Totten military reservation, for the use of the militia of North Dakota. July 6, 1894.

Granting the use of certain lands in the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, to the Barry Hospital. June 21, 1894.

To supply a deficiency in the grant of public lands to Mississippi for the State University. June 20, 1894.

Granting to the village of Dearborn certain land for village purposes. June 14, 1894.

To grant certain lands to the Township Board of Inwood, Mich., for cemetery purposes. June 7, 1894,

Supplementary to the act of Congress approved January 28, 1879, entitled "An act defining the manner in which certain land scrip may be assigned and located or applied by actual settlers, and providing for the issue of patents in the name of the locator or his legal representatives. May 30, 1894.

To authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a patent to Mace Clement's survey, in the Virginia military district of Ohio. May 12, 1894. To protect the birds and animals in Yellowstone National Park, and to punish crimes in said park. May 7, 1894.

To ratify the reservation of certain lands made for the benefit of Oklahoma. May 4, 1894.

For the relief of certain settlers upon the Iowa Reservation, Oklahoma. 10, 1894.

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To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reserve from sale certain land in the Fort Cummings military reservation, Feb. 1, 1894.

Granting certain lands to Arizona. Jan. 27. 1894.

Relating to the disqualification of regis. ters and receivers of the United States land offices. Jan. 11, 1894.

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To amend an act entitled "An act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes,' proved Sept. 29, 1890, and the several acts amendatory thereof. Dec. 12, 1893. Authorizing the issue of a patent to the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions for certain lands on the Omaha Indian Reservation for school purposes. Aug. 27, 1894 REVENUE MARINE.

To amend section 2 of the act approved February 15, 1893, entitled "An act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine Hospital Service." Aug. 18, 1894.

Making an appropriation and providing for the construction of a revenue cutter for service in the harbor of San Francisco. (Not to exceed $50,000.) Aug. 15, 1894.

RIVERS AND HARBORS.

To authorize the Missouri River Power Company of Montana to construct a dam across the Missouri River. June 8, 1894.

To repeal House resolution granting to the Secretary of War a permit to license to use a pier at mouth of Chicago River. Aug. 23, 1894.

Granting to the Des Moines Rapids Power Company the right to construct a wing dam, canal, and power station in

the Mississippi River in Hancock County, Ill. Feb. 24, 1894.

To amend an act of Congress approved May 12, 1890, granting to the Aransas Pass Harbor Company the right to improve Aransas Pass. Jan. 22, 1894.

To authorize the construction of a dam or dams across the Kansas River, within Shawnee County, Kansas. Jan. 22, 1894. RIGHTS OF WAY.

Granting to the Northern Mississippi Railway right of way through Indian reservations in Minnesota. Aug. 23, 1894.

To require railroad companies in the Territories over a right of way granted by the Government to establish stations and depots at all town sites on the lines of said roads. Aug. 8, 1894.

To grant to the Aransas, Texas and Mexican Central Railway Company a right of way through the Indian Territory. Aug. 4. 1894.

Granting to the Columbia Irrigation Co. a right of way through the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington. July 23,

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Granting to the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway the right of way through the White Earth, Leech Lake, Chippewa, and Fond du Lac Indian Reservations, Minnesota. July 18, 1894.

Granting to the Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway a right of way through the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota. July 6, 1894.

Granting certain rights over Lime Point military reservation, California. July 2, 1894.

Granting to the Eastern Nebraska and Gulf Railway right of way through the Omaha and Winebago Indian tions, Nebraska. June 27, 1894.

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Granting the right of way to the Albany and Astoria Railroad through the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, Oregon. June 6, 1894.

To extend and amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway to construct and operate additional lines of railway through the Indian Territory," approved February 24, 1891. June 6, 1894.

To extend the time for building a street railway on the military reservation, Fort Riley, Kan. Mar. 6, 1894.

Extending the time allowed the Umatilla Irrigation Company for the construction of its ditch across the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon. Feb. 9, 1894.

To extend the time for the construction of the railway of the Choctaw Coal and Railway Co. Jan. 22, 1894.

To grant the right of way to the Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern Railway through the Indian and Oklahoma Territories. Dec. 21, 1893.

