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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 29 STAT. · June 11, 1896 · Chapter 424

Chapter 424. To amend section one of “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act authorising the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire or other unavoidable casualty,’” approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight

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CHAP. 424.— An Act To amend section one of “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act authorising the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire or other unavoidable casualty,’” approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. June 11, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the first proviso in section Postal service. Postmasters’ claims for losses.
Allowance by Department increased. Vol. 25, p. 135.one of said Act be so amended as to read as follows: *Provided,* That no claim exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars shall be paid or credited until after the facts shall have been ascertained by the Postmaster-General and reported to Congress, together with his recommendation thereon, and an appropriation made therefor. Approved, June 11, 1896. RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: Providing for the printing of the Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and Exports of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department.
Public Resolution 1 29 Stat. 459 1895-12-18 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 1.] Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of the Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and Exports of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department. December 18, 1895. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there shall be printed monthly Summary of Imports and Exports.
Number to be printed monthly.by the Public Printer thirty-five hundred copies of the Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and Exports and other statistical information prepared by the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department, five hundred copies of which shall be for the use of the Senate, one thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and two thousand copies for the use of the Treasury Department. Approved, December 18, 1895. No. 2: 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-five, on the twentieth day of said mouth.
Public Resolution 2 29 Stat. 459 1895-12-20 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 2.] 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-five, on the twentieth day of said mouth.
December 20, 1895. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Senate and Officers, etc., of Congress to be paid December salaries, December 20, 1895.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- five, on the twentieth day of said month.
Approved, December 20, 1895. No. 3: Granting the State of Pennsylvania permission to use the United States court-house at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Public Resolution 3 29 Stat. 459 1895-12-23 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 3.] Joint Resolution Granting the State of Pennsylvania permission to use the United States court-house at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and at Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
December 23, 1895. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That full permission be, and the same Seranton and Williamsport, Pa. Use of public buildings by State courts, five years.is hereby, granted to the State of Pennsylvania and to the superior court of said State to occupy the United States court room and the rooms connected therewith at Seranton, in the county of Lackawanna, during the mouth of January, and at Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming, during the month of February, in each year, for the period of five years from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for the purpose of holding the sessions of said court therein, and that during said period concurrent jurisdiction, so far as is necessary, over said property be, and the same is hereby, ceded to the State of Pennsylvania for said purposes, so that the sessions of said courts in said buildings and rooms may be, during said period, fully legalized: *Provided,* That the commissioners of each of said counties of Lackawanna *Proviso.* Rent.and Lycoming shall pay to the United States each the sum of five hundred dollars to be made in five yearly payments for the use of said 459460 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 3–5. 1896. Repairs, etc.rooms for the time aforesaid: *And provided further,* That said rooms shall be kept in good repair at the expense of the State, of Pennsylvania, and that said commissioners shall further provide necessary light and heat tor said rooms at their own expense, and at the end of said period of five years the use of said rooms shall be relinquished to the United States by the said State of Pennsylvania and the said superior court in as good condition as before the occupancy of said rooms by said court.
Not to interfere with Federal sessions. *Provided, further,* That the sessions of said superior court shall in no way interfere with the sessions of the said circuit and district courts Termination.of the United States: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized in his discretion at any time to terminate this permit and the possession hereby granted of either or both of said premises upon thirty days notice to the Commissioners of the County wherein the same is situated and on such termination all further payments therefor shall cease.
Approved, December 23, 1895. No. 4: Ratifying the use of the appropriation for materials and Miscellaneous Expenses for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six for the purchase of articles provided for in the appropriation for the miscellaneous expenses of the Treasury Department, and authorizing the continued use of the same for the remaining portion of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Public Resolution 4 29 Stat. 460 1895-12-27 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 4.] Joint Resolution Ratifying the use of the appropriation for materials and Miscellaneous Expenses for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six for the purchase of articles provided for in the appropriation for the miscellaneous expenses of the Treasury Department, and authorizing the continued use of the same for the remaining portion of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
December 27, 1895. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the use, by the Secretary of Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Use of appropriation for materials, etc., sustained. Vol. 28, p. 920.the Treasury, of the appropriation for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, chapter one hundred and eighty-nine, acts Fifty-third Congress, third session, “For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury,” for the purchase of articles find the performance of services for the payment of which an appropriation was made in the art of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, Vol. 28, p. 781.chapter one hundred and seventy-seven, laws Fifty-third Congress, third session, under the following caption, “For Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department, including all buildings under control of the Treasury in Washington, District of Columbia,” be and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow to the Disbursing Agent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing all items disallowed because of the use of said appropriation in the manner above specified; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to continue the use of said appropriation for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the manner in which said appropriation has heretofore been used, as above specified, for similar expenditures for said Bureau, during the remaining portion of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, No certificate or order required.
R. S., secs. 240, 3683, pp. 41, 723.and no part of said appropriation shall be subject to the provisions of sections two hundred and forty and three thousand six hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes. Approved, December 27, 1895. No. 5: Authorizing and directing the acceptance of the ram Katahdin, thereby making said ram a part of the United States Navy. Public Resolution 5 29 Stat. 460 1896-01-04 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 5.] Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the acceptance of the ram Katahdin, thereby making said ram a part of the United States Navy. January 4, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy is “Katahdin.” To be accepted for Navy.hereby authorized and directed to accept the ram Katahdin, and to make said vessel a part of the United States Navy.
Approved, January 4, 1896. No. 6: To transfer certain offices of the United States in the Territory of Utah to the officers of the State of Utah. Public Resolution 6 29 Stat. 461 1896-01-04 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 6–9. 1896. 461 [No. 6.] Joint Resolution To transfer certain offices of the United States in the Territory of Utah to the officers of the State of Utah.
January 4, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Governor and Secretary of Utah. Delivery of Territorial property to State officers. *Post,* p. 876.the Territory of Utah be and they are hereby authorized and directed upon the issuance of Executive proclamation declaring Utah a State, to deliver to the then Governor and Secretary of the State of Utah, for the use and benefit of said State, the safes, desks and all furniture and fixtures of their respective offices and all property of like character, belonging to the United States under control of the Secretary, including that if by the board known as the Utah Commission.
Approved, January 4, 1896. No. 7: For filling vacancy on Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution. Public Resolution 7 29 Stat. 461 1896-01-14 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 7.] Joint Resolution For filling vacancy on Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution. January 14, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the vacancy in the Board of Regents William L.
