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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 32 STAT. · July 1, 1902 · Chapter 1386

Chapter 1386. For the relief of settlers on lands granted in aid of the construction of wagon roads

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CHAP. 1386.— An Act For the relief of settlers on lands granted in aid of the construction of wagon roads. July 1, 1902. [[Public, No. 252](/us/pl/57/252).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the provision of thePublic lands.Relief of settlers on wagon-road grants.Vol. 18, p. 194. Act of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled “An Act for the relief of settlers on railroad lands.” and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, including the ActVol. 24, p. 556. approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment of land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads and for the forfeiture of unearned lands, and for other purposes,” as modified or supplemented by the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,Vol. 29, p. 41. entitled “An Act to provide for the extension of the time within which suits may be brought to vacate and annul land patents, and for other purposes,” shall apply to grants of land in aid of the construction of wagon roads.
Approved, July 1, 1902. RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: Allowing the importation free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, of all articles from foreign countries, and the transfer of foreign exhibits from the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo for the purpose of exhibition at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, at Charleston, South Carolina. Public Resolution 1 32 Stat. 734 1901-12-06 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 1.] Joint Resolution Allowing the importation free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, of all articles from foreign countries, and the transfer of foreign exhibits from the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo for the purpose of exhibition at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, at Charleston, South Carolina. December 6, 1901. [[Pub. Res., No. 1](/us/bill/57/pubres/1).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, Charleston, S.
C.Exemption from duty of imported exhibits. That all articles which shall be imported front foreign countries, for the purpose of exhibition at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition at Charleston, South Carolina, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, and all foreign exhibits which shall be transferred in bond from the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York, shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations Right to sell.as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during the Exposition to sell for delivery at the close thereof any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the Exposition building or on the grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of the *Provisos.*Dutiable.import 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 articles by the revenue laws at the date of the importation, and all penalties prescribed by laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the person who may be guilty of any illegal Constructive bonded warehouses, etc.sale or withdrawal: *And provided further,* That the buildings and spaces set apart for the purpose of the said exposition shall be constituted “Constructive bonded warehouses and yards.” and all foreign articles placed therein shall be under customs supervision, and treated Expenses.as merchandise in bond: *And provided farther.* That all necessary expenses incurred, including salaries of customs officials in charge of imported articles, shall be paid to the Treasury of the United States by the Exposition Company under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 2. United States not liable. That in the passage of this Joint Resolution the United States does not assume any liability of any kind whatever, and does not become responsible in any manner for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, expense, or liability of the said company, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or growing out of said Exposition. Approved, December 6, 1901. No. 2: To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and one, on the eighteenth day of said month.
Public Resolution 2 32 Stat. 734 1901-12-17 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 2025-03-26 57 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, nineteen hundred and one, on the eighteenth day of said month.
December 17, 1901. [[Pub. Res., No. 2](/us/bill/57/pubres/2).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Officers, etc., of congress to be paid December salaries December 18, 1902. That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of 734735the Senate and House of Representatives, including the Capitol police, their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and one, on the eighteenth day of said month.
Approved, December 17, 1901. No. 3: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia.” Public Resolution 3 32 Stat. 735 1902-01-08 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 3.] Joint Resolution To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia.
” January 8, 1902. [[Pub. Res., No. 3](/us/bill/57/pubres/3).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following amendmentDistrict of Columbia.Amendment to code. is hereby made to an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one: Amend section two hundred and four by striking out in the secondVol. 31, p. 1222. line thereof the word “one” and inserting in lieu thereof the word “two”; also by adding to said section the following:
" “*Provided,* That all grand and petit juries in the supreme court ofGrand and petit juries to serve out terms. the District of Columbia and all petit, juries in the police court of said District which shall have been organized or drawn under existing laws at the time this code goes into effect, shall serve out their respective terms, and vacancies therein shall be filled under existing laws.”Vacancies. " Approved, January 8, 1902. No. 4: To pay the expenses of the United States Government exhibit at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition in the city of Charleston, county of Charleston, State of South Carolina, during the years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two.
Public Resolution 4 32 Stat. 735 1902-01-21 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 4.] Joint Resolution To pay the expenses of the United States Government exhibit at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition in the city of Charleston, county of Charleston, State of South Carolina, during the years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two.
January 21, 1902. [[Pub. Res., No. 4](/us/bill/57/pubres/4).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That to reimburse the SouthSouth Carolina interstate and West Indian Exposition company, Charleston, S. C.Reimbursement of, for expenses of Government exhibit. Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition Company, at Charleston, South Carolina, for expenses heretofore incurred or that may be incurred up to the time of closing said exposition and incident thereto, on account of the United States Government exhibit at said exposition, for transportation, sleeping-ear fares, subsistence of Government employees, freight, installation and care, construction of building occupied by the Fish Commission exhibit, and for compensation for floor space occupied by the Government exhibits other than that of the Fish Commission in the exposition building, there is hereby appropriated,Appropriation. out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, toVouchers. be disbursed on vouchers presented by said exposition company and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved, January 21, 1902. No. 5: Increasing the membership of the Joint Committee of Congress upon the Library. Public Resolution 5 32 Stat. 735 1902-02-07 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 5.] Joint Resolution Increasing the membership of the Joint Committee of Congress upon the Library.
February 7, 1902. [[Pub. Res., No. 5](/us/bill/57/pubres/5).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Joint Committee ofLibrary of Congress.Joint committee increased.[R. S., sec. 82, p. 15](/us/rs/s82/p15), amended. Congress upon the Library, authorized by section eighty-two of the Revised Statutes, shall hereafter consist of five members of the Senate and five members of the House of Representatives.
Approved, February 7, 1902. No. 6: Authorizing the transfer to the Library of Congress of the library of State reports, and so forth. Public Resolution 6 32 Stat. 736 1902-02-21 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public 736 [No. 6.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the transfer to the Library of Congress of the library of State reports, and so forth.
February 21, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 6](/us/57/pubres/6).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Library of Congress.Transfer of Industry Commission records to.That all volumes and pamphlets published by the several States and Territories and collected by the Industrial Commission, also official minutes of the Commission and tiles of correspondence, are hereby directed to be turned over by the Industrial Commission to the Librarian of Congress, subject to the further orders of Congress.
