Excerpt from Report of the Committees of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Forty-Third Congress, 1873-'74: In Five Volumes; Volume 1, No. 1 to No. 262, Inclusive; Volume 2, No. 263 to No. 434, Inclusive; Volume 3, No. 435 to No. 611, Part 2, Inclusive; Volume 4, No. 612 to No. 772, Inclusive; Volume 5, No. 771 to No. 843, Inclusive Louis Margraf Fanny Newcomb Mary W. Shirk John F. Smith' Samuel Taylor O. G. Van Dusen John W. Wright. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.