328

329

Number.

309

310

311

County, Ohio.

A bill for the relief of Andrew F. Higgins, of
Brown County, Ohio.

A bill authorizing the adjudication and payment
of certain claims upon the fund created by
section 15 of chapter 459 of the laws of the
Forty-third Congress.

A bill to amend sections 3513, 3520, and 3586 of
the Revised Statutes of the United States; to
repeal section 2 of joint resolution No. 17,
passed July 22, 1876; and to restore the legal-
tender qualities of the silver dollar.

A bill for the relief of F. W. Ruggles.....
A bill to provide for the better care and protec-
tion of quartermasters' supplies.

312

313

314 A bill to confirm the term, for the period of sev-
enteen years from the date of its original grant,

65

315

316

317

318

319

320

321

322

323

324

of the patent of Thomas A. Weston.

A bill for the relief of John H. Jones and Thomas
D. Harris.

A bill to carry into effect the tenth article of the
treaty with the Pottawatomie Indians of Feb-
ruary 27, 1867.

A bill to make certain payments to the Potta-
watomie Indians.

A bill to repeal sections 4924, 4925, 4926, 4927,
and 4928 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States.

A bill for the relief of A.Gates Lee, of McCracken
County, Kentucky.

A bill for the relief of Leroy D. Sutton.

A bill for the relief of R. C. Smith, of McCracken
County, Kentucky.

A bill for the relief of the heirs of Aleck Vance,
deceased.

A bill granting a pension to Carlisle Bridges, of
McCracken County, Kentucky.

A bill to permit the growers of tobacco to sell
one thousand dollars' worth of their own
growth without a license so to do.

65

1

342 A bill for the relief of John Witherspoon and
James Suffell, of Kentucky.

343

344

345

346

A bill for the relief of Bidow & Wilson, of Dan-
ville, Kentucky.

A bill to repeal the bankrupt-law.

A bill to give the State of Kentucky concurrent
jurisdiction with the United States courts on
the government grounds near Harrodsburg,
Kentucky.

A bill to permit the growers of tobacco to sell to
consumers $500 worth of their own growth
without a license so to do.

347 A bill granting pensions to certain soldiers and
sailors of the Mexican, Florida, and the Black
Hawk wars, and certain widows of deceased
soldiers and sailors of the same.

66

67

33 3 8

67

67

6 6 6 6 666 66

351

352

67

353

354

A bill to regulate commerce among the States.
A bill for the relief of Brannin, Summers & Co.,
of Louisville, Kentucky.

67

67

67

67

355 A bill to modify the tax upon tobacco..

356 A bill directing method of annual estimates of
expenditures to be submitted from Navy De-
partment.

357

A bill to amend the third section of the act of
Congress approved March 12, 1863, entitled
"An act to provide for the collection of aban
doned property and for the prevention of
frauds in insurrectionary districts within the
United States."

10

67

68

68

374 A bill for the relief of Asa Faulkner and others,
of Tennessee.
375

A bill to pension the surviving officers and en-
listed men of the Black Hawk, Seminole,
Florida, and Mexican wars, and their widows.
376 A bill for the payment of the officers and sol-
diers of the Mexican war of the three months'
extra pay provided for by the act of July 19,
1848.

377 A bill for the payment of duties on imports in
legal-tender notes or coin at the option of the
importer.

378

A bill to repeal section 3412 of the Revised
Statutes, which imposes a tax of 10 per cent.
upon the circulation of State banks and State
banking associations.

68

68

68

in

Committee of
Proceedings

the Whole and
in the House.

Passed H. R.

Passed Senate.

418

70

419

420

421

422

423

A bill for the relief of B. F. Martin, of Tennessee
A bill for the relief of Smith J. Walling, of
Tennessee.

A bill to refund to Asa Faulkner, of Tennessee,
the proceeds of cotton seized by the United
States Army.

A bill to pay Alexander Kelly, of Marion County,
Tennessee, for services on a military commis-
sion.

A bill for the relief of James W. Eastwood's es
tate, of Warren County, Tennessee.

A bill for the relief of William Bullard, of De
Kalb County, Tennessee, late private Com-
pany F, Fourth Regiment Mounted Infantry
Volunteers.

A bill to incorporate the Barataria Ship Canal
Company.

424

70

425 A bill for the relief of Edward T. Freeman, of
Memphis, Tennessee.

70

426

A bill for the relief of Jessie J. Busby, of Mem-
phis, Tennessee.

70

427

A bill for the relief of Mrs. Julia Elliott, widow
and administratrix of Newell D. Elliott, de-
ceased, late of the city of Memphis, in the
State of Tennessee.

71

428

A bill to provide for refunding internal-revenue
tax illegally collected.

429

A bill for the relief of Mrs. Mary P. Bradford,
of Shelby County, Tennessee.

430

A bill for the relief of John Clinton, postmaster
at Brownsville, Tennessee.

431

A bill to provide for the holding of terms of the
district and circuit courts of the United States
at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

71

432

433

434

A bill to reimburse the States for expenses in-
curred in the late rebellion.

A bill for the relief of Arthur W. Gray, a sur
geon in the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Indiana
Volunteer Infantry i the late rebellion.
435 A bill providing for the withdrawal of the na-
tional-bank currency and the issuing of five
hundred millions of non-interest-bearing Treas-
ury notes to supply the place of said national-
bank currency, and making said Treasury
notes a legal tender for all sums, public and pri
vate, except when by the terms of the contract
it is expressly provided otherwise, and repeal.
ing the third section of the act of Congress en-
titled "An act to provide for the resumption
of specie payments," approved January 14,
1875; and providing for coinage of gold and
silver bullion, and fixing the standard thereof,
and making all silver coin of the same standard
a legal tender.

436

A bill granting a pension to Adam Stinson.
A bill to repeal section 3229 of the Revised Stat-
utes of the United States.

71

71

71

437

A bill to repeal the act for the resumption of spe-
cie payments.

71

71

71

441

71

442

443

444

445

446

A bill to establish the southern district of In-
diana, and to provide for the holding of circuit
and district courts therein.

A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury
to purchase silver bullion, and cause the same
to be coined, as well as the silver bullion of
citizens of the United States, into silver dol.
lars; and making said silver dollars when
coined a full legal tender for all debts, public
and private, within the United States, includ
ing duties on imports and interest on the pub-
lic debt, excepting obligations heretofore en-
tered into and made payable in gold, such obli-
gations last named to be paid in gold; and
repealing all acts and parts of acts inconsistent
herewith.

A bill to provide the mode for the election of
certain officers of the United States, and to
prevent frauds in such elections.

A bill to fix the legal rate of interest on national
money throughout the United States at not
exceeding six per cent. per annum, and affix-
ing penalties for its violation.

A bill to equalize the bounties of soldiers who
served in the late war for the Union.

A bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to reissue all United States notes commonly
called greenbacks which have been redeemed
under the act known as the resumption act,
and pay them out on the public debt.

A bill to authorize and equip an expedition to
the Arctic Seas.

A bill for the relief of William J. Alexander, of
Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana