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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · March 3, 1891 · Chapter 566

Chapter 566.

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CHAP. 566.— An act to create a new division in the northern judicial district of Georgia.March 3, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Georgia northern judicial district. Western division established. That a new division of the northern judicial district of the State of Georgia, to be known as the western division of the northern judicial district of Georgia, be, and the same is hereby, established, to be composed of the following counties, to wit:
Muscogee, Heard. Troup, Merriwether, Counties transferred.Harris, Talbot, Taylor, Marion. Chattahoochee, Stewart Schley, Webster. Quitman, Clay, Randolph, Early, Miller, and Terrell, and all of said counties which may not now belong, for judicial purposes, to the northern district of the State of Georgia, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the said northern district Section Two. That two terms of the circuit and district courts, ofTerms at Columbus. R. S., secs. 572, 658, pp. 90, 120. the United States for said northern district shall be held annually in said new division at the city of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee, commencing on the second Monday in January and the second Monday in June, and shall continue in session for two weeks.
Section Three. That all process, civil and criminal, issued againstProcess. citizens residing in said counties, shall be made returnable to the said courts, respectively, at the said city of Columbus, and not otherwise. Section Four. That the clerk of the district and the clerk of theDeputy clerk, etc. circuit court shall appoint a deputy clerk for the courts for said division, and the marshal of said northern district shall provide suitable rooms for the occupancy of said courts and the officers thereof.
Section Five. That no suit or prosecution now pending againstPending actions. a citizen or citizens residing in either of said counties constituting the division hereby created, in either of said courts, at any other place, under the provisions of existing laws, shall be affected by this act, but the same shall be prosecuted and determined as though this act had not been passed. Section Six. That all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 3, 1891.
RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: authorizing the printing of the annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on Internal Commerce for eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Public Resolution 1 26 Stat. 1111 1890-12-05 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 1.] Joint resolution authorizing the printing of the annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on Internal Commerce for eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.December 5, 1890. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Internal commerce.
Report for 1889 to be printed. That there be printed fifteen thousand additional copies of the annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on Internal Commerce, for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, House Executive Document numbered six. First session Fifty-first Congress; four thousand five hundred copies for the use of the members of the Senate, and nine thousand copies for the use of the members of the House of Representatives, and one thousand copies for the use of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department: and thatAppropriation. the sum of eight thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty cents, or so much of the same as may be necessary to defray the expenses of printing such report, be appropriated and paid out of the money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, December 5, 1890. No. 2: to print the eulogies on Honorable James B. Beck. Public Resolution 2 26 Stat. 1111 1890-12-09 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 2.] Joint resolution to print the eulogies on Honorable James B. Beck.December 9, 1890 *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James B.
Beck. That there be printedEulogies on, to be printed. of the eulogies delivered in Congress on the late James B. Beck, a Senator in the Fifty-first Congress from the State of Kentucky, twenty-five thousand copies, of which number six thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate, and nineteen thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and that of the quota to the Senate the Public Printer shall reserve fifty copies, which he shall haveExtra bound copies. bound in full morocco, with gilt edges, the same to be delivered when complete to the family of the deceased; and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have printed a portrait in the usual manner of the Portrait.late James B.
Beck to accompany said eulogies, and for the purpose of engraving and print in said portrait the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereofAppropriation. as shall be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, December 9, 1890. No. 3: to authorize the Secretary of War to issue one thousand stands of arms to each of the States of North and South Dakota, Wyoming. Montana, and Nebraska. Public Resolution 3 26 Stat. 1111 1890-12-09 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 3.] Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to issue one thousand stands of arms to each of the States of North and South Dakota, Wyoming. Montana, and Nebraska.December 9, 1890 *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Nebraska. Arms, etc., to protect from Indians, issued.That the Secretary of War, under such regulations as he may prescribe, be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue to the States of North and South Dakota.
