Congressional Serial Set

Date of the law or
resolution.

18 A report of the annual estimate of the Postmaster General of the money required for the service of the Post Office Department for the ensuing fiscal year.

13 A report of the special commissioner of the revenue, either in the form of bill or otherwise, of such modifications of the rates of taxation or of the methods of collecting the rev enues, and such other facts pertaining to the trade, industry, commerce or taxation of the country, as he may find, by actual observation of the operation of the law, to be conducive to the public interest.

A report upon a general customs revenue law designed to supersede all other laws on that subject, and embracing all necessary provisions for regulating the foreign and coasting trades, the assessment and collection of duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported from foreign thereto. countries, and other subject-matter immediately pertaining

Special.

A report relative to the building for a custom-house, courtrooms, and post office at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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When expected to be made.

Commencement of the session.

REPORTS TO BE MADE TO CONGRESS.

Senate Journal.

199

During the session.

1856, May

16

A report relative to experiments on the coinage of the United
States, according to the suggestions of Dr. James T. Bar-
clay, together with the results thereof.

1858, Feb. 1 A report of the annual expense of erecting light-houses and
supporting the light-house system since the creation of the
Light-house Board, and also the expense for the same
number of years preceding the establishment of the said
board.

A report of specific estimates for "retrenchment and reform"
in the expenditures for the several branches of the public
service, "to remedy the evils of the excess of expenditures
over the means of the government,' as mentioned in the
report of May 19, 1858; and what efforts have been made,
and by whom, since the 4th of March, 1857, to restrain
the government to an economical expenditure of the pub-
lic money, and what have been the results of those efforts.

A report of all the collection districts for the collection of
duties on imports, showing, in each district, the amount of
revenue annually collected; the name of every person
employed, directly or indirectly, connected with the collec-
tion of the revenue, either as officer or agent, and the
amount of compensation paid to each, and the law under
which each officer or agent was appointed; the amount
expended for salaries of officers and employés annually;
the amount expended for custom-houses or rents of offices
and warehouses; also what custom-houses or ports of
entry or delivery can be dispensed with with a proper
regard to economy and the security of the collection of
the revenue, and consistently with commercial interests,
or what modifications of the laws are necessary for the

Date of the law or
resolution.

1860, Feb.

public interests in relation to the collection of customs,
and what number of officers can be dispensed with in each
of the collection districts.

16 Report of the action, if any, taken under the 3d and 4th sec-
tions of the act of March 3, 1859, entitled "An act making
appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government
for the year ending the 30th of June, 1860," relating to
the construction of public buildings in the city of Phila-
delphia, and what additional legislation, if any, is necessary
to carry out the purposes of said sections.

A report of such facts concerning the revenue marine of the
United States as will enable them to take such action as
may be expedient concerning the remodelling of the same.
A report of the amount of money paid to France for the
purchase of Louisiana; the amount paid to Spain for the
purchase of Florida; the amount, so far as it can be readily
ascertained, expended in the late war with Mexico; the
amount expended in the wars with the Indians in Florida;
the amount expended in removing the Indians from their
homes in the several States in which there is now rebel-
lion against the government to a territory west of the
Mississippi; the amount expended in surveying the public
lands situated in the same States, in deepening harbors, in

1861, July

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1861, July

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removing obstructions in rivers and other water-courses, in building fortifications, light-houses, buoys, beacons, dockyards, court-houses, custom-houses, and post offices, in the same States; the amount expended therein for the estab lishment of mints, navy yards, arsenals, and armories; the number of acres of land still held by the United States within the boundaries of the same States, and the number of acres of land heretofore granted by the United States to any one of those States, or to any corporation therein, for education, public improvements, or for other purposes; and the amount of money expended by the United States in extinguishing Indian titles to lands situated in said States; and the number of acres of such lands to which the State of Georgia became entitled under the contract between that State and the United States.

A report of the amounts of the subscriptions to the national loan authorized by the act of July 17, 1861, the amounts collected on such subscriptions, and the purposes to which the amounts so collected have been appropriated.

A report relative to the expediency or necessity for the establishment of a branch of the mint of the United States in the Territory of Nevada, and whether or not such measure would advance the public interests and public conveni

ence.

A report of the amount of money paid into the treasury of the United States as the proceeds of the sales of vessels and cargoes which have been captured by the navy of the United States on the high seas since the commencement of the present war; from whence and when received, with the particulars thereof, and whether any part of

House Journal.

808

No time specified.

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such moneys has been paid to the officers and seamen of
the vessels by which the captures were made; and if
not, that he state the purposes of his department with
reference to making such payments to such officers and
seamen under any claim based upon the laws of the United
States in reference to captures on the high seas.

A report of the further legislation necessary to enable the
executive department to take charge of the cotton and
other lands in South Carolina and elsewhere on our
southern coast, now in possession of the troops of the
United States, and to place the same under cultivation ;
and also whether any further legislation is necessary to
provide suitably for the blacks in those localities now
under the protection of our government, and to furnish
them with proper employment.

Senate Journal.

147

No time specified.

A report made by Edward L. Pierce, agent to Port Royal, Senate Journal. and such other information as may be in the possession of the Treasury Department relating to the condition and wants of the people of color in the district of South Carolina held by the military forces of the United States, and also what measures have been taken for the occupation of the lands which have come into the possession of the military forces in that State.

252

No time specified.

1862, Feb.

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