Approved, February 21, 1902. No. 7: Authorizing the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to return bank checks, drafts, certificates of deposit, and orders for the payment of money, having imprinted stamps thereon, to the owners thereof, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 7 32 Stat. 736 1902-02-26 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 7.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to return bank checks, drafts, certificates of deposit, and orders for the payment of money, having imprinted stamps thereon, to the owners thereof, and for other purposes. February 26, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 7](/us/57/pubres/7).] Preamble.Vol. 31, p. 942.Whereas by the Act of Congress approved March second, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to provide ways and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes,’ approved dime thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and to reduce taxation thereunder” the internal-revenue tax imposed upon bank checks, drafts, or certificates of deposit not drawing interest, or orders for the payment of any sum of money drawn upon or issued by any bank, trust company, or any person or persons, companies or corporations, at sight or on demand, was repealed on and after July first, nineteen hundred and one; and Whereas many thousands of bank checks, drafts certificates of deposit, and orders for the payment of money, have been imprinted with the necessary stamp and were unused on July first, nineteen hundred and one; and Whereas the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized to redeem stamps imprinted on said instruments, and which instruments are required by existing laws to be filed with the claims for said redemption of said stamps; and Whereas the owners of same are extremely desirous that said checks, drafts, and other paper above mentioned should be returned to them after the cancellation of the stamps imprinted thereon:
Now, therefore. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Internal Revenue.Return of canceled stamped bank checks, etc., to owners.That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue be, and is hereby, authorized to return said imprinted instruments to the owner or owners thereof, where said return is demanded, within one year after the passage of this Act. after the redemption and cancellation of stamps imprinted thereon: and said cancellation and return to the owner or owners shall be made in such manner and under such regulations Unclaimed checks, etc.Time limit.as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.
All such checks, drafts, and so forth, remaining unclaimed by the owner at the expiration of one year after the passage of this Act shall be destroyed in such manner as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, February 26, 1902. No. 8: Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan to the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution certain Revolutionary trophies at Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Public Resolution 8 32 Stat. 737 1902-03-12 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public 737 [No. 8.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan to the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution certain Revolutionary trophies at Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
March 12, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 8](/us/57/pubres/8).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of WarPennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution.Revolutionary trophies loaned to.Deposit in Carnegie Institutes Pittsburg, Pa. be, and he hereby is, authorized in his discretion to loan to the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution the two three-pounder and five four-pounder brass guns, without carriages, relics of the Revolutionary war, now at the Allegheny Arsenal.
Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, to he kept in the Carnegie Institute. Approved, March 12, 1902. No. 9: To provide for the employment of extra clerical force in the office of the assessor of the District of Columbia. Public Resolution 9 32 Stat. 737 1902-03-17 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 9.] Joint Resolution To provide for the employment of extra clerical force in the office of the assessor of the District of Columbia.
March 17, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 9](/us/57/pubres/9).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of oneDistrict of Columbia.Extra clerks for as sensor’s office. thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the compensation of extra clerical force, in the office of the assessor of the District of Columbia, to assist in the additional work incident to carrying out the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved February fifteenth, nineteen*Ante,* p, 33. hundred and two, permitting the payment of arrears of taxes in the District of Columbia at the rate of six per centum per annum; one-half of said sum to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 17, 1902. No. 10: Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents to the Texas Reunion Association. Public Resolution 10 32 Stat. 737 1902-03-21 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 10.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents to the Texas Reunion Association.
March 21, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 10](/us/57/pubres/10).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of War be,Texas Reunion Association.Loan of tents, etc., to. and he is hereby, authorized to loan to the officers of the Texas Reunion Association such number of tents, poles, and pins as may be necessary for the accommodation of the Confederate reunion to be held at the city of Dallas, Texas, April twenty-second to April twenty-*Proviso.*Bond.fifth, nineteen hundred and two: *Provided,* That the Secretary of War shall, before delivering such property, take from such officers a good and sufficient bond for the safe return of said property in good order and condition; and the whole without expense to the United States.
Approved, March 21, 1902. No. 11: Authorizing and requesting the President to extend to the Government and people of France and to the families of Marshal de Rochambeau and Marquis de Lafayette an invitation to join the Government and people of the United States in the dedication of the monument of Marshal de Rochambeau to be unveiled in the city of Washington. Public Resolution 11 32 Stat. 737 1902-03-21 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 11.] Joint Resolution Authorizing and requesting the President to extend to the Government and people of France and to the families of Marshal de Rochambeau and Marquis de Lafayette an invitation to join the Government and people of the United States in the dedication of the monument of Marshal de Rochambeau to be unveiled in the city of Washington. March 21, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 11](/us/57/pubres/11).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the President be, and is hereby, authorized and requested to extend to the Government and people of France and the family of Marshal de Rochambeau. commander in chief of the French forces in America during the war of independence, and to the family of Marquis de Lafayette, a cordial 738invitation to unite with the Government and people of the United States in a tit and appropriate dedication of the monument of Marshal de Rochambeau to be unveiled in theRochambeau statue.Invitation to France and Rochambeau and Lafayette families to at tend dedication. city of Washington on the twenty-fourth day of May, nineteen hundred and two; and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this resolution the sum *Ante*, p. 12.*Post*, p. 741.of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State.
Approved, March 21, 1902. No. 12: Authorizing the printing of extra copies of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Pensions. Public Resolution 12 32 Stat. 738 1902-03-28 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 12.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of extra copies of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Pensions.
March 28, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 12](/us/57/pubres/12).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Commissioner of Pensions.Annual report.Extra copies.That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to print and deliver to the Department of the Interior ten thousand copies of Illustrations comitted.Vol. 28, p. 622.the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Pensions for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, from which shall be omitted till illustrations, in addition to the number authorized by the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
Approved, March 28, 1902. No. 13: For appointment of members of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Public Resolution 13 32 Stat. 738 1902-03-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 13.] Joint Resolution For appointment of members of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
March 29, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 13](/us/57/pubres/13).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Board of Managers appointed.That Henry E. Palmer of Nebraska, George W. Steele of Indiana, Walter P. Brownlow of Tennessee, T. J. Henderson of Illinois, and J. M. Brown of Maine 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:
Henry E. Palmer to fill a vacancy caused by the death of General William J. Sewell whose, term of service expires April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four. George W. Steele to succeed himself—his present term of service expiring April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and two. Walter P. Brownlow to succeed General William B. Franklin, whose term of service expires April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and two. T. J. Henderson to succeed himself—his present term of service expiring April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and two.
