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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · June 7, 1900 · Chapter 861

Chapter 861. To amend an Act to incorporate the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias

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CHAP. 861.— An Act To amend an Act to incorporate the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. June 7, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias.Vol. 28, p. 96. amended. That the first section of the Act approved June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to incorporate the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias,” be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following:
" Business of subordinate bodies outside the District valid.#x201C;And said corporation may provide for the meetings of its legislative or governing body wherever such association shall have subordinate bodies, and all business transacted at such meetings shall be valid in all respects as if such meetings were held within said District: and all business heretofore transacted at any meetings held outside of the District of Columbia shall be valid in all respects to the same extent as if such meetings had been held within said District.
” " Sec. 2. Effect. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved, June 7, 1900. RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: 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-nine, on the nineteenth day of said month. Public Resolution 1 31 Stat. 709 1899-12-16 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 1.] 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-nine, on the nineteenth day of said month. December 16, 1899. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theOfficers, etc., of Congress to be paid December salaries December 19, 1899.
Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives, including the Capitol police, their respective salaries for the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, on the nineteenth day of said month. Approved, December 16, 1899. No. 2: To fill a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Public Resolution 2 31 Stat. 709 1900-01-24 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 2.] Joint Resolution To fill a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. January 24, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancy in the BoardSmithsonian Institution.Richard Olney appointed regent. of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress, caused by the death of William Preston Johnston, of Louisiana, shall be tilled by the appointment of Richard Olney, a resident of Massachusetts.
Approved, January 24, 1900. No. 3: Granting permission for the erection of a monument in Washington, District of Columbia, for the ornamentation of the national capital and in honor of Samuel Hahnemann. Public Resolution 3 31 Stat. 709 1900-01-31 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 3.] Joint Resolution Granting permission for the erection of a monument in Washington, District of Columbia, for the ornamentation of the national capital and in honor of Samuel Hahnemann.
January 31, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That permission be, and theDistrict of Columbia.Erection of monument to Samuel Hahnemann authorized. same is hereby, granted the Hahnemann monument committee of the American Institute of Homeopathy to erect a monument in honor of Samuel Hahnemann in such place in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, other than the Capitol or Library grounds, as shall be designated by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and the chairman of the monument committee; and the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the building of a foundation upon which to place said monument; said monument to be presented to the people of the United States by the American Institute of Homeopathy, kindred associations, and citizens.
Approved, January 31, 1900. 709 No. 4: Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point, Olmedo Alfaro, of Ecuador. Public Resolution 4 31 Stat. 710 1900-01-31 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public 710 [No. 4.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point, Olmedo Alfaro, of Ecuador.
January 31, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Olmedo Alfaro, of Ecuador, admitted to West Point. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to permit Olmedo Alfaro, of Ecuador, to receive instruction at the Military Academy at West Point: *Provisos.*No expense to United States.Oath and service.[R. S., secs. 1320–1321, p. 227](/us/rs/s1320–1321/p227).*Provided*, That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby: *And provided further*, That in the case of the said Alfaro the provisions of sections thirteen hundred and twenty and thirteen hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended.
Approved, January 31, 1900. No. 5: Authorizing the Secretary of War to use sixty thousand dollars of the appropriations for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, for the construction of a modern military hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Public Resolution 5 31 Stat. 710 1900-02-09 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 5.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to use sixty thousand dollars of the appropriations for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, for the construction of a modern military hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. February 9, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Construction authorized of military hospital.Vol. 30, p. 1071.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to use the sum of sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the amount appropriated for the construction and repair of hospitals by the Act making appropriations for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the construction of a modern military post hospital at the said Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the limit of cost of said hospital is fixed at said sum.
Approved, February 9, 1900. No. 6: Providing for the distribution of Compiled Statutes of the District of Columbia to committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. Public Resolution 6 31 Stat. 710 1900-02-10 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 6.] Joint Resolution Providing for the distribution of Compiled Statutes of the District of Columbia to committees of the Senate and House of Representatives.
February 10, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Compiled statutes, District of Columbia.Distribution of authorized. That the Secretary of the Interior lie, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver from the number now in his care, one copy of the Compiled Statutes of the District of Columbia to each standing and select committee of the Senate anti of the House of Representatives on the requisition of the chairman of such committee, and to each justice of the several courts of the District of Columbia, on his written request.
Approved, February 10, 1900. No. 7: ncreasing the limit of cost of the new building for the Government Printing Office, to meet the increased prices of building materials, and to permit of making the south end of the power house extension of the same height as the main building. Public Resolution 7 31 Stat. 710 1900-02-17 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 7.] Joint Resolution Increasing the limit of cost of the new building for the Government Printing Office, to meet the increased prices of building materials, and to permit of making the south end of the power house extension of the same height as the main building. February 17, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Government Printing Office.Limit of cost of new building increased.Vol. 30, p. 1120.
