Antique Congressional Record 1885 Book

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 No pages are  torn or marked, binding has a crack in the leather. All pages good and not falling out, oirginal leather binding and cover shows wear.

This is an index to the bills and committees used/passed during the second session. It has a list of all 325 congressmen. 

Title page reads: The Proceedings and Debates of the Forty-eighth Congress, second session.

Government printing office 1885

vol.XVL

Listed first in alphabetical order is all Index, with names and places, then following in the second half of the book are the bill numbers, how it was voted etc.

This would be a great research piece for ancestery as it has many, many names listed that pensions and reliefs are granted to for survivors and military family members and war veterans.

There are references to Abe Lincoln, and other Presidents and much more interesting history. 

There is one House Bill entry reading for providing for the Post Office fiscal year ending June 30, 1886

also; a bill to provide for the sale of the Sac and Fox Indian reservation in the States of Nebraska and Kansas (shows voting and passing by house, congress and president)

There is a bill to erect a public building at Waco, TX

Also a bill proposing a bridge over Potamac River.

There are many war refs (Breat Britian 1812, Mexico, War of Rebellion)

Some interesting information:

48th Congress (1883–1885)

Congressional Profile

325 Representatives

• 8 Delegates

Party Divisions:*

• 196 Democrats
• 117 Republicans
• 4 Readjusters
• 3 Independent Democrats
• 2 Independents
• 2 Nationals
• 1 Independent Republican

*Party division totals are based on election day results.

Congress Overview

The 1882 election produced a new Democratic House and a familiar Republican Senate. The 48th Congress (1883–1885) replaced Alaska’s military rule with a civil territorial government, passed the Second Chinese Exclusion Act, and stiffened the penalties for violating immigration policy. Congress continued to shift away from the civil rights legislation of the Reconstruction Era in favor of addressing America’s emerging industrial economy. Congress established bureaus of labor and of animal industry, and modified tariff rates to encourage American shipbuilding.

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