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any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, whenever said Bell shall transfer and convey to the United States all his, said Bell's, right, interest, and title, in and to two certain patents, viz. one called a machine for elevating heavy cannon, the other called a traverse board for pointing cannon; together with all the right to the United States to use every improvement that has been made by said Bell on the said inventions since patenting the same: Provided, however, The said sum of twenty thousand dollars shall be in full for all claims against the United States for using said patents.

Approved, July 4, 1836.

[No. 76.]-AN ACT confirming claims to land in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That the decisions in favor of land claimants, made by the Recorder of land titles in the State of Missouri, and the two commissioners associated with him by virtue of an act entitled "An act for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri," approved July ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and an act supplemental thereto, approved March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, as entered in the transcript of decisions transmitted by the said recorder and commissioners to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and by him laid before Congress at the two last and present sessions, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, saving and reserving, however, to all adverse claimants, the right to assert the validity of their claims in a court or courts of justice: Prorided, That nothing in this act contained shall apply to, or be in confirmation of, the claim of Don Carlos D.Villemont, for a tract of land at Point Chicot: And provided, also, That nothing in this act contained shall apply to, or be in confirmation of, the following claims, to wit: Manuel Lisa, six thousand arpens; J. Coontz, and Hempstead, four hundred and fifty arpens; Matthew Saucier, one thousand two hundred arpens; Charles Tayon, one thousand six hundred arpens; sons of Joseph M. Pepen, five thousand six hundred arpens; Louis Lorimiere, thirty thousand arpens; Bartholomew Cousin, ten thousand arpens; Manuel Gonzales Moro, eight hundred arpens; Seneca Rollins, four hundred arpens; William Long, four hundred arpens; James Journey, four hundred arpens; Joachim Lisa, six thousand arpens; Francois Lacomb, four hundred arpens; Israel Dodge, seven thousand and fifty-six arpens; Andrew Chevallier, four hundred arpens; Joseph Silvain, two hundred and fifty arpens; John P. Cabanis, two thousand arpens; William Hartly, six hundred and fifty arpens; William Morrison, seven hundred and fifty arpens; Solomon Bellew, three hundred and fifty arpens; Paschal Detchmendez, seven thousand fifty-six arpens; Baptiste Aunuze, two hundred and forty arpens; Alexander Maurice, four hundred arpens; Jean Baptiste Valle, twenty thousand arpens; Israel Dodge, one thousand arpens; Walter Fenwick, ten thousand arpens; John T. Sunith, ten thousand arpens; and Mackey Wherry, sixteen hundred arpens.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if it shall be found that any tract or tracts confirmed as aforesaid, or any part thereof, had been previously located by any other person or persons under any law of the United States, or had been surveyed and sold by the United States, this act shall confer no title to such lands in opposition to the rights acquired by such location or purchase; but the individual or individuals whose claims are hereby confirmed shall be permitted to locate so much thereof as interferes with such location or purchase, on any unappropriated land of the United States within the State of Missouri or Territory of Arkansas, in whichever the original claim may be, that may be subject to entry at private sale: Provided, That such location shall conform to legal divisions and subdivisions, and shall not interfere with the rights of other persons.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the locations authorized by this act shall be entered with the register of the proper land office, who shall, on application for that purpose, make out for such claimant a certificate of location, which, with the certificate of confirmation, shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said Commissioner that such certificate shall have been fairly obtained, according to the true intent and meaning of this act and the laws of the United States, then, and in that case, patents shall be granted in like manner as is provided by law for the other lands of the United States. And for each certificate of location to be issued as aforesaid, the register shall be entitled to receive from the person applying there for the sum of one dollar.

Approved, July 4, 1836.

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[No. 77. AN ACT to repeal so much of the act of March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as respects the issuing of certificates on the importation of wines.

Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the act of Congress passed second March, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as requires that the surveyor or chief officers of inspection of any port where wines may be landed, shall give to the proprietor, importer, or consignee thereof, or his or her agent, a certificate, as mentioned in the fortieth and forty-first sections of said act, is hereby repealed.

Approved, July 4, 1836.