That the limit of cost of the new building for the Government Printing Office, authorized by the sundry civil act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, be. and hereby is, increased by four hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to meet the increased prices of building materials, and to permit of making the 711south end of the power house extension, for a depth of about forty-five feet from G street, northwest, of the same height as the main building.
Approved, February 17, 1900. No. 8: To provide for pay to certain retired officers of the Marine Corps. Public Resolution 8 31 Stat. 711 1900-02-17 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 8.] Joint Resolution To provide for pay to certain retired officers of the Marine Corps. February 17, 1900.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the aggregate of allMarine Corps.Pay of certain retired , officers authorized.Vol. 30, p. 1042. sums appropriated in an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal, year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, under the head “Pay, Marine Corps,” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund; the provisions of this Act to take effect from June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
Approved, February 17, 1900. No. 9: Authorizing the President to appoint one woman com- missioner to represent the United States and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette at the exposition in Paris, France, in nineteen hundred. Public Resolution 9 31 Stat. 711 1900-02-23 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 9.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to appoint one woman com- missioner to represent the United States and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette at the exposition in Paris, France, in nineteen hundred. February 23, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President mayLafayette statue, Paris.Appointment of woman commissioner to represent United States at unveiling authorized. appoint one woman commissioner to represent the United States and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the, unveiling of the statue of Lafayette and the presentation of a tablet for said statue at Paris, France, in nineteen hundred, and at the exposition there to be held.
Approved, February 23, 1900. No. 10: Providing for the acquisition of certain lands in the State of California. Public Resolution 10 31 Stat. 711 1900-03-08 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 10.] Joint Resolution Providing for the acquisition of certain lands in the State of California.
March 8, 1900. Whereas what are known as the “Mammoth Tree Grove” andMammoth Tree Grove, etc.Calaveras Company, Cal.Preamble. “South Park Grove of Big Trees,” species of Sequoia gigantea, located in Calaveras County, California, are now held in private ownership; and Whereas the owner thereof now contemplates the sale thereof for the purpose of felling said trees and their conversion into lumber, which said project is threatened of consummation at an early date; and Whereas the trees Sequoia gigantea of these groves constitute the largest collection and probably the finest specimens of the same in the world; and Whereas the destruction of these trees would be an irredeemable loss to science, and the loss of one of the marked wonders of the world:
Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of thePreservation of, etc. Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed, at the earliest practicable date, to open negotiations for, and if possible procure a bond upon, the lands occupied by said groves of trees, in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties, California, with sufficient adjacent lands for 712their preservation, management, and control, and submit the same to Congress for action thereupon.
Approved, March 8, 1900. No. 11: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to extend Rhode Island avenue,” approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Public Resolution 11 31 Stat. 712 1900-03-12 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 11.] Joint Resolution To amend an Act entitled “An Act to extend Rhode Island avenue,” approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
March 12, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, District of Columbia.Extension of Rhode Island avenue.Vol. 30, p. 884. That the Act entitled “An Act to extend Rhode Island avenue,” approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to the sixth section thereof, at the end thereof, the following proviso,Appeal from decision confirming assessments not to delay payment of awards. namely: *Provided*, That no appeal by any interested party from any decision of the supreme court of the District of Columbia confirming said assessment or assessments shall delay or prevent the payment of said awards in respect to the property condemned.
Approved, March 12, 1900. No. 12: To print thirty-one thousand copies of the eulogies on Garret A. Hobart, late Vice-President, of the United States. Public Resolution 12 31 Stat. 712 1900-03-16 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 12.] Joint Resolution To print thirty-one thousand copies of the eulogies on Garret A.
Hobart, late Vice-President, of the United States. March 16, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Garret A. Hobart.Copies of eulogies, etc., ordered printed. That there be printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress on Garret A. Hobart, late Vice-President of the United States, thirty-one thousand copies, of which ten thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate, twenty thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, five hundred copies for the use of the Department of State, and five hundred copies for the use of the family of the late Vice-President; and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have printed a portrait of the said Garret A.
Hobart, to accompany said eulogies; and for the purpose of engraving and printing said portrait the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 16, 1900. No. 13: To provide for the removal of snow and ice in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia. Public Resolution 13 31 Stat. 712 1900-03-19 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 13.] Joint Resolution To provide for the removal of snow and ice in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia. March 19, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, District of Columbia.Removal of snow, etc. That the following sums are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: For cleaning snow and ice from the streets and avenues of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars, one-half of said sum to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States.
