Also, a bill (H. R. 1346) for the relief of William C. Edmonston; to the Committee of Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1347) to appropriate money for the improvement of the harbor at Mobile, Alabama;

to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Herbert: A bill (H. R. 1348) to restore the name of Jesse Stallings, of Butler County, Alabama, to the pension-list;

to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. Hooker: A bill (H. R. 1349) for the removal of the bar at the mouth of Pearl River where the same debouches into the Mississippi Sound;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1350) for removal of the bar at the mouth of Pascagoula River and for improvement of navigation of the same;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1351) to stop the Bonnet Carré Crevasse, in the Mississippi River, above the city of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana;

to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Manning: A bill (H. R. 1352) to endow Reneau Female University, in the State of Mississippi;

to the Committee on Education and Labor.

By Mr. Chalmers: A bill (H. R. 1353) to amend section 4472 of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same relates to the transportation of cotton on steamers carrying passengers;

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1354) for the relief of John D. Leflore and James C. Harris, executors of the last will and testament of Greenwood Leflore, deceased, of the State of Mississippi;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Ellis: A bill (H. R. 1355) making an appropriation for the improvement of the mouth of Red River, in Louisiana

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1356) for the relief of B. K. and B. C. Peterson, contractors for carrying United States mails;

to the Committee of Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1357) in relation to the proceeds of captured and abandoned property remaining in the Treasury of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Gibson: A bill (H. R. 1358) to repeal the twenty-second section of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes," and to declare the rights and privileges and lands granted in said twenty-second section to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company forfeited, and that the said twenty-second section be re-enacted in favor of the New Orleans Pacific Railway Company;

to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad.

By Mr. Elam: A bill (H. R. 1359) for the relief of E. C. Davidson, of Louisiana;

to the Committee of Elections.

By Mr. Leonard: A bill (H. R. 1360) fixing the salaries of the judges of the district courts of the United States;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Americus V. Rice: A bill (H. R. 1361) granting a pension to Julia A. Roberts;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1362) granting an increase of pension to William D. Cobaugh;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1363) for the relief of Mrs. Maria B. Craig; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Banning: A bill (H. R. 1364) for the relief of Captain John A. Lynch ;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1365) granting a pension to Lydia A. Morris, widow of the late John K. Morris, Company A, Fifth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; Also, a bill (H. R. 1366) granting a pension to William Buckley, private Company C, Fiftieth Ohio Volunteers;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1367) for the relief of James A. Thomas;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Van Vorhes: A bill (H. R. 1368) to incorporate the Rand Gas-Light Company of the District of Columbia;

to the Committee for the District of Columbia.

By Mr. Neal: A bill (H. R. 1369) for the payment of $800 to Milton Kennedy for night services of the steamboat Piketon;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1370) to change the date of the muster-in roll of Hilborn C. Miller, second lieutenant Company G, First Ohio Heavy Artillery;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Keifer: A bill (H. R. 1371) for the relief of John W. Skiles; to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Gardner: A bill (H. R. 1372) to prescribe the form of oath of office and to repeal sections 1756, 1757, and 1758 of the Revised Statutes; By Mr. Knott: A bill (H. R. 1373) for reviving and continuing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and for the distribution of the unappropriated moneys of the Geneva award;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Blackburn: A bill (H. R. 1374) for the relief of Mrs. Sally B. McCampbell, of Jessamine County, Kentucky;

to the Committee on Appropriations.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1375) for the relief of Oliver H. Perry, administrator of Mary Scott, of Jessamine County, Kentucky;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1376) for the relief of George D. Blakey, late collector of internal revenue for the second district of Kentucky;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Durham: A bill (H. R. 1377) repealing section 363 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and the substitution of another section in lieu thereof;

to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1378) to amend section 4278 and other sections of the Revised Statutes, in regard to the transportation of nitro-glycerine and other explosive materials;

to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Clarke: A bill (H. R. 1379) to extend the time in which payment may be made of the final fee in cases of patents passed and allowed; to the Committee on Patents.

By Mr. McKenzie: A bill (H. R. 1380) to repeal parts of sections 563 and 629 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and to regulate the original jurisdiction of the circuit courts in certain cases;

By Mr. Turner: A bill (H. R. 1381) to repeal section 3693 Revised Statutes of the United States; Title, "The public debt;"

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1382) for the relief of Lewis C. Dils, late private Company B, Thirty-ninth Kentucky Volunteers;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1383) to amend the third subdivision of section 4693 Revised Statutes of the United States; Title, "Pensions;"

By Mr. Carlisle: A bill (H. R. 1384) granting a pension to Anna Wehe, of Newport, Kentucky;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Atkins: A bill (H. R. 1385) for the relief of the minor heirs of John H. Evans, deceased;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Young: A bill (H. R. 1386) to provide for refunding internalrevenue tax illegally collected;

to the Committee of Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1387) for the relief of Peter Targarana;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1388) for the relief of Reuben S. Jones, of Memphis, Tennessee;

By Mr. Riddle: A bill (H. R. 1389) for the relief of Salmon B. Calley; to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Fuller: A bill (H. R. 1390) to forfeit certain public lands granted to aid in the construction of railroads and telegraph-lines; to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1391) to equalize the bounties of soldiers who served in the late war for the Union;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Calkins: A bill (H. R. 1392) appropriating fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars to aid in the construction of the harbor at Michigan City, Indiana, and other purposes;

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1393) for the relief of Alexander B. Evans, late a private in Company C, One hundred and fourteenth Ohio Infantry; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Also, a joint resolution (H. Res. 45) respecting an index to the Congressional Record;

to the Committee on Printing.

