REPORTS OF COMMITTEES,

FIRST SESSION, THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS-1853-'54.

Reports from the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Vol. No.

Petition of Harriet D. P. Baker, widow, and the children of John M. Baker..
Memorial of E. Ritchie Dorr...

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Frances Ann McCauley..

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Richard W. Meade, administrator of-S. bill 215.

Petition of the legal representatives of William A. Slacum-S. bill 252.
Francisco Lope Urriza-S. bill 264...

Memorial of Samuel C. Reid, jr., in behalf of the claimants, in the case of the

brig General Armstrong-S. bill 268..

John Bozman Kerr-S. bill 282..

Catharine Crosby, one of the heirs of Thomas D. Anderson-S. bill 301
Charles Evans, and others, citizens of Florida, for losses by the United
States army, in 1814-S. bill 336....

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Henry Cronchey-S. bill 358...

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Charles D. Arfwedson-S. bill 372.
Same....

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Petitions of William K. Jennings and Aphia Jennings, Henry A. Wise, Ann Robin-

Memorials of Robert C. Schenck and John S. Pendleton-S. bill 451.

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Petition of John P. Brown-S. bill 454..

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Messrs. Puig, Mir, and Co.-S. bill 465.

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executrix of William W. Chew..

Memorial of Horatio J. Perry-S. bill 473..
Petition of Robert M. Walsh-S. bill 474..
Memorial of George W. Lippett-S. bill 475.
Henry Savage-S. bill 476..

J. B. Holmans-S. bill 477..

Petition of Peter Parker-S. bill 478...

Joseph Graham-S. bill 479..

Memorial of Ferdinand Coxe-S. bill 480.

Petition of Betsey W. Eve-S. bill 490.

Memorial of Samuel A. Belden and Co.-S. bill 491.

Message of the President of the United States respecting the relations of the United
States with Spain in reference to the island of Cuba.....

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Reports from the Committee on Finance.

On the bill (S. 10) to provide for the surrender of certain bonds of the State of In-
diana..

On the memorial of Horace Southmayd and son-S. bill 291.
Memorial of William D. Merrick and Benjamin C. Howard, special agents of Mary-

land-S. bill 305..

On the subject of the debt of the late republic of Texas-S. bill 96.

Reports from the Committee on Commerce.

Petition of the owners of the "Kate Boyd"-S. R. 3.

Noah Miller-S. bill 50...

Memorial of B. E. Abbott, son of George F. Abbott, late vice consul at Salonica..
Petition of merchants of New Orleans for extending the said port-S. bill 55....

Resolutions of the legislature of the State of Texas, and petitions of residents of the
valley of the Rio Grande, asking that Brownsville be made a port of entry;
also, memorial of citizens of Point Isabel, against the adoption of the measure.

Reports from the Committee on Agriculture.

Memorial of Denton Offutt....

Application of the legal representatives of John Shly-S. bill 367.
Memorial of the Maryland State Agricultural Society...

Petition of citizens of Shenandoah county, Virginia, and Thomas S. Ridgeway..
Memorial of Townsend Glover, and others, praying Congress to purchase a collec-
tion of artificial fruits.

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Memorial of Mrs. Helen Mackay, widow and administratrix of Colonel Æneas

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Mackay-S. bill 170....

Petersburg volunteers..

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Smith-S. bill 184.

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Senate bill (160) for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Colonel A. G.
Morgan...

Documents in relation to the claim of Mrs. Sally T. B. Cochrane, widow of Lieut.
R. E. Cochrane-S. bill 189....

Senate bill (105) for the relief of paymasters' clerks who served in Mexico-adverse.
Memorial of Harriet O. Read-S. bill 206..........

Petition of James Edwards, of the administrator of Edward M. Wanton, and of the
executors of Nehemiah Brush-S. bill 240....

Petition of the heirs of Brigadier General Richard B. Mason-S. bill 285.

Memorials of Lewis Morris, and others-S. bill 323.

Petition of Seneca G. Simmons-S. bill 324..

Petitions of Daniel Hay, and others-S. bill 339.

Petition of Thomas B. Eastland.

Captain Charles G. Merchant-S. bill 368.