For the removal of snow and ice, to be disbursed under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds in and around Washington. District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. Approved, March 19, 1900. No. 14: Authorizing the printing of extra copies of the publications of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department. Public Resolution 14 31 Stat. 713 1900-03-21 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public 713 [No. 14.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of extra copies of the publications of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, March 21, 1900. That the Secretary of theOffice Naval Intelligence, Navy Department.Printing of extra copies of publications of authorized.Vol. 28, p. 622. Navy be, and is hereby, authorized to print, in excess of the one thousand copies authorized by the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, such extra copies of the publications of the Office of Naval Intelligence as may be necessary for distribution to the naval service and to meet other official demands: *Provided*, That in no*Proviso.*—limit. case shall the edition of any one publication exceed two thousand copies.
Approved, March 21, 1900. No. 15: To amend joint resolution to furnish the daily Congressional Record to members of the press, and so forth, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Public Resolution 15 31 Stat. 713 1900-03-26 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 15.] Joint Resolution To amend joint resolution to furnish the daily Congressional Record to members of the press, and so forth, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
March 26, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the “Joint resolutionCongressional Record.To be furnished newspaper correspondents named in Congressional Directory, etc.Vol. 29, p. 700. to furnish the daily Congressional Record to members of the press, and so forth,” approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be amended so as to read as follows:" “That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to supply to each newspaper correspondent whose name appears in the Congressional Directory, and who makes application therefor, for his personal use and that of the paper or papers he represents, one copy of the daily Congressional Record and one copy of the bound Congressional Record, the same to be sent to the office address of each member of the press, or elsewhere in the city of Washington, as he may direct.
” " Approved, March 26, 1900. No. 16: For appointment of members of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Public Resolution 16 31 Stat. 713 1900-04-09 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 16.] Joint Resolution For appointment of members of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
April 9, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Sidney G. Cooke, ofNational Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Appointment of members. Kansas, Charles M. Anderson, of Ohio, and Alfred L. Pearson, of Pennsylvania, be, and the same hereby are, appointed as members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers of the (Tinted States; Sidney G. Cooke to succeed himself, his present term of service expiring April twenty-first, nineteen hundred;
Charles M. Anderson to succeed himself, his present term of service expiring April twenty-first, nineteen hundred; Alfred L. Pearson to succeed himself, his present term of service expiring April twenty-first, nineteen hundred. Approved, April 9, 1900. No. 17: Authorizing the printing of a special edition of the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture for eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Public Resolution 17 31 Stat. 713 1900-04-17 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 17.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of a special edition of the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture for eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. April 17, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed of partYearbook. Department of Agriculture.Printing of special edition authorized.Vol. 2S, p. 612. two of the Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture for eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, issued in accordance with section seventy-three, paragraph two, chapter twenty-three, Statutes at Large, 714eighteen hundred and ninety-five, issued under the title of “Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture,” a special edition of five thousand copies, on sized and supercalendered paper, to be bound in best quality of book cloth, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, for distribution abroad, and especially during the Universal Exposition at Paris, nineteen hundred, to agricultural, educational, and other public and scientific foreign institutions and libraries and to public men especially engaged in work beneficial to *Proviso.*Provision as to number of copies, etc., suspended.agriculture: *Provided*, That in the distribution of this edition abroad, paragraph seventy-nine of said section seventy-three, of chapter twenty-three, volume twenty-eight, Statutes at Large, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby suspended.
Approved, April 17, 1900. No. 18: Authorizing the printing of thirty-five thousand copies of Bulletin Numbered Twenty-four, Department of Agriculture, entitled “A Primer of Forestry,” for the use of Congress and the Department of Agriculture. Public Resolution 18 31 Stat. 714 1900-04-18 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 18.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of thirty-five thousand copies of Bulletin Numbered Twenty-four, Department of Agriculture, entitled “A Primer of Forestry,” for the use of Congress and the Department of Agriculture. April 18, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, A “Primer of Forestry.”Printing ordered. That there be printed thirty-five thousand copies of Bulletin Twenty-four, of the Division of Forestry, of the Department of Agriculture, entitled “A Primer of Forestry;” five thousand copies for the use of the Senate, ten thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and twenty thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture.
Approved, April 18, 1900. No. 19: Providing for the printing of the Report of the Governor of Arizona for Eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Public Resolution 19 31 Stat. 714 1900-04-18 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 19.] Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of the Report of the Governor of Arizona for Eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
April 18, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Report of Governor of Arizona for 1899.Additional copies ordered printed. That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to print four thousand additional copies of the Report of the Governor of Arizona for Eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, of which one thousand copies shall be for the use of the Department of the Interior, one thousand five hundred copies for distribution by the governor of Arizona, five hundred copies for the use of the Senate, and one thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives.
Approved, April 18, 1900. No. 20: For relief of Garfield Hospital. Public Resolution 20 31 Stat. 714 1900-04-23 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 20.] Joint Resolution For relief of Garfield Hospital. April 23, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, District of Columbia.Garfield Hospital.Appropriation for isolating ward, etc.
