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 Index. 63; Treasury, requisitions of heads of Bureaus on, referred to, 244. Drawn by Quartermaster General and Commissary General. re- ferred to, 515. Treasury Department: Appropriation for, recommended, 207, 257. Cotton accumulated by, referred to, 390. Report of, transmitted and dis- cussed, 77, 192, 235, 238, 293, 368, 446, 4S8. Treasury Notes: Act amending act to reduce cur- rency and authorize new issue of bonds and, vetoed, 470. Amount in circulation, 365. Conversion of interest-bearing, into coupon bonds recommended, 490. Depreciation in, discussed, and rec- ommendations regarding, 489. Discussed, and recommendations regarding, 139, 235, 361,446, 488, 545- Forgery of, referred to, 233, 235, 471. Appropriation for detecting per- sons engaged in, recommend- ed, 239. Funding of outstanding, discussed, 2 93. 3 6 7, 4 88 - Provision for issue of, 361,446. Treasury, Secretary of: Appropriations recommended by. (See Appropriations.) Communication of, transmitted, 298. Report of, transmitted and dis- cussed, 77, 192, 235, 238, 293, 36S, 446, 4S8. Treaties, Confederate States, with — Foreign powers — Discussed, 360. Disregarded by, 444. Not binding, 360. Indians — Discussed, 149, 295, Treaties, Confederate States, with (Continued) — Indians — Faithful observance of, by, 238. Report regarding, transmitted, 198. Missouri, 144. Tennessee, 99. Virginia, 82. Commission for negotiating, 62. Referred to, 77. Discussed, 77. Proclaimed, 102. Trent Affair. The Trent was a British merchant ship, on which James M. Mason andjohn Slidell, commissioners of the Confederate States, took passage at Havana, Cuha, for England, in the autumn of 1S61. They had successfully run the blockade of the Confederate port, and landed in Cuba. On Nov. 8, the Trent was stopped in the old Bahama channel, while en route to England, by the United States ship, San Jacinto, commanded by Capt. Wilkes, and the commissioners, Mason and Slidell, were seized and carried as prisoners to Boston. This act was a breach of inter- national law, and in violation of the rights of neutrals. The British Government promptly demanded the release of Mason and Slidell, and an apology by the United States. The demand was complied with, the act of Captain Wilkes disavowed, the commissioners restored to a British ship, and landed safely in England. Discussed, 141. Troops. (See Army, Confederate States; Army, United States.) Tucker, John R., mentioned, 197. Turchin, John B., atrocious conduct of, referred to, 379. Uncle Sam. A title given to the United States, sometimes represented by a person in na- tional colors. An explanation of the ori- gin of this title as applied to the Govern- ment is that the letters " U. S.," which appeared on large quantities of Govern- ment or army supplies during the war of 1812, were humorously declared to be the initials of one Samuel Wilson, an inspect- or of these supplies at Troy, N. Y., who