THE

EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS,

PRINTED BY ORDER OF

THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

SECOND SESSION, THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS,

1858-'59,

AND

SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SENATE OF 1859.

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

Volume 1 contains No. 1 part 1, (President's Message and Report of Secretary of Interior.) Volume 2 contains No. 1 part 2, (Report of Secretary of War, 1st part.)

Volume 3 contains No. 1 part 3, (Report of Secretary of War, 2d part.)

Volume 4 contains No. 1 part 4, (Reports of Secretary of Navy and Postmaster General. Volume 5 contains No. 1 part 5, (maps.)

Volume 6 (part 1) contains No. 2 (Finance) and No. 1 special session. (part 2) contains No. 3 to No. 6, and No. 2 special session. Volume 7 contains No. 7 to No. 28, except 14 and 22, parts 1 and 2.

Volume 8 contains No. 22 part 1.

Volume 9 contains No. 22 part 2.

Volume 10 contains No. 29 to 48, except 37, 46, 47, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Volume 11 contains No. 47 part 1, Patent Office-Mechanical.
Volume 12 contains No. 47 part 2, Patent Office-Mechanical.
Volume 13 contains No. 47 part 3, Patent Office-Mechanical.
Volume 14 contains No. 47 part 4, Patent Office-Agricultural.
Volume 15 contains Report on Commerce and Navigation.

Volume 16 contains No. 14, in quarto.

Volume 17 contains No. 37, in quarto.

Volume 18 contains No. 46, in quarto.

WASHINGTON:

WILLIAM A. HARRIS, PRINTER.

INDEX

то

EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS

PRINTED AT THE

SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

COMMENCING MARCH 4, 1859.

Subject.

Vol.

No.

Page.

Blondell, governor of Singapore, relative to the ship "Henrietta
Maria," (part 1.) Correspondence between Commander Foot,
United States navy, and his Excellency E. A....
Carbine, (part 2.) Report of Colonel H. K. Craig, of the Ordnance
Bureau, in relation to Sharpe's rifle

Foot, of the United States navy, and the governor of Singapore, in
relation to the ship Henrietta Maria, (part 1.) Correspondence
between Commander.

"Henrietta Maria," (part 1.) Correspondence between Commander
Foot, of the United States navy, and the governor of Singapore,
in relation to the ship...

Navy, communicating correspondence in relation to the ship "Hen-
rietta Maria," (part 1.) Report of the Secretary of the...
Sharpe's rifle carbine, (part 2.) Report of H. K. Craig, Colonel of
Ordnance in relation to...

War, communicating information in relation to Sharpe's rifle car-
bine, (part 2.) Report of the Secretary of..

Academy at West Point, New York. Report of the Board of Visitors
to the Military

Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Report of the Board of Officers
appointed to witness the examination of acting midshipmen,
and to examine into the state of the police, discipline and
general management of the Naval

Adjutant General of the army. Annual report of the....
Africans on the coast of Africa. Report in answer to a resolution
of the Senate in relation to the landing of the barque Wan-
derer with a cargo of....

Africa, the amount of duties derived from them, and the number
and tonnage of American vessels which entered and cleared
thereto. Statements of the quantity and value of domestic
and foreign exports and imports in American vessels to and
from the coast of

African negroes to Liberia, and their support for one year after their
arrival there. Correspondence relating to the conveyance
from Fort Sumpter, South Carolina, of certain...
Almanac. Report of the progress made in the publication of the
American Ephemeris and Nautical

Appropriations communicated by the Secretary of the Interior.

Statement of..

Re-

Appropriations applicable to the service of the War Department.
Statement of....

Appropriations, and to meet the outstanding treasury notes.

commendation by the President of the United States to Con-
gress to make provision for the payment of...--
Appropriations for the service of the Navy Department for the year

ending June 30, 1858, under an act of May 1, 1820. State-
ment of.

Aqueduct during the year ending Septeinber 30, 1858. Report of
operations on the Washington....

Arbuckle. (See Fort Arbuckle.)

Armament of the United States troops, with a view to economy and
their increased efficiency on the frontiers, with an estimate
of the additional expense, if any, and the means provided,
or necessary to be provided, for the same. Report of pro-
posed changes in the.....

Armories and arsenals. Report of operations at the United States
Army pensions. (See Pensions.)

Subject.

Army so as to diminish the cost of transportation and subsistence,
and at the same time perform the necessary service in sup-
pressing Indian outbreaks. Report relative to stationing

the..

Army operations in Utah.

Army operations in Florida.

Report of....
Report of...

Army operations in Texas. Report of....

