LIST OF TITLES OF PUBLIC ACTS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS WHICH BECAME LAWS IN THE FIRST SESSION, LIID CONGRESS, WITH DATES OF APPROVAL AND AMOUNTS OF APPROPRIATIONS.

1. Fixing the times for holding the District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the Northern District of Iowa. Jan. 22, 1892

2. Providing for the completion for the allotment of lands to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians. Jan. 28, 1892. (Appropriates $15,000 or so much thereof may be necessary.)

3. To amend act entitled "An act granting the right of way to the Hutchinson and Southern Railroad Company through the Indian Territory." Feb. 3, 1892.

4. To amend act entitled "An act to amend the general incorporation law of the District of Columbia," approved May 17, 1892. Feb. 9, 1892.

5. To detach Montgomery County from the Western and add it to the Eastern District of Arkansas. Feb. 9, 1892.

6. To provide for the creation of a Fourth Judicial District in the Territory of Utah. Feb. 11, 1892.

7. To amend an act entitled "An act for the construction of a railroad and wagon bridge across the Mississippi River at South Saint Paul, Minnesota," approved April 26, 1890. Feb. 15, 1892.

8. To change the corporate name of the National Safe Deposit Company, of Washington. Feb. 18, 1892.

9. To extend the privileges of the transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement to the port or Sandusky, Ohio. Feb. 26, 1892.

10. To constitute Newark, in the State of New-Jersey, a port of immediate tran-portation. March 8, 1892.

11. Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the expenses of the Eleventh Census, and for other purposes. March 8, 1892. (Appropri ates $428,664 10.)

12. To provide an additional mode of taking depositions of witnesses in causes pending in the courts of the United States. March 9, 1892.

13. To provide for a term of the Circuit and District Court at Littleton. March 10, 1892.

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14. Ratifying the act of sixteenth territorial Legislative Assembly zona, approved March 19, 1891, making appropriation in aid of Arizona's exhibit at the World's Columbian Expo-ition. March 18, 1892

15. Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in he Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes. March 18, 1892. (Appropriates $160,000.)

16. To provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892. March 18, 1892. (Appropriates $479,641 70.)

17. To prevent fraudulent transactions on the part of commission merchants and other consignees of goods and other property in the District of Columbia. March 21, 1892.

18. To provide for terms of the United States Circuit and District courts at Cumberland, Maryland. March 21, 1892.

19. For the relief of the inhabitants of the town of Chelan, in Okanogan County, State of Washington. March 24, 1892.

20. To set apart a tract of land in the State of California for the use of the Lick Observatory of the Astronomical Department of the University of California. March 25, 1892.

21. To provide for the establishment of a port of delivery at Council Bluffs, Iowa. March 26, 1892.

22. To amend section 1,216 of the Revised Statutes, relating to certificates of merit to the enlisted men of the Army. March 29, 1892.

23. To determine the sessions of the Circuit and District courts of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. March 31,1892.

24. To change the name of the Customs Collection District and Port of Wilnington, California, to Los Angeles, and for other purposes. March 31, 1892.

25. To amend act entitled "An act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the Government for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1881. March 31, 1892. 26. To authorize the appointment of clerk for the Circuit and District courts the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of Arkan as. April 1, 1892.

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27. Granting to the State of South Dakota section numbered 36 in township numbered 94 north of range numbered 56 west, in the County of Yankton, in said State, for the purpose of an asylum for the insane. to correct an act approved June 16, 1880, attempting to make such grant to the Territory of Dakota, and for other pur poses. April 1, 1892.

28. To prevent fraud upon the water revenues of the District of Columbia. April 5, 1892. 29. To protect foreign exhibitors at the World's Columbian Exposition from prosecution for exhibiting wares protected by American patents and trademarks. April 6, 1892.

30. Changing the time for holding the Circuit and District courts in the District of West Virginia. April 6, 1892.

31. Establishing a port of delivery at Des Moines, Iowa.

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32. To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a railroad, wagon, and foot passenger bridge az Burlington, Iowa, approved August 6, 1888," as amended by act approved February 21, 1890. April 7, 1892.

