TABLE OF REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

PRINTED

BY ORDER OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

SECOND SESSION-THIRTIETH CONGRESS, 1848'-49.

CONTAINED IN ONE VOLUME.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.

Vol.

No. Page.

On the petitions for the return of duties paid upon imported goods
which were afterwards destroyed by fire....

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE.

On the bill (H. R. 170) making appropriations for the preservation
and repairs of the public works upon certain harbors and
rivers, &c......

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REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON MITITARY AFFAIRS.

On the expediency of amending the "Act to raise, for a limited
time, an additional military force, and for other purposes,"
approved February 11, 1847, so as to extend the provisions
of the 9th section thereof to the devisees of deceased
soldiers.....

On the memorial of Adjutant General Jones .....

On the joint resolution explanatory of the act of June 2, 1848,
giving it such construction as to embrace the transporta-
tion of, and the supplies furnished for the use of, volunteers
called out by the order of General E. P. Gaines.......

On the petition of Nathan Weston, jr., late paymaster U. S. army.
On the memorial of Marvin W. Fisher....

On the petition of Lieutenant Colonel Hugh W. Dobbin.......
On the bill for the relief of Cincinnatus Trousdale and John G.
Connelly, of Arkansas

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On the petition of Military Storekeeper John A. Webber.......
On the construction of a national road from Fort Smith, Arkansas,
through the valley of the Canadian river, to Santa Fé, and

thence to California.....

On the memorial of the heirs of Trueman Cross, deceased........
On the bill (H. R. 197) for the relief of the widow of Antonio Pa-
checo.......

On the petition of James Foy and others, engaged in the service
of the quartermaster's department during the war with
Mexico......

On the memorial of the General Assembly of Arkansas, asking the
passage of a law to place the volunteers in all the wars in
which the United States have been engaged on the same
footing, as to the bounty land, as those recently engaged
in the war with Mexico...

On the petition of Alexander Montgomery, captain and assistant
quartermaster in the army......

On the resolution (S. 48) giving extra pay to officers and soldiers in
the late war with Mexico.....

REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS.

On the resolution (H. R. 20) for the relief of Samuel T. Anderson.
On the bill (H. R. 507) for the relief of William Tee, of Ports-
mouth, Va.......

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On the memorial of the heirs of William Flanigan and William

On the bill (H. R. 650) for the relief of William Kingsbury .....
On the resolution of the Legislature of Arkansas in relation to Salt
Springs, in that State.......

On the bill granting to the State of Illinois the right of way and a
donation of public lands, for making a railroad connecting
the upper and lower Mississippi with the chain of northern
lakes, at Chicago........

REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS.

On the petition of Joshua Holden.

Should be 296.

On the petition of G. W. Jones, for himself and the other heirs of

John Rice Jones, deceased......

On the petition of Mrs. Maria Taylor

REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.

On the memorial of the Governor, members of the Legislature, offi.
cers and citizens of the State of Florida, praying that To-
ney Proctor, a free colored man, may be compensated for
his services as Seminole interpreter....

On the documents and papers relating to the claim of Margueritta
Reneau.....

On the bill (S. 395) to authorize the payment to the State of Geor
gia of certain sums of money therein specified....

REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON PENSIONS.

On the petition of James Wormley

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On the expediency of reporting a bill providing for the confirmation
of the claim of Benjamin F. Bosworth for bounty lands..
On the petition of John B. Barton and other surviving children of
the late General William Barton....

On the petition of the heirs, &c. of Joseph Spencer, deceased.....

On the petition of Sarah Crandall, widow of James Coon......

On the memorial of E. P. Calkins & Co., of Galveston, Texas...

On the petition of N. P. Hill, administrator of Gilbert Stalker....

On the memorial of, and bill for the relief of, Asa Andrews, of Ips-
wich, Massachusetts.....

On the petition of John S. Devlin, administrator of Elijah J. Weed,
quartermaster of marines..

On the petition of Guion and McLaughlin...

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On the petition of Alexander Y. P. Garnett, passed assistant sur-
geon of the navy....

On the memorial of Nathaniel Lewis.

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On the memorial of Alexander R. McKee, for himself and Johnson
Price.......

On the petition of Peter W. Morgan, administrator of John Arnold,
deceased, and of George C. Bishop......

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REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

On the petition of the heir of David Grier, a lieutenant colonel in
the army of the revolution

On the memorial of the representatives of Benjamin Harrison, a
captain in the revolutionary army. .............

On the bill for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Jones, de-
ceased......

On the bill (H. R. 216) for the relief of the legal representatives
of Colonel Francis Vigo....

REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.

On the bill for the admission of California into the Union as a State
On the bill (S. 350) to admit California into the Union as a State,

REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE POST OFFICE AND POST

ROADS.

On the memorial of William A. Bradley and his associates, propo-
sing to contract for carrying the mail between St. Louis,
Mo., and San Francisco, on the Pacific ocean...

On the contract with Edward Mills, for the transportation of the
mail between the United States and Bremen...

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY.

On certain documents relative to the purchase of a work, published
by Robert Mayo, exhibiting a history of the operations of
the United States Treasury Department....

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES.

On the petition of John P. Duval, of Florida......

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES.

On the subject of the 7th census, or enumeration of the people of the

United States ...

On the memorial of Professor Page...