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Chapter CCLXXVI. *regulating Judicial Proceedings in certain Cases, for the Protection of Officers and Agents of the Government, and for the better Defence of the Treasury against unlawful Claims.* July 27, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

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Chap. CCLXXVI.— An Act *regulating Judicial Proceedings in certain Cases, for the Protection of Officers and Agents of the Government, and for the better Defence of the Treasury against unlawful Claims.* July 27, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all the provisions of section Protection extended to officers and agents of the government in suits against them for acts done during the rebellion by virtue of their office. 1866, ch. 298, § 8.
Vol. xiv. p. 829. 1863, ch. 76, § 12. Vol. xii. p. 741.eight of the act of July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to protect the revenue, and for other purposes,” and the forms and modes by that section and the twelfth section of the act of March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, therein referred to, pre scribed for prosecuting suits, withholding executions, and paying judgments against officers of the United States, or other persons engaged in executing the acts relative to captured and abandoned property, shall extend and be applied to all suits and proceedings (except those in behalf of the United States) which have been brought, or may hereafter be brought, against any officer or agent of the government, civil or military, for acts done during the rebellion while acting by virtue or under color of his office or employment; and every defendant in such suit or proceeding having made full defence thereto, and having notified the Attorney-General of the United States to appear and defend the same, shall be entitled to the full benefit and protection provided in said section for officers and agents of the government engaged in the collection of the public revenue; and any defendant being aggrieved by any order or direction, certificate, Right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.ruling, or judgment of any court made or had in any such proceeding, may except thereto and appeal therefrom to the Supreme Court of the United States, and have the questions arising there heard and deter mined.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That no action or suit shall be No suit to be maintained in any United States or State court by or for an alien against the United States or any person for any act done, &c. under certain acts of Congress. 1863, ch. 120. Vol. xii. p. 620. 1864, ch. 225. Vol. xiii. p. 375.maintained in any court of the United States, or of any State thereof, in the name or in the behalf or interest of any alien, against the United States, or any person, for or on account of any act done or omitted to be done by such person as an officer or agent of the United States, in the administration of the act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in in surrectionary districts within the United States,” approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, or of the act of Congress entitled “An act in addition to the several acts concerning commercial intercourse be tween loyal and insurrectionary States, and to provide for the collection of captured and abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in States declared in insurrection,” approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or in virtue or under color of the acts of Congress aforesaid, or any other acts of Congress relative to the said insurrectionary States, or to persons or property therein; and to any action or suit which may have What may be pleaded, &c. in bar of such suit.been heretofore, or shall hereafter be, instituted by any alien against the United States, or any such person as aforesaid, on account of any act done or omitted to be done as aforesaid, the defendant may and shall plead or allege in bar thereof, that such act was done, or omitted to be done, in the administration of one of the acts of Congress aforesaid, or in virtue or under color thereof, and such plea or allegation, if the fact be sustained by the proof, shall be, and shall be deemed and adjudged in law to be, a complete and conclusive bar to any such suit or action: *Provided,* That this section shall not be construed so as to deprive aliens who are Certain aliens may prosecute claims against the United States in the court of claims.citizens or subjects of any government which accords to citizens of the United States the right to prosecute claims against such government in its courts, of the privilege of prosecuting claims against the United States in the court of claims, as now provided by law.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That it is hereby declared to have been the true intent and meaning of the act approved March twelfth, 1863, ch. 120. Vol. xii. p. 820. Remedy given by act in cases of seizure under said act, declared to be exclusive.eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled “An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insur-244 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 276. 1868.rectionary districts within the United States,” that the remedy given in cases of seizure made under said act, by preferring claim in the court of claims, should be exclusive, precluding the owner of any property taken by agents of the Treasury Department as abandoned or captured property in virtue or under color of said act from suit at common law, or any other mode of redress whatever, before any court or tribunal other than said Provision as to suits under that act and the act of 1804, ch. 225.
Vol. xiii. p. 375.court of claims; and in all cases in which suits of trespass, replevin, detinue, or any other form of action may have been brought and are now pending, or shall hereafter be brought against any person for or on account of private property taken by such person as an officer or agent of the United States, in virtue or under color of the act aforesaid, or the act ap proved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act in addition to the several acts concerning commercial intercourse between loyal and insurrectionary States, and to provide for the collection of cap tured and abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in States de clared in insurrection,” the defendant may and shall plead or allege in bar thereof that such act was done or omitted to be done by him as an officer or agent of the United States in the administration of one of the acts of Congress aforesaid, or in virtue or under color thereof, and such plea or allegation, if the fact be sustained by the proof, shall be, and shall be deemed and adjudged in law to be, a complete and conclusive bar to any Proviso as to payment by the United States of judgments under this act.such suit or action: *Provided, however,* That no judgment, recovered in accordance with this act, shall be paid by the United States, unless the amount received by the defendant as the proceeds of the transaction which was the foundation of the suit shall have been paid into the treasury, except upon an appropriation duly made therefor after a full examination of the claim upon its merits.
Approved, July 27, 1868. 245 RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: in Relation to the Printing of the Report of the Postmaster-General. Public Resolution 1 15 Stat. 245 1867-12-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 1.] Joint Resolution *in Relation to the Printing of the Report of the Postmaster-General.* Dec. 20, 1867. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That hereafter it shall be the Three thousand copies of the report of the PostmasterGeneral to be printed. 1866, ch. 287.
Vol. xiv. p., 305duty of the congressional printer to cause to be printed and bound three thousand copies of the report of the Postmaster-General, instead of twenty-five hundred copies, as provided by the act approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred [and] sixty-six, and that so much of that act as conflicts with the above provision be, and is hereby, repealed; and this resolution shall apply to the report for the present year. Approved, December 20, 1867. No. 2: changing the Time of holding the annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Public Resolution 2 15 Stat. 245 1867-12-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 2.] Joint Resolution *changing the Time of holding the annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.* Dec. 20, 1867. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the time of holding the Time and place of annual meeting of stockholders of Union Pacific Railroad Company.annual meeting of the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany for the choice of directors is hereby changed from the first Wednes day in October to the first Wednesday following the fourth day of March, and the stockholders are authorized to determine the place at which such annual meeting shall be held at the last annual meeting of the stockhold ers immediately preceding such annual meeting: *Provided,* The same shall be held at either of the cities of New York, Washington, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, or Saint Louis: *And provided further,* Term of present directors to cease when, &c.That on the election of directors herein provided for, to take place in March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the terms of office of all persons then acting or claiming the right to act as directors of said company shall cease and determine.
Approved, December 20, 1867. No. 3: in Relation to the Erection of a Jail in the District of Columbia. Public Resolution 3 15 Stat. 245 1868-01-11 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 3.] A Resolution *in Relation to the Erection of a Jail in the District of Columbia.* Jan. 11, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Interior Work on jail in District of Columbia to be suspended for forty days. 1866, ch. 286. 1867, ch. 152.
Vol. xiv. pp. 231, 428.be, and hereby is, directed and required to suspend for the period of forty days from the passage of this resolution all work upon the jail to be erected in the District of Columbia, under the act of Congress approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the amendment thereto, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and that the treasurer of the United States be directed to withhold for the period aforesaid the payment of any money appropriated for the erection of said jail.
Approved, January 11, 1868. No. 4: in Relation to the Sale of Stock in the Dismal Swamp Canal Company. Public Resolution 4 15 Stat. 246 1868-01-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public 246 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9. 1868. [No. 4.] Joint Resolution *in Relation to the Sale of Stock in the Dismal Swamp Canal Company.* Jan. 11, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Sale of stock owned by the United States in Dismal Swamp Canal Company adjourned.Treasury be directed to adjourn the sale of eight hundred shares of the stock owned by the United States in the Dismal Swamp Canal Company from the second day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, (to which day said Sale now stands adjourned,) until Saturday, the eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, at eleven o’clock, a. m.
Approved, January 11, 1868. No. 5: for the Appointment of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Public Resolution 5 15 Stat. 246 1868-01-11 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 5.] A Resolution *for the Appointment of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.* Jan. 11, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the vacancies in the Regents of Smithsonian Institution.Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class “other than members of Congress” be filled by the appointment of Theodore D.