Granting the right of way for the construction of a railroad over and on the West Mountain of the Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs, Ark. Dec, 21, 1893.

To authorize purchasers of the property and franchises of the Choctaw Coal and Railway Co. to organize with all the powers, privileges and franchises vested in that company. Aug. 24, 1894.

To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act granting the right of way to the Hutchison and

Southern Railroad through the Indian Territory.'" Aug. 27, 1894.

Granting to the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad a right of way through the Chippewa and White Earth Indian Reservations, Minnesota. Aug. 27, 1894.

TARIFF AND INTERNAL REVENUE.

To reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, etc.

Introduced December 19, 1893; debated January 9-31, 1894; passed House February 1, 1894; passed Senate July 3, with 634 amendments; sent to conference July 7. 1894; August 13, 1894, House receded from disagreement to Senate amendments; enrolled August 15, 1894; presented to President August 15, 1894; became a law by expiration of time allowed by Constitution August 27, 1894, midnight.

To provide for the collection of internal revenue, etc. ($14,000.) Aug. 27, 1894. UTAH STATE.

To enable the people of Utah to form a constitution and State government, and to be admitted into the Union. July 16, 1894.

MISCELLANEOUS.

To provide for the improvement of the building and grounds of the United States court and postoffice at Little Rock, Ark. (Not to exceed $58,000.) Aug. 27, 1894.

Relative to recognizances, stipulations, bonds and undertakings, and to allow certain corporations to be accepted as surety thereon. Aug. 13, 1894.

To authorize a compromise and settlement with Arkansas. Aug. 4, 1894.

To exempt the articles of foreign exhibitors at the interstate fair at Tacoma, Wash., from the payment of duties. Aug. 3, 1894.

To amend section 15 of an act approving, with amendments, the funding act of Arizona, approved June 25, 1890. Aug. 3, 1894.

Granting jurisdiction and authority to the Court of Claims in the case of the towboat Future City, her barges, cargoes, etc. Aug. 3, 1894.

Authorizing the county of Coconino, Arizona, to issue bonds for the construction of a county building. July 18, 1894.

To define and establish the units of electrical measure. July 12, 1894.

Authorizing the Minneapolis Gas Light Company, of Minneapolis, Minn., to lay submerged gas pipes across the Mississippi River. July 6, 1894.

Fixing the limit of indebtedness of Salt Lake City. Feb. 21, 1894.

Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasrry to exchange deeds of land with the Pemaquid Land Company of Maine in settlement of a disputed boundary of the Pemaquid Point light station. May 28, 1894.

To amend section 4,430, Title LII of the Revised Statutes relative to inspection of iron or steel boiler plates. Jan. 22, 1894. Providing for the sale of the old custom house and lot connected therewith Louisville, Ky. Aug. 4, 1894.

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Providing for the payment of salaries and expenses of additional deputy collectors of internal revenue to carry out the

provisions of the Chinese exclusion act of May 5, 1892, as amended by the act of November 3, 1893. ($10,000.) Dec. 7, 1893, and April 4, 1894.

To continue the provisions of a joint resolution approved June 29, 1894, entitled a "Joint resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government." June 29, July 31, and Aug. 15, 1894.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Providing for clerical assistance in the Health Department. Aug. 23, 1894.

To extend the charter of the Maryland and Washington Railway. Aug. 23, 1894. EXPOSITIONS.

Conferring diplomas upon designers, inventors and expert artisans. Dec. 15, 1893.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Authorizing the appointment of delegates to the meetings of the International Geodetic Association. July 23, 1894.

To provide for the printing of a history and digest of the international arbitrations to which the United States was a party, and for other purposes. ($2,500.) April 2, 1894.

Providing for the appointment of a commission to the Antwerp International Exposition. Mar. 12, 1894.

INDIANS.

Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to cause the settlement of the accounts of Special Agents Moore and Woodson, under the treaty of 1854, with the Delaware Indians, etc. ($7,355 84.) April 2, 1894.

Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to receive at the SubTreasury, New-York, from R. T. Wilson & Co., or assigns, the money, amounting to $6,740,000, to be paid to the Cherokee Nation, and to place the same to its credit. March 31, 1894.

For the protection of those who have been allowed to make entries for lands within the former Mille Lacs Indian Reservation, Minnesota, Dec. 19, 1893.

