seventy-eight, and prior years, and for those heretofore treated as permanent, for reappropriations, and for other purposes. 89. An act authorizing the Solicitor of the Treasury, by and with the consent of the Secretary of War, to cancel certain contracts for the sale of lots of land made at Harper's Ferry in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine by the United States, to resell the same, and sell or lease all other real estate and riparian rights now owned by the United States at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. 90. An act to amend section forty-one hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to the judicial powers and functions of consuls. 91. An act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make and enforce regulations relative to the sale of coal, and also building regulations. 92. An act to amend the charter of the Mutual Fire-Insurance Company of the District of Columbia. 93. An act to provide for the appointment of a district judge for the western district of Tennessee, and for other purposes. 94. An act authorizing the publication, for sale, of an edition of the Narrative of the Polaris Expedition. 95. An act establishing the salaries to be paid the collectors of customs of Plymouth and Nantucket, Massachusetts. 96. An act for the relief of Charles O. Allibone. 97. An act to restore certain lands in Iowa to settlement under the homestead law, and for other purposes. 98. An act for the construction of a public building for use by the United States Government in the city of New York. 99. An act for the preservation of game and protection of birds in the District of Columbia. 100. An act to incorporate the National Fair Grounds Association. 101. An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the District of Columbia. 102. An act to authorize the Barataria Ship-Canal Company to construct and operate a ship-canal from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, through the lands and waters of the United States, and to grant to said company the right of way for that purposes. 103. An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. 104. An act regulating the appointment of cadet-midshipmen and cadet-engineer in the Naval Academy, and for other purposes. 105. An act to increase the pension of certain pensioned soldiers and sailors who have lost both their hands or both their feet or the sight of both eyes in the service of the country. 106. An act to provide for the distribution of the awards made under the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico concluded on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. 107. An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. 108. An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, pres ervation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. 109. An act to organize the Life-Saving Service. 110. An act for the restoration to market of certain lands in the Territory of Utah. 111. An act relative to examinations for promotions in the Navy. 112. An act to amend section forty-six hundred and ninety-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States. 113. An act to provide for the holding of terms of the district and circiut courts of the United States at Fort Wayne, Indiana. 114. An act to provide for the revision and correction of assessments for special improvements in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 115. An act granting a site for a dry-dock in the city of Baltimore upon certain conditions. 116. An act to regulate expenditures in the Navy. 117. An act authorizing a general account of advances for naval appropriations. 118. An act to amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved March third, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-five. 119. An act for the relief of settlers on the public lands. 120. An act to provide for the holding of a term of the district and circuit courts of the United States at Lincoln, Nebraska. 121. An act to create an Auditor of Railroad Accounts and for other purposes. 122. An act to protect public libraries in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 123. An act to amend section twenty-nine hundred and thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States so as to allow repayment by the Secretary of the Treasury of the tonnage-tax where it has been exacted in contravention of treaty provisions. 124. An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to carry into effect the convention between the United States and China, concluded on the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, at Shanghai," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and to give the Court of Claims jurisdiction in certain cases. 125. An act to authorize the claimants to certain lands in Santa Bar bara County, California, to submit their claim to the United States district court for that State for adjudication. 126. An act regulating exemptions in the District of Columbia. 127. An act to provide for the holding of terms of the district and circuit courts of the United States at city of Charlotte, North Carolina. 128. An act to create a revenue in the District of Columbia by levying a tax upon all dogs therein, to make such dogs personal property, and for other purposes. 129. An act to aid vessels wrecked or disabled in the waters conterminous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada. 130. An act amending the laws with reference to elections in certain States. 131. An act to detach certain territory from the eastern judicial district of Michigan and to attach the same to the western judicial district of Michigan, and to provide for divisions in said western district and for holding the district and circuit courts therein, and for other purposes. 132. An act to legalize the collection of head-moneys already paid. 133. An act to provide for the expenses of the Select Committee on Alleged Frauds in the late Presidential Election. 134. An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. 135. An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. 136. An act in relation to the Venezuelan Mixed Commission. 137. An act to appoint a commission to ascertain the cost of removing the Naval Observatory. 138. An act creating the Utah and Northern Railway Company, a corporation in the Territories of Utah, Idaho. and Montana, and granting the right of way to said company through the public lands. 139. An act granting condemned bronze cannon to the Soldier's Union of West Virginia. 140. An act to authorize the sale of the small-arms now in use in the naval service, and the conversion of the proceeds of such sale, in the purchase of arms similar in caliber to the arms now in use by the United States Army. 141. An act to construct a road to the national cemetery at Vicksburg, Mississippi. 142. An act to amend section twenty-five hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, making Gardiner and Richmond, in Maine, ports of entry. 143. An act relating to claim agents and attorneys in pension cases. PRIVATE ACTS. 1. An act for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the United States steamer Huron, and for other purposes. 2. An act to remove the political disabilities of Charles L. Scott, of Wilcox County, Alabama. 