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 | | The bicameral legislature of the National Government of the United States, consisting of Senate and House of Representatives. |
 | | The fifth Congress was launched by the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 17 July 1868; sponsored by Miss P. Drake, daughter of Senator Drake of Missouri; and commissioned 4 March 1870, Captain N. Harrison in command. |
 | | Congress was decommissioned on 26 July 1876, at Portsmouth, N.H., and laid up in ordinary until 20 September 1883, when she was sold. |
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