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Tables of and Annotated Index to the Congressional Series of United States Public Documents. (1902). U.S. Government Printing Office. Superintendent of Documents. GP3.2:P96.

This volume contains both a subject index to the Serial Set and a reference table of the document numbers included in each volume of the Serial Set. The reference table is arranged chronologically by congress number, then session number and date, so it is a useful source for locating documents identified in other indexes, finding the Serial Set volumes which cover a range of dates and for locating the House and Senate Journals for a particular session.

Sample Entry from Subject index:

	Serial no.	Doc. no.
Civil war--continued
Correspondence, James Buchanan to Lewis Cass, regarding policy to be pursued to avert war..............................................................................................	1393	7
"Cotton loan" or rebel debt......................................................................................	1263	95
same........................................................................................................................	1263	131
Debts of loyal States................................................................................................	1272	16

Sample Entry from reference tables:

FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION
March 4-April 10, 1869

Serial No.	Vol.	Part	Series	Number	Notes
1392	....	.....	S.journal	..............	Contains also proceedings of special session Senate, Apr. 12-22, 1869, p. 167.
1393	1	.....	S.ex.docs.	1-12	Except 11, in serial nos. 1394-1398
1394	2	.....	.....do......	11	Alabama claims, v.1.
1395	3	.....	.....do......	11	same, v.2
1396	4	.....	.....do......	11	same, v.3

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