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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · October 19, 1888 · Chapter 1223

Chapter 1223.

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CHAP. 1223.— An act to authorize the Postmaster-General to rent a suitable building in the city of Washington to be used as a Mail Bag Repair Shop, and for other purposes.October 19, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mailbag repair shop, Washington, D. C.Postmaster-General to rent building for. That the Postmaster-General be and he is hereby authorized to rent for a term until July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, a suitable building in the City of Washington for the purpose of being used as a Mail Bag Repair Shop and for the storage of the supplies used by the Post-Office Department in supplying post-offices, at a rental not exceeding the rate of three thousand dollars per annum.
And for the purpose of providing for the expenses incidental to the occupancy of such building and for the proper performance of the work therein, until July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the following sums are hereby appropriated, payable out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; For rent three thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary;Appropriation for rent and expenses. for two watchmen at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; one laborer at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum: one charwoman at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum; for gas two hundred and fifty dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary and for fuel five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in all, six thousand and ninety dollars.
Approved, October 19, 1888. RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: authorizing and directing the payment of the salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for the month of December eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Public Resolution 1 25 Stat. 617 1887-12-22 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 1.] Joint resolution authorizing and directing the payment of the salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for the month of December eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.December 22, 1887. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,December salaries of officers, etc., of Congress to be paid December 22, 1887.
That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives he, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, on the twenty-second day of said month. Approved, December 22, 1887. No. 2: Relating to the invitation of the British Government to the Government of the United States to participate in the international exhibition at Melbourne to celebrate the founding of New South Wales.
Public Resolution 2 25 Stat. 617 1888-02-01 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 2.] Relating to the invitation of the British Government to the Government of the United States to participate in the international exhibition at Melbourne to celebrate the founding of New South Wales.February 1, 1888.
Whereas, the British Government has extended to the GovernmentPreamble. of the United States an invitation to participate in the international exhibition which is to be held at Melbourne, beginning on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to celebrate the centenary of the founding of New South Wales: Therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Accepting invitation to participate in Melbourne Exhibition.
That said invitation is accepted, and that there he, and there hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as mayAppropriation. be necessary to effect the purpose of this resolution, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of State for the purpose of such representation at said exhibition. Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to transmitSecretary of State to submit report, etc. to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures which may have been incurred under the provisions of this resolution, together with any reports which may be made by the representatives of this country at said exhibition.
Approved, February 1, 1888. No. 4: appointing Andrew D. White a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Public Resolution 4 25 Stat. 617 1888-02-15 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 4.] Joint resolution appointing Andrew D. White a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.February 15, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Andrew D.
White.Appointed Regent of Smithsonian Institution. That the existing vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class “other than members of Congress,” shall be filled by the appointment of Andrew D. White, of the State of New York, in place of Asa Gray, deceased. Approved, February 15, 1888.
(617)No. 5: authorizing the Secretary of War to appoint a board of three engineers to examine and report in relation to the Delaware river between the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 5 25 Stat. 618 1888-03-05 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public 618FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 5–7. 1888. [No. 5.] Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to appoint a board of three engineers to examine and report in relation to the Delaware river between the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, and for other purposes.March 5, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Delaware River.Secretary of War to appoint board of engineers to examine, at Philadelphia, Pa., and Camden, N.J. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to immediately appoint a board of three engineers from the United States army whose duty it shall be to examine in all their relations to commerce the Islands known as Smith’s Island, Windmill Island and Petty’s Island in the Delaware River between the city of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania and the city of Camden in the State of New Jersey, which board shall forthwith report to the Secretary of War as to whether said islands or any shoal in the said river between or adjacent to the said islands or any of them constitute an obstruction to the commerce of the Delaware river or to the passage of vessels between the said States and with a view to removing said islands and shoals to report a plan with the estimate of cost for their removal in whole or in part and for the improvement of the harbor of the port of Philadelphia including the probable cost to the Government of said islands so as to secure free and uninterrupted commerce upon the said Delaware river and the unobstructed passage of vessels to and from and between the said States; and the sum of five thousand dollars or so Appropriation.much thereof as shall be necessary is hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to defray the expense of such survey and report. Approved, March 5, 1888. No. 6: providing for the disposition of undistributed copies of the Rebellion Records and other public documents. Public Resolution 6 25 Stat. 618 1888-03-10 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 6.] Joint resolution providing for the disposition of undistributed copies of the Rebellion Records and other public documents.March 10, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public documents.Distribution of Rebellion Records, Tenth Census, and Land Laws. That all copies of the Records of the War of the Rebellion, reports of the Tenth Census, and report of the Public Lands Commission remaining undistributed, of the quota of ex-members of Congress, shall be put to the credit and distributed upon the orders of their successors, respectively, in the Fiftieth Congress, in accordance with existing provisions of law: *Provisos*.*Provided*, That copies of the above-named documents standing to the credit of ex-members who, in consequence of changes in the boundaries of Congressional districts, have no direct successors in the present Congress, shall be put to the credit pro rata of the several Representatives of the State in which such districts are located, who were not Representatives in the Forty-seventh Congress: *And provided further*, That this resolution shall not be construed as Complete sets.withholding, from parties already named to receive complete sets of said documents, the volumes yet to be issued. Approved, March 10, 1888. No. 7: directing the Secretary of the Interior by means of the Director of the Geological Survey to investigate the practicability of constructing reservoirs for the storage of water in the arid region of the United States, and to report to Congress. Public Resolution 7 25 Stat. 618 1888-03-20 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 7.] Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior by means of the Director of the Geological Survey to investigate the practicability of constructing reservoirs for the storage of water in the arid region of the United States, and to report to Congress.March 20, 1888. Preamble.Whereas a large portion of the unoccupied public lands of the United States is located within what is known as the arid region and now utilized only for grazing purposes, but much of which, by means of irrigation, may be rendered as fertile and productive as any land in the world, capable of supporting a large population thereby adding to the national wealth and prosperity; FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 7, 8. 1888.619 Whereas all the water flowing during the summer months in many of the streams of the Rocky Mountains, upon which chiefly the husbandman of the plains and the mountain valleys chiefly depends for moisture for his crops, has been appropriated and is used for the irrigation of lands contiguous thereto, whereby a comparatively small area has been reclaimed; and Whereas there are many natural depressions near the sources and along the courses of these streams which may be converted into reservoirs for the storage of the surplus water which during the winter and spring seasons flows through the streams; from which reservoirs the water there stored can be drawn and conducted through properly constructed canals, at the proper season, thus bringing large areas of land into cultivation, and making desirable much of the public land for which there is now no demand: therefore be it *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Geological Survey to report on storing water in arid region. That the Secretary of the Interior by means of the Director of the Geological Survey be, and he is hereby, directed to make an examination of that portion of the arid regions of the United States where agriculture is carried on by means of irrigation, as to the natural advantages for the storage of water for irrigating purposes with the practicability of constructing reservoirs, together with the capacity of the streams and the cost of construction and capacity of reservoirs, and such other facts as bear on the question of storage of water for irrigating purposes; and that he be further directed to report to Congress as soon as practicable the result of such investigation. Approved, March 20, 1888. No. 8: to enable the Secretary of the Interior to utilize the hot-water now running to waste on the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 8 25 Stat. 619 1888-03-26 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 8.] Joint resolution to enable the Secretary of the Interior to utilize the hot-water now running to waste on the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for other purposes.March 26, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Hot Springs, Ark.Water may be furnished three addition al bathhouses. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to utilize the Hot-water upon the reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, not necessary for the Army and Navy Hospital, the bathhouses erected and to be erected upon said reservation, and the bathhouses now erected and furnished with hot-water by authority of the secretary off said reservation, by permitting its use by not exceeding three bathhouses to be erected by individuals below and off said Hot Springs reservation (the expense of obtaining said water to be borne by the proprietors of said bathhouses), said water to be furnished under the same restrictions and regulations as now govern the supply of hot-water furnished to the bathhouses above and off said reservation, and that the water-rents for all bathhouses be increased toRent. thirty dollars per tub per annum: *Provided*, That the new*Proviso*.New houses not to be owned by persons interested in houses on reservation. bathhouses which may be so erected shall not be owned or controlled by any person, company or corporation, which may be the owner or interested in any other bathhouse on or near the Hot Springs reservation; and if the ownership or control of any such bathhouse be transferred to any person or corporation owning or interested in any other bathhouse on or near said Reservation, the Secretary of the Interior shall, for that cause, deprive said bathhouse of the hot-water, and also any other bathhouse in which any such person or corporation shall be interested and shall cancel any lease from the United States which any such person or corporation may hold or be interested in. Approved, March 26, 1888. No. 9: to print Executive Document numbered fifty-one, first session of the Forty-ninth Congress, on the subject of cattle and dairy farming. Public Resolution 9 25 Stat. 620 1888-04-02 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public 620FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 9, 10, 12, 14. 1888. [No. 9.] Joint resolution to print Executive Document numbered fifty-one, first session of the Forty-ninth Congress, on the subject of cattle and dairy farming.April 2, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Cattle and dairy farming.Additional copies of report on. That there be printed, twenty-five thousand additional copies of Executive document fifty-one, first session Forty-ninth Congress, on the subject of cattle and dairy farming, eight thousand copies for the use of the Senate, sixteen thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives and one thousand copies for the Department of State. And that Appropriation.there is hereby appropriated out of the Treasury the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to pay for the same, and said work shall be bound in two volumes. Approved, April 2, 1888. No. 10: to supply the Department of State with copies of bills and other documents. Public Resolution 10 25 Stat. 620 1888-04-05 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 10.] Joint resolution to supply the Department of State with copies of bills and other documents.April 5, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Department of State.To be furnished copies of documents. That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish the Department of State, out of the usual number, with ten copies of each bill and joint resolution, and twenty copies of each executive document, miscellaneous document, and report of committee of either House of Congress. Approved, April 5, 1888. No. 12: appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars for the International Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain. Public Resolution 12 25 Stat. 620 1888-04-11 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 12.] Joint resolution appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars for the International Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.April 11, 1888. Preamble.Whereas, the Spanish Government has extended to the Government of the United States an invitation to participate in the International Exhibition which is to be held at Barcelona, Spain, commencing in the month of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight: *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation for representation at Barcelona, Spain. Exhibition. That said invitation is accepted and that there be, and there hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five 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 such representation at said exhibition. Sec. 2. Report to be made by Secretary of State,That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to transmit to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures which may have been incurred under the provisions of this resolution, together with any reports which may be made by the representatives of this country at said exhibition. Approved, April 11, 1888. No. 14: accepting the invitation of the French Republic to take part in an international exposition to be held in Paris in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Public Resolution 14 25 Stat. 620 1888-05-10 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 14.] Joint resolution accepting the invitation of the French Republic to take part in an international exposition to be held in Paris in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.May 10, 1888. Preamble.Paris Exposition.Whereas, the United States have been invited by the Republic of France to take part in an exposition of works of art and the products of manufactures and agriculture of all nations, to be held in FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 14. 1888.621 Paris, commencing the fifth day of May and closing the thirty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine: Therefore. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That said invitation is accepted,Invitation to take part in, accepted. and that the governors of the several States and Territories be, and are hereby, requested to invite the people of their respectiveNotice to States. States and Territories to assist in the proper representation of the productions of our industry and of the natural resources of the country, and to take such further measures as may be necessary in order to secure to their respective States and Territories the advantages to be derived from this benificent undertaking. Sec. 2. That the President, by and with the advice and consent ofCommissioner-general. the Senate, shall appoint a commissioner-general to represent the United States in the proposed exposition, and under the general direction of the Secretary of State, to make all needful rules and regulationsDuties. in reference to the contributions from this country, and to control the expenditures incident to the proper installation and exhibit thereof; the pay of jurors, and the preparation of the reports on the exposition, and the general results thereof: and an assistantAssistant. commissioner-general to act under the direction of the commissioner-general, who shall perform the duties of commissioner-general, in case of his death or disability: and that the President may also appoint as assistants to the commissioner-general nine scientific experts,Experts. corresponding to and specifically assigned to the nine groups into which the exposition will, under the official regulations be divided; that the allowance to said commissioner-general for salary and personal expenses shall not exceed ten thousand dollars for his wholeCompensation. term of office; that the allowance of said assistant commissioner-general for salary and personal expenses shall not exceed five thousand dollars for his term of office, and the allowance of the nine scientific experts for salary and personal expenses shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars each, not including such clerical service as may be allowed by the commissioner-general, which shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars. Sec. 3. That in order to defray the necessary expenses above authorized,Appropriation. and for the proper installation of the exhibition, and the expenditures of the commissioner-general made under the direction of the Secretary of State, and with his approval, and not otherwise, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes herein specified, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State; the CommissionerExhibit by Commissioner of Agriculture. of Agriculture is hereby authorized to collect and prepare, suitable specimens of the agricultural productions of the several States and Territories of the Union for exhibition at the Paris exposition and accompany the same with a report respecting such productions, to be printed in the English, French, and German languages, the expense of the same to be paid out of said appropriation. Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to transmitReport to Congress. to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures which may have been incurred under the provisions of this resolution, together with all reports called for under section two of this resolution, which reports shall be prepared and arranged with a view to concise statement and convenient reference. Approved, May 10, 1888. No. 15: appropriating thirty thousand dollars for the International Exhibition in Brussels, Belgium. Public Resolution 15 25 Stat. 622 1888-05-11 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public 622FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 15–17. 1888. [No. 15.] Joint resolution appropriating thirty thousand dollars for the International Exhibition in Brussels, Belgium.May 11, 1888. Preamble.Whereas the Belgian Government has extended to the Government of the United States an invitation to participate in the International Exhibition which is to be held at Brussels, Belgium, commencing in the month of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight: *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Brussels Exhibition.Invitation to take part in, accepted. That said invitation is accepted and that there be, and there hereby is, Appropriation.appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty 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 such representation at said exhibition. Sec. 2. Report to Congress,That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to transmit to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures which may have been incurred under the provisions of this resolution, together with any reports which may be made by the representatives of this country at said exhibition. Approved, May 11, 1888. No. 16: authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point, Jose Andres Urtecho, of Nicaragua. Public Resolution 16 25 Stat. 622 1888-05-14 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 16.] Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point, Jose Andres Urtecho, of Nicaragua.May 14, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Jose Andras Urtecho.May be admitted to West Point. That the Secretary of War be and he hereby is authorized to permit Jose Andres Urtecho of Nicaragua, to receive instruction at the Military Academy at West-Point: *Provided*, That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby: *And provided further*, That in the case of the said Urtecho the provisions of sections thirteen hundred and twenty and thirteen [R. S., secs. 1820, 1321, p. 227, suspended](/us/rs/s1820/1321/p227).hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended. Approved, May 14, 1888. No. 17: relating to the disposal of public lands in certain States. Public Resolution 17 25 Stat. 622 1888-05-14 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 17.] Joint resolution relating to the disposal of public lands in certain States.May 14, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Sale of, in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama, at private sale limited.*Post*, p. 626. That the public lands of the United States in the States of Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama now subject to private sale as offered lands shall be disposed of under and according to the provisions of the homestead laws only until the pending legislation affecting such lands shall be disposed *Proviso*.Isolated tracts.of or the present session of Congress shall adjourn: *Provided*, That any isolated or disconnected tracts or parcels of the public domain less than one hundred and sixty acres may be ordered sold at private or public sale for not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, when, in his judgment, it would be proper to do so. Approved, May 14, 1888. No. 18: to print twelve thousand five hundred copies of the eulogies on Seth C. Moffatt, late a Representative in Congress. Public Resolution 18 25 Stat. 623 1888-05-21 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 18–21. 1888.623 [No. 18.] Joint resolution to print twelve thousand five hundred copies of the eulogies on Seth C. Moffatt, late a Representative in Congress.May 21, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Seth C. Moffatt.Eulogies on, to be printed. That there be printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Seth C. Moffatt, a Representative in the Fiftieth Congress from the State of Michigan, twelve thousand five hundred copies, of which three thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate and nine thousand five hundred for the use of the House of Representatives; and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have printed a portrait ofPortrait. the said Seth C. Moffatt, to accompany said eulogies; and for the purpose of engraving and printing said portrait the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriatedAppropriation. out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 21, 1888. No. 19: to enable the President of the United States to extend to certain inhabitants of Japan a suitable recognition of their humane treatment of the survivors of the crew of the American bark Cashmere. Public Resolution 19 25 Stat. 623 1888-05-24 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 19.] Joint resolution to enable the President of the United States to extend to certain inhabitants of Japan a suitable recognition of their humane treatment of the survivors of the crew of the American bark Cashmere.May 24, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Bark Cashmere. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to extend to the inhabitants of the Island of Tanegashima, Japan, a suitable recognitionTestimonials to Japanese for treatment of crew of. of their kind and humane treatment of the survivors of the crew of the American bark Cashmere, lost off that coast in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and to convey to the Government and people of Japan an expression of the high appreciation in which the Government and people of the United States hold such humane services. Sec. 2. That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereofAppropriation. as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the President to execute the purpose aforesaid. Approved, May 24, 1888. No. 20: authorizing and directing the payment of the salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for the month of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Public Resolution 20 25 Stat. 623 1888-05-29 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 20.] Joint resolution authorizing and directing the payment of the salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for the month of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.May 29, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Employees of Congress to receive May salaries May 29, 1888. That, the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, on the twenty-ninth day of said month. Approved, May 29, 1888. No. 21: authorizing the loan of tents and tent equipage to the veteran organizations of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Public Resolution 21 25 Stat. 623 1888-05-29 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 21.] Joint Resolution authorizing the loan of tents and tent equipage to the veteran organizations of the Society of the Army of the Potomac.June 20, 1888. Whereas, at the annual reunion of the Society of the Army ofPreamble. the Potomac, held at Saratoga, New York, in eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, a resolution was passed extending to all the survivors of the battle of Gettysburg an invitation to meet in fraternal reunion on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, July first, second, and third, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, on the field of 624FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 21–23. 1888. Gettysburg, and as the invitation has been generally extended and accepted; Therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Loan of tents, etc., reunion at Gettysburg, Pa.*Post*, p. 625. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to loan to the committee in charge of quarters of the Society of the Army of the Potomac such tents and tent equipage as may be needed for the sheltering of the veteran organizations participating in said anniversary, and that to prevent loss or damage resulting from the use of said tents and tent equipage, the Secretary of War is authorized to detail troops to take charge of the same and to provide for the safe keeping and transportation under the direction of the Quartermaster-General. Approved, June 20, 1888. No. 22: extending the provisions of an act entitled “An act relating to arrears of taxes in the District of Columbia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Public Resolution 22 25 Stat. 624 1888-06-25 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 22.] Joint resolution extending the provisions of an act entitled “An act relating to arrears of taxes in the District of Columbia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.June 25, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Arrears of taxes.Time for payment of, extended.Vol. 24, p. 560. That the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act relating to arrears of taxes in the District of Columbia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be, and the same hereby are, extended so as to apply to all general taxes in arrear on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and to all special assessments due the District of Columbia, and which may be paid on or before the first day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Approved, June 25, 1888. No. 23: to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government. Public Resolution 23 25 Stat. 624 1888-06-30 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 23.] Joint resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.June 30, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations for the last fiscal year continued thirty days, unless previously made. That all appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government under existing laws which shall remain unprovided for on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight be, and they are hereby continued and made available for a period of thirty days from and after *Post*, pp. 628, 630, and 631.that date, unless the regular appropriations therefor provided for in bills now pending in Congress, shall have been previously made for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine: and in case the appropriations, or any of them, hereby continued, are or is, insufficient to carry on the said necessary operations, a sufficient amount is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry on the *Provisos*.Proportionate amounts.same: *Provided*, That no greater amount shall be expended therefor than will be in the same proportion to the appropriations of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as thirty days time bears to the whole of said fiscal year: *Provided further*, That authority is also Work to continue.granted for continuing during the same period the necessary work required for public printing and binding, and for all other miscellaneous objects embodied in the Sundry Civil, Army, District of Columbia, Legislative, Executive and Judicial and Naval appropriation acts, in advance of appropriations to be hereafter made for Sums expended to be deducted from regular appropriations.said objects: *And provided further*, All sums expended under this act shall be charged to and be deducted from the appropriations for like service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Approved, June 30, 1888. No. 24: authorizing the loan of tents and camp equipage to the veteran organizations of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Public Resolution 24 25 Stat. 625 1888-06-30 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 24–27. 1888.625 [No. 24.] Joint Resolution authorizing the loan of tents and camp equipage to the veteran organizations of the Society of the Army of the Potomac.June 30, 1888. Whereas, at the annual reunion of the Society of the Army of thePreamble. Potomac, held at Saratoga, New York, in eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, a resolution was passed extending to all the survivors of the battle of Gettysburg an invitation to meet in fraternal reunion on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, July first, second, and third, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, on the field of Gettysburg, and as the invitation has been generally extended and accepted: Therefore *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Secretary of War to loan tents, etc., for Gettysburg Reunion That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to loan to the committee in charge of quarters of the Society of the Army of the Potomac such tents and camp equipage as may be needed for the sheltering of the veteran organizations participating in said anniversary, and that to prevent loss or damage resulting from the use of such tents and camp equipage, the Secretary of War is authorized to detail troops to take charge of the same and to provide for their safekeeping and transportation under the direction of the Quartermaster-General. Approved, June 30, 1888. No. 25: granting leave of absence to certain persons employed in the service of the United States. Public Resolution 25 25 Stat. 625 1888-07-02 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 25.] Joint resolution granting leave of absence to certain persons employed in the service of the United States.July 2, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Leave of absence to Government employés to attend Gettysburg reunion. That the heads of Departments are hereby authorized to grant to all persons employed in the service of the United States who were present at the battle of Gettysburg, sufficient leave of absence, without loss of pay, to attend the reunion to be held at Gettysburg on the third day of July next, such absence not to be taken from the allowance made by law. Approved, July 2, 1888. No. 26: relating to the Pages of the House of Representatives. Public Resolution 26 25 Stat. 625 1888-07-10 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 26.] Joint Resolution relating to the Pages of the House of Representatives.July 10, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pages, House of Representatives. That so much of the Act making appropriations for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as requires that the pages of the House of Representatives shall not be under twelve years of age,Age qualification modified.