616 1881, MAR. 3; CHAP. 160; RES. 1880, DEC. 18, 1881, JAN. 27, Nos. 1, 3. [46TH CONG. CHAPTER 160. March 3, 1881. 21 Stat. L., 513. from taxes. AN ACT TO CONSTRUE AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO RELIEVE THE CHURCHES AND In District of Columbia, church property released Be it enacted, &c. — orphan asylums in, exempt from taxation. In District of [SECTION 1], That upon the payment on or before the first day of OcColumbia, church tober, eighteen hundred and eighty one, of all taxes and assessments property released levied since the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy four, upon church property used for parsonage purposes in the District of Columbia, all taxes and assessments levied upon said parsonage property prior to said first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy four, together with any and all penalties, costs, and interest that may have accrued thereon, shall be, and hereby are, remitted and released. - orphan asylums taxation. SEC. 2. That all taxes and assessments heretofore levied upon orphan in, exempt from asylums, and on the grounds actually occupied thereby, together with all penalties, costs, and interest that may have accrued thereon, shall be, and hereby are remitted and released; and said asylums and grounds shall hereafter be exempt from taxation while so occupied: Provided, That all other real estate belonging to such institutions shall still be held for assessment and taxation, and for all previous assessments and taxes. [March 3, 1881.] Dec. 18, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 515. RESOLUTIONS. NUMBER 1. JOINT RESOLUTION DIRECTING ONE COPY OF CONGRESSIONAL RECORD TO BE SENT Congressional Record to be sent free to legations abroad. Congressional Resolved, &c., That the Public Printer be and he is hereby authorized Record to be sent and directed to forward free of charge one copy of the daily Congresfree to legations sional Record to each of our legations abroad. Commencing at the beR. S., § 504, ginning of this session and continuing each day until the fourth day of March eighteen hundred and eighty-one. [December 18, 1880.] abroad. 3760. NUMBER 3. Jan. 27, 1881. 21 Stat. L., 515. JOINT RESOLUTION IN REFERENCE TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE CONGRESSIONAL Congressional Resolved, &c., That the Public Printer be authorized to furnish the Record to be fur- Chief Justice and each of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of nished justices, the United States, and the clerk and marshal of the court with a curclerk, and marshal of Supreme Court. rent copy of the Daily Congressional Record, and at the end of each R. S., § 3760. session a bound copy of the proceedings of Congress for such session. And the public Printer shall also furnish to the Official Reporter of the Senate five bound copies of the Congressional Record for each ses sion. [January 27, 1881.] --and to Reporter of Senate. NUMBER 9. JOINT RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE FOR PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTING THE INDEX OF Feb. 8, 1881. 21 Stat. L., 516. Resolved, &c., That the Joint Committee on Printing be, and they are Index to Conhereby, authorized and directed to make the necessary provisions and gressional Record arrangements for hereafter issuing the index of the Congressional Rec- to be printed semiord semi-monthly during the sessions of Congress, beginning with next monthly. ensuing session. That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, directed to print and distribute the same number of copies of said semi-monthly index as he prints and distributes of the daily issue of the Record, and to the same persons and in the same manner. R. S., § 78. 3760. That the Public Printer shall employ such person to prepare said in--by whom predex as shall be designated by the Joint Committee on Printing, who pared. shall also fix and regulate the compensation to be paid by the Public Printer for the said work and direct the form and manner of its publication: Provided however, That the compensation allowed for preparing said compensation semi-monthly index, including their compilation into a session index, for preparing. shall not exceed the average total amount now allowed by the Joint Committee on Printing for compiling the session index. [February 8, 1881.] NUMBER 12. JOINT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PUBLIC PRINTER TO PRINT REPORTS OF THE FISH-CULTURE. Report of Commissioner of Fisheries to be printed, -number and distribution of. &c. Feb. 14, 1881. 21 Stat. L., 517. &c. Resolved, &c., That the Public Printer be, and he hereby is, instructed Reports of Comto print and stereotype, from time to time, the regular number of nine- missioner of Fishteen hundred copies of any matter furnished him by the United States eries to be printed, Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries relative to new observations, dis- R. S., § 4391coveries, and applications connected with fish-culture and the fisheries, 4398. to be capable of being distributed in parts, and the whole to form an annual volume or bulletin not exceeding five hundred pages. The edition of said annual work shall consist of five thousand copies, - number and disof which two thousand five hundred shall be for the use of the House tribution of. of Representatives, one thousand for the use of the Senate, and one thousand five hundred for the use of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. [February 14, 1881.] NUMBER 22. JOINT RESOLUTION IN RELATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF EIGHTEEN Foreign governments to be invited to be repre sented at international exhibition of 1883. - without liability of the United States for ex- March 1, 1881. 21 Stat. L., 518. Resolved, &c., That whenever the President shall deem the preparations Foreign governwhich shall have been made therefor adequate, he is hereby author- ments to be invited ized and requested, in the name of the United States, to invite all to be represented foreign governments to be represented at and take part in the interna- exhibition of 1883. tional exhibition of arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and 1880, April 23, mine to be held under the direction of the United States International ch. 60. at international -without liabili Commission at the city of New York, in the State of New York, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three: Provided, however, That the United States shall not be liable, directly ty of the United or indirectly, for any of the expenses attending such exhibition, or by reason of the invitation hereby authorized. [March 1, 1881.] States for expenses, March 3, 1881. 21 Stat. L., 521. Standard weights be furnished cer NUMBER 26. JOINT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TO FURNISH Standard weights and measures to be furnished certain agricultural colleges, &c. Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, and measures to directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted tain agricultural as standards to be delivered to the governor of each State in the Union, colleges. for the use of agricultural colleges in the States, respectively, which have received a grant of lands from the United States, and also one set of the same for the use of the Smithsonian Institution : - cost of, &c. Provided That the cost of each set shall not exceed two hundred dollars, and a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this resolution is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. [March 3, 1881.] PROCLAMATIONS. 