Woolsey of Connecticut, William B. Astor of New York. John Maclean of New Jersey, and Peter Parker of the city of Washington. Approved, January 11, 1868. No. 7: for the Relief of destitute Persons in the South. Public Resolution 7 15 Stat. 246 1868-01-31 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 7.] Joint Resolution *for the Relief of destitute Persons in the South.* Jan. 31, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War Relief for destitute persons in the South.be hereby authorized to issue, for the relief of any and all classes of destitutes in the South, such desiccated potatoes and desic[c]ated mixed vegetables as have accumulated during the war and are not needed for use in the army; the same to be issued under the direction of the com missioner of the bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands.
Approved, January 31, 1868. No. 8: limiting Contracts for Stationery and other Supplies in the executive Departments to one year. Public Resolution 8 15 Stat. 246 1868-01-31 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 8.] A Resolution *limiting Contracts for Stationery and other Supplies in the executive Departments to one year.* Jan. 31, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That it shall not be lawful Contracts for supplies for executive departments to be for one year only.
Opening of bids.for any of the executive departments to make contracts for stationery or other supplies for a longer term than one year from the time the contract is made; and that whenever proposals for supplies have been solicited, the parties responding to such solicitation shall be duly notified of the time and place of opening the bids, and be permitted to be present either in person or by attorney, and a record of each bid shall then and there be made. Approved, January 31, 1868.
No. 9: to provide for a Commission to examine and report on Meters for distilled Spirits. Public Resolution 9 15 Stat. 246 1868-02-03 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 9.] Joint Resolution *to provide for a Commission to examine and report on Meters for distilled Spirits.* Feb. 3, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That a commission, to consist Commission on meters for distilled spirits;of five persons, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby created, whose duty it shall be, in connection with the existing commission of the academy of science, to carefully examine all meters and mechanical contrivances or inventions that may be presented to them, intended to measure, test, and ascertain the productiveness of grain, or other articles prepared for distillation, or the actual quantity and strength of distilled spirits, subject to tax, produced therefrom, giving due notice when to meet and report.of the times and places where such examination will be conducted; and that the commission shall meet and proceed to the performance of their FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Res. 9, 10, 11. 1868. 247duties, under the instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury, at the earliest practicable day, and shall report in detail to the said Secretary, to be communicated to Congress, the result of their examination, with such recommendation as they may deem expedient and most to the interest of the government, on or before the first of March next. Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved,* That pending the action of said Work on construction of meters suspended, and no further contract for them, until, &c. 1867, ch. 169, § 15.
Vol. xiv. p. 481.commission, and until their report be made and a meter shall be by law adopted, all work on the construction of meters, under the direction of the Treasury Department, be, and is hereby, suspended. And in the mean time no further contract for meters shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury under the fifteenth section of the act entitled “An act to amend existing laws relating to internal revenue, and for other purposes,” ap proved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Sec. 3. *And be it further resolved,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Expenses of commission under this resolution.is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the expenses incident to the carrying out of this joint resolution, and also a reasonable compensation for the services of such of the said commissioners as are not now officers of the United States or members of the said academy. Approved, February 3, 1868. No. 10: providing for the Sale of Iron-Clads.
Public Resolution 10 15 Stat. 247 1868-02-03 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 10.] Joint Resolution *providing for the Sale of Iron-Clads.* Feb. 3, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy Sale of ironclads.be, and he is hereby, authorized to dispose of such iron-clad vessels, ex cept those of the “Dictator,” “Kalamazoo,” “Monadnock,” and “Passaic” classes, as in his judgment are not required by the interests of the service, at a price to be determined by appraisal, to be made by a board of Mode of sale.not less than five naval officers, two of whom shall be engineers; and re port shall be made to Congress, as fast as said vessels are sold, of the amounts realized from such sales, and the parties to whom sold: *Provided,* Public notice.That after such appraisal public notice shall be given that proposals will be received for thirty days for the purchase of said vessels; and that the highest price so proposed, being not less than the appraisal, shall be accepted: *And provided further,* That the proceeds of all such sales shall Proceeds of sale.be paid into the treasury of the United States.
Approved, February 3, 1868. No. 11: for reducing the Expenses of the War Department, and for other Purposes. Public Resolution 11 15 Stat. 247 1868-02-21 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 11.] Joint Resolution *for reducing the Expenses of the War Department, and for other Purposes.* Feb. 21, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, Expenses of army and of War Department at New York to be reduced, and how.and he is hereby, authorized and directed to take immediate measures for the reduction of the expenses of the army and of the War Department at and in the vicinity of New York City at as early a day as practicable, by concentrating the business of the quartermaster, commissary, clothing, ordnance, and medical bureaus, and recruiting service in said city, and that for this purpose there shall be hired and used at some convenient and proper point in said city one suitable building in which shall be accommodated all the offices connected with and required for the transaction of such public business, at a cost to the government not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars per annum; and also a suitable building or property Buildings for offices, storage, &c.within the harbor of New York, or on the navigable waters thereof, which shall have sufficient accommodation of warehouse, pier, dock, and basin room for the safe and convenient receiving, storing, and care of all army stores of every kind and description belonging to either of said bureaus or branches of the service, at an annual cost to the government not 248 FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Res. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. 1868. Governor’s Island, &c. not affected.exceeding fifty thousand dollars: *Provided, however,* That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the storage or keeping of ordnance stores or other property at Governor’s Island, or the use in any way for the purposes of the government of any property or building which actually belongs to the United States. Approved, February 21, 1868. No. 12: to authorize the Secretary of War to employ Counsel in certain Cases.
Public Resolution 12 15 Stat. 248 1868-02-22 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 12.] A Resolution *to authorize the Secretary of War to employ Counsel in certain Cases.* Feb. 22, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War Secretary of War may employ counsel to defend officers, &c. against suits for certain acts under reconstruction laws.be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ counsel for the defence of the General of the army, Major-General George G.
Meade, and Brevet Brigadier-General Thomas H. Ruger, provisional governor of Georgia, and any other officer or person intrusted with the enforcement of the reconstruction acts, or either of them, against any suit or proceedings, in any court, in relation to their official acts. SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore.* Endorsed by the President: “Received February 11, 1868.” [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing resolution having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] No. 13: directing that the Government of Great Britain be supplied with certain Volumes of the Narrative of the exploring Expedition.
Public Resolution 13 15 Stat. 248 1868-02-28 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 13.] A Resolution *directing that the Government of Great Britain be supplied with certain Volumes of the Narrative of the exploring Expedition.* Feb. 28, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the librarian of Congress Volumes of Narrative of Exploring Expedition for British Government.be, and is hereby, directed to deliver to the Secretary of State a set of Dana’s Crustacea, being volumes thirteen and fourteen of the narrative of the exploring Expedition under Captain Wilkes; and that the Secretary of State is hereby directed to deliver them to the government of Great Britain.
Approved, February 28, 1868. No. 14: authorizing the Transmission through the Mails, free of Postage, of certain Testimonials by the Adjutant-Generals of the several States. Public Resolution 14 15 Stat. 248 1868-03-02 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 14.] Joint Resolution *authorizing the Transmission through the Mails, free of Postage, of certain Testimonials by the Adjutant-Generals of the several States.* March 2, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United S t ates of America in Congress assembled,* That the adjutant-generals Medals, &c. awarded by States to soldiers may be sent by mails free of postage.of the several States and Territories be authorized to transmit through the mails, free of postage, any medals, certificates of thanks, or other testimonials, awarded, or which may be awarded, by the legislatures of said States and Territories to the soldiers thereof, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may direct.
Approved, March 2, 1868. No. 15: authorizing the Comptroller of the Currency to revoke the Appointment of Receiver for the Farmers’ and Citizens’ National Bank of Williamsburg, New York, and to restore said Bank to its Owners under certain Conditions. Public Resolution 15 15 Stat. 248 1868-03-02 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 15.] Joint Resolution *authorizing the Comptroller of the Currency to revoke the Appointment of Receiver for the Farmers’ and Citizens’ National Bank of Williamsburg, New York, and to restore said Bank to its Owners under certain Conditions.* March 2, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Comptroller of the Appointment of receiver for Farmers’ &c.
