LIST OF TITLES OF PUBLIC ACTS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS WHICH BECAME LAWS IN THE FIRST SESSION, LID CONGRESS, WITH DATES OF APPROVAL AND AMOUNTS OF APPROPRIATIONS. 1. Fixing the times for holding the District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the Northern District of Iowa. Jan. 22, 1892 2. Providing for the completion for the allotment of lands to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians. Jan. 28, 1892. (Appropriates $15,000 or so much thereof may be necessary.) 3. To amend act entitled "An act granting the right of way to the Hutchinson and Southern Railroad Company through the Indian Territory." Feb. 3, 1892. 4. To amend act entitled "An act to amend the general incorporation law of the District of Columbia," approved May 17, 1892. Feb. 9, 1892. 5. To detach Montgomery County from the Western and add it to the Eastern District of Arkansas. Feb. 9, 1892. 6. To provide for the creation of a Fourth Judicial District in the Territory of Utah. Feb. 11, 1892. 7. To amend an act entitled "An act for the construction of a railroad and wagon bridge acro-s the Mississippi River at South Saint Paul, Minnesota," approved April 26, 1890. Feb. 15, 1892. 8. To change the corporate name of the National Safe Deposit Company, of Washington. Feb. 18, 1892. 9. To extend the privileges of the transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement to the port of Sandusky, Ohio. Feb. 26, 1892. 10. To constitute Newark, in the State of New-Jersey, a port of immediate transportation. March 8, 1892. 11. Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the expenses of the Eleventh Census, and for other purposes. March 8, 1892. (Appropriates $428,664 10.) 12. To provide an additional mode of taking depositions of witnesses in causes pending in the courts of the United States. March 9, 1892. 13. To provide for a term of the Circuit and District Court at Littleton. March 10, 1892. 14. Ratifying the act of sixteenth territorial Legislative Assembly of Arizona, approved March 19, 1891, making appropriation in aid of Arizona's exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition. March 18, 1892 15. Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in he Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes. March 18, 1892. (Appropriates $160,000.) 16. To provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892. March 18, 1892. (Appropriates $479,641 70.) 17. To prevent fraudulent transactions on the part of commission merchants and other consignees of goods and other property in the District of Columbia. March 21, 1892. 18. To provide for terms of the United States Circuit and District courts at Cumberland, Maryland. March 21, 1892. 19. For the relief of the inhabitants of the town of Chelan, in Okanogan County, State of Washington. March 24, 1892. 20. To set apart a tract of land in the State of California for the use of the Lick Observatory of the Astronomical Department of the University of California. March 25, 1892. 21. To provide for the establishment of a port of delivery at Council Bluffs, Iowa. March 26, 1892. 22. To amend section 1,216 of the Revised Statutes, relating to certificates of merit to the enlisted men of the Army. March 29, 1892. the United 23. To determine the sessions of the Circuit and District courts of States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. March 31,1892. 24. To change the name of the Customs Collection District and Port of Wilming. ton, California, to Los Angeles, and for other purposes. March 31, 1892. 25. To amend act entitled "An act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the Government for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1881. March 31, 1892. 26. To authorize the appointment of clerk for the Circuit and District courts in the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of Arkan-as. April 1, 1892. 27. Granting to the State of South Dakota section numbered 36 in township numbered 94 north of range numbered 56 west, in the County of Yankton, in said State, for the purpose of an asylum for the insane, to correct an act approved June 16. 1880, attempting to make such grant to the Territory of Dakota, and for other purposes. April 1, 1892. 28. To prevent fraud upon the water revenues of the District of Columbia. April 5, 1892. 29. To protect foreign exhibitors at the World's Columbian Exposition from prose. cution for exhibiting wares protected by American patents and trademarks. April 6, 1892. 30. Changing the time for holding the Circuit and District courts in the District of West Virginia. April 6, 1892. 31. Establishing a port of delivery at Des Moines, Iowa. April 7, 1892. 32. To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a railroad, wagon, and foot passenger bridge at Burlington, Iowa, approved August 6, 1888," as amended by act approved February 21, 1890. April 7, 1892. 