Subject.

Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury-Continued.

Countries from which American and foreign vessels arrived

in each district...

Imports indirect....

Summary of the same..

Tonnage of the several districts of the United States...
Condensed view of the tonnage of the several districts of the
United States....

Number and class of vessels built during the year 1858...
Comparative view of the registered and enrolled tonnage

from 1815 to 1858...

Number and class of vessels built from 1815 to 1858-
Index to exports, imports, and tonnage..

Reports of the Secretary of the Interior, viz:

Accompanying the President's annual message, (part 1,) showing
the operations of the Interior Department during the year
ending June 30, 1858

Accompanying documents, viz:

List of documents received of the Librarian of Congress at
the Interior Department August and September, 1858-
Communicating statements showing all expenditures from the treas-
ury for public and private purposes in the District of Columbia;
the number of town lots originally owned by the United
States in Washington; the number sold, and the sum for
which sold; the number reserved, and their value; the
estimated value of individual property, and the value of
government property..

Communicating statements of appropriations...
Communicating reports upon Pacific wagon roads

Reports of the Secretary of War, viz:

On the operations of the War Department during the year 1857-'58-

Documents accompanying the above, viz:

General orders, No. 22, from army headquarters, respecting

Affairs in the department of Texas....
Affairs in the department of New Mexico....
Affairs in the department of the Pacific.....
Indian disturbances near Fort Arbuckle...

Colonel Sumner's report of his expedition on the plains.
Colonel Smith's report of his expedition to the Red River of
the North.

Mr. De Leon to the Secretary of War, May 6, 1858, enclosing
a treatise on camels and dromedaries..

Major Ramsay to the Secretary of War, respecting the condi-
tion of the workshops at Washington arsenal....
Memoir on the dangers and defences of New York, by Lieut.
Morton

Report from the Office of Explorations and Surveys...
Report on the Capitol extension, new dome, and Post Office
extension

Report of the Commanding General of the army..
Statements from the Adjutant General....

Map showing lines of march passed over by troops during
the year ending June 30, 1858

Relative to the appropriation of land in the harbor of New York for
the use of the revenue department.....
Communicating a statement of the appropriations applicable to the
service of that department for the fiscal year 1857-'58...
Communicating a report of the Secretary of State, with a list of
claims of citizens of the United States against the following
governments, viz:

Great Britain

France

Spain

Portugal

Belgium...

Holland..

Relative to stationing the army within the line of settlements so as
to diminish the cost of transportation and at the same time
suppress Indian outbreaks....

Communicating a copy of the topographical memoir and map of
Colonel Wright's late campaign against the Indians in Ore-
gon and Washington Territories

Subject.

Reports of the Secretary of War-Continued.
Communicating information as to what changes have been proposed
in the armament of the United States mounted troops with
a view to economy and increased efficiency of that force on
the frontiers; an estimate of the additional expense, if any,
and the means provided, or necessary to be provided for the

same...

Communicating to the President a copy of the opinion of Judge
Brewer in the Great Falls condemnation case, involving a
claim against the United States for damages..
Communicating Captain Simpson's report and map of wagon road

routes in Utah Territory...

Communicating Governor Stevens' report on Pacific railroad route,
(quarto).

Reports of the Secretary of the Navy, viz :

On the operations of the navy and Navy Department...

Documents accompanying the above, viz:

List of deaths, resignations, and dismissions in the navy since
the last

Code of regulations for the government of the navy, prepared

under act of March 3, 1857...........
Report of the board of officers appointed to witness the ex-
amination of acting midshipmen, and examine into
the state of the police, discipline and general manage-
ment of the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland..
Report of the cruise of the practice ship Preble, under Com-
mander Craven, commandant of midshipmen ....
Communication from Commander Maury, Superintendent of
the Naval Observatory, &c., in relation to the work
accomplished at, and the wants of that institution....
Report of Professor Winlock, of the progress and state of pre-
paration of the Nautical Almanac under his charge.
Estimate of appropriations required for the office of the Sec-
retary of the Navy, and the southwest executive
building, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860....
Report and detailed estimates of the Bureau of Yards and
Docks.....

Report and detailed estimates of the Bureau of Ordnance and
Hydrography, including those of the Naval Academy,
Naval Observatory, and Nautical Almanac

Report and detailed estimates of the Bureau of Construction,
Equipment, and Repair.............

Report and detailed estimates of the Bureau of Provisions and

Clothing

Report and detailed estimates of the Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery

Report of the commandant of the marine corps, and detailed
estimates from the paymaster and quartermaster of the
corps

General estimate (civil) of the office of the Secretary of the
Navy and bureaus of the department..

General estimate, southwest executive building..

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General estimate for all objects under the control of the Navy

General estimate for special objects under the control of the

department.

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Subject.