Bank of Williamsburg, New York, revoked.Currency be authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of the FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 15, 16, 17, 18. 1868. 249Treasury, to revoke the order appointing a receiver for the Farmers’ and Citizens’ Bank of Williamsburg, New York, and restore the said bank and the management thereof to the directors, for the purpose of enabling the association to continue the business of banking: *Provided,* That said Proviso.banking association shall first present to the comptroller satisfactory assurances that the public interest will be promoted thereby, and shall secure, in such manner as the comptroller shall direct, the full payment of all the creditors of the association, and shall restore the capital stock to its original amount in case the capital has been impaired by losses.
Approved, March 2, 1868. No. 16: authorizing the Lighthouse Board to place Warnings over Obstructions at the Entrance of Harbors, or in the Fairway of Bays and Sounds, and for other Purposes. Public Resolution 1 15 Stat. 249 1868-03-02 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 16.] A Resolution *authorizing the Lighthouse Board to place Warnings over Obstructions at the Entrance of Harbors, or in the Fairway of Bays and Sounds, and for other Purposes.* March 2, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the lighthouse board be, and they Lighthouse board may place warnings over obstructions, &c.are hereby, authorized, when, in their judgment, it is deemed necessary, to place a light-vessel, or other suitable warning of danger, on or over any wreck or temporary obstruction to the entrance of any harbor, or in the channel or fairway of any bay or sound.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved,* That the Secretary of War is hereby Commission to examine wreck of steamer Scotland. Vol. xiv. p. 564 *Ante,* p. 1.directed to appoint a board of competent engineers, to consist of not less than three persons, to examine the condition of the wreck of the steamer Scotland, now in the waters of the harbor of the city of New York, and ascertain whether the same is dangerous to navigation, and to report thereon at as early a day as practicable, with a particular estimate of the cost of the removal of said wreck.
Approved, March 2, 1868. No. 17: relating to the Survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes. Public Resolution 17 15 Stat. 249 1868-03-02 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 17.] A Resolution *relating to the Survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes.* March 2, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the second section of an act Limitation of expenditure of fanner appropriation not to apply to survey of northern, &c. lakes. 1867, ch. 171, §2.
Vol. xiv. p. 488.entitled “An act making appropriations for the construction, preservation, and repairs of certain fortifications and other works of defence for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,” ap proved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall not apply to the appropriation for the survey of northern and northwestern lakes. Approved, March 2, 1868. No. 18: providing for the Representation of the United States at the International Maritime Exhibition, to be held at Havre.
Public Resolution 1 15 Stat. 249 1868-03-12 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 18.] A Resolution *providing for the Representation of the United States at the International Maritime Exhibition, to be held at Havre.* March 12, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy be The United States may bo represented at the International Maritime Exhibition at Havre by navy officers.authorized to detail one or more officers of the navy, as he shall think best, to be present at the International Maritime Exhibition, to be held at Havre, under the auspices of the French government, from the first of June to thirty-first of October of the present year, there to represent the United States, and otherwise to promote the interests of exhibitors from our country: *Provided,* That no expenditure shall accrue therefrom to Proviso.the treasury, or to any public fund, nor shall any mileage or other expenses, or any additional compensation be paid to such persons as may be designated under authority of this resolution, nor shall any national or public vessel be employed to convey the officers so detailed to or from the place of such exhibition.
Approved, March 12, 1868. No. 19: providing for the Issue of Clothing to Soldiers and others, to replace Clothing destroyed to prevent Contagion. Public Resolution 19 15 Stat. 250 1868-03-12 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public 250 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 19, 20, 23, 24. 1868. [No. 19.] A Resolution *providing for the Issue of Clothing to Soldiers and others, to replace Clothing destroyed to prevent Contagion.* March 12, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and he Gratuitous issues of clothing to soldiers who have had contagious diseases, &c.is hereby, authorized, at any time, on the recommendation of the surgeon-general of the army, to order gratuitous issues of clothing to soldiers who have had contagious diseases, and to hospital attendants who have nursed and attended such soldiers, to replace the articles of their clothing which have been destroyed by order of the proper medical officers to prevent contagion.
Approved, March 12, 1868. No. 20: relative to the Post-Office and Sub-Treasury of City of Boston. Public Resolution 20 15 Stat. 250 1868-03-12 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 20.] Joint Resolution *relative to the Post-Office and Sub-Treasury of City of Boston.* March 12, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the mayor and postmaster Post-office, sub-treasury, &c. in Boston.of the city of Boston, the assistant treasurer of the United States at the city of Boston, the president of the Board of Trade of the city of Boston, Commission to purchase site.Alpheus Hardy and Daniel Davis, of Boston, be appointed a commission to purchase a site for a building to accommodate the post-office, sub-treasury, and public offices of the United States in the city of Boston, in accordance with their report submitted to the Postmaster-General and the Amount of purchase-money.Secretary of the Treasury, and by them approved, viz.
The estates lying on Devonshire Street, and between Water Street and Milk Street, in the city of Boston, (containing about thirty thousand square feet,) and that they be authorized to purchase the same for a sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay such sum of money as may be necessary to carry the foregoing resolutions into effect from any money in the treasury hereafter Title to be approved.to be appropriated: *Provided,* That no money shall be paid out of the treasury in pursuance of this resolution, until the title to the aforesaid estates shall be properly certified by the United States district attorney for the district of Massachusetts.
Approved, March 12, 1868. No. 23: to authorize the Erection of a military Storehouse at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Public Resolution 23 15 Stat. 250 1868-03-16 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 23.] A Resolution *to authorize the Erection of a military Storehouse at Fort Monroe, Virginia.* March 16, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and Military storehouse at Fort Monroe may be rebuilt.he is hereby, authorized to grant permission to William H.
Kimberly, army and navy contractor at Fort Monroe, Virginia, to rebuild the military storehouse recently destroyed by fire at that post, upon such conditions and under such restrictions as the Secretary of War shall deem compatible with the interests of the government. Approved, March 16, 1868. No. 24: appointing Managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, and for other Purposes. Public Resolution 24 15 Stat. 250 1868-03-24 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 24.] Joint Resolution *appointing Managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, and for other Purposes.* March 24, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Erastus B. Walcott, of Managers of national asylum for disabled soldiers. 1866, ch. 21, § 3. Vol. xiv. p. 10Wisconsin, John H. Martindale, of New York, and Hugh L. Bond, of Maryland, be, and hereby are, appointed managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, under the provisions and conditions of the third section of an act approved March twenty-*third* [first], eighteen hundred and sixty-six, from the twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; and that Hugh L.
Bond, of Maryland, be, and is hereby, appointed manager to serve out the unexpired term of Horatio G. Stebbins, of California, resigned. 251 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 24, 25, 28. 1868. Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved,* That the Secretary of War be Ordnance for firing salutes.authorized to furnish, from the captured ordnance, such ordnance with their implements as he may deem proper, to the several national asylums for the purpose of firing salutes; and also such small-arms and equipments Small arms, &c. for guard duty.as may be necessary for the purpose of guard duty at the asylums.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore.* Endorsed by the President: “Received 12th March, 1868.” [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing resolution having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] No. 25: requiring certain Moneys of the United States to be paid into the Treasury, and for other Purposes.
Public Resolution 25 15 Stat. 251 1868-03-30 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 25.] Joint Resolution *requiring certain Moneys of the United States to be paid into the Treasury, and for other Purposes.* March 30, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all moneys which have Money received from sales of captured, &c. property to be paid into the treasury, with interest, if, &c.been received by any officer or employe[e] of the government, or any department thereof, from sales of captured and abandoned property in the late insurrectionary districts, under or under color of the several acts of Congress providing for the collection and sale of such property, and which have not already been actually covered into the treasury, shall immediately be paid into the treasury of the United States, together with any interest which has been received or accrued thereon.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved,* That if any officer or person having Refusing or neglecting to pay over such money, &c. to be deemed embezzlement.the custody, possession, or control of any money derived or arising from the sale or other disposition of any such property mentioned in the preceding section shall convert the same to his own use, or shall refuse or neglect for the space of thirty days next after the passage of this resolution to pay the same into the treasury of the United States, or shall in anywise pay away or dispose of the same otherwise than by paying the same into the treasury as aforesaid, shall be deemed and held guilty of embezzling the public money of the United States, and shall be punished Penalty.therefor by imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years, and shall pay a fine equal to the sum so embezzled.
