Subject.

U.

Union Pacific Railroad, letter from the Secretary of the
Interior, transmitting reports of the..
Utah, letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the dis-
position of the Rush Valiey military reservation in the
Territory of....

Ute country, letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting
a report and map of a reconnaissance of the, made in 1873,
by Lieut. E. H. Ruffner, of the Corps of Engineers....

V.

Vallé, Francis, jr., letter from the Secretary of the Interior,
transmitting private land-claim of..

Vallé, John Baptiste, and Francis, sr., letter from the Secre-
tary of the Interior, in relation to the private land-claim
of...

Vigil, Francisco Montes, letter from the Secretary of the
Interior, transmitting report of the surveyor-general of
New Mexico on the private land-claim of, reported as
No. 91...

Virginius, message from the President, transmitting docu-
ments and correspondence relative to the capture of the
steamer, and proceedings subsequent thereto...
Volunteers, letter from the Secretary of War, relative to
the bill of the House 1157, to provide for the payment of
certain volunteer companies in the service of the United
States in the war with Mexico and in the suppression of
Indian disturbances in New Mexico...

W.

Ward, W. H., letter from the Secretary of War, relative to
the petition of, for compensation for Government use of
his improved bullet-machine...

War Department, letter from the Secretary of War, trans-
mitting a statement of contracts made
by the various Bureaus of the, during
the year 1873........

letter from the chief clerk of the, rela-
tive to the reduction of the clerical
force in the.....

letter from the Secretary of War, rela-
tive to the instruction by resolution of
the House to the Committee on Mili-
tary Affairs to inquire into the legality
of General Orders No. 32 of the..

War, annual report of the Secretary of, (vol. 1) of..

Papers accompanying the above:

Report of the General of the Army, (vol. 1) of..
Report of the Adjutant-General, (vol. 1) of..
Report of the Quartermaster-General, (vol. 1) of.

Report of the Commissary-General of Subsistence,
(vol. 1) of................

Report of the Surgeon-General, (vol. 1) of.

Peport of the Paymaster-General, (vol.1) of.
Report of the Chief Signal-Officer, (vol. 1) of.

War, annual report of the Secretary of, report of the Chief
of Engineers, (vol. 2) of........
War, annual report of the Secretary of, report of the Chief
of Ordnance, (vol. 3) of.....

War. Secretary of, transmits certain developments connect-
ed with the late Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen and Abandoned Lands....

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Subject.

War, Secretary of, transmits certain additional develop-
ments connected with the late Bureau
of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands
communicates relative to the employ-
ment of a telegraph-operator for his
Department

transmits draught of a bill for relief of
Private Frank M. Kelly, Company F,
First Cavalry...

transmits answer to resolution of the
House, relative to the survey of the
Grand Calumet River, Indiana..
transmits draught of a joint resolution
authorizing the issue of clothing to
certain enlisted men of the Army.
transmits report on the subject of mili-
tary prisons...

transmits statement showing in detail
the amount of appropriations which
have been or will be expended on each
of the permanent forts and batteries,
from period of commencement of each
work to present time....

communicates relative to a military
wagon-road from Wallula to Seattle,
Washington Territory....

communicates relative to an appropria-
tion for the preservation of the Falls
of Saint Anthony...

transmits draught of a bill for the relief of
Frederick Rettig, first lieutenant First
Florida Battery..

communicates relative to the sale of the
military reservation at Fort Reynolds,
Colorado Territory...

transmits draught of a bill repealing so
much of section 5 of the legislative
appropriation act approved May 8,
1872, as relates to sales of commissary

stores...

communicates relative to a bridge now
in process of construction across the
Schuylkill River at South street, Phil-
adelphia, Pa......

transmits answer to resolution of the
House, with copy of a report upon the
condition, &c., of the harbor at Mil-
waukee, Wis.

transmits a report of the board of engi-
neers relative to the practicability of
bridging the channels between Lake
Huron and Lake Erie.....
transmits answer to a resolution of the
House, with a report of the survey of
the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers, in
Florida....
communicates relative to the insufficien-
cy of the unexpended balance of ap-
propriation for collection and payment
of bounties to colored soldiers and
sailors....

communicates relative to the bill of the
House No. 966, relating to the use by
the public of the bridges and roads
connecting the cities of Davenport
and Rock Island

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Secretary of War, transmits report on contract of the Prov-
idence Hospital, District of Columbia,
for the treatment of transient paupers.
transmits estimates of appropriations for
armaments and fortifications...
communicates relative to certain suits
instituted by the United States against
certain railroad corporations on ac-
count of property sold said corpora-
tions by the Government.
transmits a report of a board of arbi-
trators convened for the purpose of
appraising the valuation of certain
buildings on the military reservation
of Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory..
transmits answer to a resolution of the
House, relative to an estimate of ex-
pense of deepening and widening the
navigable channel of the rivers con-
necting Lake Huron and Lake Erie...
transmits answer to a resolution of the
House, relative to the examination of
the channel of Berwick Bay, mouth
of Atchafalaya River, Louisiana
communicates relative to the removal of
the north pier of the old railroad-
bridge of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railroad, at Davenport, Iowa..
transmits certain reports of examination
of rivers and harbors under act of
March 3, 1873 ...

communicates, in answer to a resolution
of the House, transmitting a report of
the Surgeon-General concerning the
epidemic of yellow fever in the United
States in 1873...

communicates relative to the want of a
law affixing a penalty for tampering
with the military-telegraph lines in
Arizona

transmits a statement showing amounts
due or overdrawn by the several States
under the law for arming the militia
on the 22d January, 1874; also, the
annual report of the Chief of Ordnance
relative to the same...
communicates relative to the plan and
route of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan Ship-Canal..