*Ante*, p. 251. shall not apply to pages in the employment of the House on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Approved, July 10, 1888. No. 27: directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to amend the enrollment of the bill (H. R. 9377) “making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes.” Public Resolution 27 25 Stat. 625 1888-07-10 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 27.] Joint Resolution directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to amend the enrollment of the bill (H. R. 9377) “making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes.”July 10, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Error in enrollment of legislative, etc., appropriation act corrected.*Ante*, p. 279. That the Clerk of the House be, and is hereby directed in the enrollment of the bill (H. R. 9377) “making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes,” 626FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 27, 29, 30. 1888. to insert under the head of appropriations “In the Signal Office” the following: “four copyists, at six hundred dollars each;” so that said Corrected paragraph.Signal Office.paragraph may read, as follows: " “In the Signal Office: For one professor of meteorology, at four thousand dollars; three assistant professors of meteorology, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two clerks of class four; one bibliographer and librarian, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one lithographer, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one clerk, at one thousand dollars; four clerks of class one; one translator and typewriter, at eight hundred and forty dollars; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four copyists, at six hundred dollars each; four copyists, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger, one watchman; one carpenter, at six hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; one messenger, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars; two laborers, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; two stitchers and folders, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and for the services of such other messengers, mechanics, laborers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, in the office of the Chief Signal Officer, to carry into effect the appropriations made for the support of the Signal Service, two thousand five hundred and forty dollars: in all, forty thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.” the words directed to be inserted having been omitted by error when the bill was engrossed. " Approved, July 10, 1888. No. 29: to amend the joint resolution approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, relating to the disposal of public lands in certain states. Public Resolution 29 25 Stat. 626 1888-07-16 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 29.] Joint resolution to amend the joint resolution approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, relating to the disposal of public lands in certain states.July 16, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Sale of, at private sale, in Florian and Louisiana limited.*Ante*, p. 622. That the joint resolution relating to the disposal of public lands in certain states approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight be and the same is hereby amended so as to extend the provisions thereof to the States of Florida and Louisiana. And the provisions of said joint resolution, as hereby amended are extended until the close of the present Congress. Approved, July 16, 1888. No. 30: declaring the true intent and meaning of the act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Public Resolution 30 25 Stat. 626 1888-07-16 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 30.] Joint Resolution declaring the true intent and meaning of the act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.July 16, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States.*Ante*, p. 159. That it is the true intent and meaning of the act of Congress approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, by the President of the United States, entitled “An act making appropriation to enable the several Executive Departments of the Government, and the Bureau of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National Museum, and the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, to participate in the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, from July fourth, to October seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,” that the President of the United States may, in his discretion make an order directing that any documents, papers, maps, Exhibits for Marietta.not original, books or other exhibits which properly and pertinently relate to the establishment of civil government in the territory northwest of the Ohio River, may be sent upon an Executive order from any of the several Departments in said act named, or from the exhibits now at Cincinnati; and that the appropriation of money in said act to FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 30–33. 1888.627 defray the expenses of such exhibits, may be made applicable, in so far as the President of the United States may direct, to the payment of the expenses of the care transportation to and return of such exhibits from Marietta. And the same shall be paid from such fund heretofore set apart for each Department as the President may order. Nor shall anything in said act be so construed as to prevent the purchase of suitable materials, and the employment of proper persons, to completeCompletion of exhibits. or modify series of objects, and classes of specimens, when in the judgment of the head of any department, such purchase or employment or both is necessary in the proper preparation and conduct of an exhibit. Nor to authorize the removal from their places of deposit in Washington of any original paper or document or laws or ordinances whatever. Approved, July 16, 1888. No. 31: authorizing the District Commissioners to designate a site for a statue of Benjamin Franklin. Public Resolution 31 25 Stat. 627 1888-07-19 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 31.] Joint resolution authorizing the District Commissioners to designate a site for a statue of Benjamin Franklin.July 19, 1888. Whereas, Stilson Hutchins has offered to donate to the UnitedPreamble. States a colossal statue of Benjamin Franklin in white Italian marble and erect a pedestal therefor of Massachusetts granite, at his own expense, after plans, which have been submitted to the Joint Committee on the Library therefore it is— *Resolved by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Benjamin Franklin.Authority to erect statue of, granted. That authority is given to erect the statue under the supervision and direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon such part of the streets or public spaces in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, as the said Commissioners may designate. Approved, July 19, 1888. No. 32: to authorize the Secretary of War to issue arms and equipments to the militia of the District of Columbia. Public Resolution 32 25 Stat. 627 1888-07-23 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 32.] Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to issue arms and equipments to the militia of the District of Columbia.July 23, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Arms, etc., to be issued to militia. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue from the stores of the Army such arms, ordnance stores, quartermasters’ stores, and camp equipage, to the militia of the District of Columbia as he may deem necessary for their proper equipment and instruction. The property so issued shall remain and continue to be the property of the United States, and shall be annually accounted for in such manner as the Secretary of War may require. Approved, July 23, 1888. No. 33: electing managers of “The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,” to fill vacancies caused by the expiration of the terms of office of members of the present board of managers on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Public Resolution 33 25 Stat. 627 1888-07-25 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 33.] Joint resolution electing managers of “The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,” to fill vacancies caused by the expiration of the terms of office of members of the present board of managers on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.July 25, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Leonard A. Harris. John A. Martin, and John F. Hartranft, elected managers. That Colonel Leonard A. Harris, of the State of Ohio, General John A. Martin, of the State of Kansas, and General John F. Hartranft, of the State of Pennsylvania be and they are hereby elected managers of “The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.” to fill vacancies caused by expiration of the terms of office of members of the present board of managers on the twenty-first day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Approved, July 25, 1888. No. 34: to continue the provisions of a joint resolution approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled a “Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.” Public Resolution 34 25 Stat. 628 1888-07-31 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public 628FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 34–36. 