Wilson. Appointed Regent Smithsonian Institution.of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress, shall be filled by the appointment of William L. Wilson, of the State of West Virginia, in place of Henry Coppee, deceased. Approved, January 14, 1896. No. 8: Concerning the completion of the United States Court House and Post office building at Mankato, Minnesota. Public Resolution 8 29 Stat. 461 1896-01-17 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 8.] Joint Resolution Concerning the completion of the United States Court House and Post office building at Mankato, Minnesota. January 17, 1896. Whereas, A clause in the sundry civil appropriation Act of March Preamble. Vol. 18, p. 395.third, eighteen hundred and seventy five (18 Stat., 395) relating to public buildings, provides: “No change in said plan involving an increase of expense exceeding ten per centum of the amount to which said building was limited, shall be allowed or paid by any officer of the Government without the special authority of Congress;” and Whereas, In providing (during the last recess of Congress) for a much needed enlargement of the United States Court House and Post office building at Mankato, Minnesota, (still in process of erection) the limitations prescribed by the above cited clause made it necessary for the Secretary of the Treasury to so modify the plans and specifications for said building as to provide a finish inferior to that originally intended; now, therefore, be it *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, Mankato, Minn.
Changes in public building authorized. *Proviso.* Limit not extended.and he is hereby, authorized and directed to supply marble floor tiling, subbase, and wainscot in the first story of the above-named building us shown and called for by the original drawings and specifications: *Provided,* That the present appropriation for said buildings and grounds shall not be exceeded. Approved, January 17, 1896. No. 9: To extend the time for making an assessment of real estate in the District of Columbia.
Public Resolution 9 29 Stat. 461 1896-01-21 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 9.] Joint Resolution To extend the time for making an assessment of real estate in the District of Columbia. January 21, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the time, fixed for the return of District of Columbia.assessment by section seven of the Act of August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, providing for an assessment of real estate in Time for completing real estate assessment extended.
Vol. 28, p. 283.the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, extended to the 462FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 9–11. 1896.first Monday in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as to the real estate in the present limits of the city of Washington, and that the time for returning the assessment of real estate in that portion of said District outside the present limits of the city of Washington be, and the same is hereby, extended to the first Monday in September, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Meeting of review board postponed. Vol. 28, p. 284. Sec. 2. That the time fixed by section nine of said Act for the meeting of the board of equalization and review be, and the same is hereby, postponed until the first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, so far as it refers to that portion of the District of Columbia outside the present limits of the city of Washington, and the said equalization and review shall be finally completed on or before the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Tax on lands in county payable May, 1897. Vol. 19, p. 306. Sec. 3. That section four of the Act entitled “An Act for the support of the government of the District of Columbia tor the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to make the whole tax levied under the assessment of that portion of the District of Columbia outside the present limits of the city of Washington herein provided for, due and payable on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, instead of one-half on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and one-half on the first day of May, eighteen *Proviso.* Limited to one year.hundred and ninety-seven, as by existing law: *Provided,* That these amendments shall not extend beyond the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
Approved, January 21, 1896. No. 10: Authorizing the employment of a skilled architect to assist the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in preparing the designs, plans, specifications, and other drawings for the public building at Chicago, Illinois. Public Resolution 10 29 Stat. 462 1898-12-28 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 10.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the employment of a skilled architect to assist the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in preparing the designs, plans, specifications, and other drawings for the public building at Chicago, Illinois. January 28, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in addition to the amount authorized Chicago. Special architect authorized fur public building.
Vol. 28, p. 911.to be expended for the temporary employment of draftsmen and skilled service in the preparation of plans and specifications for the public building at Chicago, Illinois, as provided in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to use, out of the appropriation heretofore made, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for the employment of a skilled architect to assist the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in preparing the designs, plans, specifications, and other drawings for said building, and for the architectural supervision of its construction.
Approved, January 28, 1896. No. 11: Authorizing the distribution of copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in Congressional Districts where distribution has not been made. Public Resolution 11 29 Stat. 462 1896-01-30 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 11.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the distribution of copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in Congressional Districts where distribution has not been made.
January 30, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy be, Naval Records of the Rebellion. Distribution of copies by Members of the Fifty-fourth Congress.And he is hereby, authorized and directed to send the undistributed copies of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, both of the Union and of the Confederate Navies, to such libraries, organizations and individuals, as may be designated before the meeting of the next Congress by the Representatives in the Fifty-fourth Congress of the Districts whose Representatives in the Fifty-third Congress failed to FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 11–14. 1896.463designate the distributees of their quota of said official Records or any part thereof, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved July Vol. 26, pp. 190, 975.thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and the Joint Resolution approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to the extent and in the manner and form provided in said Act. Approved, January 30, 1896. No. 12: Concerning the erection and completion (except heating apparatus) of the United States Post Office Building at Bloomington, Illinois.
Public Resolution 12 29 Stat. 463 1896-02-05 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 12.] Joint Resolution Concerning the erection and completion (except heating apparatus) of the United States Post Office Building at Bloomington, Illinois. February 5, 1896. Whereas, A clause in the sundry civil appropriation Act of March third, Preamble.
Vol. 18, p. 385.eighteen hundred and seventy-five (18 Stat., 395) relating to public buildings, provides: “No change in said plan involving an increase of expense exceeding ten per centum of the amount to which said building was limited, shall be allowed or paid by any officer of the Government without the special authority of Congress;” and Whereas, During the last recess of Congress the contract for the erection and completion (except beating apparatus) of the United States Post Office building at Bloomington, Illinois, was let for an amount less than the estimated cost and it became advisable for the Secretary of the Treasury to so modify the drawings and specifications for said building as to provide fire-proof construction and improved design: now, therefore, be it *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Bloomington, Ill.
Change in construction of public building authorized.be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to construct and complete the above named building as may be shown and called for by modified drawings and specifications: *Provided,* That the present appropriation *Proviso.* Limit not extended.for said building and its site shall not be exceeded. Approved, February 5, 1896. No. 13: Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to use a portion of the appropriation for new iron roof for foundry at navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes,” for repairs to the walls of said foundry.
Public Resolution 13 29 Stat. 463 1896-02-07 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 13.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to use a portion of the appropriation for new iron roof for foundry at navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes,” for repairs to the walls of said foundry.
February 7, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy be, Navy. Repairs to foundry, Washington, D. C., authorized. Vol. 28. p. 832.and he is hereby, authorized to use such part of the thirty-three thousand dollars appropriated for new iron roof for foundry in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes,” under the caption “Public works—Bureau of Yards and Docks, navy-yards and stations, Naval Academy, and New Naval Observatory,” and under the subhead “Navy-Yard, Washington, District of Columbia,” as may be necessary for repairs to the walls of said foundry.
