Subject.

Volume. No. Part.

3 and 4

Army, report of the Chief of Engineers of the (being vol. 2,

parts 1 and 2)......................................
report of the Chief of Ordnance of the (being vol. 3)...
report of the Chief Signal Officer of the (being vol. 4)...
letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting esti-

mates of appropriations for certain deficiencies in ap-

propriations for the........
letter from the Secretary of War, showing the distribu-

tion of United States troops ........
Attorney-General, annual report of tbe.........

letter from the, in response to a resolution of

the House in reference to the appointment
of cadets to the Naval and Military Acad-

emies, by tbe President.........
letter from the, in response to a resolution

of the House in relation to suits against

the Kansas Pacific Railroad........
letter from the, in response to a resolution

of the House, transmitting a list of par-
dons by the President between March 4,

1877, and May 20, 1878.....
Award of the Fishery Commission, documents and proceed-
ings of the Halifax (3 vols.) .............

.........

B.
Barracks, letter from the Secretary of War, recommending ap.

propriations for new, at Fort Monroe, Va...................
Bath, Me., letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting re- !

port of engineer upon the improvement of the "gut" oppo.
site.....................................................
Blackwater River, in Virginia, letter from the Secretary of War, ,

transmitting report of engineer upon the improvement of...
Board of Health of District of Columbia, annual report of......
Board of Visitors of Military Academy, report of (vol. 1).......
Board of Visitors of the Government Hospital for the Insane,

report of (vol. 1) ..........................................
Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers' Home, report of (vol. 1)
Bonds, letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to

a resolution of the House, in reference to the sale of United

States, for outstanding legal-tender notes ............
Bridge, letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report

of engineer upon bridging the Saginaw River at East Sagi-
naw, Mich ............................................
Bureau of Statistics, annual report of Chief of, on the com-
merce and navigation of the United States......

..............

Cadets, letter from the Attorney-General, in response to a reso-

lution of the House, in reference to the appointment of, to

the Naval and Military Academies, by the President.......
Canal, Dismal Swamp, letter from the Secretary of the Treas- :

ury in reference to the interest of the government in..
ship, Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan, letter from the

Secretary of War, transmitting the report of engineer

on the improvements of .......
Certificate of citizenship, to seamen during year ending Decem-

ber 31, 1877, letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting!
an abstract of returns made by collectors of customs of the

number of seamen who had received .......................
Chickahominy River, report of the engineer upon the improve-

ment of.......................................
Chief of Bureau of Statistics, annual report of, on the com-

merce and navigation of the United States................
Clief of Ordnance, annual report of the (vol. 3)........
Cincinnati, barbor of, report of the engineer concerning the
best method of protecting, from ice ......

.......................

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Subject.

Claims, letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting

list of, allowed under act of July 4, 1864............
letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting

an estimate of appropriations for payment of, origi-
nating prior to July 1, 1075, under section 3687 and i

3689 Revised Statutes........
Clerks in the War Department, letter from the Secretary of

War, transmitting a list of..........
Coast Survey, annual report of Superintendent.........
Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, annual

report of (vol. 1)..
Colombia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, annual report of

(vol. 1) .......
Colorado, letter from the Secretary of War, in response to a

resolution of the House concerning the protection of resi-
dents of, against the Indians..........
Colorado and New Mexico, letter from the Secretary of War,

transmitting report on lines of communication between.....
Commerce and navigation of Coited States, report of Chief of

Bureau of Statistics......
Commercial relations of the United States with foreign coun- ,

tries, report upon the, for the year 1877...
Commission, Hot Springs, report (vol. 1) ....................

letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting

correspondence, &c., in connection with the,
appointed by the President to visit Louisiana

in April, 1877.....
award of the Halifax Fishery (3 vols.). .........
Venezuelan mixed claim, message from the Presi.

dent, transmitting correspondence between Ven-

eznela and the United States in regard thereto..,
Commissioner of Education, annual report of the.......
Commissioner of Customs, report of.....
Commissioner of Pensions, report of (vol. 1) ..................
Commissioner of Agriculture, message of the President, trans- ,

mitting report on forestry by ...........
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, annual report of, with table

showing receipts from

each specific source, &c..
report of, with additional

statements and tables....
Commissioner of General Land Office, report of (vol. 1) .......
Commissioner of Patents, annual report of ....................
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, statements of disbursements

for the Indian Department

for 1877 .........
report of (vol. 1).......
papers accompanying the

above report (vol. 1)......
Commissioners to treat with Sitting Bull, report of (vol. 1)...
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, annual report of..
Commissary-General of Subsistence, report of........
Commutation allowed officers in certain cities, letter from the