JUDICIARY.

Authorizing the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Court of Appeals and of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to use and take books from the Library of Congress. Jan. 27, 1894.

LABOR.

Providing for an investigation relating to the effects of machinery on labor. ($10,000.) Aug. 15, 1894.

Providing for an investigation relative to the work and wages of women and children. Aug. 1, 1894.

MILITARY AFFAIRS. Instructing the Secretary of War to return to Massachusetts the flags of certain infantry regiments of that State. Aug. 27, 1894.

To appoint three members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. July 3, 1894. Authorizing the purchase or condemnation of land in the vicinity of Gettysburg, Penn. June 5, 1894.

Instructing the Secretary of War to return to Iowa the flag of 22d Regiment of that State. May 11, 1894.

Authorizing the wearing of the distinctive badge adopted by the Regular Army and Navy Union upon all occasions of ceremony. May 11, 1894.

NAVY.

To establish an observatory circle to preserve the instruments at the Naval Observatory against smoke or currents of heated air and undue vibrations from traffic upon the public thoroughfares. Aug. 1, 1894.

Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to continue the employment of certain mechanics and laborers. July 9, 1894. PRINTING.

To print Agricultural Report for 1893. ($300,000.) April 10, 1894.

To provide for printing the report of the Joint Committee of Congress and Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of the the Laying of Cornerstone of the Capitol. ($5,000.) Mar. 14, 1894. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to provide rooms for the accommodation of the United States Circuit and district courts and their officers at Meridian, Miss. Aug. 27, 1894.

Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer a certain piece of land in Michigan to Saginaw. Aug. 27, 1894.

Granting full permission to Maryland and to several State courts in Baltimore to occupy the old United States courthouse for the period of five years. June 22, 1894.

Authorizing the transfer of furniture and carpets to the rooms now occupied by the U. S. courts at Chicago. Mar. 30, 1894.

Providing for the erection of fire escapes and bridges at the Government Printing Office and fire escapes at the Maltby Building. ($3,800.) Feb. 2, 1894.

To authorize the Secretary of War to grant permits for the use of the Monument grounds and reservations or public spaces in Washington. Dec. 19, 1893.

REVENUE MARINE.

Providing for partial payments for work, etc., for vessels constructed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, May 5, 1894.

RIVERS AND HARBORS. Directing the Secretary of War to appoint a commission of engineers to exam

ine and report upon the cost of deepening the harbors of Superior and Duluth and their entrances to a uniform depth of 20 feet. June 29, 1894.

Directing the Secretary of War to cause an examination to be made to determine if there is probability and danger of the Mississippi River cutting through the space dividing such river from the St. Francis River in the vicinity of Walnut Bend, Ark. May 4, 1894.

SENATE AND HOUSE.

To pay the officers and employes of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of May. 1894, on the 29th day of said month. Dec. 19, 1893, and May 28, 1894.

Making an appropriation to defray expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate. ($10,000,) June 5, 1894.

To pay the officers and employes of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of August, 1894, on the 23d day of said month. Aug. 27, 1894.

TARIFF.

Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the owners of cattle and horses transporting them into Mexico to reimport the same into the United States at any time within twelve months from date of the passage of this resolution. Jan. 15, 1894.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Providing additional clerks for the Li brarian of Congress. ($6,800.) May 4, 1894.

Authorizing officers of the Treasury Department to examine and certify claims in favor of certain counties in Arizona. Aug. 6, 1894.

Providing for a tablet upon the Capitol to commemorate the laying of the cornerstone of the building, September 18, 1793. April 27, 1894.

To fill a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Mar. 19, 1894.

