Military Affairs- Blair, F. P., jr., enlargement of certain canal locks..... Permanent fortifications, &c. Buffinton, Joseph B. Eaton Rice M. Brown.. Morehead, Select, national armory Olin, Robert Brent, representatives of.... Richardson, U. S. Grant Mitchell, Indian Affairs, Nathaniel McLean and others... Morehead, Naval Affairs, Panama Railroad Company.... Claims, Paulding, Williams, and Van Wart, heirs of. Morton, J. Sterling, and S. G. Daily Mountjoy, Captain John, heirs of.. 3 4 109 110 65 66 28 3 4 Anson P. Morrill, William H. Van Horn Porter, Judiciary, citizenship to certain Mexicans........................................ Ely S. Parker.... 84 Colonel Archibald Crary, heirs of.... Anson P Morrill, Paulding, Williams, and Van Wart, heirs of.. Arnold, Illinois and Michigan canal enlargement...... Johnson, railroad facilities between New York and Washington... Roddy, William. S. Sac and Fox Indians.... Samson, George W., heir of Simeon Samson 3 73 3 61 3 22 4 146 4 3 3 14 3 5 3 51 Sedgwick, Naval Affairs, Frederick F. Brose, legal representatives of.. 10 Segar, Joseph.... 12 Same.. 3 70 Select, Arnold, harbor defences of the great rivers and lakes. Sheffield, Commerce, solicitor of customs for the port of New York.. Ship canal to connect the Mississippi river with Lake Michigan. Stevens, Ways and Means, appropriations for civil expenses for 1862 and 20 Vincent, Jeremiah, legal representatives of.... Vincent, Frederick, administrator of James Le Caze, &c...... W. Walton, E. P., Claims-Continued. Charles Radcliff. William Roddy- Printing, Annals of Congress Index to census Patent Office Report.... Ward, Commerce, reciprocity treaty with Great Britain..... Coinage department in the United States assay office, Washburne, select, government contracts Government contracts... Commerce, change of location of port of entry for Puget's Ways and Means, Stevens- Appropriations for civil expenses for 1862 and 1863 ... Maynard, branch mint at Denver, Colorado Territory White, A. S., Foreign Affairs, relief to the "starving" in Ireland. Williams, Zina.... Wilson, John Wilson, Judiciary, telegraph censorship. Winslow, Robert F Wood, Invalid Pensions, Edwin W. Jones. Wood, H. Clay, John P. Sherburne and....... Woodbury, Daniel.... Woodruff, Public Lands, half-breeds of the Sioux nation of Indians. Wooster, Ann... Worcester, Elections- John M. Butler and Wm. E. Lehman.... Charles H. Upton..---- 33 36 116 148 4 92 PERMANENT FORTIFICATIONS AND SEA-COAST DEFENCES. [To accompany bill H. R. No. 416.] APRIL 23, 1862.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. F. P. BLAIR, jr., from the Committee on Military Affairs, made the following REPORT. The Committee on Military Affairs, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, directing them to "examine the whole system of permanent defences of the country, for the purpose of ascertaining what modifications of the old plans, if any, are required to repel the improved means of attack, and to report by bill or otherwise," have given this subject a careful consideration, and instructed me to submit the following report and accompanying bill : Invulnerability to all attacks, except those of an extraordinary character, is the most perfect insurance attainable by a powerful and peaceful nation against the calamity of war. An attack upon a great military nation, to be dangerous, requires time for preparation, and thus affords time for preparing large means of defence. Hence it has ever been the aim of military engineers to construct frontier defences competent only to resist the greatest efforts which could be made suddenly by the forces ordinarily at the command of powerful rival nations, taking care that the fortifications should be capable of enlargement to any desirable extent. The making of extraordinary defences is usually left to the occasions which demand them. not safe, however, for a nation to forget that, as the science, wealth, population, and power of leading governments increase, so, pari passu, must the strength of the ordinary defences be increased; nor must it be forgotten that works incapable of being carried by sudden assault one year, may, by new applications of science and of mechanical arts, be quite vulnerable the next. It is To aid the House in forming an intelligent judgment upon the merits of our present system of frontier defences, the committee have collected and appended here to several leading reports of army engineers and naval officers, and also that of Secretary Cass upon this subject. As these reports elaborately discuss the subject of frontier defences in all its varied bearings with distinguished ability, and as they are scarce and difficult to obtain, the printing of an extra number |