Secretary of War, transmitting a list of officers who received

fuel, forage, and quarters in certain cities......
Computation of quarters, fuel, and forage, letter from the

Secretary of War, recommending an amendment of the state ,
utes in relation thereto ....
Connecticut River, report of survey of, transmitted by Secre-

tary of War....
Comparative exbibit of duties upon foreign imports, &c., let-

ter from the Secretary of the 'Treasury, in answer to a reso.
lution of the House, relative to duties upon foreign imports,
&e, showing proposed rate of duty, present rates, and quan- ,
tity and value of imported commodities which entered into
consumption in the United States during the year ending
June 30, 1871 ......

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Subject.

Volume. No. Part.

14

12

Compensation of inspectors of customs, letter from the Secre-

tary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Commis-
sioner of Customs proposing an alteration of certain sections

of the Revised Statutes fixing the.........................
Comptroller of the Currency, annual report of ......
Comptroller of the Treasury, report of aggregate resources and

liabilities of national banks from October, 1863, to October,

1877 ......................................................
Contingent expenses, letter from the Secretary of State, trans-

mitting estimate of expenditure of con-

tingent fund for the department ......
letter from the Secretary of the Interior

concerning deficiency in the, of the

General Land Office.........
Contingent fund of the Interior Department, letter froin the

Secretary, transmitting detailed acconnt of the expenditure

of the contingent fund of Interior Department.........
Currency, annual report of Comptroller of...................
Customs, report of Commissioner of..........................
Customs officers, letter from the Secretary of the Treasury,

transmitting a statement of emoluments
and fees of..............................
letter from the Secretary of the Treasury,

transmitting a copy of letter from the Com-
missioner of Customs proposing an altera-
tion in the Revised Statutes fixing the

compensation of inspectors of customs.....
Customs revenue, letter from the Secretary of the Treasury,

transmitting draught of a bill to prevent frauds in ..........
Customs service, letter from the Secretary of the Treasury,

transmitting papers relative to the investigation of the.....

Deaf and Dumb, annual report of the officers of the Columbia

Institution for the (vol. 1) .......................
Decrease of receipts, from internal revenue, letter from the

Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication
from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, showing a de-

crease in the receipts of....................................
Deficiencies in certain appropriations for the Army..........
Deticiencies in appropriations for 1878 and prior years, letter

from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates
of .......................................................
Deficiency for the contingent expenses of the General Land-

Office, letter from the Secretary of the Interior concerning..
Director of the Mint, report of...............................
Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, report of (vol. 1).....
Disbursing clerk, letter from the Secretary of the Interior, rec-

ommending that the disbursing clerk of the department be
relieved from responsibility of the payment of certain forged

vouchers.......
Disbursements made from appropriations for the Indian De-

partment ................................................
Dismal Swamp Canal, letter from the Secretary of the Treas.

ury in reference to the interest of the government in........
Distribution of United States troops, letter from the Secretary

of War, showing the ......
District of Columbia, annual report of Commissioners of......

annual report of the Board of Health ...
Dredge-boat McAllister, letter from the Secretary of War in

relation to the disappearance of.......
Duties upon foreign imports, comparative exhibit of, letter

froin the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to a resolu-
tion of the House relative to.....

Education, annual report of the Commissioner of ........
El Paso troubles in Texas, letter from the Secretary of War

in response to a resolution of the House, transmitting re-

ports of the commission appointed to investigate tbe........
El Paso troubles, letter from the Secretary of War, trausmit.

ting report from Colonel Hatch on .......
Emanuel, Victor I, King of Italy, letter from the Secretary of

State, transmitting a letter from the Italian minister, rela-
tive to the respect shown the memory of..........
Employés of the War Department, letter from the Secretary of
War, in response to a resolation of the House, transmitting
a list of, who have rendered service in the Army and Navy

of the United States .........
Employés of the Nary Department, letter from the Secretary

of the Navy, transmitting a list of civil employés for the
year 101.....

