. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to turn over to the governor of North Carolina such tents, poles, and pins as he may require for the use of the militia and volunteer organizations of the State at their summer and fall encampment.

30. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to turn over to the governor of Alabama, such tents, poles, and pins as he may require for the use of the volunteers of the State at their summer encampment. 31. Joint resolution in relation to committee clerks and other employees of the Senate and House of Representatives.

32. Joint resolution authorizing payment to W. W. Wilshire his expenses in the contest of the third Congressional district of Arkansas, Forty-third Congress.

33. Joint resolution authorizing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay certain clerks out of the contingent fund of the House. 34. Joint resolution to pay certain contested-election expenses.

35. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to turn over to the governor of West Virginia such tents, poles, and pins as he may require for the use of the militia and volunteer organizations of the State at their summer and fall encampment.

36. Joint resolution to amend the act entitled "An act making appro priations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes."

PRIVATE RESOLUTIONS.

1. Joint resolution authorizing Commander Edmund O. Matthews, of the United States Navy, to accept a gilt teapot from the Emperor of Siam.

2. Joint resolution authorizing Rear-Admiral William Reynolds, of the United States Navy, to accept certain presents tendered him by Kings of Siam.

3. Joint resolution appropriating two hundred dollars, to defray expenses of transferring the remains of Pancoast Loose, a deceased sol· dier.

4. Joint resolution authorizing Lieutenant T. B. M. Mason, United States Navy, to accept a medal conferred by the King of Italy for extinguishing a fire on a powder-ship.

5. Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to the Society of the Sons of St. George established at Philadelphia the sum of fourteen hundred and forty dollars and twenty-five cents in gold, being the amount paid by said Society upon a colossal statue of St. George and the Dragon.

6. Joint resolution authorizing the payment of the accounts of Lieu tenant James T. Leavy, an insane officer.

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INDEX.

Abbott, Sarah C., petition of...

Adverse report...

A.

Abendroth, William-(See bill H. R. 1778.)

Acting plays, for the better protection of, and dramatic litera

Page.

442

603

ture. (See bill S. 943.)

Adams, Lucy V., memorial of the administrators of the estate

of...

627

Adams, Samuel B.-(See bill H. R. 3408.)

Adams, W. L.-(See bill S. 997.)

Adjournment, resolution by Mr. Ingalls to amend the forty

third rule relating to

Adjournment of Congress. (See Congress.)

Adjutant-General, letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the, recommending an amendment of the Revised Statutes relative to attorneys' fees in claims for bounty, &c

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Adjutant-General's Office, resolution by Mr. Edmunds to provide sufficient force in the, for prompt action in the settlement of pension cases

Adkinson, D. O.-(See bill S. 945.)

Administrators of the Government, authorizing the Secretary
of State to affix the great seal of the United
States to a document entitled-(See bill H. R.
2142.)

Resolution by Mr. Bruce to purchase a copy of the
document entitled, for the Vice-President's

room

Advances, to provide for paying the, made to the United States by the State of Maryland. (See bill S. 1193.)

Advertisements, to give official notice of the acts of the government, and to provide for the, required by the several departments of the government. (See bill H. R. 3079.)

Africa, petition of citizens of New York for the appointment of a commission to confer with other nations in relation to the construction of a railroad across the continent of......

Agriculture, Commissioner of

Report of the, for 1877 ...

Resolution of the House of Representatives to print
extra copies

495

499

171

240, 241

33

25

341

Referred

345

Reported with an amendment..

490

Considered, amended, and agreed to.......516, 517, 518
House agrees to the amendment...

631

Page.

Agriculture, Commissioner of-Continued.

Message of the President transmitting the report of
the, upon the subject of forestry..

Resolution of the House of Representatives to print

extra copies

Referred ....

Reported and agreed to....

Agriculture, resolution of the Illinois State board of agricul
ture for the establishment of a bureau of

Extending the provisions of the act establishing col-
leges for the benefit of, to the State of Colorado.
(See bill S. 398.)

To create the office and define the duties of consult-
ing naturalist in the Department of-(See bill
S. 1018.)

Aikens, Grace-(See bill S. 704.)