Wyo-
(1111)1112FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 3-6. 1890. ming, Montana, and Nebraska, out of any ordnance stores which may belong to the United States and winch *Post*, p, 1114.have been superseded and are no longer issued to the Army, one thousand rifles each and ammunition for the same, not to exceed fifty ball cartridges for each arm, to enable the authorities of said States to assist the United States in protecting citizens and their property against depredations *Provisos*.by Indians: *Provided*, That the said ordnance stores shall remain the property of the United States,Return, etc. and that the governors of said States shall each furnish security satisfactory to the Secretary of War for the care and return of said arms when the same shall be Militia quota not diminished. Vol. 24. p. 401.demanded: *And provided further*, That the quotas to said States under the act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for arming and equipping the militia shall not be hereby diminished. Approved, December 9, 1890. No. 4: providing for the printing of decisions of the Department of the Interior regarding public lands and pensions, for sale. Public Resolution 4 26 Stat. 1112 1890-12-18 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 4.] Joint resolution providing for the printing of decisions of the Department of the Interior regarding public lands and pensions, for sale.December 18, 1890 *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Department of the Interior. Public lands and pensions decisions to be printed for sale. 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 eight to twelve, inclusive, of decisions of the Department of the Interior relating to public lands, and of volumes three, four, and five of decisions, of the Department of the Interior relating to pensions, to be sold by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance Vol. 24, p. 647.with the provisions of joint resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, providing for the sale of public *Proviso*.documents: *Provided*, That one copy each of such Members of Congress. Appropriation.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 ten 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, December 18, 1890. No. 5: to pay the officers and employees of the .Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety, on the twentieth day of said month. Public Resolution 5 26 Stat. 1112 1890-12-20 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 5.] Joint resolution to pay the officers and employees of the .Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety, on the twentieth day of said month.December 20, 1890. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,December salaries to be paid Congress signal employees December 20, 1890. 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 December, eighteen hundred and ninety, on the twentieth day of said month. Approved, December 20, 1890. No. 6: concerning the publication of the United States map for the use of Congress. Public Resolution 6 26 Stat. 1112 1890-12-24 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 6.] Joint resolution concerning the publication of the United States map for the use of Congress.December 24, 1890. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,United States map. Latest edition to be published. Vol. 25, p. 1019. That the joint resolution of January twenty-third eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, providing for the publication of the United States map for the use of Congress, be amended by substituting the words “latest edition” in the FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 6-9. 1890-'91.1113 place of “edition of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,” so that it shall read, “The United States map prepared by the General Land Office of the latest edition.” Approved, December 24, 1890. No. 7: defining a quorum of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 7 26 Stat. 1113 1890-12-24 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 7.] Joint resolution defining a quorum of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.December 24, 1890. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Quorum of board. That any two of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sitting as a board, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and that the senior officer of the Corps of Engineers of the Army who shall for the timeActing Engineer Commissioner. being be detailed to act as assistant (and in case of his absence from the District or disability, the junior officer so detailed) shall, in the event of the absence from the District or disability of the Commissioner who shall for the time being be detailed from the Corps of Engineers, perform all the duties imposed by law upon said Commissioner.Engineer Commissioner may be appointed from captains. Hereafter such Engineer Commissioner may, in the discretion of the President of the United States, be detailed from among the captains or officers of higher grade having served at least fifteen years in the Corps of Engineers of the Army of the United States. Approved, December 24, 1890. No. 8: to print the eulogies on Hon. Edward J. Gay. Public Resolution 8 26 Stat. 1113 1891-01-28 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 8.] Joint resolution to print the eulogies on Hon. Edward J. Gay.January 28, 1891 *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Edward J. Gay. Eulogies on. to be printed. That there be printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress on the late Edward J. Gay, a Representative in the Fifty-first Congress from the State of Louisiana. twenty-five thousand copies, of which number six thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate, and nineteen thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives; and the Portrait.Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have printed a portrait of the said Edward J. Gay to accompany said eulogies,Appropriation. and for the purpose of engraving and printing said portrait the sum of one thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not. otherwise appropriated. That of the quota to theExtra bound copies House of Representatives the Public Printer shall set apart fifty copies, which lie shall have bound in full morocco with gilt edges, the same to be delivered when completed to the family of the deceased. Approved, January 28, 1891. No. 9: to authorize the Secretary of War to issue ordnance and ordnance stores to the Washington High School. Public Resolution 9 26 Stat. 1113 1891-02-05 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 9.] Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to issue ordnance and ordnance stores to the Washington High School.February 5, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. Issue of ordnance to High School That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue, at his discretion and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out of ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose, such as may appear to be required for military instruction and practice by the students of the High School of Washington, District of Columbia, and the Secretary shall require a bond'in each case, in double the value of the property, for the care and safe keeping thereof, and for the return of the same when required. Approved, February 5, 1891. No. 10: to increase from fifty to one hundred the number of copies of the eulogies on the late Samuel Sullivan Cox to be delivered to his widow. Public Resolution 10 26 Stat. 1114 1891-02-07 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public 1114FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 10-13. 1891. [No. 10.] Joint resolution to increase from fifty to one hundred the number of copies of the eulogies on the late Samuel Sullivan Cox to be delivered to his widow.February 7, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,S. S. Cox. Additional number of eulogies to widow. *Ante*, p. 676. That the number of copies of the eulogies delivered in both Houses of Congress upon Samuel Sullivan Cox, deceased, late a Representative from the State of New York, authorized under House joint resolution one hundred and fifty, to be specially bound by the Public Printer and delivered to his widow, is hereby increased from fifty to one hundred. Approved, February 7, 1891. No. 11: to correct an error of punctuation in the tariff act of eighteen hundred and ninety. Public Resolution 11 26 Stat. 1114 1891-02-18 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 11.] Joint resolution to correct an error of punctuation in the tariff act of eighteen hundred and ninety.February 18, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Tariff of 1890. Correction of error. *Ante*, p. 593. That the punctuation in paragraph three hundred and sixty-two of “An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,” approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, be corrected so as to include in the parenthesis in said paragraph only the words “except binding twine,” so that the said paragraph will read as follows: " “362. Cables, cordage, and twine (except binding twine) composed in whole or in part ofDuty on cable, cords, and twine. istle or Tampico fiber, manila, sisal grass, or sum, one and one-half cents per pound; all binding twine manufactured in whole or in part from istle or Tampico fiber, manila, sisal grass, or sum, seven-tenths of one cent per pound; cables and cordage made of hemp, two and one-half cents per pound; tarred cables and cordage, three cents per pound.” " Approved, February 18, 1891. No. 12: amendatory of and supplementary to joint resolution number three, approved December ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety. Public Resolution 12 26 Stat. 1114 1891-03-02 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 12.] Joint resolution amendatory of and supplementary to joint resolution number three, approved December ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety.March 2, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Arms to Dakotas, etc. *Ante*, p. 1112. Equipments to be Issued. That joint resolution number three, entitled “Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to issue one thousand stands of arms to each of the States of North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Nebraska,” approved December ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, is hereby amended by inserting after tile words “rifles each” the words “together with all infantry equipments necessary to their use in the field.” Approved, March 2, 1891. No. 13: correcting an error in an enrolled bill Public Resolution 13 26 Stat. 1114 1891-03-02 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 13.] Joint resolution correcting an error in an enrolled billMarch 2, 1891. Whereas the act to incorporate the Washington and Arlington RailwayPreamble. Company, as enrolled, fails to express the intent of the two houses as manifested by the adoption of the report of the conference committee on the amendments between the two houses thereon: Now, therefore, for the purpose of correcting said error and for no other purpose, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Washington and Arlington Railway Company.Error in enrollment of charter corrected.*Ante*, p. 791., That section four of the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Washington and Arlington Railway Company of .the District of Columbia” be. and same is FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 13-15, 17. 