Relieving the employes of the Record and Pension Office who were injured in the Ford's Theatre disaster from the operation of the law restricting the amount of sick leave with pay that may be granted by heads of Departments. Dec. 25, 1893. To change the initials of a name in the Indian appropriation bill. Aug. 28, 1894.

listed men for twenty years or upward." It also enacts that hereafter all enlistments in the Army shall be for the term of three years, and no soldier shall be again enlisted in the Army whose service during his last preceding term of enlistment has not been honest and faithful; and in time of peace no person (except an Indian) who is not a citizen of the United States, or who has not made legal declaration of his intention to become a citizen of the United States, or who can not speak, read, and write the English language, or who is over thirty years of age, shall be enlisted for the first enlistment in the Army: Provided, That any soldier discharged since January 27, 1893, who has been prevented from re-enlisting by the operations of the Act of Congress approved February 27, 1893, and who may enlist after November 1, 1894, shall be considered to have re-enlisted and shall be entitled to receive while serving subsequent to such enlistment the same pay, service pay, and allowances as if he had re-enlisted within thirty days from his latest discharge. It further provides that the period within which soldiers may reenlist with the benefits conferred by sections 1,282 and 1.284 of the Revised Statutes, is extended to three months; and hereafter every enlisted man in the Army, excepting general service clerks and general service messengers, shall be entitled to all the benefits conferred by sections 1,281 and 1,282 of the Revised Statutes: Provided, That to entitle them to the additional pay authorized by section 1,281, for men serving in the third, fourth and fifth years, the service must have been continuous within the meaning of this section.

LOAN OF VESSELS TO STATES.

The act of August 3, 1894, authorizes and empowers the Secretary of the Navy to loan femporarily to any State, upon the written application of the Governor thereof, a vessel of the Navy, to be selected from such vessels as are not suitable or required for general service, together with such of her apparel, charts, books and instruments of navigation as he may deem proper; said vessel to be used only by the regularly organized naval militia of the State for the purposes of drill and instruction: Provided, That when the organization of the naval militia of such State shall be abandoned, or when the interests of the naval service shall so require, such vessel and equipments, together with her apparel, charts, books and instruments of navigation, shall be immediately restored to the Secretary of the Navy. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to detail from the enlisted force of the Navy a sufficient number of men, not exceeding six for any vessel, as ship-keepers, preference to be given to those men who have served twenty years or more in the Navy.

NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS SERVING FIVE CONSECUTIVE YEARS IN THE NAVY, OR ONE ENLISTMENT IN THE MARINE CORPS.

The Naval Appropriation act of July 26, 1894, provides that any alien of the

age of twenty-one years and upward who has enlisted or may enlist in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, and has served or may hereafter serve five consecutive years in the United States Navy or one enlistment in the United States Marine Corps, and has been or may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition, without any previous declaration of his intention to become such; and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisfied by competent proof of such person's service in and honorable discharge from the United States Navy or Marine Corps.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY.

The Naval Appropriation act appropriated $4,000,000 for the armament and armor of vessels previously authorized in 1886, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1893 to be built; $5,955,025 on account of the hulls and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized; and authorized the Secretary of the Navy to use the $450,000 appropriated March 2, 1889, for the construction of one additional cruiser of the Vesuvius type, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the construction, armament, and equipment of three torpedo boats, to cost, all together, not more than the said sum of $450,000, Authority was also given to transform the Vesuvius into a torpedo cruiser if, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, such transformation will add to "the efficiency of this vessel for naval purposes.' THE BEHRING SEA ARBITRATION AWARD.

The act of April 6, 1894, giving effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration at Paris under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain of February 29, 1892 (for which award see the Almanac for 1894, pp. 198200), enacted: That no citizen of the United States, or person owing the duty of obedience to the laws or the treaties of the United States, nor any person belonging to or on board of a vessel of the United States, shall kill, capture, or pursue, at any time, or in any manner whatever, outside of territorial waters, any fur seal in the waters surrounding the Pribiloff Islands within a zone of sixty geographical miles (sixty to a degree of latitude) around said islands,* inclusive of the territorial waters.

Sec. 2. That no citizen of the United States, or person above described in Section 1 of this act, nor any person belonging to or on board of a vessel of the United States, shall kill, capture, or pursue, in any manner whatever, during the season extending from the first day of May to the thirty-first day of July, both inclusive, in each year, any fur seal on the high seas outside of the zone tioned in Section 1, and in that part of the Pacific Ocean, including Behring Sea, which is situated to the north of the 35th degree of north latitude and to the east of the 180th degree of longitude from Greenwich till it strikes the water boundary described in Article 1 of the treaty

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of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and following that line up to Behring Straits.

