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 FIFTY-FIRST ooivenuss. sim. 1. nas. 28-so. 1890. — 675 Whereas all the diplomatic efforts of the Government of the United States repeatedly exerted for an amicable adjustment and pay- ment of the just indemnity due to said corporation and its officers, citizens of the United States, iépon whose pro rty and persons the aforesaid wrongs were inflict, have provedpbntirely unavailing: Therefore,. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the venezusm steam United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to pT§$,‘;“p°"“*‘°“ '°°’“‘ take such measures as in his judgment may be necessary to promptly P=€¤id¤¤# wwwobtain indemnity from the Venezuelan Government for the injuries, Zh? iL°¤£i¤°Siim°a·3$ losses, and damages suifered by the Venezuela Steam Transportation V°”°y°'*uf;_¤‘ Company of  ew York, and its omcers, by reason of the wrongful ' seizure, detention, and employment in war or otherwise of the said com_pany’s steamers Hero, an Fernando, and Nutrias by Venezuelan belligerents in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and to secure this end he is authorized to employ such means or exercise such power as may be necessary. · Received by the President June 7, 1890. [Norm nv run Dnrnnrunur or S·rA·rn.-—The foregoing resolution having been (presented to the President of the United States for his approval, an not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it oaréginated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the Unit States, has become a law without his approval.] No. 29. Joint resolution rovidin for donation of certain personal perty umm Jumm sam to scum mgm and time mma. Pm .;..22*2.- Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemble, That all papers, books, sem. and scum records, fixtures, furniture and all other personal property of what- D?1.‘;Q_},,*€0rm Property ever kind, belongin to the United States, and heretofore used in donated to. the administration 0% the Territorial Government of the Territory of Dakota, or used by the Constitutional Conventions framingl Constitutions for South and North Dakota, are hereby donate to the States of South and North Dakota: Provided, That said States shall novae. receive in amount and kind of such property, as was fixed and D“'*°*°°· agreed upon by the joint commission of the Constitutional Conventions of said States in pursuance of the provisions of Section 6 of an Act entitled, "A.n act to provide for the division of Dakota into two v0;,¤s,p_m States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to orm Constitutions and State Governments and to be admitted into the Union on an eqlpal footing with the original States, and to make donations of pub ’c lands to such States! . Approved, June 21, 1890. [No. 30.] Joint resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the _;,,,,,, S0_18W_ Government. "-www Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States rj America in Congress assembled, That all apfpropriations for _Annual gg3i2E;:- the necessary operations of the Government, and o the District of {{,;*;******1* Y Columbia, under existin laws, which shall remain unprovided for on the thirtieth day of imo, eighteen hundred and ninety be, and they are hereb, continued and made available for a period of thirty Postp.677. days from and, after that date, unless the regular appropritionas