. ....... . :
Employés in the Interior Department, letter from the Secre-

tary, transmitting a list of all employés who were honorably
discharged from the military or naval service for disability

arising from sickness or wounds incurred in the line of duty..
Engineers, report of the Chief of (vol. 2, parts 1 and 2)........
Estimates of appropriations. (See Appropriations.)
Expenditures and receipts of the United States, an account of,

for the year ending June 30, 1873. ........
Expenditures and receipts of the United States, an account of,

for the year ening June 30, 1874....
Espenditures in the State Department, letter from the Secre-

tary of State, transmitting statement of contingent fund for

tbe department ....................
Explosions, steam-boiler, message from the President, trans-
mitting the report of the commission appointed under act of
March 3, 1873, relative to the causes of....

*.

....

Fees of customs officers, letter from Secretary of Treasury,

transmitting a statement of ..............
Fire, security of public bnildings against, message froin the
President. transmitting report of the commission appointed

to examine into the security of, in the city of Washington..
Fishery Commission, award of the Halifax, of 1877, with docu- '
ments and proceedings (3 volumes) ........

........... 18.

18, 19, 20 89
Flashing Bay, New York, letter from the Secretary of War,
transmitting report relative to improvement of........

17 74
Forage, letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an

amendment of the statutes in relation to commutation of... 10 17 i
Foreigu relations, papers relating to ........

1 1
Appendix, containing correspondence rela-

tive to the improvement of commercial
intercourse between the United States
and foreign countries, preceded by a list
of papers and followed by an index of per-
sons and subjects ......

1 1
Foreign countries, report upon the commercial relations of the

L'nited States with, for the year 1877...
Fishery Commission, documents and proceedings of the Hali-
fax (3 vols.)......

............................... 18, 19, 20, 89
Forestry, message from the President of the United States,

transmitting a special report upon the subject of, by the

Commissioner of Agriculture .....
Fort Monroe, Va., letter from the Secretary of War, recom-

mending appropriations for six new buildings at ............
Frands in customs revenue, letter from the Secretary of the

Treasury, transmitting draught of a bill to prevent.........
Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, report upon the (vol. 1). ....' 8. 1

Subject.

Volume. No. Part.

Fuel, letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an

amendment of the statutes in relation to commutation of....

Geological and geographical surveys, a letter from the Secre-

tary of the Interior, transmitting a report of Professor Pow-

ell in regard to, in response to a resolution of the House....
General of the Army, report of the (vol. 1). .......
General Land Office, letter from the Secretary of the Interior

concerning deficiency for contingent expenses of the........

Halifax Commission, 1877, award of the Fishery Commission,

documents and proceedings of, under the treaty of Washing-

ington of May 8, 1871, in three volumes..................... 18, 19, 20 89
Harbor at Cincinnati, letter from the Secretary of War, trans

mitting a report of engineer concerning protection
of, from ice......................................

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Norfolk, Hampton River, Pagan Creek, and the

Chickahomipy and Blackwater Rivers in Virginia,
letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting re-

port of engineer on improvement of...............
Hampton River, letter of Secretary of War, transmitting re-
ports of engineer upon the improvement of.........

14 : 60
Hayden, Professor F. V., preliminary report of the field-work of

the United States geological and geographical survey of the
Territories by............................................

81 1
Hot Springs (Arkansas) Commission, report of the.......
Hurtt, Captain F. W., assistant quartermaster, testimony and

papers in case of, transmitted by Secretary of War.......... 17 85

Illinois, survey of lake-beds, letter from Secretary of Interior

in response to a resolution of the House in reference to the

survey of ............................
Indian Affairs, report of the Commissioner of (vol. 1).........

papers accompanying .......
report of tue Commissioner of, of disbursements

for the Indian Department for year ending

June 30, 1877 .....
Indiana, survey of lake-beds, letter from Secretary of Interior

in response to a resolution of the House, in reference to the
survey of ............ ....................................
Indiane, letter from the Secretary of War, in response to a reso-

lution of the House concerning the protection of the

residents of Colorado against the ..................
letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative to !

land-entries by, in Michigan, and certain frauds

practiced upon .....................
Ipformers, letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, trans-

mitting a detailed report of the sums allowed as compensa-

tion to officers of customs and ......
Insane, Government Hospital for, report of the operations of,

by the board of visitors (vol. 1).........
Inspectors of customs, letter from the Secretary of tbe Treas-

ury, transmitting letter from Commissioner of Customs pro-
posing an alteration of certain sections of the Revised Stat-

utes fixing the compensation of.........
Interest paid to national banks, letter from the Secretary of

the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the sums paid to..
Internal Revenue, Commissioner of, annual report of.........
Interior Department, accountability of disbursing.clerk of,

letter from the Secretary, recommend-
ing that he be relieved........