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CHAP. 64.— An Act to put salts of quinine and sulphate of quinine on the free list.July 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Quinine on free list. That from and after the passage of this act the importation of salts of quinine and sulphate of quinine shall be exempt from customs duties; and all laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, July 1, 1879. RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: authorizing the printing of a portrait of the late Joseph Henry, to accompany the memorial volume heretofore ordered.
Public Resolution 1 21 Stat. 48 1879-04-18 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 1.] Joint Resolution authorizing the printing of a portrait of the late Joseph Henry, to accompany the memorial volume heretofore ordered.April 18, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Joseph Henry.Portrait.
That the Secretary of the Treasury have printed the portrait of Professor Joseph Henry, to accompany the memorial volume already ordered by Congress; and the sum of five Appropriation.hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, to defray the cost thereof, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 18, 1879. No. 2: relating to the organization of the National Board of Health Public Resolution 2 21 Stat. 49 1879-04-18 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 2, 3, 4. 1879. 49 [No. 2.] Joint Resolution relating to the organization of the National Board of HealthApril 18, 1879. Whereas the National Board of Health met in Washington on TuesdayPreamble. the first of April eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and proceeded immediately to organize and act under the law establishing such Board and so continued from day to day until Saturday the fifth of said month; and Whereas the members in attendance who had been appointed upon such Board by the President, through inadvertence failed to take the oath of office prescribed by law whereby the validity of the previous action of such Board has been brought in question: *Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*National Board of Health., That such organization and action be, and the same is hereby ratified, and that the members of such Board shall be entitled to compensation just as if they had been duly qualified previously to entering upon their duties.
Approved, April 18, 1879. No. 3: authorizing the Public Printer to bind in cloth two volumes of Sailing Directions for the United States Hydrographic Office. Public Resolution 3 21 Stat. 49 1879-06-09 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 3.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Public Printer to bind in cloth two volumes of Sailing Directions for the United States Hydrographic Office.June 9, 1879.
Whereas the first and second volumes of a book entitled the “CoastsPreamble. and Islands of the Mediterranean Sea”, published by the United States Hydrographic Office, have been bound m cloth, and the third and fourth volumes are now in course of preparation: Therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Sailing Directions., That the Public Printer be, and hereby is, authorized to bind in cloth, for the United States Hydrographic Office, the third and fourth volumes of the edition of the book of Sailing Directions entitled “Coasts and Islands of the Mediterranean Sea”, published by the United States Hydrographic Office: *Provided,* That the difference*Proviso.* in cost of the paper covers and cloth binding shall not exceed two hundred dollars.
Approved, June 9, 1879. No. 4: in relation to the international exhibitions to be held at Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and eighteen hundred and eighty. Public Resolution 4 21 Stat. 49 1879-06-10 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 4.] Joint Resolution in relation to the international exhibitions to be held at Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and eighteen hundred and eighty.June 10, 1879.
Whereas, the British Government have communicated to the governmentPreamble. of the United States an invitation on behalf of the colony of New South Wales to take part in a universal exhibition of products, manufactures and arts, to be held in Sydney in the month of August next; and Whereas, the colony of Victoria has set on foot a similar exhibition, to be held at Melbourne during the coming year, and in the organization and conduct of which the commissioners and exhibitors of the United States are desired to participate; *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Sydney and Melbourne Expositions.Appropriation., That to provide for the acceptance of said invitation and the representation of the United States in said exhibitions, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to effect the purpose of this resolution, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of State, for the purpose of effecting such representation at both or either of the said exhibitions.
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to transmitReport. to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures which may have been incurred under the provisions of this resolution, together with all reports which may be submitted by the person or persons delegated to 50 FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10. 1879. carry out the purposes hereof, as commissioners or otherwise, which reports shall be prepared and arranged with a view to concise statement and convenient reference.
Approved, June 10, 1879. No. 5: directing a monument to be erected to mark the birthplace of George Washington. Public Resolution 5 21 Stat. 50 1879-06-14 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 5.] Joint Resolution directing a monument to be erected to mark the birthplace of George Washington.June 14, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation.