1873-NUMBER 2. [DECLARING LAWS PASSED BY GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA, AND PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND, GIVING EFFECT TO CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF TREATY OF WASHINGTON.] Whereas by the Thirty-third Article of a Treaty concluded at Washing, ton on the 8th day of May, 1871, between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, it was provided that "Articles XVIII to XXV inclusiveand Article XXX of this Treaty shall take effect as soon as the laws required to carry them into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on the other ;" And whereas by the first section of an Act entitled (1) "An act to carry into effect the provisions of the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed in the city of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fisheries," it is provided "that whenever the President of the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, the Parliament of Canada, and the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island, have passed laws on their part to give full effect to the provisions of the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed at the city of Washington on the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as contained in Articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and Article thirtieth of said Treaty, he is hereby authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that he has such evidence;" And whereas the Secretary of State of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington have recorded in a protocol a conference held by them at the Department of State in Washington, on the 7th day of June, 1873, in the following language: "Protocol of a conference held at Washington, on the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. "Whereas it is provided by Article XXXIII of the Treaty between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, signed at Washington on the 8th of May, 1871, as follows: "ARTICLE XXXIII. "The foregoing Articles, XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article XXX of this Treaty shall take effect as soon as the laws required to carry them into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island on the one hand, and by the NOTE.-(1) See note at end of proclamation on next following page. July 1, 1873. 18 Stat. L., 842. Preamble. Protocol. (619) Act passed by Great Britain. - by Canada. - by Prince Edward's Island. - by United States. 1873, ch. 213 (17 Stat. 2866, 4347. Congress of the United States on the other. Such assent having been given, the said articles shall remain in force for the period of ten years from the date at which they may come into operation, and further, until the expiration of two years after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same; each of the High Contracting Parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the end of the said period of ten years, or at any time afterward;" And whereas, in accordance with the stipulations of the above recited Article, an Act was passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain in the 35th and 36th years of the reign of Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to carry into effect a Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America:" And whereas an Act was passed by the Senate and House of Commons of Canada in the fifth session of the First Parliament, held in the thirty-fifth year of Her Majesty's reign, and assented to in Her Majesty's name, by the Governor General, on the fourteenth day of June, 1872, intituled "An Act relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1871:" And whereas an Act was passed by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island and assented to by the Lieutenant Governor of that Colony on the 29th day of June, 1872, intituled "An Act relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1871:" And whereas an Act was passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of L., 482), R. S., §§ 2506, the United States of America in Congress assembled, and approved on the first day of March, 1873, by the President of the United States, intituled (1) "An Act to carry into effect the provisions of the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed in the city of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to fisheries:" Article of treaty in The undersigned, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, and the force (17 Stat. L., 482). Right Honourable Sir Edward Thornton, one of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, duly authorized for this purpose by their respective Governments, having met together at Washington, and having found that the laws required to carry the Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article XXX of the Treaty aforesaid into operation, have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island on the one part, and by the Congress of the United States on the other, hereby declare that Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article XXX of the Treaty between Her Britannic Majesty and the United States of America of the 8th of May, 1871, will take effect on the First day of July next. Laws declared In witness whereof the undersigned have signed this Protocol, and have hereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at Washington, this Seventh day of June, 1873. (SEAL.) (Signed) HAMILTON FISH. Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States passed, giving ef- of America, in pursuance of the premises, do hereby declare that I have feet to provisions received satisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parliament of Great R. S., § 2506, Britain, the Parliament of Canada, and the Legislature of Prince Ed2866, 4347. of treaty. ward's Island, have passed laws on their part to give full effect to the provisions of the said Treaty as contained in Articles Eighteenth to Twentyfifth, inclusive, and Article Thirtieth of said Treaty. [July 1, 1873.] NOTE.-(1) The provisions of the act of Congress, 1873, ch. 213 (17 Stat. L., 482), here referred to, are incorporated into Revised Statutes in the sections referred to in the margin. Thereafter fish-oil and fish, the produce of fisheries of Canada and Prince Edward's Island, are admitted free of duty, as provided in Revised Statutes, § 2506. Merchandise destined for British possessions in North America may be entered at certain ports and conveyed in transit through the United States, under certain rules and regulations, without payment of duties, as provided in Revised Statutes, § 2866. British subjects may carry in British vessels, without payment of duty, merchandise from one port or place in the United States upon the Saint Lawrence River, the great lakes, and the rivers connecting the same, to another port or place in the United States, through Canada in bond, as provided in Revised Statutes, § 4347.J Sept. 22, 1873. 18 Stat. L., 844. Preamble. ! 1873-NUMBER 4. [DISCONTINUING DISCRIMINATING DUTIES ON MERCHANDISE IMPORTED IN FRENCH VESSELS.] Preamble. Discriminating duties on merchandise imported in French vessels discontinued. Whereas, satisfactory evidence was given me on the 13th day of September current, by the Marquis de Noailles, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the French Republic, that on and after the first day of October next, merchandise imported into France in vessels of the United |