A bill for the relief of E. F. Wenckebach
A bill regulating street-paving and repairs in
Washington and Georgetown, District of
Columbia.
A bill to establish a court for the trial of con-
tested elections in the offices of President
and Vice-President of the United States.
A bill donating condemned ordnance to Post
No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic, New
Bedford, Massachusetts.
A bill to confirm the term, for the period of
seeenteen years from the date of its original
grant, of the patent of Thomas A. Weston,
No. 67470, granted August 6, 1867, and re-
issued No. 4971, July 9, 1872.
A bill amending the act entitled "An act au-
thorizing the appointment of receivers of
national banks, and for other purposes."
A bill to encourage and promote telegraphic
communication between America and Eu-
A bill for the relief of the sureties on the
official bond of Robert H. Lane, late col-
lector of internal revenue, second district
of Texas.
A bill to amend chapter VI, Title XIII, of the
Revised Statutes of the United States, and
to provide for the appointment of associate
justices of the second judicial circuit.
A bill in relation to clerks, deputy clerks, and
assistant clerks of the United States courts.
A bill to provide for the publication, distribu-
tion, and sale of public documents.
A bill for the relief of Henry G. Healy, late
lieutenant-colonel of the Sixty-fifth Regi.
ment of New York Volunteers.
A bill amendatory of the act entitled "An act
fixing the amount of United States notes,
providing for a redistribution of national-
bank currency, and for other purposes,"
approved June 20, 1874.
4497 A bill to abolish all import-duty on the salts
of quinine.
A bill for the relief of E. H. Lively, postmas-
ter at Williamsburgh, Virginia.
A bill to authorize and provide for the pay.
ment of all debts contracted by the Govern-
ment in certain States therein named since
the close of the war.
A bill making an appropriation to continue 275
the work on the ship-channel in Galveston
Bay, Texas.
A bill for the appointment of a professor of
law at the United States Military Academy.
A bill to reform the civil service of the United
States.
A bill granting a pension to Charles Hewitt..
A bill to provide for and regulate the manner
of redeeming lands sold for non-payment of
direct taxes.
Bills of the House of Representatives-Continued.
A bill for the relief of Thomas H. Bradley....
A bill to repeal an act entitled "An act to
authorize the Commissioner of Indian Af-
fairs to receive lands in payment of judg
ments to Eastern Band of Cherokee In-
dians."
A bill making an appropriation for closing
the bayous opposite the raft in Red River
and Mack's Bayou.
A bill to incorporate the Capitol Mutual Gas-
light Company of the city of Washington.
A bill to correct the revision of the statutes
of the United States.
A bill making an appropriation for continu
ing the improvement of the Chattahoochee
River in the State of Georgia.
A bill to incorporate the Palais Royal Hotel
Company of the District of Columbia.
A bill granting a pension to Jane D. Cotton.
A bill granting a pension to Benjamin F.
Runyon.
A bill to refer the claim of the "Western
Cherokees," or "Old Settlers," against the
Government of the United States to a board
of commissioners for adjustment and final
A bill to grant a pension to Mrs. Sarah J.
Chipman.
A bill to re-imburse Adolph Nimitz, trustee
for Meta Nimitz, his wife, for losses sus-
tained at Beaufort, South Carolina, Novem-
ber 8, 1861.
A bill for the relief of officers of the United
States Army who suffered loss by fire at Mad-
ison Barracks, New York, November 6, 1876.
A bill granting a pension to Charlotte T.
Clark, widow of Bela T. Clark, late captain
of Company D of the Forty-second Regi-
ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
A bill granting a pension to Melchi Grove,
first lieutenant Company E of the Eighty-
sixth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer In-
fantry.
A bill for the relief of James Whitehead
A bill for the relief of Marcellus A. Williams,
of Florida.
A bill amendatory of and supplementary to the
act entitled "An act to incorporate the Texas
Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the
construction of its road, and for other pur
poses," approved March 3, 1871; and the act
supplementary thereto, approved May 2,
1872; and the act entitled "An act granting
lands to aid in the construction of a railroad
and telegraph-line from the States of Mis.
souri and Arkansas to the Pacific Ocean,"
approved July 27, 1866.
A bill to provide for fixing the rates and
charges for freight and passengers passing
over the bridge constructed across the Mis
souri River at Omaha, Nebraska, on the line
of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Bills of the House of Representatives-Continued.
A bill for the relief of Mary A. Secor as exec-
utrix of Zeno Secor.