33. To change the time of holding the courts in the Eastern Judicial District of Texas. April 7, 1892. 34. To amend the act concerning officers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and for other purposes. April 11, 1892. 35. To repeal the provisions of an act entitled "An ac to amend sections 4,488 and 4,489 of the Revised Statutes, requiring life-aving appliances on steamers," approved March 2, 1889, so far as they relate to steamers plying exclusively upon any of the lakes, bays, or sounds of the United States. April 11, 1892. 36. Extending the privileges of the first and seventh sections of the act approved June 10, 1880, governing the transportation of merchandise without appraisement, to the port of Ogdensburg, in the State of New-York. April 13, 1892. 37. To extend to Marquette, Michigan, the privilege of immediate transportation of unappraised merchandise. April 13, 1892. 38. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River, between the city of Chamberlain, in Brule County, and Lyman County, South Dakota. April 15, 1892. 39. Authorizing the Velasco Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Brazos River, Texas. April 15, 1892. 40. Making Velasco a sub-port of entry. April 15, 1892. 41. To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia River, between Oregon and Washington, and to establish it as a post road.” April 18, 1892. 42. To change the times for holding the Circult and District courts of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. April 19, 1892. 43. To establish a military post near Little Rock, Arkansas. April 23, 1892. 44. To authorize the appointment of an inspector of plumbing in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. April 23, 1892. 45. To extend the time for making an assessment of real estate in the District of Columbia, outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown. April 28, 1892. 46. To empower the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to grant respites and pardons in certain cases. April 28, 1892. 47. To amend the act giving the approval and fanction of Congress to the route and termini of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad in the District of Columbia. April 30, 1892. 48. To amend the charter of the Rock Creek Railroad Company. April 30, 1892. 49. To create a third division of the District of Kansas for judicial purposes, and to fix the time for holding court therein. May 3, 1892. 50. To prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States. May 5, 1892. 51. Authorizing the Leavenworth and Platte County Bridge Company to sell, transfer, and assign to the Leavenworth Terminal Railway and Bridge Company the rights and franchises as granted by acts of Congress approved February 25 and March 2, 1889, and by act of Congress approved July 25 1890. May 9, 1892. 52. To provide for the permanent preservation and custody of the records of the volunteer armies, and for other purposes. May 9, 1892. 53. To encourage American shipbuilding. May 10, 1892. 54. Making appropriations for expenses that may be incurred under the treaties between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February 29, and April 18, 1892. (Appropriates $150,000.) May 11, 1892. 55. To punish false swearing before trial boards of the Metropolitan police force and fire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. May 11, 1892. 56. To establish sub-ports of entry and delivery at Superior, Wisconsin, and at Ashland, Wisconsin, in the Superior Collection District of Michigan and Wisconsin. May 11, 1892. 57. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at DeWitt, Carroll County, Missouri, and to establish it as a post road. May 12, 1892. 58. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Osage River, between the town of Warsaw and the mouth of Turkey Creek, in Benton County, Missouri. May 12, 1892. 59. To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the ance Company of Washington." Approved February 14, 1865. 60. To establish a military post at or near the city of Clarke County, Montana. May 12, 1892. National Union Insur. 61. To authorize National bank at Chicago, Illinois, to establish a branch office upon the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition. May 12, 1892. 62. To provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, and for other purposes. (Appropriates $1,228,636.) May 13. 1892. 63. To authorize the construction of a telephone line on the coast of Virginia from Cape Charles to Assateague Island, in aid of the preservation of life and property. May 13, 1892. 64. To amend act entitled "An act relating to tax sales and taxes in the District of Columbia." May 13, 1892. 65. Authorizing the construction of a wagon and motor bridge over the Missouri River at Sains Charles, Missouri. May 23, 1892. 