Skip Skip PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. The PRESIDENT proo: o a memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of NewMexico, praying that a commission may be appointed to settle the claims of citizens of that Territory for property destroyed by rebels during the late rebellion; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. WILSON Presented resolutions of the Board of Trade of Boston, remonstrating against any change in the existing laws in relation to the national currency; which were referred to the ComFinance. Mr. DOOLITTLE Presented a memorial of the Mobile Harbor and Railroad Company. to be authorized to purchase Sansland, in the Gulf of Mexico; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . He also Presented the petition of Jesse O'Neal, praying the adoption of measures for the protection of the lumber on the public lands in the States of Alabama and Florida; which was referred to the comPubLands. Mr. HOWE Presented a petition of S. Cal vert Ford and other citizens of the DistCol, praying an examination of the advantages the District Presents for the location of a naval depot for the building, repairing, and security of the iron clad naval vessels of the Government; which was referred to the ComNavAffrs. He also Presented a petition of citizens of Washington, DistCol, praying that a charter may be granted for the purpose of building a from Washington city, through Virginia, to Cincinnati, Ohio; which was referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. YATES Presented resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, in favor of an approriation for the completion of the navy yard at ound City, in that State; which were referred to the ComNavAffrs. He also Presented a memorial of citizens of Illinois, remonstrating against any curtailment of the national currency with the view of a return to specie payments within a limited time, and against the passage of any act requiring the national banks to redeem their circulation in NewYork, or prohibiting them from paying or receiving interest on bank balances which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. CHANDLER Presented a petition of owners of tugs and other vessels on the lakes and rivers of our northern frontier, praying that the provisions of the 2 1st section of the act entitled “An act to prevent smug gling, and for other purposes, ” approved July 18, 1866, may not be held to apply to any case where the towing therein described is done in whole or in part within or upon foreign waters; which was referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. WILLEY Presented the petition of Eliza Wells, widow of Henry Augustus Wells, Era.ying an extension of the patent granted to late husband for an improvement in the manufacture of furhat bodies; which was referred to the ComPatents and the Patent Office. Mr. MORGAN Presented the petition of Pollak & Son, of NewYork praying for the repeal of the law imposing a duty on imported meerschaum and amber; which was referred to the ComFinance. He also Presented a petition of farmers and manufacturers engaged in the cultivation and manufacture of flax, praying an increase of the duty on imported flax and flaxseed; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. SHERMAN Presented the petition of Hubbard & Shoemaker, praying for the passage of the bill (H.R.No. 598) to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the U.S.; which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. POMEROY Presented a petition of citizens of Leavenworth, Kansas, praying the donation of a strip of land 100 feet in width along the southern boundary of the military reservation of Fort Leavenworth for a public road; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. DOOLITTLE Presented resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of an increase of the duty on imported wool; which were ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. He also Presented resolutions of the Plegislature of Wisconsin, in favor of a new treaty between the U.S. Government and the Stockbridge Indians, residing in that State, which shall provide for the removal of those Indians to a more genial climate and fertile soil; which were ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Mr. SUMNER Presented the petition of William H. Maies, late acting volunteer lieu tenant U.S. Navy, praying to be as: signed to duty in the Navy; which was referred to the ComNavAffrs. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.