200 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 289, 290, 291. 1876. . _ for any such services, supplies, and annuity-goods for which said bids Abstract vf bids or proposals were received ; and an abstract of all bids or proposals re. ggmggctmed '"th ceived for the supplies or services embraced in any contract shall be ` attached to and filed with the said contract when the same is filed in the office od the Second Comptroller of the Treasury. _E¤tim¤t9¤ for In- Sno 4. That hereafter the estimates for appropriations for the Indian d"" “°"’°°· h°‘”' service shall be presented in such iorm as to show the amounts required t° b° P"’S°°t°d' for each of the agencies in the several States or Territories, and for said A _ t t States and Territories respectively. PP‘”“ ¥“°“ Sec. 5. And hereafter the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall have Md mg“lm°° °f the sole power and authorit # to appoint Traders to thedndian tribes 1 · e regu a ions as e may oem gu an proper mmm` md to make such rul s and 5 l f h dst d specifying the kind and quantity of goods and the prices at which such goods shall be sold to the Indians. Advertisement Sec. 6. That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall advertise for f°*i,:“§Pg"S· all supplies provided, that the purchase of supplies for sixty days may Pigvigcj be made in open market. And provided further that to meet any exi- . gency of the service purchases may be made in open market to au extent not to exceed two thousand dollars at any one time. _ Approved, August 15, 1876. Aug. 15, 1876. CHAP. 290.-An act to carry into effect a. convention between the United States of U ——--1- America and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the thirtieth _ day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy- tive. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Cemi1ii_i_»muiicrs States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President g£(ii{I2#;lT;**;:iiu{?;: of the United States shall receive satisfactory evidencejhat the legisieii iiim United lature of the Hawananlslands have passed laws on their part to give Sims rw, of duty_ iulii eiiiecliil to the pliiovlpions tif me zgqnventionlbptwgeii the [ignited Stzgses ‘ an us ajesty the ing c the awaiian s an s signe on the t ir- · tieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-(ive, he is hereby 1>0,;,i,i,_6gi;,q;(;6_ authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that he has such evidence; and thereupon from the date of such proclamation the followinv articles being the growth and manufacture or produce of the Hawaiiad Islands; to wit, arrow-root; castoroil ; bananas; nuts; vegetables, dried and undried, preserved and unpreserved; hides and skins, undressed; rice; I pulu; seeds; plants; shrubs, or trees; muscovado, brown, and allother unrctined sugar, meaning hereby the grades of sugar heretofore com— monly imported from the Hawaiian Islands, and now known in the markets of San Francisco and Portland as “Sandwich Island sugar ;” syrups of sugar-cane, melado, and molasses; tallow, shall be introduced into the_Up1ted States free of duty so long as the said convention shall remain in oroe. Approved, August 15, 1876. ___·j¤g_£@ 1876; CHAP. 291.-An act regulating theldisbursemeut of certain moneys tnerein named. ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Advances for ex- States of America in Congress assembled, That the disbursing officer of . gg5g35S3i2g;;!?;?: the Senate shall advance such parts of the sum appropriated for the iiiigmiioii, how to expenses of the Joint Special Committee on Chinese Immigration, and mmm1g_ or ered to be paid into the contingent fund of the Senate to the Ser- Am, p, 123, gcantat-Arms of the Senate, as the chairman of said committee shall in writing direct for the purposes aforesaid; and the Sergeant-at-Arms Report shall, as soon as may be, make a. detailed report of the expenditures thereof, with proper vouchers, which, when so made, shall be received _ byi said fdizburiising officgr and returned with his accounts to the proper o cero the . reasury epartment. Approved, August 15, 1876.