[No. 78.-AN ACT granting half pay to widows and orphans where their husbands or fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States in certain cases, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That when any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private of the militia, including rangers, sea fencibles, and volunteers, shall have died while in the service of the United States, since the twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, or who shall have died in consequence of a wound received whilst in the service, since the day aforesaid, and shall have left a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death or receiving such wound, for and during the term of five years; and in case of the death or marriage of such widow before the expiration of said five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the said decedent: Prorided, That the half pay aforesaid shall be half the monthly pay of the officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the infantry of the regular army, and no more: Provided, also, That no greater sum shall be allowed to the widow, or the child or children of any officer than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any officer, noncommissioned officer, musician, soldier, Indian spy, mariner or marine, whose service during the revolutionary war was such as is specified in the act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," have died since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and before the date of said act, the amount of pension which would have accrued from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to the time of his death, and become payable to him by virtue of that act, if he had survived the passage thereof, shall be paid to his widow; and if he left no widow, to his children, in the manner prescribed in the act hereby amended.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person who served in the war of the Revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," have died leaving a widow whose marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of his service, such widow shall be entitled to receive, during the time she may remain unmarried, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband, by virtue of the act aforesaid, if living at the time it was passed.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any money or half pay granted by this act, shall be utterly void and of no effect; each person acting for and in behalf of any one, entitled to money under this act, shall take and subscribe an oath, to be administered by the proper accounting officer, and retained by him and put on file, before a warrant shall be delivered to him, that he has no interest in said money by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shall adopt such forms of evidence, in applications under this act, as the President of the United States shall prescribe. Approved, July 4, 1836.

[No. 79.] AN ACT making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors therein mentioned, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

Be it enacted, 4-c. That for the security of the navigation and commerce of the United States, the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, directed to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed at the disposition of the President, for the following objects, viz.

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For erecting a breakwater on Stanford Ledge, in Portland harbor, according to the plan reported by John Anderson, of the Engineer Corps, in the year eighteen hundred and thirtytwo, ten thousand dollars.

For the survey of a ledge near Owl's-head harbor, to determine the expediency of erecting thereon a breakwater to improve said harbor, four hundred dollars.

For the examination and survey of the passage into Cobscook bay, in the State of Maine, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of removing two ledges, whereby the navigation of said bay is materially obstructed, three hundred dollars.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

For the deepening of the channel of the Cocheco branch of the Piscataqua river, leading into Dover harbor, five thousand dollars.

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.

For the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Bass river, ten thousand dollars and forty-one cents.

For removing the wreck in the harbor of New Bedford, ten thousand dollars.

For the construction of a breakwater at Sandy bay, agreeably to the report of a survey made by direction of the Department of War, transmitted to Congress by the President, April twentythird, eighteen hundred and thirty, ten thousand dollars.

For preserving the point of land leading to the fort and lighthouse at the Gurnet, in Duxbury, by hurdles or double ranges of piles, five thousand dollars.

For the preservation of Rainsford island, in the harbor of Boston, fifteen thousand dollars.

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.

For a break water at Church's Cove harbor, in the town of Little Compton, ten thousand dollars, agreeably to a survey made by Lieut. Colonel Anderson, of the United States Topographical Engineers, in eighteen hundred and twenty-seven. STATE OF CONNECTICUT.

For improving the harbor of Saybrook, by removing the bar at the mouth of Connecticut river, twenty thousand dollars. For the improvement of the harbor of Westport, agreeably to the report of John Anderson, of the Engineer Corps, three thousand dollars.

For a sea-wall to preserve Fairweather island, near Black Rock harbor, ten thousand dollars.

For securing the public works at the harbor of Southport, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For securing the beach at Cedar point, in Connecticut, one thousand dollars.

For deepening the channel of the river Thames, leading into Norwich harbor, ten thousand dollars.

STATE OF VERMONT.

For building a breakwater or pier at the harbor of Burlington, ten thousand dollars.

For deepening the channel to eight feet, between the islands of North and South Hero, near Saint Alban's, in Lake Champlain, in Vermont, fifteen thousand dollars.

STATE OF NEW YORK.

For the improvement of the harbor of Portland, on Lake Erie, ten thousand dollars.

For improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Salmon river, on Lake Ontario, according to the several plans of said harbor, submitted through the Department of War, five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Oak Orchard creek, on Lake Ontario, according to the plan thereof, made by Joseph G. Swift, civil engineer, five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Black river, in the county of Jefferson, five thousand dollars.

For building a breakwater or pier at the harbor of Plattsburg, ten thousand dollars.

For improving the harbor at the mouth of Cattaraugus creek, on Lake Erie, fifteen thousand dollars.

For improving the entrance of Whitehall harbor, on Lake Champlain, eight thousand dollars.

For building an ice-breaker on Staten island, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

For improving the harbor at New Brunswick, by removing the obstructions in the Raritan river, according to a plan reported to the War Department by Hartman Bache, seven thousand dollars.

For the protection and improvement of Little Egg Harbor, according to the plan reported to the War Department, five thousand dollars.

For a survey of Crow Shoal, in Delaware bay, to ascertain the expediency of constructing a breakwater or artificial harbor, one thousand dollars.

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

For repairs at the harbor of Chester, three thousand dollars. For removing the bar in the river Delaware, in the neighborhood of Fort Mifflin, with the view of improving the harbor of Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars.

STATE OF DELAWARE.

For improving the harbor of Wilmington, by removing the bar at the mouth of Christiana river, according to the plan recommended by Hartman Bache, of the Engineer Corps, fifteen thousand dollars.

STATE OF MARYLAND.

For deepening the harbor of Baltimore, twenty thousand dol lars.

For a survey of the head waters of Chesapeake bay, pursuant to a resolution of the Legislature of Maryland, five hundred dollars.

STATE OF VIRGINIA.

For a survey of James river, with the view of improving the harbor of Richmond, five hundred dollars.

For improving the navigation of the natural channels at the northern and southern entrances of the Dismal Swamp canal, fifteen thousand dollars.

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

For removing a sand shoal in Pamlico river, five thousand dollars, by means of the dredging machine now in operation at Ocracock inlet.

For removing the oyster shoal in New river, in Onslow county, by means of the dredging machine now in operation in the collection district of Wilmington, five thousand dollars. To improve the harbor of Beaufort, five thousand dollars. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

For a survey of the bar and harbor at Georgetown, one thousand dollars.

STATE OF GEORGIA.

For the removal of the Brunswick bar, with a view of improving the harbor of Brunswick, ten thousand dollars.

STATE OF OHIO.

For constructing two piers and improving the navigation at the mouth of Vermilion river, ten thousand dollars, according to the plan reported to the War Department.

STATE OF INDIANA.

For the construction of a harbor at Michigan city, according to the plan reported to the War Department, twenty thousand dollars.

STATE OF LOUISIANA.

For increasing the depth of water in the mouth of the Missis sippi river, by closing some of the passages leading out of it, or by cutting a ship channel, or by any other means which shall be deemed expedient by the Secretary of War, with the approbation of the President of the United States, seventy-five thou sand dollars; the said sum to be expended in whole or in part, as may be thought proper by the War Department, after the necessary survey shall have been made.

STATE OF MISSOURI.

For a pier to give direction to the current of the Mississippi river near the city of St. Louis, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the survey of Saint Francis, Black, and White rivers, in Arkansas and Missouri, to determine upon the expediency of removing the natural rafts thereon, one thousand dollars.

TERRITORY OF FLORIDA.

For removing a mud shoal, called the Bulk Head, in the channel from East Pass to Appalachicola, ten thousand dollars.

TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN. For the construction of a pier or breakwater at the mouth of the river Saint Joseph, twenty thousand dollars.

TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN.

For the survey of the mouth of the Milwaukee river, on Lake Michigan, to determine the practicability of making a harbor by deepening the channel, four thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the reports upon all the aforesaid surveys shall contain a statement of all such facts within the knowledge of the engineers respectively making the surveys as are or may be in any way materially connected with the proposed improvements, and also with estimates, in detail, of the sums of money necessary for such improvements respectively.

Approved, July 4, 1836.

INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE SENATE.