66. To provide for a term of the United States Circuit and District Courts Evanston, Wyoming. May 23, 1892. at 87. To vacate that part of Madison-st., Georgetown, west of Back-st., and extend Y-st. in Burleith, in the District of Columbia. May 25, 1892. 68. For the relief of holders of drawback certificates ssued under an act of Congress approved June 2, 1890. May 25, 1892. 69. For the protection of livery-stable keepers and other persons keeping horses at livery within the District of Columbia. May 31, 1892. 70. Making Laredo, Texas, a sub-port of entry. June 3, 1892. 71. To amend sections 2,807 and 2,881 of the Revised Statutes. June 3, 1892. 72. To repeal the license tax of $25 per year now imposed upon produce dealers in the markets of the District of Columbia. June 3, 1892. 73. To establish West Point, Virginia, a subport of entry and delivery in the Collection District of Richmond, Virginia. June 4, 1892. 74. For the regulation of the practice of dentistry in be District of Columbia, and for the protection of the people from empiricism in relatio thereto. June 6, 1892. 75. To establish a railway bridge across the Illinois River, between a point at or near the city of Havana, in Mason County, and a point on the opposite side of river, in Fulton County, Illinois. June 6, 1892. caid 76. To enable the Centennial Board of Finance, incorporated by an act approved June 1, 1872, to close its affairs, and dissolving said corporation. June 6, 1892. 77. Granting to the Topeka Water and Electric Power Company of Kansas the right to erect and maintain a dam or dams across the Kansas River, within Shawnee County, Kansas. June 6, 1892. 78. To authorize building a bridge over Tennessee River. June 6, 1892. 79. To authorize the Illinois and Iowa Railway and Terminal Company to build a bridge across the Mississippi River at Moline, Illinois. June 8, 1892. 80. Donating twenty acres of land from the Fort Sidney Military Reservation, on the northest corner thereof, to the city of Sidney, Nebraska, for cemetery purposes. June 10, 1892. 81. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year 1892, and other purposes. (Appropriates $7,688,332.) June 14, 1892. 82. Granting the use of certain lands to the city of New-Bedford, Massachusett J for a public park. June 15, 1892. 88. To authorize the Glen Echo Railroad Company to cross the Washington Aqueduct. June 15, 1892. 84. To provide for the disposition and sale of lands known as the Klamath River Indian Reservation. June 17, 1892. The 85. Granting the right and authority to the Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Company, a company organized under the laws of Florida and Alabama, to build one bridge over each of the following named rivers in Alabama, namely: Alabama River, the Warrior River, the Sipsey River and the Tennessee River; the said bridges to be used by the Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Company in carrying freight and passengers by rail and otherwise. June 21, 1892. 86. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the city of Yankton, South Dakota. June 22, 1892. 87. Authorizing the Continental Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Rio Grande River at or near Brownsville, Texas. June 22, 1892. 88. Authorizing the Quincy Pontoon Bridge Company to construct and maintain a pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at the city of Quincy, Illinois. June 22, 1892. 89. To include lot numbered 53 in block 89 at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the public reservation at that place. June 22, 1892. 90. To confirm New-Madrid location survey numbered 2,475, and to provide for the issue of a patent therefor. June 24, 1892. 91. To provide an American register for the steamer Foxhall, of New-Orleans, Louisiana. June 25, 1892. 92. To amend act entitled "An act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes." June 25, 1892. 93. To relinquish the interest of the United States in a certain parcel of land in the city of Pensacola, Florida, to Escambia Lodge, No. 15, Free and Accepted Masons. June 25, 1892. 94. To prevent cruelty to children or animals in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. June 25, 1892. 95. To amend act entitled "An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes, approved June 10, 1880, by extending the privileges of the seventh section thereof to the port of Saint Augustine, Florida. June 30, 1892. 96. For the relief of the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company. June 30, 1892. 97. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect certain recommendations of the Mission Indian Commission,, and to issue patents for certain lands. July 1, 1892. 98. To provide for the opening of a part of the Colville Reservation, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes. (Received by the President June 20, 1892, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution, became a law without his approval.) 