That the sum of three thousand dollars be and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury Monument to George Washington.not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of erecting a monument at, and to mark, the birthplace of George Washington, which said sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, who shall have the management and control of the erection of said monument. Approved, June 14, 1879. No. 6: authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to place vessels and hulks at the disposal of commissioners of quarantine or other proper persons at the ports of the United States.
Public Resolution 6 21 Stat. 50 1879-06-14 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 6.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to place vessels and hulks at the disposal of commissioners of quarantine or other proper persons at the ports of the United States.June 14, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Vessels for quarantine.
That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, at the request of the National Board of Health, to place gratuitously, at the disposal of the commissioners of quarantine, or the proper authorities at any of the ports of the United States, to be used by them temporarily for quarantine purposes, such vessels or hulks belonging to the United States as are not required for other uses of the national government, subject to such restrictions and regulations as the said Secretary may deem necessary to impose for the preservation thereof.
Approved, June 14, 1879. No. 9: accepting from Professor Edward Fontaine, of Louisiana, certain maps, drawings, and explanations of the same. Public Resolution 9 21 Stat. 50 1879-06-19 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 9.] Joint Resolution accepting from Professor Edward Fontaine, of Louisiana, certain maps, drawings, and explanations of the same.June 19, 1879.
Preamble.Whereas Professor Edward Fontaine has exhibited certain maps and drawings, with full explanations of the same, of his improved methods of hydraulic engineering and controlling water-currents, which are believed to lie valuable, which he proposes to present to the Government of the United States, on condition that they be printed: Therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Fontaine’s hydraulic engineer plans accepted., That the maps and drawings, with the explanations thereof, of Professor Edward Fontaine’s improved methods of hydraulic engineering and controlling water-currents, which Professor Edward Fontaine proposes to give to the Government of the United States, on condition that they be printed, be, and the same hereby are, accepted.
Printing. Approved, June 19, 1879. No. 10: to print live thousand copies of the Final Reports of the United States Centennial Commission upon the International Exhibition and Centennial Celebration of eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Public Resolution 10 21 Stat. 50 1879-06-20 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 10.] Joint Resolution to print live thousand copies of the Final Reports of the United States Centennial Commission upon the International Exhibition and Centennial Celebration of eighteen hundred and seventy-six.June 20, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Centennial commission Reports.
That there be printed and bound, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, five thousand copies 51 FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 10, 11, 12. 1879. of the Final Reports of the United States Centennial Commission upon the International Exhibition and Celebration of eighteen hundred and seventy-six; one thousand copies thereof for the use of the Senate, three to on sand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, five hundred copies for the use of the State Department, and five hundred copies for the use of the Centennial Commission.
Approved, June 20, 1879. No. 11: relating to a bridge across the Detroit River at or near Detroit, Michigan. Public Resolution 11 21 Stat. 51 1879-06-20 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 11.] Joint Resolution relating to a bridge across the Detroit River at or near Detroit, Michigan.June 20, 1879.
Whereas recent progress in the art has shown the practicability ofPreamble. constructing bridges having spans of five hundred feet, or possibly more: Therefore *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Bridge or tunnel at Detroit.Board of Engineers., That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to convene a board of officers of the Corps of Engineers of the Army, whose duty it shall be to inquire into and report whether, for railroad purposes, the river Detroit can be bridged or tunnelled, at the city of Detroit, or within one mile above or below said city, in such manner as to accommodate the large trade and Commerce crossing the river at that point, and without material or undue injury to the navigation of said river; a good and sufficient tug being always kept by the bridge owners to assist any craft when required.
Approved, June 20, 1879. No. 12: to repeal certain clauses in the sundry civil appropriation act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 12 21 Stat. 51 1879-06-20 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 12.] Joint Resolution to repeal certain clauses in the sundry civil appropriation act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes.June 20, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,1879, ch. 182,20 Stat.,377,Amended.
That the clause in the “Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes”, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, making appropriation to pay B. R. Lewis and J. J. Coffee the balances B. R. Lewis.J. J. Coffee.due them respectively as marshal and clerk at the consul ate-general at Shanghai, China, be amended by striking out the words: “And said Lewis and Coffee shall receive no allowance for witness fees and traveling expenses.