Abolition of slavery; (see Slavery.)
Adjournment, resolution for fixing the day of, taken up,
962; adopted, 981.

day of adjournment fixed for the 4th of July, 1780.
Alabama; a bill for the better organization of the dis-
trict court of that State, 13.

pre-emption rights; a report on the memorial of the
Legislature of that State, 721.

and Mississippi five per cent. fund; a bill to carry
into effect the compacts of, 1458; passed.
resolution authorizing the President to cause
rations to be issued to supply sufferers from
Indian hostilities, 1537; laid on the table, 1593.
Alexandria; memorial on the financial condition of that
town, 46.

Appropriation bill for the civil and diplomatic expenses
of the Government for the year 1836; read
twice, and referred, 1249; taken up, 1399;
passed.
Appropriations for the navy for 1836, 1278; taken up,
1296; passed.

Appropriations for the army for 1836, 1413; read three
times, and passed.

Indian department, 1458; passed, 1739.

to carry into effect certain Indian treaties, 1928;
passed.

Arkansas, a message from the President, with the pro-
ceedings of a convention in that Territory, to
form a constitution, 782.

a bill to provide for the admission of Arkansas
into the Union, 934; passed, 1056.

do. in addition to the above act, 1577; passed.
Army of the United States, resolutions respecting, 386.
do. for the religious instruction of, 391.

bill to increase the military peace establishment,
1657; rejected, 1757; passed, 1854.
Armories, arsenals, &c.; a bill to establish them, 1882;
passed.

Bayard, the Hon. Richard, from Delaware, took his seat
in the place of Mr. Naudain, resigned, 1848.
Bennett, Caleb P., the memorial of citizens of Delaware,
praying for his pension to be continued to his
widow, 1642.
Bond and Douglass, Colonels, a bill for the relief of the
legal representatives of their widows, 1230;
passed, 1254.
Bourtoulin Count a resolution authorizing the purchase
of his library; rejected, 1694.

Brahan, John; report of the Secretary of the Treasury,

in answer to a resolution on the subject of mo-
ney paid by the legal representatives of the
late General Brahan, to the United States dis-
trict attorney, 1898.

Bullion for the mint; a bill to supply the mint with bul-
lion, 1090.

Carey & Lea's History of Congress; a joint resolution
proposing a subscription for it, 614; referred.
Catlett, Charles J., a bill for his relief; passed, 1872.
Chaplain, Rev. Mr. Higbee elected, 42.
Choctaw lands; a resolution proposing to suspend the
sales of these lands, 1412.

reservations; (see Pre-emption claims.)

treaty; a bill for adjustingc ertain claims under
the 14th article of the treaty of Dancing Rab-
bit creek, 1936; laid on the table.

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Colonization Society; a petition from citizens of Ken-
tucky, recommending the society to the favor-
able notice of Congress, 1901.
Columbia, District of, a bill for the relief of the several
cities, 466, 964; taken up, 1449; passed, 1453.
Documentary History of; a resolution authorizing
the Secretary of the Senate to collect and pub-
lish such a work, 498; referred.

resolution to authorize the commissioner to rent
out the public grounds, &c., 1154.
Committees, standing; the Senate proceeded to their
election by ballot, 11.

Congress; a resolution proposing that the Judiciary Com-
mittee inquire into the expediency of fixing, by
law, the commencement and close of every ses-
sion of Congress, 42; agreed to, 45.

a bill to appoint a day for the annual meeting of
Congress, 1649; passed.

above bill returned, vetoed by the President, as
conflicting with the constitution, 1757.

the subject taken up, 1859, 1878; bill rejected.
a bill to fix a day for the annual meeting of Con-
gress, 1880; indefinitely postponed, 1908.
Constitution; a resolution to amend it, so as to provide
for a distribution of the surplus revenue, 52.
Constitutional currency; a bill to re-establish the curren-
cy of the constitution, 1745.

Cumberland road; a report from the Secretary of War,
on the construction of the road in Indiana and
Illinois, 34.

a bill to continue the road as proposed, 390; ta-
ken up, 615; passed, 811.

a bill making an appropriation for do., 4633.
Custom-house officers, a report from the Treasury De-
partment concerning, 34.

