FIFTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. RES. 42-46. 1896. 47] thereto, now in possession of the Treasury Department, by reason of V°‘·”· PP·553·5°°- “An Act to reduce taxation," and so forth, in eifect August twenty- eighth, eighteeu hundred and ninety-ibur. Approved, April 6, 1896. _[No. 43.] Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of War to prepare and sub- APH! 10, ISU- mit estimates for the improvement of the harbor at Portland, Maine. `";‘°‘*;‘ Resolved, the Senate and H onse of Representatives of the U nited States of America an Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby §Q§J_j‘;‘,g;,M§g ,m_ directed to prepare and submit estimates for the improvement of the proving harbor diharbor at Portland, Maine, with a view of ecuring a depth of thirty ’°°'°°d‘ feet at mean low water. Approved, April 10, 1896. [N0. 44.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to transmit to Congress APFU18. W96- a report on survey of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound, at "W Salmon Bay, with Lakes Union and Washington, and to submit an estimate of the cost of constructing said waterway. _Resol·ved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States oj America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and §;§ff$_;f,“$§:},;§;{ he is hereby, directed to transmit to Congress the report of Captain ton`. _ Thomas W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, dated August twenty-ninth, ,,Q§§2,¥,¥‘f;°§;, ‘{f§·;,,,{’f · eighteen hundred and ninety-five, together with the accompanying mmodreport of the assistant engineer, upon the survey of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound, at Salmon Bay, with Lakes Union and Washington; also to submit an estimate of the cost of constructing the said waterway on the route described and laid down in the aforesaid report. Approved, April 18, 1896. [N0. 45.] Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit a plan and APW l8· lmestimate for the improvement of the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, opposite Sioux City, Iowa. Resolved by the Senate and House ofltepresentatives of the U ntted States _ of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of `War is hereby ,{*°uj_j’;*g$‘;:]'- v_ directed to cause to be prepared and subunit a plan and estimate for mg gpplnns mx the improvement of the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, oppo- ff,Q{Mf"'“·‘° "*’ ‘“"‘ site Sioux City, Iowa, in accordance with the report of Captain H. F. Hodges, Corps of Engineers, dated November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and printed in House Executive Document Numbered Forty-eight, Fifty-third Congress, third session. Approved, April 18, 1896. [No. 46.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Public Printer to print the Annual Al>1"il?0»1896- Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast and Ceodetic Survey in quarro form and to bind it in one volume. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_ of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph seven, section seventy- Slgft §:g0§f°“°“° three, of the Act ofJanuary tweltth,eighteen hundred and ninety-five, xumiwnobepi-mms · providing for the public printing and binding, and so tbrth, be amended °"€{',§°,‘Q p_m_ by striking out all of said paragraph after the_word “survey," at the end of the first and beginning of the second lines, and substituting in lieu thereof the following words: Two thousand eight hundred copies in quarto form, bound in one volume, two hundred for the Senate, six hundred for the House, and two thousand for distribution by the Coast _ and Ceodetic Survey. Approved, April 20, 1896.
