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F()B,TY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. RES. 25, 26, 27, 28. 1881. 52] is hereby, authorized and directed to investigate, ascertain and report tion one report to to Congress, as soon as practicable, the amount of the claims of the C°¤8*°¤¤- State of Florida, for expenditures made in suppressing Indian hostilities in that State between the first day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and the rirst day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty. In making such investigation the said Secretary is directed to receive and consider such testimony as he may deem necessary or proper for or against claims, including the musterrolls of the State troops and such other oftioial data as may be on file in the War Department. In submitting his report to Congress the said Secretary shall not include any pay- ments or allowances made by the State in excess of the amount allowed by law at the time in behalf of troops regularly in the service of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1881. [No. 26.] Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasurylto furnish States, March 3, 1381, for the use of agricultural colleges, one set of standard weig ts and measures --——--——- and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and Honseof Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, staneaniwoignts and he is hereby, directed to cause a complete set of all the weights wd {¤°=*¤“*°¤» ’°° and measures adopted as standards to be delivered to the governor of l’;,°;°;fQ`§;°‘;:°0‘j,‘;"' each State in the Union, for the use of agricultural colleges in the States, g ’' respectively, which have received a grant of lands from the United States, and also one set of the same for the use of the Smithsonian Institution: Provided That the cost of each set shall not exceed two Proviso. hundred dollars, and a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this resolution is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1881. ' [N0. 27.] Joint resolution to provide for the publication of the memorial addresses on M¤·!'¤h 3, 1981- Evarts W. Farr. ··—"""‘"‘_"" Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed twelve thou- EVMTB W·F¤¤. Saud copies of the memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House d°§fff:%·ri M m1_ of Representatives upon the lite and character of Honorable Evarts W. 6mm_ Farr, late a Representative from the State of New Hampshire, together with a portrait of the deceased; nine thousand copies thereof for the Portrait. use of the House of Representatives and three thousand copies for the use of the Senate. And a sum sufficient to defray the expense of pre- Appropriation. paring and printing the portrait of the deceased for the publication · herein provided for is hereby appropriated out of any moneys m the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1881. [No. 28.] J oiut resolution to print fifteen thousand copies of the rgport of; the Direc- March 3, 1881. tor of the Mint on the Statistics of the annual production of gol and silver in the -——·—··—_" United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nfteen thousand copies of the Bepvrv gg tke report of the Director of the Mint on the annual production of gold and §g;:’°;’,;iuQ,¤gt0f? silver in the United States be printed; eight thousand for the use of ’ the House of Representatives, three thousand for the use of the Senate, and four thousand for the use of the Treasury Department. Approved, March 3, 1881.