PRINTED BY ORDER OF

THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

DURING THE

FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-SECOND COngress,

1851-2.

IN SIXTEEN VOLUMES.

VOLUME XII.

CONTAINS No. 118, PART I.

WASHINGTON:

PRINTED BY A. BOYD HAMILTON.

Abell, in relation to the island of Santa Cruz, on the coast of Califor-

nia. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating
a copy of an agreement with Alexander..
Academy at Annapolis, Md. Report of the board of examiners in
relation to the naval.....

Academy at West Point for the year 1851. Report of the board of
visitors to the military.......

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Academy at West Point, with an estimate of the expenses thereof.
Report of the Secretary of War in relation to a proposed in-
crease of the number of cadets and change in the course of
instruction at the military....

Accounts of disbursing officers unsettled in the office of Third Audi-
tor of the Treasury during the years 1849, 1850 and 1851.
Statement of the number of...

Agents to pay the interest on the public debt. Report of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury in relation to employing...
Agriculture for 1851. Report of the Commissioner of Patents in re-

lation to

Subject.

Agricultural bureau again recommended by the President of the
United States. The establishment of an.
Agricultural bureau again recommended by the Secretary of the In-
terior. The establishment of an
Almanac. Report of Lieut. Davis in relation to the preparation of
the American Nautical..

Anthracite and bituminous coals for naval purposes. Report of the
engineer in chief of the navy on the comparative value of.....
Anthracite coal. (See Coal.)
Apportionment of representatives in the thirty-third Congress. Re-
port of the Secretary of the Interior respecting the delay in
making the ....
Appropriations for the service of the Department of the Interior,
showing the balances, repayments and transfers, and those car-
ried to the surplus fund. Statement of..

Appropriations made for locating life-boats on the coast of the United
States. Disbursement of..

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, and balances
on hand June 30, 1851. Statement of
Architect for the extension of the Capitol, showing the progress and

state of the work thereon. Report of the...
Armories and arsenals during the year 1851. Report of operations
at the national

Armories during the year 1851. Report of expenditures at the na-
tional..

Army. Annual report of the general-in-chief of the.

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Army. Annual report of the quartermaster-general of the.
Army. Annual report of the paymaster-general of the..
Army. Annual report of the commissary-general of the..
Army. Annual report of the surgeon-general of the...
Army. Annual report of the colonel of engineers of the.
Army. Annual report of the colonel of ordnance of the...
Army. Annual report of the colonel of topographical engineers of the.
Army, to furnish supplies to the government. Report in relation to
contracts made with officers of the

Arsenals during the year 1851. Report of the operations at the
United States....

Asia. Report and correspondence in relation to the mission of Mr.
Balestier to Eastern

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

Attorney-general, communicating the namos, compensation, &c., of
the clerks in his office. Report of the...
Auditor of the Treasury Department, showing the number of quarter-
yearly accounts of disbursing officers and agents, presented in
each of the last three years, ending September 30, 1851, which
remain unsettled and which will not be included in the annual
report to be made to the comptroller of the treasury under acts
of March 3, 1809, and March 3, 1817. Report of the Third...]
Auditor of the Treasury Department, communicating the names of
naval officers who have received greater pay than is provided
by the act regulating the pay of the navy, the amounts paid
and the authority therefor. Report of the Fourth....
Auditor of the Treasury Department, in relation to officers of the
navy employed in the coast survey, receiving greater compen-
sation than is provided by the act of March 3, 1835. Report
of the Fourth....

Auditor of the Treasury for the year ending June 30, 1851. State-
ment of expenditures under head of contingent expenses, as
settled at the office of the Fourth....

Subject.

Austrian authorities, of the Rev. Charles L. Brace, an American citi-
zen. Correspondence with the American chargé d'affaires at
Vienna, in relation to the imprisonment by the
Austrian chargé d'affaires, on the occasion of his withdrawal from his
diplomatic relations with the United States. Correspondence
with Mr. Hulsemann, late

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B.

Balestier, late U. S. consul at Singapore, to Eastern Asia. Corre-
spondence in relation to the mission of Mr......

Bartlett, commissioner to run and mark the boundary line between
the United States and Mexico. Copy of charges preferred by
Brevet Lieut. Col. McClellan, of the topographical engineers,
against John R..

Bartlett, commissioner to run and mark the boundary line between

the United States and Mexico. Report of the Secretary of the
Interior, in compliance with a call for information whether any
steps were taken to investigate the charges preferred against
John R......

Battle of Cerro Gordo, made by Gen. Pillow to Gen. Scott. Supple-
mental report of the....

Beldon & Co., against the government of Mexico. Papers in relation

to the claim of Samnel A.

Binding. (See Printing.)

Bituminous coals for naval purposes. Report of the engineer-in-chief
of the navy on the comparative value of anthracite and.....
Boilers of the steam-frigate Mississippi. Letter of Engineer Isher-
wood relating to an improvement in the....
Boundary line between Oregon and the British possessions in North
America be authoritatively marked out. Recommendation by
the President of the United States that the..
Boundary line between Oregon and the British possessions in North
America. Correspondence in relation to the..

Boundary line between the United States and Mexico. Progress of
the joint commission under the treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo
in running and marking the......

Boundary line between the United States and Mexico. Letters of
Mr. Louis de la Rosa, minister plempotentiary, and Mr. J. M.
Gonzales de la Vega, chargé d'affaires ad interim of the Mexi-
can republic, in relation to the....
Boundary line between the United States and the republic of Mexico.

Report of the Secretary of War in relation to charges preferred
against Mr. Bartlett, commissioner to run and mark the......
Boundary lime between the United States and the republic of Mexico.
Message of the President of the United States in relation to
the initial point in the....

Brace, an American citizen. Correspondence of the American chargé
d'affaires and the Austrian authorities in relation to the impri-
sonment of the Rev. Charles L.....

Brig General Armstrong. Acceptance by the President of the French
republic of the office of arbiter in the case of the...
British North American provinces. Correspondence with Sir H. L.
Bulwer, the British minister, in relation to commercial inter-
course with the...

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British minister, Mr. Crampton, in relation to the Oregon boundary.
Correspondence with the..

British vessel of war firing into the American steamship Prometheus.
Correspondence in relation to a...

British North American fisheries and the free navigation of the St.
Lawrence, St. John and other rivers. Letter of the Secretary
of State on the subject of the....