J. M. Brown to succeed himself—his present term of service expiring April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and two. Approved, March 29, 1902. No. 14: To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to issue certain temporary permits. Public Resolution 14 32 Stat. 738 1902-04-15 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 14.] Joint Resolution To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to issue certain temporary permits. April 15, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 14](/us/57/pubres/14).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Temporary permits for laying electriclight wires, Masonic fair.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to permit electric-light wires to be laid in existing conduits and house connections between such conduits and Convention Hall, to be made for the purpose of supplying additional *Proviso.*Removal of wires.light for the Masonic fair and exposition of nineteen hundred and two: *Provided,* That all such wires shall be removed on or before May tenth, nineteen hundred and two.
Approved, April 15, 1902. No. 15: Granting permission for the erection of a monument in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the ornamentation of the public grounds in that city. Public Resolution 15 32 Stat. 739 1902-04-21 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public 739 [No. 15.] Joint Resolution Granting permission for the erection of a monument in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the ornamentation of the public grounds in that city.
April 21, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 15](/us/57/pubres/15).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That permission be, and the sameCharlotte, N. C.Shipp Monumental Committee may erect monument on public land at. is hereby, granted the Shipp Monumental Committee, of the State of North Carolina, to erect a monument in honor of the late William E. Shipp on the premises upon which the public building and the United States mint are located, in the city of Charlotte and State of North Carolina; said monument to be located under the supervision and Presentation to the United States.direction of the Secretary of the National Treasury and the chairman of the Shipp Monumental Committee; said monument to be presented to the people of the United States by the Shipp Monumental Committee.
Approved, April 21, 1902. No. 16: Providing for a modification in the adopted project for the improvement of Everett Harbor, Washington. Public Resolution 16 32 Stat. 739 1902-04-23 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 16.] Joint Resolution Providing for a modification in the adopted project for the improvement of Everett Harbor, Washington.
April 23, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 16](/us/57/pubres/16).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in carrying on the work ofEverett Harbor, Wash.Improvement plans modifiedVol. 30, p, 1133. improvement of Everett Harbor, Washington, authorized in the river and harbor Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, abandon the dredging and improvement of Old River, and any balance heretofore appropriated or authorized for the present, approved project may be used for the widening or deepening of the harbor basin and channel through the tide flats, and the Secretary of War may take such steps as may seem to him desirable to protect and conserve the work as performed.
Approved, April 23, 1902. No. 17: Postponing the payment of taxes on real estate in the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three from November, nineteen hundred and two, to May, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 17 32 Stat. 739 1902-04-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 17.] Joint Resolution Postponing the payment of taxes on real estate in the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three from November, nineteen hundred and two, to May, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes. April 29, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 17](/us/57/pubres/17).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the collection of taxes onDistrict of Columbia.Payment of real estate taxes postponed to May, 1903.*Ante,* p. 33. real property and improvements thereon in the District of Columbia, which will become payable in the month of November, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, suspended until the month of May, nineteen hundred and three, at which time said taxes shall be due and payable, and the collection thereof shall be enforced in all respects, as provided under existing law for the collection of taxes on real property and improvements thereon, for the tax year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three.
Sec. 2. Board of equalization. etc.Time for completion of work extended.Vol. 28, p. 284.*Ante*, p. 616.That the time for the completion of the duties of the board of equalization and review provided for in sections nine and ten of the Act of Congress approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to provide an immediate revision and equalization of real estate values in the District of Columbia; also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes” be, and is hereby, extended to October thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two.
Approved, April 29, 1902. No. 18: Authorizing the entry free of duty of a replica of the bronze statue of Rochambeau, by Ferdinand Hamar, and pedestal for the same. Public Resolution 18 32 Stat. 740 1902-04-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public 740 [No. 18.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the entry free of duty of a replica of the bronze statue of Rochambeau, by Ferdinand Hamar, and pedestal for the same.
April 29, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 18](/us/57/pubres/18).] Preamble.Vol. 31. p. 1186.Whereas by Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one. the Joint Committee on the Library was authorized to purchase a replica of the bronze statue of Rochambeau, by Ferdinand Hamar, and pedestal for the same; and Whereas a contract has been entered into between said committee and Jules Boeufvé, chancellor and attache of the French embassy to the United States, dated April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, for the purchase thereof, for the sum of seven thousand tire hundred dollars, delivered in Washington, District of Columbia, but which contract provides that said Jules Boeufvé shall not be required to pay any customs duty for the admission of said statue and pedestal at any port of the United States:
Now, therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Rochambeau statue.Admitted free of duty.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to instruct, the collector of customs at the port of importation to admit to entry free of customs duties the said statue and pedestal mentioned and described in said contract. Approved, April 29, 1902. No. 19: Granting permission for the erection of a monument or statue in Washington City, District of Columbia, in honor of the late Benjamin F.
Stephenson, founder of the Grand Army of the Republic. Public Resolution 19 32 Stat. 740 1902-05-03 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 19.] Joint Resolution Granting permission for the erection of a monument or statue in Washington City, District of Columbia, in honor of the late Benjamin F.
Stephenson, founder of the Grand Army of the Republic. May 3, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 19](/us/57/pubres/19).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That permission be, and isDistrict of Columbia.Permission to erect statue to Benjamin F. Stephenson. hereby, granted the Grand Army of the Republic of the United States of America to erect a statue to the memory and in honor of the late Benjamin F. Stephenson, founder of the Grand Army of the Republic of the United States of America, on one of the public reservations of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, other than the grounds of the Capitol or Library of Congress, to be designated by the Secretary of War, the Joint Committee on the Library, the superintendent of public buildings and grounds, and the committee of the Grand Army of the Republic appointed by *Proviso.*Cost of statue.it for that purpose: *Provided, *That the statue, with pedestal, shall cost, not less than fifteen thousand dollars, and that it snail be presented to the people of the United States by the said Grand Army of the Republic.
Approved, May 3, 1902. No. 20: Providing for the printing of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Public Resolution 20 32 Stat. 740 1902-05-13 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 20.] Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.
May 13, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 20](/us/57/pubres/20).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, American Ephemeris anti Nautical Almanac.Change in number printed.*Ante,* p. 678.That hereafter the “usual number” of copies of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac shall not be printed. In lieu thereof there shall be printed and bound one thousand one hundred copies of the same, uniform with the editions printed for the Navy Vol. 28. p. 613.Department, as provided in section seventy-three, paragraph live, of an Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, Distribution.providing for the public printing, binding, and distribution of public documents; one hundred copies for the Senate, four hundred for the House, and six hundred for the Superintendent of Documents for distribution to State and Territorial libraries and designated depositories.
