Excerpt from Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Being the First Session of the Forty-Fifth Congress: Begun and Held at the City of Washington, October 15, 1877, in the One Hundred and Second Year of the Independence of the United States George M. Adams, Clerk of the last House of Representatives, at the hour of 12 o'clock noon, having called the House to order, proceeded to call the roll of members, by States, when the following-named members answered to their names, viz. 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.