Memorial of Brevet Brigadier General John B. Walbach-S. bill 453

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Memorial and papers of Captain Hiram Paulding-S. bill 128.

of David Myerle-S. bill 158..

Petition of Captain Philip F. Voorhees-S. bill 212.....

Memorial of Otway H. Berryman-S. bill 213....

Commander G. S. Pendergrast-S. bill 218.

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Petition of Charles G. Ridgely.

Claim of John Makin....

Petition of officers of the navy and marine corps who were attached to the Gulf

squadron..

Peleg Rhoads, Julia L. Smith, and others..

Organization of the navy-S. bill 376, "To improve the navy.'
Memorial of William Clark-S. bill 457..

Petition of the officers and crew of the frigate St. Lawrence...

Memorial of Lewis Warrington, jr.-S. bill 469..

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Petition of Lieutenants Osmand Peters and George Clarke-S. bill 470.

Memorial of E. A. Williams and W. D. Ligon....

Reports from the Committee on Public Lands.

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Petition of Joseph Mitchell-S. bill 29...

Petitions of Jonathan Kearsley and John Biddle-S. bill 156..

Petition of William A. Burt-S. bill 157...

On the bill making a grant of public lands for the benefit of the indigent insane,
upon the memorial of Miss D. L. Dix, and others-S. bill 44..

Petition of William Rees..

On the bill (S. 92) to lay off the town of Council Bluffs, in Iowa..

On the memorial of the " Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company" for the im-
provement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers-S. bill 259...

On the bill (S. 205) making a grant of land to the State of Alabama, in alternate
sections, to aid in the construction of a railroad from the line of Georgia, on
the Chattahoochee river, to the city of Mobile...

Petition of Mark and Richard H. Bean-S. bill 272.

Terresa Dardenne-S. bill 277..

Memorial of Cadwallader Wallace...

Reports from the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Petition of Albert G. Howell-S. bill 102.

Charles Derbigny, and others-S. bill 103..

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Senate bill (153) to relinguish the reversionary interest of the United States to a
certain reservation and confirming the title of Charles G. Gunter...
Petition of D. J. Campau in behalf of his father, Joseph Campau-S. bill 167....
Senate resolution as to relief to the innocent purchasers and settlers on the Maison
Rouge and De Bastrop grants-S. bill 187....

Resolutions of the legislature of Michigan, in relation to claims to lands of Joseph
Sansfacon, and others-S. bill 217.........

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Petition of John S. Wilson-S. bill 222. .

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Bill (S. 199) authorizing a patent to be issued to Peter Poncin
Petition of Mathew Rippey, praying that a patent for land may be granted to Con-
rad Wheat-S. bill 234...

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J. Epes Cowan, for authority to locate on public lands the claims known
as the Vasquez and Colligan claims-S. bill 251..

1 143

Senate bill (257) to confirm the claim of Dusuan de la Croix to a tract of land
therein described.

Petition of F. A. Underwood and H. A. Crane, heirs of John Underwood.

2 273

Senate bill (263) to confirm the claim of John Ervin to a certain tract of land in

the Bastrop grant.....

2 274

Senate bill (289) for the relief of Margaret A. Copley.

2 277

Senate bill (237) for the relief of Pine Grove Academy, in Louisiana

2 287

Senate bill (343) to confirm the claim of William H. Henderson and the heirs of
Robert Henderson to land in the Bastrop grant.....

2 289

Senate bill (396) for the relief of the legal representatives of Jacques Moulon....
Petition of Gaston T. Raoul-S. bill 423..

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Memorial of Neal Smith, agent for the heirs of William Turvin-S. bill 439...

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Senate bill (370) to authorize T. H. McManus to enter by pre-emption certain lands

in the Greensburg land district, Louisiana..
Senate bill (270) for the relief of John Boyd..
Senate bill (443) for the relief of A. G. Penn.
Petition of William W. Gitt...

Martin Fenwick..

Reports from the Committee on Indian Affairs.

On the petition of John Phagan-S. bill 127..

Documents in relation to the claim of Joseph Watson, deceased-S. bill 224 ...
On testimony taken by the commissioners appointed by the President of the United
States to investigate certain charges preferred against Alexander Ramsey, late
governor of Minnesota.