Approved, May 13, 1902. No. 21: Making an additional appropriation for expenses of the dedication of the statue of Marshal de Rochambeau to be unveiled in the city of Washington. Public Resolution 21 32 Stat. 741 1902-05-15 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public 741 [No. 21.] Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for expenses of the dedication of the statue of Marshal de Rochambeau to be unveiled in the city of Washington.
May 15, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 21](/us/57/pubres/21).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the additional sum of tenRochambeau statue.Additional appropriation for dedication expenses. thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Joint Resolution entitled a “Joint Resolution authorizing and requesting the President to extend to the Government and people of France and to the families of Marshal de Rochambeau and Marquis de Lafayette an invitation to join the Government and people of the United States in *Ante*, pp.12,738.the dedication of the monument of Marshal de Rochambeau to be unveiled in the city of Washington” approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and two.
Approved, May 15, 1902. No. 22: Relating to publications of the Geological Survey. Public Resolution 22 32 Stat. 741 1902-05-16 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 22.] Joint Resolution Relating to publications of the Geological Survey. May 16, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 22](/us/57/pubres/22).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That hereafter the publicationsGeological Survey.Publications of. of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of the Director, which shall be confined to one volume of royal octavo size; monographs, of quarto size; professional papers, of quarto size; bulletins, of ordinary octavo size; mineral resources, of ordinary octavo size; water-supply and irrigation papers, of ordinary octavo size: and such maps, folios, and atlases as may be required by existing law.
That hereafter the reports of the Geological Survey, except theReports. annual report, of the Director, shall be published in editions as recommended in each case by the Director and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, but not to exceed ten thousand copies. That whenever the edition of any of the reports of the Survey shallAdditional copies have become exhausted, and the demand for it continues, there shall be published, on the requisition of the Secretary of the Interior, as many additional copies of the report as the Director of the Survey shall state will, in his judgment, be necessary to meet the demand.
That the bulletins and professional papers shall be distributedGratuitous distribution of bulletins, etc. gratuitously, and not sold; and that of the number published one thousand copies snail be delivered to the Senate and two thousand copies shall be delivered to the Mouse of Representatives for distribution. That the provision of law approved June eleventh, eighteenRestriction on water-supply reports rescinded.Vol. 29, p. 453. hundred and ninety-six, restricting the water-supply papers to one hundred pages and to editions of five thousand copies shall be, and hereby is, rescinded.
That the Director of the Survey shall transmit to the LibraryCopies to Library of Congress. of Congress two copies of every report of the Bureau as soon as the first delivery to the Survey is made, such copies to be additional to those received by the Library of Congress under existing law. Approved, May 16, 1902. No. 23: Providing for the printing annually of franks required for sending out seed. Public Resolution 23 32 Stat. 741 1902-05-19 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 23.] Joint Resolution Providing for the printing annually of franks required for sending out seed. May 19, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 23](/us/57/pubres/23).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Public Printer shallAgricultural Department.Seed-distribution franks. furnish to the Department of Agriculture such franks as the Secretary 742of Agriculture may require for sending out seeds on Congressional Inscription.orders, the franks to have printed thereon the facsimile signatures of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates, also the names of their respective States or Territories, and the words “United States Department of Agriculture, Congressional Seed Distribution”, or such other Size.printed matter as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct; the franks to be of such size and style as may be prescribed by the Expense.Secretary of Agriculture; the expense of printing the said franks to be charged to the allotment for printing and binding for the two Houses of Congress.
Approved, May 19, 1902. No. 24: Fixing the time when certain provisions of the Indian appropriation Act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, shall take effect. Public Resolution 24 32 Stat. 742 1902-05-27 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 24.] Joint Resolution Fixing the time when certain provisions of the Indian appropriation Act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, shall take effect.
May 27, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 24](/us/57/pubres/24).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Indian appropriation act.That the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June Date of effect.*Ante*, p. 245.thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes” shall take effect from and after July first, nineteen hundred and two, except as otherwise specially provided therein.
Approved, May 27, 1902. No. 25: Fixing the time when a certain provision of the Indian appropriation Act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, shall take effect. Public Resolution 25 32 Stat. 742 1902-05-27 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 25.] Joint Resolution Fixing the time when a certain provision of the Indian appropriation Act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, shall take effect.
May 27, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 25](/us/57/pubres/25).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Spokane Indian reservation.Mining entries not allowed until December 31,1902.*Ante,* p. 266.That that provision in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes” which relates to the subjecting to entry under the mining laws of the United States certain lands in the Spokane Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, shall not take effect and be operative until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two.
Approved, May 27, 1902. No. 26: To provide for the printing of five thousand copies of the consolidated reports of the Gettysburg National Park Commission, eighteen hundred and ninety-three to nineteen hundred and one, inclusive. Public Resolution 26 32 Stat. 742 1902-05-28 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 26.] Joint Resolution To provide for the printing of five thousand copies of the consolidated reports of the Gettysburg National Park Commission, eighteen hundred and ninety-three to nineteen hundred and one, inclusive.
May 28, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 26](/us/57/pubres/26).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Gettysburg National Park Commission.Printing of consolidated reports.That there be printed five thousand copies of the consolidated reports of the Gettysburg National Park Commission, eighteen hundred and ninety-three to nineteen hundred and one, inclusive, Distribution.of which one thousand shall be for the Senate, two thousand for the House of Representatives, one thousand for the office of the Secretary of War, and one thousand for the Gettysburg National Park Commission.
Approved, May 28, 1902. No. 27: To permit steam railroads in the District of Columbia to occupy additional parts of streets in order to accommodate the traveling public attending the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in October, nineteen hundred and two. Public Resolution 27 32 Stat. 743 1902-06-02 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public 743 [No. 27.] Joint Resolution To permit steam railroads in the District of Columbia to occupy additional parts of streets in order to accommodate the traveling public attending the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in October, nineteen hundred and two. June 2, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 27](/us/57/pubres/27).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Commissioners of theGrand Army Encampment.Occupation of Washington streets by railroads during.
District of Columbia are hereby authorized to issue to steam railroad companies in .said District permits to temporarily occupy additional parts of streets for the purpose of accommodating the traveling public attending the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in October, nineteen hundred and *Proviso.*Limit of time.two: *Provided,* That such temporary occupation shall not exceed the period of fifteen days and shall be subject to conditions prescribed by said Commissioners.