Dade, Major, petition in favor of, referred, 613.
Dauphin, Pennsylvania, memorial; (see Free negroes.)
Defence of the frontiers; a bill reported to accept the
services of volunteers, 1385.
Delaware breakwater; a bill making additional appropri
ations for it, 1928; passed.
Deposite banks; a motion to print extra copies of the Sec-
retary of the Treasury's statement of their af-
fairs, 839; agreed to, 847.
District banks; a joint resolution in relation to them, 63.
a bill to extend the charters of, 1577; passed,
1720.

Duties on imports; a bill to repeal the duty on certain ar-
ticles, 704.

wines; a bill to suspend so much of the discrimi-
nating act as relates to the Portuguese islands,
&c., 1123.

imports; a bill to amend the several acts imposing
duties on imports, 1287.

Electioneering agents; a resolution calling on the Secre-
tary of War for information as to the office
held by B. F. Curry, in the Cherokee nation,
178.

Executive patronage; (see Officers.)
Expunging resolution; notice given that it would shortly
be called up, 722; taken up, 877; again, 1593;
laid on the table, 1598.

Florida post roads; a joint resolution authorizing the es-
tablishment of certain post roads, 613.
railroad; a bill to authorize it to run through the
public lands, 664; passed.

Florida war, a bill making further appropriations for, Lands; to appropriate, for a limited time, the proceeds of

1299; passed.

banks; a resolution instructing the Judiciary Com-
mittee to inquire into the character and condi-
tion of the banking institutions, 1447.

a bill prohibiting the incorporating of banks in
Florida, without the sanction of Congress, &c.
also, resolution on the subject; both passed, 1863.
Foreign relations; a letter of Mr. Clay, chairman of the
committee on this subject, to the Secretary of
State, with his reply, laid on the table, and or-
dered to be printed, 464.

Foreign paupers; a resolution in relation to foreign pau-
pers, 1378.

Fortification on Lake Champlain; a resolution proposing
the survey of a site for the work, 614.
Fortification bill taken up, 592, 1428; passed, 1592.

from the House, reported with amendments, 1877;
passed.

France and the United States; (see United States.)
Free negroes; a memorial from Dauphin county, Penn-
sylvania, praying for an appropriation to re-
move such to Africa, 442.
French affairs; sundry resolutions proposed and adop'ed,
calling on the President for information in rela-
tion to them, 366.
French and Neapolitan indemnities; a bill to anticipate
their payment, 1881; negatived, 1882.
Frigate Philadelphia, a bill to reward the recaptors of,
1647; passed.

Globe newspaper, Mr. Webster's complaints against,
1693.

Grant, Joseph; a bill to extend his patent right for ma-
king hat bodies, 1864; passed, 1910.

Haight, Stephen, re-elected assistant doorkeeper, 8.
Hale, Captain Nathan; a memorial from the citizens of
New Haven, praying that a monument may be
erected to his memory, 323.

Harbor bill, for the improvement of certain harbors, &c.,
1383; taken up, 1930; passed, 1935.
Hemp, a resolution proposing a duty on all imported,

1397.

Hill, Hon. Isaac, the resignation of his seat, 1616.
Hospitals on the Ohio river; a memorial of the General
Assembly of Indiana on this subject, 56.
Hull, Commodore Isaac; a bill for his relief, 58.
Incendiary publications; a proposition for referring the

subject to a select committee, 26; agreed to, 33.
report of the committee, accompanied by a bill to
prevent the circulation of such publications,
383; bill taken up, 1093.

a bill prohibiting postmasters from transmitting
incendiary publications, 1374; taken up, 1675;
rejected, 1737.

Indian claims, speculations in; a memorial from Missis
sippi, 100.

hostilities; a bill for suppressing them, 103; passed,

291.

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Land

land sales, 48; motion to take it up, 810; con-
sideration resumed, 1172; ordered to be en-
grossed, 1313.

the committee on, moved to be discharged from
certain petitions for rights of pre-emption, &c.,

303.

two bills on the subject of pre-emption rights, 836.
a bill to reduce and graduate the price of public
lands, 1028.

resolution authorizing the payment of the ex-
penses incurred by the committee of last Con-
gress, in their investigation of certain frauds,
1199.

a bill to change the mode of conducting the sales
of the public lands, 1697; postponed indefinite-
ly, 1870.

