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Resolutions of the House-Continued.

By Mr. E. B. Washburne, asking Secretary Treasury for information respecting the marine
hospital at Chicago, Illinois..

By Mr. Whittemore: asking Secretary Treasury respecting public buildings at Charleston,
South Carolina

By Mr. W. Williams: relative to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad depot...

By Mr. J. T. Wilson: Committee on Roads and Canals authorized to send for persons and
papers

relative to amending the postal laws.

By Mr. Jas. F. Wilson: relative to proceedings in bankruptcy..

By Mr. Windom: asking Secretary War as to the amount of money expended in suppress-
ing Indian hostilities

By Mr. Woodbridge: asking Secretary War for a copy of General B. S. Roberts's memorial
By Mr. Wr. Wood: asking the President for copies of instruction to American minister at
London

to investigate alleged corruption in the Alaska purchase.

inquiry of Secretary War respecting treatment of horses' feet by Alexander Dunbar
By Mr. Wooodward: complimentary to Speaker Colfax

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Joint resolution fixing the compensation of mem
bers of Congress.

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Joint resolution in relation to the pay and bounty
of soldiers enlisting for specified term of service,
and honorably discharged before the expiration
of their terms of service, their discharges stating
that they were discharged at the expiration of
their terms of service.

Joint resolution for the relief of Henry S. Gibbons,
late postmaster at Saint Johus, Michigan.
Joint resolution for the relief of George W. Lane,
superintendent of the branch mint at Denver,
Colorado, and assistant treasurer of the United
States.

Joint resolution to change the name of Four-and-a-
half street, in the City of Washington, to "Lin-
coln avenue."

Joint resolution for the relief of Edward E. Shead,
of Eastport, State of Maine.
Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to remit the duty on certain meridian
circles.

Joint resolution authorizing the appointment of
examiners to examine and report upon the expe-
diency of discontinuing the navy yard at Charles-
town, Massachusetts, and uniting the same with
the yard at Kittery, Maine.

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Joint resolution for the relief of Mrs. Ella E. Hobart.
Joint resolution to furnish certain ordnance for a
soldiers' monument at Pequannock, New Jersey.
Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
Joint resolution requesting the Prusident to recall
Reverdy Johnston, minister to England.
365 Joint resolution to repeal the tenure-of-office act....
366 Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.

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Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
Joint resolution requiring all applicants for pardons
or relief of certain disabilities to give ninety days'
notice previous to their application to Congress.
Joint resolution declaring it the duty of the United
States government to acknowledge the provisional
government of Crete as an independent political
State, and to treat with it as such.
Joint resolution for the sale of certain stocks held in
trust for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians.
Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the

Constitution of the United States.

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Joint resolution authorizing the sale of the Chatta-
nooga rolling-mill property, at Chattanooga, Ten-
nessee, to the Southwestern Iron Company.
Joint resolution donating condemned cannon for the
erection of a monument to Major General Kearney.
Joint resolution to pay W. S. Morse and Charles S.
Shambaugh for services rendered the Committee
on Military Affairs, House of Representatives.
Joint resolution instructing the Committee on Ap-
propriations to consider the expediency of making
an appropriation to carry into effect a provision
of an act relating to pensions.

Joint resolution designating officers authorized to
take evidence in cases of contested elections, and
for other purposes.

Joint resolution declaring that the principal of all
bonds of the United States shall be paid in coin.

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House joint resolutions-Continued.

Title.

Reported.

Proceedings in House
and in Committee of
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Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Treas- 166
ury to sell no more gold bonds at present.
Joint resolution for the relief of Thomas Worthing-
ton, of Ohio.

Joint resolution directing the United States Coast
Survey to co-operate in the geological surveys of
States.

Joint resolution to compel national banks to make
statements six times a year, at previous dates,
Joint resolution in relation to the lands of W. W.
Corcoran, in the District of Columbia, used by
the United States government during and since
the war of rebellion.

Joint resolution ceding the buildings at Fort Steil-
acoom to Washington Territory for an insane
asylum.

Joint resolution for a select committee of seven to
investigate the irregularities in the recent election
in the State of South Carolina, especially in the
third and fourth congressional districts of said
State.

Joint resolution directing the Postmaster General to
opeň negotiations with the several European goy-
ernments with whom we have postal treaties, for
a further reduction in the rates of international
postage.

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Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States in respect to the mode
of choosing electors of President and Vice-Presi-
dent and representatives in Congress.
Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Navy
to deliver the possession and title, without cost, to
the Greek government, through its accredited min-
ister to this government, of the two monitors, Mian-
tonomoh and Agamenticus, in the condition and
where they now lie in harbor, and to be without
further cost to the United States.
Joint resolution confirming the location and pur-
chase of certain lands in the State of Michigan.
431 Joint resolution concerning certain lands granted to
the State of Michigan to aid in the construction of
certain wagon roads.

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Joint resolution relating to the Territory belonging
to the Dominican republic.

Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to withhold the payment of certain money.
Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Treas
ury, in all cases where the United States has aided
in constructing railroads, to withhold bonds suffi-
cient to secure the completion of said road as a
first-class road, in accordance with the report of
special commissioner appointed for the purpose
of examining said road.

Joint resolution appropriating money to defray the
expenses of the Joint Select Committee on Re-
trenchment.

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Joint resolution in relation to reciprocity treaties
with foreign nations as against public policy at
this time.

Joint resolution to prevent the further sale of the
public lands of the United States, except as pro-
vided for in the pre-emption and homestead laws,
and the laws disposing of town sites and mineral
lands, and regulating future grants of land in aid
of railroads.
Joint resolution referring the claim of J. C. D. Black-
burn for supplies furnished Kiowa, Comanche, and
Apache Indians to the Second Comptroller of the
Treasury for adjustment and report.
Joint resolution to reimburse the government the
amount of pension improperly paid to Martha A.
Wallace.

451 Joint resolution in relation to the pay of the clerk of
the Committee on Invalid Pensions.
452 Joint resolution for the relief of Leonard Pierce,
junior, late United States consul at Matamoras,
Mexico.

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