Approved, February 7, 1896. No. 14: To supply the Department of State with documents. Public Resolution 14 29 Stat. 463 1896-02-07 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 14.] Joint Resolution To supply the Department of State with documents. February 7, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Public Printer be, and he is Department of State.
Documents to be furnished.hereby, authorized and directed to print, in addition to the usual number, and furnish the Department of State with twenty copies of each Senate and House of Representatives document and report. Approved, February 7, 1896. No. 16: Granting use of White Lot and Monument Grounds to “The Committee of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six.” Public Resolution 16 29 Stat. 464 1896-02-13 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public 464 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 16–18. 1896. [No. 16.] Joint Resolution Granting use of White Lot and Monument Grounds to “The Committee of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six.” February 13, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War is hereby District of Columbia. Use of White Lot for Christian Endeavor Convention authorized.authorized to grant to the committee known as “The Committee of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six,” of which W.
H. H. Smith is chairman, having charge in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of the arrangements for the Fifteenth International Christian Endeavor Convention, permits for the temporary occupation and use, during July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, of the reservation or public space known as the White Lot for the purpose of erecting three great tents and the necessary platforms, seatings, capable of seating about ten thou sand persons each, for the meeting places of the Fifteenth International Christian Endeavor Convention, to be held July eighth to thirteenth, inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and such smaller tents as may be required for the distribution of literature, together with such portions of the Monument Grounds as said committee may require, if in his opinion such use will inflict no serious or permanent injury upon *Proviso.* Guarantee against injury.such grounds, reservation, or public space: *Provided,* That said “Committee of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six” guarantee, at their own cost and expense, to restore and make good any temporary injury that may be inflicted to said grounds by reason of their use thereof.
Approved, February 13, 1896. No. 17: Making an appropriation to defray the joint expense of locating the boundary line between the Territory of Alaska and the British North American territory. Public Resolution 17 29 Stat. 464 1896-02-20 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 17.] Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to defray the joint expense of locating the boundary line between the Territory of Alaska and the British North American territory.
February 20, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in view of the expediency of Alaskan boundary. Appropriation for share in expense of making, etc.forth with negotiating a convention with Great Britain for marking convenient points upon the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude, where it forms, under existing treaty provisions, the boundary line between the Territory of Alaska and the British North American territory, and to enable the President to execute the provisions of such convention without delay when concluded, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, under the direction of the President, to defray the share of the United States in the joint expense of locating said meridian and marking said boundary by an international commission.
Approved, February 20, 1896. No. 18: Providing for certain surveys in the State of Florida. Public Resolution 18 29 Stat. 464 1896-02-26 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 18.] Joint Resolution Providing for certain surveys in the State of Florida. February 26, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of one thousand five Biscayne Bay, Fla.
Appropriation for survey, etc.hundred dollars be and the same hereby is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, for a survey and plans for the improvement of the entrance to Biscayue Bay, Florida, as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in his letter of February 26th, 1895; and for a survey and plans for the construction of a breakwater at Palm Beach, Florida; and the Secretary of War is directed to report the result of such surveys, together with plans and estimates for contemplated improvements, to Congress at the earliest practicable moment.
Approved, February 26, 1896. No. 19: Extending the provisions of section seventy-nine of “An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, so as to include monographs, bulletins, and reports of the Geological Survey published in eighteen hundred and ninety-four and succeeding years. Public Resolution 19 29 Stat. 465 1896-02-26 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 19, 20, 22. 1896. 465 [No. 19.] Joint Resolution Extending the provisions of section seventy-nine of “An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, so as to include monographs, bulletins, and reports of the Geological Survey published in eighteen hundred and ninety-four and succeeding years.
February 26, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Ignited States of America in Congress assembled,* That the provisions of section seventy-nine Geological Survey. Distribution of publications. Vol. 28, p. 621.of “An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, which section reads as follows: “There shall be distributed of monographs, bulletins, and reports of the United States Geological Survey, now in possession of said Survey, being publications prior to the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one copy of every such publication to every public library which shall be designated to the superintendent of documents, as follows:
Two public libraries to be designated by each of the Senators from the States, respectively, two public libraries by the Representative in Congress from each Congressional district, and two public libraries by the Dele gate from each Territory; such public libraries to be additional to those to which said publications are distributed under existing law,” shall be extended to the monographs, bulletins, and reports of the Geological Survey which were published during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and to those which have been published since that year, and to those which may be published in the future: *Provided,* That *Proviso.* Distribution of memoirs not affected.nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere with the distribution of memoirs and reports, so far as the same is provided for by the joint resolution “To distribute copies of special memoirs and reports of Vol. 24, p. 647.the United States Geological Survey,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
Approved, February 26, 1896. No. 20: Calling upon the Secretary of War for certain information in relation to the harbor at Manitowoc, in the State of Wisconsin. Public Resolution 20 29 Stat. 465 1896-03-02 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 20.] Joint Resolution Calling upon the Secretary of War for certain information in relation to the harbor at Manitowoc, in the State of Wisconsin.
March 2, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and Manitowoc, Wis. Plans for improving harbor to be furnished the House.he is hereby, requested to furnish the House with such information as he may have in his possession as to (first) the plans of the proposed project for the establishment of a channel of the depth of from twenty to twenty-one feet in the harbor of the city of Manitowoc, in the State of Wisconsin;
(second) the approximate cost of such project; and (third) whether the same could not be advantageously adopted as a needed addition to or extension of the existing Government improvements at that harbor. Approved, March 2, 1896. No. 22: Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates for work upon Newtown Creek, New York. Public Resolution 22 29 Stat. 465 1896-03-11 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 22.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates for work upon Newtown Creek, New York. March 11, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and Newton Creek, N. Y. Estimates for improving to be submitted.he is hereby, authorized and directed to submit estimates for work upon Newtown Creek, New York, with a view to secure a depth of eighteen feet and a width of one hundred and twenty-five feet at low water from its mouth to the head of navigation, in accordance with the plans heretofore submitted.
Approved, March 11, 1896. No. 23: To print the Annual Report of the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service. Public Resolution 23 29 Stat. 466 1896-03-13 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public 466 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 23–25. 1896. [No. 23.] Joint Resolution To print the Annual Report of the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service.
March 13, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section eighty-nine, second proviso, Life-Saving Service. Edition of Annual Report not limited.of the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, an Act providing for the public printing and binding, and so forth, be, and is hereby, amended by inserting after the words “tide tables’ coast pilots,” the words “Annual Report of the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service,”.
