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House, John F.-Continued.

Petitions presented by-

A. Woolf

Tobacco Board of Trade of Clarksville.

House of Representatives, relative to the ventilation of the hall of the.

relative to electrical annunciators for the hall of the.
"relative to a railing for the protection of the outer circle of seats in
the hall of the.

relative to the salary of the electrician of the...

Hubbell, Jay A., of Houghton, ninth district of Michigan :

Answered roll-call.

Sworn in...

Member of Committee on Commerce.

Expenditures in the Navy Department.
Bills of the House introduced by-

Resumption act, No. 651; vessels not propelled by steam or sails, 1757; keeper's dwelling
at Pere Marquette, 1758; Stannard's Rock light-house and fog-sigual, 1759; keeper's
dwelling at Pentwater, 1700; S. A. Abbott, 1761; R. Goodrich, 1762; L'Anse and Vieux
de Sert Indians, 1763; fog-signal at Mackinac, 1764; T. Pulling, 1765; Saint Mary River
and Canal, 1766; Manistee Harbor, 1767; Ludington Harbor, 1768; Pentwater Harbor,
1769; Charlevoix Harbor, 1770; Eagle Harbor, 1771; Ontonagon Harbor, 1772.

Petitions presented by-

For an appropriation for a harbor of refuge at Grand Marais
Humphrey, H. L., of Hudson, seventh district of Wisconsin:
Answered roll-call

Sworn in...

Member of Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds..

Bills of the House introduced by-

Saint Croix River, No. 1246; Mississippi River, 1247; J. D. Thomas, 1553.

Petitions presented by-

For cheap telegraphy.

Letter-carriers..

A. C. Carroll et al

Of the Union Bank of Louisiana.

W. H. Burns

Hungerford, John N., of Corning, twenty-ninth district of New York :

Answered roll call

Sworn in...

Member of Committee on Education and Labor.

Leave of absence granted.

Bills of the House introduced by—

H. Hadley, No. 96.

Petitions presented by-

Letter-carriers

For repeal of the resumption act

Hunter, Morton C., of Bloomington, eighth district of Indiana :

Answered roll-call

Sworn in...

Member of Committee on Commerce

Bills of the House introduced by—

Purchase and coinage of silver bullion, No. 442; election of United States officers, 443; rate
of interest on national money, 444; equalize bounties, 445; reissue greenbacks, 446;
arctic expedition, 447; W. J. Alexander, 448; D. F. Mullin, 449; J. F. Sutherlin, 450;
A. B. Casebeer, 451; Mexican war pensions, 1394; J. G. Campbell, 1395; amendment to
United States Constitution, H. Res. 46.

Hunton, Eppa, of Warrenton, eighth district of Virginia:

Answered roll-call

Sworn in...

Member of Committee for the District of Columbia

on the Revision of the Laws Regulating the Counting of the Elect-
oral Votes..
Resolutions of the House introduced by-
That the Special Committee on the Revision of the Laws Regulating the Counting of the
Electoral Votes for President and Vice-President be allowed and authorized to employ
a clerk and messenger

Bills of the House introduced by-

L. Summers, No. 194; recomputation of accounts with the States, 940; G. Grove, 941;
bridge across Potomac, 942; Episcopal Seminary, 943; A. Wall, 1094; merchant marine,
1318; Larman, Harley & Sparks, 1510; lands sold for direct taxes, 1518.

Huron, for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the United States steamer

II. R. 1746.

[INDIVIDUAL BILLS, PETITIONS, ETC.]

L'age

225

225

248

267

267

285

Idaho, Delegate from the Territory of, appears, viz: Stephen S. Fenn
for a military road in ....

to improve Clearwater River in..

H. R. 885.

H. R. 886.

to protect settlers upon public lands in

to improve the Mississippi River at Dickey Island in.........

to authorize the assignees of the State of, to enter certain public lands..

H. R. 539.

to change the name of the Miners' National Bank of Braidwood in...

making appropriations for the "Suy

granting certain swamp-lands to the

H. R. 542.

Carty Levee" in........
H. R. 872.
county of Randolph in
H. R. 1064.

to provide for the responsibility of the government for, while in its custody.

for the payment of duties on, in legal-tender notes or coin.

relative to duties on

H. R. 66.

H. R. 377, 457, 484, 526, 725, 1461.

H. R. 494, 1498.

Indiana, members from the State of, appear, viz: Benoni S. Fuller, Thomas R. Cobb, George A.
Bicknell, Leonidas Sexton, and Thomas M. Browne

for an additional land district in......

H. R. 1197.

H. R. 1198.

Illinois, members from the State of, appear, viz: William Aldrich, Carter H. Harrison, Lorenzo
Brentano, William Lathrop, Horatio C. Burchard, Thomas J. Henderson, Phillip C.
Hayes, Greenbury L. Fort, Thomas A. Boyd, B. F. Marsh, Robert M. Knapp, William
M. Springer, Thomas F. Tipton, Joseph G. Cannon, John R. Eden, William A.J. Sparks,
William R. Morrison, William Hartzell, and Richard W. Townshend
to confirm to Chicago, title to certain public grounds..

68, 73, 74, 76, 88, 200

74, 216

7

Milton S. Robinson, John Hanna, Morton C. Hunter, Michael D. White, William H.
Calkins, James L. Evans, Andrew H. Hamilton, and John H. Baker..
terms of the United States courts at Fort Wayne...

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Indiana, making appropriation for the harbor at Michigan City in.....

H. R. 1392.

Indians, to authorize the Eastern band of Cherokee, to sue Cherokee Nation...

H. R. 228.

to transfer conduct of Indian affairs from Interior to War Department...
H. R. 295, 655, 959.

to carry into effect treaty with Pottawatomie

H. R. 316.

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64, 94, 136

H. R. 1196.

to invest in bonds money appropriated to the L'Anse and Vieux de Sert bands of .

Indian Territory, to authorize the election of a Delegate to Congress from the

H. R. 1763.

H. R. 979.

Interest, to fix the rate of, on national money..

H. R. 444.

to enforce a uniform rate of..........

H. R. 229.

Interior Department, estimates for salaries and repairs in the
Interior, Secretary of the, letter from the, relative to setting aside from the Cheyenne annuities
$5,000 for the Germain children.

40

40

requested to furnish information as to the necessity of legislation to pro-
vide for the preservation of certain models..
transmits answer to the above..

119

202

requested to furnish the House information concerning the Osage Indian
commission.....

157

transmits answer to the above

218

letter from the, relative to the exhaustion of the authorized edition of
the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office for October 9, 1877
to authorize the, to invest in bonds the money appropriated for the l'Anse
and Vieux de Sert bands of Indians

Iowa, members from the State of, appear, viz: Joseph C. Stone, Hiram Price, Theodore W. Bur
dick, Nathaniel C. Deering, Rush Clark, Ezekiel S. Sampson, Henry J. B. Cummings,
William F. Sapp, and Addison Oliver.

to restore certain lands in, to settlement under the homestead law.

71, 196
71

53,220

9

86

131

178

Answered roll-call

Sworn in....

Member of Committee on Manufactures..

Bills of the House introduced by-

Organization of Army, 601; certain private land claims, 1481; L. Moss, 1549; J. Kiernan,
1550.

[INDIVIDUAL BILLS, PETITIONS, ETC.]

Idaho, Territory of, citizens of, for the annexation of certain counties of, to the Territory of

Washington

citizens of, for post-routes