1888. [No. 34.] Joint resolution to continue the provisions of a joint resolution approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled a “Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.”July 31, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Annual appropriations extended thirty-one days.*Ante*, p. 624. That the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government,” approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same are hereby extended and continued in full force and effect to and including the thirty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Approved, July 31, 1888. No. 35: authorizing and directing the Department of Justice to transfer certain rooms which have been occupied by the United States courts and officials to the city of Utica, New York. Public Resolution 35 25 Stat. 628 1888-08-01 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 35.] Joint resolution authorizing and directing the Department of Justice to transfer certain rooms which have been occupied by the United States courts and officials to the city of Utica, New York.August 1, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Utica, N. Y.Rooms used for marts in, transferred to the city. That the Department of Justice be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer and relinquish to the city of Utica, State of New York, all the right, title, and claim of the United States to the rooms in what is described as the City Hall, in said city of Utica, which were formerly used for the United States courts and officials thereof under a deed or lease executed on the twenty-fifth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, the same having been entirely abandoned by the said courts and officials thereof, a new building having been erected by the Government for the convenience and occupancy of said United States courts. Approved, August 1, 1888. No. 36: providing for a duplicate of the compilation of the reports of the Senate and House of Representatives from eighteen hundred and fifteen to eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Public Resolution 36 25 Stat. 628 1888-08-08 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 36.] Joint resolution providing for a duplicate of the compilation of the reports of the Senate and House of Representatives from eighteen hundred and fifteen to eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.August 8, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Committee Reports.Duplicate to be provided. That the Joint Committee on Public Printing be and are hereby authorized to provide a duplicate of the compilation of the Reports of the Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives from eighteen hundred and fifteen to eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, provided for in Public Vol. 24, p. 345.resolution number twenty-four, first session Forty-ninth Congress, approved July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and further provided for in Concurrent Resolution of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Appropriation.And the sum of four thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be found necessary is hereby appropriated for the preparation of said work. And the further sum of fourteen hundred and seventy-seven dollars is hereby appropriated to cover a deficiency in the cost of the original compilation, made necessary by concurrent resolution of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, which sum may be paid, by the Secretary of the Treasury upon the order of the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, as additional pay or compensation, to any officer or employee of the United States. Binding.The Public Printer is hereby authorized and directed to bind said duplicate of the compilation of the Reports without delay. Approved, August 8, 1888. No. 37: providing for the printing of a Supplement to Wharton’s Digest of International Law. Public Resolution 37 25 Stat. 629 1888-08-13 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 37–39. 1888.629 [No. 37.] Joint resolution providing for the printing of a Supplement to Wharton’s Digest of International Law.August 13, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Digest of International Law.Supplement to, to be prepared. That there be printed, under the editorial charge of Francis Wharton, the usual number of copies of a supplement to the Digest of International Law, printed under joint resolution of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six,Vol. 24, p. 345. and under the same conditions and limitations as are imposed in said resolution, such supplement containing the diplomatic correspondence of the American revolution, with historical and legal notes; and that there be printed, in addition to said usual number, two thousand copies for the use of the Senate, four thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and one thousand copies for the use of the Department, of State. Approved, August 13, 1888. No. 38: providing for the printing of the portion of the annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on Commerce and Navigation for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “Annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in regard to imported merchandise entered for consumption in the United States, with amounts of duty and rates of duty collected.” Public Resolution 38 25 Stat. 629 1888-08-24 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 38.] Joint resolution providing for the printing of the portion of the annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on Commerce and Navigation for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “Annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in regard to imported merchandise entered for consumption in the United States, with amounts of duty and rates of duty collected.”August 14, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Important merchandise.Report of chief of Bureau of Statistics to be printed. That there be printed twenty thousand copies of the report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in regard to imported merchandise entered for consumption in the United States, with rates of duty and amounts of duty collected, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; thirteen thousand for the use of the members of the House of Representatives: six thousand for the use of members of the Senate; and one thousand for the use of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department. The sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,Appropriation. is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the cost of the publication of said report. Approved, August 14, 1888. No. 39: directing the Secretary of War to investigate and report the amount due to the State of South Carolina for the rent of the Citadel Academy. Public Resolution 39 25 Stat. 629 1888-08-14 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 39.] Joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to investigate and report the amount due to the State of South Carolina for the rent of the Citadel Academy.August 14, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Citadel, Charleston, S. C.Secretary of War to investigate claim for occupation of. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to investigate and report the amount due to the State of South Carolina, for the rent of the Citadel, at Charleston, South Carolina, from August, twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to February second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, including the sum equitably due to the State of South Carolina for the loss by fire of the west wing of the said building while in the occupation of the United States, and the appropriation by the United States of the bricks of the said wing to other Government uses; and that he report the result of such investigationReport. to Congress. Approved, August 14, 1888. No. 41: to continue the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a “Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.” Public Resolution 41 25 Stat. 630 1888-09-01 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public 630FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 41–44. 