Union and which Legion has been designated to appear and participate [No. 10.] Joint resolution concerning special-tax stamps. Proviso. Proviso. May 8, 1876. R. S., ch. 3, title tended. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing contained in chapter three of title thirty-five of the Revised Statutes shall prevent XXXV, p. 623, exthe issue, under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe, of special-tax stamps to persons carrying on Special-tax the business of retail dealers in liquors, retail dealers in malt liquors, on railway-trains, or dealers in tobacco, upon passenger railroad-trains or upon steamboats etc. or other vessels engaged in the business of carrying passengers. Approved, May 8, 1876. stamps to dealers [No. 11.] Joint resolution authorizing the exhibition of a life-saving station house at the Centennial Exposition. May 13, 1876. Ante, pp.3,34, 45, 211. Post, p. 214. Life-saving exhibition at Centen Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to place on exhibition at the Centennial Exposition, upon such ground as may be allotted for the nial Exposition. purpose, one of the life-saving station houses authorized to be constructed on the coast of the United States by existing law, and for which appropriation has already been made, and to cause the same to be completely equipped with all the apparatus, furniture, and appliances now in use at the respective life-saving stations of the United States; said building and apparatus to be removed after the close of the exposition, and re-erected and used for a life-saving station at the place now authorized by law: Provided, however, That such exhibition of said station-house, and equipment thereof, and the return thereof, shall not be attended with any expense to the United States beyond appropriations heretofore made in aid of said Exposition, through the several Departments of the Government. Approved, May 13, 1876. Proviso. [No. 12.] Joint resolution granting the use of artillery, blankets &c at the National Soldiers Reunion at Caldwell, Ohio. June 8, 1876. Artillery, etc., Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be and is for National Solhereby authorized to send from some convenient Government Arsenal diers' Reunion. to be used at the National Soldiers Reunion at Caldwell, Ohio at its next meeting four pieces of artillery and such blankets and muskets and blank cartridges as can be spared said cannon, blankets and muskets to be returned after said reunion meeting. Approved, June 8, 1876. July 3, 1876. Post, p. 410. Arms to be issued to Territories and border States. Proviso. Proviso. [No. 13.] Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue arms. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause to be issued to the Territories, and the States bordering thereon, such arms as he may deem necessary for their protection, not to exceed one thousand to said States each, and not more than five hundred to each of said Territories: Provided, That such issues shall be only from arms owned by the Government which have been superseded and no longer issued to the Army: Provided however, that said arms shall be issued only in the following manner, and upon the following conditions, namely, upon the requisition of the governors of said States or Territories showing the absolute necessity of arms for the protection of the citizens and their property against Indian raids into said States or Territories also that militia companies are regularly organized and under control of the governors of said States or Territories to whom said arms are to be issued, and that said governor or governors shall give a good and sufficient bond for the return of said arms or payment for the same at such time as the Secretary of War may designate. Approved, July 3, 1876. July 20, 1876. Ante, pp. 3, 34, 45, 211, 213. 1874, ch. 310, 18 Stat., 82, amended. [No. 15.] Joint resolution to amend the act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, relating to the admission of articles intended for the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four entitled "An act to admit free of duty articles intended for the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six" be and the same is hereby so amended as to permit the sale and delivery, during the exhibition, of goods, wares, and merchandise heretofore imported and now in the Exhibition may be sold in Buildings, subject to such additional regulations for the security of the Centennial Exhibi- revenue and the collection of duties thereon as the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion prescribe. Imported goods tion. R. S. 3082, p. 595. SEC. 2. That the entire stock of each exhibitor, consisting of goods, wares and merchandise imported by him and now in said buildings, is hereby declared liable for the payment of duties accruing on any portion thereof, in case of the removal of such portion from said buildings without payment of the lawful duties thereon. SEC. 3. That the penalties prescribed by, and the provisions contained in, section three thousand and eighty-two of the Revised Statutes, shall Penalties made be deemed and held to apply in the case of any goods, wares or merchanapplicable. dise now in said buildings sold, delivered or removed without payment of duties, in the same manner as if such goods, wares or merchandise had been imported contrary to law; and the article or articles so sold, delivered or removed, shall be deemed and held to have been so imported, with the knowledge of the parties respectively concerned in such sale, delivery or removal. Approved, July 20, 1876. July 22, 1876. Preamble. [No. 16.] Joint resolution donating two cannon and carriages to the Warden and Burgesses of Stonington, Connecticut. Whereas, there are now at the town of Stonington in the State of Connecticut, two eighteen pounder iron cannon and two eighteen pounder traveling carriages, belonging to the same, which were used for the defence of said town against the attack of British Men of War, in the war of 1812, and, which cannon are highly prized by the inhabitants of said town, as memorable relics of the bombardment of the town on the tenth day of August 1814 Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Donation of can of America in Congress assembled, That said guns and gun carriages non, etc., to Stonbe and they hereby are donated by the United States to the War- ington, Conn. den and Burgesses of the Borough of Stonington, to be owned and held by them and their successors in office; and permission is hereby given to said Warden and Burgesses to place the same on unoccupied land, belonging to the United States, at the end of the Point, so called, in said town and Borough of Stonington. Approved, July 22, 1876. July 22, 1876. Silver coin to be issued in exchange for legal-tender notes. [No. 17.] Joint resolution for the issue of silver coin. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury, under such limits and regulations as will best secure a just and fair distribution of the same through the country, may issue the silver coin at any time in the Treasury to an amount not exceeding ten million dollars, in exchange for an equal amount of legal-tender notes; and the notes so received in exchange shall be kept as a special fund separate as a special fund. and apart from all other money in the Treasury, and be reissued only upon the retirement and destruction of a like sum of fractional currency received at the Treasury in payment of dues to the United States; and said fractional currency, when so substituted, shall be destroyed and held as part of the sinking fund, as provided in the act approved April seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Notes to be kept Use of. 1876, ch. 63, SEC. 2. That the trade dollar shall not hereafter be a legal tender, to be a legal tendand the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to limit from time to time, the coinage thereof to such an amount as he may deem sufficient to meet the export demand for the same. er. Coinage of, may be limited. Amount of sub sidiary silver coin SEC. 3. That in addition to the amount of subsidiary silver coin authorized by law to be issued in redemption of the fractional currency it shall be lawful to manufacture at the several mints, and issue through authorized. the Treasury and its several offices, such coin, to an amount, that, including the amount of subsidiary silver coin and of fractional currency outstanding, shall, in the aggregate, not exceed, at any time, fifty million dollars. SEC. 4. That the silver bullion required for the purposes of this resolution shall be purchased, from time to time, at market-rate, by the Secretary of the Treasury, with any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; but no purchase of bullion shall be made under this resolution when the market-rate for the same shall be such as will not admit of the coinage and issue, as herein provided, without loss to the Treasury; and any gain or seigniorage arising from this coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury, as provided under existing laws relative to the subsidiary coinage: Provided, That the amount of money at any one time invested in such silver bullion, exclusive of such resulting coin, shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars. Approved, July 22, 1876. Purchase of bullion. Price limited. Seigniorage to be accounted for. Proviso. [No. 18.] Joint resolution to correct an error in the enrolment of the Post-Office appropriation act. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes," be amended as follows: July 25, 1876. 1876, ch. 179, § 7, Ante, p. 81, amended. 216 In line thirty-six, Section seven of said act, (as printed by authority of the Department of State,) after the word "sums," strike out the word "not." Approved, July 25, 1876. Aug. 3, 1876. Original Declaration of Independence to be restored. [No. 19.] Joint resolution providing for the restoration of the original Declaration of Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Approved, August 3, 1876. Aug. 5, 1876. Preamble. Special metallic ammunition not to go to Indians. Indians. [No. 20.] Joint resolution prohibiting supply of special metallic cartridges to hostile Whereas, it is ascertained that the hostile Indians of the Northwest are largely equipped with arms which require special metallic cartridges, and that such special ammunition is in large part supplied to such hostile Indians directly or indirectly through traders and others in the Indian country: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to take such measures as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent such special metallic ammu. nition being conveyed to such hostile Indians, and is further authorized to declare the same contraband of war in such district of country as he may designate during the continuance of hostilities. Approved, August 5, 1876. Aug. 15, 1876. Preamble. [No. 21.] Joint resolution providing for the postponement of the publication of the Army regulations. Whereas the President was, by an act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, authorized to make and publish regulations for the government of the Army, in accordance with existing laws; and Whereas by an act of Congress approved July twenty-four, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, a commission was created to which has been referred the whole subject matter of reform and reorganization of the Army of the United States; Therefore Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Publication of of America in Congress assembled, That the President be requested to Army Regulations postpone all action in connection with the publication of said regulations to be postponed. until after the report of said commission is received and acted on, by Congress at its next session. Approved, August 15, 1876. [No. 22.] Joint resolution amending the Eighth Section of the act "making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes" Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section eight of the act making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes be amended, by striking out the words "twelfth day of July," and inserting, in lieu thereof, the words "nineteenth day of July." Approved, August 15, 1876. Aug. 15, 1876. 1876, ch. 287, Ante, p. 169, amended. [No. 23.] Joint resolution in reference to the wreck of the United States monitor, Tecumseh. Aug. 15, 1876. Purchase money Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to return and tender to the of monitor Tecumparty claiming to have purchased the United States monitor Tecumseh seh to be returned. the sum of fifty dollars, with interest at six per centum added from August seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to the day of the tender, said sum of fifty dollars being the sum paid by James E. Slaughter on what purported to be the sale of said monitor then lying in Mobile Bay. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, directed to assume the control and protection of said monitor, and he is author- for. ized to dispose of the same to the party who paid said money or his assigns on just terms, providing in such disposition for the removal from said monitor and the proper burial of the remains of the persons carried down when she sank; such removal from the said monitor and burial to be under the protection and supervision of the Secretary of the Navy. Approved, August 15, 1876. Sale of, provided [No. 24.] Joint resolution to defray the expenses of the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives to prepare a suitable form of government for the District of Columbia. Aug. 15, 1876. on Form of Government for District of Columbia. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of carrying Appropriation into effect the provisions of the concurrent resolution appointing a select for expenses of committee of three members of the Senate and three members of the Joint Committeo House of Representatives to prepare a suitable form of government for the District of Columbia, the sum of three thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, one half to be disbursed from the contingent fund of the Senate and one half from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. Approved, August 15, 1876. |