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 522 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Rss. 29, 30, 1881. March 3, 1881. [No. 29.] Joint resolution to create a commission for the performance of certain duties ·———·; under the act of Congress providing for the erection of a monument at Yorktown and the proposed centennial celebration. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Commission. of America in Congress assembled, That John W. Johnston, of Virginia; M<>¤¤¤¤¤¤*> at E, H. Rollins, of New Hampshire; Henry L. Dawes, of Massachusetts, Y°’kt°"“‘ H. B. Anthony, of Rhode Island; W. W. Eaton, of Connecticut; W, A_ Wallace, of Pennsylvania; Francis Kernan, of New York; T. F. Randolph, of New Jersey; Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware; W. Pinckney Whyte of Maryland; Mat. W. Ransom, of North Carolina; M. C. Butler, ofSouth Carolina; Benjamin H. H1ll, of Georgia; John Goode. of Virginia; Joshua G. Hall, of New Hampshire; George B. Loring. of Massachusetts; Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Joseph R. Hawley; of Connecticut; Samuel B. Dick, of Pennsylvania; Louis A. Brigham, of New Jersey; Nicholas Muller, of New York; Edward L. Martin, of Delaware; J. Fred. C. Talbott, of Maryland; Joseph J. Davis, of North Carolina; John S. Richardson, of South Carolina; and Henry Persons, of Georgia, be, and they are hereby, appointed a commission with full power and authority to discharge all the duties and perform all the functions which were devolved upon them as a joint committee of thirteen Senators and thirteen Representatives under the act of Con- ` 1880, ob. 124. gross approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled zféigglyggh 8;*-, "An act to carry into elfect the resolution of Congress adopted on the mm, 1),,, “' twenty-ninth of October, seventeen hundred and eightyone, in regard ’ to a monumental column at Yorktown, Virginia, and for other purposes". And the said commission may employ a clerk during the time they are engaged in the performance of said duties, whose compensation shall be at the usual rate of clerks to committees of Congress, and who shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate and House of Representatives in equal proportions. Approved, March 3, 1881. March 3, 1881. [No. 30.] Joint resolution relating toig of government employeesin the District 0 Hm 13. ‘ _ Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ,8%}**98 Bf ,0}*0- of America in Congress assembled, That all employees of the government ‘ §f"*égE,¥;b,,;*  1X1 the city of Washington, District of Columbia, shall be paid for the 1>eeo¤·imo¤ nay. (Decoration Day), eighteen hundred and eighty-one, as for other days on which they perform labor. Approved, March 3, 1881.
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