Reports of the Secretary of the Navy-Continued.
Statement of the Second Comptroller of the appropriations
for the Navy Department, viz: balances on the 1st
of July, 1857; appropriations for 1857-'58; repay-
ments and transfers for the same time; amounts
applicable to the service of the year 1857-'58; amounts
drawn from the treasury by requisition during the
same period, and balances on hand June 1, 1858, with
the sums which have been carried to the "surplus
fund," specially designated..
Abstract of expenditures under the head of "contingent ex-
penses of the navy," as settled and allowed at the
office of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, from
July 1, 1857, to June 30, 1858..

Communicating the correspondence between the president of Nica-
ragua and Commodore Paulding, in relation to the capture of
General Walker and his command, in December, 1857...
Communicating a list of all the vessels belonging to or connected
with the navy; also, a list of all the officers of the navy, with
their compensation...

In relation to contracts for live-oak timber made since March 4, 1857.
Communicating copies of the correspondence and other papers re-

lating to the naval depot at Blythe island, Georgia...
Communicating a report of the examination of the iron, coal, and
timber of the Deep river country, in North Carolina..
Communicating a statement of the vessels of the navy which have
been captured, lost, or destroyed since the year 1798..

Reports of the Postmaster General, viz:

On the operations and business of the Post Office Department
Documents accompanying the above, viz:

Report of observations by G. Bailey, special agent, &c., while
passing over the mail routes between New York and San
Francisco and between San Francisco and the Missis-
sippi river...

Memorandum of distances between the stations on the over-
land mail route from San Francisco to St. Louis.....
Extract from a report made in March, 1858, by the superin-
tendent of the route from San Antonio, Texas, to San
Diego, California

Statement of United States mail service abroad, as in operation
September 30, 1858...

Statement of amounts paid for the year ending June 30, 1858,
on the New York and Liverpool, New York and
Chagres, and the Astoria and Panama lines of steamers;
the amount of contract pay, and deductions of 10 per
cent. and fines...

Table of mail service in the several States and Territories,
and the different modes of conveyance, for the year
ending June 30, 1858.

Statement of the number of mail routes, mail contractors,

route agents, express and local agents, and mail mes-
sengers at the close of the contract year ended June
30, 1858...
Statement of mail service in the States of Michigan, Indiana,

Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Texas, California, and the Territories of
Oregon, New Mexico, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, and
Washington

Subject.

Reports of the Postmaster General-Continued.

Statement of the northwestern and southwestern railroad mail
service, as in operation on September 30, 1858......
Statement of railroad mail service, as in operation June 30,
1858....

Statement of steamboat mail service, as in operation Septem-

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ber 30, 1858...

Statement showing the increase and decrease of mail trans-
portation, and cost in each State and Territory, during
the year ending June 30, 1858

Detailed statement of routes on which improvements have
been made and additional expenses incurred..
Statement of the revenue account of the Post Office Depart-
ment during the fiscal year 1857-'58.

Statement of receipts of the Post Office Department under
the several heads of letter postage, registered letters,
stamps sold, newspapers and pamphlets, fines, on ac-
count of emolument, letter carriers, dead letters, and
miscellaneous items....

Statement of expenditures of the Post Office Department un-
der their several heads for the fiscal year 1857-'58
Recapitulatory statement of the amount of letter and news-
paper postage, registered letters, postage stamps sold,
compensation allowed postmasters, incidental expenses
of post offices, and amount credited contractors and
and others for the transportation of the mails in each
State and Territory for the year ending June 30, 1858-|
Statement of the number of letters, &c., received and delivered

by carriers, and the amount received for carriage in
the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Balti-
more, New Orleans, Syracuse, Manchester, N. H.;
Harrisburg, Lowell, Roxbury, Troy, and Providence,
for the year ending June 30, 1858

Statement of the amount of letter postage on British, Prus-
sian, French, and Bremen mails received in and sent
from the United States for the fiscal year 1857-'58---
Statement of the number of letters and newspapers exchanged
between the United States and Great Britain, Prussia,
France, Bremen, and Hamburg for the fiscal year
1857-'58.

Statements of revenue accrued to the United States and the
United States Post Office Department per Cunard, Col-
lins, miscellaneous, Havre, Bremen, and Prussian
lines of steamers for the fiscal year 1857-'58..
Statement of closed mail account of ocean steamers..
Statement of the number of letters and newspapers, and
amount of postages thereon, conveyed by the various
lines of ocean steamers for the fiscal year 1857-'58....
Statement of postages on mails received and sent between
the United States and British provinces for the fiscal
year 1857-58....

Statements of postage accounts between the United States
and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the kingdoms of Prussia and France, and the post
offices of Bremen and Hamburg, in Germany ----
Statement of balances of postages due Great Britain and

Ireland, France, Bremen, and Hamburg, on the adjust-
ment of accounts with the United States for the year
ending June 30, 1858...