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appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, for the following object, namely: For cleaning snow and ice from the streets and avenues of the District of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars, one-half of said sum to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States. Approved, February 20, 1899. [No. 17.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to pa certain February25, 1899. laborers, workmen, and mechanics at United States navy-yards and navalystations -·——····—· fifty per centum additional for work performed in excess of eight hours per diem. _ Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and {33;,0 I, f he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay fifty per centum additional num-m in £Yv if · for all work in excess of eight hours per diem performed by laborers, §,’},'§‘&f'*’_;;Q;° fj}: workmen, and mechanics whose compensation is fixed upon a basis of eight noun. eight hours per diem, and who, between March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and October thirty-iirst, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, were employed at any United States navy-yard or naval station, and who worked in excess of eight hours per day and have not already received said additional compensation; the amount due each laborer, workman, and mechanic aiiected by the above to be based upon the time records of the several bureaus at the navy-yard or naval station where the work was performed. Approved, February 25, 1899. [No. 18.] Joint Resolution Providing for the further distribution of the Compiled February 27, 1899. Statutes of the District of Columbia. ————-—·—·-——— Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States qi America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior m0:¤·s¤1}¤l¤;*_j¤¤¤·{:e¤. is hereby authorized and directed to distribute copies. of the Compiled Bigiladttiduutlittit. Statutes of the District of Columbia now in his charge, as follows: To {gg g·w;Pjg:j;·{3Pt,y; each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in the Fifty-fifth and Fifty- imno- •¤u.¤i-nai. sixth Congresses not already supplied with the work, one copy; to each of three public, university, or college libraries not depositories of public documents, to be named by each Senator of each State, the Representative of each Congressional district, and the Delegate of each Territory in the Fifty-iitth or Fifty-sixth Congresses, one copy; and to such executive and judicial officers of the Government not already supplied as may require this work in the discharge of their official duties, one copy each: Provided, That the libraries supplied in compli- ,{,’;·;?1j,•_;mn to u_ ance with the provisions of this resolution shall each be notiiied as to imma by whose ortho Senator, Representative, or Delegate upon whose order the work is “°' °°“*· furnished. Approved, February 27, 1899. [No. 20,] Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States to February 28, 1899. appoint Osborne W, Deignan a naval cadet at Annapolis. _;_‘_‘ Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States . of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United §;‘;}h{';§;}¥- 0, States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint Osborne W. Deig- cams w. magnet nan, of Stuart, Iowa, a cadet in the Naval Academy, Annapolis, not “°“‘*°‘°“°"°'*'°"· withstanding the fact that said Osborne W. Deignan is past the age when he could be admitted as a cadet at Annapolis. Approved, February 28, 1899.
