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 RESOLUTIONS. [No. 1.] Joint resolution to psy the officers and employes of the Senate and House Doc,,,,;,,, 23, mm of Representatives their respective salaries for the mouth of December, eighteen ····-——- hundred and ninety-one, on the twenty fourth day of said month. Resolved by the Senate and House of Rqpresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate Omczlmgéw- .q¢‘ Conand the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, €.Tf£.r sn,,-Y§‘,_d;£L’§ authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employes of the Senate 2*- I"]- aud House of Representatives including the capitol police, their respective salaries for the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety- one, on the twenty-fo1u·th day of said month. Approved, December 23, 1891. [No. 2.] Joint resolution to ill] vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smith- January 2s, 1892. sonian Institution. __ —‘i— Resolved bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancies in the Smithsonian rum. Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other t"??}';,,,,,, Pmm than members of Congress, shall be filled by the appointment of Wil- £>¤·¤:,~¤>¤. Jvlm B. linm Preston Johnston, of Louisiana, in place of Noah Porter, of Con- c$§`,.§§"`§’ffg.‘I,§’.§’,f,t{"f,H necticut, resigned, and the appointment of John B. Henderson, a citizen ¤°¤'*·· of the District of Columbia, in place of Montgomery C. Meigs, deceased, and by the reappointment of Henry Coppee, ot Pennsylvania, whose term of office expired on December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Approved, January 26, 1892. [No. 3.] Joint Resolution investigating mining debris in California. February 25, nm. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, Mining débns. Culi- Jmd he is hereby, requested to submit for the consideration of Congress f°§'§,{,“,.;,,,,,., of w,, t,, what amounts can be profitably expended during the coming year to :,*:})>¤;jfb:8:° jggdueg carry out the recommendations made by the Commission of Engineers, mgmgm. W bnited States Army, appointed under the provisions of an act of Con- H¤‘0§S approved October first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An act to investigate mining debris in Califoi·nia,” for “re- WL “"·P·*°“· striction works, dams and wing-dams, to restrain the mining debris where now situated, and prevent its lodgment in the rivers of California, to the injury of navigation and commerce." Approved, February 25, 1892. ` (393)