Sec. 3. No citizen of the United States or person above described, in the first section of this act, shall, during the period and in the waters in which by Section 2 of this act the killing of fur seals is not prohibited, use or employ any vessel, nor shall any vessel of the United States be used or employed, in carrying on or taking part in fur seal fishing operations, other than a sailing vessel propelled by sails exclusively, and such cances or undecked boats, propelled by paddles, oars or sails as may belong to, and be used in connection with, such sailing vessel; nor shall any sailing vessel carry on or take part in such operations without a special license obtained from the Government for that purpose, and without carrying a distinctive flag prescribed by the Government for the same purpose.

Sec. 4. That every master of a vessel licensed under this act to engage in fur seal fishing operations shall accurately enter in his official log book the date and place of every operation, and also the number and sex of the seals captured each day; and on coming into port, and before landing cargo, the master shall verify, on oath, such official log book as containing a full and true statement of the number and character of his fur seal fishing operations, including the number and sex of seals captured; and for any false statement wilfully made by a person so licensed by the United States in this behalf he shall be subject to the penalties of perjury; and any seal skins found in excess of the statement in the official log book shall be forfeited to the United States.

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Sec. 5. That no person or vessel engaging in fur seal fishing operations under this act shall use or employ in any such operations, any net, firearm, airgun explosive: Provided however, That this prohibition shall not apply to the use of shotguns in such operations outside of Behring Sea during the season when the killing of fur seals is not there prohibited by this act.

Sec. 6. That the foregoing section of this act shall not apply to Indians dwelling on the coast of the United States, and taking fur seals in canoes or undecked boats propelled wholly by paddles, oars or sails, and not transported by or used in connection with other vessels, or manned by more than five persons, in the manner heretofore practised by the said Indians: Provided, however, That the exception made in this section shall not apply to Indians in the employment of other persons, or who shall kill, capture or pursue fur seals outside of territorial waters under contract to deliver the skins to other persons, nor to the waters of Behring Sea or of the passes between the Aleutian Islands.

Sec. 7. That the President shall have power to make regulations respecting the special license and the distinctive flag mentioned in this act and regulations otherwise suitable to secure the due execution of the provisions of this act, and

from time to time to add to, modify, amend or revoke such regulations, as in his judgment may seem expedient.

Sec. 8. That, except in the case of a master making a false statement under oath in violation of the provisions of the fourth section of this act, every person guilty of a violation of the provisions of this act, or of the regulations made thereunder, shall for each offence be fined not less than $200, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both; and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, at any time used or employed in violation of this act, or of the regulations made thereunder, shall be forfeited to the United States.

Sec. 9. That any violation of this act, or of the regulations made thereunder, may be prosecuted either in the district court of Alaska or in any district court of the United States in California, Oregon, or Washington.

Sec. 10. That if any unlicensed vessel of the United States shall be found within the waters to which this act applies, and at a time when the killing of fur seals is by this act there prohibited, having on board sealskins or bodies of seals, or apparatus or implements suitable for killing or taking seals; or if any licensed vessel shall be found in the waters to which this act applies, having on board apparatus or implements suitable for taking seals, but forbidden then and there to be used, it shall be presumed that the vessel in the one case and the apparatus or implements in the other was or were used in violation of this act until it is otherwise sufficiently proved,

Sec. 11. That it shall be the duty of the President to cause a sufficient naval force to cruise in the waters to which this act is applicable to enforce its provisions, and it shall be the duty of the commanding officer of any vessel belonging to the naval or revenue service of the United States, when so instructed by the President, to seize and arrest all vessels of the united States found by him to be engaged, used, or employed in the waters last aforesaid in violation of any of the prohibitions of this act, or of any regulations made thereunder, and to take the same, with all persons on board thereof, to the most convenient port in any district of the United States mentioned in this act, there to be dealt with according to law.

Sec. 12. That any vessel or citizen of the United States, or person described in the first section of this act, offending against the prohibitions of this act or the regulations thereunder, may be seized and detained by the naval or other duly commissioned officers of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, but when so seized and detained they shall be delivered as soon as practicable, with any witnesses and proofs on board, to any naval or revenue officer or other authorities of the United States, whose courts alone shall have jurisdiction to try the offence and impose the penalties for the same: Provided, however, That British officers shall arrest and detain vessels and persons as in this section specified only after, by appropriate legislation,