By Mr. Hunter: A bill (H. R. 1394) to pension all soldiers of the Mexican war who are sixty years of age and upward, and to pension all under that age as fast as they arrive at the age of sixty years;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1395) for the relief of John G. Campbell, of Clin. ton, Indiana;

to the Committee of Claims.

Also, a joint resolution (H. Res. 46) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the payment of claims growing out of the late rebellion;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Carlisle: A bill (H. R. 1396) granting a pension to Elizabeth R. Hull;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Morrison: A bill (H. R. 1397) to simplify the appraisement of goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States and subject to ad valorem duties;

to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By Mr. Brentano: A bill (H. R. 1398) to establish a uniform rule and to provide for uniform certificates of naturalization;

By Mr. Tipton: A bill (H. R. 1399) to amend the first section of the

act entitled "An act to determine the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States and to regulate the removal of causes from State courts, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1875;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1400) to define the liens of judgments in the courts of the United States;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Knapp: A bill (H. R. 1401) for the relief of William Kilgour and others, devisees of James E. Kilgour, executor and devisee of William Kilgour;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Joseph G. Cannon: A bill (H. R. 1402) for the relief of Peter W. Taylor, late lieutenant-colonel Fortieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1403) granting a pension to Hamilton Rabb, latechaplain of the Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Harrison: A bill (H. R. 1401) for the relief of J. D. Graham; to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1405) to remit taxes on insolvent savings-banks; to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By Mr. Springer: A bill (H. R. 1406) for the relief of Gibbes & Company, of Charleston, South Carolina;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1407) granting an honorable discharge to Milo M. Adams, of Company D, One hundred and eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Pollard: A bill (H. R. 1408) granting pensions to the widows and children of Mexican soldiers who were drawing pensions at the date of their deaths;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Buckner: A bill (H. R. 1409) to authorize the Third Auditor of the Treasury to examine the evidence of payments made by the State of Missouri to State troops serving in the Union Army; and also the evidence as to supplies furnished the troops, and which are yet unpaid; to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1410) for the improvement of the Missouri River from the city of Saint Charles to the mouth of said river, and to prevent the erosion of its banks in Point Prairie, in Saint Charles County, Missouri;

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1411) to prevent the sale of policy or lottery tickets in the District of Columbia;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1412) to prevent depredations upon property in the District of Columbia;

to the Committee for the District of Columbia.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1413) granting a pension to Solomon T. Kauble, private in the Fifth Cavalry, Nintieth Regiment Indiana Volunteers; By Mr. Hatcher: A bill (H. R. 1414) granting a pension to Blasius Reidinger, of Madison County, Missouri;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1415) for the relief of Robert L. Lindsay, late captain of the Fiftieth Regiment Missouri Volunteers;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1416) for the relief of Lindsay Murdoch, late collector of the second district of the State of Missouri;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1417) for the relief of M. M. Lynch, of Washington County, Missouri;

to the Committee of Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1418) for the relief of Armstrong O'Hara ;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1419) for the relief of Captain John Mix and Lieu. tenant Randolph Norwood, of the United States Army;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Rea: A bill (H. R. 1420) granting a pension to William Lett, late a private in Company C, First Regiment Tennessee Volunteers in the war of 1861;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1421) to authorize farmers and planters to sell leaftobacco of their own production to other persons than those who have paid a special tax, without paying a special tax therefor;

to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1422) granting a pension to James L. Hammeck, of Saint Joseph, Missouri;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1423) for the relief of Andrew M. Jorden, of Benton Township, Atchison County, Missouri;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Bland: A bill (H. R. 1424) for the relief of Andrew McColm, of Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri;

By Mr. Gunter: A bill (H. R. 1425) for the relief John Jackson, of Kansas City, Missouri;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1426) for the relief of the minors of John W. Jones;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1427) to confirm land-claim No. 45, New Mexico; to the Committee on Private Land-Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1428) for the relief James P. Owen;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Cravens: A bill (H. R. 1429) donating the military reservation of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to the city of Fort Smith for free schools; to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1430) for the relief of Powell E. Hogen;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Alpheus S. Williams: A bill (H. R. 1431) making appropriation for improving the navigation of Detroit River;

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1432) providing for the recording of deeds, mortgages, and other conveyances affecting real estate in the District of Columbia;

to the Committee for the District of Columbia.

By Mr. John W. Stone: A bill (H. R. 1433) granting a pension to Emily E. Wheelock, widow of Edward C. Wheelock, late musician in Third Regiment Michigan Infantry Volunteers;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1434) granting a pension to John Langland, late private Company B, First Michigan Sharp-shooters;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1435) granting a pension to Julia F. Hiscutt, guardian of the minor heirs of William S. Price, late corporal Company D, Twenty-first Regiment Michigan Volunteers;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Ellsworth: A joint resolution of the legislature of the State