LIST OF PUBLIC ACTS AN D RESOLUTIONS. Xi Page. Army. An act to increase the number of post quartermaster-sergeants in the United States Army. July 8, 1898 .. . . . . . . ... . . .,,,,..,,..__,,__ 728 United States courts. An act providing for the transfer from the circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit to the Supreme Court of certain appeals from the district court of Alaska. July 8, 1898 ...- .. .. . . . . - . . .,. . . . . --.- 728 Army. An act fixing pay and allowances of chaplains for volunteer regiments. July 8, 1898 729 Right of way. An act granting a right of way through the Pikes Peak timber land reserve and the public lands to the Cripple Creek Short Line Railway Company. July 8, 1898 -. . . 729 Appropriations. An act making appropriations to pay session employees of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes. July 8, 1898 .. 730 Army. An act to reimburse the governors of States and Territories lbr expenses incurred by them in aidin the United States to raise and organize and supply and equip the Volunteer Army of the lgiited States in the existing war with Spain. July 8, 1898 730 RESOLUTIONS. December salaries, 1897, Congressional employees. Joint resolution to pay the ohicers and e loyees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month olggecempgr, ggghteen hundred and ninety-seven, on the seventeenth day of said mouth. December 732 , 1 . . . . . . Omaha Exposition, limit of cost of Government buildings extended. Joint resolution extending limit of cost of the Government building or buildings at the Trausmississippi and International ltlgrposition at Omaha, Nebraska, and reducing cost of Government exhibit. December 18, 32 9 ,... - . ... . ... 7 Alaska, nmpa, etc. Joint resolution authorizing the Director of the Geological Survey to prepare a map of Alaska. January 20, 1898. .. . . . . 732 Smithsonian Institution, Regents. Joint resolution to 611 vacancies in the Board of Regents of the ' Smithsonian Institution. January 24, 1898 . . ... .. 733 International Fisheries Exposition, Bergen, Norway. Joint resolution accepting the invitation of the Government of Norway to take part in an International Fisheries Exposition to be held at the city of Bergen, Norway, from May to September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. January 25, 1898 .. . . .. . t .. . ... ... -.. .. 733 Alaska, printing of gouemorb report. Joint resolution providing for the printing of the report of the governor of Alaska, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. February 1, 1898 ... 734 International Fisheries Exposition, Bergen, Norway. Joint resolution accepting the invitation of the Government of Norway to take part in an International Fisheries Exposition to be held at the city of Bergen, Norway, from May to September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-eigbt. February 17, 1898 .. - -. - . . . . .. .. . , .. . - . ... · . 734 Mississippi River, ch anmsl Sou thweat Paaa. Joint resolution providing for a survey and report upon the practicability of securing n. navigable channel of adequate width and of thirtydive feet depth at mean low water of the Gulf of Mexico throughout Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River. February 17, 1898 .. -- .. . ... . . . ... 735 .llilwaukee, Wis., delivery of cannon, etc. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver to the mayor of the city of Milwaukee, for use in ornamenting one of the parks of that city, the Parrot ritied cannon and carriage recently used on the revenue cutter Andrew Jo uson. February 19, 1898 , . . 735 Battle shi l “Maine." Joint resolution to provide for recovering the remains of oillcers and men and property from the wrecked United States ship Maine, and making an appropriation ' thereibr. February 23, 1898 .. . . . . . ,.,.. . .. . . . 735 Rebellion Records. Joint resolution relating to the undistributed quotas of the Omcinl Records of the Union and Confederate navies in the War of the Rebellion. March 5, 1898 . 735 Bulletin No. 19. Joint resolution providing for the rinting of Bulletin Numbered Nineteen of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department ofp Agriculture. March 5, 1898. .. - . . . 736 Double Bayou. and Galveston Bay, Tiaras, channel. Joint resolution providing for estimate of cost of gggtain improvements nt the mouth of Double Bayou and Galveston Bay, Texas. March 7% 5, 1 ... . .. . . . ... . ... . . . . . . - . - . . · District of Columbia. Joint resolution authorizing the Public Pri uter to use certain Government telegraph poles. March 18, 1898 .- .. - . 736 Grand Army of the Republic encampment. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of \Var to loan tents to the citizens’ committee of the city of Cincinnati for the use of the thirty- second national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. March 19, 1898- ..-- 737 Military supplies. Joint resolution providing for the temporary admission free of duty of naval and military supplies procured abroad. April 1, 1898 . 737 Albert Pike Monument. Joint resolution granting permission for the erection of a monument or gttpigigzé in \Vashingt0n City, District of Columbia, in honor of the late Albert Pike. April 737 Erection of temporary forglicationa. Joint resolution rel ative to suspension of {part of section three hundred and fifty- ve of Revised Statutes relative to erection of forts, ortitications, and so forth. April 11, 1898 ,. _ _____,.,,.,,.,.. . . .,. 737 Range River, Mich. Joint resolution relative to the appropriation for the Rouge River, Michigan. April 11, 1898 ...,,,,___,_.._.._...,,._, . ,,,,... .-.. .- 738 District of Columbia. Joint resolution making an appropriation for the improvement of the Anacostia River and the reclamation of its dats. April 11, 1898 . .- · ..-·.- 738 Independence of Cuba. Joint resolution for the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval threes from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into elfect. April 20, 18%. .. .. 738
