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 THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Rss. 7, 8, 9. 1859. 441 State of any amount which she has paid to her said militia, mentioned in said act, since the date of the passage of the same. Approved, February 9, 1859. [No. 7.] A Resolution for changing the Plan of the Cizstom-Houseat Galveston in the Fab, 9, 1359, State of Texas. -——-—··- Resolved by the Senate and House of Rqzresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized, to make such alterations of the dimensions and plan of the custom-house building constructing at Galves- Plan ofcuswmton, Texas, as he may deem best and as petitioned for by the people of €(°;s§8*;:a;‘”L;'l?§ Galveston: Provided the cost, when completed, does not exceed the be bhanged. amount already appropriated; and provided further, that the consent in Brovlso. writing of the contractors and their sureties for the construction of said wYZ’ftlf°20u;;;; custom-house to such alterations shall be tirst had and delivered to the torstobe nrstob- Secretary of the Treasury. ¤¤i¤¤d· Approved, February 9, 1859. [No. 8} Jbint Resolution giving the Cbnsent of Congress to the Accgtance by Captain Feb. 14, 1859. MZ . Maury and Professor A. D. Bache of Gold Medals _/rom the ardinian Govern- L"*_' ment. Resolved by the Senate and House of Rqoeresentatives of the United States ofAme·r·lea in Congress assembled That Captain M. F. Maury and M- F- M¤¤*.Y Professor A. D. Bache be, and [they] are hereby, authorized to accept, iggtglg respectively, a gold medal tendered to eacn of them by the Sardinian agold medal. government as a mark of its appreciation of their scientinc labors and achievements. Approved, February 14, 1859. [No.9.] bint Resolution in Relation to the Tobacco Trade of the United States with Fd)- 14, 1859- Forcign Natzbns. U- Resolved og the Senate and [base of Representatives of the United States m' America in Congress assembled, That the trade in tobacco with Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Brazil, and other foreign _ nations, is clogged with restrictions and limitations wholly inconsistent msggjggigecjyr with that fair and reciprocal condition of commerce which ought to exist the mmm, between the United States and those nations respectively, and is therefore tradeunsatisfactory to the States of Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, and Connecticut, and other tobacco growing States, in which that article is an important, if not the chief, staple of agricultural production. 2d. Resolved, That it is the duty of the federal government to use its utmost power, by negotiations or other constitutional means, to obtain a Duty of fed modification or reduction on the part of said foreign nations of the duties ggaggffyjgt and restrictions imposed by them on the importation of American tobacco, ,,,,.;,,,,0,,,, mod; and to this end to employ all the diplomatic and commercial powers which fiedthe constitution has oonlided to it in producing a more just and equal reciprocity in a trade so deeply involving the value of that portion of the agricultural labor of the country, in which at least one fourth of the confederacy is concerned. _ 3d. Resolved, That the treaties of the United States with China and Japan present a fair and fitting occasion for the enlargement and exten- mg], E,;0§Q’&'°;; sion of the tobacco trade of the United States, and it is the duty of the courage me ingovernment of the United States to use all their exertions, within the *'°d“f?*K’¤ jmd limits of constitutional power, to foster and encourage the introduction of zxagco American tobacco as an article of use among the people of those nations. and Japan. von. x1. PUn.—56