99. To amend the charter of the Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railroad Company. July 5, 1892. 100. To incorporate the District of Columbia Suburban Railway Company. July 5, 1892. 101. To provide the times and places for holding term of the United States courts in Idaho and Wyoming. July 5, 1892. 102. For preparation of a site and erection of pedestal for statue of late General William T. Sherman, and appropriating the sum of $50,000 therefor. July 5, 1892. 103. Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883. July 5, 1892. (Appropriates $3,232,995 50.) 101. For the relief of the inhabitants of the town of Ferron, county of Emery, Territory of Utah. July 6, 1892. 105. To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to consent to the use of a portion of the public grounds of the United States in the town of Abingdon, Virginia, for a public street. July 6, 1892. to the 106. To authorize the Marinette and Western Railroad Company to construct a railroad through the Menominee Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin. July 6, 1892. 107. Supplementary and amendatory to an act entitled "An act to refer Cours of Claims certain claims of the Shawnee and Delaware Indians and the freedmen of the Cherokee Nation and for other purposes,' approved October 1, 1890. July 6, 1892. 108. Confirming title to lands in the subdivision of square 206 in the city of Washington. July 6, 1892. 109. Amendatory of an act entitled "An act to provide for the taking of the Eleventh Census." July 6, 1892. 110. To allow thirty days' leave of absence to employes in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. July 6, 1892. 111. To amend act entitled "An act approving with amendments the funding act of Arizona," approved June 25, 1890. July 13, 1892. 112. To amend act entitled "An act to authorize the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia River, between the State of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road." July 13, 1892. 113. Making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works or river and harbors, and for other purposes. July 13, 1892. (Appropriates $21,153,618, and authorizes contracts for $31,555,401 more.) 114. To punish the carrying or selling of deadly or dangerous weapons within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. July 13, 1892. 115. Authorizing the Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Corpus Christi Channel, known as the Morris and Cummings Ship Channel, in Aransas County, Texas. July 13, 1892. 116. Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, and for other purposes. July 13, 1892. (Appropriates $146,737,350.) 117. To amend the act approved March 1, 1887, relating to the Hospital Corps of the Army. July 13, 1892. 118. Authorizing the issuing of patents for locations with certificates granted under the act of Congress approved August 5, 1854, entitled "An act for the relief of the legal heirs of Benjamin Metoyer." July 13, 1892. 119. Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, and for other purposes. July 13, 1892. (Appropri ates $7,064,047 84.) 120. Making appropriations for the service of the Postoffice Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. July 13, 1892. (Appropriates $80,331.876 73.) 121. To amend an act entitled "An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purpo es," approved June 10, 1880, by extending the privileges of the finst section thereof to the port of Fernandina, Florida. July 14, 1892. 122. To establish an intermediate rate of pension between $30 and $72 per month. July 14, 1892. 123. To authorize the Lake Charles Road and Bridge Company, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, to construct and maintain bridges across English Bayou and Calcasieu River. July 14, 1892. 124. Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, and for other purposes. July 14, 1892. (Appropriates $5,323,414 27.) 125. Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. July 14, 1892. (Appropriates $428,917 33.) 126. To grant lot 1 in block 72 of the Hot Springs Reservation to the School district of the city of Hot Springs for school purposes. July 14, 1892. 127. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year end. ing June 30, 1893, and for other purposes. July 16, 1892. (Appropriates $24,308, 499 82.) 128. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, and for other purposes. July 16, 1892. (Appropriates $21,899,252 97.) 129. Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular service of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. July 16, 1892. (Appropriates $1,604,045.) 180. To amend section 7 of the act approved June 22, 1888, entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Missouri River at or near the city of Omaha, Nebraska," and for other purposes. July 16, 1892. 131. Authorizing the Saint Joseph's Church, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to use the land quit-claimed to it by the United States for school purposes. 