SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, AND THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SENATE CONVENED MARCH 4, 1885.

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THE EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS

OF THE

SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

FOR THE

SECOND SESSION FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, 1884-'85, AND SPECIAL

SESSION OF THE SENATE, MARCH, 1885.

Alaska. Official report of Lieutenant Schwatka of his military recon-
naissance of 1883 in

Alaska. Report of recent explorations in Northern, by Lieut. George
M. Stoney, U. S. N. (Only letter of Secretary printed)..

Antonio de Salazar grant. Letter Secretary of the Interior, transmitting

a tracing of the plat of the preliminary survey of the unconfirmed

private land claim, No. 132, in the Territory of New Mexico, known

as the....

(Only letter of the Secretary printed.)

Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians. Condition of the .....

Arkansas River. Relative to obstruction to navigation through the draw
of the railroad bridge across the, at Rob Roy, Ark. (Special session).
"Armament Board." Report of the, upon the various kinds of ordnance
for the service........

Army. Letter of the Surgeon-General with petition of hospital stewards

of the, for increase of pay..

(Only letter of transmittal printed.)

Army, Petitions relating to Senate bill 2442 to increase the efficiency

of the infantry branch of the....

(Only letter of transmittal printed.)

Astronomical day. Letter Secretary of the Navy concerning the pro-

posed change in the time for beginning the...

Attorney-General. Letters:

Relative to the erection of a United States penitentiary.....

(Only letter of Attorney-General printed.)

Asking additional appropriations for defending suits brought in the
Court of Claims under the act of March 3, 1883

Proceedings under the act of Congress for increasing the water of

the city of Washington ....

Lands taken by the Government under the act of July 15, 1882.

Relative to the indebtedness of the Union Pacific Railroad Com-

pany.

Relative to obtaining certain records of the late Confederate States

pertaining to mail contracts

Appropriation for defense of the United States in the Court of

Claims...

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