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sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, as full compensation for permanent injuries received by the said Leech in falling in the elevator shaft of the Treasury building, without any contributary negligence and while in discharge of his official duties, on the twenty-ninth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and an amount sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 3, 1903.

CHAP. 1293.-An Act For the relief of John D. Chadwick.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John D. Chadwick, of Madison County, Alabama, the sum of ninety-seven dollars and four cents to pay and discharge in full an account held by him against the Government of the United States for ninety-seven dollars and four cents, arising from certain transactions in the administration of justice in the Federal courts at Huntsville, Alabama. Approved, March 3, 1903.

March 3, 1903.
[Private, No. 1122.]

John D. Chadwick.
Payment to.

CHAP. 1294.-An Act For the relief of McClure and Willbanks.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to McClure and Willbanks, livery-stable keepers at Toccoa, Georgia, one hundred dollars, the value of a horse hired to internal revenue officers and killed by illicit distillers in August, nineteen hundred. Approved, March 3, 1903.

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CHAP. 1295.-An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Talbott.

Be it enacted 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 and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mary A. Talbott, widow of Nicholas B. Talbott, late second lieutenant Company H, Fifth Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of fifteen dollars per month in lieu of that she is now receiving.

Approved, March 3, 1903.

March 3, 1903.

[Private, No. 1124.]

Mary A Talbott.
Pension increased.

CHAP. 1296.-An Act Granting a pension to Jerome W. Turner.

Be it enacted 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 and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Jerome W. Turner, late first lieutenant and adjutant Thirtieth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of seventeen dollars per month.

March 3, 1903.
[Private, No. 1125.]

Jerome W. Turner.
Pension

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CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS.

FIRST SESSION, FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

HOLIDAY RECESS, 1901-1902.

December 12, 1901.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Holiday recess. when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, December nineteenth, they stand adjourned until twelve o'clock Meridian, Monday, January sixth, nineteen hundred and two.

Passed December 12, 1901.

WILLIAM MCKINLEY. MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY JOHN HAY.

Whereas the melancholy event of the violent and tragic death of William McKinley, late President of the United States, having occurred during the recess of Congress, and the two Houses sharing in the general grief and desiring to manifest their sensibility upon the occasion of the public bereavement: Therefore, be it

January 16, 1902.

Memorial address to

Congress.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That President McKinley the two Houses of Congress will assemble in the Hall of the House be delivered by the of Representatives on a day and hour fixed and announced by the Hon. John Hay before joint committee, to wit: Thursday, February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, and that, in the presence of the two Houses there assembled, an address upon the life and character of William McKinley, late President of the United States, be pronounced by Honorable John Hay, and that the President of the Senate pro tempore and the Speaker of the House of Representatives be requested to invite the President and ex-President of the United States, ex Vice-Presidents, the heads of the several Departments, the judges of the Supreme Court, the representatives of the foreign Governments, the governors of the several States, the Lieutenant-General of the Army and the Admiral of the Navy, and such officers of the Army and Navy as have received the thanks of Congress who may then be at the seat of Government, to be present on the occasion, and such others as may be suggested by the executive committee.

Copy of resolutions to Mrs. Ida S. McKin

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. Ida S. McKinley, and to ley. assure her of the profound sympathy of the two Houses of Congress for her deep personal affliction, and of their sincere condolence for the late national bereavement.

Passed January 16, 1902.

LAKE SUPERIOR IRON DEPOSITS.

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be printed at the Government Printing Office four thousand copies, in pamphlet form, of the report on the "Iron ore deposits of

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