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 FOR'I`Y—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Rns. 6-8. 639 Resolved bg the Senate and Abuse of Representatives of the United States The _Pi-esident of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby, **¥;*h;’§*’*idtt° m` authorized and requested to tender to the organization commission of the 3,;,1 last session of the said congress, recently held at Saint Petersburg, a Congressto hold {(`r§s,l angacordxal invitation to hold its next session in the United States Hlixgfgfggu m6I‘1 . tates. O SECTION 2. That if the said invitation shall be accepted by the said statis- Proceedingsif tical congress, the President shall be, and he is hereby, duly authorized to ;l;:;¤t‘£*m°¤ is appoint the usual organization commission, and to take the other prelim- U ` inary and necessary measures for the meeting of the said body and the holding of its ninth session in this country, at such time as may be deemed expedient by the said statistical congress Approved, March, 3, 1873. [No. 7.] Joint Resolution in relation to the Old Bridge at Rock Island. March 3, 1873. Resolved bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States if America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of protecting the X Secretary Of lsnding at Davenport, Iowa, the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, ng€‘ih“Q’i?'&‘:f permit the north pier of what is termed in the joint resolution of July Bridge" at Rock twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the “Old Bridge " over the gslilgd igsgigalu Mississippi river, at Rock Island, to remain in its present position, in case POM5H_ said pier does not obstruct navigation. Vol. xv. p. 258. Approved, March 3, 1873. [N0. 8.] Joint Resolution granting condemned Cannon _/or a Statueof Major—General March 3, 1873. Philip Kearney, United States Volunteer Army. ¥*"' Resolved bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby Condemned directed to deliver to the governor of the State of New Jersey six bronze ¢?¤]G<>P fvgsfetze or brass condemned cannon, to be used to make the life-size statue of %hm;J}°g8_,$;°;_ Ma_jor—General Philip Kearney, United States Volunteer Army, who died in the service during the late war of the rebellion. APPROVED, March 3, 1873.