Can you help me find a copy of a Senate Executive Document?
I will provide here as much information as possible, forgive me if some is irrelevant. I am looking for a specific Senate Executive Document which I have found quoted and cited in the following book.
Engelhardt, Zephyrin. San Diego Mission. San Francisco, James H. Barry Company, 1920. pp. 263-264.
A digital copy of that book is freely available online at,
https://www.google.com/books/edition/San_Diego_Mission/P2ELAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
In that book the citation given for the document quoted is,
Executive Document, No. 47, Thirty-first Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Report of the Secretary of War, pp. 122-123; 120.
I have searched and browsed https://www.govinfo.gov at length to try and find this document but have concluded it must not be digitized yet. Searches of other sites have been fruitless.
I have found what I believe to be confirmation of this document's existence in the Index to Executive Documents of the 31st Congress on page 7 under the heading "California and Oregon. Reports of Generals Smith and Riley, Lieutenants Talbot and Ord, Mr. Tyson, and Professor Frazer, in relation to the geology and topography of ----" which can be found at,
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SERIALSET-00549_00_00-001-0000-0000/pdf/SERIALSET-00549_00_00-001-0000-0000.pdf
Could you please help me confirm that there was indeed a Senate Executive Document Number 47 produced by the Secretary of War, containing the above mentioned reports, for the the 1st session of the 31st Congress? If this document does exist, is it possible for you to help me find a digital copy of it on the internet, or if such a version is unavailable, are you able to send a copy of it, or is there another way I can access it?
Thank you for your help.
-Stephen Guenther
Answer
Thank you for your question. This Senate Executive Document doesn't appear to have been digitized by GPO yet, also there are some similar documents from the same time period on govinfo.gov.
I did find a digitized copy at the University of Oklahoma College of Law's Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/indianserialset/924/
The University of North Texas Libraries have a paid subscription to the ProQuest Congressional database, which also has a copy of this document. I have downloaded it to cloud storage and included a link here, since it is so large. Let me know if the link does not work.
I hope this information is helpful. If this is not what you need or if there is any other assistance we can provide you, please let us know.
Bobby Griffith
Lead Government Information Reference Associate
Sycamore Library
University of North Texas Libraries