RECENT TREATIES, POSTAL CONVENTIONS, AND EXECUTIVE PROCLAMATIONS.

EDITED, PRINTED, AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF

AN ACT OF CONGRESS, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION

OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

VOL. XXI.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1881.

LIST

OF

THE PUBLIC ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS

OF CONGRESS

CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.

ACTS OF THE FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

STATUTE I.-1879.

Refrigerating ship. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the purchase or construction of a refrigerating ship for the disinfection of vessels and cargoes, and for other purposes. April 18, 1879

National Bank of Commerce of Cincinnati. An act changing the name of the National Bank of Commerce of Cincinnati, Ohio, to the National Lafayette and Bank of Commerce of Cincinnati, Ohio. April 29, 1879...

Congressional expenses appropriations. An act to provide for certain expenses of the present session
of Congress, and for other purposes. May 10, 1879 ...

United States ship Alarm. An act providing for a new propeller for the United States ship Alarm.
May 12, 1879 ..

Navy enlistments. An act to amend sections fourteen hundred and seventeen, fourteen hundred and
eighteen, fourteen hundred and nineteen, fourteen hundred and twenty, and sixteen hundred
and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the Navy. May
12, 1879

South Pass jetties. An act making appropriations for constructing jetties and other works at South
Pass, Mississippi River. May 13, 1879 .....

Library of Congress. An act to authorize the employment of three additional assistants in the Library
of Congress. May 14, 1879 ....

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Conspiracies to defraud the United States. An act to amend section fifty-four hundred and forty of the
Revised Statutes. May 17, 1879

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Steamboat Alexis. An act to provide for the change of the name of the steamboat Alexis. May 29, 1879..

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Contagious diseases. An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the
United States. June 2, 1879....

Subsidiary coins. An act to provide for the exchange of subsidiary coins for lawful money of the
United States under certain circumstances, and to make such coins a legal tender in all sums
not exceeding ten dollars, and for other purposes. June 9, 1879

Entomological Commission. An act in relation to the accounts of the United States Entomological
Commission. June 9, 1879......

Colonel Robert L. McCook. An act to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish condemned ord-
nance for the monument of Colonel Robert L. McCook, Ninth Ohio Volunteers, in Washington
Park, in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. June 9, 1879.......
Great Kanawha and Kentucky Rivers. An act to amend an act entitled "An act making appropria-
tions for the construction, repair, preservation, and completion of certain works on rivers and
harbors, and for other purposes", approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
June 10, 1879.....
District of Columbia water service. An act to confer upon the Commissioners of the District of Co-
lumbia certain powers, duties, and limitations contained in chapter eight (Water Service) of
the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, and for other
purposes. June 10, 1879....

District of Columbia five per cent. bonds. An act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Co-
lumbia to issue twenty year five per cent. bonds of the District of Columbia to redeem cer-
tain funded indebtedness of said District. June 10, 1879....

Texas judicial districts. An act to amend an act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places of holding courts in said districts." June 11, 1879 .

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