1891.1115 hereby, amended so that the last sentence of said section after the words “in accordance herewith” shall read as follows: “And bonds to be secured by mortgage or deed of trust upon the property of the company may be issued to the amount of five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the entire issue of stock and bonds shall not exceed the actual*Provisos*. Maximum stock and bond issue. Limit of bond issue etc. cost of constructing and equipping the road, including the bridge: *And provided also*, That the total amount of bonds issued shall not exceed double the amount of paid up stock, and every certificate of stock shall show the amount paid on the same. Approved, March 2, 1891. No. 14: to print ten thousand additional copies of the work known as the “Growth of Industrial Art.” Public Resolution 14 26 Stat. 1115 1891-03-02 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 14.] Joint resolution to print ten thousand additional copies of the work known as the “Growth of Industrial Art.”March 2, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“Growth of Industrial Art.” Additional copies to be printed. That there be printed ten thousand additional copies of the work known as the “Growth of Industrial Art,” of which three thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate, six thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives. and the remaining one thousand copies to be turned over to the Secretary of the Interior to be sold by him under the provisions of the Vol. 24, p. 647.law providing for the sale of public documents by said Secretary approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty seven. The compiler of said work, the Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, having prepared illustrations of several other arts since the same was published, may add them to the work without increased cost. That the Public Printer is hereby authorized to contract for the Contracts.printing and binding of the second edition proposed in this resolution, provided it can be done advantageously to the Government. *Resolved*, That there be appropriated for the purposes of this resolution,Appropriation. out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Approved, March 2, 1891. No. 15: providing for printing the Fifth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor. Public Resolution 15 26 Stat. 1115 1891-03-02 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 15.] Joint resolution providing for printing the Fifth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor.March 2, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fifth Annual Labor Report to be printed. That there be printed thirty-five thousand copies, in cloth binding, of the Fifth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor; twenty thousand copies forDistribution. use of the members of the House of Representatives, and ten thousand copies for use of members of the Senate, and five thousand copies for the use of the Department of Labor. Sec. 2. That the sum of twenty-one thousand dollars, or so muchAppropriation. 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, March 2, 1891. No. 17: to provide for the organization of the circuit courts of appeals. Public Resolution 17 26 Stat. 1115 1891-03-03 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 17.] Joint resolution to provide for the organization of the circuit courts of appeals.March 3, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Circuit courts of appeals. Time of first meeting. *Ante*, p. 827. That the first meetings of the several circuit courts of appeals mentioned in the act of Congress passed at this present session, entitled “An act to establish circuit 1116FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 17-19. 1891. courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the'courts of the United States, and for other purposes,” shall be held on the third Tuesday in June, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-one; and if, from any casualty, the first meeting of any of said courts shall fail to be so held on that day, the first meeting of any such court so failing to be held, shall be held on such day subsequent thereto as the chief justice, or any justice of the Supreme Court of the United States assigned to such circuit, shall direct: *And be it further resolved*, That nothing in said act shall be held or construed in anywise to impair the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court or Pending cases not affected.any circuit court of the United State's in any case now pending before it, or in respect of any case wherein the writ of error or the appeal shall have been sued out or taken to any of said courts before the first day of July, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Approved, March 3, 1891. No. 18: authorizing the State of Oregon to construct, maintain and operate a portage railroad over the property of the United States at the Cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon. Public Resolution 18 26 Stat. 1116 1891-03-03 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 18.] Joint resolution authorizing the State of Oregon to construct, maintain and operate a portage railroad over the property of the United States at the Cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon.March 3, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Oregon. May build portage railroad over United States lands at Cascades of Columbia Elver. That the State of Oregon is hereby authorized to construct, maintain and operate a portage railroad over the lands belonging to the United States at the Cascades of the Columbia River in the State of Oregon and to use in the construction of the same and in the operation thereof, the Government roads upon said lands: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Noninterference with Government works.That such occupation and use shall not interfere with the Government works at said Cascades, and shall be under such restrictions and regulations as the Secretary of War shall prescribe. Approved, March 3, 1891. No. 19: appropriating one million dollars for the improvement of the Mississippi River and making the same immediately available Public Resolution 19 26 Stat. 1116 1891-03-03 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 19.] Joint resolution appropriating one million dollars for the improvement of the Mississippi River and making the same immediately availableMarch 3, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mississippi River. Appropriation for improvement from Head of the Passes to Ohio River. That the sum of one million dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the improvement of the Mississippi River from the Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, which sum shall be immediately available and shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommendations of the Mississippi *Provisos*.River Commission; *Provided*, That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended to repair or build levees for the purpose of reclaiming lands or Repairing levees.preventing injury to lands or private property by overflows: *Provided, however*, That the commission is authorized to repair and build levees, if in their judgment it should be done, as part of their plans to afford ease and safety to the navigation and commerce of the river and to deepen the channel: *Provided further*, Salaries. Mississippi River Commission.That the office, clerical, and traveling expenses and salaries of the Mississippi River Commission may be paid from this appropriation. Approved, March 3, 1891. No. 20: to print one hundred thousand copies of report on Diseases of the Horse. Public Resolution 20 26 Stat. 1117 1891-03-03 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 20-22. 