Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of Committees of the Senate of the United States for the First Session of the Forty-Seventh Congress, 1881-1882: In Four Volumes; Volume 1. Nos. 1 to 343, Inclusive, Except No. 265; Volume 2. No. 265, Parts 1 and 2; Volume 3. Nos. 344 to 588, Inclusive; Volume 4. Nos. 589 to 878, Inclusive Atlantic. On bill (s. 576) for damages to Norwegian bark from collision with United States sloop of war V andalia. 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.