Approved, March 13, 1896. No. 24: Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to distribute the medals and diplomas awarded by the World’s Columbian Commission to the exhibitors entitled thereto. Public Resolution 24 29 Stat. 466 1896-03-13 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 24.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to distribute the medals and diplomas awarded by the World’s Columbian Commission to the exhibitors entitled thereto.
March 13, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury World’s Columbian Exposition. Distribution of medals and diplomas.be, and he is hereby, authorized to distribute the medals and diplomas of the World’s Columbian Exposition to the several exhibitors entitled thereto, as designated and certified by the report of the Executive Committee on Awards to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the Bureau of the Mint, and to this end the Secretary of the Treasury may adopt any method, or create any and all agencies, which to him may seem proper and necessary for the distribution of said medals and diplomas.
But in case any of the exhibitors cannot be found who may be entitled to medals and diplomas, then, in every such case, such medals and diplomas shall be retained by the Secretary of the Treasury until they are called for by the exhibitors entitled thereto, or by persons To be sent free in the mails.authorized to receive the same. And the said Secretary in the distribution of the medals and diplomas may transmit the same through the Appropriation for expenses.mails free of charge.
And the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out this resolution, and for the purposes hereof the said Secretary may temporarily employ, under such regulations as he may prescribe, the force now engaged in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in connection with the preparation of said diplomas, or so much of said force as may be necessary, said appropriation to be immediately available.
Approved, March 13, 1896. No. 25: Granting the county of Cole, Missouri, permission to use certain rooms in the United States building at Jefferson City, Missouri. Public Resolution 25 29 Stat. 466 1896-03-13 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 25.] Joint Resolution Granting the county of Cole, Missouri, permission to use certain rooms in the United States building at Jefferson City, Missouri.
March 13, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That full permission be, and the same Jefferson City, Mo. Use of public building for county courts, one year.is hereby, granted to the county of Cole, State of Missouri, to occupy the United States court room and two jury rooms connected therewith in the United States building at Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, during the months of March, July, and November, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the purpose of holding sessions of the circuit court of said Cole County therein, and that during said occupation concurrent jurisdiction, so far as it is necessary, over said building be, and is hereby, ceded to the State of Missouri and to said county of Cole, so that the sessions of said court in said building and rooms may be, during said *Provisos.* Repairs, etc.period, fully legalized: *Provided,* That said rooms shall be kept in good repair at the expense of said county of Cole, and at the end of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, the use of said rooms shall be relinquished to the United States by said county, the premises to be in as good condition as before their occupancy by said circuit court of Cole FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 25–29. 1896.467County: *Provided further,* That the sessions of said circuit court of Not to interfere with Federal sessions.Cole County shall in no way interfete with the sessions of the circuit and district courts of the United States: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Prior termination of use.Treasury is authorized in his discretion at any time to terminate this permit and the possession hereby granted of said premises upon thirty days’ notice to the judges of the county court of said county.
Approved, March 13, 1896. No. 26: Directing the Secretary of War to submit a plan and estimate for the further improvement of Conneaut Harbor, in the State of Ohio. Public Resolution 26 29 Stat. 467 1896-03-13 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 26.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit a plan and estimate for the further improvement of Conneaut Harbor, in the State of Ohio.
March 13, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and Conneaut, Ohio. Plan for improving harbor to be submitted.he is hereby, directed to submit a plan and estimate for the further improvement of Conneaut Harbor, in the State of Ohio, and to transmit the same to Congress at as early a date as practicable. Approved, March 13, 1896. No. 27: Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase and distribute seeds, bulbs, and so forth, as has been done in preceding years.
Public Resolution 27 29 Stat. 427 1896-03-14 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 27.] Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase and distribute seeds, bulbs, and so forth, as has been done in preceding years. March 14, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of Agriculture be, Seeds, etc.
Secretary of Agriculture directed to purchase and distribute. Vol. 28, p. 733.and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase and distribute valuable seeds for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as has been done in preceding years; and as the public exigency requires that the valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, to be purchased may be ready for distribution at the earliest possible date, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to procure them by open purchase or contract at the places and in the manner in which such articles are usually bought and sold: *Provided,* That the said Secretary *Proviso.* Price.shall not, in said purchase, pay more than a reasonable and fair price for such commodities or for any of them.
Received by the President, March 3, 1896. [Note by the Department of State. —The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] No. 28: For the return to the State of New Hampshire of the flag of the Eleventh Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.
Public Resolution 28 29 Stat. 467 1896-03-16 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 28.] Joint Resolution For the return to the State of New Hampshire of the flag of the Eleventh Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. March 16, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and he Regimental flag.
To be returned to New Hampshire.is hereby, authorized and directed to return to the State of New Hampshire the regimental flag of the Eleventh Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. Approved, March 16, 1896. No. 29: Authorizing the National Dredging Company to proceed with the work of dredging the channel of Mobile Harbor, under the direction of the Secretary of War. Public Resolution 29 29 Stat. 467 1896-03-16 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 29.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the National Dredging Company to proceed with the work of dredging the channel of Mobile Harbor, under the direction of the Secretary of War. March 16, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the National Dredging Company, Mobile, Ala. Dredging of harbor to continue under present contract.the contractor under the continuing contract for the improvement 468FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 29–32. 1896.of the harbor at Mobile, Alabama, proceed with the work of dredging, under the direction of the Secretary of War, until the channel under improvement shall be completed to a width of two hundred and eighty feet and a depth of twenty-three feet for its full width of two hundred and eighty feet, payment therefor to be made at the rate specified in said contract, seven and seven-tenths cents per cubic yard, out of appropriations *Proviso.* Payments.as they shall hereafter from time to time be made: *Provided,* That the payments upon said contract shall be held to be due only after appropriation shall have been made therefor, and shall not exceed in Limit.
Vol. 27, p. 92.the aggregate the sum limited for said work in the appropriation bill of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, authorizing a continuing contract for said work. Approved, March 16, 1896. No. 30: Relating to the Federal census. Public Resolution 30 29 Stat. 467 1896-03-19 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 30.] Joint Resolution Relating to the Federal census. March 19, 1896. Preamble.Whereas representatives of various Governments which make decennial enumerations of the people are making efforts to secure uniformity in the inquiries to be used in future censuses; and Whereas also it is expedient to give early consideration to some com prehensive plan for the establishment of a permanent census service: Therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Commissioner of Labor, now Federal census.
