United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment

Destruction of United States Bonds

Whiskey frauds and administration of Internal Revenue Department

Letter from the Attorney General, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th instant, respecting the twenty per cent. additional compensation

Legal services paid by State Department and duties of Examiner of Claims. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th ultimo, relative to amounts paid by the State Department since 1860 for legal services and the duties of the Examiner of Claims

Civil service of the United States. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 948.)

Whiskey frauds

Writing paper for the use of the House of Representatives. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, relative to writing paper purchased for the use of the House of Representatives

Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th instant, relative to the allowance of twenty per cent. for last fiscal year

Letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in answer to a resolution of the House of 12th instant, relative to the Gettysburg asylum lottery

Fees of Consular Officers. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 1047.)

Memorial of Edward Downey, mayor of Brownsville, Texas, praying that measures be taken to procure from the Mexican government the abolition of the zona libre, (free belt,) established by the Legislature of the State of Tamaulipas, by act passed on the 28th December, 1857, and approved by the Congress of Mexico July 30, 1861, along the frontier of the republic of Mexico, on the Rio Grande, with a view to prevent smuggling into the United States, and for the protection of American interests on that frontier

Labor in Appraisers' Department, New York. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of 26th ultimo, relative to contracts for labor in the Appraisers' Department in the City of New York

Resolution of Senate Directing Investigation on Contracts for Steam Machinery and Settlements Thereunder

Letter from the Postmaster General, in answer to a resolution of the 11th instant, respecting the twenty per cent. additional compensation

Sale of iron-clads. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of 15th instant relative to the sale of iron-clads Oneoto and Catawba

Contracts for coal. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 6th instant, a communication from the Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, relative to contracts for the purchase of coal

Twenty per cent. compensation. Letter from the Congressional Printer, in answer to a resolution of the 11th instant, respecting the twenty per cent. additional compensation

Vessels bought, sold, and chartered by the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 27th of January, a report by the Quartermaster General, relative to the number of vessels bought, sold, and chartered by the United States since April, 1861

[U.S. securities.]

New York custom-house. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of February 26, asking for the amount paid for repairs on the New York custom-house for the past two years

Buildings rented in the District of Columbia

Civil service of the United States

Sale of Iron-Clads

Report of Committee on Retrenchment

Counsel employed by the Attorney General. Letter from the Attorney General, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 11th ultimo, relative to counsel employed by him, assistants to District Attorneys, and compensation paid, &c

The foreign service