Aikens, William H., for the relief of, and Jacob D. Felt-
housen. (See bill S. 553.)

Alabama, Senators from-

John T. Morgan, attended

George E. Spencer, attended

Legislature of, resolution-

For grant of land to aid in the construction of the

71

341

345

364

48,151

Warrior and Tennessee Rivers Railroad....... 421, 460

Citizens of, petitions and memorials-

For the improvement of the navigation of Mobile

Bay...

33.46

For the early construction of the Texas Pacific Rail-
road

311

... 363, 476

For a grant of land to aid in the construction of the
Warrior and Tennessee Rivers Railway......
Alabama, to grant certain public lands in, in aid of the War-
rior and Tennessee Rivers Railroad. (See bill
S. 1123.)

To amend section 532 Revised Statutes, relating to
the division of the State of, into judicial dis-
tricts. (See bill S. 418.)

For the endowment of the Lowery Industrial Acad-
emy in the State of-(See bill S. 1046.)

To turn over to the governor of, tents, poles, &c., for
the use of volunteers at summer encampment.

(See joint resolution S. 39.)

Alabama claims. (See Geneva awards.)

Alaska, to authorize the killing of fur-seals in the Territory

of (See bill S. 599.)

Letter of the Commissioner of Customs in favor of

the passage of a law to provide for the adminis
tration of the oath of office to collectors and
other officers of the customs in the district of..
(See bill S. 1045.)

Alaska Gold and Silver Mining Company, petition of the, for
protection to persous engaged in mining in
Alaska Territory from the hostilities of the
natives....

Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company, for the relief of

367

73,311

the (See bill S. 18.)

Page.

Albemarle Sound, resolution by Mr. Ransom to consider the
expediency of improving the navigation of the..

Albertson, Louisa-(See bill S. 367.)
Alcohol, to extend provisions of section 3297 of Revised Stat-
utes relative to withdrawing, from bond for sci-
entific purposes, to other institutions of learn-
ing. (See bill H. R. 1887.)

Alcoholic liquor traffic, to provide for a commission on the
subject of (See bill S. 452.)

Alcoholic liquors. (See Intoxicating liquors.)

168

Alexander, Thomas F.-(See bill H. R. 521.)

Alexander, William, petition of

Alexander, William J.-(See bill H. R. 3289.)

Allen, Mary A.-(See bill H. R. 550.)

Alleghanian, memorial of the owners of the ship...

Alexandria Canal, relating to the (See bill S. 911.)

Allibone, Charles O., petition of

(See bills S. 973, H. R. 4525.)

Appointed a consulting trustee of the Reform School

Allison, William B., attended ....

of the District of Columbia.

Credentials presented .....

Resolutions submitted by, viz:

To print extra copies of the bill H. R. 1093 ...
Reported and agreed to....

To inquire into the validity of the so-called permit

law enacted by the legislature of the Chickasaw
Nation ....

Calling for the memorial of B. F. Overton, governor
of the Chickasaw Nation..

Letter of the Secretary of the Interior...

....

Almy, Rear-Admiral John J., authorizing, to accept a decora-
tion from the King of the Hawaiian Islands.
(See joint resolution H. R. 47.)

Alsea Bay, memorial of the legislature of Oregon for an ap

propriation for surveying and buoying.

Alsea River and Harbor, providing for the survey of-(See
bill S. 580.)

Alsop, Ben, petition of..

(See bill S. 1026.)

Alstead, Abraham-(See bill H. R. 849.)

Altimus, Henry W.-(See bill S. 1139.)

American Association of Breeders of Short-horns, memorial of
the, for the abolition of duties on cattle imported
from Canada.....

145

333

318

5

58

450

140

142

446

560

576

133

348, 558

152

Committee discharged and again referred
Resolution of the, for the appointment of a commis-
sion to devise a method of preventing the im-
portation from other countries of contagious
diseases among cattle....

164

152

American commerce, resolution of the legislature of Pennsylva-

nia in favor of such legislation as will tend to
restore ....

176

Resolution of the legislature of New Jersey in favor
of such legislation as will develop and restore,
and shipping..

228

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