Plan for permanent service to be submitted.in charge of the Eleventh Census, is hereby authorized and directed to correspond and confer with the census officers of other Governments for the purpose of securing uniformity in the inquiries relating to the people to be used in future censuses; and that said Commissioner is also hereby directed to report to Congress for its consideration, as soon as practicable, a plan for a permanent census service. Approved, March 19, 1896. No. 31:
Directing the Public Printer to supply the Senate and House Libraries each with ten additional copies of the Congressional Record. Public Resolution 31 29 Stat. 468 1896-03-19 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 31.] Joint Resolution Directing the Public Printer to supply the Senate and House Libraries each with ten additional copies of the Congressional Record.
March 19, 1896. Preamble.Whereas the number of copies of the Congressional Record provided for the Senate Library by section seventy-three of the Act in regard to public printing, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, has proved insufficient to supply the needs of the Senate: Therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section seventy-three of the Act Congressional Record. Number to Senate and House libraries increased.
Vol. 28, p. 617.of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, which reads: “To the Senate and House Libraries, ten copies each,” be so amended as to read: “To the Senate and House Libraries twenty copies each.” Approved, March 19, 1896. No. 32: Resolution For the relief of ex-Naval Cadets John P. J. Ryan, John R. Morris, and Chester Wells. Public Resolution 32 29 Stat. 468 1896-03-20 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 32.] Joint Resolution Resolution For the relief of ex-Naval Cadets John P. J. Ryan, John R. Morris, and Chester Wells. March 20, 1896. *Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:* That the President of the United John P. J. Ryan, John R. Morris, and Chester Wells. May be appointed assistant engineers, Navy. *Provisos.* Examination.States be, and he is, hereby authorized to nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint John P.
J. Ryan, John R. Morris, and Chester Wells to be assistant engineers in the Navy: *Provided,* That they shall pass an ex and nation in steam engineering FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 32–36. 1896.469which shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Navy: *And provided, further,* That they shall take rank and receive pay only from the date Date and rank.of their appointments and shall rank with each other in the order of merit as shown by the ex and nation herein provided for.
Approved, March 20, 1896. No. 33: Directing the Secretary of War to make a survey and submit an estimate for a breakwater in Marquette Bay. Public Resolution 33 29 Stat. 469 1896-03-20 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 33.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to make a survey and submit an estimate for a breakwater in Marquette Bay.
March 20, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and he Marquette Bay, Mich. Survey for breakwater directed.is hereby, authorized and directed to report to Congress, as soon as possible, a survey of a proposed breakwater, not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand feet in length, extending into Marquette Harbor, or Bay, in Lake Superior, from the southeast corner, or headland, of Presque Isle, together with an estimate of the cost of such breakwater.
Approved, March 20, 1896. No. 34: Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates for necessary repairs at Cleveland Harbor. Public Resolution 34 29 Stat. 469 1896-03-23 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 34.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates for necessary repairs at Cleveland Harbor.
March 23, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and Cleveland, Ohio. Estimate for repairs to piers, etc., directed.he is hereby, authorized and directed to report to Congress, as soon as possible, what repairs are necessary to be made to the liters and breakwater in the harbor at Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, to preserve the same, and what would be the cost of making such necessary repairs; and also to report what changes, if any, should be made in the location of said piers, and what would be the cost of the same.
Approved, March 23, 1896. No. 35: Directing the Secretary of War to furnish an estimate for deepening the channel from Hampton Roads to the navy-yard at Norfolk, Virginia, and also for improving the western branch of the Elizabeth River. Public Resolution 35 29 Stat. 1495 1896-03-24 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 35.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to furnish an estimate for deepening the channel from Hampton Roads to the navy-yard at Norfolk, Virginia, and also for improving the western branch of the Elizabeth River.
March 24, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and is Norfolk, Va. Estimates for deepening channel Hampton Roads and Elizabeth River to be submitted.hereby, requested to furnish estimates as early as possible of the cost of broadening and deepening a channel to a width of one hundred and fifty yards and to a depth of twenty-eight feet from Hampton Roads to the United States navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, and also of improving the western branch of Elizabeth River and making the channel two hundred feet wide and twenty feet deep for a distance of about one mile, as indicated by the report of General Thomas L.
Casey, Chief of Engineers, in Appendix J fifteen, of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for eighteen hundred and ninety-five, pages thirteen hundred to thirteen hundred and two. Approved, March 24, 1896. No. 36: Directing the Secretary of War to submit plans and estimates for the improvement of Fairport Harbor. Public Resolution 36 29 Stat. 469 1896-03-24 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 36.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit plans and estimates for the improvement of Fairport Harbor. March 24, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and Fairport, Ohio. Survey, etc., of harbor directed.he is hereby authorized and directed to report to Congress a re-survey of the Fort of Fairport in the County of Lake and State of Ohio, with an estimate of the cost of such improvements as may be recommended by the Engineers in charge.
Approved, March 24, 1896. No. 38: Authorizing and directing Bernard R. Green to exercise the duties and powers heretofore conferred upon the late General Thomas L. Casey, in relation to the construction and completion of the Library of Congress. Public Resolution 38 29 Stat. 470 1896-04-02 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 2025-10-30 55 2 public 470 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 38, 40–42. 1896. [No. 38.] Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing Bernard R. Green to exercise the duties and powers heretofore conferred upon the late General Thomas L. Casey, in relation to the construction and completion of the Library of Congress. April 2, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Bernard R. Green be, and is Library of Congress.
Bernard R. Green to have charge of constructing new building.hereby, authorized and directed to assume and exercise all of the duties and powers heretofore conferred by law upon the late Brigadier-General Thomas L. Casey, in relation to the construction and completion of the *Post,* p. 546.Library of Congress, and he shall receive as compensation for bis services the sum of five thousand dollars per annum, payable out of Salary. *Proviso.* Payment of expenses.the appropriation for said Library building: *Provided,* That all expenses incurred in the prosecution of said work, including compensation of employes, shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Approved, April 2, 1896. No. 40: Authorizing the immediate use of a portion of the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for construction of canal and locks at the Cascades of the Columbia River in construction of protecting walls necessary to the opening of said canal and locks to navigation. Public Resolution 40 29 Stat. 470 1896-04-06 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 40.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the immediate use of a portion of the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for construction of canal and locks at the Cascades of the Columbia River in construction of protecting walls necessary to the opening of said canal and locks to navigation. April 6, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and is Cascades of Columbia River.