That one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated and out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in equal parts, for the maintenance of the isolating ward for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial Hospital for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred. Approved, April 23, 1900. No. 21: Authorizing the exhibit of Government relics at the New York Printing Exposition from May second to June second, nineteen hundred.
Public Resolution 21 31 Stat. 714 1900-04-23 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 21.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the exhibit of Government relics at the New York Printing Exposition from May second to June second, nineteen hundred. April 23, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, New York Printing Exposition.Exhibit by the Secretary of Treasury of Government relics at, authorized.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to exhibit at the New York Printing Exposition from May second to June second, nineteen hundred, a geometrical scroll machine, and such other articles 715now in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; also “a picture of Governor William Allen, of Ohio, on a saw blade,” now in the possession of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department; also copies of charts of Hell Gate, the Battery, and other New York City points, to be printed from original copperplates now in the possession of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and such other articles in said bureaus as may be of interest to the printing trades.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized—by the Secretary of War. in his discretion to exhibit at said exposition medical catalogues, old volumes, works in Russian and other foreign tongues, now in the possession of the Surgeon-General of the Army; also samples of work and manuscripts written on stumps, and so forth, by generals in the war of the rebellion, now in the possession of the Rebellion Records Division of the War Department, and such other articles as may be of interest to the printing trades.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,—by the Secretary of the Interior. authorized in his discretion to exhibit at said exposition such general exhibit of patents as may be of interest to the printing trades. Sec. 4. That the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution be, and be—Smithsonian Institution. is hereby, authorized in his discretion to exhibit at said exposition the old Ben Franklin printing press and such other articles now in the National Museum as may be of interest to the printing trades.
Sec. 5. That all expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions ofExpenses. this joint resolution shall be paid by the directors of the New York Printing Exposition, under such regulations as shall be adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior, and the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Approved, April 23, 1900. No. 22: Providing for the printing of three thousand copies of House Document Numbered One hundred and forty-one, relating to the preliminary examination of reservoir sites in Wyoming and Colorado.
Public Resolution 22 31 Stat. 715 1900-04-30 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 22.] Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of three thousand copies of House Document Numbered One hundred and forty-one, relating to the preliminary examination of reservoir sites in Wyoming and Colorado.
April 30, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed for the“Preliminary examination of reservoir sites in Wyoming and Colorado.”Printing authorized. use of the Senate and House of Representatives three thousand copies of House of Representatives Document Numbered One hundred and forty-one, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, being “Preliminary examination of reservoir sites in Wyoming and Colorado,” one thousand copies for the use of the Senate and two thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives.
Approved, April 30, 1900. No. 23: To provide for the administration of civil affairs in Porto Rico pending the appointment and qualification of the civil officers provided for in the Act approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred, entitled, “An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes.”. Public Resolution 23 31 Stat. 715 1900-05-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 23.] Joint Resolution To provide for the administration of civil affairs in Porto Rico pending the appointment and qualification of the civil officers provided for in the Act approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred, entitled, “An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes.”. May 1, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That until the officer to tillPorto Rico.Existing officers to serve pending appointment of successors.*Ante*, p. 81. any office provided for by the Act of April twelfth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes,” shall have been appointed and qualified, the officer or officers now performing the civil duties pertaining to such office may continue to perform the same under the authority of said Act; and no officer of the Army shall lose his commissionCommission of army officer unaffected.*Proviso.*—limit of time for appointment. by reason thereof: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be held to extend the time for the appointment and qualification of any such officers beyond the first day of August, nineteen hundred. 716 Sec. 2.
Franchises to be approved by President.*Ante*, p. 83. That all railroad, street railway, telegraph and telephone franchises, privileges or concessions granted under section thirty-two of said Act shall be approved by the President of the United States, and no such franchise, privilege, or concession shall be operative until it shall have been so approved. Sec. 3. —provisions required in charters granting. That all franchises, privileges or concessions granted under section thirty-two of said Act shall provide that the same shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal; shall forbid the issue of stock or bonds, except in exchange for actual cash, or property at a fair valuation, equal in amount to the par value of the stock or bonds issued; shall forbid the declaring of stock or bond dividends; and, in the case of public-service corporations, shall provide for the effective regulation of the charges thereof and for the purchase or taking by the public authorities of their property at a fair and reasonable valuation.Functions of corporations limited.
No corporation shall be authorized to conduct the business of buying and selling real estate or be permitted to hold or own real estate except such as may be reasonably necessary to enable it to carry out the purposes for which it was created, and every corporation hereafter authorized to engage in agriculture shall by its charter be restricted to the ownership and control of not to exceed five hundred acres of land; and this provision shall be held to prevent any member of a corporation engaged in agriculture from being in any wise interested in any other corporation engaged in agriculture.
