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 FORTYEIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Rus. T-10. 1881. 267 telephone page, heretofore authorized by the House to be employed shall begin on the third day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-tbrcc Approved, February seventh, 1884. [8.] Joint resolution appropriating one hundred thousand dollars for the support February 8, 1884. of certain destitute Indians _"""***‘ Resolved by the Senate and House of Rqyresenmtives of the United States of America. in Oongrecs assembled, That the sum of one hundred thou- Indians ¤f Crow sand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys é€°“°$i; €;""’P]E‘ in the Treasury not otherwise appropxiatcd, the same to be immediately 8:;% 1 Q C k fg e { available, to be applied to the support and maintenance of the Indians Agencies, Mo ¤ . at Crow Agency at Fort Belknap, Fort Peck and Blackfact Agencies tamain Montana Territory; and out of this appropriation the sum of three App1‘¤1¤‘i•*·i¤¤ thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be cx-  '“PP°"» °*°·· peudcd for tclegmphing and making purchases of suchsupplios, including cost of advertising, which advertisement shall be made for ton days in at least four of the principal cities of the west. Approved, February Sth, 1884. 9. Joint u authorizin o cm of to use ra 'onn for tho relief hmuy { 0} rlc¤itu :n in the distrgcgh ovmoyg by tv1{:rOhi0 Rive? and its tribute- ria and making sn appropriation to relieve the nuffemrs by said overflow. Resolved by the Senate and House oi Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of three hundred thou- Belief of datisand dallas islmmby appropriated, 01- so much thereof as may be necessary, cnt of my money in the Treasury not otherwise app1·0pri· g°5“hi°°§vm.Y dad, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of API,.-,,P,·;.u.,,,_ War, in the purchase and distribution of subsistence stores, clothing and other necessary articles in such destitute persons as may require assistance in the district cve:-ilowod by the Ohio River and its tributaries, by the recent floods; and he in authorized to co-operate with the authorities of the scvcial Shaun and cities, of which such district isn put in making distribution of the same. And the Secretary of War, in also authorized, rlisgzeticu, to use time hospital gd other tent; mwponscasodby ar partmemgso nrasmay necessary, furnish tompormy shelter to the destitute people who have been driven {mm their homes by said overilow; and ha is authorized, to use the summers and other boats and vessels belonging to or now employed by the Government, upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries, in the transportation and distribution of the supplies furnished by the United States or individuals, to and among said destitute and entering people, and he may employ such other means of tion as he may deem necessary to carry the purpose ofthis Joint · lntion into eifcct. Approved, February 12th, 1884. [10.] Joint resolution mnking an agpmyristiun for the miie! of Ltantmmt A. W. F•\¤'¤¤’! W IW- Greoly and lm pu-: composingw at s known an tlnoL•dyFrmklinB•yExp•- """"""”'_'—” dition to th•Arctic {agian; Resolved the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State. . Q; Ammmlz. cw",. mmbw, That me muaeus be and u umn; m”;”h,•j§;*G’;;;;*· authorized to repsm and dispatch an expedition to the const of Gwen- .,4 pm,,y land. Smiths gxrnd or Lady Franklin Bay, for the purpose of relieving Appropriation. gud bringing home lieutenant A. W. Greely and party; and that for