A bill for the relief of the estate of S. H. Hill,
of Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.
A bill for the relief of Warren Mitchell.
A bill to transfer to the Secretary of the
Treasury all stocks and evidences of indebt-
edness due and held in trust by the Secre-
tary of the Interior on account of the Creek
orphans' fund.
A bill granting a pension to Samuel B. Rob-
ertson, late second lieutenant Company B,
Seventieth Indiana Volunteers.
A bill granting a pension to Thomas Dill, late 302
private Company B, One hundred and twen-
ty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteers.
A bill to amend section 33 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States.
A bill to provide for the payment of James
B. Eads for the construction of jetties and
other auxiliary works to make a wide and
deep channel between the South Pass of the
Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico,
under contract with the United States.
A bill making an appropriation for the im
provement of the harbor at Brunswick,
Georgia.
A bill for the relief of the legal representa-
tives of French Graham.
A bill to afford relief to William Harbor, a
resident of the parish of Point Coupee, in
the State of Louisiana, for damages sus
tained by him during the rebellion, all in
October, A. D. 1863.
A bill to amend section 1105 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, and to repeal
an act of August 15, 1876.
A bill to fix the times for regular meetings of 320
Congress.
A bill granting a pension to Martha A. Jones,
of Wayne County, Indiana.
A bill granting a pension to Benjamin F.
Rogers, late a private in Company F, Nine-
teenth Regiment of Illinois Infantry Vol-
A bill to authorize the Postmaster-General to
pay rent, as it may fall due under lease by
the Government, of certain premises for
post-offices now held and occupied by post-
masters of the third class.
A bill for the improvement of the Saint Fran-
cis River in the State of Missouri.
A bill to declare forfeited to the United States
certain lands granted to the State of Michi-
gan for railroad purposes, and to provide for
their sale to actual settlers.
A bill chartering a double-track freight-rail-
way company from tide-water on the At-
lantic to the Missouri River, and to limit
the rates of freight thereon.
A bill to remove the political disabilities of 320
James Austin McCreight, of Alachua
County, Florida.
A bill to incorporate the National Metropoli-
tan Life-Insurance Company of the District
of Columbia.
A bill for the support of the government of
the District of Columbia for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1878, and for other purposes.
A bill for the relief of Isaac J. MacKinley,
late a third lieutenant in the United States
revenue-marine service.
459 507, 519, 522,
634, 638, 674
A bill making appropriations to supply defi-
ciencies in the appropriations for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1877, and for prior
years, and for other purposes.
A bill authorizing the sale of certain lands in
the Territory of Alaska, upon paying the
Government price therefor, and for other
purposes.
A bill to provide for appearance on behalf of
the United States in foreclosure suits.
A bill amendatory of an act entitled "An act
to provide for and regulate the counting of
the votes for President and Vice-President,
and the decision of questions arising thereon,
for the term commencing March 4, A.D.1877."
A bill for the relief of Eleanor N. T. Meeds.
widow of Benjamin N. Meeds, deceased, of
Washington, District of Columbia.
A bill for the relief of Robert L. McCon-
naughey.
A bill to repeal all taxes on banking capital
and deposits.
A bill granting a pension to Elizabeth E. Hol-
brook.
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A bill to remove the political disabilities of
James D. Johnston, of Savannah, Georgia.
A bill to appropriate the proceeds of the sales
of the public lands in the several States and
Territories afflicted with grasshoppers or
their eggs, to be used in the payment of
bounties or otherwise, for the destruction
of such grasshoppers or their eggs.
A bill to provide for ascertaining and settling
private land-claims in certain States and
Territories.
A bill for the erection of a Daball trumpet-
signal on Whale's Back Island, in the har
bor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A bill to provide for changing and fixing the
boundaries of certain property ceded to the
Government of the United States by the
city of Memphis, Tennessee.
A bill providing for the incorporation of the
Barataria Ship-Canal Company.
A bill to extend the jurisdiction of the dis-
trict and circuit courts of the United States
for the punishment of crimes over Indian
reservations within the limits of any State
or organized Territory.
A bill for the relief of Edward T. Ryan....
A bill authorizing the legislative assembly of
the Territory of Dakota by general incor-
poration acts to permit persons to associate
themselves together as bodies corporate for
the transportation of freight and passengers
by land or water.
A bill for the relief of James A. Bates
A bill authorizing the Commissioner of Pat-
ents to extend the patent of Horace A.
Stone for improvements in the manufac-
ture of cheese.
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