Memorial of Tal. P. Shaffner, of Kentucky, praying for an amendment of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1857, entitled "An Act To Expedite Telegraphic Communication for the Uses of the Government in its Foreign Intercourse," so that the subsidy granted by the said act shall be general in its application to all Atlantic Ocean telegraph lines. May 15, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. May 18, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing the memorial, without the map, submitted, considered, and agreed to. Committee on the Judiciary discharged, and the memorial referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads.

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