Bills of the House of Representatives-Continued.

Number.

Title.

4610

4611

4612

4613

4614
4615

4616

4617

4618

4619

4620
4621
4622

4623

4624

4625

393

A bill for the relief of Mohammed Kahn, oth-
erwise John Ammahoe, late private Com-
pany E, Forty-third New York Volunteers.
A bill making appropriations for the naval
service for the year ending June 30, 1878,
and for other purposes.
A bill making appropriations for the con-
struction, repair, preservation, and com-
pletion of certain public works on rivers
and harbors, and for other purposes.
A bill explanatory of an act directing the
Second Auditor to settle the pay and bounty
account of John Ammabaie or Ammahe,
passed June 30, 1876.

A bill to abolish the board of commissioners
of "the metropolitan police district of the
District of Columbia," and for other pur-
poses.

A bill granting a pension to Frances A. Moses
A bill granting a pension to John H. Reilly...
A bill to repeal the statute forbidding ap
pointments and promotions in the staff of
the Army.

A bill for the relief of the estate of U. S. Boon,
late of Hinds County, Mississippi, deceased.
A bill to revive and amend an act entitled
"An act for the final adjustment of private
land claims in the States of Florida, Loui-
siana, and Missouri, and for other purposes.
A bill to authorize members of the Stock-
bridge and Munsee tribe of Indians to sue
in the courts of the United States.
A bill to amend section 3737 of the Revised
Statutes.

396 446, 447.

396 620

397

398

400

400

400

403

403

405

405

409

400

A bill to provide for the settlement of certain
claims against the District of Columbia,
and for other purposes.

405

4628

4629

4630

4631

4632

4633

4634

A bill for the relief of John M. Ward, late
postmaster at West Point, Georgia.
A bill to provide for the distribution of the
awards made under the convention between
the United States of America and the re-
public of Mexico, concluded on the 4th day
July, 1868.

A bill to amend the laws relating to internal

414

414

414

414

415

4635

A bill to confirm certain Rio Hondo claims to
Pedro and Vital Flores.

415

4636

A bill granting a pension to William Majors,
a soldier in the war of 1812.

415

Number.

Bills of the House of Representatives-Continued.

Title.

Reported.

4639
4640

A bill granting a pension to Daniel Middongh
A bill for the relief of Timothy Baker, of Saint
John's, Michigan.

4641

A bill for the relief of Henry L. James, of
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts.

4642

A bill for the relief of E. B. Head, postmaster
at Harrodsburgh, Kentucky.

4643

4644

4645

4646
4647

4648

4649

A bill permitting the executor of Charles M.
Briggs to sue in the courts of the United
States.

A bill to reduce the duty on licorice paste and
licorice in rolls in the use of the manufacture
of tobacco.
A bill authorizing and requiring the Secre
tary of the Interior to restore the name of
Nathan Johnson, a private of Captain S. L
Williams's Kentucky militia, to the roll of
pensioners for the war of 1812.

A bill granting a pension to Mary Welsh.
A bill making an appropropriation to aid in
the completion of the Sturgeon Bay and
Lake Michigan Ship-Canal and Harbor in
the State of Wisconsin, and to extend the
time for the completion thereof.
A bill authorizing the Treasury Department
to settle certain accounts.

A bill granting a pension to Humphrey Cal-
laban, late a private soldier in the service
of the United States.

4652
4653

A bill granting a pension to John L. Taylor...
A bill to authorize the assignees of the States
of Illinois and Iowa to select and enter
public lands to which said States are en-
titled under and by the provisions of the
several acts of Congress, namely, the act of
September 23, 1850, known as the swamp-
land act; the act of March 2, 1855, known
as the indemnity act; and the act extend-
ing the provisions of said act, passed March
3, 1857.

4655

4656

4657

4678

4679

4680

4681
4632

4583
4584

A bill to relieve Charles H. Levy, of the
State of Louisiana, of his political disabili-
ties.

A bill to prevent default or delay in the pay-
ment of the interest on the bonds author-
ized by an act of Congress approved June
20, 1874.

A bill making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses of the Government for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1878, and for other
purposes.

A bill for the removal of the disabilities of
Robert H. Chilton, of the State of Georgia.
A bill to carry out the provisions of an act
entitled "An act for the further security of
the navigation of the Mississippi River,"
approved March 3, 1875.

A bill for the relief of Henry Voclter..
A bill to declare Little Hell Gate not a navi-
gable channel, and to accord the assent of
the United States to the filling up of the

463

516 517, 530

1

:

Approved,

74

Number.

4695

4696

1697

4698

4699

4700
4701

4702

4703

4704

4705

4706

4707

4708

A bill granting a pension to Lewis E. Camp-
bell, Company K, Twenty-first Indiana
Heavy Artillery.

A bill to grant a pension to Joab Albertson,
of Company K, Twenty-first Regiment of
Indiana Volunteers.

A bill to compel the gradual retirement of
national-bank currency, and to authorize an
issue of United States Treasury notes in
lieu thereof; also, to repeal an act entitled
"An act to provide for the resumption of
specie payments," approved January 14.
1875, and also to provide for the coinage of
silver dollars.

A bill to provide for an effectual remedy for
a wrongful intrusion into the office of Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United
States.

A bill to remove the disabilities imposed by
the third section of the fourteenth article of
the amendment of the Constitution of the
United States.

A bill to remove the political disabilities of
Mrs. Helen M. Slocum, of New York City.
A bill for the relief of Robert C. Buchanan,
colonel (retired) and brevet major-general,
United States Army.

A bill for the relief of Joseph W. Gass, alias
Calvin Halstead.

A bill granting a pension to Harriet J. Ed-
wards.

A bill granting a pension to George McCoy.
A bill granting an increase of pension to Mrs.
Louisa Merrill.

A bill increasing the pension of Mrs. Maria
B. Craig.

A bill to transfer to the Secretary of the
Treasury all stocks and evidences of indebt-
edness due and held in trust by the Secre-
tary of the Interior on account of the Creek
orphans' fund.

A bill for the relief of the sureties, &c., of 688
Samuel M. Reynolds, late additional pay-

master of United States volunteers.

Joint resolution relating to the claim of For-
man Matthews and David S. Parker in the
Court of Claims.

51

161

Joint resolution for the relief of John H. Pick-
ering.

104

108

149
150 Joint resolution to anthorize the President
of the United States to accept the services
of volunteers to aid in suppressing Sioux
Indian hostilities in the Northwest.
Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of
State to publish the history of the several
surveys and scientific expeditions by the
United States during the present century.
Joint resolution for continuing the publica-
tion of the monthly reports of the Commis-
sioner of Agriculture, and making an ap
propriation for the publication of the same.
168 Joint resolution proposing an amendment to
the Constitution forbidding the assumption
or payment of any claim for loss or damage
growing out of the taking, use, or destruc-
tion of property during the late war of the
rebellion.

683

Approved.