JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary of War to appoint a board of three engineers to examine and report in relation to the Delaware river between the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, and for other purposes.

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 to immediately appoint a board of three engineers from the United States Army whose duty it shall be to examine in all their relations to commerce the Islands known as Smith's Island, Windmill Island and Petty's Island in the Delaware River between the city of Philadelphin in the State of Pennsylvania and the city of Camden in the State of New Jersey, which board shall forthwith report to the Secretary of War as to whether said islands or any shoal in the said river between or adjacent to the said islands or any of them constitute an obstruction to the commerce of the Delaware river or to the passage of vessels between the said States and with a view to removing said islands and shoals to report a plan with the estimate of cost for their removal in whole or in part and for the improvement of the harbor of the port of Philadelphia including the probable cost to the Government of said islands so as to secure free and uninterrupted commerce upon the said Delaware river and the unobstructed passage of vessels to and from and between the said States; and the sum of five thousand dollars or so much thereof as shall be necessary is hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to defray the expense of such survey and report.

Approved, March 5, 1888.

JOINT RESOLUTION declaring the meaning of a clause in the river and harbor act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the phrase "present low water mark" in the river and harbor bill of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in the paragraph referring to Fairport Harbor, Ohio, is intended to mean the inner shore line represented on map in the report of Chief of Engineers of eighteen hundred and eighty-one. Approved, October 1, 1888.

JOINT RESOLUTION relating to the inclosure of certain points of especial interest on the battlefield of Gettysburgh.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the fence which now incloses Lafayette Square in the city of Washington is removed the Secretary of War is hereby directed to deliver the same to the Gettysburgh Battlefield Memorial Association, at Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of inclosing points of especial interest on the Gettysburgh battle-field.

Approved, October 12, 1888.

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary of War to protect the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel.

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 use so much of any unexpended balance of appropriations for the work of the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, District of Columbia, as may be necessary, for the purpose of protecting and preserving the work already done upon said tunnel. That the Joint Select Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives anthorized by a Concurrent Resolution of Congress to make inquiry and report concerning all of the work and contracts therefor on the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel and other matters in relation thereto, are hereby, in addition to the powers conferred by said concurrent resolution, authorized and directed in their discretion to inquire and report touching all plans and estimates prepared under the auspices of the Government for extending the Water Supply of Washington City, and finally the said Committee may extend their inquiries as to any and all other matters concerning the extension of said water supply that may aid the Congress in ascertaining and fixing the responsibility for any mismanagement therein or for the future construction and management thereof.

Approved, October 19, 1888.