Hickey, William, resolution by Mr. Hale to appoint, acting

Secretary......
Yeas and nays...

Oaths administered to...

Page.

421, 422, 423
422, 423
427

Hockaday and Ligget. (See bills H. R. 915 and S. 551.)
Holt, Joseph, resolution by Mr. Slidell for information rela-
tive to the appointment of, as acting Secretary
of War......

Yeas and nays.

Message of the President....

77, 87

87

101, 126, 135

Resolution by Mr. Slidell declaring the reasons

assigned for the appointment unsatisfactory.. 126, 135

Homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain, bill to

secure. (See bill H. R. 24.)

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, citizens of, petition against the
extension of slavery into the Territories......

Horizon, change of the name of the steamboat John C. Fre-
mont to that of. (See joint resolution S. 57.)

Houghton, Joab. (See Elias Brevoort.)

248

House of Representatives, messages to-

Quorum of the Senate present, &c.....

6

Joint committee to inform the President that Con-
gress has assembled, &c.......

6

Returning bill H. R. 866.....

63

Returning bill H. R. 263..

133

Appointment of a joint committee to report a mode
for examining the votes for President and
Vice President.....

178

Teller appointed by the Senate.......

187

Returning bill H. R. 714...

190

Appointment of a joint committee to inform the

President and Vice President of their election

Suspension of the 16th and 17th joint rules........ 338, 352
Appointment of a joint committee to inform the
President that Congress is ready to adjourn..

Appointment of a joint committee to report a
mode for examining the votes for President

and Vice President.......

183

Requesting return of bill H. R. 714....

Teller appointed by the House..

Ready to receive the Senate to count the votes for

President and Vice President.......

Suspension of the 16th and 17th joint rules..

188

193

221

350, 359

House of Representatives, messages from-Continued.
Appointment of a joint committee to inform the
President that Congress is ready to adjourn..

Ready to adjourn

Howe, Hon. Timothy O., credentials presented.......

Attended.

Qualified and took his seat.....

Hubbell, William W., petition....

Hudson, Michigan, citizens of, petitions in favor of the propo-
sition of the committee of the border States...

Hudson, Captain William L, resolution by Mr. Pearce.....

(See joint resolution S. 65.)

Hull & Cozens, and John Naylor & Co. (See bill H. R. 624.)
Humber, Laura C, widow of Charles H. Humber. (See bill

S. 227.)

Humphrey, William, children of. (See bill H. R. 590.)
Humphreys, Captain A. A., report of the survey of the delta
of the Mississippi river by, resolution by Mr.
Johnson, of Arkansas.

Page.

393.

397

265

402

402

56

147
228.

226

Report of the Secretary of War.......

275

Letter of, relative to the printing of extra copies

of his report....

277

Hunt, E. P.

Committee discharged from motion to print

(See bill S. 521.)

415

Leave granted to withdraw...

376

Hunter, Hon. R. M. T., attended..

4,409

Resolution submitted by, viz:

Retrocession of the forts, magazines, arsenals,

dock-yard, &c., to the States .........69, 77, 90, 94, 96
Huntingdon and Fulton counties, Pennsylvania, inhabitants

412

of, petitions, establishment of mail routes...... 154, 177
Hutmann, Francis, granted leave to withdraw papers...
Hyatt, Thaddeus, memorial, relief of the suffering citizens of
Kansas.....

Hyde, Charles H., additional papers relative to claim of...............

34

73

I.

Ihrie, George P., report (No. 301) and bill, (see bill S. 564)..
Illinois, citizens of, petitions, aid to the People's Pacific Rail-
road...

Illinois, conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of
southern, memorial of a committee of, against
proscription for religious opinions.....

Illinois, bill authorizing the holding of circuit and district
courts of the United States for the southern
district of Illinois at Cairo. (See bill H. R. 488.)
Bill authorizing the payment of the two per centum
land fund to which the States of Illinois and
Indiana are entitled for road purposes. (See
bill H. R. 103.)

230

78

164

Illinois river, cost of constructing a steamboat canal from lake
Michigan to, resolution by Mr. Harlan........
Petition of citizens of the United States.......

Imports, bill to regulate and fix the duties on, &c. (See bill
H. R. 338.)

Select committee on bill H. R. 338, appointed....
Joint resolution to correct certain errors in the act
to regulate and fix the duties on imports, &c.
(See joint resolution S. 72.)
Bill in relation to the collection of duties on. (See
bill S. 545.)

Bill to amend the fifty-sixth section of the act of
March 2, 1792, to regulate the collection of
duties on imports and tonnage. (See bill S. 215.)
Resolution by Mr. Anthony to print 2,000 copies.
of the act to regulate and fix the duties on
imports, &c....