Sec. 3. *And be it further resolved,* That a sum of the proceeds of such Appropriation of proceeds of sales to defend suits, &c.sales not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the payment of the necessary expenses incurred by or under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury for incidental expenses in acting under the laws respecting the collection and disposition of captured and abandoned property, and for the necessary expenses of defending, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, such suits as have been brought against him or his agents in the premises, and for prosecuting suits in the United States for the recovery of such property, and for providing for the defence of the United States against suits for or in respect to such property in the court of claims.
Approved, March 30, 1868. No. 28: Public Resolution 28 15 Stat. 251 1868-05-19 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 28.] A Resolution *for the Appointment of a Commission to select suitable Locations for Powder Magazines.* May 19, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy Commission to select locations for powder magazines.be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to select three competent officers of the navy to constitute a commission, whose duty it shall be to 252 FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Res. 28, 30, 31. 1868.examine and report upon the practicability of securing more suitable sites for powder magazines than those now used in the vicinity of New York, Boston, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire; also to report the cost of procuring the said sites and the probable expense of erecting magazines thereon. Approved, May 19, 1868. No. 30: concerning certain Lands granted to Railroad Companies in the States of Michigan and Wisconsin. Public Resolution 30 15 Stat. 252 1868-05-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 30.] Joint Resolution *concerning certain Lands granted to Railroad Companies in the States of Michigan and Wisconsin.* May 20, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That a failure to grade twenty Lands granted to Michigan and Wisconsin for certain railroads not to be forfeited, &c. 1865, ch. 103. Vol. xiii. p. 520.miles of the roads within two years from the passage of the act entitled “An act to extend the time for the completion of certain railroads to which land grants have been made in the States of Michigan and Wisconsin,” approved on the third day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and twenty miles additional thereof in each year thereafter, as required by said act, shall not cause any forfeiture or reversion to the United States of any lands granted to the said States, or either of them, to aid in the construction of the railroads described:
Proviso.*Provided,* That said companies, or either of them, shall fully complete their said railroads in the manner required by law on or before the thirty-first December, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-two, at which time a failure shall forfeit the lands to the United States: Proviso.*Provided,* [That] the provisions of this section shall apply only to the chartered and projected line of railway from the city of Fond du Lac in the State of Wisconsin, northerly to Esconaba, in the State of Michigan, and the chartered and projected line of railway from Marquette, in the Proviso.State of Michigan, westerly to Ontonagon, in the same State: *And provided further,* That if the said Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company, in the State of Michigan, shall not have completed according to law ten additional miles of their railroad, on or before the first day of January A.
D. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and shall not in like manner complete ten miles of said railroad in each and every year thereafter, then it shall be lawful for the legislature of the said State of Michigan to declare the grant of lands to said company to be forfeited and to confer the said grant of lands upon some other company in the same manner as if the said grant was now for the first time made to the said State of Michigan. Patent to Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company for eighty acres of land of Fort Howard military reserve.
Vol. xii. p. 618. Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved,* That the commissioner of the general land office be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause a patent, in due form of law, to be issued to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, in pursuance of a resolution passed by Congress granting the same to the State of Wisconsin, approved April twenty-five, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and an act of the legislature of Wisconsin, approved June sixteen, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, granting the same to said company for eighty acres of land of the Fort Howard military reserve, as the same was surveyed and approved by said commissioner on the eleventh June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Approved, May 20, 1868. No. 31: in Relation to the Breakwater at Portland, Maine. Public Resolution 31 15 Stat. 252 1868-06-05 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 31.] Joint Resolution *in Relation to the Breakwater at Portland, Maine.* June 5, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That so much of the unexpended Appropriation for breakwater at Portland, Maine, may be expended how.balance of the appropriation for the breakwater in Portland harbor, Maine, as the chief engineer shall deem proper, may be expended under his direction in excavating the “middle ground” near said breakwater, and in otherwise protecting the channel from injury by filling and improving the same.
Approved, June 5, 1868. No. 32: to supply Books and public Documents to the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Public Resolution 32 15 Stat. 253 1868-06-03 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 32, 33, 34. 1868. 253 [No. 32.] Joint Resolution *to supply Books and public Documents to the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.* June 8, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Books and public documents to national asylum for disabled volunteer soldiers, and branches.Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives cause to be sent to the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Dayton, Ohio, and to the branches at Augusta, Maine, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Soldiers’ Home at Knightstown Springs, near Knightstown, Indiana, each, one copy, each, of the following documents, namely:
The journals of each house of Congress at each and every session; all laws of Congress; the annual messages of the President, with accompanying documents; and all other documents or books which may be printed and bound by order of either house of Congress, including the Congressional Globe; beginning with the thirty-seventh Congress. Approved, June 8, 1868. No. 33: to provide for the Removal of a Suit pending in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, to the Circuit Court of the United States.
Public Resolution 33 15 Stat. 253 1868-06-10 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 33.] Joint Resolution *to provide for the Removal of a Suit pending in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, to the Circuit Court of the United States.* June 10, 1868. Whereas a suit in ejectment is now pending in the circuit court of Preamble.Jefferson county, in West Virginia, against the tenant in possession, to recover possession of the Harper’s Ferry property, owned by the United States, and it is doubtful whether under any existing law of the United States the said suit can be removed to the circuit court of the United States:
Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That it shall be the duty of Suit in circuit court of Jefferson county, West Virginia, to be removed to the circuit court of the United States.the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Virginia, if in session, or of the judge thereof in vacation, on the application of the defendant in said suit, showing that the property sought to be recovered by the said suit is owned, or claimed by the United States under color of title, and verifying the facts set out in such application by *this* [his] affidavit, to issue a writ by certiorari, directed to the said State court, directing it to send the record and proceedings in said suit to the said circuit court of the United States, a duplicate of which writ shall be delivered to the clerk of the said State court, or left at his office, by the marshal of the said district, or his deputy or other person thereto duly authorized, and thereupon the said State court shall stay all further proceedings in said suit; and upon the return of the said writ, the said suit shall be docketed in the said circuit court of the United States, and there proceeded in according to law, and all further proceedings had therein in the said State court shall be null and void.
Approved, June 10, 1868. No. 34: authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish Supplies to an exploring Expedition. Public Resolution 34 15 Stat. 253 1868-06-11 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 34.] Joint Resolution *authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish Supplies to an exploring Expedition.* June 11, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, Exploration of the river Colorado.and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to issue rations for twenty-five men of the expedition engaged in the exploration of the river Colorado, under direction of Professor Powell, while engaged in that work: *Provided,* That such issue is not detrimental to the interests of the military service.
Approved, June 11, 1868. No. 37: requesting the President to intercede with her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, to secure the speedy Release of Reverend John McMahon, convicted on a Charge of Treason-Felony, and now confined at Kingston, Canada West. Public Resolution 37 15 Stat. 254 1868-06-19 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public 254 FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Res. 37, 38, 39, 40, 41. 1868. [No. 37.] Joint Resolution *requesting the President to intercede with her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, to secure the speedy Release of Reverend John McMahon, convicted on a Charge of Treason-Felony, and now confined at Kingston, Canada West.* June 19, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the President of the The President requested to intercede for the release of Rev.
John McMahon.United States be requested to intercede with her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, for the purpose of securing the speedy release of the Reverend John McMahon, of Indiana, convicted on a charge of treason-felony at Toronto, Canada West, in the fall of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and now confined in the State prison, at Kingston, in said province. Approved, June 19, 1868. No. 38: authorizing certain distilled Spirits to be turned over to the Surgeon-General for the Use of the Army Hospitals.
Public Resolution 38 15 Stat. 254 1868-06-26 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 38.] Joint Resolution *authorizing certain distilled Spirits to be turned over to the Surgeon-General for the Use of the Army Hospitals.* June 25, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Certain distilled spirits to be delivered to the surgeon-general.