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communicates relative to the disposition
of the Rush Valley military reserva-
tion, Utah Territory.

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communicates relative to "instructions
for the government of armies of the
United States in the field"..
transmits, in answer to a resolution of
the House, a report showing the prog-
ress of work on harbor of refuge at
mouth of Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan Ship-Canal..
communicates relative to the proposed
construction of a powder-magazine on
the old Lazaretto tract, near Fort Mif-
flin, Delaware.

communicates relative to an appropria-

tion for the purchase of the property
adjoining Winder's building

Subject.

Secretary of War, communicates relative to a number of
accounts of disbursing officers of the
Army as still unsettled under act of
June 23, 1870 ...

transmits answer to a resolution of the
House relative to a ship-canal to con-
nect the Mississippi River with the
Gulf of Mexico..
communicates in answer to a resolution
of the House, transmitting a report of
the survey and estimate of cost of
improvement of the Saginaw River,
Michigan

transmits reports of the Quartermaster-
General and Commissary-General of
Subsistence, giving their views upon
certain classes of claims growing out
of the late war..

communicates relative to the petition of
W. H. Ward for compensation for use
by the Government of his improved
bullet-machine.......

communicates relative to the improve-
ment of the Ohio River..

communicates relative to the improve-
ment of the Ohio River..

communicates relative to the improve-
ment of the Ohio River....
transmits draught of a bill to regulate
the construction of bridges over the
navigable waters of the United States.
communicates relative to an appropri-
ation for the improvement of Galves-
ton Harbor, Texas..

communicates relative to the memorial

of H. K. Brown, for additional allow-
ance on his statue of General Scott....
communicates relative to the bill of the
House No. 785, for relief of the Sea-
board and Roanoke Railroad Company.
transmits reports of the various Bureaus
of his Department in relation to civil-
service reform

communicates relative to the date of the
President's proclamation declaring
martial-law within the District of Co-
lumbia ...
communicates relative to clothing lost
by enlisted men of Company F, Third
United States Cavalry, during a flood
in Blackwood Valley, May 31, 1873....
communicates relative to surveys made
upon the Upper Mississippi River...
communicates relative to an appropri-
ation to repair the existing pile-work
on west side Ontonagon Harbor
communicates relative to an appropri-
ation for the improvement of the
mouth of the Mississippi River
communicates relative to an appropri-
ation for the protection of the banks
of the Rio Grande River upon the site
of Fort Brown, Texas
communicates relative to a project for
the protection of the banks of the Col-
orado River at Yuma military depot...

Subject.

Secretary of War, transmits a petition of officers of the
Sixth Infantry, asking that troops
serving on the frontier be placed on ¦
better footing with regard to leaves
of absence....

transmits a statement of contracts made
by the various Bureaus of the War
Department during the year 1873.....
communicates relative to bill of the
House No. 773, to reduce the Fort
Sanders military reservation
communicates relative to Plymouth Har-
bor, Massachusetts....

communicates relative to the condition
of the harbor at Kenosha, Wis..
communicates relative to the bill pro-
viding for the construction of the Port-
land, Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad..
communicates relative to the bill of the
House No. 750, granting right of way
over Fort Lyon military reservation,
Colorado Territory, to the Arkansas
Valley Railway Company

communicates relative to the bill for the
relief of certain settlers on the Fort
Randall military reservation....
communicates relative to the cost of a
military telegraph in Texas.....
tramits information relative to the claim
of G. L. Maloney.

communicates relative to the course now
pursued by his Department in address-
ing to the Speaker communications
for the consideration of any of the
committees of the House .
communicates relative to the case of
Major Henry Prince, paymaster, United
States Army...

transmits reports of surveys of Harlem
River, Raritan River, Crow Shoals,
Old House Channel to main channel
to Pamlico Sound, entrance to Mata-
gorda Bay, and San Antonio Creek....
communicates relative to bill of the
House No. 1701, for the relief of James
W. Long, late a captain in the United
States Army
communicates relative to the relinquish-
ment of Fort Wilkins, Michigan
communicates relative to the narrowing
of the draw in the Long Bridge over
the Potomac River by obstructions
placed there by the Baltimore and Po-
tomac Railroad Company.
communicates relative to the act of
July 15, 1870, making appropriations
for the support of the Army for the
year ending June 30, 1871
communicates relative to joint resolu-
tion of the House No. 55, respecting
military reservation known as Fort
Butler....

communicates relative to proposals made
by citizens of Atlanta, Ga., to sell
grounds for barracks, &c., as contem-
plated by bill of the House No. 1429...