RESOLUTIONS.
December 17, 1904. [H. J. R. 176.] [Pub. Res., No. 1.]
[No. 1.] Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and four, on the twentieth day of said month.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the .House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives, including the Capitol police, their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and four, on the twentieth day of said month. Approved, December 17, 1904.
Officers, etc., of Congress to be paid December salaries December 20, 1904.
January 12, 1905. [S. J. R. 79.] [Pub. Res., No. 2.]
District of Columbia. American Railway Appliance Exhibition may occupy Government reservation in. Location. Proviso. Temporary structures Use of gas, steam and electric power. Provisos. Removal of conductors. Time limit. Plans to be approved by the Commissioners.
[No. 3.] Joint Resolution Granting the temporary occupancy of a part of the Government reservation in Washington, District of Columbia, for the American Railway Appliance Exhibition.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tat the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to grant permits, under such restrictions as he may deem necessary, to the general committee of arrangements of the American Railway Appliance Exhibition, to be given in connection with the meeting of the International Railway Congress, for the use of such portion of the public reservation fronting on the south side of B street, between Fourteenth street and the Sixteenth street roadway northwest, being a part of the unimproved portion of the Monument Grounds in the city of Washington, which, in his opinion, will inflict no serious or permanent injuries upon said reservation, to continue from March twentieth to May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and five, inclusive : Provided, however, That all stands, platforms, or other temporary structures that may be erected on the space aforesaid shall be under the supervision of said general committee of arrangements and in accordance with plans to be approved by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds. Sec. 2. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and are hereby, authorized to permit said general committee of arrangements for the American Railway Appliance Exhibition to convey to such reservation, through suitable conductors, wherever necessary, and in the nearest practicable connection with the present supply thereof, gas steam, and electricity for power, heat, and light, necessary for such exhibition : Provided, That said conductors shall not be used for the conducting of steam or electric current after May fifteenth, nineteen hundred and five, and shall, with their supports, be fully and entirely removed from the streets and avenues of the said city of Washington on or before May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and five: Provided further, That the work of conveying such conductors to the reservation and removing of said conductors shall be in accordance with plans to be approved by and under the supervision
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