Memorial of Amos and John E. Kendall-S. bill 280.
Documents of James Erwin, of Arkansas-S. bill 306.

Petition of the legal representatives of Henry Conner, alias Wabish-ken-dib..........
Senate bill (43) to authorize the payment of certain claims for depredations and
spoliations during the hostilities with the Creek and Seminole Indians, in 1836
and 1837....

Petition of Calvin B. Seymour-S. bill 345..

Senate resolution respecting the claim of David Carter.
Claim of Overton Love, a Chickasaw-S. bill 390...
Memorial of George Stealy...

Muscogee or Creek nation of Indians-S. bill 417..

Claim of John Shaw-S. bill 437.....

Reports from the Committee of Claims.

Memorial of the heirs of the late Major Caleb Swan-S. bill 33...
Petition of Daniel Winslow-S. bill 53..

Priscilla C. Simonds-S. bill 54.

Dr. William Somerville, heirs of S. bill 56.
Cornelius McCaullay-S. bill 51..
Mary E. D. Blaney-S. bill 52..

Petitions of the administrator of Rinaldo Johnson and of the admir istratrix of Ann

E. Johnson, and the memorial of Hodges and Lansdale-S. bill 61...

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James Dunning-S. bill 91....

Charles Cooper and Co.-S. bill 90.
Silas L. Loomis-S. bill 109...

J. Boyd, assistant marshal-S. bill 86..

Documents respecting claim of Richard Fitzpatrick-S. bill 141.

Petition of Don B. Juan Domercq-S. bill 142..

Memorial of Zachariah Lawrence-S. bill 148.

Petition of Isaac Varn-S. bill 152.

A. J. Williamson-S. bill 165..

John Bronson-S. bill 175..

Isaac Cook, Pelatiah Shepherd, and Benjamin A. Napier-S. bill 225..

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Memorial of Asbury Dickins-S. bill 230.

On the bill (H. R. 267) for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain William
Davis..

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legal representatives of Henry Payson, assignee of John Randall.
Nancy Holkar, widow of John-Š. bill 444.

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Petition of Ephraim Hunt-S. bill 460........

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Israel Ketchum-S. bill 464.

2 360

Elliot Smith, William C. Green, and Nathan Farnsworth-S. bill 466..

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Senate bill (408) for the relief of David F. Douglass.

2 367

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Petition of Gad Humphreys-S. bill 484..

Reports from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Memorial of Eliza M Evans, heir-at-law of Colonel Anthony Walton White-S.

Petition of representative of Henry King-S. bill 353....

Frederic Vincent, administrator of James Le Caze-S. bill 361.

Memorial of heirs of General Stephen Moylan-S. bill 375..

heirs of Joshua Chamberlain-S. bill 398..
legal representatives of James Bell-S. bill 399..

A bill to amend the act for the satisfaction of Virginia land warrants-S. bill 371..
Memorial of Phineas M. Nightingale-S. bill 415..

Reports from the Committee on the Judiciary.

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On the resolution of the Senate of January 4, 1854, to inquire into the right of the
Hon. Samuel S. Phelps to hold his seat in the Senate......

On the resolution of the Senate of December 21, 1853, for referring causes instituted
according to the course of common law to referees..

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Memorial of Samuel H. Hampstead S. bill 146.....

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Petition of James Chapman, administrator of Thomas Chapman-S. bill 147.
Memorial of John G. Camp-S. bill 145...

Resolution of the Senate "to inquire whether any additional rule or amendment of
an existing rule in relation to the proceedings of the Senate in executive session
be necessary'

Senate bill (317) for the relief of L. E. L. A. Lawson, sole surviving heiress of
General Eleazer Ripley, deceased..

2 286

Memorial of James M. Carlisle and Walter S. Cox, and.

2 351

Petition of Madaline Van Ness, widow of Cornelius-S. bill 445.

Memorial of J. H. F. Thornton, Lawrence Taliaferro, and Hay T. Taliaferro, sureties
of D. M. F. Thornton-S. bill 471...

2 368

On the resolution of the Senate to inquire into the right of the Hon. Jared W. Wil-
liams to hold a seat in the Senate..

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Reports from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.