Approved, June 2, 1902. No. 28: Providing for the publication of fifty thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle. Public Resolution 28 32 Stat. 743 1902-06-05 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 28.] Joint Resolution Providing for the publication of fifty thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle.
June 5, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 28](/us/57/pubres/28).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there be printed andDiseases of cattle.Publication of revised special report. bound in cloth fifty thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle, the same to be first revised and brought to date, under Distribution.the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture, thirty thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, fifteen thousand for the use of the Senate, and five thousand for the use of the Department of Agriculture.
Approved, June 5, 1902. No. 29: Authorizing the use and improvement of Governors Island, Boston Harbor. Public Resolution 29 32 Stat. 743 1902-06-05 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 29.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the use and improvement of Governors Island, Boston Harbor.
June 5, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 29](/us/57/pubres/29).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of WarGovernors Island, Boston Harbor, Mass.Permission granted Boston to improve and beautify. is hereby authorized to permit the city of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, to improve and beautify Governors Island, or a portion thereof, situated in said city and belonging to the United States, in connection with mooring berths to be built adjoining said island, and to make such excavations and fillings and erect and maintain such structures as may be considered proper for the purpose; all upon plans to be previously approved by the *Proviso.*Revocable permit.Secretary of War: *Provided,* That the permission given pursuant to this resolution shall not pass any right or title in said island, but shall be revocable at will by the Secretary of War, and the ownership of said island shall remain entirely in the United States, and it shall be subject to such uses for military or other purposes as the Secretary of War may at any time direct.
Approved, June 5, 1902. No. 30: Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan to the Morgan Memorial Association, of Winchester, Virginia, certain Revolutionary trophies at Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Public Resolution 30 32 Stat. 743 1902-06-06 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 30.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan to the Morgan Memorial Association, of Winchester, Virginia, certain Revolutionary trophies at Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
June 6, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 30](/us/57/pubres/30).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of War be,Morgan Memorial Association, Winchester, Va.Revolutionary relies loaned to. and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to loan to the Morgan Memorial Association, Winchester, Virginia, the two twenty-four 744pounder boat howitzers, English (bronze), without carriages, relics of the Revolutionary war, now at the Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to be placed at the grave of General Daniel Morgan in such manner that their safety from unlawful removal will be assured and their return if called for by Congress.
Approved, June 6, 1902. No. 31: Supplementing and modifying certain provisions of the Indian appropriation Act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three. Public Resolution 31 32 Stat. 744 1902-06-19 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 31.] Joint Resolution Supplementing and modifying certain provisions of the Indian appropriation Act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three.
June 19, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 31](/us/57/pubres/31).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Indian appropriation act.Corrections.That the provisions of the Act “Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes” are hereby supplemented and modified as follows:
Spokane Indian Reservation, Wash.The Secretary of the Interior is directed to make allotments in severalty to the Indians of the Spokane Indian Reservation in the Land not allotted open to purchase, etc.*Ante*, p. 266.State of Washington, and upon the completion of such allotments the President shall by proclamation give public notice thereof, whereupon the lands in said reservation not allotted to Indians or used or reserved by the Government, or occupied for school purposes, shall be opened to exploration. location, occupation, and purchase under the mining laws.
Walker River Indian Reservation.Non-irrigable grazing lands.*Ante*, p. 260.In addition to the allotment in severalty of lands in the Walker River Indian Reservation in the State of Nevada, the Secretary of the Interior shall, before any of said lands are opened to disposition under any public land law, select and set apart for the use in common of the Indians of that reservation such an amount of nonirrigable grazing lands therein at one or more places as will subserve tile reasonable requirements of said Indians for the grazing of live stock.
Uintah and White River Utes.Nonirrigable grazing lands.*Ante*, p. 263.*Post,* p. 997.In addition to the allotments in severalty to the Uintah and White River Utes of the Uintah Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, the Secretary of the Interior shall, before any of said lands are opened to disposition under any public land law, select and set apart for the use in common of the Indians of that reservation such an amount of non-irrigable grazing lands therein at one or more places as will subserve the reasonable requirements of said Indians for the grazing of live stock.
Uncompahgre Indians.Allotments confined to agricultural lands.All allotments hereafter made to Uncompahgre Indians of lands in said Uintah Indian Reservation shall be confined to agricultural land which can be irrigated, and shall be on the basis of eighty acres to each head of a family and forty acres to each other Indian, and no Grazing lands.*Ante*, p. 264.more. The grazing land selected and set apart as aforesaid in the Uintah Indian Reservation for the use in common of the Indians of that reservation shall be equally open to the use of all Uncompahgre Indians receiving allotments in said reservation of the reduced area here named.
Allotments in severalty to Indians outside Indian Territory.Vol. 24, p. 388.Insofar as not otherwise specially provided, all allotments in severalty to Indians, outside of the Indian Territory, shall be made in conformity to the provisions of the Act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws *Ante*, p. 260.of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes” and other general Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and shall be subject to all the restrictions and carry all the privileges incident to allotments made under said Act and other general Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. 745 The item of seventy thousand and sixty-four dollars and forty-eightUintah and White River Utes.Payment of claims.*Ante,* p. 264. cents appropriated by the Act which is hereby supplemented and modified, to be paid to the Uintah and White River tribes of Ute Indians in satisfaction of certain claims named in said Act, shall be paid to the Indians entitled thereto without awaiting their action upon the proposed allotment in severalty of lands in that reservation and the restoration of the surplus lands to the public domain.
Approved, June 19, 1902. No. 32: Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish condemned cannon for an equestrian statue of the late Major-General William J. Sewell, United States Volunteers. Public Resolution 32 32 Stat. 745 1902-06-23 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 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 32.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish condemned cannon for an equestrian statue of the late Major-General William J.
Sewell, United States Volunteers. June 23, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 32](/us/57/pubres/32).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of War be,Statue of Maj. Gen, William J. Sewell.Condemned cannon for. and he is hereby, authorized to deliver to the governor of the State of New Jersey, at Trenton, New Jersey, if the same can be done without detriment to the public service, such condemned bronze cannon as he may deem proper, not to exceed fifteen thousand pounds in weight, to be used in the erection of an equestrian statue to the memory of toe late Major-General William J.