Use of appropriation for protecting walls, authorized. Vol. 27, pp. 100, 603.hereby, authorized and directed to expend so much as may be necessary of the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made by Congress for construction of the canal and locks at the Cascades of the Columbia River, not to exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars, in constructing on the laud and river sides of the canal, between the upper lock gate masonry and the upper guard gate masonry, such portions of the walls proposed in the modified project presented by the Board of Engineers in its report of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (which report was printed in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, part five, pages thirty-five hundred and seventy-six and following), as may be necessary to construct in advance of the opening of the canal to *Proviso.* Consent of contractor.commerce: *Provided,* That the contractor or contractors for completing the construction of the said canal in accordance with the present adopted project shall consent to such use of a portion of the appropriations aforesaid, and shall make no claim of any kind against the United States on account thereof.
Approved, April 6, 1896. No. 41: Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates of cost of further improvement of Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Public Resolution 41 29 Stat. 470 1896-04-06 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 41.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates of cost of further improvement of Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
April 6, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War is hereby Providence River and Narragansett Bay, R. I. Estimates for improvement to be submitted.directed to prepare and submit estimates for the improvement of Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, with a view of securing a ship channel four hundred feet in width and of a depth of twenty-five feet at mean low water from Sassafras Point, in Providence Harbor, through Providence River and Narragansett Bay by the most direct route practicable to the ocean by way of the “western passage,” so called.
Approved, April 6, 1896. No. 42: Providing for immediate destruction of income-tax returns, and so forth. Public Resolution 42 29 Stat. 470 1896-04-06 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 42.] Joint Resolution Providing for immediate destruction of income-tax returns, and so forth.
April 6, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Income returns. Immediate destruction directed.is hereby directed to cause the immediate destruction of all income-tax returns and any copies thereof, with all statements and records relative FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 42–46. 1896.471thereto, now in possession of the Treasury Department, by reason of Vol. 28, pp. 553–560.“An Act to reduce taxation,” and so forth, in effect August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Approved, April 6, 1896. No. 43: To authorize the Secretary of War to prepare and submit estimates for the improvement of the harbor at Portland, Maine. Public Resolution 43 29 Stat. 471 1896-04-10 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 43.] Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of War to prepare and submit estimates for the improvement of the harbor at Portland, Maine.
April 10, 1896. *Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War is hereby Portland, Me. Estimates for improving harbor directed.directed to prepare and submit estimates for the improvement of the harbor at Portland, Maine, with a view of securing a depth of thirty feet at mean low water. Approved, April 10, 1896. No. 44: Directing the Secretary of War to transmit to Congress a report on survey of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound, at Salmon Bay, with Lakes Union and Washington, and to submit an estimate of the cost of constructing said waterway.
Public Resolution 44 29 Stat. 471 1896-04-18 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 44.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to transmit to Congress a report on survey of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound, at Salmon Bay, with Lakes Union and Washington, and to submit an estimate of the cost of constructing said waterway.
April 18, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and Puget Sound to Lakes Union and Washington. Estimates, etc., of waterway to be submitted.he is hereby, directed to transmit to Congress the report of Captain Thomas W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, dated August twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, together with the accompanying report of the assistant engineer, upon the survey of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound, at Salmon Bay, with Lakes Union and Washington; also to submit an estimate of the cost of constructing the said waterway on the route described and laid down in the aforesaid report.
Approved, April 18, 1896. No. 45: Directing the Secretary of War to submit a plan and estimate for the improvement of the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, opposite Sioux City, Iowa. Public Resolution 45 29 Stat. 471 1896-04-18 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 45.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit a plan and estimate for the improvement of the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, opposite Sioux City, Iowa.
April 18, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War is hereby Missouri River. Estimate for improving opposite Sioux City, Iowa, to be submitted.directed to cause to be prepared and submit a plan and estimate for the improvement of the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, opposite Sioux City, Iowa, in accordance with the report of Captain H. F. Hodges, Corps of Engineers, dated November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and printed in House Executive Document Numbered Forty-eight, Fifty-third Congress, third session.
Approved, April 18, 1896. No. 46: Authorizing the Public Printer to print the Annual Report of the Superintendent of the United States Const and Geodetic Survey in quarto form and to bind it in one volume. Public Resolution 46 29 Stat. 471 1896-04-20 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 46.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Public Printer to print the Annual Report of the Superintendent of the United States Const and Geodetic Survey in quarto form and to bind it in one volume.
April 20, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That paragraph seven, section seventy-three, Coast and Geodetic Survey Report. Number to be printed changed. Vol. 28, p. 613.of the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding, and so forth, be amended by striking out all of said paragraph after the word “survey,” at the end of the first and beginning of the second lines, and substituting in lieu thereof the following words:
Two thousand eight hundred copies in quarto form, bound in one volume, two hundred for the Senate, six hundred for the House, and two thousand for distribution by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Approved, April 20, 1896. No. 47: To appoint four members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Public Resolution 47 29 Stat. 472 1896-04-21 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public 472 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 47–50. 1896. [No. 47.] Joint Resolution To appoint four members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. April 21, 1896. *Resolved by the Renate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That William B. Franklin, of Connecticut; National Home Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. William B. Franklin, Thomas J. Henderson, George L.
Beal, and George W. Steele appointed on Board of Managers.Thomas J. Henderson, of Illinois; George L. Beal, of Maine, and George W. Steele, of Indiana, be, and the same hereby are, appointed as members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers of the United States. William B. Franklin to succeed himself, his term of service expiring April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Thomas J. Henderson to succeed John C. Black, his term of service expiring April twenty-first; eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
George L. Beal to succeed Francis Fessenden, his term of service expiring April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. George W. Steele to succeed himself, his term of service expiring April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. All to take effect April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Approved, April 21, 1896. No. 48: Relative to the improvement of the harbor of Erie, Pennsylvania. Public Resolution 48 29 Stat. 472 1896-04-24 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 48.] Joint Resolution Relative to the improvement of the harbor of Erie, Pennsylvania. April 24, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and Erie, Pa. Report on improving harbor to be submitted.he hereby is, directed to examine into the feasibility and advisability of the improvement of the harbor of Erie, Pennsylvania, by the construction of dikes to prevent the closing by sand of the entrance of said harbor and to make report thereon with an estimate of the cost of such improvement.
Approved, April 24, 1896. No. 49: To amend the Act approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and so forth. Public Resolution 49 29 Stat. 472 1896-02-07 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 49.] Joint Resolution To amend the Act approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and so forth.