1891.1117 [No. 20.] Joint resolution to print one hundred thousand copies of report on Diseases of the Horse.March 3, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Diseases of the Horse Special report on, to be printed. That there be printed one hundred thousand copies of the special report on Diseases of the Horse, prepared under the supervision of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry; twenty thousand copies for the use of members of the Senate; seventy thousand copies for the use of members of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-first Congress; and ten thousand copies for the use of the Secretary of Agriculture, to be paid out of the appropriation hereinafter made. Sec. 2. That the sum of seventy-live 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 expenses of printing and binding said report, and for illustrations for the same. Approved, March 3, 1891. No. 21: to increase the number of members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and fill vacancies in such Board. Public Resolution 31 26 Stat. 1117 1891-03-03 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 31.] Joint resolution to increase the number of members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and fill vacancies in such Board.March 3, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Number of managers increased. Appointments. That the Board of Managers for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall hereafter consist of eleven members, and the following named persons be, and are hereby, appointed Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, that is to say: Edmund N. Morrill, of Kansas, for the unexpired term of office of John A. Martin, deceased; Alfred L. Pearson, of Pennsylvania, for the unexpired term of office of John F. Hartranft, deceased: James Barnett, of Ohio, for the unexpired term of office of Leonard A. Harris, deceased; George H. Bonebrake, of California, for the unexpired term of office of Henry H. Markham, resigned; and William B. Franklin, of Connecticut, John C. Black, of Illinois. Francis Fessenden, of Maine, and George W. Steele, of Indiana, for the terms of office commencing on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety to fill vacancies occasioned by the expiration of terms of office and by the increase provided hereby. Approved, March 3, 1891. No. 22: providing for the greater security of the public buildings in the District of Columbia and their contents from destruction or damage by fire. Public Resolution 22 26 Stat. 1117 1891-03-03 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public [No. 22.] Joint resolution providing for the greater security of the public buildings in the District of Columbia and their contents from destruction or damage by fire.March 3, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Electric fire-alarm apparatus. Appropriation for, in files rooms, etc., Treasury and Interior Departments. That to enable the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Department of the Interior to place electrical fire-alarm apparatus in the especially exposed file and storerooms of the various buildings occupied by their respective Departments, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1891. No. 23: providing for the printing of the Agricultural Report for eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Public Resolution 23 26 Stat. 1118 1891-03-03 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 2026-02-21 51 2 public 1118FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 23. 1891. [No. 23.] Joint resolution providing for the printing of the Agricultural Report for eighteen hundred and ninety-one.March 3, 1891. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Agricultural Report tor 1891 to be printed. That there tie printed four hundred thousand copies of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one: seventy-live thousand copies for the use of the Senate; three hundred thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and twenty-live 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 Secretary of Agriculture. 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, March 3, 1891. 51 1 1889 1890 PRIVATE LAWSof theUNITED STATESpassed byTHE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,1889–1891. 1119 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December.* 1889, *and was adjourned without day on Wednesday, the first day of October, 1890.* Benjamin Harrison, President; Levi P. Morton, Vice-President, and President of the Senate; John J. Ingalls was elected President of the Senate *pro tempore* February twenty-eighth, 1890, and continued to act as such until March the nineteenth, when the Vice-President resumed the duties of President of the Senate; on the third day of April, John J. Ingalls was elected President of the Senate *pro tempore,* and continued to act as such during the subsequent temporary absences of the Vice-President; Thomas B. Reep was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives December second, 1889; Julius C. Burrows was elected Speaker *pro tempore* May twenty-sixth, 1890; Mr. Reed resumed the duties of Speaker May twenty eighth; Julius C. Burrows was elected Speaker *pro tempore* September third; Mr. Reed resumed the duties of Speaker September twelfth.
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