” And that the following clause in said act, in relation to the publications of the Geological Survey, namely, the words “underGeological Survey. the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, one hundred thousand dollars,” be, and the same are hereby, repealed. That the paragraph in said act relating to the extension of the militaryMilitary telegraph. telegraph lines from Fort Buford to Helena Dakota Territory, be amended so as to read as follows, namely: “ For the extension of the military telegraph lines to Helena, Montana Territory, and the new post on the Milk River, and such other points as may be necessary, twenty thousand dollars.
” That the paragraph in said act relating to the extension of the military telegraph lines from Fort Elliott, Texas, westward, be amended so as to read as follows, namely: “For the extension of the military telegraph lines to Fort Elliott, Texas, and westward, as may be necessary, twenty thousand dollars.” That the following paragraph in said act, namely: “That the SecretaryMoline Water Power. of War is hereby authorized and empowered to lease the water power at Moline, or such portion as may be agreed upon, to the Moline Water Power Company, upon such terms and conditions, and for such term of years, as may be agreed upon, if the same can be done consistently with the interests of the Government of the United States; said lease to be made upon the condition that the said Moline Water Power 52 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 12. 1879. Company shall go on and complete the development of the water power and maintain it at its own cost and expense,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed. H. C. De Ahna.That in the final settlement of the accounts of Henry C. De Ahna, late collector of customs at Sitka, Alaska, the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay to the said De Ahna the further sum of two thousand dollars, in full compensation and final discharge for all expenses incurred and losses sustained by said De Ahna in traveling to and from Alaska, and in obtaining and furnishing the Treasury Department with reports concerning the condition of public affairs in said Territory.
And said sum of two thousand dollars is for that purpose hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Appropriations.That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes namely: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE. Rush Clark.To pay the widow and heirs of Honorable Rush Clark, deceased, to be distributed in the proportion prescribed by the law of descent of the State of Iowa, six thousand dollars.
Gustave Schlei- cher.To pay the widow of Honorable Gustave Schleicher, deceased, six thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated. J. C. Kondrup.To pay Johan C. Kondrup, messenger of reporters of debates, House of Representatives, for the present session, at the rate of eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents per month, a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated. Associate justice, Dakota.1879, cli. 194,20 Stat., 473.For salary of an additional associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Dakota, appointed under act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, from the date of his appointment to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, the sum of six hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
WAR DEPARTMENT. Military Academy.For deficiency in the appropriation for pay of cadets at the Military Academy, for the current fiscal year, seven thousand five hundred dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Eighth Census.That the sum of nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay adjusted accounts for service or expenses incurred in completing the eighth census. Ninth Census.That the sum of four thousand and ninety dollars and sixty-nine cents is hereby appropriated to pay adjusted accounts for service or expenses incurred in completing the ninth census.
Semmes and Barbour.To pay Semmes and Barbour, or their legal representatives, as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior, this amount in full satisfaction for their claim for rent of buildings for the use of the Pension Office, on Louisiana avenue and C street, northwest, known as the Seaton House, and the building adjoining it on the west, known as numbers six hundred and twenty-four, six hundred and twenty-six, and six hundred and twenty-eight, Louisiana avenue, and numbers six hundred and nineteen, six hundred and twenty-one, and six hundred and twenty-three C street., and for damage to the said buildings sustained while occupied by the government, and also in full satisfaction for rent for and damages to said buildings subsequent to September fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, nine thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety- four cents, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the contingent fund of the Pension Office for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. 53 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. L Res. 12, 13, 14, 15. 1879. That the second clause under the heading “Geological Survey” in theGeological Survey.1879, ch. 182,20 Stat., 394. act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes”, is hereby amended by adding at the end of the said clause the words “ to be immediately available”.
Approved, June 20, 1879. No. 13: fixing the date on which the pay of the committee clerks, pages, and laborers of the House of Representatives, who are paid during the session only, shall begin for this session, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 13 21 Stat. 53 1879-06-24 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 13.] Joint Resolution fixing the date on which the pay of the committee clerks, pages, and laborers of the House of Representatives, who are paid during the session only, shall begin for this session, and for other purposes.June 24, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,House of Representatives.Pay of clerks,etc.