Corporations, however, may loan funds upon real estate security, and purchase real estate when necessary for the collection of loans, but they shall dispose of real estate so obtained within five years after receiving the title. Corporations not organized in Porto Rico, and doing business therein, shall be bound by the provisions of this section so far as they are applicable. Approved, May 1, 1900. No. 24: Recognizing the gallantry of Frank H. Newcomb, commanding the revenue cutter Hudson; of his officers and men; also retiring Captain Daniel B.
Hodgsdon, of the Revenue-Cutter Service, for efficient and meritorious services in command of the cutter Hugh McCulloch at Manila. Public Resolution 24 31 Stat. 716 1900-05-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 24.] Joint Resolution Recognizing the gallantry of Frank H. Newcomb, commanding the revenue cutter Hudson; of his officers and men; also retiring Captain Daniel B.
Hodgsdon, of the Revenue-Cutter Service, for efficient and meritorious services in command of the cutter Hugh McCulloch at Manila. May 3, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Lieut. Frank H. Newcomb, etc., medicals presented to. That in recognition of the gallantry of First Lieutenant Frank H. Newcomb, of the Revenue-Cutter Service, commanding the revenue cutter Hudson, his officers and the men of his command, for their intrepid and heroic gallantry in the action at Cardenas, Cuba, on the eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, when the Hudson rescued the United States naval torpedo-boat Winslow in the face of a most galling tire from the enemy’s guns, the Winslow being disabled, her captain wounded, her only other officer and half her crew killed.
The commander of the Hudson kept his vessel in the very center of the hottest fire of the action, although in constant danger of going ashore on account of the shallow water, until finally he got a line made fast to the Winslow and towed that vessel out of range of the enemy’s guns. In commemoration of this signal act of heroism it is hereby enacted that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to cause to be prepared and to present to First Lieutenant Frank H.
Newcomb, Revenue-Cutter Service, a gold medal, and to each of his officers a silver medal, and to each member of his crew a bronze medal. Capt. Daniel B. Hodgsdon, retired.That in recognition of the efficient and meritorious services of Captain Daniel B. Hodgsdon, United States Revenue-Cutter Service, while in command of the United States revenue cutter Hugh McCulloch, under the orders and in cooperation with the fleet commanded by Rear-Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, at the battle of 717Manila, on May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (the said officer being now in the sixty-third year of his age, and having served continuously for thirty-seven years as an officer of the Revenue-Cutter Service), he be placed on the permanent waiting orders or retired list of the Revenue-Cutter Service, on the duty pay of his grade.
That the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as mayAppropriation. be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the medals above specified. Approved, May 3, 1900. No. 25: For change in location of aids to navigation on Simmons Reef and Lansing Shoal, in Lake Michigan. Public Resolution 25 31 Stat. 717 1900-05-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 25.] Joint Resolution For change in location of aids to navigation on Simmons Reef and Lansing Shoal, in Lake Michigan. May 3, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Light-House BoardRemoval of light ship No. 55 to Lansing Shoal, etc. be authorized and directed to remove the light-ship, numbered fifty-five, now on Simmons Reef, in Lake Michigan, near the Straits of Mackinac, to Lansing Shoal.
And further, that the gas buoy on Lansing Shoal be removed, so as to take the place of said light-ship to be removed from Simmons Reef. Approved, May 3, 1900. No. 26: Providing for the printing and distribution of the general report of the expedition of the steamer Fishhawk to Puerto Rico, including the chapter relating to the fish and fisheries of Puerto Rico, as contained in the Fish Commission Bulletin for nineteen hundred. Public Resolution 26 31 Stat. 717 1900-05-14 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 26.] Joint Resolution Providing for the printing and distribution of the general report of the expedition of the steamer Fishhawk to Puerto Rico, including the chapter relating to the fish and fisheries of Puerto Rico, as contained in the Fish Commission Bulletin for nineteen hundred. May 14, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed andReport expedition of “Fishhawk” to Porto Rico.Printing ordered. bound, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, seven thousand five hundred copies of the general report of the expedition of the steamer Fishhawk to Puerto Rico, including the chapter relating to the fish and fisheries of Puerto Rico, as contained in the Fish Com- mission Bulletin for nineteen hundred; four thousand five hundred for the use of the House, one thousand five hundred for the use of the Senate, and one thousand five hundred for the use of the United States Fish Commission.
Approved, May 14, 1900. No. 27: To print the annual reports of the American Historical Association. Public Resolution 27 31 Stat. 717 1900-05-25 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 27.] Joint Resolution To print the annual reports of the American Historical Association. May 25, 1900.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed of theAmerican Historical Association.Additional copies of reports of, ordered printed. annual reports of the American Historical Association, beginning with the report of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand five hundred copies in addition to those provided for under existing law, of which five hundred copies shall be for the use of the Senate, one thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and one thousand copies for the use of the American Historical Association.
