Page Pitcher, Jonathan, daughter of. (See Elizabeth Arnold.) Pittsburgh, Pa., citizens of, memorials- ship canal around the falls of the St. Mary's - against Sunday mails. further protection to life and property on board against forcible intervention 185 222 293 378 461 172 beacon-lights at the entrance of Lake Superior and homestead bill Pittsburgh, Pa., manufacturers of cigars at, petition, increase of ordered to be printed Pittsfield, Vt., citizens of, petition, land to actual settlers Plank roads, establishment of, as mail routes. (See joint reso- Plank roads passing through the public lands, right of way to, Plank roads- (See bill H. R. 284. ) bill to extend the provisions of the act of August Pensacola and Navy Yard Plank Road Company. (See Zilwaukie, Grand Traverse and Mackinaw Plank Road committee discharged (See bill S. 233.) plank road from Tully, Missouri, to Bloomfield, Iowa, committee discharged 131 St. Genevieve Iron Mountain and Pilot Knob Plank Road Company, petition - 301 (See bill S. 362.) Plummer, Samuel M., widow of. (See Emily H. Plummer.) Plume, John, in behalf of the settlers and miners of Sacramento, Fayetteville and Central Plank Road. (See joint reso- Platt, Jonas D., (see bill H. R. 180) report (No. 262) 472 197 247 232 Plummer, Joseph M., report (No. 266) and bill (see bill S. 454) Plymouth county, Massachusetts, citizens of, petition, relative to - committee discharged and leave to withdraw Pocomoke sound, and channel between Pocomoke and Tangier - (See bill S. 138.) Point of Rocks, Maryland, charter for the construction of a Points, David, petition Polhemus, Charles B., and Charles Griswold, petition. Policy of the United States, foreign- resolution by Mr. Walker petitious of citizens of Cincinnati resolution of the legislature of Alabama Polish exiles, petition of Carl Prochaski and others Pontoniers. (See Sappers.) Pool, James. (See joint resolution S. 57.) Pope, Daniel N., memorial Pope, John, and others. (See Citizens of Tennessee.) Pope county, Illinois, citizens of, petition, homestead bill Port Penn, piers at, repair of, petitions, citizens of Pennsylvania Page 472 131 231 390 98 122 92 523 71, 80, 106 237 121 306 197 Port au Prince, Hayti, citizens of, petition, pay for expenses in Port La Baca, debenture on goods transported through, to Mex- 137 510 104 56 111 Porter, Parry W., memorial, fire-arm invented by him Porter, Commodore David, widow of. (See Evelina Porter.) Porter, Evelina, memorial 500 290 petition referred 299 Porterfield, Charles, legal representatives of, leave to withdraw Portland canal. (See Louisville and Portland canal.) Portland, Maine, citizens, &c., of, memorials— abolition of the spirit ration in the navy Portland, Maine, marine hospital at, report (No. 19) and bill, (see bill S. 108) 60 176 74 113 301 535 113 Page 352 874 118 324 562 Porto Rico, discriminating tonnage duties on American vessels in, report of the Secretary of the Treasury report of the Secretary of the Treasury - additional copies ordered to be printed Porto Rico, transportation of the mails between Norfolk, Porto Portsmouth, N. H., citizens of, petition, cheap ocean postage Postage, relative to, memorials- publishers of newspapers in Maine citizens of Duval county, Florida convention of citizens of California publishers and booksellers newspaper agents in New York and Boston committee discharged publishers of newspapers in Boston bill to amend an act to reduce and modify the rates of post- age. (See bill H. R. 144.) Postage, cheap ocean- resolutions by Mr. Sumner message from the President petition of citizens of Leicester, Massachusetts 301, 306, 311, 316, 321 Boston Montville, Maine 301 resolution of the legislature of Massachusetts Postage and postage stamps, amount received from, report of the Postmaster General Postal arrangements, foreign, resolution by Mr. Sumner message from the President 512 » Postal operations of the United States, resolution by Mr. Sumner 287, 307 Postmaster General, reports--Continued-- clerks postal operations of the United States additional copies ordered to be printed report against printing Postmasters General, assistant. (See joint resolution S. R. 24.) Post Office Department- accounts and disbursements for the service of, letter modification of the laws of, in relation to Califor- Page 386, 614 424 432 591 678 163 nia and Oregon. (See joint resolution S. R. 21.) 406 591 report against printing 678 appropriations for the service of. (See bill H. R. 624.) clerks in, reports of the Postmaster General 386, 614, 679 Post offices in the large cities, clerks in, to write letters for per- in the village of New Road, resolution of the legisla- Potomac river, removal of obstructions in, memorial of a com- repair of the Long bridge, amendment to bill H. R. 207, yeas and nays 429 memorial of residents of Alexandria and Fair- against the bridge on its present site 642, 678 - 520 558 624, 625 430 Potomac river-Continued- resolution and documents by Mr. Shields Potter, Zabdiel W., memorial adverse report (No. 249) committee discharged Powell, Thomas, assignee of. (See John Powell.) Potts, Stephen, memorial Powell, John, memorial referred committee discharged Prairie La Crasse, land for a railroad from Milwaukie to. (See bill S. 12.) Pratt, Hon. Thomas G., attended resolutions submitted by, viz: private claims to set aside Fridays of each week for the consideration of Pre-emptions, extension of the time for which, are granted, peti- tion of inhabitants of Wisconsin committee discharged Pre-emption to settlers on the Maison Rouge Grant. (See bill 65.82 278 461 360 256 303 President and Vice President of the United States, change in the Presbyterian churches in the District of Columbia, members of, 370 417 514 report (No. 290) President of the United States-- committee to inform the President that Congress has as- |