Payment, and how applied.Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to deliver to the surgeon-gen eral of the army all the distilled spirits produced during the experiments made by the late commission for testing meters for the internal-revenue service, to be used for the army hospitals, and to be paid for at a reason able cost out of any moneys appropriated for the purchase of army hos pital stores, the amount received to be applied toward the expenses of said commission. Approved, June 25, 1868.
No. 39: authorizing a Change of Mail Service between Fort Abercrombie and Helena. Public Resolution 39 15 Stat. 254 1868-06-25 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 39.] A Resolution *authorizing a Change of Mail Service between Fort Abercrombie and Helena.* June 25, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General is Mail service between Fort Abercrombie and Helena.hereby authorized to change the character of the mail service from Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory, to Helena, Montana Territory, to post coach service.
Approved, June 25, 1868. No. 40: to provide for the Sale of the Site of Fort Covington, in the State of Maryland. Public Resolution 40 15 Stat. 254 1868-06-25 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 40.] Joint Resolution *to provide for the Sale of the Site of Fort Covington, in the State of Maryland.* June 25, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, Site of Fort Covington, in Maryland, to be sold.and he is hereby, authorized to sell in entirety or by subdivisions, at public auction to the highest bidder, after thirty days’ notice in three daily newspapers in the city of Baltimore, one of which newspapers shall be published in the German language, a certain tract of land belonging to the United States, situate within the limits of the said city, on the Patapsco river, Maryland, known as the site of Fort Covington, containing about two and three-quarters acres, more or less, with all the tenements, rights, Proceeds, how applied.and privileges pertaining thereto; and that the proceeds of such sale shall be paid into the treasury of the United States.
Approved, June 25, 1868. No. 41: directing the Secretary of State to present to George Wright, Master of the British Brig “J. and G. Wright,” a Gold Chronometer, in Appreciation of his personal Services in saving the Lives of three American Seamen, wrecked at Sea on Board of the American Schooner “Lizzie F. Choate,” of Massachusetts. Public Resolution 41 15 Stat. 254 1868-06-25 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 41.] Joint Resolution *directing the Secretary of State to present to George Wright, Master of the British Brig “J. and G. Wright,” a Gold Chronometer, in Appreciation of his personal Services in saving the Lives of three American Seamen, wrecked at Sea on Board of the American Schooner “Lizzie F. Choate,” of Massachusetts.* June 25, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of State Chronometer to be presented to Capt.
George Wright.be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be procured and presented to George Wright, master of the British brig “J. and G. FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 41, 42, 43, 47. 1868. 255Wright,” of St. John, New Brunswick, a gold chronometer, in token of appreciation by the government of the United States of his humane and successful efforts in rescuing from death three American seamen on board of the wreck of the American schooner “Lizzie F. Choate,” of Gloucester, Massachusetts, wrecked at sea on the fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Approved, June 25, 1868. No. 42: to authorize the Secretary of War to place at the Disposal of the Lincoln Monument Association damaged and captured Ordnance. Public Resolution 42 15 Stat. 255 1868-06-25 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 42.] Joint Resolution *to authorize the Secretary of War to place at the Disposal of the Lincoln Monument Association damaged and captured Ordnance.* June 25, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War Certain damaged and captured ordnance to be given to the Lincoln Monument Association. 1867, ch. 18. *Ante,* p. 11.be, and he is hereby, authorized, at his discretion, to place at the disposal of the “Lincoln Monument Association,” incorporated by an act of Congress entitled “An act to incorporate the Lincoln Monument Association,” approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, such damaged and captured bronze and brass guns and ordnance, out of which to cast the statues of the principal figures surmounting and to be incorporated in said structure: *Provided,* That no metal as aforesaid shall be thus appropriated Proviso.until the voluntary contributions for said purpose, actually in the bands of the treasurer, shall amount to one hundred thousand dollars; and no more metal shall be thus appropriated than shall be actually used for the purpose of casting the figures as herein mentioned.
Approved, June 25, 1868. No. 43: donating to the Washington City Orphan Asylum the Iron Railing taken from the old Hall of the House of Representatives. Public Resolution 43 15 Stat. 255 1868-06-25 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 43.] Joint Resolution *donating to the Washington City Orphan Asylum the Iron Railing taken from the old Hall of the House of Representatives.* June 25, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be donated to the Iron railing given to Washington City Orphan Asylum.
Proviso.Washington City Orphan Asylum the iron railing taken from the old hall of the House of Representatives, now in the Capitol grounds: *Provided,* That the same shall be taken away in ten days after the passage of this joint resolution. Approved, June 25, 1868. No. 47: extending the Time for the Completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Public Resolution 47 15 Stat. 255 1868-01-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 47.] Joint Resolution *extending the Time for the Completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad.* July 1, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section eight of an act Time for completing Northern Pacific Railroad extended. 1864, ch. 217, § 8. Vol. xiii. p. 370.entitled “An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound, on the Pacific coast,” is hereby so amended as to read as follows:
That each and every grant, right, and privilege herein, are so made and given to and accepted by said Northern Pacific Railroad Company upon and subject to the following conditions, namely: That the said company shall commence the work on said road within two years from and after the second day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and shall complete not less than one hundred miles per year after the second year thereafter, and shall construct, equip, furnish, and complete the whole road by the fourth day of July, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.
Approved, July 1, 1868. No. 48: donating certain captured Ordnance for the Completion of a Monument to the Memory of the late Major-General John Sedgwick. Public Resolution 48 15 Stat. 256 1868-07-03 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public 256 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 48, 49, 51, 52, 54. 1868. [No. 48.] A Resolution *donating certain captured Ordnance for the Completion of a Monument to the Memory of the late Major-General John Sedgwick.* July 3, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War Bronze cannon for statue of Major-General John Sedgwick.be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place in charge of Major-General H.
G. Wright, Major-General Frank Wheaton, Major-General George W. Getty, and Major-General Truman Seymour, three bronze cannon, captured by the sixth army corps in battle, for the construction of a statue of the late Major-General John Sedgwick, to be placed on a monument erected to his memory by the sixth corps of the army of the Potomac. Approved, July 3, 1868. No. 49: Relative to the Pay of the assistant Librarian of the House. Public Resolution 49 15 Stat. 256 1868-07-03 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 49.] Joint Resolution *Relative to the Pay of the assistant Librarian of the House.* July 3, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United S t ates of America in Congress assembled,* That for the present Congress, Pay of assistant librarian of the House of Representatives.commencing therewith, the clerk is directed to pay from the contingent fund of the House, to the assistant librarian in charge of the hall library, the difference between his present pay and the pay of the file, printing, and engrossing clerks.
Approved, July 3, 1868. No. 51: to correct an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of certain Exporters of Rum.” Public Resolution 51 15 Stat. 256 1868-07-06 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 51.] Joint Resolution *to correct an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of certain Exporters of Rum.”* July 6, 1868. 1868, ch. 73. *Ante,* p. 78. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the word “and” where Relief of certain exporters of rum.it occurs in said act after the word “export” and before the words “actually contracted” be changed to “or,” so that the corrected act shall read “intended for export or actually contracted for.
” Approved, July 6, 1868. No. 52: in Relation to the Erection of a Bridge in Boston Harbor. Public Resolution 52 15 Stat. 256 1868-07-07 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 52.] Joint Resolution *in Relation to the Erection of a Bridge in Boston Harbor.* July 7, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy Commission upon the erection of a bridge in Boston Harbor.shall detail two competent and impartial officers of the navy, and the Secretary of War shall detail a competent and impartial officer of the engineer corps, who shall compose a commission, whose duty it shall be to make careful examination of the harbor of Boston, and shall report to Congress, at its next session, in what manner the commerce of said harbor and the interests of the United States in the navy yard at Charlestown will be affected by the construction of a bridge over the water between the main land in the city of Boston and East Boston, in the manner provided in an act of the legislature of the State of Massachusetts, entitled “An act to incorporate the Maverick Bridge Company”; and no bridge shall be erected by said company across said water until the assent of Congress shall be given thereto.
