List of deaths, resignations and dismissions in the navy since last report.... Report of Lieutenant De Haven relating to the expedition to the Arctic seas in search of the British commander Sir John Franklin and his companions...... Report of a board of engineers of the army, being a survey and examination of the Memphis navy-yard...
Letter of Engineer Isherwood, of the navy, relating to improvements in the boilers of the steam frigate Mississippi.
Report of the board of examiners in relation to the condition, police, &c., of the naval academy at Annapolis, Md...
Letter of the superintendent of the naval observatory relating to the
advantages of his wind and current charts to vessels sailing from the Atlantic to ports in the Pacific...
Report of commissioners appointed to examine condensers for sup- 'plying the boilers of marine engines with fresh water.... Report of Professor Page relating to his experiments on the applica- tion of electro-magnetism as a motive power in mechanics.. Letter of Professor Espy relating to meteorological observations. Detailed estimates of office of Secretary of the Navy and report of Lieutenant Davis, superintendent of the nautical almanac.... Report and detailed estimates of chief of the bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repair.
Report and detailed estimates of chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, including hydrographic office, naval observatory and naval academy..
Report and detailed estimates of chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks..
Report and detailed estimates of the chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.......
Report, with detailed estimate, of the chief of the Bureau of Medi-
Report of the cominandant of the marine corps, with detailed esti- mates from the pay and quartermasters of the corps.. Aggregate of estimates for navy proper, marine corps, special objects, improvement and repairs of navy yards, hospitals and magazines General estimates for the office of Secretary of the Navy and the several bureaus of the Navy Department.
General estimate for the southwest executive building. General estimate for the support of the navy... General estimate for the support of the marine corps. General estimates for special objects under the control of the Navy Department....
Statement of the expenditures under the head of contingent expenses, as settled at the office of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury Department, for the year ending June 30, 1851... Statement of the appropriations for the naval service, viz., balances on hand July 1, 1850; appropriations for the fiscal year 1850-51; amounts drawn from the Treasury during the fiscal year 1850--51; and balances on hand June 30, 1851...
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL.
Accompanying documents, viz:
Table of mail service for the year ending June 30, 1851 Statement of the number of post offices and length of post roads in the United States, the annual amount paid for mail transporta- tion, and of receipts and expenditures of the Post Office De- partment at periods of five years, from 1790 to 1885... Statement of the number of post offices, length of mail routes, extent of mail transportation in the United States, and receipts and expenditures of the Post Office Department, under appropriate heads, in each year from 1840 to 1851, inclusive.....
Statement of receipts and expenditures of the Post Office Depart- ment, under their several heads, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1851.....
Statements of amount of funds paid directly into the Treasury and into the several post office depositories..
Statements of dead letters containing money and other articles and the disposition of them..
Statement of the number of mail routes, contractors, route agents, local agents, and mail messengers, at the close of the contract year ending June 80, 1851...
Statement of mail service in the southern section, for the year ending June 30, 1851..
Statement of mail service on railroads, as in operation Oct. 1, 1851... Statement of mail service in steamboats as in operation Oct. 1, 1851. Statement of United States mail service abroad, as in operation Oct. 1, 1851.... Statement of total annual transportation of mails, and annual cost of transportation from 1842 to 1851, both inclusive, with the amount of cost per mile....
Statement of the amount paid for mail transportation and the net revenue arising from postages in each State and Territory for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1851 .....
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
Accompanying documents, viz:
Tabular statement of expenses of the judiciary, showing the increase thereof over the increase of population...
Tabular statement of salaries of the district judges of the United States.....
Letter of acting Comptroller of the Treasury, in relation to the manner of auditing the accounts of the officers of the federal courts... Letter of Comptroller of the Treasury in relation to the statutes pre- scribing fees, &c., in the Territories of New Mexico, Utah, Oregon and Minnesota
Letter of the Comptroller of the Treasury, in relation to accounts of officers of the federal courts of the United States..
Annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.. Beport of the Superintendent of the Census Board........... Annual report of the Commissioner of Pensions ....
Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs......
Communicating information in relation to the firing into and seizure
of the American steamship Prometheus
Communicating a despatch from Mr. Niles, late chargé d'affaires to Sardinia, on the subject of a ship canal to unite the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans..
In relation to the free navigation of the St. Lawrence, St. John and other arge ivers; and the free enjoyment of the British North Americe fisheries by citizens of the United States.... Communicating a resolution of the legislative council of Canada, ex- pressive of its satisfaction for the donations of Congress and the legislatures of Vermont and New York, in aid of the re-con- struction of the library of the Canadian parliament... Communicating a report from the Secretary of State, urging an early appropriation to pay the instalment due to Mexico under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Communicating the correspondence between the Department of State and the United States minister at Paris, respecting the late po- litical occurrences in France.. Communicating the correspondence with the British government in relation to the attack on the American steamer Prometheus by the British brig-of-war Express....
Communicating the annual report of the Director of the Mint..... Communicating the report of the architect for the extension of the Capitol, showing the condition and progress of the public works under his charge....
Communicating a report of the Secretary of the Interior respecting the delay and difficulty in making the apportionment among the States of the representatives of the thirty-third Congress..... In relation to the mission of Mr. Balestier, late United States consul at Singapore, in Eastern Asia.. Transmitting for the revision of Congress, a copy of rules and regula- tions for masters, &c., of United States vessels at the free ports of China
Communicating information in relation to the extension of the Capitol Communicating certain official documents relative to the Empire of Japan and serving to illustrate the existing relations between the United States and Japan..
In relation to the state of affairs in Oregon, growing out of a conflict of opinion among the authorities of that Territory in regard to the location of the seat of government therein.. Communicating papers in relation to the claim of Samuel A. Bel- den & Co....
Communicating a report of the Secretary of State, accompanied by a letter from the Spanish minister, claiming indemnity for Span- ish subjects who sustained injury in the popular tumult at New Orleans in August 1851..... Communicating the correspondence of the American chargé d'affaires at Vienna with the Department of State, on the subject of the apprehension and imprisonment, by the Austrian authorities, of the Rev. Charles L. Brace, an American citizen.... Communicating correspondence with Mr. Hulsemann, late chargé d'affaires of the Emperor of Austria, on the occasion of his withdrawal from his place as chargé d'affaires...
Communicating correspondence between the governments of the United States and Mexico respecting a right of way for a railroad and canal across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
In relation to the fisheries on the coast of the British possessions in North America....
Communicating information in relation to the controversies between the United States consul at Acapulco, in Mexico, and the Mexi- can authorities
Communicating the correspondence between the governments of the United States and Peru, regarding the Lobos islands, (parts 1 and 2)...
Communicating the correspondence of R. M. Walsh, Esq., while acting as a special agent of the United States in the Island of St. Domingo....
Communicating copies of the notes of Mr. Louis de la Rosa and Mr.
J. M. Gonzales de la Vega.......... Communicating correspondence with Mr. Lawrence, United States minister at London, in relation to foreign postal arrangements Communicating a report from the Secretary of the Interior, in rela- tion to fixing the initial point in the boundary line between the United States and Mexico...
REPORTS FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE:
Showing the amount expended under the appropriation for expenses of the agent of the Sublime Porte of Turkey.
With the correspondence in relation to the imprisonment of John S. Thrasher at Havana, in the island of Cuba...
Communicating the letter of Mr. Niles, late chargé d'affaires to Sar- dinia, on the subject of a ship canal to unite the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.. Communicating his correspondence with Mr. Rives, U. S. minister at Paris, respecting the late political occurrences in France.... Communicating the report of the board of commissioners on claims against Mexico....