That the pay of the thirty-five clerks to committees of the House of Representatives heretofore authorized by resolutions of the House, and of the twenty-nine pages, and of the laborers of the House, heretofore authorized by law or by resolution of the House, who are paid during the session only, shall begin for this session on the day of the organization of the House, the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; and the Clerk of the House is hereby authorized and directed to pay them from that date without regard to the date of their respective oaths of office.
Sec. 2. That the officers, clerks to committees, and employees of theExtra pay to discharged employés. Senate, including the Capitol police, who were employed previous to the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and who continued in said employment to and including the fourth day of April, who have since ceased to be so employed, or who may cease to be so employed prior to December first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, shall be paid a sum equal to one month’s pay at the rale per annum they were paid when their employment ceased; and a sufficient sum for this purpose is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Lord HarlestonLord Harleston. as special messenger assisting on the floor of the Senate, from April fourth eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, inclusive, at the usual salary of messenger, and S. B. Penny baker as a page for the same period to the Senate; suchS. B. Penny baker. sums as may be necessary are hereby appropriated but they shall not be paid any moneys under section two of this joint resolution.
Approved, June 24, 1879. No. 14: authorizing the appointment of a commission to lease a building for a city postoffice in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. Public Resolution 14 21 Stat. 53 1879-06-27 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 14.] Joint Resolution authorizing the appointment of a commission to lease a building for a city postoffice in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.June 27, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.
That the Postmaster-General, the chairman of the Senate and House Committees on Public Buildings and Grounds are hereby constituted a commission with authority toCommission to select post-office building. lease such building in the city of Washington, District of Columbia for the purpose of a city post-office, as in their judgment the good of the public service may require: *Provided,* That said lease shall be for a term of not less than three nor exceeding live years and at an annual rental not to exceed live thousand dollars per annum.
Approved, June 27, 1879. No. 15: to provide for the purchase of the stereotype plates of the final reports of the Centennial Commission upon the Centennial Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Public Resolution 15 21 Stat. 53 1879-06-27 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 15.] Joint Resolution to provide for the purchase of the stereotype plates of the final reports of the Centennial Commission upon the Centennial Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six.June 27, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation.
That to purchase the stereotype plates 54 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. 1879. Stereotype plates of Report of Centennial Commission.of the final reports of the Centennial Commission upon Centennial Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six as transmitted by the United States Centennial Commission said plates being now in the hands of the Centennial Board of Finance, the sum of eight thousand six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and the said plates with the copyright duly assigned, shall be delivered to the Public Printer.
Approved, June 27, 1879. No. 16: authorizing the completion of the foundation of the Washington Monument. Public Resolution 16 21 Stat. 54 1879-06-27 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 16.] Joint Resolution authorizing the completion of the foundation of the Washington Monument.June 27, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Washington Monument.1876, ch. 250,19 Stat., 123.Completion of foundation.
That the joint commission for the construction of the Washington Monument, created by the act of August second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, be, and is hereby, authorized to expend, for the completion of the foundation of the monument now in progress, so much of the appropriation made by the said act as may be necessary for that purpose, not exceeding sixty-four thousand dollars above the sum now authorized. Approved, June 27, 1879. No. 17: relative to certain accepted drafts and other papers in the Department of State.
Public Resolution 17 21 Stat. 54 1879-06-28 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 17.] Joint Resolution relative to certain accepted drafts and other papers in the Department of State.June 28, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Department of State.Surrender of certain drafts.
That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, directed to deliver to the person justly entitled to the possession thereof three several drafts for the sum of five thousand dollars each, dated New York, August second, eighteen hundred and fifty- nine, and drawn by Santiago Vidaurrie, governor of Nuevo Leon and Cohuahuila, by Ignatius Gulindo, Agent, on J. M. Mata, Mexican minister, Washington, District of Columbia, and accepted by said J. M. Mata, and made payable at the Bank of the Republic, New York, and all other papers relating to said drafts, the same having been deposited in the Department of State by error.
