At 10 A.M. President visits Capitol and remains for convenience of Senate which adjourns at 2 P.M. Browning, Diary.

Informs Congress that Cornelius Vanderbilt has presented to U.S. steamer "Vanderbilt." Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives, 17 July 1862, CW, 5:331-32.

Committee of Synod of Reformed Presbyterian Church presents to President resolution on slavery. Remarks to Committee of Reformed Presbyterian Synod, 17 July 1862, CW, 5:327.

Lincoln signs "An act to suppress insurrection, and to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," together with joint resolution explanatory of act, and draft of Message stating objections to bill before it becomes law. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives, 17 July 1862, CW, 5:328-31; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 17 July 1862, 2d ed., 3:5-6; Stat. L., XII, 589.

Approves act amending act of February 28, 1795, and subsequent amendments, authorizing call-up of militia, and for other purposes. Stat. L., XII, 597.

Joint Congressional Committee notifies President of adjournment unless he has further communications. Senate Journal, 880.

[Mrs. Lincoln leaves New York at 6 A.M. for Washington accompanied by Lt. S. Long and Thomas W. Sweney, assessor of internal revenue at Philadelphia, former colonel of 99th Pennsylvania Infantry and apparently friend of Tad. N.Y. Tribune, 17 July 1862; Abraham Lincoln to Thomas W. Sweney, 16 October 1863, CW, 6:520-21.]