Subject.

Treasury, Secretary of, transmits answer to resolution of the
House, with statement of the sums
paid for interest, in coin and currency,
upon bonds held by national banks..
transmits an account of the receipts
and expenditures for the year ending
June 30, 1873

transmits a copy of a letter from the
Commissioner of Customs, relative to
the compensation of inspectors of
customs..

transmits an account of the receipts
and expenditures for the year ending
June 30, 1874..

transmits estimates of deficiencies in
appropriations for the year 1878 and
prior years....

transmits estimates of amounts to be
reappropriated for the year 1875, and
for prior years

transmits a communication from the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
showing a decrease of receipts for
the current fiscal year...
transmits report of the Life-Saving
Service, relative to the loss of the
Steamer Metropolis.....

transmits answer to a resolution of
the House in reference to the sale of
United States bonds for outstanding
legal-tender notes....
transmits a statement of emoluments
and fees of customs officers
communicates, in response to the reso-
lution of the House relative to the
adoption of the metrical system, and
transmits certain reports in reference
thereto

communicates, in response to a resolu-
tion of the House, relative to duties
on foreign imports

transmits draught of a bill to prevent

frands in customs revenues.

U.

Union Pacific Railroad, message from the President, transmit

ting, in answer to a resolution of the
House, a report of the Attorney-Gen-
eral upon the operation of the......
report of the government directors of
the, for the year ending June 30,
1877, (vol. 1)...

United States troops, communication from the Secretary of
War, showing the distribution of

V.

Venezuelan Mixed Claims Commission, message from the President, in answer to a resolution of the House, transmitting the recent correspondence between the Governments of Venezuela and the United States in relation to the....

Veto of the silver bill, message of the President, with his reasons for withholding his approval of the silver bill (H. R.

1093).

Subject.

Veto of the bill for special term of United States court in Mississippi. Message from the President, assigning his reasons for withholding his approval of said bill (H. R. 3072) Virginius, steamer, message from the President,t ransmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House, a report from the Secretary of State in reference to the seizure of....

W.

War Department, surveys by the, letter from the Secretary of
War, in response to a resolution of the
House, relating to surveys conducted by,
for the last ten years

list of clerks in the, letter from the Secre-
tary of War, transmitting....

War Department building, report of the engineers in charge of.
War, Secretary of, annual report of (vol. 1)..
Papers accompanying the above:

Report of the General of the Army..

Report of the Judge-Advocate-General..

Report of the Quartermaster-General.

Report of the Commissary-General of Subsistence.

Report of the Surgeon-General....

Report of the Paymaster-General..

Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy..

Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers'

Home

Report on the State, War, and Navy Department buildings.
Reports upon the improvement of the South Pass of the
Mississippi River...

Report concerning Leavenworth military prison..
Report of the freedmen's branch of the Adjutant-General's
Office..

Report of the Chief of Engineers (volume 2, parts 1

and 2).

Report of the Chief of Ordnance (volume 3)..
Report of the Chief Signal Officer (volume 4)...
War, Secretary of, transmits reports of chiefs of bureaus upon
the adoption of the metrical system, in re-
sponse to a resolution of the House.
transmits report of the Adjutant-General in
the case of George A. Armes...
communicates relative to the donation of
land as a site for a military post in
Texas

communicates, recommending an appropri-
ation to repair the Speiden building..
transmits list of clerks in the War Depart-
ment
communicates, recommending an amend-
ment of the statutes in relation to commu-
tation of quarters, fuel, and forage....
transmits estimates of appropriations for
certain deficiencies in the appropriations
for the Army...

communicates relative to a decision of the
Supreme Court upon the matter of pay-
ments to land-grant railroads...
communicates relative to certain military
roads in Arizona

transmits report of Chief of Engineers upon
the necessity for the improvement of
the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas
Rivers....

Subject.

War, Secretary of, communicates concerning a decoration con-
ferred upon Assistant Surgeon Wilson,
United States Army, by the Khedive of
Egypt...

transmits the report of the surgeon at
West Point, N. Y.
communicates concerning the location of
the Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific
Railroads through Fort Yuma reserva-
tion and across the Colorado River...
communicates relative to the raport of M.
R. Brown, captain of engineers, relative
to the work of Mr. Eads at South Pass,
Mississippi River..

transmits report of the engineer concerning
the best method of protecting the harbor
of Cincinnati from ice

communicates, recommending an appropri-
ation for six new buildings at Fort Mon-
roe, Virginia.....
transmits report of the engineer on the im-
provements of Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan Ship Canal and Harbor ...
transmits a list of officers who received
commutation, fuel, forage, and quarters
in certain cities..

transmits information concerning the effect
of reservoirs upon the navigation of the
Mississippi River....
transmits a report upon the improvement

of the South Pass of the Mississippi River.
transmits report upon Saint Croix River....
communicates, showing the distribution of
United States troops...

transmits report of engineer upon the im-
provement of the "Gut" opposite Bath,
Me
transmits report of engineer upon bridging
the Saginaw River, at East Saginaw,
Mich

transmits report of engineer upon the im-
provement of Norfolk Harbor, Hampton
River, Pagan Creek, and the Chicka-
homony and Blackwater Rivers, in Vir-
ginia

transmits report of engineer upon the im-
provement of the Southwest Pass of the
Mississippi River....

transmits reports on lines of communication
between Colorado and New Mexico..
communicates in relation to the disappear-
ance of the United States dredge-boat
McAlister...

transmits report relative to the improve-
ment of Flushing Bay, New York..
communicates concerning the abandonment
of certain military posts...
transmits report of Colonel Hatch on the
subject of the El Paso troubles....
transmits testimony and papers in case of
Captain F. W. Hurtt, assistant quarter-
master..

transmits communications from the presi-
dent of the Moline Water Power Com-
pany, of Moline, Ill., with report of the
Chief of Ordnance thereon.

Volume.

No. Parts.

Subject.

War, Secretary of, communicates, in response to a resolution
of the House, giving information concern-
ing the surveys conducted by the depart-
ment in the last ten years.

communicates, in response to a resolution
of the House, concerning the protection
of the residents of Western Colorado
against the Indians..
transmits report of the Quartermaster-Gen-
eral relative to the names, ages, &c., of
the steamships purchased of and owned,
in part or whole, by Marshall O. Roberts,
of New York..

transmits report of commission on El Paso
troubles in Texas..

transmits a list of persons in the employ of
the departments who have rendered serv-
ice in the Army or Navy of the United
States

transmits report of survey of Connecticut
River....

Weights and measures, international bureau of, message from
the President, transmitting a communication from the Sec-
retary of State in relation to the convention for re-estab-
lishing..

West Point, N. Y., sanitary report of surgeon at, transmitted by the Secretary of War.

Wilson, W. J., assistant surgeon United States Army, letter from the Secretary of War, concerning a decoration conferred upon, by the Khedive of Egypt....

Y.

Yellowstone National Park, letter from the Secretary of the

Interior in regard to the better
protection of, from injury...

report on the (vol. 1).

45TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. (Ex. Doc. 1, 2d Session.

Part 5.

REPORT

OF THE

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR;

BEING PART OF

THE MESSAGE AND DOCUMENTS

COMMUNICATED TO THE

TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS

AT THE

BEGINNING OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

VOLUME I.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.