Approved, July 7, 1868. No. 54: placing certain Troops of Missouri on an equal Footing with others as to Bounties. Public Resolution 54 15 Stat. 256 1868-07-13 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 54.] A Resolution *placing certain Troops of Missouri on an equal Footing with others as to Bounties.* July 13, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the troops recognized Certain troops placed on equal footing with volunteers as to bounties. 1862, ch. 25, § 3.
Vol. xii. p. 839.in an act entitled “An act making appropriations for completing the defences of Washington, and for other purposes,” approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be, and are hereby, considered as placed on an equal footing with the volunteers as to bounties, and that all laws relating to bounties be applicable to them as to other volunteers. Approved, July 13, 1868. No. 55: in Relation to the Maquoketa River, in the State of Iowa. Public Resolution 55 15 Stat. 257 1868-07-13 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 55, 56, 58. 1868. 257 [No. 55.] A Resolution *in Relation to the Maquoketa River, in the State of Iowa.* July 13, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the assent of Congress is Bridges may be built across the Maquoketa river, Iowa;given to the construction of bridges across the Maquoketa river, in the State of Iowa, with or without draws, as may be provided by the laws of the State of Iowa.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved,* That dams and bridges may be constructed and across the Iowa river above Wapello.across the Iowa river, in the State of Iowa, above the town of Wapello. Approved, July 13, 1868. No. 56: to extend the Time for the Completion of the West Wisconsin Railroad. Public Resolution 56 15 Stat. 257 1868-07-13 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 56.] Joint Resolution *to extend the Time for the Completion of the West Wisconsin Railroad.* July 13, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the time fixed and limited Time of completing West Wisconsin railroad extended. 1864, ch. 80, § 2. Vol. xiii. p. 66. Proviso.by an act entitled “An act granting lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads in the State of Wisconsin,” approved May five, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the completion of the railroad from Tomah, in the county of Monroe, to Saint Croix river or lake, between townships twenty-five and thirty-one, be, and the same is hereby, further extended for a period of three years to the West Wisconsin Railroad Company, a corporation established by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, and which, by the law of said State, is entitled to the land grant made in the second section of said act: *Provided,* That if said railway company shall not have completed said railroad from Tomah to Black River Falls on or before the expiration of one year from the passage of this resolution, this act shall be null and void.
Approved, July 13, 1868. No. 58: excluding from the electoral College Votes of States lately in Rebellion, which shall not have been reorganized. Public Resolution 58 15 Stat. 267 1868-07-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 58.] A Resolution *excluding from the electoral College Votes of States lately in Rebellion, which shall not have been reorganized.* July 20, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That none of the States whose States lately in rebellion excluded from the electoral college, &c. unless, &c.inhabitants were lately in rebellion shall be entitled to representation in the electoral college for the choice of President or Vice-President of the United States, nor shall any electoral votes be received or counted from any of such States, unless at the time prescribed by law for the choice of electors the people of such States, pursuant to the acts of Congress in that behalf, shall have, since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, adopted a constitution of State government under which a State government shall have been organized and shall be in operation, nor unless such election of electors shall have been held under the authority of such constitution and government, and such State shall have also become entitled to representation in Congress, pursuant to the acts of Congress in that behalf: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to any State which was represented in Congress on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* B. F. WADE. *President of the Senate pro tempore.* In Senate of the United States, July 20, 1868. } The President of the United States having returned to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled “A resolution excluding from the electoral college votes of States lately in rebellion which shall not have 258 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 58, 59, 60. 1868.been reorganized,” with his objections thereto, the Senate proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and *Resolved,* That the said bill do pass, two thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same.
Attest: GEO. C. GORHAM, *Secretary of the Senate.* In the House of Representatives, July 20, 1868. } The House of Representatives having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “A resolution excluding from the electoral college votes of States lately in rebellion which shall not have been reorganized,” returned to the Senate by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the Senate to the House of Representatives, with the message of the President returning the bill— *Resolved,* That the bill do pass, two thirds of the House of Representa tives agreeing to pass the same.
Attest: EDWD. McPHERSON, *Clerk.* No. 59: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an American Register to the British-built Brig Highland Mary. Public Resolution 59 15 Stat. 258 1868-07-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 59.] A Resolution *authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an American Register to the British-built Brig Highland Mary.* July 20, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the American register to issue to the brig Highland Mary.Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue an American register to the British-built brig Highland Mary, owned by H. and S.
French, of Sag Harbor, New York. Approved, July 20, 1868. No. 60: in Relation to the Rock Island Bridge. Public Resolution 60 15 Stat. 258 1868-07-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 60.] Joint Resolution *in Relation to the Rock Island Bridge.* July 20, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act of Congress “making Work to be begun on the bridge over the Mississippi River at Rock Island. 1867, ch. 170.
Vol. xiv. p. 485.appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes,” approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to authorize and direct the Secretary of War to order the commencement of work on the bridge over the Mississippi River at Rock Island, to connect the said island with the cities of Davenport Ownership of bridge.and Rock Island: *Provided,* That the ownership of said bridge shall be and remain in the United States, and the Rock Island and Pacific Right of way.Railroad Company shall have the right of way over said bridge for all purposes of transit across the island and river, upon condition that the said railroad company shall pay to the United States, first, half of the cost of the superstructure of the bridge over the main channel and half the cost of keeping the same in repair, and shall also build at its own cost the bridge over that part of the river which is on the east side of the island of Rock Island, and also the railroad on and across said island of Rock Island; and upon a full compliance with these conditions said railroad company shall have the use of said bridge for the purposes of free transit, but without any claim to the ownership thereof; and said railroad company shall, within six months after said new bridge is ready for use, remove their old bridge from the river and their railroad track from its present Other roads may have right of way.location on the island of Rock Island: *And provided further,* That the government may permit any other road or roads wishing to cross on said bridge to do so by paying to the parties then in interest the proportionate cost of said bridge, but no such permission to other roads shall impair the right hereby granted to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail-259 FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Res. 60, 61, 62, 63. 1868.road Company; and that the total cost of said bridge shall not exceed the Cost of bridge not to exceed, &c.estimates made by the commissioners appointed under the act approved June twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-six: *And provided also,* That in no case shall the expenditure on the part of the United States exceed one million dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved,* That in case the Rock Island and Existing bridge to be removed and new bridge built, and road not to have right of way, if, &c.Pacific Railroad Company shall neglect or fail, for sixty days after the passage of this resolution, to make and guarantee the agreement specified in the act of appropriation aforesaid, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, then the Secretary of War shall be, and is hereby, authorized and required to direct the removal of the existing bridge and to direct the construction of the bridge aforesaid, and expend the money appropriated for that purpose in said act; and the said Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company shall not have, acquire, or enjoy any right of way, or privilege thereon, or the use of said bridge, until the agreement aforesaid shall be made and guaranteed according to the terms and conditions of said act of appropriation.
All acts or parts of acts Repealing clause.inconsistent with these resolutions are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. *And be it further resolved,* That any bridge built under the Bridge to conform to act 1866, ch. 246, § 2. Vol. xiv. p. 244.provisions of this resolution shall be constructed so as to conform to the requirements of section two of an act entitled “An act to authorize the construction of certain bridges, and to establish them as post-roads,” approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Approved, July 20, 1868. No. 61: directing the Secretary of War to sell damaged or unserviceable Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Stores. Public Resolution 61 15 Stat. 259 1868-07-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 61.] Joint Resolution *directing the Secretary of War to sell damaged or unserviceable Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Stores.* July 20, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, Damaged or unserviceable arms or ordnance stores to be sold.and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be sold, after offer at public sale on thirty days’ notice, in such manner and at such times and places, at public or private sale, as he may deem most advantageous to the public interest, the old cannon, arms, and other ordnance stores now in possession of the War Department which are damaged or otherwise unsuitable for the United States military service, or for the militia of the United States, and to cause the net proceeds of such sales, after paying Proceeds of sales.all proper expenses of sale and transportation to the place of sale, to be deposited in the treasury of the United States.
