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Payments.

Limit.

Vol. 27, p. 92.

of the harbor at Mobile, Alabama, proceed with the work of dredging, under the direction of the Secretary of War, until the channel under improvement shall be completed to a width of two hundred and eighty feet and a depth of twenty-three feet for its full width of two hundred and eighty feet, payment therefor to be made at the rate specified in said contract, seven and seven-tenths cents per cubic yard, out of appropriations as they shall hereafter from time to time be made: Provided, That the payments upon said contract shall be held to be due only after appropriation shall have been made therefor, and shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum limited for said work in the appropriation bill of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, authorizing a continuing contract for said work.

Approved, March 16, 1896.

March 19, 1896.

Preamble.

Federal census.

Plan for permanent

mitted.

[No. 30.] Joint Resolution Relating to the Federal census.

Whereas representatives of various Governments which make decennial enumerations of the people are making efforts to secure uniformity in the inquiries to be used in future censuses; and

Whereas also it is expedient to give early consideration to some comprehensive plan for the establishment of a permanent census service: Therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Labor, now service to be sub. in charge of the Eleventh Census, is hereby authorized and directed to correspond and confer with the census officers of other Governments for the purpose of securing uniformity in the inquiries relating to the people to be used in future censuses; and that said Commissioner is also hereby directed to report to Congress for its consideration, as soon as practicable, a plan for a permanent census service.

Approved, March 19, 1896.

March 19, 1896.

Preamble.

ord.
and House libraries in-
creased.

[No. 31.] Joint Resolution Directing the Public Printer to supply the Senate and House Libraries each with ten additional copies of the Congressional Record.

Whereas the number of copies of the Congressional Record provided for the Senate Library by section seventy-three of the Act in regard to public printing, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, has proved insufficient to supply the needs of the Senate: Therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Congressional Rec. of America in Congress assembled, That section seventy-three of the Act Number to Senate of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, which reads: "To the Senate and House Libraries, ten copies each," be so amended as to read: "To the Senate and House Libraries twenty copies each."

Vol. 28, p. 617.

Approved, March 19, 1896.

March 20, 1896.

John P.J.Ryan, John

R. Morris, and Chester
Wells.

May be appointed

assistant engineers,
Navy.

Provisos.
Examination.

[No. 32.] Joint Resolution For the relief of ex-Naval Cadets John P. J. Ryan, John R. Morris, and Chester Wells.

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: That the President of the United States be, and he is, hereby authorized to nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint John P. J. Ryan, John R. Morris, and Chester Wells to be assistant engineers in the Navy: Provided, That they shall pass an examination in steam engineering

which shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Navy: And provided, further, That they shall take rank and receive pay only from the date of their appointments and shall rank with each other in the order of merit as shown by the examination herein provided for.

Approved, March 20, 1896.

[No. 33.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to make a survey and submit an estimate for a breakwater in Marquette Bay.

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 report to Congress, as soon as possible, a survey of a proposed break water, not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand feet in length, extending into Marquette Harbor, or Bay, in Lake Superior, from the southeast corner, or headland, of Presque Isle, together with an estimate of the cost of such breakwater.

Approved, March 20, 1896.

[No. 34.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates for necessary repairs at Cleveland Harbor.

Date and rank.

March 20, 1896.

Marquette Bay,

Mich.
Survey for break-

water directed.

March 23, 1896.

Cleveland, Ohio.
Estimate for repairs

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 report to Congress, as soon as to piers, etc., directed. possible, what repairs are necessary to be made to the piers and breakwater in the harbor at Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, to preserve the same, and what would be the cost of making such necessary repairs; and also to report what changes, if any, should be made in the location of said piers, and what would be the cost of the same. Approved, March 23, 1896.

[No. 35.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to furnish an estimate for deepening the channel from Hampton Roads to the navy-yard at Norfolk, Virginia, and also for improving the western branch of the Elizabeth River.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, requested to furnish estimates as early as possible of the cost of broadening and deepening a channel to a width of one hundred and fifty yards and to a depth of twenty-eight feet from Hampton Roads to the United States navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, and also of improving the western branch of Elizabeth River and making the channel two hundred feet wide and twenty feet deep for a distance of about one mile, as indicated by the report of General Thomas L. Casey, Chief of Engineers, in Appendix J fifteen, of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for eighteen hundred and ninety-five, pages thirteen hundred to thirteen hundred and two.