Army operations in New Mexico. Report of

Army operations in the department of the Pacific. Report of......
Army operations in suppressing Indian disturbances near Fort Ar-
buckle. Report of -

Army. Annual report of the Commanding General of the
Army. Annual report of the Adjutant General of the

Army.

Annual report of the Quartermaster General of the...

Army. Annual report of the Commissary General of Subsistence
of the....

Army. Annual report of the Paymaster General of the
Army. Annual report of the Surgeon General of the

Arsenal. Letter of Major Ramsay on the condition of the work-
shops at the Washington

Arsenals and armories of the United States. Annual report of ope-
rations at the several..

Artesian wells on the public lands. Report of experiments in
sinking

Asylum. (See Military Asylum)
Attorney General, in answer to a resolution of the Senate concerning

the landing of the barque Wanderer on the coast of Georgia
with a cargo of Africans. Report of the.....
Attorney General, relative to the title conveyed to the United States
by the city of San Francisco to lots Nos. 5 and 6 in Hospital
square, in that city. Report of the
Auditor of the Treasury, communicating copies of the accounts of
persons charged with the disbursement of moneys, &c., for
the benefit of the Indians in 1838. Letter of the Second....
Auditor of the Treasury Department, on the operations of his office

during the year ending June 30, 1858. Report of the First.
Auditor of the Treasury Department, on the operations of his office
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1858. Report of the
Second

Auditor of the Treasury Department, on the operations of his office
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1858. Report of the
Third

Auditor of the Treasury Department, on the operations of his office
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1858. Report of the
Fourth....

Auditor of the Treasury, on the operations of his office during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1858. Report of the Fifth...
Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, on the ope-
rations of his office for the year ending June 30, 1858. Re-
port of the Sixth

Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, exhibiting
the revenue account of that Department. Report of the....

B.

Balances. (See Weights and measures.)

Banks in the different States at the dates annexed. Synoptical
statement of the returns of the....

Banks in different sections of the Union in 1854-'55, 1855-'56,
1856-57, and 1857-'58. Comparative view of the
Banks, according to the returns dated nearest to January 1, 1858.
General statement of the condition of the...

Subject.

Banks of the United States, according to returns nearest to January
1, 1834, -'35, -'36,-'37,-'38,-'39, -'40, -'41, -'42, -'43,
-'44, 45, 46, -'47,-'48,-'49,-'50,-'51,-'54,-'55,-'56,
-'57, and -'58. Comparative view of the condition of the ..
Bey of Cairo, in Egypt, on the treatment and use of camels in war
and in commerce. Treatise of Hekek yan

Elind. (See Derf, dumb, and blind.)

Blythe island, in the State of Georgia. Correspondence, &c., in re-
lation to the naval depot at..

Board of Inspectors of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia.
Annual report of the

Board of Visitors of the hospital for the insane in the District of
Columbia. Annual report of the

Board of Commissioners appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury
upon life and surf boats. Report of the

Board of Directors of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind.
Annual report of the.....

Board of Visitors to the Military Academy at West Point, New
York. Report of the

Boats. Report of the Board of Commissioners appointed by the
Secretary of the Treasury upon life and surf ..

Bounty lands. (See Lands.)

Breadstuffs at New York for the years ending June 30, 1856, 1857,
and 1858. Statement of average monthly prices of
Breadstuffs and provisions exported annually from 1821 to 1858.
Statement of the aggregate value of.............

Bremen line of mail steamers. Statement of the amount of revenue
received by the United States and the Post Office Department
from the

Brewer in the Great Falls condemnation case. Opinion of Judge...
British possessions in North America from 1851 to 1858. Statement
of exports and imports to Canada and other..
Buildings on the operations of his office. Annual report of the Com-
missioner of Public...

Buildings confided to the charge of the Treasury Department. Re-
port of the engineer in charge of the custom houses and other
public

Bureau of Construction, &c., in relation to contracts for live oak
timber. Report of the......

Bureau of Yards and Docks. Report with an abstract of the opera-
tions of the......

Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, with estimates, &c. Report

of the...

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Bureau of Construction, &c.

Abstracts of offers to furnish naval
supplies under the cognizance of the....
Bureau of Construction, &c. Statement of contracts under the cog-
nizance of the...

Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, with estimates. Annual report
of the......

Bureau of Provisions and Clothing to the United States naval squad-
rons on foreign stations during the year ending June 30, 1858.
Statement of the value of shipments made by the....
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing Schedules of proposals received
for navy supplies and transportation thereof, for the year
ending June 30, 1859, under advertisement of the
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing for supplies for the navy, under
acts of 1803 and 1809, during the year ending June 30,
1859. Statement of contracts made by the............
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, with a synopsis thereof, and esti-
mates, &c. for the year ending June 30, 1860. Annual
report of the...