33. To change the time of holding the courts in the Eastern Judicial District of Texas. April 7, 1892. 34. To amend the act concerning officers of the National Home for Disabled Yolunteer Soldiers, and for other purposes. April 11, 1892.

35. To repeal the provisions of an act entitled "An ac to amend sections 4,488 and 4,489 of the Revised Statutes, requiring life-aving appliances on steamers," approved March 2, 1889, so far as they relate to steamers ging exclusively upon any of the lakes, bays, or rounds of the United States. April 11, 1892.

36. Extending the privileges of the first and seventh sections of the act approved June 10, 1880, governing the transportation of merchandise without appraisement, to the port of Ogdensburg, in the State of New-York. April 13, 1892.

37. To extend to Marquette, Michigan, the privilege of immediate transportation of unappraised merchandise. April 13, 1892.

38. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River, between the city of Chamberlain, in Brule County, and Lyman County, South Dakota. April 15, 1892.

39. Authorizing the Velasco Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Brazo, River, Texas. April 15, 1892.

40. Making Velasco a sub-port of entry. April 15, 1892.

41. To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia Kiver, between Oregon and Washington, and to establish it as a post road." April 18, 1892. 42. To change the times for holding the Circuit and District courts of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. April 19, 1892.

43. To establish a military post near Little Rock, Arkansas.

April 23, 1892. 44. To authorize the appointment of an inspector of plumbing in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. April 23. 1892.

45. To extend the time for making an assessment of real estate in the District of Columbia, outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown. April 28. 1892.

46. To empower the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to grant respites and pardons in certain cases. April 28, 1892.

47. To amend the act giving the approval and anction of Congress to the route and termini of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad in the District of Columbia. April 30, 1892.

48. To amend the charter of the Rock Creek Railroad Company. April 30, 1892. 49. To create a third division of the District of Kansas for judicial purposes, and to fix the time for holding court therein. May 3, 1892.

50. To prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States.

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51. Authorizing the Leavenworth and Platte County Bridge Company to sell, transfer, and assign to the Leavenworth Terminal Railway and Bridge Company the rights and franchises as granted by acts of Congress approved February 25 and March 2, 1889, and by act of Congress approved July 25 1890. May 9, 1892.

52. To provide for the permanent preservation and custody of the records of the volunteer armies, and for other purposes. May 9, 1892.

53. To encourage American chipbuilding. May 10, 1892.

54. Making appropriations for expenses that may be incurred under the treaties be tween the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February 29, and April 18. 1892. (Appropriates $150,000.) May 11, 1892.

55. To punish false swearing before trial boards of the Metropolitan police force and fire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. May 11, 1892.

56. To establish sub-ports of entry and delivery at Superior, Wisconsin, and at Ashland, Wisconsin, in the Superior Collection District of Michigan and Wisconsin. May 11, 1892.

57. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at DeWitt, Carroll County, Missouri, and to establish it as a post road. May 12, 1892. 58. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Osage River, between the town of Warsaw and the mouth of Turkey Creek, in Benton County, Missouri. May 12, 1892.

59. To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the ance Company of Washington." Approved February 14, 1865. 60. To establish a military post at or near the city of Clarke County, Montana. May 12, 1892.

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61. To authorize a National bank at Chicago, Illinois, to establish a branch office upon the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition. May 12. 1892.

62. To provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, and for other purposes. (Appropriates $1.228.636.) May 13. 1892.

63. To authorize the construction of a telephone line on the coast of Virginia from Cape Charles to Assateague Island, in aid of the preservation of life and property. May 13. 1892.

64. To amend act entitled "An act relating to tax sales and taxes in the District of Columbia.” May 13, 1892.

65. Authorizing the con-truction of a wagon and motor bridge over the Missouri River at Saint Charles, Missouri. May 23, 1892.

66. To provide for a term of the United States Circuit and District Courts at Evanston, Wyoming. May 23, 1892.

67. To vacate that part of Madison-st., Georgetown, west of Back-st., and extend Y-st. in Burleith, in the District of Columbia. May 25, 1892.

