May 1, 1886. [No. 12.] Joint resolution to amend the statute in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes, approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, so that the provisions of the same shall be extended to the port of Key West, Florida, and the provisions of the seventh section of the statute be extended to the port of Tampa, Florida. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Provisions of im- of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the first and mediate transpor- seventh sections of the act entitled "An act to amend the statutes in tation extended relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other to Key West and Tampa, Fla. purposes," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, be exVol. 21, pp. 173, tended to the port of Key West, Florida; and that the provisions of the seventh section of the same act be extended to Tampa, Florida. And all the other provisions of said act shall apply to both said ports and to all goods and merchandise therein mentioned. 174. Approved, May 1, 1886. June 28, 1886. [No. 15.] Joint resolution fixing the time when the pay of certain clerks to committees of House of Representatives shall begin. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Committee of America in Congress assembled, That the pay of the clerks to comclerks, House of mittees of the House of Representatives which have been or may be Representatives. Pay of, to com- hereafter authorized by the House, who are paid during the session mence from date only shall begin from the time such clerks entered upon the discharge of entering upon of their duties, which shall be ascertained and evidenced by the certifitheir duties. cate of the chairman of the several committees employing clerks for the session only. Approved, June 28, 1886. June 30, 1886. Preamble. [No. 17.] Joint resolution for the relief of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Company. Whereas the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Company, successor to the Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad Company, has, under and in accordance with the provisions of "An act to secure the rights of settlers upon certain railroad lands, and to repeal the first five sections of an act entitled 'An act granting lands to the State of Kansas to aid in the construction of the Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad and its extension to Red River,' approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six ", restored to the United States all the unsold lands received by it under its land-grant herein specified, and paid into the Treasury the proceeds of all land sold: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Kansas City, of America in Congress assembled, That the said Kansas City, Fort Fort Scott and Scott and Gulf Railroad Company, successor to the Missouri River, Company entitled Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Company, shall be, and is hereby declared to full compensa- to be, entitled to the payment in full of all compensation earned hereto tion for carrying fore by said last-mentioned company in transporting mails and military mails, troops, etc. and other supplies for the Government, to the same extent and effect Gulf Railroad as though no lands had been granted for the benefit of said company; and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby required to audit and pay all such accounts, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same as if no lands had been granted to said company. Approved June 30, 1886. [No. 18.] Joint resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government. July 1, 1886. Post, p. 345. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all appropriations for the neces- Temporary prosary operations of the Government under existing laws which shall vision for expenses remain unprovided for on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred of the Government for fifteen days. and eighty-six be, and they are hereby continued and made available for a period of fifteen days from and after that date, unless the regular appropriations therefor provided for in bills now pending in Congress, shall have been previously made for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; and in case the appropriations, or any of them, hereby continued, are or is, insufficient to carry on the said necessary operations, a sufficient amount is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro priated, to carry on the same: Provided, That no greater amount shall be expended therefor than will be in the same proportion to the appropriations of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as fifteen days time bears to the whole of said fiscal year: Provided further, That authority is also granted for continuing during the same period the necessary work required for public printing and binding, and for all other miscellaneous objects embodied in the sundry civil and naval appropriation acts, in advance of appropriations to be hereafter made for said objects: And provided further, All sums expended under this act shall be charged to and be deducted from the appropriations for like service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Approved, July 1, 1886. [No. 19.] Joint resolution to print an addition to a report on wages ordered printed January seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. July 3, 1886. States and Great Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, Report on relative and he is hereby, authorized and directed to print as an addition to the wages in United report on the Statistics of Wages in Manufacturing Industries, pre- Britain to be printpared by Mr Joseph D. Weeks and ordered printed by the House of ed as addition to Representatives January seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty- statistics of wages four, a report on the Relative Wages in the United States and Great in manufacturing Britain, compiled by Mr Weeks. SEC. 2. That a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated to prepare said report for publication. Approved, July 3, 1886. industries. Appropriation. [No. 20.] Joint resolution appointing managers for the national homes for disabled soldiers to fill vacancies in the board which occurred by expiration of terms on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. July 3, 1886. National Home unteer Soldiers. Appointment of Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That General William J. Sewell, of the State of New Jersey; General Martin T. McMahon, of the State of for Disabled VolNew York; and Captain John L. Mitchell, of the State of Wisconsin, be, and they are hereby, appointed managers of the national homes for managers. disabled soldiers, to fill vacancies which occurred by reason of the expiration of the terms of members of the board on the twenty first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Approved, July 3, 1886. July 3, 1886. Distribution. [No. 21.] Joint resolution providing for printing the First Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Report of Bureau of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed fifty-four thouof Labor to be sand copies, in cloth binding, of the First Annual Report of the Comprinted. missioner of Labor; twenty-six thousand copies for use of members of the House of Representatives, and thirteen thousand copies for use of members of the Senate, and fifteen thousand copies for the use of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Labor, the latter number to be wrapped for mailing in such manner as the Secretary of the Inte rior may direct. Appropriation. SEC. 2. That the sum of eighteen thousand eight hundred and eight dollars and twenty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary to defray the cost of the publication of said report, and the further sum of two hundred and seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to defray the cost of wrapping fifteen thousand copies for the Department of the Interior, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 3, 1886. July 8, 1886. [No. 22.] Joint resolution for the printing of certain eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Joseph Rankin Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Joseph Rankin. of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed of the culogies Printing eulogies. delivered in Congress upon the late Joseph Rankin, a representative Distribution. Portrait. in the Forty-ninth Congress from the State of Wisconsin, twelve thousand five hundred copies, of which three thousand shall be for the use of the Senate and nine thousand five hundred for the use of the House of Representatives. And the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to have printed a portrait of the said Joseph Rankin to accompany said eulogies; and for the purpose of engraving or printing said portrait the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 8, 1886. July 15, 1886. Michael Hahn. Distribution. [No. 23.] Joint resolution providing for printing eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Michael Hahn. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed of the eulogies Printing eulogies. delivered in Congress upon the late Michael Hahn, a Representative in the Forty-ninth Congress from the State of Louisiana, twelve thousand five hundred copies, of which three thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate and nine thousand five hundred for the use of the House of Representatives. And the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have printed a portrait of the said Michael Hahn, to accompany said eulogies, and for the purpose of engraving and printing said portrait the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Portrait. Approved, July 15, 1886. [No. 24.] Joint resolution to continue the provisions of a joint resolution approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled a "Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government." July 15, 1885. Temporary pro Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a "Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the vision for expenses expenditures of the Government," approved July first, eighteen hundred of the Government extended to July and eighty-six, be, and the same are hereby, extended and continued in 31, 1886. full force and effect to and including the thirty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Approved, July 15, 1886. [No. 25.] Joint resolution authorizing the publication of an edition of "A Digest of International Law," edited by Francis Wharton. See ante, p. 343. July 28, 1886. Digest of Inter Printing author Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed the usual number of copies of "A Digest of the International Law of the United national Law. States, taken from the Opinions of Presidents and Secretaries of State, ized. and of Attorneys-General, and from the Decisions of Federal Courts, and of Joint International Commissions in which the United States was a Party;" and that there be printed, in addition to said usual number, one thousand copies for the use of the State Department, one thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and two thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives; said Digest to be printed under the editorial supervision of Francis Wharton, and the editing to Editing. be paid for at a price to be fixed by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, acting with the Joint Committee on Printing, not to exceed ten thousand dollars. Approved, July 28, 1886. [No. 26.] Joint resolution directing the Public Printer to forward the Congressional Record to our legations abroad. July 28, 1886. Congress i o nal 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 forward, free of charge, through the Record. Department of State, one copy of the daily Congressional Record to To be sent to leeach of our legations abroad, commencing at the beginning of the gations abroad. present session. Approved, July 28, 1886. [No. 27.] Joint resolution authorizing the preparation of a compilation of the reports of committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. July 29, 1886. sentatives, to be Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be prepared under the Compilation of direction of the Joint Committee of Printing, a compilation of the reports of commit reports of the Senate and House of Representatives from the Four- tees, Senate and teenth to the Forty-eighth Congress, inclusive, classified by commit- House of Repretees, arranged, indexed, and bound in suitable volumes for the use of prepared. the standing committees of the two Houses of Congress. And the sum of seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the preparation of said work, which sum may be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury upon the order of the chairman of said Joint Committee, as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States. Appropriation. Reports of com bound. Resolved further, That the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the mittees to be Senate be, and they are hereby directed, to procure and file, for the use of their respective Houses, copies of all reports made by each committee of all succeeding Congresses; and that the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed at the close of each session of Congress, to cause said reports to be indexed and bound, one copy to be deposited in the library of each House and one copy in the room of the committee from which the reports emanated. Approved, July 29, 1886. July 29, 1886. Lieutenants Giles To be credited [No. 28.] Joint resolution to credit Lieutenants Giles B. Harber and William H. Schuetze with sea duty and sea pay while engaged in the search for Lieutenant Chipp and party, and also for the time employed in bringing home the remains of Lieutenant-Commander De Long and party. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States B.Harber and Will- of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, iam H. Schuetze., and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit Lieutenant Giles B. with sea duty and Harber and William H. Schuetze with the highest rate of pay attached pay while search to their respective grades during their absence from the United States ing for Lieutenant while employed in the search on the Lena Delta for Lieutenant Chipp Chipp and party and party, and also while engaged in transporting to the United States and bringing home remains of Lieu- the remains of Lieutenant-Commander George W. De Long and his tenant- Command- associates; all payments to be made from the current appropriations for er De Long and pay miscellaneous. party. Approved, July 29, 1886. August 2, 1886. Convict labor. [No. 29.] Joint resolution authorizing and directing the Commissioner of Labor to make an investigation as to convict labor, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Labor be, Commissioner of and he is hereby, authorized and directed, under the direction of the Labor to investi- Secretary of the Interior, to make a full investigation as to the kind gate and report and amount of work performed in the penal institutions of the several upon. August 4, 1886. States and Territories of the United States and the District of Columbia, as to the methods under which convicts are or may be employed, and as to all the facts pertaining to convict labor and the influence of the same upon the industries of the country, and embody the results of such investigation in his second annual report to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the investigation hereby authorized can be carried out under the appropriations made for the expenses of the Bureau of Labor for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Approved, August 2, 1886. [No. 30.] Joint resolution providing for the printing and distribution of documents of the monetary conferences of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and the report of the monetary commission created under the joint resolution of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Reports of monof America in Congress assembled, That there be printed and bound in etary conferences, cloth five thousand copies each of the Reports of the International and commission to Monetary Conferences of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and eightbe printed. een hundred and eighty-one; also the report of the monetary commission created under the joint resolution of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, being Senate report Number seven hundred and three, Second Session Forty-fourth Congress, with such indices to |