Indiana, citizens of, petition in favor of the Crittenden com-

promise

Indiana, letter of the governor of, communicating a resolution
of the legislature for a convention to amend
the constitution....

Indiana, bill authorizing the payment of the two per centum.
land fund to which the States of Illinois and
Indiana are entitled for road purposes. (See
bill H. R. 103.)

Indian trust fund, provision for the recovery of certain bonds
belonging to. (See joint resolution S. 61.)
Indian Territories, committee discharged, from a map of......
Indian Affairs, Commissioner of—

Copies of the report of the, for his office.......
Committee discharged from the report of, accom-
panying a map of the Indian territories ......

Indian hostilities-

Payment of expenses incurred in the suppression
of, in California. (See bills S. 526 and H. R.
299.)

Amendment proposed to bill H. R. 899.........
Leave granted to withdraw papers accompanying
bill H. R. 299........

Page.

278

278

139

410

182

420

114

45

114

321

350

In Washington and Oregon.

(See bill S. 11.)

In Utah. (See bill H. R. 435.)

Indian appropriation bill. (See bill H. R. 865.)

Expediency of additional Indian appropriations,

resolution by Mr. Lane....

233

Indians, report of Second Auditor of disbursements for the

benefit of.............

47

Indians, destitute, report of the Secretary of the Interior
recommending an appropriation for the relief

of.........

182

Insane Asylum, copies of the report of the officers in charge
of the, to be printed for their use..
bill supplementary to an act to organize an insti-
tution for the insane of the army and navy
and of the District of Columbia. (See bill
S. 999.)

Interior, Secretary of the, reports-

Statement of appropriations for that department..
Appropriation for clerk hire, office rent, and fuel,

for the land office at Kickapoo, Kansas.......
Committee discharged from a letter of, communi-
cating a map of the Indian territories, with
the report of the Commissioner of Indian.
Affairs
Appropriations for the relief of destitute Indians.
Transcript of accounts for the erection and repairs
of the Patent Office building....

Committee discharged and again referred
Report against printing....

F. W. Lander's reports and maps of the Fort
Kearny, South Pass, and Honey Lake wagon
road......

Committee discharged from motion to print....

Interior Department-

Copies of the President's Message and documents

for the......

Statement of appropriations for........

Copies of the mechanical portion of the Patent
Office report to be printed for................

Copies of the agricultural portion of the Patent
Office report to be printed for.......

Interoceanic canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific-
Lieutenant Michler's report communicated by the
Secretary of War...

Page.

45

55

56

114

182

198

239

277

216

348

44

55

185

230, 239

232

Resolution by Mr. Thomson to print copies of
Lieutenant Craven's report for the Navy De-
partment.......

Invasion, bill to provide for the suppression of the invasion
of one State or Territory by or from another,
and the fitting out of military expeditions or
enterprises in one State or Territory against
another, and for the punishment of certain
offenses. (See bill S. 528.)

Iowa, citizens of, petitions-

Settlement of claims of officers and soldiers of
revolutionary war.....

319

133

Iowa, citizens of, petitions-Continued.

Relative to the disturbed condition of the country
In favor of the Crittenden compromise..

Iowa, joint resolution to quit title to lands in. (See joint
resolution H. R. 70.)

Iron and steel, petitions against an increase of the duties on-
Importers of hardware in New York, St. Louis,

Chicago, Milwaukie, New Haven, Baltimore,
Detroit, and Richmond....

Manufacturers of cutlery, &c., in New York, Con-
necticut, and Vermont..
Referred.....

Manufacturers of tools and fire arms in Massachu-
setts, Maine, Connecticut, and New Hamp-
shire......

Hardware dealers, &c., relative to, referred.....
Importers of hardware in Philadelphia.......

Irvin, Richard, trustee of the president, directors, and com-
pany of the Mechanics' bank of New York,
report of the Court of Claims ...

Irvine, J. C., and R. H. Porter, granted leave to withdraw
their papers.

Isabel, steamship, owners of. (See M. C. Mordecai and

others.)

Isthmus of Darien-

Lieutenant Michler's report of his survey for an
interoceanic canal near, report of the Secretary
of War .....

Page.

229

324

69

135

140

139

140

147

46

360

232

Motion to print referred...

233

Ordered to be printed..

239

Resolution by Mr. Green to print extra copies

for the War Department...

319

Resolution by Mr. Thomson to print copies of
Lieutenant Craven's report for the Navy

Jackson county, Illinois, confirmation of the title to saline
lands in, to D. H. Brush and others. (See
bill H. R. 975.)

Jefferson county, Illinois, citizens of, petition in favor of the

Crittenden compromise.

Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, citizens of, petitions in favor
of the Crittenden compromise....

277

298