Approved, June 28, 1879. No. 18: donating granite blocks to Mower Post Grand Army of the Republic of New Orleans Louisiana. Public Resolution 18 21 Stat. 54 1879-06-28 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 18.] Joint Resolution donating granite blocks to Mower Post Grand Army of the Republic of New Orleans Louisiana.June 28, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mower Post G.
A. R. at New Orleans.Granite blocks for monument. That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby authorized and directed to donate to Mower Post Grand Arriy of the Republic at New Orleans certain blocks of granite now lying at Fort Livingston Louisiana, and which are of no use to the government, for the purpose of completing a monument to the union dead at the Chalmette National Cemetery near New Orleans. Approved, June 28, 1879. No. 19: authirising a survey of the Mississippi River near Lake Concordia, Louisiana and Cowpon Bend, Mississippi.
Public Resolution 19 21 Stat. 54 1879-06-28 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 19.] Joint Resolution authirising a survey of the Mississippi River near Lake Concordia, Louisiana and Cowpon Bend, Mississippi.June 28, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Examination and survey of Mississippi River at Lake Concordia, etc.
That the Secretary of War be and lie is hereby authorized and directed to order a survey and recommendations thereon of the Mississippi River near Lake Concordia, Louisiana, and of Cowpen Bend, Mississippi, looking to the protection of the harbors of Natchez and Vidalia by restraining the river from cutting 55 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SESS. I. Res. 19, 20. 1879. into Lake Concordia, and of the Charenton Canal in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, out of moneys already appropriated for surveys and examinations by act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Approved, June 28, 1879. No. 20: in relation to committee clerks, pages, and other employees of the Senate and. House of Representatives, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 20 21 Stat. 55 1879-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 20.] Joint Resolution in relation to committee clerks, pages, and other employees of the Senate and.
House of Representatives, and for other purposes.July 1, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations.Extra pay to Senate and House employés. That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of t he House of Representatives are hereby authorized and directed to pay all committee clerks, pages, messengers, and other employees of the Senate and House of Representatives who do not receive annual salaries, and who are in such employ at the passage of this resolution, their present rate of compensation respectively for fifteen days from the date of the adjournment of this session of Congress; and the money required to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall be immediately available.
Sec. 2. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay John E.J. E. Kelley. Kelley, for services as messenger to the Committee of Ways and Means, during the present session of Congress, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for stationery andStationery. newspapers for the House of Representatives, tor the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eight hundred dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for pay of folders Pay of folders.for the Senate, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one hundred dollars To enable the Clerk of the House to pay a sum equal to one monthsW. H. Prescott.E. Me Sweeny.R. E. Hedian.*Proviso* pay from the date of their discharge from the “ disabled soldiers’ roll ” of the House of Representatives, respectively, to William H. Prescott, Eugene McSweeny and Robert E. Median: *Provided* Such pay has not already been provided for by law.
To pay one additional laborer in the engineers department of theEngineer’s department. House of Representatives, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, eight hundred and twenty dollars. To pay H. T. Burrows for his services as a special messenger of theH. T. Burrows. Senate, during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the sum of five hundred and eleven dollars and thirty cents; the same being the salary of a messenger less the amount already received by him on account of said service.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Wilbur F. McDaniel forW. F. McDaniel. services as messenger to Senate document room, under resolution of the Senate of May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eighty dollar’s, and for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eight hundred dollars; and to pay A. R. Potts and C. F.A. R. Potts.C. F. Rainey. Rainey for services in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives, five dollars per day each for the first session of the Forty sixth Congress, a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated.