In relation to the mission of Mr. Balestier to eastern Asia.. Communicating a list of clerks and others employed in that depart- ment during the year 1851, and the amount paid to each. Showing the disbursements for the service of the State Department,
including foreign missions, for the year ending June 30, 1851.. In answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information in rela- tion to the Gardiner claim...... Accompanying a communication from the Spanish minister, claiming indemnity for Spanish subjects who sustained injury in the popular tumult at New Orleans, in August, 1851..... Communicating his correspondence with Mr. Hulsemann, late Austrian
chargé d'affaires, on the occasion of his withdrawal from his diplomatic relations with the government of the United States. On the expediency of adopting a graduated scale of diplomatic sala- ries....
In relation to the promotion, classification and compensation of the clerks in the several departments...
Communicating information in relation to the clerks in the State
REPORTS FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY:
On the state of the finances..
Communicating a statement of the marine hospital fund for the year 1851
Transmitting, with letter of instructions, the report of the officers constituting the light-house board, on the condition of the light-house establishment of the United States.. Communicating information in relation to the Louisville and Portland canal...
Showing the contracts made by that department during the year 1851. On the statistics and history of the steam marine of the United States. On the expediency of repealing or modifying the act concerning ton- nage duty on Spanish vessels trading between the United States and the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico....
In relation to the establishment of a marine hospital at Memphis.. In relation to the disbursement of appropriations made for locating lifeboats on the coast of the United States...
In answer to a call for information relative to the use of the U. States marine hospitals for other purposes than the relief of sick and disabled seamen.
Communicating information in relation to contracts for light-houses authorized to be erected on the Pacific coast....
In conjunction with the Secretaries of the Interior, War, Navy, and the Postmaster General, in relation to the examination, promo- tion and classification of the clerks of the several departments.. In relation to a charge rejected in the account of the Hon. David Tod, late minister to Brazil, for money advanced to Wm. E. Ander- son, who was sent to the United States as a witness..... In relation to the practicability, utility, and probable cost of a ship canal across the peninsula of Florida; and also in relation to the navigation of the Straits of Florida.... Communicating a report of the Register of the Treasury, and other papers in relation to the claim of Nahum Ward.. Communicating statements of the amount paid by the Treasury De- partment and its several bureaux for printing, binding and stationery, from April 1, 1849, to March 31, 1852.
In relation to the establishment of a depository of the treasury in the State of California....
Communicating a report of the Register of the Treasury, with a state- ment showing the amount of the trust funds in the treasury at the close of the last four fiscal years, and a comparative state- ment of the balances per the annual printed accounts of the receipts and expenditures in the reports of finance for 1849, 1850 and 1851......
In relation to the revenue collected by James Collier, late collector of the customs at San Francisco.... In relation to the employment of agents to pay the interest on the public debt....
Communicating a report of the seizure and forfeiture of goods under the tariff act of 1846, on the ground of under valuation or fraud.] Showing the payments made to Gen. Winfield Scott and Gen. Frank- lin Pierce...
Communicating a statement of the several sums of money paid to persons claiming the same, under the act of 1846, as duties illegally exacted.....
Communicating a report of the Register of the Treasury in relation
to the tonnage of the United States.....
Communicating a list of the names and compensation of the clerks in that department and the subordinate offices belonging thereto, except the Third and Sixth Auditors and Second Comptroller (part 1)
Communicating the report of a reconnoissance, by Capt. St. Lucas, of the coast of California. Communicating a report in relation to the trade of the British North American colonies...
Transmitting a report, from the Register of the Treasury, of the com- merce and navigation of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1851....
(See index in detail, and to general statements of the above document at the end thereof.)
REPORTS FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR:
On the operations of the Interior Department during the year 1851... With statements of invalids, widows and orphans on the navy pension roll.
Communicating information in relation to the plan adopted in pre- paring the census returns..
Communicating a copy of the instructions given to the commissioners appointed under the act to ascertain and settle the private land claims in California.....
Communicating correspondence with persons claiming to be creditors of the Western Cherokees...
Bespecting the delay in making the apportionment of the representa- tives in the thirty-third Congress.
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