Approved, May 25, 1900. No. 28: Withdrawing certain lands on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, from the public domain. Public Resolution 28 31 Stat. 718 1900-05-31 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-19 56 1 public 718 [No. 28.] Joint Resolution Withdrawing certain lands on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, from the public domain.
May 31, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Hawaiian Islands.Certain lands in Honolulu withdrawn from public domain. That the following-described lands lying and being situate in the city of Honolulu. Hawaiian Islands, heretofore used as a mausoleum for the royal family of Hawaii, to wit: The mausoleum premises, beginning at the north corner of said lot. on the southeast side of Nuuanu street, the same being the west corner of L.
C. A. six hundred and eighty-two, to M. Kekuanaoa, as shown on government survey’s registered map numbered eight hundred and thirty-eight, and running by true bearings: South forty degrees twenty minutes east three hundred and ninety-six feet along L. C. A. six hundred and eighty-two, to Kekuanaoa; south twenty-live degrees twenty- eight minutes west two hundred and fifty-eight feet, to stone wall; north thirty-four degrees twenty-two minutes west seventy-two and nine-tenths feet, along L.
C. A. ten thousand six hundred and live ap two, to Piikoi; north fifty-seven degrees fifteen minutes west one hundred and six feet along L. C. A. ten thousand six hundred and five ap two, to Piikoi; north sixty-two degrees ten minutes west two hundred and sixty-six and five-tenths feet along L. C. A. ten thousand six hundred and five ap two, to Piikoi, and L. C. A. seven hundred and eighty-five, to J. Robinson; north thirty-six degrees forty minutes east three hundred and sixty-seven feet along Nuuanu street to initial point; area, one hundred and nineteen thousand six hundred and ten square feet, be withdrawn from sale, lease, or other disposition under the public-land laws of the United States.
Approved, May 31, 1900. No. 29: To fill a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Public Resolution 29 31 Stat. 718 1900-06-02 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 29.] Joint Resolution To fill a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
June 2, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Smithsonian Institution.Andrew D. White reappointed regent. That the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress, shall be filled by the reappointment of Andrew D. White, a resident of the State of New York, whose term of office has expired. Approved, June 2, 1900. No. 30: Authorizing the printing of additional copies of the annual report upon the improvement and care of public buildings and grounds.
Public Resolution 30 31 Stat. 718 1900-06-02 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 30.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of additional copies of the annual report upon the improvement and care of public buildings and grounds. June 2, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, District of Columbia.Public buildings and grounds.Printing of additional number of copies of report on, authorized.
That there be printed each year hereafter, in addition to the number of copies now authorized by law. two hundred additional copies of the annual report upon the improvement and care of public buildings and grounds, and the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument, in the District of Columbia, for the use of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds. Approved, June 2, 1900. No. 31: For the appointment of first lieutenants of volunteers in the Signal Corps of the Army.
Public Resolution 31 31 Stat. 719 1900-06-04 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public 719 [No. 31.] Joint Resolution For the appointment of first lieutenants of volunteers in the Signal Corps of the Army. June 4, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is herebyArmy.Signal corps.Appointment of first lieutenants of volunteers authorized. empowered to nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ten first lieutenants of volunteers in the Signal Corps of the Army, whose commissions shall expire June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one.
Approved, June 4, 1900. No. 32: To authorize and empower the Banco Español de Puerto Rico (Spanish Bank of Porto Rico) to amend its by-laws. Public Resolution 32 31 Stat. 719 1900-06-06 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 32.] Joint Resolution To authorize and empower the Banco Español de Puerto Rico (Spanish Bank of Porto Rico) to amend its by-laws.
June 6, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Banco Español deBanco Español de Puerto Rico may amend its by-laws. Puerto Rico (Spanish Bank of Porto Rico) be. and the said institution is hereby, authorized and empowered to amend article one of its by-laws, which said by-laws are referred to in. and published with, the royal (Spanish) decree dated May fifth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, granting a concession to said bank, so as to change its name to that of Bank of Porto Rico (Banco de Puerto Rico) and to substitute for its capital in pesos the equivalent in money of the United States at the ratio established by law, and to amend article thirty-one of said by-laws, so that to be a councilor of said bank it may not be necessary to be a Spaniard, and further to modify and amend said by- laws, but always in accordance with existing law. and subject to the approval of the governor of Porto Rico: *Provided*, That nothing *Provisos.*Powers not enlarged.herein contained shall be held to enlarge or to permit the enlargement, in any manner or to any extent, of any of the rights, powers, or privileges granted to said Banco Español de Puerto Rico (Spanish Bank of Porto Rico) by the Government of Spain: *And provided further*, ThatFederal control unabridged. nothing herein contained shall be held in any wise to limit or curtail any power which the Government or the Congress of the United States possesses in respect of said bank, its powers, privileges, or franchises.