68. For the relief of holders of drawback certificates ssued under an act of Congress approved June 2, 1890. May 25, 1892.

69. For the protection of livery-stable keepers and other persons keeping hores at livery within the District of Columbia. May 31, 1892.

70. Making Laredo, Texas, a sub-port of entry. June 3, 1892.

71. To amend sections 2,807 and 2.881 of the Revised Statutes. June 3, 1892. 72. To repeal the license tax of $25 per year now imposed upon produce dealers in the markets of the District of Columbia. June 3, 1892.

73. To establish West Point, Virginia, a subport of entry and delivery in the Collection District of Richmond, Virginia. June 4, 1892.

74. For the regulation of the practice of dentistry in he District of Columbia, and for the protection of the people from empiricism in relatio, thereto. June 6, 1892. 75. To establish a railway bridge across the Illinois River, between a point at or near the city of Havana, in Mason County, and a point on the opposite side of aid river, in Fulton County, Illinois. June 6, 1892.

76. To enable the Centennial Board of Finance, incorporated by an act approved June 1, 1872, to close its affairs, and dissolving said corporation. June 6, 1892. 77. Granting to the Topeka Water and Electric Power Company of Kansas the right to erect and maintain a dam or dams acro-s the Kansas River, within Shawnee County, Kansas. June 6, 1892.

78. To authorize building a bridge over Tennessee River. June 6, 1892.

79. To authorize the Illinois and Iowa Railway and Terminal Company to build a bridge across the Missisippi River at Moline, Illinois. June 8. 1892.

80. Donating twenty acres of land from the Fort Sidney Military Reservation, on the northest corner thereof, to the city of Sidney, Nebraska, for cemetery purposes. June 10, 1892.

81. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year 1892, and other purposes. (Appropriates $7,688.332.) June 14, 1892.

82. Granting the use of certain lands to the city of New-Bedford, Massachus ta for a public park. June 15, 1892.

83. To authorize the Glen Echo Railroad Company to cross the Washington Aqueduct. June 15, 1892.

84. To provide for the disposition and sale of lands known as the Klamath River Indian Reservation. June 17, 1892.

85. Granting the right and authority to the Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Company, a company organized under the laws of Florida and Alabama, to build one bridge over each of the following named rivers in Alabama, namely: The Alabama River, the Warrior River, the Sipsey River and the Tennessee River; the said bridges to be used by the Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Company in carrying freight and passengers by rail and otherwise. June 21, 1892.

86. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the city of Yankton, South Dakota. June 22, 1892.

87. Authorizing the Continental Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Rio Grande River at or near Brownsville, Texas. June 22, 1892.

88. Authorizing the Quincy Pontoon Bridge Company to construct and maintain a pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at the city of Quincy, Illinois. June 22,

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89. To include lot numbered 53 in block 89 at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the public reservation at that place. June 22, 1892.

90. To confirm New-Madrid location Survey numbered 2,475, and to provide for the issue of a patent therefor. June 24, 1892.

91. To provide an American register for the steamer Foxhall, of New-Orleans, Louisiana. June 25, 1892.

92. To amend act entitled "An act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes." June 25, 1892.

93. To relinquish the interest of the United States in a certain parcel of land in the city of Pensacola, Florida, to Escambia Lodge, No. 15, Free and Accepted Masons. June 25, 1892.

94. To prevent cruelty to children or animals in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. June 25, 1892.

95. To amend act entitled "An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purpo es," approved June 10, 1880. by extending the privileges of the seventh section thereof to the port of Saint Augustine, Florida. June 30, 1892.

96. For the relief of the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company. June 30, 1892. 97. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect certain recommendations of the Mission Indian Commission, and to issue patents for certain lands. July 1, 1892.

98. To provide for the opening of a part of the Colville Reservation, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes. (Received by the President June 20, 1892, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution, became a law without his approval.) 99. To amend the charter of the Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railroad Company. July 5, 1892.

100. To incorporate the District of Columbia Suburban Railway Company. July 5, 1892.