Chapter CLII. *to confirm certain private Land Claims in the Territory of New Mexico*
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CHAP. CLII.— An Act *to confirm certain private Land Claims in the Territory of New Mexico*. March 3, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Certain private land claims in New Mexico confirmed. That private land claims numbered forty-one, forty-two, forty-four, forty-six, and forty-seven, Territory of New Mexico, as known and designated by the numbers aforesaid in the reports of the surveyor-general of the said Territory and on the books of the commissioner of the general land office, be, and the same are hereby, Certain rights not affected.confirmed: *Provided*, That such confirmation shall only be construed as a quit-claim on [or] relinquishment of all title or claim on the part of the United States to any of the lands not improved by or on behalf of the United States, and not including any military or other reservation embraced in either of the said claims, and shall not affect the adverse rights of any person or persons to the same, or any part or parcel thereof.
Sec. 2. Claims to be surveyed and platted, and patents to issue.*And be it further enacted*, That the commissioner of the general land office shall, without unreasonable delay, cause the lands embraced in said several claims to be surveyed and platted, at the proper expense of the claimants thereof, and upon the filing of said surveys and plats in his office he shall issue patents for said lands in said Territory which have heretofore been confirmed by acts of Congress and surveyed, and plats of such survey filed in his office as aforesaid, but for which no patents have heretofore been issued.
Sec. 3. Surveys to conform to public surveys.*And be it further enacted*, That all surveys authorized by this act shall conform to and be connected with the public surveys of the United States in said Territories, so far as the same can be done consistently with the landmarks and boundaries specified in the several grants Proviso.upon which said claims are founded: *Provided, however*, That when said lands are so confirmed, surveyed, and patented, they shall in each case be held and taken to be in full satisfaction of all further claims or demands against the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1869. 343 RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: in Relation to the Library of the Department of Agriculture. Resolution 1 15 Stat. 343 1868-12-15 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 3 15 public [No. 1.] A Resolution *in Relation to the Library of the Department of Agriculture*. Dec. 15, 1868. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Commissioner of agriculture to regard the library in his possession as the property of the department of agriculture, &c. 1862, ch. 72, § 3.
Vol. xii. p. 388. That the commissioner of agriculture shall regard the library now under his control, and in his possession, as part of the property of the department of agriculture, and he shall retain the same in his charge as directed by section three of the act approved May fifteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, establishing a department of agriculture. Approved, December 15, 1868. No. 2: donating condemned Cannon for the Erection of a Monument to Major-General Kearney.
Resolution 2 15 Stat. 343 1868-12-21 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 3 15 public [No. 2.] Joint Resolution *donating condemned Cannon for the Erection of a Monument to Major-General Kearney*. Dec. 21, 1868. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Condemned cannon granted to complete a monument to Major-General Philip Kearney and others.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to furnish such condemned iron cannon as may be required, not exceeding four, for the completion of a monument at Tivoli, New York, over the remains of the late Major-General Philip Kearney, and other Union soldiers buried at that place, who lost their lives in the late war. Approved, December 21, 1868. No. 3: explanatory of the Act to create an additional Land Office in the State of Minnesota, approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Resolution 3 15 Stat. 343 1869-01-14 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 3 15 public [No. 3.] Joint Resolution *explanatory of the Act to create an additional Land Office in the State of Minnesota, approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight*. Jan. 14, 1869.1868, ch. 238.*Ante*, p. 184. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Construction of limits of land district in Minnesota.
That the limits of the land district as designated in the act entitled “An act to create an additional land district in the State of Minnesota,” approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to wit: “all that part of the northwestern land district which lies north of township number one hundred and twenty-four north and west of range number thirty-five west of the fifth principal meridian,” shall be construed to embrace all the lands north of township one hundred and twenty-four and west of said range thirty-five.
Approved, January 14, 1869. No. 5: authorizing the Transfer of certain Appropriations heretofore made for the public Printing, Binding, and Engraving. Resolution 5 15 Stat. 343 1869-02-09 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 3 15 public [No. 5.] A Resolution *authorizing the Transfer of certain Appropriations heretofore made for the public Printing, Binding, and Engraving*.
