Excerpt from Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: Being the Third Session of the Forty-Sixth Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Washington, December 6, 1880, in the One Hundred and Fifth Year of the Independence of the United States The commission sitting in this city for the adjudication of claims of our citizens against the Government of Spain is, I h0pe, approaching the termination of its labors. The claims against the United States under the Florida Treaty with Spain were submitted to Congress for its action at the late session, and I again invite your attention to this lon g-standin g question, with a view to a final disposition of the matter. 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.