Sewell, United States Volunteers. Approved, June 23, 1902. No. 33: Providing for the publication of two hundred thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of the Horse. Public Resolution 33 32 Stat. 745 1902-06-24 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 33.] Joint Resolution Providing for the publication of two hundred thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of the Horse.
June 24, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 33](/us/57/pubres/33).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there be printed andDiseases of the Horse.Publication of revised special report on.Distribution. bound in cloth two hundred thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of the Horse, the same to be first revised and brought up to date, under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, sixty-four thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and eight thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture.
Approved, June 24, 1902. No. 34: Amending “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two. Public Resolution 34 32 Stat. 745 1902-06-24 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 34.] Joint Resolution Amending “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two. June 24, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 34](/us/57/pubres/34).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the law (Public, NumberedOmnibus buildings act.Corrections, One hundred and forty-six) entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes” approved June sixth, nineteen*Ante*, p. 310. hundred and two, be amended so as to transpose the provision for a United States post-office and court-house at Scranton, Scranton, Pa.Pennsylvania, from section four to section one; and the provisions, respectively, for the United States post-office at Moberly, Missouri, for Moberly, Mo.Columbia, Mo.Crookston, Minn.United States post-office at Columbia, Missouri, and for the United States post-office and other governmental offices at Crookston, Minnesota, be transferred from section four to section five of said Act.
Approved, June 24, 1902. No. 35: Relative to the disposition of patent specifications and drawings in the western district of Pennsylvania. Public Resolution 35 32 Stat. 746 1902-06-28 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public 746 [No. 35.] Joint Resolution Relative to the disposition of patent specifications and drawings in the western district of Pennsylvania.
June 28, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 35](/us/57/pubres/35).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Patents, western district Pennsylvania.Deposit of specifications. etc., in Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, Pa.That the set of United States patent specifications and drawings now on deposit in the clerk’s office of the United States district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, pursuant to section four hundred and ninety, Revised Statutes, be removed therefrom and deposited in the [R.
S., secs. 490, 894. pp. 81, 169.](/us/rs/s490/894/p81/169)patent department of the Carnegie Library, in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, subject to the uses specified in sections four hundred and ninety and eight hundred and ninety-four. Revised Statutes; and that hereafter the said patent department of the said Carnegie Library of Pittsburg shall be the place of deposit for the United Stites patent specifications and drawings referred to in section four hundred and ninety, Revised Statutes, instead of the clerk’s office of the United States district court for the western district of Pennsylvania.
Approved, June 28, 1902. No. 36: Providing for the binding and distribution of public documents held in the custody of the Superintendent of Documents, unbound, upon orders of Senators, Representatives, Delegates, and officers of Congress, when such documents are not called for within two years after printing. Public Resolution 36 32 Stat. 746 1902-06-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 36.] Joint Resolution Providing for the binding and distribution of public documents held in the custody of the Superintendent of Documents, unbound, upon orders of Senators, Representatives, Delegates, and officers of Congress, when such documents are not called for within two years after printing. June 30, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 36](/us/57/pubres/36).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public documents.Binding and distribution of reserved sets.Vol. 28, p. 1509.That hereafter the documents reserved for binding upon orders of Senators, Representatives, Delegates, and officers of Congress, as provided in paragraph six. section fifty-four, of an Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, if not called for and delivered within two years after printing, shall be bound in first grades of cloth and delivered to the Superintendent of Documents for distribution to libraries; and the Public Printer is hereby authorized and directed to bind in cloth all such documents heretofore delivered to the Superintendent of Documents for like distribution.
Approved, June 30, 1902. No. 37: Limiting the gratuitous distribution of the “Woodsman’s Handbook” to the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Department of Agriculture. Public Resolution 37 32 Stat. 746 1902-06-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 37.] Joint Resolution Limiting the gratuitous distribution of the “Woodsman’s Handbook” to the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Department of Agriculture.
June 30, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 37](/us/57/pubres/37).] Preamble.Whereas the proprietors of certain copyrighted log scales and other copyrighted matter have consented to the use of such copyrighted matter in the “Woodsman’s Handbook,” a publication prepared in the Bureau of Forestry of the United States Department of Agriculture, under the restriction that no copies whatsoever be sold by any Government office, and, furthermore, that no copies be furnished to any dealer for the purpose of sale; and Whereas sufficient authority to publish and pay for the printing of said “Woodsman’s Handbook” is given in the bill making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture: *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Woodsman’s Hand-book.Distribution and sale restricted.That, in consideration of such consent given by said proprietors, no copies of said “Woodsman’s Handbook” shall be printed or distributed otherwise than by the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the United States Department of Agriculture, and none shall be sold or distributed by the Superin-747tendent of Documents, or furnished to others for sale, anything in the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitledVol. 28, p. 61.
“An act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents” to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 2. That said copyrighted matter, whereverCopyright protection. it appears in said “Woodsman’s Handbook” shall be plainly marked as copyrighted matter, and shall be as fully protected under the copyright laws as though published by the proprietors themselves: and the permission for the use of said matter shall be deemed to be limited to the purposes of this resolution.
Approved, June 30, 1902. No. 38: Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point Arturo R. Calvo, of Costa Rica. Public Resolution 38 32 Stat. 747 1902-06-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 38.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point Arturo R.
Calvo, of Costa Rica. June 30, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 38](/us/57/pubres/38).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretory of War be,Arturo R. Calvo, of Costa Rica, Admitted to West Point.Arturo R. Calvo, of Costa Rica, Admitted to West Point. and he hereby is, authorized to permit Arturo R. Calvo, of Costa Rica, to receive instruction at the Military *Proviso.*No expense.Oath and service.[R. S., secs. 1320, 1321, p. 227](/us/rs/s1320/1321/p227).Academy at West Point: *Provided,* That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby: *And provided further,* That in the case of the said Arturo R.
Calvo the provisions of sections thirteen hundred and twenty and thirteen hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended. Approved, June 30, 1902. No. 39: In relation to monument to prison-ship martyrs at Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York. Public Resolution 39 32 Stat. 747 1902-06-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 39.] Joint Resolution In relation to monument to prison-ship martyrs at Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York. June 30, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 39](/us/57/pubres/39).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there is herebyFort Greene, Brooklyn, N. Y.Appropriation for monument to prison-ship martyrs. appropriated, out, of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars as a part contribution to the erection of a monument in Fort Greene Park, in the borough of Brooklyn, city and State of New York to the memory of the soldiers and sailors of the Colonial forces in the war of the Revolution who perished upon the English *Proviso.*Other contributions,prison ships in New York Harbor: *Provided, however,* That said sums shall not be payable until there has been raised, by private subscription and by public appropriations by the State of New York and municipality of New York, sums aggregating an additional one hundred thousand dollars: *And provided further,*Plans and expenditures.