Approved, June 6, 1900. No. 33: Relating to the use of the rooms lately occupied by the Congressional Library in the Capitol. Public Resolution 33 31 Stat. 719 1900-06-06 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 33.] Joint Resolution Relating to the use of the rooms lately occupied by the Congressional Library in the Capitol.
June 6, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the rooms and spaceCapitol.Use of old Congressional Library rooms authorized. recently occupied by the Library of Congress in the Capitol building shall be divided into three stories, the third story of which shall be fitted up and used for a reference library for the Senate and House of Representatives, and that portion of the other two stories north of a line drawn east and west through the center of the Rotunda shall be used for such purpose as may be designated by the Senate of the United States, and that portion of the first and second stories south of said line shall be used for such purpose as may be designated by the House of Representatives.
And such sum as is necessary to make the construction herein provided for is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. Approved, June 6, 1900. No. 34: Authorizing the President of the United States to appoint David Bagley as an additional cadet at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Public Resolution 34 31 Stat. 720 1900-06-06 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public 720 [No. 34.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States to appoint David Bagley as an additional cadet at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. June 6, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, David Bagley.Appointment of. as cadet, Naval Academy, authorized. That the President of the United States he, and is hereby, authorized to appoint as an additional cadet at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, David Bagley, brother of Ensign Worth Bagley, United States Navy, killed in battle at Cardenas, Cuba, May eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Approved, June 6, 1900. No. 35: Respecting the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette, at Paris, France, July fourth, nineteen hundred. Public Resolution 35 31 Stat. 720 1900-06-06 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 35.] Joint Resolution Respecting the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette, at Paris, France, July fourth, nineteen hundred.
June 6, 1900. Lafayette statue, Paris.Preamble.Whereas the school children of the United States have, by their contributions of the sum of fifty thousand dollars, provided a statue of Lafayette, which, with the approval of the French Government, is to be unveiled at Paris, France, on the fourth day of July, nineteen hundred; and Vol. 30, p. 1117.Whereas the United States, by an act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, appropriated the sum of fifty thousand silver dollars of the United States for the purpose of aiding in defraying the cost of a pedestal to said statue:
Therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Resolutions on unveiling. That the people of the United States anticipate and appreciate this ceremony with feelings of the greatest satisfaction, and that they regard the statue as expressing the honor and gratitude with which they cherish the memory of Lafayette and those of his countrymen who, by their arms and counsel, assisted in securing the independence of the United States. —transmission of, to French Government.*Resolved further*, That the President of the United States is hereby requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the Government of France.
Approved, June 6, 1900. No. 36: Authorizing the President to appoint George W. Kirkman to be a captain of infantry, United States Army. Public Resolution 36 31 Stat. 720 1900-06-06 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 36.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to appoint George W.
Kirkman to be a captain of infantry, United States Army. June 6, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, George W. Kirkman.Restoration to rank as captain U. S. Army authorized. That the President is hereby authorized to restore and appoint George W. Kirkman to his previous grade as captain of infantry in the United States Army, with the rank, pay, and allowances to which he would be entitled if the sentence of dismissal by court-martial in his case had not been imposed; subject to such suspension, fine, or other punishment as shall in his judgment be just for the offense of which said George W.
Kirkman was found guilty by a court-martial on the seventeenth of March, nineteen hundred. Approved, June 6, 1900. No. 37: Authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition, to be held in Toledo, Ohio, in nineteen hundred and two, to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries, for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Public Resolution 37 31 Stat. 721 1900-06-06 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public 721 [No. 37.] Joint Resolution Authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition, to be held in Toledo, Ohio, in nineteen hundred and two, to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries, for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. June 6, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of CongressOhio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition, Toledo.Vol. 23, pp. 115, 332, etc.Alien mechanics, etc., under contract to labor may be brought into the united States to install exhibits, etc. approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, prohibiting the importation of foreigners under contract to perform labor, and the Acts amendatory of these Acts, shall not be construed, nor shall anything therein operate to prevent, hinder, or in any wise restrict any foreign exhibitor, representative, or citizen of a foreign nation, or the holder of any concession or privilege from the Ohio Centennial Company, of Toledo, from bringing into the United States, under contract, such mechanics, artisans, agents, or other employees, natives of foreign countries, as they or any of them may deem necessary, subject to the approval in each ease of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of making preparations for installing or conducting their exhibits, or of preparing or 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 Ohio Centennial Company in connection with the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition: *Provided*, *however*, That any alien*Provisos.*Penalty for remaining. who, by virtue of this Act, enters the United States under contract to perform labor, may not remain in the United States for more than three months after the close of the exposition, and he shall thereafter be subject to all the processes and penalties applicable to aliens coming in violation of the alien contract-labor law aforesaid: *And provided further*, That this resolution shall not be construed as applyingChinese immigration. to the Acts of Congress prohibiting the coming of Chinese persons into the United States.