Approved, July 20, 1868. No. 62: authorizing the Issue of Clothing to Company F, eighteenth Regiment United States Infantry. Public Resolution 62 15 Stat. 259 1868-07-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 62.] Joint Resolution *authorizing the Issue of Clothing to Company F, eighteenth Regiment United States Infantry.* July 20, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, Certain clothing to issue to certain men of Company F, Eighteenth Infantry.and he is hereby, authorized to issue to the thirty-three enlisted men of company F, eighteenth regiment U.
S. infantry, clothing in lieu of, and equal in amount to, that lost by them in crossing the North Platte River, in June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as shown and recommended in the report of the board of survey convened under special order number three, head-quarters post Fort Bridger, Utah, of date of January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Approved, July 20, 1868. No. 63: to grant [an] American Register to Hawaiian Brig “Victoria.” Public Resolution 63 15 Stat. 259 1868-07-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 63.] Joint Resolution *to grant [an] American Register to Hawaiian Brig “Victoria.”* July 20, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury American register to brig Victoria.is hereby authorized and directed to issue [an] American register to 260 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 63, 64, 67, 68, 63, 72. 1868.the derelict Hawaiian brig Victoria, said vessel being now owned by a citizen of San Francisco, California.
Approved, July 20, 1868. No. 64: exonerating certain Vessels of the United States from the Payment of Tonnage Fees to consular Agents in Canada. Public Resolution 64 15 Stat. 260 1868-07-20 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 64.] Joint Resolution *exonerating certain Vessels of the United States from the Payment of Tonnage Fees to consular Agents in Canada.* July 20, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That hereafter no consul or No tonnage fees from United States vessels at or near ports in Canada.consular agent of the United States shall exact tonnage fees from any vessel of the United States touching at or near ports in Canada, on her regular voyage from one port to another within the United States, unless said consul or consular agent shall perform some official services, required by law, for such vessel when she shall thus touch at a Canadian port.
Approved, July 20, 1868. No. 67: to admit, free of Duty, certain Statuary. Public Resolution 67 15 Stat. 260 1868-07-23 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 67.] Joint Resolution *to admit, free of Duty, certain Statuary.* July 23, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the statue representing A certain marble statue to be admitted free of duty.the figure of Victory, intended to surmount the monument in memory of the Pennsylvania soldiers who fell in the Mexican war, now about being erected on the capitol grounds at Harrisburg, being in marble cut in Italy, and which will soon be ready for shipment, shall be admitted free of duty.
Approved, July 23, 1868. No. 68: admitting Steam Plows free of Duty for one Year from June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Public Resolution 68 15 Stat. 260 1868-07-23 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 68.] Joint Resolution *admitting Steam Plows free of Duty for one Year from June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.* July 23, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the provisions of section Steam agricultural machinery admitted free of duty. *Ante,* p. 23.two of the joint resolution approved March twenty-six, A.
D. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, respecting the importation of agricultural machinery free of duty, be, and the same is hereby, extended and shall continue in force for the further period of one year from the thirtieth day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and that any such machinery shipped before the said thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, or which may have arrived since that day, be exempt from duty. Approved, July 23, 1868. No. 69: to amend the fourteenth Section of the Act approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An Act io protect the Revenue, and for other Purposes.
” Public Resolution 69 15 Stat. 260 1868-07-23 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 69.] Joint Resolution *to amend the fourteenth Section of the Act approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An Act io protect the Revenue, and for other Purposes.”* July 23, 1868. 1866, ch. 298, § 14.
Vol. xiv. p. 331. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the fourteenth section of Collection of direct tax in insurrectionary States suspended until Jan. 1, 1869.the act approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to protect the revenue, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to extend the operation thereof until January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
Approved, July 23, 1868. No. 72: to carry into Effect the Resolution approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, providing for the Exchange of certain public Documents. Public Resolution 72 15 Stat. 260 1868-07-25 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 72.] A Resolution *to carry into Effect the Resolution approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, providing for the Exchange of certain public Documents.* July 25, 1868.
Vol. xiv. p 573. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the congressional printer, Additional copies of public documents to joint committee on the library for exchange.whenever he shall be so directed by the joint Committee on the library, be, and he hereby is, directed to print fifty copies in addition to the regular number, of all documents hereafter printed by order of either house of Congress, or by order of any department or bureau of the government, FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Res. 72, 73, 74, 75. 1868. 261and whenever he shall be so directed by the Joint Committee on the Library, one hundred copies additional of all documents ordered to be printed, in excess of the usual number; said fifty or one hundred copies to be delivered to the librarian of Congress, to be exchanged, under direction of the joint committee, on the library, as provided by joint resolution approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved,* That fifty copies of each publication Fifty copies of any publication printed, &c. to be at disposal of the joint committee on library.printed under direction of any department or bureau of the government, whether at the Congressional Printing Office or elsewhere, shall be placed at the disposal of the joint committee on the library to carry out the provisions of said resolution.
Approved, July 25, 1868. No. 73: granting Permission to Officers and Soldiers to wear the Badge of the Corps in which they served during the Rebellion. Public Resolution 73 15 Stat. 261 1868-07-25 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 73.] A Resolution *granting Permission to Officers and Soldiers to wear the Badge of the Corps in which they served during the Rebellion.* July 25, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all who served as officers, Officers and soldiers may wear the badge of their army corps.non-commissioned officers, privates, or other enlisted men in the regular army, volunteer, or militia forces of the United States, during the war of the rebellion, and have been honorably discharged from the service or remain still in the same, shall be entitled to wear, on occasions of ceremony, the distinctive army badge ordered for or adopted by the army corps and division, respectively, in which they served.
Approved, July 25, 1868. No. 74: to admit certain Persons to the naval Academy. Public Resolution 74 15 Stat. 261 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 74.] A Resolution *to admit certain Persons to the naval Academy.* July 27, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy Six persons, designated by the government of Japan may be received at naval academy.
Proviso.be, and he is hereby, authorized to receive for instruction at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, not exceeding six persons, to be designated by the government of the empire of Japan: *Provided,* That no expense, shall thereby accrue to the United States: *And provided further,* That the Secretary of the Navy may, in the case of the said persons, modify or dispense with any provisions of the rules and regulations of the said academy which circumstances may, in his opinion, render necessary or desirable.
Approved, July 27, 1868. No. 75: relative to Lighting the Streets of Washington City, District of Columbia. Public Resolution 75 15 Stat. 261 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 75.] A Resolution *relative to Lighting the Streets of Washington City, District of Columbia.* July 27, 1868.
Whereas, the municipal authorities of the city of Washington have Preamble. 1866, ch. 296. Vol. xiv. p. 315.failed to carry out the arrangements for lighting the streets of said city, in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government,” approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six: Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the mayor and city councils Tax to be levied to pay for lighting streets with gas.of the city of Washington be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to levy and collect a tax from the property holders of the city of Washington sufficient to defray the expenses of lighting the avenue and street lamps of said city with six-feet burners, twenty-one nights in each month, from dark until daylight, and keep said lamps so lighted each year.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved,* That the mayor and city councils Contract may be made with Washington Gas Light Company for gas.of the city of Washington be, and they are hereby, authorized to contract with the Washington Gas Light Company for the term of one year, and so from year to year until otherwise provided by law, at such rates as may be agreed upon not exceeding the maximum now fixed by law, for 262 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 75, 76, 77, 78. 1868.all the illuminating gas required for the avenue and street lamps and public offices of the city and public grounds under the control of said city.
Number of street lamps to be increased from time to time, &c. Sec. 3. *And be it further resolved,* That the mayor and city councils of the city of Washington be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to increase from time to time, as the public good may require, the number of street lamps on any of the streets, lanes, alleys, public ways, and grounds, in the city of Washington, and to do any and all things pertaining to the well lighting of the city, and to levy and collect a tax from the property holders therefor.
If city authorities fail to collect tax or to light city, Secretary of Interior to levy tax and light the city. Sec. 4. *And be it further resolved,* That in the event of the failure of the mayor and city councils to levy and collect the tax herein authorized, or to light the said city as herein directed, then the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to levy a tax upon the property of said city, and to collect the same, sufficient to light said city for the current year, and so from year to year, in case of such failure of said mayor and city councils to light as herein directed and to fully execute the provisions of this joint resolution in the place and stead of the said mayor and city councils.
