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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. RES. 13-16. 1894. 579 tive thousand five hundred copies be printed, one thousand five hun- Di¤¤‘1b¤¤¤¤· dred for the use of the Senate, three thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, and one thousand copies for distribution by the C1tizens’ Committee on the celebration, and the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry this joint resolution into effect. ~ Approved, March 14, 1894. [No. 14.] Joint Resolution To (ill a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smith- March 19. 1894- sonian Institution. —*i‘··— Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States _ _ _ of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancy in the Board of ,u§{{,‘;f““°“‘““ I”°°" Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Mem- Andrew D. White bers of Congress, shall be filled by the reappointment of Andrew D. "“”°‘”‘°° '°g°“°‘ White, of New York, whose term of office expires on February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Approved, March 19, 1894. [No. 15.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the transfer of furniture and carpets to March 30, 1894. the rooms now occupied by the United States courts at Chicago. "`_i""‘ Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U nited States _ of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury  ,.,m,,_ be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer to the rooms now occupied ;¤¤·fm¤p¤b1i¤b¤i¤•E and used by the United States courts at Chicago the furniture and {f}‘¥;°,,'}"§',§‘§ °§$‘§,*fi§, carpets heretofore used by the said courts and the officers thereof in ¤<>¤¤¤· the public building at said city, and the United States Marshal for the northern district of the State of Illinois shall execute a receipt to the custodian of the public buildings at Chicago for the articles so transferred, and such articles shall be returned when required by the R°*¤¤*· Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, March 30, 1894. [N o. 16.] Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury umn 3;, rm, to receive at the sub~treasury in the city of New York from R. T. Wilson and Com- ···;———————- pany, or assigns, the money amounting to six million seven hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be aid to the Cherokee Nation, and to place the same to the credit of the Cherokee Nation. Wliereas, by an Act of the national Council of the Cherokee Nation rmmme. approved January sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-fou.r, said Cherokee Nation accepted an offer of R. T. Wilson and Company, to purchase and agreed_to sell and assign to said R. T. Wilson and Company, and assigns, the second, third, fourth and fifth installments of the money, together with the interest thereon, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to be paid by the United States to said Cherokee Nation for the Cherokee outlet as provided by a contract made pursuant to section ten of “An Act making appro· v·>1.2·r, p.c40. , priations for current and contingent expenses and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes for iiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and in accordance with the provisions of said Act of the National Council of the Cherokee Nation the consideration for said sale and assignment amounting to six million seven hundred and forty thousand dollars was to be placed in the sub-treasury