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 FORTY—-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 91, 93, 94, 95. 1870. 883 [N0. 91.] Joint Resolution Relative to    County, Ohio, Monumental Asso- June 80, 1870. cuxtum. ”"""`;' Be it resolved by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be A condemned and is authorized to donate to the Champaign County (Ohio) S01diers’ §,;‘§]`““°°d.°° Monumental Association one condemned bronze or brass gun, with which G0un[;?‘8}:;§? to make and place the statue of e. soldier on the monument erected, or to $¤1di<*¤‘¤’ M¤¤\1-. be erected, by said association, out of any such guns which the govern- Qfsml A”°°’°" ment now has or may hereafter have, and not required for public use. Approved, June 30, 1870. [No. 93.] A holutionfor the Religfofcertain Officers of the Navy. July 1, 1870. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy C<>mg¤i¤¤ vf is hereby authorized to organize a. board of three officers, not below the Q§x‘Q,n?,f;:1;,°f grade of rear-admiral, who shall examine into the cases of such officers passed aim- by as may deem themselves unjustly passed over by promotions made in §*‘°m°*i'{”·d’° conformity with the act of Congress, approved July twenty-five, eighteen §§$IgfB°2§;_ hundred and sixty-six. This board shall report their conclusions to the Vol- Xiv-p· 222· Secretary of the Navy, who shall report the same to Congress. Approved, July 1, 1870. [N0. 94,] A Resolution providing for tgebichnission of Photographs jbr Exhibition jiee July 1, 1870- 0 uty. ____`i_` Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all photographic pictures Cz’F“i“.P}‘°“' imported into the United States for egrhibition at the exhibition of the mz National Photographic Association of the United States, to be heldlat free ofduty. Cleveland, Ohio, commencing June seven, eighteen hnudred and seventy, and not intended for sale, shall be admitted free of duty, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Pro- P¤'<>ViS<>· vided, That bonds shall be given for the payment to the United States of such duties as are now imposed by law upon any and all of such pictures as shall not be re-exported prior to the first day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy. Approved, July 1, 1870. [N0, 95.] A Resolution giving the Consent of Congress to the Reception of a certain July 1, 1870. Bequest by the State of New Jersey under the Will of the late Edwin A. Stevens. -_-`_`&—_"" Wmmnns, Edwin A. Stevens, who was in his lifetime the owner of the Preambleship known as the Stevens Battery, originally commenced under contract for the United States government, and upon the building of which large sums of money were spent by his brother and himself, did, byhis last will and testament (the United States having previously relinquished all claims to said ship), leave the same to be finished by his executors, at an expense not exceeding the sum of one million of dollars, and when finished to be ofered to the State of New Jersey as a. present, to be by her received and disposed of as the said State should deem proper; and whereas, doubts have been suggested as to the right of the said State to accept the said bequest, without the consent of Congress, under the prohibition of tenth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States: therefore, Resolved by the Senate and Ease of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is J(_§ff° I;" hereby given that the State of New Jersey shall receive and dispose of cap] gequgt OQ the said ship according to the terms and conditions of said bequest. Stevens Battery. Approved July 1, 1870.