For suitable and necessary rooms for the use and accommodation ofRooms for Court of Claims. the Court of Claims, which the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to procure, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For arranging and furnishing as Committee rooms for the use of theCommittee- rooms Senate and House to be allotted equally as nearly as practicable, the rooms in the Capitol now occupied by the- Court of Claims, the sum of two thousand dollars. 56 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. L Res. 20, 21, 22. 1879. Sec. 3. Extra pay to discharged Senate officers and employés. That the Secretary of the Senate lie, and he is hereby directed to pay, out of the appropriation for the miscellaneous items of the contingent fluid of the Senate, to the following officers and employees of the Senate whose services have ceased since the beginning of the present session, and who are not now in the employ of the Senate, and who were not embraced in the provisions of the “joint resolution fixing the date on which the pay of committee clerks, pages, and laborers of the House of Representatives who are paid during the session only, shall begin for this session, and for other purposes”, namely, the Chief Clerk, the Executive Clerk, the Chaplain, the assistant postmaster, the clerk to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, and the clerks to committees receiving annual salaries, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the rate per annum they were paid respectively when their employment ceased; and to pay Ben.
Perley Poore, former clerk of Printing Records, one month’s pay at the rate per annum received by him at the time he ceased to be such clerk, to pay John Fletcher for extra services as one of the attendants at one of the doors of the Senate Chamber, sixty dollars. Sec. 4. Extra pay to discharged Treasury employés. That there be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, one month’s pay to each of the persons discharged from the Treasury Department by reason of reduction in the force under the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal 1879, ch. 34,*Ante,* 23.year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes”, but this payment shall not apply in any case where leave of absence for thirty days has been granted as preliminary to said discharge.
Sec. 5. *Advance pay to Senate and House employés.* That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives be and they are hereby authorized and directed immediately after the adjournment of the present session to issue to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual rolls, their respective salaries for the month of July, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, which shall be in anticipation of their pay for the month of July. Sec. 6. 1879, ch. 288,20 Stat., 651.
That so much of the act “making appropriations for the payment of claims reported allowed by the Commissioners of Claims under the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and acts amendatory thereof” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine as appropriates as follows: *Robert Otis’s claim suspended.*To Robert Otis, administrator de bonis non of Roger A. Hiern, deceased, for the use and benefit of Emma Eliza Hiern and Charles Hiern, six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars be and the same is hereby suspended until the further action of Congress.
Approved, July 1, 1879. No. 21: to pay the employees of the House of Representatives borne on the annual roll one month’s extra pay. Public Resolution 21 21 Stat. 56 1879-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 21.] Joint Resolution to pay the employees of the House of Representatives borne on the annual roll one month’s extra pay.July 1, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation.Extra pay to House employés.
That the Clerk of the House be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the employees of the House borne on the annual roll, one month’s extra pay at. the same compensation as now paid them by law, and an amount sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 1, 1879. No. 22: to supply Congress with Heyl’s United States Import Duties. Public Resolution 22 21 Stat. 56 1879-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office 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 2026-02-25 46 1 public [No. 22.] Joint Resolution to supply Congress with Heyl’s United States Import Duties.July 1, 1879. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation. That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, directed 57 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 22. 1879. to purchase and procure, as early as practicable, for the use of Congress, five hundred copies of “Heyl’s United States Duties on Imports”, editionHeyl’s U.
S.Duties on Imports. of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to wit, one copy for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate, and the residue for the use of the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives; the price to be the same as was paid for a like number of copies purchased for the Forty-fourth Congress, namely, two dollars and fifty cents per copy. And the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for the same, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be available immediately.
Approved, July 1, 1879. 46 2 1879 1880 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December, 1879, and was adjourned without day on Wednesday, the sixteenth day of June, 1880*. Rutherford B. Hayes, President: William A. Wheeler, Vice-President, and President of the Senate. Allen G. Thurman was elected President of the Senate *pro tempore* on the seventh of April, 1880.
He was again chosen on the sixth day of May, 1880. Samuel J. Randall was elected Speaker of the House of representatives on the eighteenth day of March, 1880, and acted as such until the twenty-first day of March, 1880, when he authorized Joseph C. S. Blackburn to act in his stead as Speaker *pro tempore* for one day. On the twenty-sixth day of April, 1880, Mr. Blackburn was appointed Speaker *pro tempore,* to act as such for three days; and on the twenty-fourth day of May, 1880, Mr.
Blackburn was again appointed Speaker *pro tempore,* to act as such until the return of the Speaker.
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