Feb. 9, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Transfer of appropriation for paper for public printing, for public binding, and lithographing and engraving.1868, ch. 176.*Ante*, p. 95. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the sum of one hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars to be transferred from the appropriation “for paper for the public printing,” contained in the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,” approved on the twentieth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, in aid of the appropriations contained344FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Res. 5, 7, 8. 1869. in the same act, for the following purposes, and in the following proportions, to wit: For the public binding, the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For lithographing and engraving for the Senate and House of Representatives, the sum of eighty-four thousand dollars. Approved, February 9, 1869. No. 7: relative to the recent Contract for Stationery for the Department of the Interior. Resolution 7 15 Stat. 344 1869-02-18 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 3 15 public [No. 7.] A Resolution *relative to the recent Contract for Stationery for the Department of the Interior*. Feb. 18, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Contract between the Secretary of the Interior and Dempsey and O’Toole for stationery, to be cancelled. That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to annul and cancel the contract made by him with Messrs.
Dempsey and O’Toole for supplying the Department of the Interior and the several bureaus and offices thereof with stationery for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, (under the advertisement issued May twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.) SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives*. B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore*. Indorsed by the President: “Received February 6, 1869.” [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. 8: respecting the provisional Governments of Virginia and Texas.
Resolution 8 15 Stat. 344 1869-02-18 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 3 15 public [No. 8.] A Resolution *respecting the provisional Governments of Virginia and Texas*. Feb. 18, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Persons holding civil offices in the provisional governments of Virginia and Texas, who cannot take the oath, to be removed.1862, ch. 128.
Vol. xii. p. 502.Proviso.Vol. xiv. p. 358.1868, ch. 139.*Ante*, p. 85. That the persons now holding civil offices in the provisional governments of Virginia and Texas, who cannot take and subscribe the oath prescribed by the act entitled “An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes,” approved July 2, 1862, shall, on the passage of this resolution, be removed therefrom; and it shall be the duty of the district commanders to fill the vacancies so created by the appointment of persons who can take said oath: *Provided*, That the provisions of this resolution shall not apply to persons who by reason of the removal of their disabilities as provided in the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution shall have qualified for any office in pursuance of the act entitled “An act prescribing an oath of office by persons from whom legal disabilities shall have been removed,” approved When to take effect.July eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty eight: *And provided further*, That this resolution shall not take effect until thirty days from and after To apply to Mississippi.its passage: *And it is further provided*, That this resolution shall be, and is hereby extended to, and made applicable to the State of Mississippi.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives*. B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore*. Indorsed by the President: “Received February 6, 1869.” [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. 9: directing the Enforcement of the Lien upon the Steamer “Atlantic.
” Resolution 9 15 Stat. 345 1869-02-19 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 3 15 public 345 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Res. 9, 10, 11. 1869. [No. 9.] Joint Resolution *directing the Enforcement of the Lien upon the Steamer “Atlantic.”* Feb. 19, 1869. Whereas, on the sixth of February, eighteen hundred and forty-nine,Preamble. an agreement in the nature of a chattel mortgage was entered into between the Secretary of the Navy of the United States and the assignees of the Collins contract, by which, after reciting the acts of March third,1847, ch. 62.Vol. ix. p. 187.1848, ch. 121.Vol. ix. p. 267. eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and August third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight aforesaid, and that the assignees of the contract had launched two vessels, (the “Atlantic” and “Pacific,” still unfinished,) and had applied for advances under the act, and were willing and desirous to secure the repayment or refunding of the same from the annual compensation of the said ships by a lien on said ships, it was witnessed that the said assignees bargained, sold and conveyed the said two vessels to Prosper M.
