FIFTYFIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Rus. 18-21. 1898. 737 [No. 18.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents to the March 19.1898. citizens’ committee of the city of Cincinnati for the use of the thirty-second national W encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby Rf*j{{$*cA¤¤Y of *h° authorized, at his discretion, to loan to the citizeus’ committee having 1giQ¤.ti‘¤e¤¤»¤tr¤» charge of the arrangements for the thirty-second national encampment Q£,f§;§,{§;°;;§u§* of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in the city of Cincin— ` nati in September, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and to deliver to William B. Melish, the executive director of said committee, for the use of said committee, the ibllowing, namely: Sibley tents, common A tents, and flood-suiI‘erers’ tents, with poles, ridges, and pins for each, under such restrictions as is usual in such cases, and with the proviso that no expense shall be caused the United States by the delivery and U,§§,_,g’g’tg:¤° ‘° ’ return of such property; the same to be delivered to said executive vm or delivery. - director at such time prior to the date of said encampment as may be agreed upon between the Secretary of War and said executive director; the number of said tents so loaned not to exceed nfteen hundred. ’ N¤¤¤b¤r· Approved, March 19, 1898. - [No. 19.] Joint Resolution Providing for the temporary admission free of duty of APH! L 199% naval and military supplies procured abroad. W Resolred Ira; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That such guns, ammunition, §g§;gg;‘0:°‘g{;*·0f and other naval and military supplies as may be purchased abroad by duty ts mmumem, this Government for the national defense prior to January iirst, eighteen °°°‘ hundred and ninety-nine, shall be admitted at any port of entry in the United States free of duty. . ` Approved, April 1, 1898. ——-—-•-·—-,•* [No. 20.] Joint Resolution Granting permission for the erection of a monument or April 9, 1898. statue in \Vashiugon City, District of Columbia, in honor of the late Albert Pike. —·—**‘—‘·;· Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That permission be, and is hereby, biI>i¤¤i¢¤ <>f ¤¤1¤¤· granted the Supreme Council of the Inspectors-General of the Thirty· Kam rue mmm Third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freema- mgajmmion www soury for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America to em. erect a monument or statue to the memory and in honor of Albert Pike, in such place in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, other than the Capitol or Library grounds, as shall be designated by the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, the Joint Committee on the Library, and the committee of the Supreme Council of said rite appointed by it for that purpose. The said monument or statue shall g not cost less than ten thousand dollars, and to be presented to the peo- 3 ple of the United States by said Supreme Council. Approved, April 9, 1898. [No, 21.] Joint Resolution Relative to suspension ofpart of section three hundred April 11.1898. pnelhfifty-tive of Revised Statutes, relative to erection of forts, iortiiications, and so W oft . Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in case of emergency when, in uggfgfggfgey the opinion of the President, the immediate erection of any temporary ecrwy- fort or fortification is deemed important and urgent, such temporary VOL xxx-47