Approved, June 6, 1900. No. 38: Authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Pan-American Exposition, to be held in Buffalo, New York, in nineteen hundred and one, to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Public Resolution 38 31 Stat. 721 1900-06-06 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 38.] Joint Resolution Authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Pan-American Exposition, to be held in Buffalo, New York, in nineteen hundred and one, to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. June 6, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of CongressPan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y.Vol. 23, pp. 115, 332, etc.Alien mechanics, etc., under contract to labor may be brought into the United States to install exhibits, etc. approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, prohibiting the importation of foreigners under contract to perform labor, and the Acts amendatory of these Acts, shall not be construed, nor shall anything therein operate to prevent, hinder, or in any wise restrict any foreign exhibitor, representative, or citizen of a foreign nation, or the holder of any concession or privilege from the Pan- American Exposition Company, of Buffalo, New York, from bringing into the United States, under contract, such mechanics, artisans, agents, or other employees, natives of foreign countries, as they or any of them may deem necessary, subject to approval in each case of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of making preparations for installing or conducting their exhibits, or of preparing or 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 Pan-American Exposition Company, of Buffalo, New York, in connection with such exposition: *Provided*, *however*,*Provisos.*Penalty for remaining.
That any alien who, by virtue of this Act, enters the United States under contract to perform labor, may not remain in the United States 722for more than three months after the close of the exposition, and he shall thereafter be subject to all the processes and penalties applicable to aliens coming in violation of the alien contract-labor law aforesaid: Chinese immigration.*And provided further*, That this resolution shall not be construed as applying to the Acts of Congress prohibiting the coming of Chinese persons into the United States.
Approved, June 6, 1900. No. 39: Making appropriation for payment of the salaries of certain officers in the district of Alaska for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 39 31 Stat. 722 1900-06-06 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 39.] Joint Resolution Making appropriation for payment of the salaries of certain officers in the district of Alaska for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes.
June 6, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Alaska. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: Salaries of governor, etc.District of Alaska: For governor, live thousand dollars; three judges, five thousand dollars each: three attorneys, three thousand dollars each; three marshals, four thousand dollars each: three clerks, three thousand five hundred dollars each; surveyor-general find ex officio secretary of the district, four thousand dollars; in all. fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Prior appropriations covered into Treasury.Appropriations heretofore made for the payment of salaries of the above-named officials during the next fiscal year to be covered into the Treasury. Approved, June 6, 1900. No. 40: To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their salaries for the month of June on the day following adjournment. Public Resolution 40 31 Stat. 722 1900-06-06 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 40.] Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their salaries for the month of June on the day following adjournment. June 6, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Congressional employes to be paid June salaries on day following final adjournment. That the Secretary of the Senate and 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, nineteen hundred, on the day of said month next following the final adjournment of Congress.
Approved, June 6, 1900. No. 41: Making an emergency appropriation for the repair of certain roads and bridges in the District of Columbia. Public Resolution 41 31 Stat. 722 1900-06-07 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public [No. 41.] Joint Resolution Making an emergency appropriation for the repair of certain roads and bridges in the District of Columbia.
June 7, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Repair of roads, etc., injured by storm authorized. That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be. and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the repair of county roads and bridges (including those in the Rock Creek and the Zoological parks) that were damaged by the storm of June second, nineteen hundred, the same to be immediately available, and to be expended under the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
Approved, June 7, 1900. No. 42: Donating a condemned cannon to the Commandery in Chief of the Sons of Veterans, United States of America. Public Resolution 42 31 Stat. 723 1900-06-07 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 2025-03-19 56 1 public 723 [No. 42.] Joint Resolution Donating a condemned cannon to the Commandery in Chief of the Sons of Veterans, United States of America.
June 7, 1900. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theSons of Veterans, United States of America.Delivery to, of condemned cannon authorized. Navy, in his discretion, is hereby authorized to deliver to the order of Fred E. Bolton, quartermaster-general of the Sons of Veterans, United States of America, one dismounted condemned cannon captured from or surrendered by Spain during the Spanish-American war: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Expense.
That the Government shall be at no expense in connection with the delivering of said cannon. Approved, June 7, 1900. PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the third day of December, 1900, and teas adjourned without day on Monday the fourth day of March, 1901.* William McKinley, President; William P. Frye, President of the Senate pro tempore;
David B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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