Approved, March 24, 1896.

[No. 36.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit plans and estimates for the improvement of Fairport Harbor.

March 24, 1896.

Norfolk, Va.

Estimates for deep

ening channel Hamp ton Roads and Eliza mitted.

beth River to be sub

March 24, 1896.

Fairport, Ohio.
Survey, etc, of har-

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 report to Congress a re-survey bor directed. of the Port of Fairport in the County of Lake and State of Ohio, with an estimate of the cost of such improvements as may be recommended by the Engineers in charge.

Approved, March 24, 1896.

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April 6, 1896.

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[No. 38.] Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing Bernard R. Green to exercise the duties and powers heretofore conferred upon the late General Thomas L. Casey, in relation to the construction and completion of the Library of Congress.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Bernard R. Green be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to assume and exercise all of the duties and powers heretofore conferred by law upon the late Brigadier-General Thomas L. Casey, in relation to the construction and completion of the Library of Congress, and he shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of five thousand dollars per annum, payable out of the appropriation for said Library building: Provided, That all expenses incurred in the prosecution of said work, including compensation of employes, shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

Approved, April 2, 1896.

[No. 40.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the immediate use of a portion of the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for construction of canal and locks at the Cascades of the Columbia River in construction of protecting walls necessary to the opening of said canal and locks to navigation.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Cascades of Colum- of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and is Use of appropriation hereby, authorized and directed to expend so much as may be necessary for protecting walls, of the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made by ConVol. 27, pp. 109, 603. gress for construction of the canal and locks at the Cascades of the Columbia River, not to exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars, in constructing on the land and river sides of the canal, between the upper lock gate masonry and the upper guard gate masonry, such portions of the walls proposed in the modified project presented by the Board of Engineers in its report of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (which report was printed in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, part five, pages thirty-five hundred and seventy-six and following), as may be necessary to construct in advance of the opening of the canal to commerce: Provided, That the contractor or contractors for completing Consent of contractor. the construction of the said canal in accordance with the present adopted project shall consent to such use of a portion of the appropriations aforesaid, and shall make no claim of any kind against the United States on account thereof.

Proviso.

R. I.

April 6, 1896.

Approved, April 6, 1896.

[No. 41.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates of cost of further improvement of Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Providence River of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby and Narragansett Bay, directed to prepare and submit estimates for the improvement of Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, with a view of securing a ship channel four hundred feet in width and of a depth of twenty-five feet at mean low water from Sassafras Point, in Providence Harbor, through Providence River and Narragansett Bay by the most direct route practicable to the ocean by way of the "western passage,” so called.

Estimates for im

provement to be submitted.

April 6, 1896.

Income returns.

Approved, April 6, 1896.

[No. 42.] Joint Resolution Providing for immediate destruction of income-tax returns, and so forth.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Immediate destruc- of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to cause the immediate destruction of all income-tax returns and any copies thereof, with all statements and records relative

tion directed.

thereto, now in possession of the Treasury Department, by reason of "An Act to reduce taxation," and so forth, in effect August twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.

Approved, April 6, 1896.

[No. 43.] Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of War to prepare and submit estimates for the improvement of the harbor at Portland, Maine.

Vol. 28, pp. 553-560.

April 10, 1896.

Portland, Me.
Estimates for im-

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to prepare and submit estimates for the improvement of the proving harbor di harbor at Portland, Maine, with a view of securing a depth of thirty rected.

feet at mean low water.

Approved, April 10, 1896.

[No. 44.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to transmit to Congress a report on survey of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound, at Salmon Bay, with Lakes Union and Washington, and to submit an estimate of the cost of constructing said waterway.

April 18, 1896.

