1407

197

1405

1408

1409

1410

A bill granting an honorable discharge to Milo
M. Adams, of Company D, One hundred and
eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry.

A bill granting pensions to the widows and chil
dren of Mexican soldiers who were drawing
pensions at the date of their deaths.

A bill to authorize the Third Auditor of the
Treasury to examine the evidence of pay.
ments made by the State of Missouri to State
troops serving in the Union Army, and also
the evidence as to supplies furnished to troops,
and which are yet unpaid.

A bill 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.

A bill to prevent the sale of policy or lottery
tickets in the District of Columbia.

197

197

197

1411

197

Passed H. R.

1418
1419

198

198

1420

1421

A bill for the relief of Armstrong O'Hara.
A bill for the relief of Captain John Mix and
Lieutenant Randolph Norwood, of the United
States Army.

A bill granting a pension to William Lett, late a
private in Company C, First Regiment Ten-
nessee Volunteers, in the war of 1861.

A bill to authorize farmers and planters to sell
leaf-tobacco of their own production to other
persons than those who have paid a special
tax, without paying a special tax therefor.
A bill granting a pension to James L. Hammack,
of Saint Joseph, Missouri.

198

198

1422

198

1423

1424

A bill for the relief of Andrew M. Jorden, of
Benton Township, Atchison County, Missouri.
A bill for the relief of Andrew Wolcolm, of
Rolla. Phelps County, Missouri.

198

198

1425

A bill for the relief of John Jackson, of Kansas
City, Missouri.

198

1426

A bill for the relief of the minors of John W.
Jones.

198

Bills of the House of Representatives-Continued.

Number.

Title.

1478

1480

A bill to extend, facilitate, and cheapen land and
water transportation of freights and passen-
gers, and to promote industry and labor with-
out further appropriation of public property
or increase of public debt.

1479 A bill for the relief of A. D. Cook & Co.; remis-
sion of a forfeiture and payment of a claim.
A bill to prevent the sale of real estate in the
District of Columbia by virtue of any power!
in a mortgage or deed of trust, and to author-
ize a foreclosure and sale by decree of court.
A bill to provide for ascertaining and settling
private land-claims in certain States and Ter-
ritories.

1481

204

205

205

205

205

205

1484

2051

1485

A bill for the relief of W. H. Slack, of Mc-
Cracken County, Kentucky.

205

1486

1487

A bill for the relief of Mrs. Maggie A. Elliott,
of Sumner County, Tennessee.
A bill making appropriations for the payment of
claims reported to Congress under section 2 of
the act approved June 16, 1874, by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury.

205

211

1488

211

A bill granting a pension to Victorine Mott,
widow of Peter Mott, late private of Company
I, Fifteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In
fantry.

1489

A bill to authorize the Commissioner of Patents
to hear and determine the application of Fred-
eric Cook.

211

A bill amendatory of section 3009, chapter 8, of
the Revised Statutes of the United States,
and providing for the payment of duties upon
imports in gold, silver, and United States
legal-tender notes.

A bill to provide for an examination and survey
of the Arkansas River from Fort Smith up to
the mouth of the Little Arkansas River.

1500 A bill authorizing and directing the Secretary of
the Interior to place the name of Zephaniah
Crubaugh, late a private of Company D, One
hundred and fourth Ohio Volunteers, on the
pension-roll.

216

216

Number.

Bills of the House of Representatives-Continued.

Title.

Reported.

1501

1502
1503

1504
1505
1506

1507

1508
1509

1510
1511

1512

1513
1514

A bill for the relief of William Longnecker..
A bill for the relief of Ella P. Murphy

A bill for the relief of Thomas Kearney, collect-
or of customs for the district of Corpus Christi.
A bill to equalize promotion among officers in
the line of the Army.

A bill for the relief of Mrs. Harriet R. Alsbury..
A bill to provide for cheap transportation of
freight between tide-water on or near the At-
lantic Ocean and the Ohio and Mississippi Val-
leys.

A bill for the relief of Daniel Lester..
A bill for the relief of James B. Russell..
A bill authorizing the Secretary of War to pur.
chase the site of, and attach to the Vicksburg
National Cemetery, the Grant-Pemberton Mon-
ument, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
A bill for the relief of John Q. Larman, Joseph
L. Harley, and Thomas P. Sparks.
A bill to provide for cheap transportation of
freight between tide-water on or near the At-
lantic Ocean and the Ohio and Mississippi
Valleys, by constructing a railway from a point
at or near the city of New York to the city of
Council Bluffs, in the State of Iowa, and
branch roads to connect therewith.

A bill appropriating $250,000 for the improve.
ment of the Wabash River.

A bill for the relief of Catharine Harris.

A bill appropriating $150,000 for the improve-
ment of White River.

1515 A bill to extend the time in certain cases for

making proof of residence upon and cultiva-
tion of lands in the State of Alabama entered
under the homestead law, and for other pur-
poses.

216

216

216

216

216

216

216

216

217

217

217

217

217

217

221

A bill to remove the political disabilities of
George P. Turner, of Courtland, Alabama,
A bill to provide for deficiencies in the appro-
priations for the service of the government
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, and
for prior years, and for other purposes.
A bill for the financial relief of the country and
to facilitate the return to specie payments
without injuriously affecting the commercial
business and industries of the people.
A bill for the relief of the heirs of Jacob Cramer,
lieutenant of the Pennsylvania Continental
Line in the Revolutionary War.
A bill to provide for the settlement and payment
of arrearages due to certain persons for serv-
ices actually done for the United States in
the Southern States prior to the late civil war.
A bill to put into market certain timbered lands
of the United States, and for other purposes.
A bill to provide for deficiencies in the appropri-
ations for the service of the government for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, and for
prior years, and for other purposes.
A bill providing for a general law authorizing
any person or persons to establish gas-works
in the District of Columbia under restrictions.
A bill for the relief of Robert Coles

229

229

229

231

236 244-245, 257.

258

293 296

243