April 24, 1896. *Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Act approved August first, Fort Monroe, Va. Improving sewerage system, restriction amended. Vol. 28, p. 212.eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to remove the restriction that the United States shall bear only one-half of the expense of the cost of construction of the sewerage system at Fort Monroe, Virginia, provided for in said Act, in so far as may be necessary to authorize the Secretary of War to expend for the completion of the construction of said sewerage system, including a flushing system therefor, so much as may be necessary, not exceeding five thousand dollars, of the balance now remaining from the appropriation of thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars made in said Act for the construction of one-half of said sewerage system, the funds to be immediately available and the work to be done by contract or otherwise as may be deemed by the Secretary of War most economical and advantageous to the Government.
Approved, April 24, 1896. No. 50: To provide for the proper distribution of the publication entitled “Messages and Papers of the Presidents.” Public Resolution 50 29 Stat. 472 1896-04-30 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 50.] Joint Resolution To provide for the proper distribution of the publication entitled “Messages and Papers of the Presidents.
” April 30, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the quotas of Senators, Members, Messages and Papers of the Presidents.and Delegates, of the House miscellaneous document numbered two hundred and ten, second session Fifty-third Congress, being a compilation the title of which is, “Messages and Papers of the Presidents.” Distribution.be delivered by the Public Printer, when printed and ready for FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 50–53. 1896.473distribution, to the Superintendent of Documents. That the Senators, Members, and Delegates, of the Fifty-fourth Congress be, and are hereby, authorized to designate to the Superintendent of Documents the names of persons to whom their respective quotas of said document shall be sent from time to time as the volumes are published: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Surplus to compiler.That in the distribution to the Senate and House of Representatives the fraction in each case shall be delivered to the compiler: *And provided further,* That the Public Printer shall bind in black half-Turkey Special binding.morocco one copy for the use of each Senator, and Member, and Delegate in the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Approved, April 30, 1896. No. 51: Relative to the medal of honor authorized by the Acts of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Public Resolution 51 29 Stat. 473 1896-05-02 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 51.] Joint Resolution Relative to the medal of honor authorized by the Acts of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
May 2, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and Medals of honor. Issue of rosettes and ribbons to holders.he is hereby, authorized to issue to any person to whom a medal of honor has been awarded, or may hereafter be awarded, under the provisions of the Joint Resolution approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, a rosette or knot to be worn in lieu of the medal, Vol. 12. pp. 623, 751.and a ribbon to be worn with the medal; said rosette or knot and ribbon to be each of a pattern to be prescribed and established by the President of the United States, and any appropriation that may hereafter be available for the contingent expenses of the War Department Expenses. *Proviso.* Renewal of ribbons.is hereby made available for the purposes of this Act: *Provided,* That whenever a ribbon issued under the provisions of this Act shall have been lost, destroyed, or rendered unfit for use, without fault or neglect on the part of the person to whom it was issued, the Secretary of War shall cause a new ribbon to be issued to such person without charge therefor.
Approved, May 2, 1896. No. 52: Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to donate to the Mountain View Cemetery Association, at Oakland, California, certain cannon, and so forth. Public Resolution 52 29 Stat. 473 1896-05-18 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 52.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to donate to the Mountain View Cemetery Association, at Oakland, California, certain cannon, and so forth.
May 18, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy be, Condemned cannon. Donated to cemetery, Oakland, Cal.and he is hereby, authorized to donate and deliver, under such conditions as he may deem necessary in order to insure the proper fulfillment of the purposes of this resolution, to the Mountain View Cemetery Association, at Oakland, California, six condemned cannon and six pyramids of condemned cannon balls for the purpose of decorating the Grand Army burial plat, reserved for the burial of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Union, and to be placed around and near the soldiers’ monument already erected there: *Provided,* That such articles only be *Provisos.* Condition.donated, under the authority herein contained, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be spared without detriment to the public interests: *Provided further,* That the United States shall not be subjected Expense.to any expense in connection with the donation of the articles referred to.
Approved, May 18, 1896. No. 53: Authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits, and allowing articles imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition to be imported free of duty, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Public Resolution 53 29 Stat. 473 1896-05-18 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 53.] Joint Resolution Authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits, and allowing articles imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition to be imported free of duty, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
May 18, 1896. Whereas the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company of Nashville, Preamble.Tennessee, have extended invitations which have been accepted 474FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 53, 55. 1896.by the several nations, and space for installing foreign exhibits has been applied for and duly apportioned, and concessions and privileges granted by the exposition management to the citizens and subjects of foreign nations; and Whereas for the purpose of securing the production upon the exposition grounds of scenes illustrative of the architecture, dress, habits, and modes of life, occupation, industries, means of locomotion and transportation, amusements, entertainments, and so forth, of the natives of foreign countries, it has been necessary for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company to grant concessions and privileges to certain firms and corporations conceding the right to make such productions:
Therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Act of Congress approved Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Admission of contract laborers by foreign exhibitors. Vol. 23, p. 332.February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, prohibiting the importation of foreigners under contract to perform labor, and the Acts of Congress prohibiting the coming of Chinese persons into the United States, and the Acts amendatory of these Acts, shall not be so construed, nor shall anything therein operate to prevent, hinder, or in anywise restrict any foreign exhibitor, representative, or citizen of a foreign nation, or the holder, who is a citizen of a foreign nation, of any concession or privilege from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company of Nashville, Tennessee, from bringing into the United States, under contract, such mechanics, artisans, agents, or other employees, natives of their respective foreign countries, as they, or any of them, may deem necessary for the purpose of making preparations for installing or conducting their exhibits or of preparing for installing or conducting any business authorized or permitted under or by virtue of or pertaining to any concession or privilege which may have been granted by the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company of Nashville, Tennessee, *Proviso.* Permit.in connection with such exposition: *Provided, however,* That no alien shall by virtue of this Act enter the United States under contract to perform labor except by express permission, naming such alien, of the Secretary of the Treasury; and any such alien who may remain in the United States for more than one year, after the close of said exposition, shall thereafter be subject to all the processes and penalties applicable to aliens coming in violation of the alien-contract-labor law aforesaid.
Free entry of articles for exhibition. Sec. 2. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any Sales.time during the exhibition to sell, for delivery at the. close of the exposition, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import *Proviso.* Duty on articles sold.duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: *Provided,* That all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such article by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all penalties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal.
Approved, May 18, 1896. No. 55: Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to deliver condemned cannon to Chamberlain Post, Grand Army of the Republic, to be posted by the soldiers’ monument at Saint Johnsbury, Vermont. Public Resolution 55 29 Stat. 473 1896-05-21 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 55.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to deliver condemned cannon to Chamberlain Post, Grand Army of the Republic, to be posted by the soldiers’ monument at Saint Johnsbury, Vermont.