Office; a bill to reorganize the General Land Office,
1676.

Lake Champlain; resolution directing the Secretary of
War to cause a survey to be made for a fortifi-
cation, 1199.

Library

of Count Bourtoulin; a resolution directing the
Library Committee to inquire into the expedi-
ency of purchasing it, 578; agreed to.
Lieber, Professor; his memorial in relation to his statisti-
cal work, 1198.

Light-houses; a bill making appropriations for them,

1930.

Louisville and Portland canal, a bill to authorize the
United States to purchase the private stock of,

1563.

Lowrie, Walter, Esq., re-elected Clerk of the Senate, 8.
McCartney, John; a bill for his relief, 934; passed.
Madison, James, his death announced, by a message
from the President, 1911; resolutions of respect
to his memory, 1914.

Mail

contracts; resolution instructing the Post Office
Committee to inquire into the expediency of
authorizing contracts to be made with railroad
companies, 847.

Maine boundary; resolutions of the Legislature of Massa-
chusetts, in relation thereto, 958.

Maine resolutions, on the subject of abolition, 1109.
Manning, the Hon. Richard J., his death announced,
1384.

Marine corps, a bill to regulate and increase the pay of
its officers, 1877.

Marshall, Humphrey; an unfavorable report of the Com-
mittee on Pensions was moved to be recon-
sidered, 1780; reconsidered, 1854; and the re-
port of the committee concurred in.
Massachusetts claims, a joint resolution respecting, 464.
Meade, Richard W., a bill for the settlement of the
claim of his executrix; passed, 1872.
Melville, David; a petition complaining of his removal
from office, 1177.

Metropolis Bank; a memorial for a recharter thereof,
58.

Mexico; a bill to carry into effect the treaty with that
Power, 1427; passed.

Michigan applies for admission as a State, in a message
from the President, 5.

credentials from its Senators presented, 6; ques-
tion considered, 8, 36; agreed to, 41.
memorial asking to be admitted into the Union
presented, 282; referred to the committee on
the Michigan matters, 290.

bill for the admission of Michigan into the Union,
1006; passed.

school lands; a bill supplementary to the bill to
establish the northern boundary of Ohio, and
for the admission of Michigan into the Union,
1737; passed.

Michigan Senators; resolution for paying them agreed
to, 1780.

a bill to provide for the execution of the laws of
the United States in Michigan, 1876; passed.
Military land warrants, a bill to extend the time for issu.
ing scrip for, 970.

Mint; (see Bullion.)

Missouri land claims, a reemorial respecting, 799.

a bill confirming the claims of, 964; passed.

a bill granting a certain quantity of land to, for
internal improvements, 1120; laid on the table,

1123.
Narragansett bay, resolutions of Legislature of Rhode
Island respecting, 1787.

resolution directing the Commissioners of the
Navy Board to report a plan for a navy estab-
lishment in do., 1793; agreed to.

National defence; resolutions offered by Mr. Benton,
392; agreed to, 577.

Naval service; a bill for the enlistment of boys, 1413;
passed.

Naval academy; a bill to establish one, 1453.
Navy; (see Appropriation.)

a bill for organizing the navy, 1855; laid on the
table, 1857; taken up, 1872; ordered to be en-
grossed, 1875.

Naudain, Hon. Arnold, from Delaware, resigns his seat,
1787.

New Hampshire resolutions in favor of the expunging
resolution, 1108.

New Orleans custom-house; presentments of its dilapida-
ted state, 534.

New York; a resolution instructing the Committee of Fi-
nance to inquire what measures should be
adopted by Congress in relation to the late fire
there, 13.

memorials on same subject, 46, 391.

a bill for the relief of the sufferers by the fire,
103; considered, 114; passed, 129; an amenda-
tory bill from the House of Representatives;
passed, 1092.

a bill to extend the relief of the act now in exist-
ence to the sufferers, 1875; passed.

