Rebel States, expenses under act for the more efficient government of the. Message
of the President relative to the...

Reconstruction. Letter from the Secretary of War relative to

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War...

Reconstruction. Message from the President of the United States communicating
proceedings in the cabinet relative to.

Revenue law. General customs

Revenue from distilled spirits.

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in the fifth district of North Carolina

Revenue Board, Metropolitan. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to.
Revenue cutter service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting
statement of the expenses of the revenue cutter service for the year ending June
30, 1866....

River, Illinois, survey of the. Letter from the Secretary of War relative to
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State Department, relative to filing in the department of an act to provide for the
government of the rebel States. Letter from the Secretary of the...
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Survey of the Illinois river. Letter from the Secretary of War relative to....

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of the Post Office Department for the last fiscal year. Letter from the
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ternal Revenue as to amount of revenue received from the tax on distilled spirits.
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Treasury Department, transmitting statement of the number of officers of the customs
removed, &c Letter from the Secretary of the....
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ternal Revenue relative to frauds on the revenue in the fifth district of North
Carolina. Letter from the....

Treasury Department, relative to the organization of the Metropolitan Revenue
Board in the city of New York. Letter from the Secretary of the..
Treasury Department, transmitting reports relative to the buildings leased by the de-
partment in New York and Brooklyn. Letter from the Secretary of the
Treasury Department, transmitting statement of the expenses of the revenue cutter
service for the year ending June 30, 1866. Letter from the Secretary of the................

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War Department, transmitting a statement of contracts made on account of the med-
ical department of the army for the year 1866. Letter from the Secretary of the...
War Department, communicating information relative to the pay of officers of the
army Letter from the Secretary of the....

War Department, communicating report of General Wilson relative to the survey of
Illinois river. Letter from the Secretary of the.

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struction acts. Letter from the Secretary of the....

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to additional bounty. Letter from the Secretary of the..

War Department, relative to appropriation necessary to carry out the reconstruction
acts. Letter from the Secretary of the

War Department, relative to the flogging of a civilian at Fort Sedgwick. Letter
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Washington Monument Association. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative
Wilson, Brevet Major General James H., relative to the survey of Rock river. Re-

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MARCH 4, 1867.-Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.

To the House of Representatives:

The act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June 30, 1868, and for other purposes," contains provisions to which I must call attention.

These provisions are contained in the second section, which in certain cases virtually deprives the President of his constitutional functions as commanderin-chief of the army; and in the sixth section, which denies to ten States of the Union their constitutional right to protect themselves, in any emergency, by means of their own militia. These provisions are out of place in an appropriation act. I am compelled to defeat these necessary appropriations if I withhold my signature from the act. Pressed by these considerations, I feel constrained to return the bill with my signature, but to accompany it with my protest against the sections which I have indicated.

WASHINGTON, March 2, 1867.

ANDREW JOHNSON.