132. To vest the title of public square 1,102 in the city of Washington, in the trustees of the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and for other purposes. July 18, 1892. 133. Granting to the county of Mariposa, California, the right of way for a free wagon road or turnpike across the Yosemite National Park, in said State. July 19, 1892. 134. Making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, and for other purposes. July 19, 1892. (Apppropriates $23,543,385.) 135. To provide for holding terms of court in the district of Montana. July 20, 1892. 136. Providing when plaintiff may sue as a poor person and when counsel shall be assigned by the court. July 20, 1892. 137. Granting the right of way to the Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Company over and through the public lands of he United States in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and granting the right of way to aid railroad company over and through the United States Naval and Military Reservations near Pensacola, Florida. July 21, 1892. 138. To extend the privileges of the first and seventh sections of the act of June 10, 1880, to the ports of Bangor and Vanceboro, Maine. July 21, 1892. 139. Authorizing the Leonard Avenue Street Railway Company to lay tracks upon certain streets abutting United States Military Reservation in the city of Columbus, Ohio. July 21, 1892. 140. Fixing the time for holding the Circuit and District Courts in the District of West Virginia. July 22, 1892. 141. Regulating the construction of buildings along alleyways in the District of Columbia. July 22, 1892. 142. To establish weather bureau stations on Middle and Thunder Bay Islands in Lake Huron. July 22, 1892. 143. To provide for the opening of alleys in the District of Columbia. July 22, 1892. 144. To fix the compensation of keepers and crews of ife-saving stations. July 22, 1892. (Will add $220,000 a year to their compensation.) 145. Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defence, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes. July 23, 1892. (Appropriates $7,664,047 84.) 146. To amend sections 2,139, 2,140 and 2,141 of the Revised Statutes touching the sale of intoxicants in the Indian country, and for other purposes. July 23, 1892. 147. To provide for a May term of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina. July 23, 1892. 148. To amend "An act to define the juridiction of the police court of the District of Columbia," approved March 3, 1891. July 23, 1892. 149. To accept a bequest made by General George W. Cullum for the erection of a memorial hall at West Point, New-York, and to carry the terms and conditions of the same into execution. July 23, 1892. 150. Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell certain lands in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. July 23, 1892. 151. Authorizing and directing the sale of certain property belonging to the United States, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. July 23, 1892. 152. To establish a division line between land of the United States and the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company. July 23, 1892. 153. To establish a railroad bridge across the Black River, in Arkansas. 23, 1892. July 154. To enforce reciprocal commercial relations between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes. July 26, 1892. 155. To authorize the Postmaster-General to provide mail service, and for other purposes. July 26, 1892. 156. To provide for the care of dependent children in the District of Columbia and to create a board of children's guardians. July 26, 1892. 157. To amend section 2 of an act approved May 14, 1880, being "An act for the relief of settlers on public lands." July 26, 1892. 158. To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Brightwood Railway Company of the District of Columbia." July 26, 1892. 159. To amend "An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Knoxville, Tennessee," approved August 9, 1888. July 26, 1892. to pay over certain 160. To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Treasury moneys to the State of South Carolina, as prescribed by the act of August 30, 1890, entitled "An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more onlete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862." July 26, 1892. 161. In relation to the execution of declarations and other papers in pension claims. July 26, 1892. 162. To legalize the deed and other records of the Office of Indian Aairs, and to provide and authorize the use of a seal by aid office. July 26, 1892. 163. Authorizing the payment of a certificate of indebtedness of the District of Columbia, numbered 4,987. July 26, 1892. 164. To extend the privileges of the transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement to the port of Dunkirk, New-York. July 27, 1892. |