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designate the distributees of their quota of said official Records or any part thereof, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved July Vol. 28, pp. 190, 975. thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and the Joint Resolution approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to the extent and in the manner and form provided in said Act. Approved, January 30, 1896.

[No. 12.] Joint Resolution Concerning the erection and completion (except heating apparatus) of the United States Post Office Building at Bloomington, Illinois. Whereas, A clause in the sundry civil appropriation Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five (18 Stat., 395) relating to public buildings, provides: "No change in said plan involving an increase of expense exceeding ten per centum of the amount to which said building was limited, shall be allowed or paid by any officer of the Government without the special authority of Congress;" and Whereas, During the last recess of Congress the contract for the erection and completion (except heating apparatus) of the United States Post Office building at Bloomington, Illinois, was let for an amount less than the estimated cost and it became advisable for the Secretary of the Treasury to so modify the drawings and specifications for said building as to provide fire-proof construction and improved design; now, therefore, be it

February 5, 1896.

Preamble.
Vol. 18, p. 395.

Bloomington, Ill.
Change in construc-

authorized.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: That the Secretary of the Treasury tion of public building be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to construct and complete the above named building as may be shown and called for by modified drawings and specifications: Provided, That the present appropriation for said building and its site shall not be exceeded. Approved, February 5, 1896.

Proviso.
Limit not extended.

[No. 13.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to use a portion of the appropriation for new iron roof for foundry at navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes," for repairs to the walls of said foundry.

February 7, 1896.

Navy.

thorized.
Vol. 28, p. 832.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, Repairs to foundry, and he is hereby, authorized to use such part of the thirty-three Washington, D. C., au thousand dollars appropriated for new iron roof for foundry in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes," under the caption "Public works-Bureau of Yards and Docks, navy-yards and stations, Naval Academy, and New Naval Observatory," and under the subhead "Navy-Yard, Washington, District of Columbia," as may be necessary for repairs to the walls of said foundry.

Approved, February 7, 1896.

[No. 14.] Joint Resolution To supply the Department of State with documents. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to print, in addition to the usual number, and furnish the Department of State with twenty copies of each Senate and House of Representatives document and report.

Approved, February 7, 1896.

February 7, 1896.

Department of State.
Documents to be fur-

nished.

February 13, 1896.

Use of White Lot for

Convention authorized.

[No. 16.] Joint Resolution Granting use of White Lot and Monument Grounds to "The Committee of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six."

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States District of Columbia, of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby Christian Endeavor authorized to grant to the committee known as "The Committee of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six," of which W. H. H. Smith is chairman, having charge in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of the arrangements for the Fifteenth International Christian Endeavor Convention, permits for the temporary occupation and use, during July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, of the reservation or public space known as the White Lot for the purpose of erecting three great tents and the necessary platforms, seatings, capable of seating about ten thousand persons each, for the meeting places of the Fifteenth International Christian Endeavor Convention, to be held July eighth to thirteenth, inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and such smaller tents as may be required for the distribution of literature, together with such portions of the Monument Grounds as said committee may require, if in his opinion such use will inflict no serious or permanent injury upon such grounds, reservation, or public space: Provided, That said "Committee of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six" guarantee, at their own cost and expense, to restore and make good any temporary injury that may be inflicted to said grounds by reason of their use thereof. Approved, February 13, 1896.

Proviso.

Guarantee against injury.

February 20, 1896.

[No. 17.] Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to defray the joint expense of locating the boundary line between the Territory of Alaska and the British North American territory.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Alaskan boundary of America in Congress assembled, That in view of the expediency of Appropriation for share in expense of forthwith negotiating a convention with Great Britain for marking conmaking, etc. venient points upon the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude, where it forms, under existing treaty provisions, the boundary line between the Territory of Alaska and the British North American territory, and to enable the President to execute the provisions of such convention without delay when concluded, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, under the direction of the President, to defray the share of the United States in the joint expense of locating said meridian and marking said boundary by an international commission.

Approved, February 20, 1896.

February 26, 1896.

Biscayne Bay, Fla. Appropriation for survey, etc.

[No. 18.] Joint Resolution Providing for certain surveys in the State of Florida. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be and the same hereby is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, for a survey and plans for the improvement of the entrance to Biscayne Bay, Florida, as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in his letter of February 26th, 1895; and for a survey and plans for the construction of a break water at Palm Beach, Florida; and the Secretary of War is directed to report the result of such surveys, together with plans and estimates for contemplated improvements, to Congress at the earliest practicable moment.

Approved, February 26, 1896.

[No. 19.] Joint Resolution Extending the provisions of section seventy-nine of February 26, 1896. "An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents," approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, so as to include monographs, bulletins, and reports of the Geological Survey published in eighteen hundred and ninety-four and succeeding years.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of section seventyGeological Survey. Distribution of pub. nine of "An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the lications. distribution of public documents," approved January twelfth, eighteen Vol. 28, p, 621. hundred and ninety-five, which section reads as follows: "There shall be distributed of monographs, bulletins, and reports of the United States Geological Survey, now in possession of said Survey, being publications prior to the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one copy of every such publication to every public library which shall be designated to the superintendent of documents, as follows: Two public libraries to be designated by each of the Senators from the States, respectively, two public libraries by the Representative in Congress from each Congressional district, and two public libraries by the Delegate from each Territory; such public libraries to be additional to those to which said publications are distributed under existing law," shall be extended to the monographs, bulletins, and reports of the Geological Survey which were published during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and to those which have been published since that year, and to those which may be published in the future: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere with the distribution of memoirs and reports, so far as the same is provided for by the joint resolution "To distribute copies of special memoirs and reports of the United States Geological Survey," approved March third, eighteen bundred and eighty-seven.