Washington Gas Light Company not exempt from tax. Sec. 5. *And be it further resolved,* That nothing herein contained shall be construed to relieve the said Washington Gas Light Company from paying the internal revenue tax imposed by law. Approved, July 27, 1868. No. 76: in Relation to Surveys and Examinations of Rivers and Harbors. Public Resolution 76 15 Stat. 262 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 76.] Joint Resolution *in Relation to Surveys and Examinations of Rivers and Harbors.* July 27, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War shall Secretary of War to state to Congress certain facts, with reports of examinations, &c. of rivers, &c.cause to be prepared and submitted to Congress, in connection with the reports of examinations and surveys of rivers and harbors hereafter made by order of Congress, full statements of all existing facts tending to show to what extent the general commerce of the country will be promoted by the several works of improvements contemplated by such examinations and surveys, to the end that public moneys shall not be applied excepting where such improvements shall tend to subserve the general commercial and navigation interests of the United States.
Approved, July 27, 1868. No. 77: relative to printing Specifications of Patents. Public Resolution 77 15 Stat. 262 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 77.] Joint Resolution *relative to printing Specifications of Patents.* July 27, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That no bills be paid by the Printing specification of patents.treasury for printing specifications of patents above the contract price, except that seventy cents may be added to each thousand words for the additional cost of composition occasioned by change made in the printing by order of the commissioner of patents.
Approved, July 27, 1868. No. 78: for the Donation of certain Columns. Public Resolution 78 15 Stat. 262 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 78.] Joint Resolution *for the Donation of certain Columns.* July 27, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Donation of columns from Pennsylvania bank building to certain cemeteries.Treasury is hereby authorized to donate to such cemeteries as *as* have been in whole or in part dedicated to the burial of soldiers or sailors who lost their lives in defence of the United States, or to such voluntary associations of citizens as contributed to the comfort and wants of these patriots while living, the six columns taken from the old Pennsylvania bank Proviso.building, in the city of Philadelphia: *Provided,* That but one column shall be donated to such cemetery or association in any one State, and that the same shall be used as a monument.
Approved, July 27, 1868. No. 79: authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish Cannon to Soldiers’ Monument Associations of Pequannock and Paterson, N. J. Public Resolution 79 15 Stat. 263 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 79, 80, 81, 82. 1868. 263 [No. 79.] Joint Resolution *authorizing the Secretar y of War to furnish Cannon to Soldiers’ Monument Associations of Pequannock and Paterson, N.
J.* July 27, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be Cannon and balls to Soldiers’ Monument Associations of Pequannock and Paterson, N. J.authorized to furnish to the Soldiers’ Monument Associations of the township of Pequannock, Morris county, N. J., and Paterson, Passaic county, N. J., each four pieces of condemned cannon, and twenty balls, in all eight pieces of cannon and forty balls, to be placed about the said monuments.
Approved, July 27, 1868. No. 80: giving the Assent of the United States to the Construction of certain Wharves in the Harbor of Oswego, New York. Public Resolution 80 15 Stat. 263 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 80.] Joint Resolution *giving the Assent of the United States to the Construction of certain Wharves in the Harbor of Oswego, New York.* July 27, 1868.
Whereas the common council of the city of Oswego, in the State of PreambleNew York, by resolutions unanimously adopted April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and May twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, in pursuance of the authority granted them by the legislature of New York in the charter of said city, have given permission to the owners of lots eleven and twelve, also of lots thirteen, fourteen, eighty-one, and eighty-two, and of lots fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen, in fortification block number two, in the first ward of said city, to construct wharves in front of said lots, seventy feet in width, and extending northerly so that the north end of said wharves may be on a line with the north line of the Ontario elevator pier, but not less than two hundred and fifty feet distant from the nearest point of the United States pier, which wharves will extend into the navigable waters of said harbor:
Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the assent of the United Assent by Congress to owners of lots in Oswego, N. Y., to construct wharves.States be, and the same is hereby, given, so far as Congress has power to give the same, to the owners of the lots above mentioned, to construct said wharves in accordance with the terms of said resolutions, subject, however, to the approval of the engineer department of the army.
Approved, July 27, 1868. No. 81: to drop from the Rolls of the Army certain Officers absent without Authority from their Commands. Public Resolution 81 15 Stat. 263 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 81.] A Resolution *to drop from the Rolls of the Army certain Officers absent without Authority from their Commands.* July 27, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following-named officers Certain army officers absent without authority to be dropped from rolls.of the army reported by the Secretary of War absent from their commands without authority, be, and they are hereby, dropped from the rolls, with loss of all pay and allowances, viz.
First Lieutenant D. H. Weiland, sixth infantry; First Lieutenant H. H. Lanty, fourth infantry; First Lieutenant A. J. McDonald, fifth artillery; First Lieutenant Richard Wilson, third artillery; Second Lieutenant J. W. Godman, sixth infantry; Second Lieutenant Guy Morrison, tenth infantry. This resolution to take effect from the dates at which they absented themselves from their regiments. Approved, July 27, 1868. No. 82: joint Resolution appealing to the Turkish Government in behalf of the People of Crete.
Public Resolution 82 15 Stat. 263 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 82.] A Resolution *joint Resolution appealing to the Turkish Government in behalf of the People of Crete.* July 27, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the people of the United Sympathy expressed for the people of Crete.States renew the expression of their sympathy with the suffering people of Crete, to whom they are bound by the ties of a common religion and by the gratitude due to the Greek race, of which the Cretans are a part; that they rejoice to believe that the sufferings of this interesting people 264 FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Res. 82, 83, 84. 1868.may be happily terminated by a policy of forbearance on the part of the Turkish government, and they hereby declare their earnest hope that the Turkish government will listen kindly to this representation, and will speedily adopt such generous steps as will secure to Crete the much-desired blessings of peace and the advantages of autonomic government. Contest in Crete should be closed. Sec. [2]. *And be it further resolved,* That religion, civilization, and humanity require that the existing contest in Crete should be brought to a close, and to accomplish this result the civilized powers of the world should unite in friendly influence with the government of Turkey.
Minister of the United States to be instructed to, &c. Copy to Turkey. Sec. [3]. *And be it further resolved,* That it shall be the duty of the President to instruct the minister of the United States at Constantinople to co-operate with the ministers of other powers in all good offices to terminate the sufferings of the people of Crete; and that it shall be the further duty of the President to communicate a copy of this resolution to the government of Turkey. Approved, July 27, 1868.
No. 83: to aid in relieving from Peonage Women and Children of the Navajo Indians. Public Resolution 83 15 Stat. 264 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 83.] Joint Resolution *to aid in relieving from Peonage Women and Children of the Navajo Indians.* July 27, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Lieutenant-General W.
Women and children of Navajo Indians to be reclaimed from peonage.T. Sherman be, and is hereby, authorized and requested to use the most efficient means his judgment will approve to reclaim from peonage the women and children of the Navajo Indians, now held in slavery in the territory adjacent to their homes and the reservation on which the Navajo Indians have been confined. Approved, July 27, 1868. No. 84: relative to the Pay of the chief Clerk in the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House.
Public Resolution 84 15 Stat. 264 1868-07-27 Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-06 40 2 public [No. 84.] Joint Resolution *relative to the Pay of the chief Clerk in the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House.* July 27, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the clerk is directed to Pay of chief clerk in office of sergeant-at-arms of the House.pay from the contingent fund of the House to the chief clerk in the office of the sergeant-at-arms the difference between his present pay and the amount voted him by a resolution of the House, passed June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thereby fixing the salary of the clerk in the office of the sergeant-at-arms at twenty-five hundred dollars per annum.
Approved, July 27, 1868. 40 3 1868 1869 265 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FORTIETH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the Third Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December, A. D.* 1868, *and was adjourned without day on Thursday, the fourth day of March, A. D.* 1869. Andrew Johnson, President. Benjamin F. Wade, President of the Senate, Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives, until the third day of March, A.
D. 1869, on which day he resigned, and Theodore M. Pomeroy was elected Speaker, and so acted for the remainder of the session.
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