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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....

DEPARTMENTS.

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

Department.....

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....

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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..

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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

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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).

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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....

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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..

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(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....

Respecting the delay in making the apportionment of the representa-
tives in the thirty-third Congress..

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Communicating statements of rejected or suspended applications for
pensions, and the grounds of such suspension or rejection....
Showing balances of appropriations for the service of that depart-
ment on the 1st of July, 1851, the repayments and transfers,
with the amounts applicable to the service during the same
period, and the amounts drawn from the treasury, with such
appropriations as have been carried to the surplus fund on the
1st of July, 1851.

Communicating a report of the architect of the extension of the Capi-
tol..
Communicating a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in re-
lation to an amount due the St. Regis Indians..

Communicating a copy of the charges preferred against the present
commissioner appointed to run and mark the boundary line be-
tween the United States and Mexico....

Communicating a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, rela-
tive to debts contracted by Indian agents in California
In relation to a liquidated balance due the Creek Indians for losses
during the last war with Great Britain

Communicating a copy of an agreement entered into on behalf of the
United States, with Alexander G. Abell, in relation to the
island of Santa Cruz, on the coast of California..

In answer to a call for information whether any steps were taken to
investigate the charges preferred by Col. McClellan against Mr.
Bartlett, a commissioner to run and mark the boundary be-
tween the United States and Mexico..

Communicating information in relation to the public lands in the State
of Louisiana....

Communicating a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,

with copies of communications received from the agents of the
department in California, in relation to debts contracted by
them.....

Communicating a statement of certain expenditures for and on ac-
count of the seventh census

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In relation to the printing, binding and advertising executed for or by
order of that department...

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Communicating the names, compensation, &c., of the clerks in that
department and the offices belonging thereto

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Communicating the report of the superintendent of the coast survey.
Communicating a report of the Commissioner to run and mark the
boundary line between the United States and the republic of
Mexico....

REPORTS FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

On the operations of the War Department during the year 1851
With statements of expenditures from the appropriations for contin-
gencies of the offices and bureau of the War Department during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1851
Showing the contracts made under authority of the War Department
during the year 1851....

Relative to the construction of a military road from Fort Dodge to

Dubuque, and the cost of transporting munitions of war, pro-
visions, &c., used at that fort, from the Mississippi river...
Showing the names of persons employed in the War Department
other than officers of the army during the year 1851
Communicating a statement of expenditures for contingencies of the
military establishment during the year 1851..

Showing the expenses of the national armories and the number of
arms and appendages made and repaired during the year 1851
Communicating reports in relation to the inundations of the Missis-
sippi river.

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In relation to the claims of the territory of Iowa for the expenses of
a portion of the militia of that territory, called into service
during the autumn of 1839..

Communicating an abstract of the returns of the militia of the United
States, and of their arms, accoutrements and ammunition.

In relation to the execution of the act to found a military asylum for
the relief and support of invalid and disabled soldiers of the
United States army......

Communicating an estimate of the amount of money necessary to be
appropriated for the commencement of the fortifications at
San Francisco......

Communicating a statement showing the number of fire-arms belong-
ing to the United States

Communicating to the Hon. Mr. Gwin, chairman of the Senate com-
mittee on naval affairs, a report from Colonel Abert, chief of
the bureau of topographical engineers, and a communication
from Captain Hardcastle on the subject of diverting the river
of San Diego into False Bay, &c....

Communicating a report of the survey estimates, &c., of a route for
a road from St. Louis to the Big Bend of the Red river, by
Joshua Barney.

Communicating a supplemental report of the battle of Cerro Gordo,
made by General Pillow to General Scott.

On the necessity of establishing suitable depots for the preservation
of gunpowder belonging to the United States.

In relation to contracts made with officers of the army to furnish
supplies to the government..

In relation to civil officers employed in the territory of New Mexico
while under military government.

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Communicating a copy of the reconnaissance, by Lieutenant Derby,
of the gulf of California and the Colorado river...

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In relation to the construction of a canal across the peninsula of
Florida.

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In relation to the printing, binding, and advertising executed for or
by order of the War Department:

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In relation to the improvement of the Tennessee river..
Communicating a report of the topographical bureau in relation to
the improvement of the St. Clair flats..

In relation to a proposed increase of the number of cadets and a
change in the course of instruction at the military academy,
with an estimate of the expenses thereof

Communicating the names, compensation, &c., of the clerks in the
War Department and its bureau..

Communicating the report of Lieutenant Derby in relation to the

Tulares valley......

In relation to the Mexican boundary commission.

REPORTS FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY:

On the operations of the Navy Department during the year 1851................
Transmitting the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry in the case of

Wm. K. Latimer, a captain in the navy.

Communicating copies of contracts for the construction of dry docks,
basins and railways at Kittery, Philadelphia and Pensacola;
and for a floating sectional dock at San Francisco.

Communicating, in conjunction with the Postmaster General, informa-
tion in relation to the contracts, with copies thereof, for the
transportation of the mails by steamships between New York
and California..

In relation to the expediency of a reconnoissance of the routes of na-
vigation in the Northern and in the China and Japan seas.....
Communicating the reports of Engineer Ellis, and other officers, of a
test of coals made at the navy-yard at Washington.....

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In relation to the qualities of the several species of coal now used by
the navy of the United States....
Communicating the names of naval officers who have received greater

pay than is provided by the act regulating the pay of the uavy,
the amount paid and the authority therefor....

In answer to the resolution calling for information in regard to officers
of the navy receiving greater compensation than is provided
by act of March 3, 1835, whether settled in the office of the
Fourth Auditor or elsewhere, and especially whether any of
those officers employed on the coast survey are receiving such
compensation...
Communicating a report of the engineer-in-chief of the navy, on the
comparative value of the anthracite and bituminous coals.
Communicating information of the removal of the wreck of the United
States steam frigate Missouri from the Bay of Gibraltar...
In answer to a resolution calling for the report of the board on marine
condensers......

Communicating a report of Lieutenant Davis, the officer charged with
the superintendence of the preparation of the American Nau-
tical Almanac......

In relation to the printing, binding and advertising executed for or by
order of the Navy Department......

Communicating the names, compensation, &c., of the clerks in that
department and its bureaus..

Communicating letters from officers of the navy on the subject of cor-
'poral punishment in the navy, and a revision of the regulations
for its better government.

In relation to dry docks in California.

REPORTS FROM THE POSTMASTER GENERAL:

On the operations of the Post Office Department during the year
1851....

With statements of the receipts and expenditures of the Post Office
Department for the quarter ending September 30, 1852..

Communicating information and correspondence in relation to the
contracts for transporting the mails in steamships between
New York and California......

In relation to the postal operations of the United States..
Communicating information in relation to the clerks in the Post Office

Department....

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REPORT FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL:

Communicating the names, compensation, &c., of the clerks employed
in his office during the year 1851...

SUBORDINATE DEPARTMENTS.

REPORTS FROM THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE:

On the operations of the General Land Office during the year 1851...
Transmitting a copy of instructions to the commissioners to ascertain
and settle the private land claims in California, and to the
surveyor-general of California in connection with the subject..

In relation to the public lands in Louisiana.....

REPORTS FROM THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS:

On the operations of the Indian Department during the year 1851....
Communicating correspondence in relation to the claim of John E.

and Amos Kendall......

In relation to the amount due the St. Regis Indians...

In relation to debts contracted by Indian agents in California..

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