Footnotes

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1 With confederated tribes of Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indiana of the Upper Arkansas River.

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2 See p. 22.

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3 James M. Mason and John Slidell, Confederate envoys to England and France, respectively, and two others.

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4 Relating to assignment of officers of the Army to duty.

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5 Containing a narrative of incidents pertaining to the government of the Territory of Nevada.

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6 United States commissioner at New Orleans.

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7 Relating to the building of ships of war for the Japanese Government.

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8 Relating to the use of negroes by the French army in Mexico.

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9 Omitted.

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10 See proclamation dated December 8, 1863, pp. 213-215.

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11 Relating to the amount of money received for the sale of the Wea trust lands in Kansas, etc.

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12 Relating to the delivery of a person charged with crime against Spain to the officers of that Government.

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13 Report from the Provost-Marshal-General, showing the result of the draft to fill a deficiency in the quotas of certain States, and recommending a repeal of the clause in the enrollment act commonly known as the three-hundred-dollar clause.

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14 On the subject of compensated plantation labor, public or private.

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15 Pocket veto.

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16 Entitled "Joint resolution in relation to certain railroads."

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17 Brevet Brigadier-General James A. Ekin, Quartermaster's Department, United States Army, substituted.

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18 Mr. Stanton having declined, Hon. George Bancroft, of New York, in response to an invitation from the joint committee, consented to deliver the address.