Wetmore, upon trust; that the assignees should retain possession of the said vessels and employ them in execution of the contract, and if, after the expiration of one year from the commencement of the performance of the service under the contract, the assignees should have failed to repay in money, or to refund out of one year’s compensation, such outstanding balance due and unpaid or unrefunded of such advances as the Secretary of the Navy might have made prior to the end of one year from the commencement of the performance of the said service, then the said Wetmore was, after advertising for six months the time and place of sale, to sell the said steamships at public auction, and out of the proceeds pay
(1)the expenses of the trust,
(2)the balances of advances due the United States, and
(3)the surplus to the assignees; and whereas the said deed of mortgage is still binding on the “Atlantic,” one of the said steamships; and whereas a large amount is still due on the said mortgage for expenses incurred in executing the trust, which amount it is claimed the government is liable for; and whereas the sale of the said steamship “Atlantic” has been duly advertised according to the terms of the mortgage, but never sold: Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Lien upon the steamship “Atlantic” to be enforced. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and is hereby, directed to cause the trustee named in the said deed of mortgage to proceed at once, in such mode as the law and deed of mortgage may authorize, to enforce the lien upon said steamship “Atlantic,” with a view to the immediate payment of the expenses of the trust, and any other balances that may be due and owing upon the said mortgage. Approved, February 19, 1869. No. 10: authorizing the Secretary of War to allow to the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad Company a Right of Way across a Portion of the public Ground at Port Ontario, Oswego, New York, for Railroad Purposes. Resolution 10 15 Stat. 345 1869-02-19 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 3 15 public [No. 10.] Joint Resolution *authorizing the Secretary of War to allow to the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad Company a Right of Way across a Portion of the public Ground at Port Ontario, Oswego, New York, for Railroad Purposes*. Feb. 19, 1869. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, New York and Oswego Midland R. R. Co. to have right of way through public land at Fort Ontario. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow to the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad Company a right of way through the public land at Fort Ontario, Oswego, in the State of New York, for railroad purposes, upon such terms and conditions as he may think the defences at that point may require and make proper, reserving to the United States the right to remove, at the expense of the said company, the rails, ties, and other parts of said road, whenever the Secretary of War shall direct, without any claim or right of damages on the part of said company. Approved, February 19, 1869. No. 11: in Relation to Coast Defence. Resolution 11 15 Stat. 345 1869-02-19 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 3 15 public [No. 11.] A Resolution *in Relation to Coast Defence*. Feb. 19, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the general of the army and346FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Res. 11, 14,15,16. 1869. Ryan-Hitchcock mode of marine fortifications to be inquired into, and report made to Congress.the admiral of the navy, or in the absence of the admiral, then the vice-admiral, be authorized and directed to inquire into the utility and practicability of the Ryan-Hitchcock mode of marine fortifications, and that they report to Congress at the next session thereof. Approved, February 19, 1869. No. 14: proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolution 14 15 Stat. 346 1869-02-27 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 3 15 public [No. 14.] A Resolution *proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States*. Feb. 27, 1869. *Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fifteenth amendment to the Constitution. (two thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely: ARTICLE XV. Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives*. B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore*. Attest: Edwd. McPherson, *Clerk of House of Representatives*. Geo. C. Gorham, *Sec’y of Senate U. S.* Received at Department of State February 27, 1869. No. 15: granting the Consent of Congress provided for in section ten of the Act incorporating the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Resolution 15 15 Stat. 346 1869-03-01 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 3 15 public [No. 15.] Joint Resolution *granting the Consent of Congress provided for in section ten of the Act incorporating the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four*. March 1, 1869.1864, ch. 217, § 10.Vol. xiii. p. 370. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Consent of Congress given to the Northern Pacific R. R. Co. to issue bonds, &c. That the consent of the Congress of the United States is hereby given to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to issue its bonds, and to secure the same by mortgage upon its railroad and its telegraph line, for the purpose of raising funds with which to construct said railroad and telegraph line between Lake Superior and Puget Sound, and also upon its branch to a point at or near Portland, Oregon; and the term “Puget Sound,” as used here and in the act incorporating said company, is hereby construed to mean all the waters connected with the straits of Juan de Fuca within the territory of the United States. Approved, March 1, 1869. No. 16: in Relation to the Meeting of the House of Representatives at the first Session of the Forty-first Congress. Resolution 16 15 Stat. 346 1869-03-01 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 3 15 public [No. 16.] Joint Resolution *in Relation to the Meeting of the House of Representatives at the first Session of the Forty-first Congress*. March 1, 1869. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Time of first regular meeting of the House of Representatives of the 41st Congress. That the time for the first regular meeting of the House of Representatives of the Forty-first Congress be, and is hereby, postponed from twelve o’clock meridian, on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to the hour of three o’clock in the afternoon of the said day. Approved, March 1, 1869. No. 17: in Regard to the Publication of postal Conventions made with foreign Countries. Resolution 17 15 Stat. 347 1869-03-01 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 3 15 public 347 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Res. 17, 19, 20, 21. 1869. [No. 17.] Joint Resolution *in Regard to the Publication of postal Conventions made with foreign Countries*. March 1, 1869. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Postal conventions to be published, &c.1851, ch. 20, § 2. Vol. ix. p. 587. 1851, ch. 48, § 2. Vol. ix. p. 645.*Ante*, p. 40. That the Secretary of State be authorized and directed to cause the several postal conventions made with foreign countries, under the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, or which may hereafter be made, to be published in the same manner, and upon the same terms, as is prescribed for the publication of the treaties and laws of the United States. Approved, March 1, 1869. No. 19: providing for the Reporting and Publication of the Debates in Congress. Resolution 19 15 Stat. 347 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 19.] A Resolution *providing for the Reporting and Publication of the Debates in Congress*. March 3, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Contract to be made with Rives and Bailey for reporting, &c. debates in Congress for two years.Proviso. That the joint committee of Congress on public printing is hereby authorized to contract, on behalf of the general government, with Rives and Bailey for the reporting and publication of the debates in Congress for the term of two years, on and from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine: Provided, That, before the United States shall be called on to pay for any reporting or publication of the debates, the accounts therefor shall be submitted to the joint committee on public printing or to such other officer or officers of Congress as they may designate, and on their or his approbation thereof, as being in all respects according to the contracts, it shall be paid for from the treasury of the United States, after having passed the proper accounting officers thereof. Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved*, That in case the joint committee onDebates to be reported, &c. under direction of congressional printer, if &c. public printing are unable to conclude a satisfactory contract with the said Rives and Bailey, or that they be unable to fulfil any contract that they may make, the joint committee on printing be authorized to have the debates reported and printed under the direction of the congressional printer at the government printing office. Sec. 3. *And be it further resolved*, That for the purpose aforesaid thereAppropriation. be appropriated and paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 20: for printing the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion. Resolution 20 15 Stat. 347 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 20.] A Resolution *for printing the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion*. March 3, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, “Medical, &c. History of the Rebellion” and “Medical Statistics of the Provost Marshal’s Bureau” to be printed.1866, ch. 296. Vol. xiv. p. 310. That there be printed at the government printing office five thousand copies of the first part of the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion, compiled by the surgeon-general under the direction of the Secretary of War, and five thousand copies of the Medical Statistics of the Provost-Marshal’s Bureau, compiled and to be completed by Surgeon J. H. Baxter, as authorized by an act of Congress, approved July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which also provides that the editions of both publications thus ordered shall be disposed of as Congress may hereafter direct. Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 21: giving the Assent of the United States to the Construction of the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge. Resolution 21 15 Stat. 347 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 21.] A Resolution *giving the Assent of the United States to the Construction of the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge*. March 3, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Consent of Congress given to the erection of a bridge over the Ohio river from Cincinnati, O., to Newport, Ky. That the consent of Congress be, and the same is hereby, given to the erection of a bridge over the Ohio river from the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, to the city of Newport,348FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Res. 21, 22, 23, 21. 1869. Kentucky, by the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company, a corporation chartered and organized under the laws of each of the States of Kentucky and Ohio: *Provided*, that said bridge is built with an unbroken or Bridge, how to be built;1862, ch. 167. Vol. xii. p. 669.continuous span of not less than four hundred feet in the clear, from pier to pier, over the main channel of the river, and is built in all other respects in accordance with the conditions and limitations of an act entitled “An act to establish certain post-roads,” approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. That said bridge, when completed in when completed, to be a legal structure and a post-road.the manner specified in this resolution, shall be deemed and taken to be a legal structure, and shall be a post-road for the transmission of the mails of the United States; but Congress reserves the right to withdraw the Assent of Congress may be withdrawn, if, &c.assent hereby given in case the free navigation of said river shall at any time be substantially and materially obstructed by any bridge to be erected under the authority of this resolution, or to direct the necessary modifications and alterations of said bridge. Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 22: more efficiently to protect the Fur Seal in Alaska. Resolution 22 15 Stat. 348 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 22.] A Resolution *more efficiently to protect the Fur Seal in Alaska*. March 3, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Islands Saint Paul and Saint George, in Alaska, declared a special reservation, &c.No person to land or remain on either, except, &c. That the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George in Alaska be, and they are hereby, declared a special reservation for government purposes; and that, until otherwise provided by law, it shall be unlawful for any person to land or remain on either of said islands, except by the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury; and any person found on either of said islands, contrary to the provisions of this resolution, shall be summarily removed; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to carry this resolution immediately into effect. Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 23: authorizing the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, to change its Name to the “Kansas Pacific Railway Company.” Resolution 23 15 Stat. 348 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 23.] Joint Resolution *authorizing the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, to change its Name to the “Kansas Pacific Railway Company.”