That said moneys shall not be paid for the erection of a monument, plans for which shall not have been approved by the Secretary of War of the United States and the governor of the State of New York and mayor of the city of New York; and the said moneys shall be expended under the joint supervision of the said Secretary and said governor and said mayor. Approved, June 30, 1902. No. 40: Authorizing the Director of the Census to compile statistics relating to irrigation. Public Resolution 40 32 Stat. 747 1902-06-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 40.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Director of the Census to compile statistics relating to irrigation. June 30, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 40](/us/57/pubres/40).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Director of the CensusIrrigation.Director of Census to compile statistics. be, and hereby is, authorized and directed, upon the completion of 748the volume of agricultural statistics, the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to complete and bring up to date of the crop year of nineteen hundred and two the statistics relating to irrigation, the area of land reclaimed, the cost and value of the works, and such other information as can be obtained bearing upon the present condition of irrigation.
Approved, June 30, 1902. No. 41: Giving authority to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make special regulations for the occasion of the Thirty-sixth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in the District of Columbia in the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes incident to said encampment. Public Resolution 41 32 Stat. 748 1902-06-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 41.] Joint Resolution Giving authority to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make special regulations for the occasion of the Thirty-sixth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in the District of Columbia in the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes incident to said encampment. June 30, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 41](/us/57/pubres/41).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Grand Army Encampment.
D. C.Commissioners authorized to prescribe special regulations.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to make such special regulations for the occasion of the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which will take place in the District of Columbia during the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, as they shall deem advisable for the preservation of public order and the protection of life and property, to be in force one week prior to said encampment, during said encampment, and one week Publication.subsequent thereto.
Such special regulations shall be published in one or more of the daily newspapers of the District of Columbia, and no penalty prescribed for the violation of such regulations shall be enforced until five days after Schedule of cab, etc., fares.Penalty for violation.such publication; and said Commissioners are authorized and directed to establish a special schedule of fares applicable to public conveyances in said District during the period aforesaid. Any person violating any of the aforesaid regulations or the aforesaid schedule of fares shall, upon conviction thereof in the police court of the said District, be liable for such offense to a tine not to exceed one hundred dollars, and in default of payment of such fine to imprisonment in the workhouse (or jail) of said District for not longer than sixty Appropriation.days.
This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its approval, and the sum of eleven thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, payable from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and from the revenues of the District of Columbia, in equal parts, is Public-comfort stations. etc. *Post,* p. 1043.hereby appropriated to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to carry out the provisions of this section one of this joint resolution, one thousand dollars of which shall be available for the construction, maintenance, and operation of public-comfort stations and information booths, under the direction of said Commissioners.
Sec. 2. Illumination.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to permit the committee on illumination of the citizens’ executive committee for the entertainment of the Thirty-sixth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to stretch suitable conductors, with sufficient supports wherever necessary, for the purpose of effecting the said illumination *Provisos.* Limit of use.within the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That the said conductors shall not be used for the conveying of electrical currents after October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and shall, with their supports, be fully and entirely removed from the streets and avenues of the said city of Washington on or before October twentieth, nineteen hundred and two; *Provided further,* Placing and removal of wires.That the stretching and removing of the said wires shall be under the supervision of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia who shall see that the provisions of this resolution are enforced, that all needful precautions are taken for the protection of the public, and that the pavement of any street, avenue, or alley disturbed is replaced in as good condition as before entering upon the work herein 749authorized: *Provided further,* That no expense or damage on accountNonliability for damages, etc. of or due to the stretching, operation, or removing of the said temporary overhead conductors shall be incurred by the United States or the District, of Columbia: *Provided further,* Wires over parks and reservations.That if it shall be necessary to erect wires for illumination purposes over any park or reservation in the District of Columbia that the work of erection and removal of said wires shall be under the supervision of the official in charge of said park or reservation.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War and theLoan of Government flags. Secretary of the Navy be, and they are hereby, authorized to loan to Cuno H. Rudolph, chairman of the subcommittee in charge of street decorations, or his successor in said office, for the purpose of decorating the streets of the city of Washington. District of Columbia, on the occasion of the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, such of the United States ensigns, Hags (except battle flags), signal numbers, and so forth, belonging to the Government of the United States, as in their judgment may be spired and are not in use by the Government at the time of the encampment.
The loan of the said ensigns, flags, signal numbers, and so forth, to said chairman shall not take place prior to the twenty-ninth day of September and shall be returned by him by the fifteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and two. Sec. 4. That for the protection and return ofBond. said ensigns, flags, signal numbers, and so forth, the said Cuno H. Rudolph, or his successor in office, shall execute and deliver to the President of the United States, or to such officer as he may designate, a satisfactory bond in the. penalty of fifty thousand dollars, to secure just payment for any loss or damage to said ensigns, flags, and signal numbers not necessarily incident to the use specified.
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of War is herebyUse of reservations, etc. authorized to grant permits to the citizens’ executive committee for the entertainment of the Grand Army of the Republic for the use of any reservation or other public spaces in the city of Washington on the occasion of the thirty-sixth national encampment in the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, which, in his opinion, will inflict no serious or permanent injuries upon such reservations or public spaces, or statuary therein; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may designate for such and other purposes on the occasion aforesaid such streets, avenues, and sidewalks in said city of Washington as they may deem proper and necessary: *Provided, however.* That all stands or*Proviso.*Stands, etc. platforms that may be erected on the public spaces aforesaid shall be under the supervision of the said citizens’ executive committee and in accordance with plans and designs to be approved by the Architect of the Capitol, the commissioner of public buildings and grounds, and the building inspector of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 6. That the Secretary of War is herebyLoan of tents, etc. authorized to loan to Doctor D. Percy Hickling, chairman of the medical department of the Thirty-sixth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, or his successor in said office, for the purpose of caring for the sick, injured, and infirm on the occasion of the encampment of the Grand Anny of the Republic in the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, such hospital tents and camp appliances and other necessaries, hospital furniture, and utensils of all descriptions, ambulances, horses, drivers, stretchers, and Red Cross flags and poles belonging to the Government of the United States as in his judgment may be spared and are not in use by the Government at the time of the encampment: *Provided,* That the said Doctor D.
