Footnotes
1 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.
2 Addressed to Federal officers generally.
3 See pp. 398-399.
4 Correspondence relative to Mexican border troubles.
5 Correspondence relative to the imposition of a differential duty of 50 cents per ton upon Spanish vessels entering ports of the United States.
6 Stating that the information relative to the forcible rescue of two prisoners from the jail of Starr County, Tex., by an armed band of Mexicans had been transmitted by the President to the House of Representatives on the 12th instant.
7 Relating to the indemnity paid by Spain on account of the execution of General Ryan and others at Santiago de Cuba.
8 Operation of the Union Pacific Railroad and its branches.
9 Relating to the seizure of logs, lumber, and naval stores suspected or having been taken from the public lands.
10 Relating to payments to the Ute Indians under the fourth article of the agreement of September 13, 1873, and to the occupancy of lands ceded by said Indians.
11 Correspondence relative to the Franco-German War.
12 Carpenter's painting of President Lincoln and his Cabinet at the time of his first reading of the Proclamation of Emancipation.
13 Relating to the survey of lands in the Indian Territory, etc.
14 Correspondence relative to the appointment of a third commissioner under the twenty-third article of the treaty with Great Britain of May 8, 1871, on the question of the fisheries.
15 Correspondence with Spain relative to the seizure of the steamer Virginius, etc.
16 Relating to the defalcations of William R. Whitaker while collector of internal revenue for the first district of Louisiana and while assistant treasurer of the United States at New Orleans.
17 Correspondence relative to the terms and conditions under which the Cuban insurgents surrendered and to the policy of Spain in the government of Cuba.
18 Relating to the convention of May 20, 1875, for the establishment of an international bureau of weights and measures.
19 Correspondence, etc., relative to the selection of M. Maurice Delfosse as one of the commissioners under the treaty with Great Britain of May 8, 1871, on the fisheries question.
20 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.
21 Correspondence relative to claims of United States citizens against Nicaragua.
22 Correspondence relative to the expulsion from the German Umpire of Julius Baumer, a naturalized citizen of the United States.
23 Correspondence relative to commercial relations with Mexico.
24 Relating to the claim of John C. Landreau against the Government of Peru.
25 See pp. 547-548.
26 Relating to lands in the Indian Territory acquired by the treaties of 1866.
27 See pp. 545-547.
28 "An act to amend 'An act for the relief of Joseph B. Collins, approved March 3, 1879.'"
29 The positions for which applications may be made in the several offices are: Collector's and surveyor's office: (1) Inspector, at salary of $4 per day; (2) clerk, at annual salary of $1,200; (3) weigher's clerk, at annual salary of $1,200; (4) ganger's clerk, at annual salary of $1,200; (5) night inspector, at a salary of $2.50 per day, and clerk, at an annual salary of less than $1,200.
Naval office: (1) Clerk, at an annual salary of $1,200; (2) clerk, at an annual salary of less than $1,200.
Assistant treasurer's office: (1) Clerk, at an annual salary of $2,000; (2) clerk, at an annual salary of $1,200; (3) clerk, at an annual salary of less than $1,200.
Appraiser's office: (1) Examiner, at an annual salary of $1,800; (2) clerk, verifier, or sampler, at an annual salary of $1,200; (3) clerk, verifier, or sampler, at an annual salary of less than $1,200; (4) openers and packers, at a salary of $3 per day.
30 See p. 181.
31 See p. 158.
32 See p. 231.
33 See rule 7, promulgated December 19, 1871, p.158.
34 See p. 181.
35 See rule 9, promulgated December 19, 1871, p. 158.
36 See p. 232.
37 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.
38 See pp. 549-550. [!--Note--]
39 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.
40 See pp. 547-548.
41 Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.
42 Transmitting statements of the number of soldiers and civilians killed and wounded, number of Indians killed, value of property destroyed, and expenses incurred by the United States in certain Indian wars from 1865 to 1879.
43 (1) Regulation of Chinese immigration into the United States (2) commercial intercourse and judicial procedure.
44 See pp. 639-640.
45 Correspondence relative to the sending to the United States by foreign governments of criminals, paupers, and insane persons.