Mar. 3, 1887.

Public

[No. 13.] Joint resolution providing for the sale of public documents Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of_the_United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell, at cost-price, to any party wish- ments. ing to purchase the same, any public document of which copies available for this purpose, not required for official use, remain: Provided, Proviso. That only one copy of any document be sold to any one person.

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Sale of, author

ized.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior shall have kept a detailed Annual report to statement of each and every public document sold, with the name of be made of sales. the purchaser and date of the purchase, and that he shall annually publish, among the documents accompanying his annual report, a statement showing the number of each public document sold during the fiscal year, and the price thereof.

Approved, March 3, 1887.

[No. 14.] Joint resolution to authorize the use of hot water off the Government Reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Mar. 3, 1887.

Hot Springs,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be and he is hereby authorized to continue to furnish to the Bath Houses Ark. Hot water to be located off the Permanent Reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, a sufficient amount of hot water for drinking and bathing purposes: Provided, houses off the ressupplied to bath That furnishing such bath houses shall in no way interfere with the ervation. supply of hot water necessary for the use of the Army and Navy Hospital and for the bath houses located upon the Permanent Reservation subject to any further action of Congress on the subject. Approved, March 3, 1887.

[No. 15.] Joint resolution to print the official report of the Investigations of Dr. Edward Shakespeare concerning the nature, and so forth, of Epidemic Cholera.

Proviso.

Not to interfere with Army and Navy Hospital supply.

Mar. 3, 1887.

Cholera in Eu

Report on, to be

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Official Report of the Inves tigations of Dr. Edward O. Shakespeare in Europe and Asia, concern- rope and Asia. ing the nature, causes, method of prevention and cure of Epidemic or Asiatic Cholera, made by the direction of the President of the United States, be printed, with the accompanying illustrations, and that there printed. be printed, in addition to the usual number, two thousand copies for the use of the Department of State, one thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and two thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, said report to be printed under the editorial supervision of Dr. Shakespeare.

Approved, March 3, 1887.

[No. 16.] Joint resolution to distribute copies of special memoirs and reports of the United States Geological Survey.

Mar. 3, 1887.

Geological Sur

Distribution to

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be distributed from the number of special memoirs and reports of the United States Geo- vey memoirs. logical Survey now authorized by law one copy of every such publication to every public library which shall be designated to the Secretary of the Interior as follows: Two public libraries to be designated by each libraries. of the Senators from the States, respectively, two public libraries by the Representative in Congress from every Congressional district, and two public libraries by the Delegate from every Territory; such public libraries to be additional to those to which the said publications are distributed under existing law.

Approved, March 3, 1887.

Mar. 3, 1887.

Labor.

[No. 17.] Joint resolution providing for printing the annual report of the Commissioner of Labor.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Commissioner of of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed thirty-nine thousand copies, in cloth binding, of the second annual report of the Report to be Commissioner of Labor, twenty-six thousand copies for the use of memprinted. bers of the House of Representatives, and thirteen thousand copies for the use of members of the Senate.

Appropriation.

Va.

Mar. 3, 1887.

Permission build hotel at.

Proviso.

to

SEC. 2. That the sum of nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninetyfour dollars and thirty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to defray the cost of the publication of said report, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1887.

[No. 18. J Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to grant a permit to John F Chamberlin to erect a hotel upon the lands of the United States at Fortress Monroe, Virginia.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Fortress Monroe, of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to grant permission to John F. Chamberlin to build a hotel upon the lands of the United States at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, upon such site and with such plans and dimensions as may be approved by the Secretary of War: Provided, That the State of VirConsent of Virginia, by its general assembly and governor, shall, by proper legal enginia. actment, give the consent of said State to the erection of such hotel, and that the building or buildings erected shall be removed, at the expense of the owner or owners, whenever the Secretary of War shall so direct; and no claim for damages by reason of such removal shall be made upon the Government of the United States: And provided further, That the building so erected shall be subject to State and national taxation as other property

Taxation.

Mar. 3, 1887.

dustrial

tion.

Executive

Approved, March 3, 1887.

[No. 19.] Joint resolution authorizing the several Executive Departments of the Government to loan to the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition certain articles for exhibit. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Minneapolis In- of America in Congress assembled, That it is desirable, in any way conExposi- sistent with existing laws, and without risk to Government property or expense to the National Treasury, to encourage the effort being made for the opening and holding of a grand industrial and educational exposition of the Northwest, at the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, and the interests of the whole north western section of our country demand it be made unqualified success; and it be, and is hereby, De- approved that the heads of the several Executive Departments shall, partments may in whatever respects they may in their judgment see convenient and loan articles to exproper, loan any articles or material suitable to such purpose: Provided, hibit. That such loan be made entirely on the responsibility of said MinneExposition to be apolis Industrial Exposition, and shall not be of material needed for responsible for use in either Department, and shall not in any way interrupt the daily safety, etc. routine of duty or order in any branch of the Government, and shall be returned to the proper Department, in good order, within one month after the close of the exposition: And provided further, That before any such loan shall be made the proper head of the Department shall require and receive a good and sufficient bond, by or in behalf of such exposition, for the safe return thereof as aforesaid, and to indemnify and save harmless the Government of the United States, or any Department thereof, from any liability or expense on account thereof, or on account of this resolution.

Provisos.

Bond.

Approved, March 3, 1887.

[No. 20.] Joint resolution providing for the distribution of the Official Register of the United States.

Mar. 3, 1887.

Distribution.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That inasmuch as the Official Regis- Official Register. ter of the United States is now supplied to depositories of public documents as one of the set of Congressional documents in leather binding, so much of the act of December fifteenth, eigthteen hundred and seventy-seven, as provides for supplying depositories with this document is hereby repealed; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to send the Register to such library not a depository as shall be named to him for the purpose by each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress

Approved, March 3, 1887.

[No. 21.] Joint resolution authorizing the printing of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

Mar. 3, 1887.

Commissioner of

Report for 1887 to be printed.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed four hundred thousand copies of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agricult- Agriculture. ure for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; seventy thousand copies for the use of members of the Senate, three hundred thousand copies for the use of members of the House of Representatives, and thirty thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture; the illustrations for the same to be executed under the supervision of the Public Printer, in accordance with directions of the Joint Committee on Printing, said illustrations to be subject to the approval of the Com. missioner of Agriculture.

SEC. 2. That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the cost of the printing of said Report.

Approved, March 3, 1887.

Appropriation.

[No. 22.] Joint resolution for printing five thousand copies of Commander Schley's report of his search for the Greely expedition.

Mar. 3, 1887.

Greely Expedi

Report of search

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed and bound in cloth, at the Government Printing Office, and illustrated, five tion. thousand copies of the report of Commander W. S. Schley, United States Navy, commander of the relief expedition of eighteen hundred and for, to be printed. eighty-four to rescue Lieutenant A W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay expedition; of which number one thousand copies shall be for the use of the House, five hundred copies for the use of the Senate, and three thousand five hundred copies to be distributed by the Secretary of the Navy.

Approved, March 3, 1887.