LIST OF PUBLIC ACTS AN D RESOL UTIOXS. X11; Page. Congressional Library. Joint resolution authorizing the Librarian of Congress to accept the collection of engravings proposed to be donated to the Library of Congress by Mrs. Gertrude M. Hubbard. July 7, 1898 .- .. . .. 751 Army. Joint resolution to correct an omission relative to signal officers on the staff of corps commanders, and for other purposes. July 8, 1898 . . . . . ., . . . , ..., 752 Pan-American Exposition. Joint resolution regarding the holding of a Pan-American Exposition in the year nineteen hundred and one upon Cayuga. Island, between the cities of Buiialo and Niagara Falls, in the State of New York, to illustrate the development of the Western Hemisphere during the nineteenth century. July 8, 1898 .. . ..,... .--- ..,, 752 Dialrict of Columbia. Joint resolution relative to electric-lighting wires west of Rock Creek. July 8, 1898 .. 753 STATUTES 111.-1898-1899. Merchant seamen. An act to amend the laws relating to American seamen, for the protection of such seamen, and to promote commerce. December·21, 1898 .--. .. 755 Sail resseln. An act concerning sail vessels of over seven hundred tons, and for other purposes. December 21, 1898 . . . . -.-. --., 764 District of Columbia. An act regulating the inspection of Hour in the District of Columbia. December 21, 1898 .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . 765 Exposition, Philadelphia. An act providing for a national exposition of American products and manufactures at the city of Philadelphia for the encouragement of the export trade. December 21, 1898 . . . . - . . . . ... 768 United States courts, South Carolina. An act to regulate the sitting of the United States courts within the district of South Carolina. December 21, 1898 .. . . ---. 769 District 0] Columbia. An act authorizing the use of typewriting machines for the recording of deeds and other instruments of writing in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia. December 21. 1898. .. . ... . . - .. . -... 769 Diatdct of Columbia. An act to authorize Commissioners of District of Columbia to extinguish alley in square four hundred and sixty-five. December 21, 1898 . . .. . . . . . . 770 Indian Territory. An act making an appropriation to execute certain provisions of the act of Congress for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory. December 21, 1898 . 770 Bonds of conaula. An act to amend sections sixteen hundred and ninety-sereu, sixteen hundred and ninety-eight, and seventeen hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to consul and vice-consul generals, consnls and vice-cousuls, and commercial agents. December 21, 1898 .. - . .. . ... 770 Deficiency appropriations. An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the support of the military and naval establishments for the last six mouths of the fiscal ear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes. Jyanuary 5, 1899 . . .. . . . . . 772 Right of way. An act to authorize the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad Company to construct bgidgsg across the Arkansas and other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas. January 789 1. , 8 -•••·••¤••••••»•••¤•••••..•..•-aa•·-..•-•••-•·•••••¤••¤•••·•-~•-~••••¤¤•••••· d Bridge. An act to amend an act entitled "Au act to authorize the Oregon and Washington Brid e Company to construct and maintain a. bridge across the Columbia River, between the gtate of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road." January 10, 1899 .. . .. .-.-... .. . .. . . .. 783 Right of way. An act granting the Saginaw Southern Railroad Company a right of way for railroad purposes through the Sun rancisco Mountains Forest Reserve. J anuarg 10, 1899 783 Volunteer Army. An act granting extra pay to officers and enlisted men of United tutes Volunteers. January 12, 1899 .. . ... -. .. . . . ... . . 784 District of Columbia. An act relating to negotiable instruments within the District of Columbia. January 12, 1899 .. -. .. . . . . 785 District of Columbia. An act to provide for the establishment of building lines on certain streets _ in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. January 12, 1899 .. . . 802 Additional circuit judges. An act providing for additional circuit judges in the fifth and sixth judicial circuits, January 25, 1899 . . . . . . . . . . .. . -- 803 Saginaw, Mich., park. An act to authorize the city of Saginaw, Michigan, to beautify and use asa public park the United States post-ofiice property in said city, under rules and regulations · prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. January 25, 1899 .,_, ,,.. .,, - ..,.,. . ...,, 804 _ Light- ouac, etc., Massachusetts. An act for the establishment of a light-hon e and fol? signal or _ light-ship at a point north of the bell buoy near the broken part of the Pollock ip heals, on the coast of Massachusetts. January 28, 1899 . .. . . 804 Rose. An act to remit the time penalties on the light-house tender Rose. January 28, 1899. .. r-. 804 American Social Science Association. An act to incorporate the American Social Science Association. January 28, 1899 . . . . .,... . , -,,. . . r. 804 Bridge. An act to authorize the construction of a. bridge across the Missouri River at or near __ Oacoma, South Dakota. January 28, 1899 .. . . . --- .--. -·-- 806 Right of way. An act to authorize the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway Companyto construct and operate a railway through the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, in the Indian Terntory, and for other purposes. January 28, 1899. . . ... . ... . . . .. . --.. 806 Dqfleiencics, appropriations. An act makin appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the 3ppropri;§i0{1é§or the tiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and nlnety·ume. 810 anuary , .,..., -..- .,____ _ __________, _ _____ , __, . .. Insane asylum, D. G. An act to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes. January3i, 1899 .- 811 District of Columbia, make. An act for the prevention of smoke in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. February 2, 1899 ,,_,,, ,, ,,,. , . . ... . . 812