1888. [No. 41.] Joint resolution to continue the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a “Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.”September 1, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations continued fifteen days.*Ante*, p. 628. That the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a “Joint Resolution to continue the provisions of a Joint resolution approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled a ‘Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government’” approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be and the same are hereby extended and continued in full force and effect to and including the fifteenth day of September eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Approved, September 1, 1888. No. 42: to correct an error in the act making an appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and for other purposes. Public Resolution 42 25 Stat. 630 1888-09-06 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 42.] Joint resolution to correct an error in the act making an appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and for other purposes.September 6, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*,Agricultural Department appropriations. That an error in the act making an appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine Ladies Silk Culture Society of California, name corrected.*Ante*, p.831.and for other purposes designating the “Ladies Silk Culture Society of California” as the “California Ladies Silk Culture Association of California” be corrected so that the same shall read “Ladies Silk Culture Society of California.” Approved, September 6, 1888. No. 43: to continue the provisions of a Joint Resolution entitled a “Joint Resolution to continue the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a ‘Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government’.” Public Resolution 43 25 Stat. 630 1888-09-15 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 43.] Joint resolution to continue the provisions of a Joint Resolution entitled a “Joint Resolution to continue the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a ‘Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government’.”September 15, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations continued text days. That the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a “Joint Resolution to continue the provisions of a Joint Resolution entitled a ‘Joint Resolution to provide *Supra*.temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.’” approved September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be and the same are hereby extended and continued in full force and effect to and including the twenty-fifth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Approved, September 15, 1888. No. 44: appropriating two hundred thousand dollars to suppress infection in the interstate commerce of the United States. Public Resolution 44 25 Stat. 630 1888-09-26 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 44.] Joint resolution appropriating two hundred thousand dollars to suppress infection in the interstate commerce of the United States.September 26, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation to prevent and suppress infectious diseases. That in addition to the unexpended balance of the fund heretofore appropriated, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, to be expended in the discretion of the President of the United States in aid of State or municipal boards of health, or otherwise, by such means as he shall deem best, to prevent the introduction of cholera or yellow-fever into the United States from foreign countries, or into one State or Territory from another or into the District of Columbia from any State or Territory, or into any State or Territory from said District. Approved, September 26, 1888. No. 45: to continue the provisions of existing laws providing temporarily for the expenditures of the Government. Public Resolution 45 25 Stat. 631 1888-09-26 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 45–19. 1888.631 [No. 45.] Joint resolution to continue the provisions of existing laws providing temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.September 26, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations continued twenty days.*Ante*, pp. 624, 628, 630. That the provisions of Joint Resolutions approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight and September fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, providing temporarily for the expenditures of the Government, be and the same are hereby extended and continued in full force and effect to and including the tenth day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Approved, September 26, 1888. No. 46: declaring the meaning of a clause in the river and harbor act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Public Resolution 46 25 Stat. 631 1888-10-01 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 46.] Joint resolution declaring the meaning of a clause in the river and harbor act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.October 1, 1888, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fairport Harbor, Ohio. That the phrase “present low water mark” in the river and harbor bill of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in the paragraph referring to Fairport Harbor, Ohio, is intended to mean the inner shore line representedDesignation of appropriation.*Ante*, p. 405. on map in the report of Chief of Engineers of eighteen hundred and eighty-one. Approved, October 1, 1888. No. 47: relating to the inclosure of certain points of especial interest on the battlefield of Gettysburgh. Public Resolution 47 25 Stat. 631 1888-10-12 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 47.] Joint resolution relating to the inclosure of certain points of especial interest on the battlefield of Gettysburgh.October 12, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fence around Lafayette Square, Washington, to be given to Gettysburgh Memorial Association. That whenever the fence which now incloses Lafayette Square in the city of Washington is removed the Secretary of War is hereby directed to deliver the same to the Gettysburgh Battlefield Memorial Association, at Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of inclosing points of especial interest on the Gettysburgh battlefield. Approved, October 12, 1888. No. 48: in aid of the sufferers from yellow fever. Public Resolution 48 25 Stat. 631 1888-10-12 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 48.] Joint resolution in aid of the sufferers from yellow fever.October 12, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Yellow fever. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of theAppropriation to eradicate or prevent the spread of. President of the United States whenever, in his opinion, such expenditure will tend to the eradication of the epidemic of yellow fever now prevailing in the United States, or its spread from State to State. Approved, October 12, 1888. No. 49: authorizing the printing of the third annual report of the Commissioner of Labor. Public Resolution 49 25 Stat. 631 1888-10-12 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 49.] Joint resolution authorizing the printing of the third annual report of the Commissioner of Labor.October 12, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Commissioner of Labor.Printing of third annual report authorized. That there be printed thirty-nine thousand copies in cloth binding of the Third Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor; twenty-six thousand copies for the use 632FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 49–52. 1888. of members of the House of Representatives and thirteen thousand copies for the use of members of the Senate. Sec. 2. Appropriation.That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to defray the cost of the publication of said report, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, October 12, 1888. No. 50: providing for the printing of decisions of the Department of the Interior regarding public lands and pensions, for sale. Public Resolution 50 25 Stat. 632 1888-10-18 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 50.] Joint resolution providing for the printing of decisions of the Department of the Interior regarding public lands and pensions, for sale.October 18, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Department of the Interior.Decisions of, respecting public lands and pensions to be printed.Sale authorized. That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to print from the stereotype plates, and to bind in full sheep, one thousand copies each of volumes one to seven of decisions of the Department of the Interior relating to public lands, and of volumes one and two of decisions of the Department of the Interior relating to pensions, to be sold by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the Vol. 24, p. 647.provisions of joint resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred *Proviso*.Allotment to members of Congress.Appropriation.and eighty-seven, providing for the sale of public documents: *Provided*, That one copy of such decisions shall be delivered without cost to each member of the present Congress and that such additional number of copies shall be published; and that there be appropriated eleven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution. Approved, October 18, 1888. No. 51: authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point Henry Lecomte, of Switzerland. Public Resolution 51 25 Stat. 632 1888-10-19 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 51.] Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point Henry Lecomte, of Switzerland.October 19, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Henry Lecomte.Admitted to Military Academy. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to permit Henry Lecomte, of Switzerland, to receive instruction at the Military Academy at West *Provisos*.[R. S. secs. 1829, 1321, p. 227, waived](/us/rs/s1829/1321/p227).Point: *Provided*, That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby: *And provided, further*, That in the case of the said Lecomte the provisions of sections thirteen hundred and twenty and thirteen hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended. Approved, October 19, 1888. No. 52: authorizing the Secretary of War to protect the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel. Public Resolution 52 25 Stat. 632 1888-10-19 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 52.] Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to protect the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel.October 19, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, D. CProtection of. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to use so much of any unexpended balance of appropriations for the work of the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, District of Columbia, as may be necessary, for the purpose of protecting and preserving the work already done upon said tunnel. Report by joint committee to investigate alleged frauds.That the Joint Select Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives authorized by a Concurrent Resolution of Congress to make inquiry and report concerning all of the work and contracts therefor on the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel and other matters in relation thereto, are hereby, in addition to the powers conferred by FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 52, 54–56. 1888.633 said concurrent resolution, authorized and directed in their discretionPowers extended. to inquire and report touching all plans and estimates prepared under the auspices of the Government for extending the Water Supply of Washington City, and finally the said Committee may extend their inquiries as to any and all other matters concerning the extension of said water supply that may aid the Congress in ascertaining and fixing the responsibility for any mismanagement therein or for the future construction and management thereof. Approved, October 19, 1888. No. 54: to print the Agricultural Report for eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Public Resolution 54 25 Stat. 633 1888-10-20 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 54.] Joint resolution to print the Agricultural Report for eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.October 20, 1888, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Commissioner of Agriculture.Report for 1888 to be printed.Distribution. That there be printed four hundred thousand copies of the annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; seventy thousand copies for the use of the member of the Senate, three hundred thousand copies for the use of the members of the House of Representatives, and thirty thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture, the illustrations for the same to be executed under the supervision of the Public Printer, in accordance with directions of the Joint Committee on Printing, said illustrations to be subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture; and the copy for the illustrations of said report shall be placed in the hands of the Public Printer not later than the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and the copy of the text not later than the first day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Sec. 2. That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so muchAppropriation. thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the cost of printing said report. Approved, October 20, 1888. No. 55: authorizing the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives borne on the annual rolls their respective salaries for the month of October on the twentieth day of said month. Public Resolution 55 25 Stat. 633 1888-10-20 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 55.] Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives borne on the annual rolls their respective salaries for the month of October on the twentieth day of said month.October 20, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Senate and House employees to receive October pay October 30. That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives, including the capitol police, their respective salaries for the month of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, on the twentieth day of said month. Approved, October 20, 1888. No. 56: making appropriations to enable the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to session employees of the Senate and House for the full month of October. Public Resolution 56 25 Stat. 633 1888-10-20 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 56.] Joint resolution making appropriations to enable the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to session employees of the Senate and House for the full month of October.October 20, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Session employees Senate and House.To receive pay for October. That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives be and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay to the session employees in the Senate and House of Representatives salaries lord the full month of 634FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 56, 57. 1888. October and that the amount of money necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, October 20, 1888. No. 57: authorizing the exhibits made by the Government at the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States at Cincinnati. Ohio, to remain at said Exposition until and including the fifteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Public Resolution 57 25 Stat. 633 1888-10-20 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 2026-02-23 50 1 public [No. 57.] Joint resolution authorizing the exhibits made by the Government at the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States at Cincinnati. Ohio, to remain at said Exposition until and including the fifteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.October 20, 1888. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Cincinnati Exposition.Government exhibits may remain until November 15.*Ante*, p. 159. That authority is hereby granted to continue until and including November fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, the exhibits made by the Government at the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States at Cincinnati, Ohio, under authority of the Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Approved, October 20, 1888. 50 2 1888 1889 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTIETH 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 third day of December*, 1888, *and was adjourned without day mi Saturday, the second day of March*, 1889. Grover Cleveland. President; John J. Ingalls. President of the Senate *pro tempore*; John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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