May 21, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy be, Condemned cannon.and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver to Chamberlain FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 55–58. 1896.475Post, Grand Anny of the Republic, to be posted by the soldiers’ monument Donated for soldiers’ monument, Saint Johnsbury, Vt. *Proviso.* Expense.in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, two light pieces of condemned cannon and twenty cannon balls: *Provided,* That said delivery shall be made without expense to the United States Government and without detriment to the naval service.
Approved, May 21, 1896. No. 56: Granting permission to the circuit and county courts in Rockingham County, Virginia, to occupy the Federal court room in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Public Resolution 56 29 Stat. 475 1896-05-28 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 56.] Joint Resolution Granting permission to the circuit and county courts in Rockingham County, Virginia, to occupy the Federal court room in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
May 28, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That full permission be, and the same Harrisonburg, Va. Use of public building for State courts permitted temporarily.is hereby, granted to the State of Virginia, and to the circuit and county courts of Rockingham County, in said State, to occupy the United States court room and the rooms connected therewith at Harrisonburg, in said county of Rockingham, in Virginia, for and during the period necessary for said county of Rockingham to erect a new court-house of its own in said town of Harrisonburg, for the purpose of holding the sessions of said circuit and county courts of Rockingham County in said United States court room for the period named therein, which period shall not exceed three years; and that during said period concurrent jurisdiction, so far as is necessary, over said property be, and the same is hereby, ceded to the State of Virginia, for said purposes, so that the sessions of said courts in said building and rooms may be, during said period, fully legalized: *Provided,* That said rooms shall be kept *Provisos.* Repairs, etc.in good repair at the expense, of the State of Virginia, and the board of supervisors of said county of Rockingham, in Virginia, shall further provide necessary light and heat for said rooms at their own expense.
When occupied by said-courts, and at the end of the period herein provided for, the use of said rooms shall be relinquished to the United States by the said State of Virginia and said courts of Rockingham County in as good condition as before their occupancy by said court: *Provided, further,* That the sessions of said courts shall in no way interfere Not to interfere with Federal sessions. with the sessions of the circuit and district courts of the United States. Approved, May 28, 1896.
No. 57: Authorizing the Secretary of War to lend to the mayors of the cities of East Saint Louis, Illinois, and Saint Louis, Missouri, and vicinity, a number of tents. Public Resolution 57 29 Stat. 475 1896-05-28 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 57.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to lend to the mayors of the cities of East Saint Louis, Illinois, and Saint Louis, Missouri, and vicinity, a number of tents.
May 28, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and is Loan of tents to East St. Louis, St. Louis, etc.hereby, authorized to lend to the mayors of the cities of East Saint Louis, Illinois, Saint Louis, Missouri, and vicinity, under such regulations and restrictions as he may deem proper, a sufficient number of tents to temporarily shelter such citizens of said cities as may have lost their homes by the tornado of yesterday, and to render such other relief in the premises as he may deem necessary.
Approved, May 28, 1896. No. 58: To authorize a scientific investigation of the fur-seal fisheries. Public Resolution 58 29 Stat. 475 1896-06-08 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 58.] Joint Resolution To authorize a scientific investigation of the fur-seal fisheries. June 8, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Fur-seal fisheries.
Appropriation for scientific investigation.be, and is hereby, authorized to expend, from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to provide for the employment of persons to conduct a scientific investigation, during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-six and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, of the present condition of the fur seal herds on the Pribilof, Commander, and Kurile Islands in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, said amount not to exceed for both said years the sum of five thousand dollars. 476FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 58–60, 62. 1896. Stenographer. The Secretary is also authorized to employ a stenographer in connection with this investigation at a rate of compensation not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and to pay his compensation and expenses out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Detail. The President is authorized to detail, for the purposes of assisting in this investigation, any officer or officers or employees of the United Expenses.States Government, their actual expenses and the expenses of the person or persons employed under the preceding paragraph to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Use of vessel. The President may detail a vessel of the United States for the purpose of carrying out this investigation. Approved, June 8, 1896. No. 59: To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the day following adjournment. Public Resolution 59 29 Stat. 476 1896-06-09 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 59.] Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the day following adjournment. June 9, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Senate and Officers, etc., of Congress to he paid June salaries the day after adjournment.the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, on the day of said month next following adjournment.
Approved, June 9, 1896. No. 60: Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to place a bronze tablet or inscription on the Government building now being erected in Detroit, Michigan. Public Resolution 60 29 Stat. 476 1896-06-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 60.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to place a bronze tablet or inscription on the Government building now being erected in Detroit, Michigan.
June 10, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Detroit, Mich. Bronze tablet to be placed in public building.be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be prepared and placed in some suitable position on the Government building now being erected in the city of Detroit, Michigan, a bronze tablet or an inscription commemorative of the fact that the said public building is erected on the site of the British Fort Lernoult, which was surrendered to the United States in seventeen hundred and ninety-six; and is also on the site of the American Fort Shelby, which was demolished in *Proviso.* Payment.eighteen hundred and twenty-six: *Provided,* That the cost of such tablet shall be paid from the appropriation already made for the said building.
Approved, June 10, 1896. No. 62: Extending the benefits of sections fourteen hundred and twenty-six and fifteen hundred and seventy-three of the Revised Statutes to all enlisted persons in the Navy. Public Resolution 62 29 Stat. 476 1896-06-11 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 2025-10-30 55 1 public [No. 62.] Joint Resolution Extending the benefits of sections fourteen hundred and twenty-six and fifteen hundred and seventy-three of the Revised Statutes to all enlisted persons in the Navy.
June 11, 1896. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the benefits of honorable discharge Navy. Honorable discharges and reenlistment bounty extended to all enlisted men. R. S., secs. 1426, 1573, pp. 251, 269.as conferred by section fourteen hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, and of three months’ pay upon reenlistment after honorable discharge as conferred by section fifteen hundred and seventy-three upon seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, firemen, coal heavers and boys, be, and the same are hereby, extended and made applicable to all enlisted persons in the Navy.
And all accounts of paymasters who have made payments to enlisted men, not of the classes named in sections fourteen hundred and twenty-six and fifteen hundred and seventy-three, Revised Statutes, as if they had been included in the provisions of said sections, shall be allowed and passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury as if they bad been included in said sections. Approved, June 11, 1896. 54 2 1896 1897 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH 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 seventh day of December, 1896, and was adjourned without day on Wednesday, the third day of March, 1897.* Grover Cleveland, President;
Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice-President and President of the Senate; William P. Frye, President of the Senate, *pro tempore;* Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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