The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: 26W, 1h8e4r2e, as by an act of conress, approvedAu just it is'inade the duty 0 “ the head of each detpt to report to Congress.at the commencement of every regular session.a detailed statement of the iiiiuiner in which the contingent fund of their respective Depts, and for the bureaus and odiccs therein. has been expended givmg the names of every person to whom any portion thereof has beenpaid; and if anything furnished. the quantity and price; and if for any servicesrendered, the na ture of such servicc, and the time employed and the particular occasionor cause.in brief, that rendered saupephrosperryiaictieon necessary and the amountof all former in each case on hand. either in the Treasury or in the handsof any disbursin office ror agent, and that they shall require of the disbursing officers.actingundertheir direction or authority. the return of precise and analytical statementsandro ceints for all the moneyswiich havcbeen, from time to time during the next lfOCOdlDC)‘CtlI, OXSendod by them and the results 0 such returns, an that the snms total shall be communicatedannually to congress by said officers respectiveyf’ and whereas by an act of congress approved uno 25.1864a. lso an not approved arch. 1865."the SecyInterior was authorized to expend such part of the amount theretofore appropriated to carry into cheat any treaty stipulation with any tribeortribes ofIndi ans, all or any portion of whomshall be in a state of actual hostility to the Government of the U.S., including the Creeks. Choctaws. Semine les, Wichitas and other atiiliated tribes. aswell as the Cherokees, as might be found necessary to support such individual members of said tribes as had been driven from their homes or reduced to want on account uf their friendship to the U.S and enable them to subsist until they eould supportt emselvesintheirown country: Provhled.That an account should be kept of the sumsso paid for the benefit of the said membersofsaid tribes. which account chall berenderedto Congressat the cominencement of the next session thereof." &c.: and whereas it. appears that said reportshave not been made to Congress by the SecyInterior during its present session as required by the aforesaid acts, but have been altogetherwithheld: Therefore, requweasitveedd. hat the SecyInterior be to furnish the said reports to Congressat an early day and inform this I case why it is that the sinnc has not beenmadeas required by law.