Percy*Proviso.*Indemnity. Hickling, or his successor in said office, shall indemnify the War Department for any loss to such hospital tents and appliances as aforesaid not necessarily incident to such use. Approved, June 30, 1902. No. 42: Construing the Act approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act granting pensions to soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated for the performance of manual labor, and providing for pensions to widows, minor children, and dependent parents, and for other purposes.
” Public Resolution 42 32 Stat. 750 1902-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public 750 [No. 42.] Joint Resolution Construing the Act approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act granting pensions to soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated for the performance of manual labor, and providing for pensions to widows, minor children, and dependent parents, and for other purposes.
” July 1, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 42](/us/57/pubres/42).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Disability, etc., pensions.Ninety days’ service.Vol, 26, p, 182.That the Act approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act granting pensions to soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated for the performance of manual labor, and providing for pensions to widows, minor Persons entitled.children, and dependent parents,’’ is construed and held to include all persons and the widows and minor children of all deceased persons, subject to the limitations of said Act, who served for ninety days in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and section forty-seven hundred and sixteen.
Revised [R. S. sec. 4716, p. 919](/us/rs/s4716/p919), amended.*Proviso..*Exceptions.Statutes United States, is amended accordingly: *Provided, however,* That the foregoing shall not apply to those who served in the First, Second, Third. Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth regiments United States Volunteer Infantry who had a prior service in the Confederate army or navy and who enlisted in said regiments while confined as prisoners of war under a stipulation that they were not to be pensionable under the laws of the United States, nor to those who, having had such prior service, enlisted in the military or naval service of the United States after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Sec. 2. Effect of final honorable discharge.That in the administration of the pension laws any enlisted man of the Army, including regulars, volunteers, and militia, or any appointed or enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps, who was honorably discharged from the last contract of service entered into by him during the late war of the rebellion, shall be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from all similar contracts of service previously entered into by him with the United *Proviso.*Conditions.States during said war: *Provided,* That such enlisted or appointed man served not less than six months under said last enlistment or appointment, that his entire service under said last enlistment or appointment was faithful, and that he did not receive by reason of said last enlistment or appointment any bounty or gratuity other than from the United States in excess of that to which he would have been entitled if he had continued to serve faithfully until honorably discharged under any contract of service previously entered into by him, either in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, during the war of the rebellion.
Approved, July 1, 1902. No. 43: Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish condemned cannon for a statue of the late Major-General Alexander Macomb, United States Army. Public Resolution 43 32 Stat. 750 1902-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 43.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish condemned cannon for a statue of the late Major-General Alexander Macomb, United States Army.
July 1, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 43](/us/57/pubres/43).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Statue of Maj. Gen. Alexander Macomb.Condemned cannon for.That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized to deliver to mayor of the city of Detroit, Michigan, if the same can be done without detriment to the public service, such condemned bronze cannon as be nitty deem proper, not to exceed seven thousand pounds in weight, to be used in the erection of a monument to the memory of the late Major-General Alexander Macomb, United States Army.
Approved, July 1, 1902. No. 44: Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish condemned cannon for a monument to the soldiers of Worcester County, Massachusetts, who served in the war for the Union, to be surmounted by an equestrian statue of the late Major-General Charles Devens, United States Volunteers. Public Resolution 44 32 Stat. 751 1902-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public 751 [No. 44.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish condemned cannon for a monument to the soldiers of Worcester County, Massachusetts, who served in the war for the Union, to be surmounted by an equestrian statue of the late Major-General Charles Devens, United States Volunteers. July 1, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 44](/us/57/pubres/44).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of War be,Monument to soldiers of Worcester County, Mass.Condemned cannon for. and he is hereby, authorized to deliver to the governor of the State of Massachusetts at such place as he shall designate, if the same can be done without detriment to the public, service, such condemned bronze cannon as he may deem proper, not to exceed fifteen thousand pounds in weight, to be used in the erection of a monument to the soldiers of Worcester County, Massachusetts, who served in the war for the Statue of Maj.
Gen. Charles Devens.Union, to be surmounted by an equestrian statue of the late Major-General Charles Devens, United States Volunteers. Approved, July 1, 1902. No. 45: Providing for the removal of shoal in North River of New York Harbor. Public Resolution 45 32 Stat. 751 1902-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 45.] Joint Resolution Providing for the removal of shoal in North River of New York Harbor.
July 1, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 45](/us/57/pubres/45).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of WarNew York Harbor.Removal of shoal in North River. is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be removed the rock or obstruction in North River of New York Harbor near Pier Numbered One to a depth of forty feet at mean low tide; and that for such removal he is hereby authorized Diversion of appropriation.*Ante,* p. 463.to divert a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars from the amounts heretofore appropriated or authorized for the improvement of Ambrose Channel, in said harbor.
Approved, July 1, 1902. No. 46: Authorizing certain temporary repairs to the Aqueduct Bridge, District of Columbia. Public Resolution 46 32 Stat. 751 1902-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 46.] Joint Resolution Authorizing certain temporary repairs to the Aqueduct Bridge, District of Columbia.
July 1, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 46](/us/57/pubres/46).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of War be,District of Columbia.Repairs to Aqueduct Bridge.Vol. 29, p, 282. and he is hereby, authorized to spend an amount not exceeding three thousand dollars from the balance of appropriations made for the reconstruction of pier number four of the Aqueduct Bridge, District of Columbia, for the purpose of the examination of. and immediate temporary repairs to, the remaining piers of said bridge in cases of need arising from flood or ice.
Approved, July 1, 1902. No. 47: Reappropriating and making available an unexpended balance of appropriations for work on the Capitol building. Public Resolution 47 32 Stat. 751 1902-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-03-26 57 1 public [No. 47.] Joint Resolution Reappropriating and making available an unexpended balance of appropriations for work on the Capitol building.
July 1, 1902.[[Pub. Res., No. 47](/us/57/pubres/47).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the unexpended balance,Capitol.Balance for repairs reappropriated.Vol. 31, p. 1156. amounting to six thousand six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy cents, of the appropriation for reconstructing and fire-proofing the roof of the central portion of the Capitol building, made by the Sundry Civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three.
Approved, July 1, 1902. PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December, 1902, and was adjourned without day on Tuesday, the third day of March, 1903.* Theodore Roosevelt, President; William P. Frye, President of the Senate *pro tempore;* David B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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