Approved, February 26, 1896.

Proviso. Distribution of me.

moirs not affected.

Vol. 24, p. 647.

[No. 20.] Joint Resolution Calling upon the Secretary of War for certain information in relation to the harbor at Manitowoc, in the State of Wisconsin.

March 2, 1896.

Manitowoc, Wis.
Plans for improving

the House.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, requested to furnish the House with such information as harbor to be furnished he may have in his possession as to (first) the plans of the proposed project for the establishment of a channel of the depth of from twenty to twenty-one feet in the harbor of the city of Manitowoc, in the State of Wisconsin; (second) the approximate cost of such project; and (third) whether the same could not be advantageously adopted as a needed addition to or extension of the existing Government improvements at that harbor.

Approved, March 2, 1896.

[No. 22.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates for work upon Newtown Creek, New York.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to submit estimates for work upon Newtown Creek, New York, with a view to secure a depth of eighteen feet and a width of one hundred and twenty-five feet at low water from its mouth to the head of navigation, in accordance with the plans heretofore submitted.

Approved, March 11, 1896.

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March 13, 1896.

[No. 23.] Joint Resolution To print the Annual Report of the General Superin. tendent of the Life-Saving Service.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Life-Saving Service, of America in Congress assembled, That section eighty-nine, second proEdition of Annual Report not limited. viso, of the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, an Act providing for the public printing and binding, and so forth, be, and is hereby, amended by inserting after the words "tide tables' coast pilots," the words "Annual Report of the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service,”.

Approved, March 13, 1896.

March 13, 1896.

World's Columbian

Exposition.

Distribution of med

als and diplomas.

[No. 24.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to distribute the medals and diplomas awarded by the World's Columbian Commission to the exhibitors entitled thereto.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to distribute the medals and diplomas of the World's Columbian Exposition to the several exhibitors entitled thereto, as designated and certified by the report of the Executive Committee on Awards to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the Bureau of the Mint, and to this end the Secretary of the Treasury may adopt any method, or create any and all agencies, which to him may seem proper and necessary for the distribution of said medals and diplomas. But in case any of the exhibitors cannot be found who may be entitled to medals and diplomas, then, in every such case, such medals and diplomas shall be retained by the Secretary of the Treasury until they are called for by the exhibitors entitled thereto, or by persons To be sent free in authorized to receive the same. And the said Secretary in the distribution of the medals and diplomas may transmit the same through the Appropriation for mails free of charge. And the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out this resolution, and for the purposes hereof the said Secretary may temporarily employ, under such regulations as he may prescribe, the force now engaged in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in connection with the preparation of said diplomas, or so much of said force as may be necessary, said appropriation to be immediately available.

the mails.

expenses.

Approved, March 13, 1896.

March 13, 1896.

Jefferson City, Mo. ing for county courts,

one year.

Provisos.
Repairs, etc.

[No. 25. Joint Resolution Granting the county of Cole, Missouri, permission to use certain rooms in the United States building at Jefferson City, Missouri.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That full permission be, and the same is hereby, granted to the county of Cole, State of Missouri, to occupy the United States court room and two jury rooms connected therewith in the United States building at Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, during the months of March, July, and November, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the purpose of holding sessions of the circuit court of said Cole County therein, and that during said occupation concurrent jurisdiction, so far as it is necessary, over said building be, and is hereby, ceded to the State of Missouri and to said county of Cole, so that the sessions of said court in said building and rooms may be, during said period, fully legalized: Provided, That said rooms shall be kept in good repair at the expense of said county of Cole, and at the end of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, the use of said rooms shall be relinquished to the United States by said county, the premises to be in as good condition as before their occupancy by said circuit court of Cole

to interfere

with Federal sessions.

Prior termination of

use.

County: Provided further, That the sessions of said circuit court of Not
Cole County shall in no way interfere with the sessions of the circuit
and district courts of the United States: Provided further, That the
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized in his discretion at any time to
terminate this permit and the possession hereby granted of said prem-
ises upon thirty days' notice to the judges of the county court of said
county.

Approved, March 13, 1896.

March 13, 1896.

Conneaut, Ohio.
Plan for improving

[No. 26.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit a plan and estimate for the further improvement of Conneaut Harbor, in the State of Ohio. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to submit a plan and estimate for the further harbor to be subimprovement of Conneaut Harbor, in the State of Ohio, and to transmit mitted. the same to Congress at as early a date as practicable. Approved, March 13, 1896.

[No. 27.] Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase and distribute seeds, bulbs, and so forth, as has been done in preceding years.

March 14, 1896.

Seeds, etc.

10

Secretary of Agriculture directed purchase and distrib

ute.

Vol. 28, p. 733.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase and distribute valuable seeds for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as has been done in preceding years; and as the public exigency requires that the valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, to be purchased may be ready for distribution at the earliest possible date, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to procure them by open purchase or contract at the places and in the manner in which such articles are usually bought and sold: Provided, That the said Secretary Proviso. shall not, in said purchase, pay more than a reasonable and fair price for such commodities or for any of them. Received by the President, March 3, 1896.

[NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]

Price.

[No. 28.] Joint Resolution For the return to the State of New Hampshire of the flag of the Eleventh Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to return to the State of New Hampshire the regimental flag of the Eleventh Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.

Approved, March 16, 1896.

[No. 29.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the National Dredging Company to proceed with the work of dredging the channel of Mobile Harbor, under the direction of the Secretary of War.

March 16, 1896.

Regimental flag.

To be returned to

New Hampshire.

March 16, 1896.

Mobile, Ala.
Dredging of harbor

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the National Dredging Company, the contractor under the continuing contract for the improvement to continue under 54-1-31

present contract.

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