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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES,

Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifth day of December, 1904, and was adjourned without day on Friday, the third day of March, 1905.



Theodore Roosevelt, President; William P. Frye, President of the Senate pro tempore; and Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives.




December 20, 1904.
[S. 2114] [Public, No.1.]

Chap. 20.—An Act To fix the rank of certain officers in the Army.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Army.
Credit to artillery lieutenants for Marine Corps service.

That any second lieutenant of the United States Marine Corps who may have been appointed second lieutenant of artillery since the second day of February, nineteen hundred and one, and prior to the passage of this Act, shall, in determining his lineal and relative rank, be entitled to the same credit for prior commissioned service as a lieutenant of volunteers appointed under the Act entitled "An Act to increase the efficiency of the permanent military establishment of the United States,"Vol. 31, p. 756. approved February second nineteen hundred and one.

Approved, December 20, 1904.


December 21, 1904.
[S. 708.] [Public, No.2.]

Chap. 21.—An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the building of a bridge across Thief River, in the State of Minnesota.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Thief River, Minn.
Construction of a free wagon bridge across, authorized.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to authorize the proper public municipal authorities to construct a free wagon bridge across Thief River, in the State of Minnesota, at such point and subject to such conditions and restrictions as he may designate and require.

Approved, December 21, 1904.


December 21, 1904.
[H.R. 14468.] [Public, No.3.]

Chap. 21.—An Act To authorize the sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted lands of teh Yakima Indian reservation, in the State of Washington.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Yakima Indian reservation, Wash.
Sale of unallotted lands.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, as hereinafter

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