Northeast boundary of the United States; a message
from the President on the subject, 1779; cor-
respondence on the subject ordered to be
printed, 1864.

Ohio; report from Secretary of War respecting the
boundary line of that State, 6.

a bill to define the northern boundary line of, 14;
report on do., 663.

a joint resolution respecting do., 35.
resolutions in favor of expunging the journal,

1021.
Officers, a bill to repeal the first and second sections of
the act limiting the terms of certain officers
therein named, 52; passed, 367.
Order, questions of, 74, 141, 209, 414, 494, 556, 835,
1525, 1782.

Page, Hon. John, from New Hampshire, took his scat,
in the place of Mr. Hill, resigned, 1759.
Paper currency; a resolution directing the Secretary of
the Treasury to inquire of the deposite banks
in relation to the circulation of small notes, 1857.
Patent laws; a resolution referring the subject of amend-
ing them, 42; agreed to.

Office; a bill to provide for the erection of a build-
ing for it, 1853; considered and passed, 1898.
Patriotic Bank, a memorial from, for a recharter, 34.
Paymasters; a bill to authorize the appointment of three
additional ones, 1463.

Pension bill, which grants half pay to the widows and
orphans of those who die in the service of the
United States, 1929.

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Post Office accounts; a communication from the Postmas.
ter General, 1048.

the bill changing the organization of the Post Of-
fice Department, 1769.

Post routes; a joint resolution for the establishment of
certain post routes in Missouri and Arkansas,
578.

Pre-emption claims, a bill to extend the time for receiv-
ing the proof of, 1696; laid on the table, 1698;
rejected, 1742.

President's annual message received, 4; (see Appendix.)
message in relation to French affairs, 163.

on the mediation of Great Britain in relation to
our difference with France, 390.

concerning sale of lands in the vicinity of Fort
Wayne, 471.

with the result of the mediation of Great Britain,
580.

respecting French spoliations, 662.

on discriminating duties with Portugal, 679,
in relation to Mexico, 1409.

informing Congress that France had paid the four
instalments, in fulfilment of the treaty, 1426.
with a communication from B. F. Curry, and the
response of Samuel Gwin, 1658.

returning the bill appointing a day for the annual
meeting of Congress, with constitutional objec-
tions, 1757.

enclosing a report from the Secretary of State, in

relation to Texas, 1871.

President pro tem., Mr. King, from Alabama, appointed,
1914; his address on the occasion.

Printing; a report of the committee on the contingent
fund, to whom had been referred a resolution
on the subject, 590.
Protection of the frontiers; (see Defence.)
Public deposites; a bill to regulate them, 52; taken up,
1383; modified, 1577; passed, 1845.

a supplementary bill, 1913; passed.
Railroad contracts; a report from the Post Office Com-
mittee, 1101; subject considered, 1199.
Revenue laws, a bill concerning cases of appeals arising
under, 46.

a resolution proposing a reduction of the revenue,

52.

a resolution directing the surplus revenue to be
set apart for the general defence of the coun-
try, 4625.

Rescinding resolution, offered in place of the expunging
resolution, 1427; taken up, 1884; negatived,

1897.

Ripley, General; a bill to audit and settle his accounts,
1676; referred to the Committee on Pensions.
Royall, Mrs. Ann; report of the Committee of Claims,
unfavorable to her petition, was laid on the
table, 1936.

School lands; a bill to authorize the relinquishment of
the 16th section of public lands, and to substi-
tute other lands, 389; passed.
Secretary of State's communication, enclosing a corre-
spondence on French affairs, 168.

Senators, a list of, 1.
Senate chamber; a report in relation to alterations in the
Senate chamber, 3.

Shackford, Jolin, re-elected Sergeant-at-arms, 8.
Sheppard, Moses, a bill for the relief of, 580; rejected.
Sick and disabled seamen; a motion was made to recon-

sider a bill in addition to an act for providing for
this description of persons, 1758; which was
agreed to, and the bill was amended and passed.
Slavery in the District of Columbia; petitions on the sub-
ject, 72; subject discussed, 185, 471, 636, 664,
1199.

Arkansas; petitions against admitting the State

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