OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES: BEING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS; BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, MARCH 4, 1871, IN THE NINETY-FIFTH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1871. JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: BEGUN and held at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Saturday, the fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, being the First Session of the FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS, held in pursuance of the act of January 22, 1867, and in the ninety-fifth year of the independence of said States. On which day, at the hour of 12 o'clock noon, Edward McPherson, Clerk of the last House of Representatives, proceeded to call the roll of members by States, when the following-named members answered to their names, viz: From the State of— MAINE VERMONT MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND. NEW YORK...... John Lynch. Charles W. Willard. [ James Buffinton. Nathaniel P. Banks. George M. Brooks. George F. Hoar. William B. Washburn. Henry L. Dawes. (Benjamin T. Eames. Dwight Townsend. |