3. An act to remove the charges against Lieutenant Charles Wilkinson, late of Company K, One hundred and second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, on file in the War Department. 4. An act for the relief of the Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Com. pany of Columbus, Georgia. 5. An act for the relief of James W. Glover, postmaster at Oxford, in the State of New York. 6. An act for the relief of William H. Needham, late second lieutenant of Company D, Twenty-second Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers. 7. An act for the relief of Charles W. Wood, late of Company E, First Battalion, Thirteenth Regiment of United States Infantry. 8. An act for the relief of Captain William L. Foulk. 9. An act making appropriations for the payment of claims reported to Congress under section two of the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, by the Secretary of the Treasury. 10. An act for the relief of Edwin A. Clifford. 11. An act for the relief of John Pulford. 12. An act for the relief of William A. Hammond, late Surgeon-General of the Army. 13. An act granting a pension to Dwight A. Barrett, late private Company E, Forty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. 14. An act granting a Pension to Mrs. Rebecca C. Maxwell, widow of the late Colonel O. C. Maxwell, one hundred and ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 15. An act granting a Pension to Margaret R. Colony, widow of the late Major Josiah B. Colony, First Maryland Infantry Volunteers. 16. An act granting a Pension to Kate Louise Roy, widow of J. P. Roy, late lieutenant-colonel United States Army. 17. An act to remove the political disabilities of Robert H. Chilton. 18. An act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to refund a certain tax erroneously collected. 19. An act granting a pension to George McCoy. 20. An act granting a pension to Adam Stinson. 21. An act granting a pension to Bridget T. Hopper. 22. An act granting a pension to Fannie E. Records, widow of Albert B. Records, late a private in Company G, Fifteenth Regiment Maine Volunteers. 23. An act restoring the name of Thomas Crawford, a soldier of the Mexican war, to the pension-roll. 24. An act to authorize the issue of a patent of certain lands in the Brothertown reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, to the persons selected by the Brothertown Indians. 25. An act for the relief of the executors of the estate of John S. Miller, deceased. 26. An act for the relief of Thomas W. Collier. 27. An act for the relief of W. C. Snyder, of Illinois. 28. An act for the allowance of certain claims reported by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department. 29. An act for the relief of Will R. Hervey. 30. An act for the relief of James Fishback, late collector of internal revenue, tenth district, State of Illinois. 31. An act to authorize T. and J. W. Gaff and Company, to use a cer tain building in the city of Aurora, Indiana, for the rectification of distilled spirits. 32. An act authorizing the Secretary of War to allow the interment, in the national cemetery at Newberne, in the State of North Carolina, of the remains of the late R. F. Lehman, lately a commissioner of the United States circuit court in the eastern district of North Carolina. 33. An act for the relief of Charles B. Varney. 34. An act for the relief of Samuel H. Canfield, postmaster at Seymour, Connecticut. 35. An act for the relief of Susan Robb. 36. An act for the relief of the minor heirs of John H. Evans, deceased. 37. An act granting a pension to Rebecca and Augusta Miller, daughters of Brigadier General James Miller, of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. 38. An act for the relief of Silas M. Norton, postmaster at Bristol, Connecticut. 39. An act for the relief of William L. Hickam, of Missouri, guardian of the minor children of Hillary J. Jenkins. 40. An act granting a pension to Mrs. Esther A. George. 46. An act granting a pension to Mrs. Mary Wilkes, widow of the late Admiral Charles Wilkes, United States Navy. 47. An act granting a pension to Hannah Streets. 48. An act granting a pension to William S. Davis, late private in Company E, Thirty-first Illinois Infantry Volunteers. 49. An act for the relief of Numis H. Coverdale. 50. An act for the relief of Othniel P. Hollis, of the Soldiers' Home, Augusta, Maine. 51. An act granting a pension to William A. Miller. 52. An act for the relief of James J. Waring, of Savannah, Georgia. 53. An act for the relief of Dudley A. Fish, of Bucyrus, Ohio. 54. An act for the relief of William Roylston, late private Company D, First Regiment Tennessee Light Artillery. 55. An act granting a pension to Jonathan R. Tilman. 56. An act granting a pension to Rose Miller, widow of Reason Miller, deceased, late private in Company E, One hundred and twenty-third Illinois Infantry. 57. An act granting a pension to Lemuel L. Lawrence, late second lieutenant Company B, in the Sixth Regiment Illinois Cavalry Volun teers. 58. An act restoring the name of Thomas W. Brown to the pension. roll. 59. An act granting a pension to John Frey. 60. An act granting a pension to George Grove. 61. An act granting a pension to William H. Shultis, late of Company K, Fourteenth Regiment New York Volunteers. 62. An act granting a pension to Florence V. Moore. 63. An act granting a pension to Benjamin C. Webster. 64. An act to amend an act granting a pension to William Hafford, of South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, approved May eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. 65. An act granting a pension to Mrs. Julia S. W. Evans, widow of Henry D. Evans, late first lieutenant of Company B, Thirteenth Missouri Volunteers. 66. An act granting a pension to Isabella Cassidy. 67. An act granting a pension to Warren F. Wood. 68. An act granting a pension to Joseph L. Young, late a private Company C, Eleventh Regiment Maine Volunteers. 69. An act granting a pension to Ruth Isabelle Naylor, widow of Captain Charles Naylor, of the Second Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican war. 70. An act granting a pension to Louisa J. Guthrie and others. 71. An act granting a pension to Mrs. Emily H. Lyford. 72. An act providing for an increase of pension to Charles H. Day. 73. An act granting a pension to Elizabeth J. Totten, widow of the late Commodore Benjamin J. Totten, United States Navy. 74. An act granting a pension to Mary T. Thompson, widow of William Thompson, late second lieutenant Company E, Twelfth New York Vol unteers. 75. An act granting a pension to Ovid H. Clark. 76. An act granting an increase of pension to John Murphy, late private Company F, Fifth Regiment United States Infantry. 77. An act granting a pension to Elizabeth Reese, widow of John Reese, a deceased soldier. 78. An act granting a pension to Rebecca T. Scott, widow of Major John B. Scott, late of the United States Army. 79. An act to authorize the survey of the Cattaraugus Indian reservation in the State of New York. 80. An act to confirm the term for the period of seventeen years from the date of its original grant of the patent of Thomas A. Weston. 81. An act granting a pension to Mary B. Marsh. 82. An act for the relief of Robert Coles. |