* March 3, 1869. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Union Pacific Railway Co., eastern division, to change its name to Kansas Pacific Railway Co. That the Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division, is hereby authorized by resolution of its board of directors, which shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, to change its name to the “Kansas Pacific Railway Company.” Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 24: relative to certain Purchases by the Interior Department. Resolution 24 15 Stat. 348 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 24.] Joint Resolution *relative to certain Purchases by the Interior Department*. March 3, 1869. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Secretary of the Interior not to receive or pay for certain bond paper; That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed not to receive or make payment for three hundred thousand sheets of bond paper claimed to have been ordered of the stationery contractor for the Interior Department at a cost of twenty-four thousand dollars; and also that he withhold payment on any bills nor pay certain bills for printing patent heads, &c.claimed to be due to said contractors the sum of two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars charged and received for printing seventeen thousand patent heads, which work was not performed by them; and also the value of forty thousand sheets of bond paper, at eight cents per sheet, now in the custody of said contractors, unless the same is returned; and that he also deduct from their unpaid bills the amount charged for goods in such unpaid bills (not included in their contract) above the prices at which like goods are sold in open market. Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 25: requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office to transfer certain Money. Resolution 25 15 Stat. 349 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public 349 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Res. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. 1869. [No. 25.] A Resolution *requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office to transfer certain Money*. March 3, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation for collecting statistics of mines and mining to be transferred to Treasury Department, &c.1868, ch. 177.*Ante*, p. 115. That the commissioner of the general land office be, and is hereby, authorized to transfer to the Treasury Department the twenty-five hundred dollars appropriated “for collecting statistics of mines and mining,” by act of Congress approved July twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and that the Secretary of the Treasury be required to disburse the same as provided for in said act. Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 26: donating condemned Cannon and Muskets for the McPherson Monument. Resolution 26 15 Stat. 349 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 26.] Joint Resolution *donating condemned Cannon and Muskets for the McPherson Monument*. March 3, 1869. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Condemned cannon, muskets, &c. given to the McPherson Monument Association, Clyde, O. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to furnish to the McPherson Monument Association, of Clyde, Ohio, four pieces of condemned iron cannon, four pieces of condemned brass cannon, twenty-five cannon-balls, and one thousand condemned muskets, with bayonets to be placed about the monument. Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 27: extending the Time for the Completion of the first twenty Miles of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. Resolution 27 15 Stat. 349 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 27.] A Resolution *extending the Time for the Completion of the first twenty Miles of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad*. March 3, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Time for completing first section of the Cairo and Fulton railroad extended. 1866, ch. 300, §2. Vol. xiv. p. 839. That in case the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company shall complete the first section of twenty miles of said road by the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the Secretary of the Interior shall be satisfied of such completion, then the said company shall be entitled to its lands in all respects and to the same extent as it would have been had said twenty miles been completed by the twenty-eighth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as provided by law relating to said railroad company approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 28: reappointing Louis Agassiz a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. Resolution 28 15 Stat. 349 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 28.] A Resolution *reappointing Louis Agassiz a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution*. March 3, 1869. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Louis Agassiz reappointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. That Louis Agassiz, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, reappointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of his present term. Approved, March 3, 1869. No. 29: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the Duty on certain Meridian Circles. Resolution 29 15 Stat. 349 1869-03-03 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 3 15 public [No. 29.] Joint Resolution *authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the Duty on certain Meridian Circles*. March 3, 1869. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Customs duty on certain meridian circles remitted. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to remit the duties on a meridian circle, imported for the observatory at Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts, and a meridian circle imported for the observatory connected with the Chicago University, at Chicago, in the State of Illinois. Approved, March 3, 1869. 40 40 1 1867 1868 351 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTIETH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the First Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of March, A. D.* 1867, *and was adjourned on Saturday, the thirtieth day of March, A. D.* 1867, *to meet on Wednesday, the third day of July, A. D.* 1867; *met on the said third day of July, and continued in session until Saturday, the twentieth day of said July, on which day it adjourned to meet on Thursday, the twenty-first day of November, A. D.* 1867; *met on the said twenty-first day of November, and ended the second day of December, A. D.* 1867. Andrew Johnson, President. Benjamin F. Wade, President of the Senate. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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