The first session of the 39th Congress is in a two-week holiday recess until January 5, 1866

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In late December, 1865, the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States adjourned for its fourteen day holiday recess. It returned on January 5, 1866. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, "House History."  http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/index.html
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