PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS OF THE UNITED` STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December, 187 4, and was adjourned without day on Thursday, the fourth day of March, 1875. Umrssns S. GRANT, President. HmNnY WILSON, Vice-President and President of the Senate. Mum. H. CARPENTER was elected President of the Senate, pro temporc, on the twenty-third day of December, 1874, and so acted from time to time until the iirst day of January, 1875. HENRY B. ANTHONY was chosen President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the twenty-fifth day of January, 1875, and so acted until the drst day of February, 1875. He was again chosen on the fifteenth day of February, 1875, and so acted from time to time until the twenty-third day of February, 1875. Jsrms G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 1.-An not mnkingan appropriation to enable the Postmaster General to carry Doc. .15, 1874. into eifect the law requiring the prepa ment of ostage on newspapers, approved ·-————-—-—— June twenty-nfth, eighteen nndred andyseventy-fgur. — Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of thirty thou- Scales for Postsand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same 0m°° D9P*§¤'°¤¤°¤*» is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- ”‘PP’°P““°‘°“‘ wise appropriated, for the purchase of scales for the use of the Post- _Office Department. Proposals for furnishing said scales shall be in- Advertisement vit1ed·by seven days public notice given by_the Postmaster General, and wd <><>¤¢¤¤¤¤· the contract shall be awarded to the lowest and best responsible bidder; the contractor to be allowed a reasonable time in the discretion of the Postmaster General to deliver the article contracted for. Approved, December 15, 1874. · CHAP. 2.-An act to conilrm an agreement made with the Shoshone Tnlians (eastern Dee, 15, 1874, band) for the purchase of the cout part of their reservation in Wyoming Territory. ———-——-—-;———-— Be it enacted by the·Senate and House ofRqpresentdtioes of the United States ofrimerioa in Congress assembled, That the agreement entered into Eeement with on the twenty-sixth day of September in the ysear of our Lord, eighteen gldmggjl I¤d¤·¤¤ hundred and seventy-two, between Felix B. runot, commissioner on ‘ the part of the United States, and the chief, head-men, and men of the eastern band of Shoshone Indians,_ in the words and figure following, be, and the same is hereby,eon1lrmed, satisfied, and approved by the Congress and President of the United State : Provided; That the cat-. Condition as to tle furnished under this agreement shall be good, young _ American °°m°• , cattle, suitable for breeding purposes. , ` Articles of a. convention made and concluded at the Shoshone and Date e£_ agree- Banuock Indian agency in Wyoming Territory, this twenty-sixth day ¤°P*» P°·¤‘¤°¤· of September, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and seventy- two, by and between Felix R. Brunot, commissioner on the part of the United States, aud the chief, head men, and men of the eastern band of Shoshone ndians, constituting a majority of all the adult male Indians of said band on tribe of Indians, and duly authorized to actin the premises, witnesseth: · ‘ ,
