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 Xu LIST OF PUBLIC ACTS AND RESOLUTION S. Pm- Libmry of Congress. Joint resolution authorizing and directing Bernard R. Green to exercise the duties and powers heretofore conferred upon the late General Thomas L. Casey in relation to the construction and completion of the Library of Congress. April 2, _1896 470 Columbia River, Oreg., Cascades canal. Joint resolution authorizing the immediate use of a portion of the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for construction of canal and locks nt the Cascades of the Columbia River in construction of protecting walls necessary to the opening of said canal and locks to navigation. April 6, 1896,  ,-. .. 470 Providence Hm·bor, R. I. Joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates of cost of further improvement of Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. 470 A ril 6, 1896 .. . . . . .. .. . ...-...·--- _ --—---····- Income-}::: roho·ns. Joint resolution providing for immediate destruction of income·tax returns, and so forth. April 6, 1896. - . . .   470 Portland Harbor, Mc. Joint resolution to authorize the Secretaryaof War to prepare and submit estimates for the improvement of the harbor at Portland, aine. April 1, 1896 .. . .. . 471 Puget Sound walerway. Joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to transmit to Congess a report on survey of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound, at Salmon ay, with Lakes Union and Washington, and to submit an estimate c the cost of constructing said waterway. April 18, 1896 .. . ... . . . . - . ... _ 471 Missouri 1?irer, in•provemenl. Joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to submit a plan and estimate for the improvement of the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, opposite Sioux City, Iowa. April 18, 1896 .. - . . -. . .. -- . 471 Coast Snney report. Joint resolution authorizing the Public Printer to print the Annual Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in quarto form and to bind it in one volume. April 20, 1896. ... .. 471 Volunteer Soldier! Home, managers. Joint resolution to appoint four members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. April 21, 1896 .. .. . . 472 Erie Harbor, Pa. Joint resolution relative to the improvement of the harbor of Erie, Pennsylvania. April 24, 1896 -. . ... . . . . . . 472 Fort Monroe, Va., sewerage. Joint resolution to amend the Act approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, makin appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and so forth. April 24, 1896 .. -- .. . . . 472 Messages of the Presidents, etc. Joint resolution to provide for the proper distribution of the publication entitled “Messsges and Papers of the Presidents." April 30, 1896 .. . 472 Medals of honor, Army. Joint reso ution relative to the medal of honor authorized by the acts of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and March third, eighteen hundred and sixtythree. Ma 2, 1896  . . .. 473 Condemned comma, Oozland, Cal. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to donate to the Mountain View Cemetery Association, at akland, California, certain cannon, and so forth. May 18, 1896  .  473 Tennessee Cem fennial Exposition. Joint resolution authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, in eighteen hundred and ninety- seven, to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries for the urpose of preparing for and making their exhibits, and allowing articles imported gem foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition to be imported free of duty, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. May 18, 1896 473 Condemned cannon, Saint Johnsbury, Vt. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy - to deliver condemned cannon to Chamberlain Post, Grand Army of the Republic, to be posted by the soldiers' monument at Saint Johnsbnry, Vermont. May 21, 1896.- .. --, _ 474 Harrisonburg, Va., public building. Joint resolution granting permission to the circuit and county courts in Rockingham County, Virginia, to occupy the Federal court room in Harrisonburg, Virginia. May 28, 1896... ,..,,. . .. .--. .. .. .,, 475 Tania, Saint Louis tornado sujferers. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to lend to the mayors of the cities of East Saint Louis; Illinois, and Saint Louis, Missouri, and vicinity, a number of tents. May 28, 1896 475 Fur-seal in restigalion. Joint resolution to authorize a scientific investigation of the hir-seal fisheries. June 8, 1896. .,,,,.,,,.,.,, ,_____.,,_,__,,__ _ _ _ _ 475 June, 1806, salaries, Congressional employees. Joint resolution to ay the otllcers and employees pggghe Senate and House of Representatives on the day following adjournment. June 9, . . - - . . .. . .. . -.. .. . ,., ,, .___ __ ____ 476 Detroit, Mich., public building. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to place n bronze tablet or inscription on the Government building now being erected in Detroit_ Michigan, June 10, 1896 ____ _, _,___ ,,. _____________,__,_,_.____________,_,_,,____ 476 .\'m·y, reenlisrmenls, ctc. Joint resolution extending the benefits of sections fourteen hundred and twent:y—six and fifteen hundred and seventy -three of the Revised Statutes to all enlisted persons in the Navy. June 11, 1896 ,,,,,,,. . .,,,,...,, .,,.,,..,,,,..,,...,.., . . , . .,__ 47i; STATUTE 11.-1896-1897. Tennessee Centennial Exposiiion. An act to aid and encourage the holding of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville, Tennessee, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and making an appropriation therefor. December 22, 1896 ...,. .. .. ...,... -. - . ... 3 477 Appropriations, pensions. An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes. December 22, 1896 .. . ...,... ..-. . .. 479 Appropriations, urgent dmviencies. An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- seven, and for prior years, and for other purposes. December 22, 1896 ...,. ., _..._ 479 Copyrights, dramatic and music. An act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes, relating to copyrights. January 6, 1897 ,,_. _ ,,__, ,__,.,__,_.,,__,__,.__ , , ,_.,,, , , , _ 481