Union and Washing

Estimates. etc., of

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and Puget Sound to Lakes he is hereby, directed to transmit to Congress the report of Captain ton. Thomas W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, dated August twenty-ninth, waterway to be subeighteen hundred and ninety-five, together with the accompanying mitted. report of the assistant engineer, upon the survey of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound, at Salmon Bay, with Lakes Union and Washington; also to submit an estimate of the cost of constructing the said waterway on the route described and laid down in the aforesaid report.

Approved, April 18, 1896.

[No. 45.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit a plan and estimate for the improvement of the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, opposite Sioux City, Iowa.

April 18, 1896.

Missouri River.
Estimate for improv

City, Iowa, to be sub

mitted.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause to be prepared and submit a plan and estimate for ing opposite Sioux the improvement of the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, opposite Sioux City, Iowa, in accordance with the report of Captain H. F. Hodges, Corps of Engineers, dated November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and printed in House Executive Document Numbered Forty-eight, Fifty-third Congress, third session.

Approved, April 18, 1896.

[No. 46.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Public Printer to print the Annual Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in quarto form and to bind it in one volume.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph seven, section seventythree, of the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding, and so forth, be amended by striking out all of said paragraph after the word "survey," at the end of the first and beginning of the second lines, and substituting in lieu thereof the following words: Two thousand eight hundred copies in quarto form, bound in one volume, two hundred for the Senate, six hundred for the House, and two thousand for distribution by the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Approved, April 20, 1896.

April 20, 1896.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Report.

Numberto be printed changed.

Vol. 28, p. 613.

April 21, 1896.

National Home Dis

abled Volunteer Soldiers.

William B. Frank

[No. 47.] Joint Resolution To appoint four members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William B. Franklin, of Connecticut; Thomas J. Henderson, of Illinois; George L. Beal, of Maine, and George W. Steele, of Indiana, be, and the same hereby are, appointed derson, George L.Beal, as members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disaand George W. Steele bled Volunteer Soldiers of the United States. appointed on Board of Managers.

lin, Thomas J. Hen

April 24, 1896.

Erie, Pa.

mitted.

William B. Franklin to succeed himself, his term of service expiring April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Thomas J. Henderson to succeed John C. Black, his term of service expiring April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. George L. Beal to succeed Francis Fessenden, his term of service expiring April twentyfirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. George W. Steele to succeed himself, his term of service expiring April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. All to take effect April twenty-first, eighteen

hundred and ninety-six.
Approved, April 21, 1896.

[No. 48.] Joint Resolution Relative to the improvement of the harbor of Erie, Pennsylvania.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Report on improving of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and harbor to be sub he hereby is, directed to examine into the feasibility and advisability of the improvement of the harbor of Erie, Pennsylvania, by the construction of dikes to prevent the closing by sand of the entrance of said harbor and to make report thereon with an estimate of the cost of such improvement.

April 24, 1896.

Fort Monroe, Va.
Improving sewerage

amended.

Vol. 28, p. 212.

Approved, April 24, 1896.

[No. 49.] Joint Resolution To amend the Act approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and so forth.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved August first, system, restriction eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An Act making appropria tions for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to remove the restriction that the United States shall bear only onehalf of the expense of the cost of construction of the sewerage system at Fort Monroe, Virginia, provided for in said Act, in so far as may be necessary to authorize the Secretary of War to expend for the completion of the construction of said sewerage system, including a flushing system therefor, so much as may be necessary, not exceeding five thousand dollars, of the balance now remaining from the appropriation of thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars made in said Act for the construction of one-half of said sewerage system, the funds to be immediately available and the work to be done by contract or otherwise as may be deemed by the Secretary of War most economical and advantageous to the Government.

April 30, 1896.

Messages and Pa pers of the Presidents.

Distribution.

Approved, April 24, 1896.

[No. 50.] Joint Resolution To provide for the proper distribution of the publication entitled "Messages and Papers of the Presidents."

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the quotas of Senators, Members, and Delegates, of the House miscellaneous document numbered two hundred and ten, second session Fifty-third Congress, being a compilation the title of which is, "Messages and Papers of the Presidents," be delivered by the Public Printer, when printed and ready for

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